Summer of Soccer
World Cup Madness
With four large, different viewing screens in Sundance Square, plus food trucks, vendors, and more, there was a lot of action downtown during the...
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...
Latest from NEWS
News Roundup
Dumbest Timeline
When you hear someone is a “political content creator,” how bad do you gag? Is it a full-on almost-barf or just a little...
Bastille Day Rally Focuses on Jail Deaths
On Bastille Day (Tuesday, July 14), nearly 100 North Texas residents, activists, and family members of the victims of systemic abuse and neglect at...
Latest from ARTS
‘American Tifo’
A new art exhibit might have the chance to set a new soccer world record: longest continuous use of a tifo.
Up now thru Aug...
Wider Lens
Visuals of athletic competition impact us. The perfectly captured victory celebration, the image of a defeated competitor’s despair, the moment of a home run...
Latest from EATS & DRINKS
The Odyssey
Danny’s Greek Cafe, 2812 Horne St, Ste 100, Fort Worth. 682-250-4334. 11am-9pm Tue-Sun.
On the West Side back in the day (circa the mid-aughts), the...
Welcome to Arlington, Footballers
I admit it. I’ve fallen in love with international soccer fans. The cultural exchanges have been absolutely priceless. The Tartan Army drinking Beantown dry!...
Latest from SCREEN
Further Notes on The Odyssey
This past weekend, The Odyssey’s box office numbers exceeded even the wildest predictions of the people who prognosticate about such things, raking in more...
The Kitchen Is Closed
The Bear completes its last shift after five seasons and one surprise flashback episode. It’s all a melting pot of everything I love and sort...
Latest from MUSIC
‘Little Kid Heart’
It’s not often a new album makes me tear up a little, but by the time I got to “So Far from Alone,” the...
Notes and News
New Horsepowers Album Soon … -ish
Horsepowers is wrapping up their debut album with an aim to have it out at the end of summer....
Latest from STUFF
Sports Rush: A Study In Soccer
Like a lot of former college students, Brandon Aubrey didn’t end up working in the field for which he went to school.
“Went off to...
Sports Rush: Balls, Bats, and the Beautiful Game
There’s a big international professional sports competition going on now, playing some of its matches in North Texas.
It’s a sport you might not be...
Pride Month
Leviticus: Gay Panic
The horror movie Leviticus makes no overt reference to the Book of Leviticus. I dare say that gay readers are more familiar with the...
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....
Creature Comforts
Welcome to Creature Comforts 2025
With Shark Week wrapping up, the fam and I, avid Shark Week enthusiasts, have been engaging in some pretty deep conversations about animals, wild...
Blotch Blogs
What Texas Players Should Know Before Playing Online Poker
Texas Hold'em might be the most recognized poker variant on the planet, and the name itself suggests the game belongs to the Lone Star...
What Makes a Great Esports Tournament?
Not every esports tournament becomes a talking point. Some come and go without leaving much of a mark, even when the production is clean...
What Can Patients Do After A Delayed Cancer Diagnosis?
A delayed cancer diagnosis can completely change the course of a patient's medical treatment. When a physician misses a diagnosis, patients can lose critical...
On the Calendar
Night & Day: ‘Hamilton’ and More
Wednesday - Sunday, July 22-26, 2026
Three musicals have occupied Bass Performance Hall (525 Commerce St, Fort Worth, 817-212-4280) this summer — Hadestown, The Notebook, and now...
Crosstown Sounds: ‘Here We Go Again”
There I sat with the long-awaited second album from Boss Riot. Here We Go Again was queued and ready to go on the stereo. I...
Night & Day: Not Today, Satan. How’s August?
Charley Crockett, Jack White, and our newspaper had quite the busy weekend. The Satanic doo-wop duo Twin Temple got dropped by one superstar and picked...
Night & Day: Give It a Rest
It’s hard to imagine, but we’ve got only two weeks left in the 2026 FIFA World Cup. This six-week spectacular came with eight built-in...
