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Yearly Archives: 2007

Superior Homecooking

As much as Chow, Baby loves a good taqueria taco, it had never thought to try making them at home - until a recent...

Ol’ Scratch

Golf, like poker, is a deliberative sport that demands grace and calm under pressure. Odd then that it has gained a surprising number of...

Team Manager

Daniel Del Purgatorio has never attended a horror-movie convention, which may sound odd for a self-confessed horror enthusiast who speaks glowingly of Takashi Miike’s...

Drew’s Clues

When feminism was still known as “the women’s movement” and associated with corset-wearing suffragettes, along came Nancy Drew. The plucky, defiantly modern girl detective was...

Berg Blanket Bingo

It takes a while to make an animated film. Long enough, in fact, that when directors Ash Brannon and Chris Buck and producer Chris...

Jack of Diamonds

OK, so Ocean’s Twelve came out two and a half years ago, and a lot of ticket-buyers felt as if the thieves on the...

Hit or Miss?

 Sometimes it’s just not your day. And on a recent Friday night at the venerable On Broadway Ristorante Italiano, it wasn’t ours. A dinner that...

Yee-Hmmm

Amazing how little it takes to turn a room from upscale Mex to down-home Tex. A few five-pointed metal stars and pastel-tinted photos of...

Making Book on Art

Stealing a federal building intended for Dallas and getting it built in Fort Worth instead was a major coup for then-U.S. Rep. Jim Wright...

Curtain Call

The Fort Worth Opera’s first annual festival ends this weekend with final performances of all three current productions: Madame Butterfly, Frau Margot, and Falstaff,...