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...
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...
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...
Fathers Figure
Last Monday, UMOJA, a 16-year-old Fort Worth-based youth advocacy organization of African-American men, led a local effort to encourage black men to lead their...
Portugal. The Man
“Sell me / I’m a skeptical boy.” So opens Church Mouth, the second album by Alaska’s Portugal. The Man.
Borne on a trellis of chameleonic...
Fo, Fo, Fo
Many English-speaking theatergoers had never heard of Dario Fo before 1997, when he won the Nobel Prize for literature.
Before that, though, the Italian playwright...
U.S. Steal
Too often when Hollywood tries to make movies for the Latino audience, the result is embarrassingly tone-deaf — look no further than the currently...
Jon Spencer & Matt Verta-Ray
Recorded in three cities with three different backing bands, Going Way Out With Heavy Trash is Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray’s tribute to the...
Red Dirt, Red bud, Red eyes
Cross Canadian Ragweed embodies the "weed, whites, and wine" lifestyle of the Red Dirt-Texas Music practitioners, but apparently Cody Canada and his gang aren't...
