DVD Review: “Jiro Dreams of Sushi”
I’m a sucker for documentaries about food, so even if I hadn’t started eating sushi on a regular basis recently, I’d still be fascinated...
StewPat: 6 Days That Shook the World
Everything you thought was important right now –– the presidential campaign, the violence in Syria, ongoing weather-related catastrophes –– pales in comparison to the...
Film Shorts
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The Watch (R) Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade star in this comedy as overzealous neighborhood watchmen who are forced to...
Night & Day
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We should take advantage of every opportunity to improve our cherished public institutions, and you have one such opportunity when the Ridglea...
Tempest or Tea Kettle
The natural gas leak at an XTO drilling site last Friday was (1) scary as hell or (2) ain’t no thang, depending on whom...
3rd Base Pumping?
I’ve gotta be honest. The only reason I set out for Arlington’s 3rd Base Sports Bar & Grill was for the purpose of making...
Ode to Lola’s, Fort Live
Here’s one thing that can be said for Progress: Sometimes new stuff is better. Case in point: Lola’s Saloon. Many of us fondly recall...
Hot Fried Foodies
Last week I braved the July sun and checked out the Go Texan food truck competition at the Cowtown Chow Down food truck park...
Amphibian Metamorphosis
The adjective “Kafkaesque” gets tossed around a lot, but rarely has it applied more literally than in The Understudy, Theresa Rebeck’s sly show business...
Boogie Nights
Until recently, Fort Worth’s noisy blues-rock trio The Frisky Disco was having a rough go at it. They had been floundering, really, for the...
