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Yearly Archives: 2009

Completely Spent

Hard to tell whether Complete is real or fake, though I'm betting real. The Fort Worth/Austin duo's songs consist of three simple barre chords...

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Talking records with an Aussie chum recently, I professed to be impressed that the Beatles' first album was recorded in just 10 hours. "That's...

Iris Leu

Dallas-based singer-songwriter Iris Leu waited until after college to start her musical career, but she's making up for lost time. Hitting the boards in...

Dogs of War

The genre-busting animated documentary Waltz With Bashir was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, but last week it lost to the Japanese...

Mad Money

Madea Goes to Jail is Tyler Perry's seventh film as writer or director in only four years. In that short period of time, his...

Slicing, Dicing

Ricki Epstein has two culinary alter egos, and never the twain shall meet. By night, she runs a catering company that does big-deal events,...

Hallmark Pass

Many of Chow, Baby's favorite holiday rituals fall in February, beginning with repeated viewings of that great existential masterpiece, Groundhog Day, with its dazzling...

Down for the Count

When city officials announced recently that a new census had shown fewer homeless people on Fort Worth streets, it sounded like good news on...

Golden Oldie

Maybe you're still stinging from the hit your wallet took in 2008. Or maybe you've vowed to shop at locally owned businesses as much...

Three Days of the Corn Soup

King Wok (817-492-0088, limited Eastside delivery area) opened in November in the former Rickshaw Chinese Restaurant space in the small shopping strip at Woodhaven...