Come Together
Matt Skates has been a fixture on the Fort Worth music scene for years. He plays bass currently in seven local bands: Ginny Mac,...
For Love of the (New) Game
Mike Matthews nailed a line drive into right center field and made it to second base. His teammate followed that with a high fly...
Linda Oh Trio
On the cover of her debut CD, Malaysian-born, Australian-bred bassist Linda Oh appears as a graphic novel heroine, silhouetted against a full moon, gazing...
Pucker Up Tuckers Out
A "queer kiss-in"? In the Stockyards? During Texas-OU weekend?! Oh, brother. Can you spell "T-R-O-U-B-L-E"?
That's what I thought about a week ago, when I...
CD, Sharp
A major element of Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra's renaissance in this decade has been the willingness of conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya to program and promote...
Kickin’ It Old-School
The Fort Worth Cats, one of the premier bands from the nigh-legendary Fort Worth "teen scene" of the 1960s, never technically broke up, at...
Leasing Our Lives Away
So you've signed a gas lease. Congratulations: You've been taken for a fool. Certain material facts were kept from you that, had you known...
Stylin’
Chris Rock explains the premise of Good Hair right at the beginning. While photographs of his two young daughters fill the screen, he says,...
Astro Bore
There's a part in the 2004 Disney/Pixar hit The Incredibles when super-human boy-speedster Dash catches himself accidentally running on water. As any 10-year-old would,...
Falling Down, Getting Back Up
On an October morning, the 900 block of East Leuda Street on the city's Near Southeast Side is awash in gentle rain and cultural...
