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Yearly Archives: 2005

Funkytown? Hardly

On the surface, who cares whether a bar is part of a chain or not? As far as Last Call's concerned, an able-bodied person...

Anticipation

On a near-daily basis for months now, Chow, Baby has been monitoring the "Coming Soon - Pho Bella" sign in the middle of the...

A Flag on Instant Replay

After all those hours of football over the Thanksgiving weekend, I jotted down what I like and don't like about watching the national sport...

Take That!

The hottest new toy this holiday season is a punching bag - named Wal-Mart. Hollywood Reporter described the recent documentary Wal-Mart: The High Cost...

Collin, GRO, Correction

Being the loud-mouthed centers of the universe we think we are, my family and I don't celebrate holidays when the calendar says to. (Stupid calendar.)...

Super Strings

Everything is connected, especially considering the goings-on this week. ... Wreck Room owner Brian Forella has seen a lot of bands - local, national,...

Losing Our Voices

A media monopoly is about to gobble one of the last voices of press freedom in the United States - but is that really...

Go-Go Pantego

Here's another thing Chow, Baby has never understood: Pantego. Never known anybody who lives there, not sure exactly where the mile-square town's boundaries are...

Stampeded

Gosh, darn it! Sometimes when your timing's off, your timing's off. I didn't make Fort Worth Star-Telegram'er Todd Camp's 13th annual (so originally named) Nightmare...

Bush-Whacked

No wonder George W. Bush loves McLennan County, where his ranch - dubbed the Western White House - is located, near Crawford. Who wouldn't...