Posts Tagged ‘news’
Mayfest Cancelled
Anthony MarianiFrom the annual event’s web site: “The Tarrant County Health Department, in the interest of public health and safety, has declared that all outdoor public gatherings must be cancelled,” said Richard Zavala, Director of Pa...
Impeachable Coverage
StaticSince Grayson Harper‘s city hall campaign has kind of made the Bush & Cheney impeachment effort a local issue (like it wasn’t already), Static took special note last week of something missing from the pages of m...
Local Heroes? Who’d Know?
DAN MCGRAWSince I was a little kid, I’ve always read the sports section of the daily newspaper before anything else. When I was a newspaper carrier, I would get my bundle on the corner, pull out the sports, and sit on that bundle u...
Trout Fishing in America
Listen UpOn Who Knows What We Might Do, the popular, three-time Grammy-nominated “kids’ duo” Trout Fishing in America produces itself for the first time and turns out an album aimed straight at adults. It’s not a...
Censored
The scariest news may be the stuff you haven’t seen yet.ERIC GRIFFEY
David Phinney thought he’d struck journalistic gold. The veteran reporter, who has done freelance work for PBS, ABC, The New York Times, and other news companies, learned from a disgusted American contractor that the Kuwa...
Paper Chase
ERIC GRIFFEYThe going’s been rough for journalists in the last few years. Daily newspapers that worried about losing readers to network tv discovered that tv had joined them in that same leaky boat and that both were losing fans to 24-fo...