Finn MacCool’s Expands
Have you been by Finn MacCool’s lately? Well, hurry it up, and when you go, be sure to say something nice about the bar’s...
Bright Lights, Big Rooster
I forget where we started out, but we ended up going to The Wild Rooster Bar, a relatively new joint on that little peninsula...
Inauthenticity Is the Real Deal
Is there such a thing as an authentic bar? A bar totally devoid of pretense? Because, after all, the best bars (The Chat Room,...
Zen and the All-Star
There are nights when I get drunk, and there are nights when I have a drink. In the case of the latter, I find...
Die With Your Boots On
Monday morning, I woke up on the couch in a torso-shaped puddle of sweat. It was one of those moments when I briefly wondered...
Independents Day
As I sat there in the lawn chair watching my friend load the mortar shell, I noticed that for the first Fourth of July...
Whence the Scene?
If you missed it on Sunday, the 13th Annual Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards Festival was pretty awesome. As I left the Stoogeaphilia show...
Don’t Change, Showdown
If there’s one thing I love about dives, it’s the décor. From the Starlite Lounge’s year-round Christmas tinsel to the yellowing caricatures that decorate...
Aloha, J.R. Bentley’s
I hate to admit it, but you notice a lot more things when you’re sober. Now obviously, a lot of this has to do...
Keepin’ it Real at Dos Amigos
I realized the other day that I need to pay more attention to pop music, because in another 10 years, the set lists of...
