Rob The Roving Reporter Survives Larry Joe Taylor Fest
(Editor's Note) Larry Joe Taylor’s 25th Anniversary Texas Music Festival & Chili Cookoff was every bit as great as Arlington native and Austin singer-songwriter...
Racial Profiling in Massachusetts
Well, now, this is disturbing. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested at his home by Cambridge police after a neighbor called reporting...
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...
Toast & Jam with Elaine Turnbow
Recently, my friend Joe Savage asked what criteria I use to select guests for Toast & Jam. “I want interesting folks of all types,...
George W. Bush To Give Graduation Speech At SMU; Bushisms Await
Southern Methodist University has asked the 43rd president of the United States to give the commencement address this year.
Were they unaware that our 43rd...
Hot Box Biscuit Club in the Hot Seat
Shortly before noon today, Elsa Ruggiero, the owner of Splash of Red Hair Studio near the West 7th corridor, wrote a long, sincere, direct,...
Chick-Fil-A, Not Cruz, Shows Enduring Strength Of Tea Party
For two days, the surprise victory of Ted Cruz was all anybody could talk about. The Tea Party upstart who beat back establishment candidate...
Franks Cleared
On Thursday, Western Hills High School sociology teacher Kristopher Franks was cleared of all wrongdoing by interim Fort Worth schools superintendent Walter Dansby in...
Will City Council End Streetcar Study?
The new urbanism website Fortworthology is predicting that anti-streetcar forces on the city council – with Kathleen Hicks out of town and Mayor Moncrief...
