Various Artists
Taking its name from revolutionary rebels in Nicaragua, Sandinista!, The Clash’s groundbreaking album from 1980, is “an exciting, sprawling mess,” according to writer Jimmy...
Press Club Mess
Red flags were waving madly after the Press Club of Dallas' 48th annual journalism awards banquet last November. Sure, Fort Worth Weekly toasted its...
The Damage He Did
The news media last week jumped all over the Don Imus story after the radio host called the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos."
Unless...
Killed by a Dirty War
Ted Westhusing was a true believer. And that was his fatal flaw.
A colonel in the U.S. Army, Westhusing had a good job teaching English...
Bachelor-Party Season
Ahhh, spring! Birds on the wing, daylight hours on the rise, strippers on the see-through stiletto.
For most of us male of-agers, spring means wedding...
Song of Himself
The next time Texas balladeer Steven Fromholz performs here, you might be snapping your fingers rather than applauding.
“I will be dressing all in black...
For the Children
Last Saturday at 6th Street Live, some marquee rawkers piled into the Westside club to do that thing they do and also to raise...
Anjani
“There’s perfume burning in the air / Bits of beauty everywhere,” sings jazz pianist-vocalist Anjani on the opener to Blue Alert, her third album....
Various artists Duets: A Prairie Home Companion
Prairie Home Companion is such a good radio show that you’d expect songs from the show to be special too. But the choices on...
Digitalis Purpurea
Nuremberg native Joachim Kersten conceived his current show in response to an invitation from the Bavarian city of Schweinfurt (“pig ford”) to design a...




