The Fracker
After attending Monday night’s meeting on Azle earthquakes, Static decided to go home, chill out, forget about injection wells and gas drilling for a...
E-headache
Fort Worth attorney Jason Smith had been screaming at his computer for an hour, over complications in using the state’s new electronic filing system,...
Adding Angst to Tragedy
Down the road from my office, at John Peter Smith Hospital, Marlise Muñoz, 33, is brain-dead. She is a continued patient at JPS because...
The Return of Tame … Tame & Quiet
Tame … Tame & Quiet is back. I know, I know. You’ve heard that before. But this time is different. Or at least it...
All Folked Up
When I ran my list of 2013’s best movies a couple of weeks ago, I left off one film that was on many other...
Letts Do It
I need to say this right off the bat: I haven’t seen Tracy Letts’ play August: Osage County on stage. I’ve heard that the...
Killer or Filler?
Some people think we should cover more than Fort Worth. Ha! Yeah, right. There are, like, a million bands here. And half of them...
Finding Home
Sunlight through a stained-glass window cast a glow around Dorothy Blackman, who sat primly on a wooden pew, hands folded in her lap, hair...
Velvet Taco: Sumptuous
There are probably two reasons you don’t want to eat at Velvet Taco: You’re still sore about its replacing The Gold Standard. And Velvet...
Girls on Canvas
One thing that great art does is make us uncomfortable. In this, Balthus’ paintings succeed like nothing else. The French-born, Polish-descended Swiss artist has...
