Back to School
Back to School, You Coves!
“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So, they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures...
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Turd Reich
Standing in line at a store the other day, I was nearly overcome by a malingering stench. I glanced around, sniffing.
I couldn’t tell where...
News Roundup, The End Edition
My family of five (including two pets) is bone-in crazy — like, certifiably, straitjackets and all — but there’s still one place where we...
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Working The Dock
The North Texas Indie Bookstore Crawl is an annual event involving more than 30 different bookstores and lasting the entire month of August. Crawlers...
Teen Showcase Night in Sundance Square
Sundance Square will celebrate the work of eight young Fort Worth area artists during Showcase Night on Thur, Aug 6, from 5:30pm to 7:30...
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Lovely Dos Mares
Dos Mares, 3260 W 7th St, Fort Worth. 682-480-2143. 10am-8pm Sun, 11am-9pm Tue-Thu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sat.
Pearlescent powder-blue tiles mark the entrance to relative newcomer Dos...
Ate Days of Dinner and a Movie
A new movie about Anthony Bourdain opens in theaters next week, and it got us to thinking about all the rockstar chefs we know...
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Film Shorts // August 26 – September 1, 2026
OPENING
Beyond Belief (PG) This Christian drama stars Carson Lueders as a teenage rock musician who’s inspired to run a marathon by a mysterious voice....
Emmy Worthy
Today we examine the strange career of Emmy Rossum. The Metropolitan Opera trainee has the looks, the hair, and especially the singing voice to...
Latest from MUSIC
Sane Clown Posse
Concerning live music, I think some artists play great concerts, while others put on a great show. I’ve seen Radiohead and Insane Clown Posse...
Desert Folk
Two Trips
Desert Folk’s ‘Little Love’
Desert Folk, the Americana project of local singer-songwriter Austin Clay Cox and drummer Sawyer McGee, is dropping a new single at...
Latest from STUFF
All In (But for Real)
It’s finally time to utter the best four-word sequence you can hear during the summer. No, not “high below 100 degrees,” though that’s pretty...
Sports Rush: Welcoming Back The World
Logan Farrington enjoyed watching World Cup games this summer.
“It's the World Cup,” he said. “How can you not be excited for it?”
A lot of...
Creature Comforts
Welcome to Creature Comforts!
Because we all could use a hero, the inspiration for this year’s Creature Comforts cover is the supercanine companion from the Superman franchise, in...
Summertime Edition
Welcome to Summer, Summer, Summertime!
Things may look a little bleak, but summer fun reminds us what’s worth fighting for. Every year for a while now, we’ve put out...
Summer of Soccer
World Cup Wrap-Up
The party’s over, and Argentina’s late-game magic finally ran out. The final in East Rutherford, New Jersey, was mostly one-way traffic for Spain, but...
Pride Month
Welcome to Pride 2026
It’s a shame I need to reiterate why we put out this issue every year, but when straight people are forced to live in...
Zest Magazine
Zest It Up
It’s that time of year again, time for our annual celebration of food and food lovers and everything and everyone in between. We hope...
WEEKLY WOMEN
Weekly Women 2026
I didn’t want to write this introduction. Like everything else in life, a woman could have done it better. But my woman co-workers said...
Black History Month
Black History Music
The contribution of Black musicians to Fort Worth is the same as it is to America. It’s immeasurable, invaluable, and woefully underrecognized. To alleviate...
Alive & Kicking
New Year, New You? Yes, Indeed!
Whether they call them “resolutions” or not, people are still looking to make positive changes headed into the new year. Based on recent surveys,...
Holidays
Welcome to Holidays 2025
Thank ya very much, indeed. It’s that time of the season for giving and getting but mostly giving, and we here at the Weekly...
Best Of
Welcome to Best Of 2025
When nearly everything is wrong, giving into the nihilism only worsens the situation. You’ve got to make time to celebrate what’s worth fighting for....
Blotch Blogs
Hello Millions, Live Dealer Tables and What Free-to-Play Gaming Borrowed From Sportsbooks
It is a slow Tuesday load-in at a Near Southside room. A band coils cables under a single work light, the opener runs a...
Fort Worth Cost Pressures and Emergency-Budget Planning
Households in Fort Worth continue to face financial pressures from rising housing costs, utilities, insurance premiums, healthcare expenses and everyday living costs. As a...
What Happened to Music NFTs After the Boom?
Music non-fungible tokens (NFTs) never settled into a single replacement for streaming, downloads, or physical records. After the boom, they persisted in narrower roles:...
On the Calendar
Reel Worth: ‘The End of Oak Street’ and an Era
By now, you’ve probably heard that the Coyote Drive-In theater is permanently closing. The 14-year-old business is a victim of the next phase of...
Night & Day: Sportsball Edition
While it’s still hotter than hell, it is, indeed, the start of football season. It’s so hot, in fact, that the Childress High School...
Big Ticket: Cowtown Classic Returns
The Cowtown Classic returns October 2nd to 4th for its second year, a weekend that starts with a Friday night dinner and auction in...
Night & Day
Thu, Aug 20
Xtreme Knockout returns to Billy Bob’s Texas (2520 Rodeo Plz, Fort Worth, 817-624-7117). Tonight’s XKO Fight Night End of Summer Bash features talented Texas-based fighters...
