High on Art
For the past three decades, the Fort Worth Art Dealers Association has been putting on Gallery Night, one evening in the spring and one...
Cowboys and Bull
The 24th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is coming up at the beginning of next year in Elko, Nev., and two Fort Worthians will be...
Shlock and Gall
My pals and I have the greatest taste in music of all time, which is why we get so pissed when our talent goes...
Desert Dogs
3:10 to Yuma began life as a Western short story written by Elmore Leonard in 1953, before he made his reputation writing crime fiction.
It's...
Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy
The simply titled Cornell 1964 is one of the previously undiscovered gems from the too-short career of jazz genius composer, arranger, and bass player...
All That Jazz
The latest entry to the pet-peeve list: "upscale," as in "upscale soul food." In the year and a bit since Keith Hicks created the...
Black Screens
The term “film noir” was invented by French critics in the late 1950s as a label for a set of movies that Hollywood started...
Policing Speech
Vincent was one of the few people who seemed to have a dog in both the fights that went on in downtown Fort Worth...
Golden Tee
The vision most people have of food at golf courses is usually accurate: burgers, hot dogs, and fries, all overshadowed by a full-service bar.
In...
Don’t Ban the Bomb-Words
Last week NBC presented a special that chronicled the first five years of Saturday Night Live. For many of us, the mid-70s doesn't seem...
