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Yearly Archives: 2008

Lone Star in Focus

So this is what we were missing. After a five-year drought, Fort Worth revived its civic celebration of the movies last year, under the...

Risky Nuke Business

Luminant Energy, the new owner of the old TXU, came to town promising not only to go green (it's the largest producer of wind...

Died Pretty

Australian record labels have long been ahead of the curve in terms of providing bonus materials to soften the sting of exorbitant CD prices....

Waiting for Drunks

On almost any night when the bars close at 2 a.m., dozens of people loudly pour out of the bars and onto the streets...

Back in 2008 …

The big news in Barland this past year was the ado about - for lack of a better nickname - Carroll Street Corner, a...

On the March

After forming in mid-2006, the pop-soul outfit The Campaign quickly earned a reputation for both novelty and sheer professionalism. First there was the oddity...

A Prairie Solstice

A life in the anonymity of street shadows is preferred to the glaring public eye. Yet it's no problem, flourishing in our Sun's living...

Future Rearview

If 2008 goes down as anything, it was the year when Fort Worth artists finally started breaching the dam that separated them from the...

Leisure, Class

Chef Luan "Louie" Duraku paid his dues in various North Texas restaurants, hoping eventually for his own place, a room large enough to let...

The Top 10

Every time I log on to a movie-related website, some joker writing in all caps is ranting about how the movies in 2008 sucked....