Susana Gibb’s Movie Dreams
For someone who’s been acting in TV and film for more than 20 years, Susana Gibb is surprisingly ambivalent about her chosen profession. The...
FWSO Musicians on Strike
Bad news on the orchestral music front: The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra musicians officially went on strike today, forcing the cancellation of this weekend's...
Top 5 Shows
1) September’s Friday on the Green features up-and-coming troubador Vincent Neil Emerson in the headlining spot (aka 8pm), with roots music wizard Luke McGlathery...
A Little Pain and Fermented Grain
I’m precariously perched atop an unwelcoming bar stool, waiting out steel blue thunderheads, and drinking a jalapeño martini as Tom Waits growls, “I like...
This Jail Has Gone to Pot
We got sleepy-eyed smiles on our faces upon hearing that the California city of Coalinga — an oil town in the conservative San Joaquin...
Phantom Sensation’s Blackgrass Express
Phantom Sensation
Blackgrass Express
(Self-released)
By the end of Blackgrass Express, the debut album by the Fort Worth-by-way-of-Burleson husband-and-wife folk outfit Phantom Sensation, you can tell their...
College Daze
As I grow older and further away from my university days, I sometimes think that college kids get a bad rap for behaving badly...
An Art Pilgrimage
It’s been two weeks since I drove from Fort Worth to San Francisco. The trip, which also took two weeks, gave me a taste...
Ridglea Room a Big Tease?
The Star-Telegram recently said that Jerry Shults has almost completed work on a key piece of rock ’n’ roll real estate. A venue inside...
A New Kind of Happy
A lot has changed for I Happy Am since its beginnings as a solo musical outlet for Fort Worth artist Rebekah Elizabeth. After about...
