Love/Hate
Classic novels of homoerotic obsession — titles like Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, and, if you want to give it...
Blood Sausage
I’ll bet that relatively few people have ever watched a movie while sitting in one of the locations where it was shot.
That happened...
Mad Boy, Mad Boy
Static has no excuse for waiting weeks to look at its Tivo-recorded premiere of Jail, except maybe that it seemed like duty rather than...
Suspicious Activity
There is an issue festering in many Fort Worth neighborhoods these days, and it is quite complex.
Older neighborhoods are being seen as prime places...
Rock the Casbah
Attention, all non-Middle-Eastern students at the University of Texas at Arlington: A couple of hot, chewy falafels dipped in hummus can soak up as...
Jamie Richards
With his smooth-as-milk country voice, Jamie Richards delivers 14 songs about love, lost love, whiskey, and his mom on the Fort Worth-recorded Drive, whose...
Newgrass, New Guard
Thank goodness for Fred's Texas Café. Now that the Wreck Room is gone (R.I.P.), the ancient diner and backyard hang-out is all that remains...
Putting the Bite on Hospitals
Cynthia Fitzgerald’s career seemed to be heading down a promising path at last.
She’d moved to North Texas from her native Nebraska in 1997, living...
Field Presence
The same week that William Campbell keeps its doors opens for the first First Friday, you can see Field Presence, their current show of...
I Can Hear That Train …
As any survivor of a 12-step program knows, you have to admit you have a problem before you can attack it.
In Fort Worth’s case,...
