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Help! Am I a Journalist or a Liberal Shill?
One month. That was about how long I toyed around with Twitter in the mid-aughts before I realized I’m not a celebrity with 100K...
War Party
If there’s one thing War Party strives for, it’s reinvention. Fun fact: The band started out as a duo, with frontman/guitarist Cameron Smith backed...
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Adjunctivitis
August is when tens of thousands of Fort Worth’s adults enroll in courses at two- and four-year colleges, as well as folks who are...
Music
Phantomelo’s Sounds from Thin Air
Most musicians I know hate answering what most laypeople would consider a fairly simple, straightforward question: “What does your band sound like?” The dismissive...
Don’t Feed the Trolls
I hate typing “Black Pussy.” I hate that the Portland-based riff-rockers are getting even more press because of their name (and there’s been a...
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MidiCi’s Change of Plan
I’m always equal parts excited and leery when a new restaurant adjusts something about its core concept. The change tells me that either management...
This Hearth Is on Fire
Hearth Cafe
990 Hwy 287 N, Ste 124, Mansfield. 817-225-6567. 6:30am-2:30pm daily. All major credit cards accepted.
Mansfield doesn’t lack for early morning options, especially if...
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Last Call
Trapping Tourists at Texas Live!
After much anticipation across North Texas, last weekend marked the launch of the sports-themed entertainment destination Texas Live! in Arlington. To ensure everyone in...
Blotch
Sports Rush: A Big Boost
Ricky Davis led the Big3 3-on-3 basketball league in scoring this season. According to his colleague Jerome Williams, he scored even more off the...
Big Juicy Billboard Spreads Love To Masses
From the “why the hell not?” category comes the new billboard alongside Highway 121, seen when traveling toward downtown near the Haltom Road intersection....
Top 5 Shows 8/16-8/18: They’re All Pretty Good Shows, TBH
1) MASS (1002 S Main) travels back to the mid-’80s for TECH NOIR, a party inspired by the scene in The Terminator where the...
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Crazy Rich Asians: Singapore Swing
Among us Asian-Americans, the anticipation for Crazy Rich Asians has been something like what African-Americans felt for Black Panther. The difference is, African-Americans have...
BlacKkKlansman: Undercover Brother
During this decade’s great wave of African-American filmmaking, one figure has been curiously and conspicuously absent: Spike Lee. He has always been bedeviled by...
Spy Partners
A middling entry in the genre of comic spy thrillers, The Spy Who Dumped Me is enlivened considerably by its unorthodox pairing of lead...
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