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Yearly Archives: 2012

Further Thoughts on Batman

WARNING: MULTIPLE SPOILERS AHEAD Because of deadlines, I only had one hour to write up my review of The Dark Knight Rises last week. I...

Cluck Is One Lucky Duck

Ryan Grant, former owner of the Flashdancer Cabaret strip joint, was indicted yesterday for allegedly trying to hire someone to kill Arlington Mayor Robert...

Breastaurant Owner Buys Texas Town, Names It ‘Bikinis’

Doug Guller, a self-described "breastaurateur" and the owner of Bikinis Sports Bar and Grill franchise, has bought a Central Texas ghost town on Craigslist...

Noisy East Siders Get Chance To Bend Mayor’s Ear

Folks on the east side of Fort Worth aren't shy about speaking their minds. Necessity makes them noisy. Throughout the city's history, the East...

Oink! Oink! Activists Roast ‘Water Hogs’ at Trinity Duck Pond

The journalists almost outnumbered the handful of activists at a Wednesday press conference on water conservation organized by Austin-based Environment Texas. Four local news stations...

“What the Butler Saw” at Stage West

This week’s “Stage” page features a review of Stage West’s current revival of What the Butler Saw, the anarchic sex farce by British playwright...
Neil Young Journeys opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Neil Young Journeys (PG) Jonathan Demme’s concert film of the rock star’s return to Toronto in May 2011. (Opens Friday in Dallas) NOW PLAYING: The Amazing...
Roberto Montenegro. The First Lady, 1942. Oil on cardboard.

Night & Day

WED ▪ 18 After Mexico established itself as a free nation in 1910, culture blossomed in extraordinary fashion as the country’s artists such as Diego...

Air: It’s also good for breathing

Good news, everyone! Texas’ environmental protections could soon raise the bar set by the Roman Empire. That’s because a district court judge ruled last week...
Dana Schultes and Jerry Russell make an odd pair in Stage West’s current farce.

West of Normal?

Comic playwright Joe Orton wrote with an agenda, and he didn’t try to hide it. As a gay man who’d been marginalized by British...