2012 Forecast? Awesome
Last year was a great one for Fort Worth music. All of those amazing albums. All of those amazing tunes. All...
Death Lives On
When John Holbrook put together a photo essay of Texas death row inmates for Fort Worth Weekly in 2008, he probably little suspected that...
Buzzing Slumberbuzz
Before pegging Slumberbuzz, first consult rock taxonomy and stop at shoe-gaze, one of various offshoots of post-rock. The 20-year-old term derives from the musicians’...
Volcanos: No Carpet
A couple years ago, I set out for the Mid-Cities in search of this fabled bar called Volcanos Sports Bar & Grill. I’d heard...
Gallery
The first of 2012’s new art shows opens this week, and a good one looks to be at Brand 10 Art Space, with collaborations...
Iron Lady: Tory Details
More than 20 years after she left office as Prime Minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher now enjoys a much higher reputation in America...
Oh, the Carnage!
An ongoing motif in Roman Polanski’s career has been characters trapped in enclosed spaces. The director seems to love watching people unravel in apartments,...
Has Rick’s Run Become Roadkill?
Texas Gov. Rick Perry started his campaign with a prayer rally in Houston last August designed to give him a boost with religious evangelicals...
La Familia Under Fire
Last week, Fort Worth Weekly broke the news of a lawsuit filed against La Familia by three former employees who claim they were threatened,...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2011
I've done this before, and it's rapidly becoming my favorite blog post of the year: I've compiled this list sampling the best dialogue I...