Posts Tagged ‘people’
Horrors in Black and White
Some local filmmakers are ramping up for 2007.Kultur
Up until recently, Ridgmar Movie Tavern showed pay-per-view WWE wrestling matches about once a week.
Como’s Cookin’
A black-run (and white-patronized) restaurant row is taking shape on the cusp of two neighborhoods.JIMMY FOWLER (Photos by Vishal Malhotra)
Back in 1978, Louise King looked out the window of her Como home and noticed some city workers doing repairs on her street. It was around lunch time. She invited them in for a bite to eat — cooking and serving to family, frie...
Glossed Over
Depending on where you sit, Stage West’s version of As Bees in Honey Drown is either fun or clichéd.Jimmy Fowler
Americans love the idea of the “self-made man,” or of the woman who takes charge of her life and becomes the person she was meant to be.
Drilling Through Peace and Property
Neighbors and activists fear gas wells are digging big holes in Fort Worth’s future.Gayle Reaves
Carl Fors wanted out. The noise and vibration from the gas well behind his house were enough to make the plates in his cupboard bounce.
The Gasfather
If the mayor is making thousands of dollars off gas companies, why is he still voting on their requests at city hall?Jeff Prince
A one-page memo went out from Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief to neighborhood groups last month seeking nominations for the city’s ethics review committee. Moncrief ended the letter by thanking people for their assistance “i...
Salva-Tex
North Texas restaurateur Gloria Fuentes finally reaches the Fort.Jimmy Fowler
A decade ago, people in the Dallas neighborhood of Oak Cliff could say, “Ooh, I’m really craving a pupusa right now” and not get slapped.
Windsor Knot
The show must go on, says The Queen, an excellent account of a monarchy in crisis.Kristian Lin
Honestly, I can’t imagine what British people must feel watching The Queen. The movie evokes the flood tide of emotions that washed over the U.K. in 1997: the surge of hope that accompanied Tony Blair’s election, the crushi...
Leaving Johnson County
Politics make a pretty part of North Texas a hell for bad kids, poor people, and anyone caught up in the criminal justice system.Peter Gorman
In early August, 2006, Desiree Jamison, a 40-year-old former hard drug user in the early stages of a trial for leaving the scene of an accident earlier in the year, was sent to the Johnson County jail on a bond revocation.
Cheesy Humor
Local puzzlemaster and prankster Robert McKee spins misplaced pizza delivery orders into comedic delicacies.Kultur
Misplaced phone calls will forever terrorize our homes. For normal people, it’s a nuisance. For Fort Worth’s Robert McKee, it’s manna from the comedy gods.
UTA
On some days, the Arlington campus looks like a tense meeting of the United Nations.ERIC GRIFFEY
A small plaque hangs inconspicuously on the wall of Nedderman Hall, one of the University of Texas at Arlington’s engineering buildings. “An international tribute to an international calling,” it says, “ … the fla...