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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...
Latest from NEWS
Flower Fallout
In Fort Worth, Austin Zamhariri at Thrive Apothecary (126 S Main St, Ste 100, 817-480-7098) describes customers who have come to rely on smokable...
Data Centers Invade the Fort
Artificial intelligence is everywhere you look and has quickly become an unavoidable part of modern life. It powers search engines, drafts emails for us,...
Latest from ARTS
Did You Eat?
Amphibian Stage, with an earned reputation for incubating artist development, will host the homecoming of a project born at the troupe’s annual SparkFest for...
Slice of Life
When it comes to barbecue, there is no reinventing the wheel, only improving upon recipes and methods created by the original drivers of the...
Latest from EATS & DRINKS
Food on Film
Just in time for 420, a new movie streaming on Disney+ and Hulu about two super-high college students who must navigate two flights of...
New Ballpark Food
Bring your appetite and your wallet if you’re coming to Texas Rangers home games this year. The team officially unveiled their new food menu...
Latest from SCREEN
Film Shorts // April 22-28, 2026
OPENING
Broken Bird (R) This British horror film stars Rebecca Calder as a bereaved woman who takes a job at a funeral home. Also with...
Odds and Ends
It’s a slow week for new films, so I’m going to put 2025 to bed by publishing this annual feature of mini-reviews of 13...
Latest from MUSIC
Midnight Music
For a lot of us, the pandemic was terrible, but that cruel reality did not stop creators like Luke Berglin, a.k.a. Urban Castro, from...
A Fine Point
Eerie sounds from a keyboard synthesizer. The random crack of a drumhead. A drum roll. Then, voices erupt: “Aaaaahhhh, watch out! You might get...
Latest from STUFF
The Best Players Who Won’t Be at World Cup 2026
The Italian word for “playoff” is spareggio, and I’m sure much of Italy would be happy if they never heard it again. After playoff...
Boredom Beater
Another alliterative sports extravaganza in the form of March Madness is closing, and the Final Four — a semifinal perhaps more iconic in its...
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...
Summertime Edition
Welcome to Summertime 2025
It’s hot out there in more ways than one, so we’re here to help you cool down. Fluff? Definitely, but with so much nonsense...
Pride Month
Miscalculation
On June 28, thousands gathered for Trinity Pride Fest, celebrating LGBTQIA+ identity, community, and solidarity.
Media coverage, including my own, reported “hundreds.”
Trinity Pride Fest President...
Blotch Blogs
Your Living Room Can Do More Than You Think
Fort Worth living spaces come in all shapes and sizes - from roomy craftsman homes in Fairmount to compact apartments near the Near Southside,...
Lone Star Living: Protecting Your Texas Mobile Home from the Ground Up
There is a specific kind of peace that comes with finding your own corner of Texas. Whether it’s a spot in the hills or...
How to Analyze Online Casinos Using AI Agents
The online gambling industry has changed a lot in the past few years. Not just in terms of game variety or bonus structures -...
On the Calendar
Night & Day
With Arbor Day and Audubon Day on the horizon, the natural world is still in our sights this week, including info on how to be an...
Mum’s the Word
Several food festivals are happening soon. Plus, it’s time to start thinking about your mom. (You know, because Mother’s Day? Geez.) Here’s an overview...
Sundance Square’s 5th Annual Fort Worth Art Fair April 16-19
Fort Worth Art Fair (FWAF) returns to Sundance Square Plaza this Thursday thru Sunday, April 16-19, bringing together over 100 Local and Texas artists,...
Earthbound Endeavors
With Earth and its unique harvests of ongoing interest to our readership, we’ve featured timely coverage over the years. However, we’ve never dedicated an issue...
