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Yearly Archives: 2008

Plain-spoken

There are a lot of hard-knock stories that follow a character from the bottom of society's barrel to a better life full of clean...

The Princess of Pong

It's the beginning of summer in the city, and like most college athletes, Jasna Reed is taking it comparatively easy. But that wasn't her...

Old Days

I know I'm in the right place when I play Boz Scaggs on the (non-internet!) juke and the other customers don't sigh at me...

Hot, Airy

The expression "Pffft," under the scrutiny of a Google search, reveals several meanings, including "The sound you make when someone says something really stupid"...

Music Awards Wrap-Up

Not to sound like a cheerleader, but every show I saw last week at our 11th Annual Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards showcase downtown...

Rushed Hours

Adapted from a comic-book miniseries from 2003 and '04, Wanted is Hollywood's latest attempt to piggyback on the successes of other cultish comic adaptations...

Options

Late one Friday afternoon, out on a seemingly endless stretch of 820 - are we in Hurst? East Fort Worth? - my flesh-and-blood payload...

Drink Me

What's the story on Poly Pop? From untrustworthy web sites, Chow, Baby has learned only that one Paul Hollis, who may have lived near...

Out of the Depot

When local real estate developers started testing the waters for a light-rail system in Fort Worth a few years ago, Mayor Mike Moncrief wasn't...

Arthur’s Songs

The local theater troupes have staged innumerable revivals of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, but this week we finally get a look at Monty Python's...