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...
Moscow Nights
Author Nigel Cliff (The Shakespeare Riots, The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama) is on well-trod ground here. More than a...
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...
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...
Benny and the Bad Boys
Doug J. Swanson’s new book is laugh-out-loud funny — odd, since it’s about a semi-illiterate gangster who left a trail of dead bodies from...
Superhero Bootcamp
Nicolas Brown and Ryan Wheeler are quite the dynamic duo.
Brown, a Ph.D. candidate and doctoral teaching lecturer, and Wheeler, a Ph.D. student and graduate...
Road Kill 4
Like many other books, I read this one while sitting in the corner of a bar by myself. Inevitably, passersby inquired as to what...
A Soldier’s Tale
Jon Lippens died in 2016, two years before his memoir was published. During the last year of his life, the Fort Worth WWII veteran...
Getting Back to the Basics
The North Texas Comic Book Show prides itself on being an OG comic-con.
In the past decade or so, fan conventions have grown into a...
