Hip Tips (Thu., Nov. 3, 2009)
To a lot of folks, the late-’90s was a pop-music wasteland. Grunge and rap, two styles that matured in the late-1980s/early-’90s, were going mainstream...
Bad Water-Foul Air O’Plenty In Barnett Shale
In addition to the pipeline explosion mentioned in Peter Gorman’s post, there have been all kinds of interesting stuff happening in the natural gas...
Not That It Will Ever Happen Here
Not that it will ever happen in Fort Worth, but a gas pipeline explosion early Thursday morning rocked the panhandle town of Bushland, TX,...
Former Ranger Nut-Job Gets Accidentally Shot
Former Rangers' pitcher Vicente Padilla, who was released from the team late last season for being a jerk and throwing at opposing player's heads,...
Smokers, Dippers, Chewers Unite!
When the state and federal governments started hiking tobacco taxes – a so-called sin tax -- and driving the cost of cigarettes above $5...
Film Short
OPENING:
The Box (PG-13) Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) adapts Richard Matheson's short story "Button, Button" about a financially strapped couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden)...
Night and Day
WED ? 4
Australian music group Hillsong United brings its brand of Christian-flavored arena rock to movie theaters around the area this evening. The broadcast...
Hypocrisy in the Air
Static is underwhelmed with the news, reported last Friday on WFAA-TV/Channel 8, that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has discovered elevated levels of...
Cold Comfort
The Future Unlived's music is "built upon revenge," according to frontman Danny Future. Case in point: "Machine," a blues-rock stomp in which Future, whose...
Wheel Right
Four years ago, Amber Herndon was volunteering at a banquet being held at her church. The event was a fund-raiser for a new program...
