Remembering Jeremy Joel
Last Friday, messages began circulating that Jeremy Alan Joel had died. The details surrounding the 37-year-old artist’s cause of death have not been made...
R.I.P. Ron Tomlinson
Fort Worth painter Ron Tomlinson died last week at his Westcliff home. He was 73. Among the indelible recollections I have of Ron were...
The Art of Beer
Artisan ales are not worth an acre of hops if the artwork doesn’t tell a good story. Craft beer logos and labels do the...
Finding Mañanaland
“A lot of people think ‘mañana’ means tomorrow, but really it means ‘just not today,’ ” Michelle Kirk told me recently.
Kirk, cofounder of Fort...
Pass the Peas, Please
Jeremy Joel has ambitious plans for Fort Worth. As we sat chatting at a West Magnolia Avenue bar, the self-described “outsider folk artist” focused...
Vivian Maier: Street Photography
Street photography is like time travel. Instead of a portrait or landscape, these fragments of everyday life manifest the emotion and atmosphere of a...
Home2 Suites, Home
With the opening of Dickies Arena in November, the city and developers are clamoring for available plots for central-city hotel rooms to accommodate visitors...
Black Buildings Matter
A coalition of organizations seeking to redefine city funding and the meaning of public safety may want to look to the past for answers.
A...
Convention Center to Go?
Spaceships may not exist, but Fort Worth’s own spaceship soon won’t exist at all.
The fate of the 1968 Convention Center Arena, anchoring Commerce Street...
Andy Warhol in the ’80s
There are a lot of Andy Warhols. The Campbell’s-soup-can-reproducing Andy. The tedious filmmaking Andy. The celebrity Andy. But there’s also an Andy that few...
