Posts Tagged ‘weekly’
Putting Money Where Their Wheels Are
StaticWithin days of Fort Worth Weekly‘s cover story on skateboarders (“Pool Sharks,” Sept. 16, 2009), a reader e-mailed to say that she and several others in Arlington were lobbying to get a skateboarding park buil...
To the editor:
John Q. PublicTo the editor: I’ve been reading the Weekly for probably 10 years. I know I can get more accurate reporting from the likes of Dan McGraw, Jeff Prince, and Betty Brink than I can from the Fort Worth daily paper. But I don...
Tooting the Weeklihorn
Gayle ReavesNo doubt, most of the news about journalism and news organizations these days is bad. Makes it even nicer when there’s a little good news to spread around, especially when it’s about the hard-working folks who do a lot of h...
Must Be Something in the Wine
HearsayI say “Grapevine,” you say … what exactly? Main Street, maybe? The only regularly bustling family-friendly retail strip in North Texas devoid of chain establishments? Or maybe the Gaylord Texan Resort?
Electroshock Show
GalleryArlington’s F6 Gallery holds a one-night art show this Saturday featuring the works of 23 artists exploring the impact of art inspired by electronics, whether it’s digitally manipulated images or simply paintings of...
Two Juans Make It Right
LAURIE BARKER JAMESCan you name the current executive chef at Reata Restaurant, probably the most well known purveyor of cowboy cuisine in Sundance Square? It’s not co-founder Grady Spears, whose tenure ended in 2000. Tim Love? Never was an...
Same (Smelly) Song
Eastsiders say a local food processor is still stinking up their neighborhood.ERIC GRIFFEY
When Bill Cole saw a “haz-mat” team in front of his Riverside-area auto repair shop last month, it brought back some pretty bad memories.
Eagle-Eye View
Tarrant’s newest lakeside park is already a monument.Jeff Prince
When the gates open to the public on Friday, Eagle Mountain Lake Park will represent many things beyond the obvious beauty of 400 pristine acres covered with wildflowers, cedars, oaks, mesquites, cactus, rocks, walking trails, ...
Yuletide Greetings
Mission’s Christmas message to tenants: MovePeter Gorman
Cards that arrive in the mail this time of year are generally filled with good cheer.
Paying the Price for Free Speech
Karen Lewis’ worst crime, in the eyes of federal jailers, may have been talking to the Weekly.Betty Brink
It was 2:30 a.m. when a guard woke her up and told her to pack her belongings. By 5 a.m., Karen Lucchesi Lewis was in a Bureau of Prisons bus, shackled and chained, on the way from Carswell Federal Medical Center to a holding f...