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...
Latest from NEWS
New Texas Laws
Dozens of new Texas laws will take effect in December and January, bringing wide-ranging changes to the state’s education system, law enforcement, taxes, and...
‘Quite’ Piggy
The White House recently attempted to justify Donald Trump’s “quiet, piggy” response to Bloomberg News correspondent Catherine Lucey’s questions about late, likely assassinated sex offender...
Latest from ARTS
Addams Family Values
In my experience, if you gather three generations of your kinfolk and talk them into attending an event together, someone is always unhappy. Me....
Hamming it Up
When it comes to adapting Hamlet, there have been many retellings and iterations. While it certainly doesn’t surpass Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as the...
Latest from EATS & DRINKS
Three, Two, One … Happy New Year!
Event tickets are a fun gift in general, but scoring a pair for New Year’s Eve (Wed, Dec 31) can help set the tone for...
Turkey Time Tipples
Hosting Thanksgiving is a beatdown. There’s a reason I try to be out of the country in November. But this year, it’s fallen on...
Latest from SCREEN
Scarlet for Me, Scarlet for You
Remember my holiday movie preview last week, where I said that Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet wasn’t likely to hit our theaters until February? Yeah, never...
From Many, One Great Show
The latest series from Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul), Pluribus dropped onto Apple TV last month with some mysterious advertising. That does the...
Latest from MUSIC
Arenda Lighting It Up
Arenda Light has returned. After a two-year hiatus due to other commitments and, of course, life, the hard-rocking lineup of lead guitarist Rowdy Carter, new...
Finding Joy in Sorrow
It could be argued that the ability to feel emotional pain is the defining human quality. Stress, fear, craving, attachment, even joy are all...
Latest from STUFF
Goodies for Footies
So, you’re shopping for the striker, goalkeeper, or hooligan on your list. That soccer fan might be especially fired up about the sport because...
All-State
In keeping with the Thanksgiving holiday, I’ll do my best to keep this week’s Buck U on the positive side, as I’ve started to...
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...
Zest Magazine
Welcome to Zest 2025
Food brings us together — and if you want to gather with about 10 other folks or two TCU offensive lineman, check out the...
WEEKLY WOMEN
Welcome to Weekly Women
It’s our second annual special issue devoted to the better sex, and it comes at a much-needed time. Women are under attack by conservative...
Black History Month
Black History Month 2025
What better time than now to celebrate Black history. As the federal government goes about dismantling social programs aimed at bettering the lives of...
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
Ate Days of Holiday Fun in Aggieland
Have yourself a big Texas Christmas this year in College Station—where the holiday spirit shines as bright as the Lone Star sky. Picture twinkling...
Why Fort Worth Is Tuning In to California’s Tech Culture
Fort Worth has always taken pride in doing things its own way, but the region’s surging appetite for innovation is starting to point westward....
Ballad of a Small Player: The Quiet Collapse of a Gambler
Colin Farrell’s latest role in Ballad of a Small Player may be one of his most inward. He plays Lord Doyle, a British gambler drifting...
On the Calendar
A week that starts with cake and ends with comedy can’t be that bad,...
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Cake & Prose: A Christmas Carol is returning for a second year from 7pm to 9pm at Arts 5th Avenue (1628 5th Av,...
Holiday Happenings
December 3-21, 2025
On Christmas Eve 1914 in the cold trenches of World War I, something miraculous happened. A lone soldier stepped into no man’s...
Shop Local This Holiday Season
Before the trick-or-treaters even make it back home, big-box stores flood mailboxes and inboxes with Black Friday ads. But the big box stores aren’t...
Jingle All the Way
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Tanstaafl Pub (409 N Bowen Rd, Arlington, 817-460-9506) is continuing its pre-Thanksgiving tradition of hosting a jam session where local musicians cover...
