Chart Movements
Every once in a blue moon, a successful local band may find one of its singles in the Billboard Hot 100, a weekly chart...
Old New World
Even though he’s an easy-going guy, Telegraph Canyon’s Chris Johnson has some serious convictions. Last spring, he traveled to Washington, D.C., to take part...
Horrors in Black and White
Up until recently, Ridgmar Movie Tavern showed pay-per-view WWE wrestling matches about once a week.
A (mostly male) crowd of hardcore fans packed the...
’Tis the Season … to Be Careful
The funeral procession for Fort Worth Police Officer Dwayne Freeto made its way last week down streets near Fort Worth Weekly's office, reminding Static...
Valet Fever
P.G. Wodehouse spent almost 60 years of his long life writing about the comic misadventures of Bertie Wooster, the bumbling young English scion of...
Eli Young Band
For several years now, I’ve been bitching about the way Texas Music evolved into a bunch of one-trick pony posers.
You know the rant —...
Ricky Bobby’s Guide to Life (Or At Least the Movies)
One of the things that makes movie-going such an enjoyably unpredictable business is that every once in a while, a lowbrow comedy tells us...
Rob Baird & the Whiskey Reunion
Having a country-rock scene as thriving as the Fort’s spells great news for musical connoisseurs and not-so-great news for artists just emerging into it....
An Open Letter to Mistletoe Heights
I live in West Meadowbrook, not Mistletoe Heights, but I am certain that we share many of the same values and concerns for our...
Aimee Mann
When an interminably melancholic and arty rock singer-songwriter like Aimee Mann releases an album of yuletide tunes, you have to wonder: Whatever happened to...
