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Yearly Archives: 2012

James P. Bell’s “Biloxi Blues”

Gallery

Movies have always been besotted with the romance of trains, and photographer James P. Bell pays tribute to this tradition by taking pictures of...
Quvenzhané Wallis faces down an extinct creature in the Louisiana bayou in Beasts of the Southern Wild.

Animal Kingdom

The wildly original Beasts of the Southern Wild comes to Grapevine this week toting a host of critical hosannas and an eye-catching haul of...

Stray Cats Doing Well After Rescue

The clock — that damned clock atop the LaGrave Field scoreboard — is the unwitting symbol for every disappointment the Fort Worth Cats have...
Beneath this unassuming marquee is a gateway to some successful Thai fare. Chase Martinez

Thai in Bloom

The atmosphere inside Thai Orchid in a small Haltom City strip mall is a little rough around the edges. On a recent weekday dinner...
Martin Clark and Meng-Jung Tsai in The Threepenny Opera.

English Steal

Before they were chased out of Germany by the Nazis, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill were the most potent force in European theater, pioneering...

Little Attention Given To Tarrant Technician Who Ignored Rape Kits

Imagine you're a kid again. Let's say you were a happy child (this is hypothetical, so why not) who knocked over the vase of grandma's...

Drones Bring US Pilots Closer To Enemies’ Lives

Thought drone warfare was making warfare into a video game? Not so, according to a front-page New York Times story that flips the conventional understanding...

UPDATED Comptroller Storms Lola’s

For the second time in about a month last Saturday, agents from the state comptroller’s office stormed Lola’s Saloon (2736 W. 6th St., 817-877-0666)...

Notes on the Summer Olympics

I don't get geeked up for the Olympics the way I do for the big international soccer tournaments, but I always get sucked in...

Would You Pay To Read The Startlegram Online?

McClatchy, the corporation that owns the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, is on its way to implementing paywalls at its papers. Don't be surprised to log on...