Posts Tagged ‘johnson’
Super Wants AHHS Whistleblower Fired
betty.brinkIt is not official yet — the Fort Worth school trustees as well as a Texas Education Agency hearings examiner will still have to hear his case — but if they uphold district superintendent Melody Johnson’s recommendation, ...
There’ll BePeace in Texas
Rita Marie Johnson wants to seed American society with nonviolent kids.JEFF PRINCE
Rita Marie Johnson is arguably one of the most successful peace advocates in the world. But you won’t see her marching in the street in protest of the war in Afghanistan or picketing outside a military base.
Moonlight Over Pelicanstate
HearsayToward the end of summer, Telegraph Canyon frontman Chris Johnson will begin work on a project with Mike Sempert from San Francisco’s Birds & Batteries, a band with which Telegraph has played several shows. Johnson imagin...
School Board Candidates Will Answer Voter’s Questions – at Church.
StaticIf last week’s cover story (“Upsetting the Apple Cart,” April 21, 2010) fired your interest in this spring’s hotter-than-usual races for the Fort Worth school board, you may want to go to church. Not necessarily to pray...
Payroll Hell
BETTY BRINKFrances Saperstein is 81 and suffers from Parkinson’s disease She taught in the Fort Worth school district for a decade before her illness forced her to quit at the end of the 2008 school year. But a stress-free retiremen...
Novel Approach
JIMMY FOWLERCreative expression, the desire to master an art form, to honor one’s influences – they’re all important reasons for a performer to pick up a guitar and begin to make music. But according to Alex Johnson, the ...
Mama’s got a brand-new wig
JEFF PRINCESeveral men were starting their weekend early, relaxing in the dark confines of an upscale gentlemen’s club. Greeting them as they came and went on a recent Friday afternoon was Michael Precker, perhaps the only guy ever ...
Night and Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 4 Australian music group Hillsong United brings its brand of Christian-flavored arena rock to movie theaters around the area this evening. The broadcast of a concert performed in Sydney the night before will be coupled wi...
A Light in the Field
ANTHONY MARIANIMost of us who go to local shows probably spend a lot of time paying polite attention, maybe nodding along to the beat a little. Rarely do we have an experience. But a couple of years ago at a show at Lola’s Saloon-Sixth,...
The Big Takeover
PETER GORMANIt’s been a tough spring and summer for the gas drilling industry’s public image.