Pancho and Lefty
Harold Eggers didn’t set out to know Townes Van Zandt to the core, but that’s what happened after 20 years spent crisscrossing the country...
Fort Worth’s Rock Roots
In a recent story on DC9 at Night, the Dallas Observer’s music blog, several local media types, including this writer, were asked to assess...
We’re for Smoke
Though the title may conjure images of ’60s-era stoners a la Cheech and Chong, nothing could be further from the reality depicted in this...
Fall-Ball Reading this Summer
Admittedly, I’d be a terrible book club member. This is posited as a hypothetical because it would never happen. I don’t read long-form books...
Days of Shame
Nobody really knows why a group of white men went on a killing spree in the small East Texas town of Slocum in 1910....
My Thalia Pilgrimage
Toward the end of the last century, I was attending a Christmas party in the TCU area where a sprinkling of professor types were...
Road Killing It
Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Vol. 5 is an immersive, haunting collection of short stories that are as thought-provoking as they are frightening....
Blue Texas
In light of lessons learned this political season, armchair analysts are reminded that change is a process, not a final destination. When in Texas,...
Fort Worth in Black & White
Over the decades, Richard Selcer has focused largely on local sagas, such as the rise and fall of Hell’s Half Acre and the lives...
Angels in the OR
In 1994, a car crash that should have killed Tricia Barker instead set her on a spiritual journey that has led to her teaching...
