Posts Tagged ‘school’
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOpening: La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (NR) Documentarian Frederick Wiseman (Titicut Follies, High School) follows the company through one season as it produces seven ballets. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
Taking the Lead
JIMMY FOWLERWhen local muso Matt Skates formed the Fort Worth Music Co-Op last year, he couldn’t have guessed all the directions it would take. The collective started out as a go-between for Fort Worth musicians and clubs that would,...
More Hell to Pay
John Q. PublicTo the editor: Thank you for reporting on the payroll audit mess at the Fort Worth school district (“Payroll Hell,” Jan. 20, 2010). It’s not over, unfortunately.
Payroll Hell
BETTY BRINKFrances Saperstein is 81 and suffers from Parkinson’s disease She taught in the Fort Worth school district for a decade before her illness forced her to quit at the end of the 2008 school year. But a stress-free retiremen...
Night and Day
KRISTIAN LINTHU ? 14 Symphony Arlington goes all French this evening with performances of Debussy’s La Mer and his much lesser-known Clarinet Rhapsody, a piece transcribed for orchestra that was originally written for clarinet and pi...
You Want Fair?
DAN MCGRAWTexas Christian University’s football program has achieved remarkable success in recent years. The Horned Frogs finished this year ranked fourth in the country – quite an accomplishment for a relatively small privat...
Shift in the Shale
Peter GormanAs avenues go, Carter Avenue, on Fort Worth’s East Side, is pretty modest. But a lot of North Texas gas drilling activists are hoping it will turn out to be the Ground Zero of something big.
Geeks Get Respect
KRISTIAN LIN AND COLE WILLIAMS“At Southern Methodist University, you can now major in video games. Finally, a degree more useless than political science.” – Jay Leno
Mother Mary Comes to Me
KRISTIAN LINBefore anyone had seen Precious, it had to battle negative perceptions. People had every reason to think it would be terrible when they heard that this drama about a poor, fat, illiterate, HIV-positive girl was by a neophyte fi...
Wheel Right
ERIC GRIFFEYFour years ago, Amber Herndon was volunteering at a banquet being held at her church. The event was a fund-raiser for a new program started by the church’s Sunday school class, which took donated cars, fixed them up, and ...