Posts Tagged ‘ranch’
Ranch Tradition: Hanging On
Texas cattle raisers aren’t giving up — but neither is the drought.JEFF PRINCE WITH PHOTOS BY ROBERT HART
The tools of a rancher’s trade are scattered around the office in Saginaw. Leather chaps, spurs, dusters, bridles, and sweat-stained cowboy hats hang on hooks and racks. They’re utilitarian, not décor. Still, they give the...
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Jo LeMay Rutledge tried to avoid ranch paintings with so many other Fort Worth artists plowing the same ground (as it were), but in the end a stay at a friend’s farm inspired her to come up with her own angle on that whole ge...
Rutledge Goes from Farm to Market
The Fort Worth painter has a startling new exhibit up now at Artspace 111.JIMMY FOWLER
As anyone who knows her can attest, Fort Worth artist Jo LeMay Rutledge is both blunt and a bit of a wisecracker. When one of her oil paintings was recently accepted in a citywide show, the 61-year-old was asked to write a shor...
Sweet 16
In addition to exceedingly fresh wings, Pluckers also offers a lot of sauces.LAURIE BARKER JAMES
Pluckers Wing Bar began in Austin as the brainchild of a couple of University of Texas at Austin students who decided that the state capital just didn’t have enough food options; specifically, chicken wing options. People...
Night and Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 16 The Mystery Science Theater 3000 guys riffed on Plan 9 From Outer Space at your local movie theater last summer, and now they’re back with a holiday show. The Christmas Shorts-stravaganza unleashes them on old Yu...
Gravitational Pull
LAURIE BARKER JAMESThe Blue Moon Café is near Eagle Mountain Lake and sits in a space that formerly housed the Possum Lodge barbecue café/store/gas station. Once you get past Loop 820, the café is another couple of miles on the right. Blue Moo...
Brains and Brawn
FWO’s Of Mice and Men registers its impact in small doses that, unpredictably, add up in the end.Stage
Last Saturday night at Bass Performance Hall, during the final scene of Fort Worth Opera’s production of Of Mice and Men, I got a little misty-eyed.
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.