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Monthly Archives: January 2014

Azle Area Residents Get Earful On Earthquakes

Talk about timing -- another earthquake hit near Azle on Monday, just hours before the start of a meeting about earthquakes. The 3.1-magnitude quake...

Is Texas Ready for Marriage Equality? It Doesn’t Matter

Sweet mother of god, can we hurry up and get this show on the road? Marriage equality, gay marriage, bromances with (state and federal)...

The Best Documentaries of 2013

This is fortuitous: My pick for the best documentary of the year (and one of my top 10 movies of the year) comes out...

NFL’s Corporate Welfare Leading To Ancient Ruins

Much dismay has been expressed over the years about the National Football League's billionaire owners wallowing in piles of money while demanding huge taxpayer...

“Saginaw Cares” — As Long As You’re Not a Skanky Addict

The unintended irony in one Saginaw resident’s statement was so thick, you could cut it with a knife: “People care, they really do. Saginaw...

Another Azle Earthquake Meeting On Monday

If you attended last week's town hall meeting in Azle and weren't satisfied with the silent stares and lack of information coming from the...
August: Osage County opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: August: Osage County (R) Meryl Streep stars in this adaptation of Tracy Letts’ acclaimed play as a dying Oklahoma matriarch who gathers her family...
The Kimbell’s new Renzo Piano Pavilion is still making waves six weeks after it opened.

Night & Day

WED ▪ 8 The Kimbell’s new Renzo Piano Pavilion is still making waves six weeks after it opened, and the folks at Fort Worth Center...
Joaquin Phoenix and Samantha (in smartphone, left) enjoy lunch outdoors in Her.

Uh Huh Her

Spike Jonze has always been brilliant, but lately he’s become something more. You can see it in the tenderness that pervades both his previous...
Mark Wahlberg tries to make it out of Afghanistan in Lone Survivor.

SEALs on the Ground

I’m trying to figure out whether Peter Berg is a formerly promising filmmaker who has turned into a hack, or if that early promise...