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Yearly Archives: 2013

Dig This 411 On The 811

So, you're digging holes in your back yard to erect posts for a new deck ... or to plant some new trees ... or...

Early Texas Art Show This Weekend At Community Arts Center

Finding quality art by early Texas artists at affordable prices isn't always easy, although one of the best places over the years has been...
Frieda Austin, Jozy Camp, and Michael Joe Goggans cut striking figures on a deserted island in Hip Pocket Theatre’s A Tempest.

Night & Day

Former Fort Worth Weekly Visionary Award winner David Lowery brings his movie Ain’t Them Bodies Saints to the Modern tonight. Set in Texas (though...
Pine: “You can’t be a diva.” Courtesy MYphotographyNYC

An Opera Star in Cowtown

The juxtaposition is striking: Ava Pine is building her career largely on 19th-century music, but she’s doing it with 21st-century tools. Two years after...

Finally Some, Um, News

Static is on record as saying that bullying is bad. Very, very bad. Except when it’s not. Regular readers know Static isn’t above slapping...
Graves, at Hard Scrabble in 1992. Robert Hart

Goodbye to a Giant

Editor’s note: Beloved Texas author John Graves, a native of Fort Worth, died July 31 at his home near Glen Rose. His books on...
Fogg: They’re aiming for Mount Doom.

Heavy, Heavy Fogg

Consider Black Sabbath for a moment. While the band is widely known for laying the foundations of heavy metal with the ominous, tritonic riffage...
Lovelace

Film Shorts

Opening Blood (NR) Paul Bettany and Stephen Graham star in this British cop thriller as brothers and police officers trying to cover up a murder...
DynCorp’s Alliance Airport office won’t be getting a tax abatement after all. Lee Chastain

Dodging an Ethical Dilemma

Buddy, can you spare a million? You can? Oh, well, never mind. Don’t need it after all. That’s essentially what happened when a $3 billion-a-year company...

The Quest

I feel like I’d actually need a phone book to do this (and possibly a Spanish translator), but one of my goals in life...