Who Messed With Texas?
Once again, allow me to get on my high horse and complain about the preponderance of Texas Music at bars in...
Johnny Got His Pills
After U.S. Army Sgt. Douglas Hale, Jr. finished 15 months in Iraq for his second combat tour, it was obvious that things in his...
Gallery
UTA’s current art show is appropriately called Introductions, featuring works in various media by three new assistant professors who are on tenure track.
They...
Conviction Has Courage, Lacks Craft
Hilary Swank stars in Conviction as a woman who launches a more or less single-handed assault on the legal system, and this suffocating, curiously...
Rutherford, Yager Make Changes
Side by side, Burt Rutherford and Tim Yager look like a mismatched comedy duo, best friends who couldn’t look any more different. The two...
How Vernon Fisher Came to K-Mart Conceptualism
Fort Worth artist Vernon Fisher figures he escaped the bland certainties of a traditional rural Texas life through a crack in the façade between...
Caro’s Tex-Mex Wins
Caro’s Mexican Restaurant is the beneficiary of some slick new signage near Texas Christian University on Bluebonnet Circle. In fact, a clueless diner could...
Moving the Bar on Barbecue
This week’s eating adventures just go to show how much Chow, Baby has grown — not as a person, but as a Texan. Being...
Cirque du Horror
When composer and multi-instrumentalist David Pierce has a plan, the results can be so good it’s frightening. Last year, he put together the inaugural...
To No One’s Surprise, Whistleblower Gets the Axe
After numerous impassioned and emotional speeches on his behalf, the Fort Worth school board last night voted 6-3 to fire Joe Palazzolo, the embattled...
