Posts Tagged ‘people’
Ace Folds a Hand
Jeff PrinceRagged children play in a San Antonio alleyway dotted with clothes hung out to dry and a strutting rooster. An artist captured the scene in 1932, an impressionistic look at life in one of the state’s hardscrabble pockets ...
Cool Catalans
Kristian LinThree years ago Woody Allen left New York for London and made his first good movie in a decade, Match Point.
New Directions
JIMMY FOWLERWith their new album, the guys in Exit 380 have reached a creative milestone that few groups imagine, especially if those groups started out as cover bands.
Lola’s Dancehall
Anthony MarianiThe indie-rock club Lola’s Saloon hasn’t even been open a year, and already owner Brian Forella is breaking ground on a second venue.
Ready to Wear
Kultur“I asked my mom to buy me a seersucker suit from Cox. Instead, she got me a cocksucker suit from Sears.” – anonymous
A Radical Time to Be Alive
KENDALL ANDERSONInternational economist Ravi Batra of Dallas has a good enough track record predicting major global changes that he made The New York Times best-seller list – and the news pages – for correctly predicting the low in...
Just Say Whoa
Jeff PrinceA new group with influential members is preparing to challenge natural gas drilling inside Fort Worth city limits. The first order of business for the Coalition for a Reformed Drilling Ordinance (CREDO) will be to demand a mora...
Hustling THCK
ERIC GRIFFEYThe shores of Lake Arlington aren’t all that picturesque, especially on the Fort Worth side, where the rocky shoreline borders a massive parking lot and the summer sun reflects off both, making people feel like they’...
Rocks for the Goliath Road
Peter GormanBARTLETT – Sitting in Lois and Jerry’s Restaurant, surrounded by a blue-jean and overalls lunch crowd, Mae Smith and Ralph Snyder don’t look like giant-killers. In fact, the small-town mayor (5′ 2″...
Starting to Sound Like “Children of the Corn”
StaticEverywhere Static turns these days is another message about the wonders of the Barnett Shale.