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....
Latest from NEWS
You Can’t Wear That
When Fort Worth’s oldest costumer opened in 1949, state law required separate Black and white seating on buses. Poll taxes and prison terms for...
No Kings Rally Draws 8K
Through rain and shine, Fort Worthians filled Burk Burnett Park yesterday for the city’s second No Kings protest of the year. Organizers with the...
Latest from ARTS
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...
Spying Recluse
When I popped into Cowtown’s newest bookstore a few weeks back, I found a new refuge. A literary refuge.
Located at 465 S. Main St.,...
Latest from EATS & DRINKS
Making Other Arrangements
Edible Arrangements, the American franchise known for arranging fresh fruit and chocolate-dipped fruit into lovely baskets and other displays, has rebranded as simply “Edible.”...
Full Stomachs, Happy Hearts
Magdalena’s Supper Club, 502 Grand Av, Fort Worth. 817-740-8085. Check website for seating dates and times.
Around twice a month, give or take, groups of...
Latest from SCREEN
Film Shorts // October 22-28, 2025
OPENING
Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc (R) This anime film has its protagonist (voiced by Kikunosuke Toya in the Japanese version and Ryan...
After the Hunt: No Haven
When Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt played to a heavily polarized reception at last summer’s Cannes Film Festival, a fair number of people noticed...
Latest from MUSIC
Climbing Parker Hill
Jered Parker Harlan is finally debuting an album. As a guitarist, he’s been a part of the Fort Worth music scene for years, playing...
$20,000 JAMBALOO Music Prize
You have to hand it to the Mullen & Mullen Music Project for supporting the local music scene. In addition to Mullen & Mullen’s local...
Latest from STUFF
They Came, They Saw …
Believe it or not, North Texas has a Ghostbusters franchise. No, it’s not a sign of the end times or a sudden spike in...
Revivalry Respite
This week, it’s proper form to make a wisecrack regarding the following: John Denver, coal mining, and couch-burning. Sadly, though, the only joke so...
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...
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...
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...
Holidays
Welcome to Holidays 2024
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and we really mean that. The holidays are for celebrating the old and ringing in the...
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
The Rise of Augmented Reality Board Games: A Sneak Peek from Gen Con 2025
Forget everything you know about rolling dice and moving little plastic pieces around a board — the next era of game night is here,...
The Work of Our Lives
Friends,
Every generation gets a moment when it has to decide what kind of future it’s willing to fight for.
This is ours.
Across North Texas, I...
What $350,000 Buys You in Fort Worth’s Housing Market Right Now
If you're looking to relocate to Texas, you could do a lot worse than Fort Worth in terms of housing prices. It's one of...
On the Calendar
Things Are Getting Spooky
Thursday, October 16, 2025
If you’re staying home tonight, you should not be doing that, as Amyl would say. The Australian songstress and her Sniffers (currently...
Arthouse 8 Is Here
Son of Stan, Sean Russell & The Cowtown Dugout, Clint Niosi, Walker & The Texas Dangers, Trash Puppies, Smokey Dopes, and DJ Hot and...
On the Town: It’s All Happening
When our annual Best Of special edition hit the stands three weeks ago, our team of critics had much to say. You can read all...
Saturday Night’s Alright
This curated calendar column typically features one event for each day of the upcoming week. Time and time again, this week’s research went like...
