Killer or Filler?
God’s Joke is an Arlington power trio that harkens back to Australia’s Hard-ons as well as Red-era King Crimson, delivering jams of shifting tempos,...
Old Rip’s vs. Neighbors
It’s lunchtime by Texas Christian University. Cars fill nearly every parking space outside Old Rip’s Tex-Mex off West Berry Street. But inside only a...
Bright Lights, Big Rooster
I forget where we started out, but we ended up going to The Wild Rooster Bar, a relatively new joint on that little peninsula...
The Big O Face
I’m not naming any names, because I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but for the love of all that’s frosty...
Gallery
Upstairs Gallery’s current show is just a seasonal exhibit, but the pieces do have the feeling of summer, from Bill Barter’s colorful geometrical abstractions...
Middle Men: The Internet Is for Porn
Middle Men’s version of history is a lie. According to this movie, it was the pornographers who invented online shopping before the major retailers...
Charlie St. Cloud: Sailing Takes Me Away
Sometimes being a film critic means being a straight guy who spends hours pondering the meaning of Zac Efron. It’s not that bad, actually....
Ticked Off at Ticked-Off Trannies
At a nondescript house in Arlington last summer, a showdown of cinematic proportions took place. Three women faced off against three men who’d brutally...
Boo-Ray’s Ragin’ Cajun
Louisiana cooking isn’t completely foreign to Fort Worth, but restaurants specializing in Cajun cuisine here can probably be counted on one hand. All of...
Crazy for Taco Loco
You know, Chow, Baby goes to all this trouble creating mania-inspired color-coded lists and sub-lists, and yet not once has anyone written in to...
