Film Shorts
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The Great Gatsby (PG-13) Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!) adapts F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about a 1920s writer (Tobey Maguire) who witnesses the tragically doomed...
Night & Day
WED ▪ 8
For this month’s Design Talk, landscape designer Ange Harvey and co-hosts Joe and Tracy Self will discuss colorful yard art as a...
All Glitter, No Gold
Chow, Baby has the attention span of a … what was I saying? That’s why I almost never go to places that specialize in...
A Lucchesi In Da House
The Fort Worth Cats have struggled recently with an ownership change, diminished attendance, vendors grumbling about not being paid, management types walking off the...
Killer or Filler?
The Frisky Disco’s The Frisky Disco
One of the pleasures of being a longtime music fan is hearing young musicians rediscover a particular genre or...
Drones or Gitmo?
John Bellinger is the last person you’d expect to criticize President Barack Obama for making too many drone strikes. It was he who drafted...
Ridglea Redux
Of all the peculiarities and hassles surrounding the Ridglea Theater’s renovation, the oddest one in my mind was how the Ridglea Bar, now rechristened...
New Lola’s Co-Owners
Lola’s Saloon may not be the biggest house on the block, but it’s definitely the coolest, offering a mix of marquee local bands and...
Big Tops
Operas by Richard Strauss aren’t staged that often, not because they’re unpopular but because they’re expensive: enormous casts, huge orchestras, lavish scenery and costumes,...
Watching the Door
It’s a truism of the Texas Legislature that killing “bad” legislation is as important as passing the “good” kind. Under that theory, it would...