This Tune is Made of Gold
I can’t get a certain song off my mind – a tune from the just-released CD “Balm in Gilead” by the extraordinary and oddball Rickie Lee...
Victoire Imméritée (The Irish Were Robbed!)
The 32 countries in the World Cup soccer tournament were decided yesterday, and the French cheated their way in. I was planning to hold...
Hip Tips (Thu., Dec. 19, ’09)
MUST-SEE TV
He’s buff, has orange skin, and wears tight-fitting or little clothing. (“Sun’s out, guns out, bro!”) He pouts for the cameras, has spiked...
Indian Casino Reprises HellDamnCrap
Indian Casino Records is forging ahead with new releases, even though the Seattle-based label with strong Fort Worth ties has been punched in the...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
Antichrist (NR) Lars von Trier's horror film stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple who descend into madness while vacationing at a...
Night and Day
WED ? 18
With Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison set to drain each other of resources in the Republican primary, might there be room...
Thank God and Greyhound, is she gone yet?
Fourteen minutes and one second ... 14 minutes and two seconds ... 14 minutes and three seconds ... . Sarah Palin's 15 minutes of...
Taking Wing
Many years ago, when Violet O'Valle was a drama teacher in Houston public schools, she discovered a collection of scripts by the great Irish...
Art of Darkness
Under normal circumstances, three guys who all work at art museums starting a band together would either be the beginning of a lame joke...
Hear No Evil
This summer, when members of the Fort Worth City Council were briefed on the grim results of a federal investigation of the city's housing...
