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Yearly Archives: 2008

What Rangers?

If, against all common sense and logic, you are still a Rangers fan, you've gotten used to this sad saga. It is still early...

Credit, Due

All those kudos for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's recent six-part series on the county's only charity hospital, John Peter Smith, and its multiple failures...

Dream Weaver

More than a dozen years ago, musician Beth Wood was your typical student struggling to earn a degree in literature from the University of...

On the Verizon?

A marketing person from out of town called me recently and asked about the venues in Fort Worth. I said, well, we have 8.0...

Escape Move

Seven years ago, David Mamet capped a winning streak as a film director with his engaging farce State and Main, following his twisty 1997...

Vegas Babies

Five years ago Ashton Kutcher starred in a dire romantic comedy called Just Married, one of those movies that tries to present marriage as...

Slow Your Roll

Sitting along the north side of I-20 in Arlington at Matlock Street, Arlington Highlands has been quaintly described as a "shopping center," which is...

City on the Edge of Forever

Normally in May, Chow, Baby embarks on its big spring vacation, which for IRS purposes is known as global-cuisine research. (Most other vacations are officially...

Foot Off the Gas

For the past year or so, economists have been saying that North Texas seems immune to many of the money problems facing the rest...

The Beauty Is

In November 2003, when the Cliburn Foundation and the Modern Art Museum were just starting their new series expressly devoted to contemporary music, the...