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Yearly Archives: 2008

A Glowing Gift from the NRC

***ONLINE EXCLUSIVE*** For anyone interested in protesting (or supporting) the proposed addition of two new reactors at the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, the news...

Another Cup of Joe

So Chow, Baby has this old college buddy, Joe. You met him in this space a few years back when he stopped off in...

A Russian Fairy Doll

Nutcrackers come and go every year, but Metropolitan Classical Ballet's Russian version is something to which local dance lovers really look forward. This year's...

Playing Serious

When The Queen came out two years ago and scored a bunch of Oscar nominations and an eventual Best Actress win for Helen Mirren,...

Certain Pour Shepherds

As a young man in Ireland, Matt McEntire sometimes made the rounds of bars on Christmas Eve with his friends, stopping just long enough...

Grapevine’s Christmas Break

The bar's smoky, the beer's cheap - and cold - the shtick on the wall is boys'-tree-house-and-sports-bar-y, and the regulars I've seen are pretty...

A Russian Fairy Doll

Nutcrackers come and go every year, but Metropolitan Classical Ballet's Russian version is something to which local dance lovers really look forward. This year's...

A Glowing Gift from the NRC

By BETTY BRINK For anyone interested in protesting (or supporting) the proposed addition of two new reactors at the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, the...

Gray Areas

Somewhere between shoegazy pop and pop-prog lies the family affair, Matthew and the Arrogant Sea. By JIMMY FOwlER If Family, Family, Family Meets the Magic Christian...

Vehicles

Getting a crack band to back you may seem easy - indie-rock singer-songwriter Kevin Aldridge can count among his backers ex-members of Woodeye and...