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Fort Worth’s Monster
The premise of Beast King is that a couple of scientists who work for some unnamed secret laboratory in Fort Worth are experimenting with...
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...
Black Man + White Woman = ?
Playwright-director Neil LaBute generally comes in one flavor — bitterly misanthropic — but his works can be divided between the nasty/grumpy variety and the...
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...
Death of a Homeless Person
Friday, August 16, was much like most other days for Vanessa Faye Mayfield. Like many of our city’s homeless, she hung out at 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...
Hap and Leonard Return
As most former American Lit grad students around the country can tell you, it’s tough to shake the requisite terminology, phrasing, and general concepts...
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...
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.
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