Anthony Mariani
Creature Comforts 2024
We were inside no longer than 45 minutes tops, and when we went back outside, he was gone. Just gone.
Miles Gamera enjoyed the playpen...
Vital Signs
Non-classical, non-jazz music — or pop — is too easy to make, and non-classical, non-jazz music is also too easy to consume.
This is why music keeps “getting...
Taking a Side?
The marquee at Arlington Baptist Church on South Collins Street claims that comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler is what led to the recent...
‘Greatest’/‘Favorite’ Local Singers?
I came across a particularly fun Rolling Stone listicle the other day — it’s probably old — but it got me thinking. About myself, first (as...
Crowd Counters Right-Wingers
Bearing megaphones, rainbow flags, and the occasional firearm, more than 80 people protested this morning outside the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Led by the...
Celebrating Tone Sommer
Danny Ross and Tone Sommer’s friendship dates to the early 1980s, when the two backed Fort Worth blues legend Robert Ealey. The keyboardist and...
Takedown, Blue
“Fort Worth activist injured, arrested while filming police.”
That’s the headline from the Dallas Morning News, and it’s only one of several blame-shifting stories going...
Surrealism and Us
Walking through Surrealism and Us, there’s a part of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth where the new exhibit and the building tease...
Third Places
He bounced the mini-basketball off the floor. Once. Twice. Three times.
“Will you stop, please?” I pleaded from the recliner beside my dear 12-year-old in...
Rainbow Warriors
wHeRE’s y’All’S sTrAIgHt PRiDe isSuE?
Tell me next time straight people are murdered, fired/unhired, or ostracized for being straight, and we’ll happily give you your...
