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The Untouchables
After years of being plagued by accusations of public corruption, Ellis County has a new district attorney and the opportunity to put a troubled...
Forever Changed
Behind Dickies Arena, and largely hidden from passersby, several lines of cars crept toward dozens of volunteers who were stocking trunks with frozen turkeys,...
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Police Union Parler
The relationship between white supremacists and cops is deep. To deny it is to lack self-awareness and live in Lalaland.
In 2017, according to the...
Music
That Bloody Crossroads
Jeff Zagers should have seen it coming. Bragging on social media that you’re part of a protest fueled by lies and that ends in death...
The Spirit and the Trickster
There was a time when Fort Worth wasn’t the music mecca that it is now. One of the scene’s only active, engaging original artists was...
LATEST FROM EATS
Old Maestro, New Tune
Miguel Mendoza, the titular Maestro in the newest taco shop to orbit Crockett Row, hails from Monterrey, Mexico. A butcher by training, Mendoza reportedly...
Open Tables
Even when times are good and free of government-mandated shutdowns, bar and restaurant owners work on thin profit margins. Few would say the hospitality...
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Last Call
Hello?! McFly’s Pub!
Along a quiet stretch of road among a mixture of commercial structures and a middle-class neighborhood near the Naval air station is where you’ll...
LATEST FROM FILM REVIEWS
One Night in Miami: To Be Young, Gifted, and Black
Fresh from winning a well-deserved Oscar for her performance in If Beale Street Could Talk, Regina King now she makes her debut as a...
The Top 10 Movies of 2020 (Part 1)
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: the only people who want to make 2020 longer. This past...
Promising Young Woman: To Catch a Predator
Someone’s coming for you, all you rapists, sexual predators, and even you friends and colleagues who enable them. She doesn’t look like much, but...
Soul: I Am Not Joe’s Body
Much is rightly being made about Soul being the first Pixar movie with a Black man as the main character. I don’t want to...
Blotch
On Tap in Fort Worth with Jennifer Demel
Jennifer Demel opened Thirty Eight & Vine (212 Carroll St., 682-703-1887) just months before the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered the wine bar and many others...
Remembering MLK Jr: Five Days of Events in Fort Worth
The National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum (NMWHM) will honor Civil Rights Activists as part of a five-day observation of the Martin Luther King, Jr....
Buck U: TCU Men’s Hoops’ Measuring Stick
Between prognosticating bowls games, and the departure of football’s Sonny Cumbie for Lubbock, I’ll admit I’ve been only casually watching Frog basketball during the...
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