Packing Gatts, Clocking SAT’s
Nerdcore reached its nadir, to use a geeky term, a few years ago, with the debut c.d. from novelty act MC Hawking. The make-believe...
Leave Their Names Out
Our Nov. 8 cover story, "Leaving Johnson County," caused a flurry of responses. To mix a metaphor, it seems as though writer Peter Gorman...
Reading T Leaves
By now, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens has become so overexposed that even the people bashing him have grown tiresome. (Honestly, if Night...
Soul Brother No. 1
In Fort Worth’s Soul Food Central block, the area near the intersection of Horne Street and Camp Bowie Boulevard, Mama Lou’s Country Kitchen is...
Nina Simone
The very concept is a bit jarring: Take one of the most socially conscious, independent, folk-jazz, whatever-style-she-wanted-to-sing artists from the 1960s. Ask some of...
The Fools of Rock
This is what I remember most about Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny.
Before Tenacious D plays its first gig, at a quiet bar...
Party On
Anyone who's ever been to a film festival, even SXSW, knows that the parties can be as much fun as the screenings. Wait. Who...
TAKSing Our Patience
Used to be there were only two things sure in this life: death and taxes. Now there are three sure things: death, taxes, and...
Stray Shot
Supposedly director Alejandro González Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga have parted ways over the issue of authorial credit for the three films they’ve collaborated...
Soaking the Citizenry
That mother of all boondoggles, the Trinity River Vision, has added another "Trinity River (fill in the blanks)" item to its growing maze of...
