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Stairway to Heaven
Early-’80s Madonna throws off a smoldering, over-the-shoulder look filled with youthful defiance. Debbie Harry tosses her Marilyn Monroe mane of bleached blonde hair back...
When a Cart in a Tree Is Art
I don’t have the academic equipment to articulate what makes art art, but I can mostly get behind the notion that art is whatever...
Gone Too Soon
It’s hard to keep a tally of how many basic artistic constructs and motifs are tweaked or altogether upended in Disappearing –– California c....
Free Play
Every summer, it seems like only two lists of free – or incredibly cheap – summer activity ideas are printed: The PG family-friendly one...
Walls and Boards
From stand-up comedy to vintage Neil Simon, from revivals of classics to a bevy of world premieres, this summer’s theater stages will come to...
Timeless Tales
This year’s Fort Worth Opera Festival concluded with a Mexican-themed work, fulfilling a pledge by former FWO general director Darren Woods to include Spanish-language...
A Cosplayer’s Origin Story
I got into cosplay, which is the act of dressing up as characters from one’s favorite fandoms, because I’ve always been afflicted with tremendous...
Chaos and Cosmos
In 1975, at a Greek restaurant in the provincial English countryside, Bob Pridden held a loaded pistol to the head of Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman...
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...
The Baker’s Opera
Companionship received its world premiere from Fort Worth Opera last week, and it is easily the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen staged by the...
