Posts Tagged ‘work’
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.
A Tiara for TBT
There’s nothing sleepy about this Beauty.Stage
Of Tchaikovsky’s three great ballets — Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and Sleeping Beauty — the last is the most engaging, some would argue his best. The Russian composer reveled in giving life to fantasy, and the fairy tale of a...
Howling at the Moon
HearsayBefore I took over this column about five years ago, I decided not to be negative. Spewing vitriol about local/struggling bands, clubs, and events only riles readers up and imbues the writer with a false sense of importance. I ...
Hotseat for Hicks
Dan McGrawThe Fort Worth City Council meeting two weeks ago was an important one for Kathleen Hicks. Up for a vote were zoning changes on the old Masonic Home property on the East Side, for a development that will bring new single-family...
Great Escape
BRIAN ABRAMSThe West Side is full of Euro-influenced bistros: La Piazza, Escargot, Saint-Emilion, Bella West. Thing is, they’re all a little — how you say? — snooty as all get-out.
Artists at Work
GalleryMany artists through history used regular employment to make ends meet and painted in their spare time, like Gauguin and Seurat. Perhaps there won’t be any artists of that caliber at Artists at Work, but the show is worth che...
Turn of the Screw
StagePlaywright, screenwriter, and tv scribe Richard Dresser once told an interviewer, “I’ve had occasion to work at a series of jobs ranging from a plastics factory where I made G.I. Joe’s thighs … to Hollywood, where I...
Re-Imagineering
SAMUEL HUDSONTheir buildings say it all. Fort Worth’s three art museums — the Kimbell, the Carter, and the Modern — are gifts to the city from the rich and powerful. Each museum is the work of a world-famous architect — Louis Kahn, ...
Lionizing Lone Star Art
Jeff PrinceAt first glance, it’s simply a painting of a black gardener in overalls and floppy hat, tin cup dangling from his fingers, a gentle look on his weathered face. But it’s so much more to at least one collector.
Hesses’ Messes
The makers of Napoleon Dynamite find their act doesn’t travel south of the border.Kristian Lin
Nacho Libre is the second comedy from husband-and-wife filmmaking team Jared and Jerusha Hess, whose debut Napoleon Dynamite somehow became a huge hit two years ago.