Posts Tagged ‘local’
Connected
Local upstarts Fusion Records bring know-how and a murderer’s row of talent to the forefront of Fort Worth music.JOSHUA LOEWEN
To get where they are now, as the heads of a recently founded full-service indie label, twentysomethings Zaq Bell and Jarrett Vamvakidis have been through a lot of twists and turns, from local music to semi-pro baseball and a f...
For God! For Country! For Foam!
A local battle-gaming group dukes it out south of Mexia.Cole Williams
Is there anything better than wailing on someone with a foam stick?
Changing of the Colors
Is Tarrant County going from red to blue? Don’t count it out.Dan McGraw
In recent years, Tarrant County has become something of a star in the Republican crown: Among urban counties with more a million in population, no county usually votes more heavily Republican than Tarrant, usually by about a 60...
Jazz jumps back onto the Cowtown scene.
CAROLINE COLLIERTake the elevator down to the 4th Street basement where the Scat Jazz Lounge lives these days, and you’ll find the night-blooming flower of jazz thriving under the dim lights.
Still Somber
In their melancholia, Collin Herring and Titanmoon reluctantly sit atop a bounty of excellent new CDs.ANTHONY MARIANI
Alot of big local bands tend to put out new stuff this time of year.
This Old House
Even a stellar Stage West cast can’t redeem a hackneyed critical fave.Kultur
There’s not a bad seat in the house at the “Old Vic,” Stage West’s new, old digs at the industrial end of West Vickery Boulevard.
Losing, Lost Gems
In these angsty times, sometimes you have to scour the art scene for life.Kultur
As mannered Britons dump garbage all over gallery floors under the auspices of creating “art,” and brash young Americans simply Xerox their favorite photos of celebrities onto canvases in a seemingly endless, relent...
Hall of FWame
We dip into Fort Worth’s past to show the future what’s up.Various Authors
Like most cities, Fort Worth has a rich musical heritage. But for whatever reason, when the national mainstream media talk about music, our lovely town of cow is barely mentioned. Even worse, a lot of yokels, especially a lot o...
Oh, the Horror!
Why Fort Worth filmmakers are focused on vampires and zombies instead of neurotic urban singles.Kristian Lin
The footage we see is in grainy black and white. A heavy-set man in a shirt and tie is getting a lapdance from a stripper when she’s murdered in mid-gyration.