The Chefs Must Be Crazy
In an episode of Chow, Baby's favorite cartoon show, The Tick, one of the superhero's punny cohorts is gearing up to battle evil: "This...
Guilt by Disassociation
Tarrant County Judge Tom Vandergriff's decision to move out of his landmark house at 1216 W. Park Row in Arlington after 38 years sparked...
Troubled Waters
When U.S Rep. Kay Granger pushed funding through Congress for the Trinity River Vision project — anointed as flood control, but really an economic...
Kate Campbell with Spooner Oldham
On For the Living of These Days, Kate Campbell sings slow, contemplative songs of hope in troubled times and of a sort of populist...
Smile Smile
Intentionally simple, the Dallas duo Smile Smile spotlights each discrete element of a song, enabling the plainspoken emotion of harmony to speak for itself....
Playthings No More
Two major Nutcrackers come our way each December, in addition to the countless studio versions that dot the landscape.
Beginning earlier this month, Texas...
Fat Tuesday Every Day
It might have been the sparkling day, or maybe the phase of the moon, but whatever it was made me trek 45 minutes from...
Open Letter to Off-the-Wall Jack
Dear Mr. Off-the-Wall Jack. Don't worry. I'm not writing you now in the hope that you'll change your name to something less disgusting. Rather,...
Losing Our (American) Way
The other day I heard on the radio an industrial-edged remake (by a band called Dissturbed) of the 1986 Genesis pop hit, "Land of...
Sundance Kid
On a whim a couple of months ago, the 29-year-old Fort Worth native took a short break from his full-time job as a mechanical...
