Posts Tagged ‘people’
Starting to Sound Like “Children of the Corn”
StaticEverywhere Static turns these days is another message about the wonders of the Barnett Shale.
High Score
Scott Kurtz has done the seemingly impossible: achieve 10 successful years in the webcomic biz.Books
Few people make it in the world of online comics. Few people probably even know that online comics exist.
Pocketbook Pileup
The only thing more painful than gas prices may be the toll-road hell Texas is about to enter.Dan McGraw
Gas prices topping $4 a gallon. Freeways that have become parking lots – if you can get to them through surface-street traffic jams caused by fast growth, urban sprawl, and inadequate road planning.
Torture Porn
Big TicketHaving made such classic documentaries as The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War, Errol Morris looks deeper into the events at Abu Ghraib prison in Standard Operating Procedure. He interviews many of the U.S. military police off...
Q’d Up
Fort Worth’s gay film fest turns 10, with angst, accomplishments – and fewer rainbow flags.Jimmy Fowler
Pretend you’re hitting the Netflix web site to rent a movie for the weekend, and these are your only choices: a romantic comedy starring Ashton Kutcher and Patrick Dempsey as star-crossed lovers, an action thriller featur...
Nuts
Texas blogger Amanda Marcotte defends the F-word, mostly from the white, Christian, mainly male crazies.LAURIE BARKER JAMES
If the phrase “West Texas feminist” causes your eyebrows to raise, It’s A Jungle Out There isn’t your kind of book.
Scorched Earth
Contemplating the Wasteland is heady – and brilliant – business for Calhoun.ANTHONY MARIANI
We are survivalists. Quickly and accurately, we must use our eyes and ears (and sometimes noses) to separate the people who will happily pick us up from the airport from the people who will de-pants us in public from the people...
Making Good
With a new gig, ex-Jet Powered owners say they’re cleaning up old debts.JEFF PRINCE
The Dallas Business Journal’s recent inclusion of Fort Worth-based Starr Tincup on its annual list of best places to work shocked more than a few people.
The Cowboys’ Lament
The ranks of those who work cattle for a living grow thin, but some maestros persevere.Peter Gorman
Tater Paschal is up at 5 a.m. at his house in south Cleburne, putting the coffee on, then heading out to his barn to feed his horses, getting ready for another day of cowboying.
Quaid Pro Quo
Wordy, wayward, and well-acted, Smart People is a slacker comedy for the literary set.Kristian Lin
Mark Jude Poirier’s name will be more easily recognized by readers than cinephiles.