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Yearly Archives: 2021

You Had Us at Pork Wings!

While some bars and music venues bought into the TABC’s mid-pandemic licensing scheme allowing the businesses to be open if they served food, others...

Big Heaven

The charts of today’s era are dominated by formulaic pop. So much so that as an adolescent, I developed a strong distaste for the...

“Election Integrity” or Voter Intimidation?

During a March webinar, Bill Ely pulled up a map of Harris County while presenting the local Republican Party’s ambitious plan for the 2022...

Irish Delights

My first nighttime venture to the West 7th corridor in several months found the area to be bustling at pre-pandemic levels. Several new restaurants...

The Rangers Aren’t Good, But at least They’re Fun

As I write, your Texas Rangers have dropped five games in a row. While that’s obviously crushing to all of the points I spent the...

New Leon Bridges Coming

Leon Bridges is back, though I’m not quite sure he ever really went away. Doesn’t he hang out at the Boiled Owl? Anyway, no matter...

Mayoral Candidate Mattie Parker on Strong Schools and Safe Neighborhoods

Fort Worth will elect a new mayor on Saturday, June 5, through a runoff election. We chatted with one of two mayoral candidates, Mattie...

Riders of Justice: Mads for Revenge

With his drooping eyelids and aquiline nose, Mads Mikkelsen is often typecast by Hollywood as villains — surely you remember him hitting James Bond’s...

Concert Review: Cut Throat Finches and Austin friends at Lola’s Trailer Park

Saturday night saw a mix of Fort Worth and Austin at Lola’s Trailer Park. Local rockers the Cut Throat Finches were preceded by Heart...

Fort Worth Vaqueros Report (The Home Opener Edition)

Hello, everyone, and welcome to a new feature we’re doing this summer. Starting today, I’ll be covering every Vaqueros’ home game. Having never experienced...