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Yearly Archives: 2009

Pride and Glory

Last month, Jason Manriquez got to fulfill a longtime dream: He performed a set with his band, Fate Lions, at a local drag show....

Cross about the Crossing

Most folks who live near railroad tracks grow weary of getting blasted by train horns day and night. So when Fort Worth's railroad projects...

Under the Weekly Microscope

To the editor: The May 27 cover story on the funding of the medical examiner's office ("Dissecting the Evidence"), by Peter Gorman, was a...

Bar Trek: To Boldly Go …

"I can't believe you guys went to that bar on Hemphill!" That's what Griffey's girlfriend said to me as I slid her beer across...

Stained Class

Like most single working mothers, Sheran Goodspeed Keyton feels lucky if she can grab five minutes of "me" time on any given day. Unlike...

The Phuss ‘Bout Ken, Ben

It's not 'cause he's one of our regular scribes that we're bragging on him, but Ken Shimamoto deserves a lot of props for bringing...

You Are There

A few weeks ago, my oldest son told me that Afghanistan is probably in his immediate future. It was only a little over a...

Gallery

J.C. Pace III's show of found-art sculpture at Artspace 111 is tantalizingly subtitled "Chain Saws, Edgers, Lawnmowers, Weed Eaters, Hedge Trimmers, X-Rays, Artichokes, Brussels...

Film Shorts

OPENING: Enlighten Up! (NR) Kate Churchill's documentary about her own disastrous plan to turn her skeptical friend (Nick Rosen) into a yoga practitioner. (Opens Friday...

Marital Tate

The Proposal makes an instructive contract with Management, the film that opened and promptly closed last month. Both movies are about the romantic...