Posts Tagged ‘texas’
Top 10 Reasons Why People Are Moving To Texas
Jeff PrinceThose Brits think they’re so bloody intelligent. Sure, they’ve got smart sounding accents and all, but who are they to come up with a Top 10 list to explain why so many people are moving to Texas? The U.S. Census sa...
Cooking for West
CHOW, BABYThe thoughts of many North Texans are focused on the little town of West, in the aftermath of the terrible fertilizer plant explosion on April 17. Among many locals who went down to help was one of Fort Worth’s best burger ch...
31st Annual Tarrant County Pride Parade
Jimmy FowlerIn some respects, I’m kind of a bad gay –– I don’t like musicals, Madonna annoys me, and parades usually bore me. But don’t let my personal tastes put a damper on your fun at the 31st Annual Tarrant County Gay Pride ...
Tarrant County Never Convicts Innocents… Except Sometimes
Andrew McLemoreFort Worth, as many local columnists love to say, is so much better than Dallas. We’ve got bike lanes, great museums and none of that hip-hop “flavor,” as Mayor Betsy Price said in this week’s cover stor...
Texas Planned Parenthood Continues the Fight
betty.brinkToday attorneys for Texas Planned Parenthood were in federal court once again to “protect access to preventative health care including cancer screenings, birth control and annual exams” for more than 50,000 women wh...
Mojo’s Working
Tex-Mex and barbecue in Burleson? In one place? Yep.LAURIE BARKER JAMES
Mojo’s Tex Mex Smokehouse is a pint-sized mom-and-pop place –– actually, it’s a cousin-and-cousin place. Cousins Barry and Terry Hodges own the restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard in Burleson where Bodacious Barbecue used ...
Texans Rally Against ‘War on Women’
Andrew McLemoreThousands of women, men and children from across the state gathered at the southern steps of the Capital on Saturday to protest state laws that they say curtail basic human rights for women. Organized primarily by the group Uni...
Texas Women’s Health Care Dies Under Perry’s Scalpel
betty.brinkOn Thursday, more than 130,000 Texas women faced the unthinkable. They lost access to their primary care health provider because a small cadre of Republican legislators decided that “small government” really means small eno...
Love to Circles
John Q. ReaderTo the editor: I just got through reading “A New Curve” (Feb. 1, 2012) on the traffic circles. My wife is the one who was too busy to talk with you but yelled, “We love it!” She’s a home health occupational therapist ...
Stage West’s Sports Page
The media are the messages in a first-time playwright’s take on sports reporting.JIMMY FOWLER
It’s been a long time coming for this weekend’s world premiere of Larry Herold’s comedy The Sports Page at Stage West. The playwright wrote the first version of his script — about a young reporter witnessing cultural an...