100 Years of Painting
It’s taken 50 years, but two of Fort Worth’s most outstanding (and still living) modern painters will finally exhibit their work together. On Saturday,...
Critical Thinking
I’m beginning to think that we Americans have lost our critical thinking skills. Or maybe our hearts are just too broken to revive them....
Best Of People & Politics 2013
Thing Tarrant County Needs
Critic’s choice: Endowment fund for the Arts Council of Fort Worth
Two years of budget battle losses have left local arts groups...
Lost in Hospitallandia
After multiple back surgeries and as her arthritis and chronic pain worsened, my wife was able to do less and less, but we still...
Apocalypse by Apathy
The elderly woman stood in her thin robe at the doorway of her modest bungalow, scratching the sores on her arm, a slight tremor...
Gossage Owes Us an Apology
Eddie Gossage, president of Texas Motor Speedway, offered some rather disparaging words for the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer community during Mike Huckabee’s “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” earlier this...
Safety First
I finally found the opportunity to visit the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and enjoy Terry Evans’ photographic exhibit, Meet Me at the...
Budget Wars
The battles over budget priorities that the Texas Legislature goes through every two years are already well under way, on many fronts.
Some, including Republican...
Armstrong’s Dip
BIG BEND RANCH STATE PARK – When Bob Armstrong first experienced the rugged majesty of this huge West Texas ranch in 1970, he told...
It’s Not the Guns
I have given this subject far more thought than I normally do on politically charged issues, and I have come up with my own...
