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Yearly Archives: 2011

Good Day, Sleepyhead

I love all the old breakfast favorites: eggs, sausage, pancakes, French toast, bacon. I just never eat them for breakfast. Who wants to start...

First Church of Maple

What did we do on Sundays before brunch? Yes, football and church (for non-heathens), but Chow, Baby (a dyed-in-the-wool heathen) once considered it mostly...

Debating Texas Identity

With Rick Perry making his bid for the U.S. presidency, you can expect to hear in his rhetoric many familiar tropes of Texas identity,...

9/11/11

As the calendar would have it, the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks falls on a Sunday. Not that there would have been...

Historic Fort Worth Art Show

Historic Fort Worth presents its ninth annual art show and sale called Preservation is the Art of the City at the Fort Worth Community...

Eddie Murphy to Host Oscars

The news dropped this morning that Eddie Murphy will host next February's Academy Awards ceremony, and the entire Twitternetinterwebversethingy lit up. Great pick, says...

R.I.P., Salvatore Licitra

Sad news from the world of Italian opera, as tenor Salvatore Licitra passed away yesterday. The 43-year-old singer suffered a stroke last week while...

Houston Kills Red Light Cameras

Houston might be hot, muggy, and beauty challenged, but at least residents and city leaders there have enough sense there to get rid of...

Mother Jones Bends Fort Worth Over Knee

Nonprofit news organization Mother Jones is spanking Fort Worth and Texas in this story for allowing the oil and gas industry to use millions...

Thoughts on the Prices of Movie Tickets

We moan about how the ticket prices at our movie theaters are constantly going up, but let's face it: They’re still a bargain compared...