Welcome to the Jungle, Ron
If you want to be beaten down for about 40 minutes, try to visit a business along Highway 121. It’s not like that stretch...
Woe-bama
When Barack Obama writes his memoir, May of 2013 probably won’t rate as his favorite month. Even though the Texas Legislature was nearing the...
P.A.T.: Urban Noir
For reasons that are either all too obvious or completely indiscernible, hip-hop is geared less toward performance and more toward recording. I mean, a...
The Old (Grill) Is New Again
The young are so helpful. Chow, Baby’s teenage nieces, for example, are always willing to point out how uncool and out of touch I...
In the Heights: Community Theater
Artes de la Rosa, the performance and visual arts group housed at Rose Marine Theater, had originally planned to produce Andrew Lloyd Webber and...
Ice Eater: Cold Comfort
Ice Eater is not a very Fort Worth-ish band. The guys can party with the best of ’em, but their music sounds like it...
Steel on Magnolia
On a recent gusty but sunny Saturday afternoon, Magnolia Avenue was teeming with pedestrians. Parents were pushing strollers, dogs were pulling owners along on...
The Crash U.K.
’Round about the end of 2011, I started hearing some serious film writers cop to enjoying Fast Five, the fifth chapter in the Fast...
Epic: Falling Leaves
Chris Wedge first made a splash directing Ice Age 11 years ago, and while he has kept busy since then voicing Scrat the Squirrel...
Shining a Light
The Fort Worth City Council settled a lawsuit in April for $99,000 plus $1,125 in mediation costs. The decision served as a six-figure reminder...
