Bad Dad?
Bad dad? Naaah. Frustrated dad? Angry dad? “I’m gonna teach this smart-mouth kid a lesson” dad? Oh, yes. Anyone who’s ever raised a child...
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...
Diverse, Death
I have lived on the Central Texas coast my entire life, and the horrors here are endless. From sightings of the infamous chupacabra to...
The Street: Hard Hitting
There’s absolutely nothing glamorous or sexy about documenting homelessness, and that’s the point of B.J. Lacasse’s new book, The Street: A Journey into Homelessness.
The...
Happy 200th, Charles Dickens
This past week marked 200 years since the birth of Charles Dickens, and there were celebrations all over England. Some people, like the Archbishop...
Snake on a Train
Local fans of the late suspense writer Patricia Highsmith should probably forgive the fact that the author hated her native Fort Worth. The list...
Twentieth-Century Women
While the title of Julie Kibler’s historical fiction novel Home for Erring and Outcast Girls doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, it’s at least...
Buzzkill: Up, Up, and Away
There have been as many takes on the superhero genre as there are members of the X-Men. The artform has been deconstructed, reconstructed, and...
Debating Texas Identity
With Rick Perry making his bid for the U.S. presidency, you can expect to hear in his rhetoric many familiar tropes of Texas identity,...
Buzzkill: Down to Earth
Members of Alcoholics Anonymous tend to have their share of secrets, but few have one like the strapping young man who goes by the...
