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Holidays 2023
We get it. Not everyone digs the holidays. I kinda don’t. The biggest reason is probably that my family buried our 63-year-young father on...
Dirty Pool
John “JZ” Zaskoda has been one of Fort Worth’s more renowned guitar players for more than 20 years. Whether touring with professional country acts...
Wings Over Near South
The pandemic and resulting lockdown hit Tyler Anne Stevens and husband John Stevens really hard.
“The pandemic really had me dig into the ground, let’s...
Drawn Together
Saturday’s opening will be as much a surprise party/family reunion as a retrospective. The featured artist has not been told that his paintings, drawings,...
School-to-Prison Pipeline
Clumps of lightly strewn litter pockmarked the apartment grounds as Ivan and Lorenzo approached. The two 18-year-olds recently kicked out of a local charter...
Mo’ Beto Blues
I shrugged off the first one. I also ignored the second and the third. And the fourth and the fifth. And even the 10th...
Critical Race Leery
It’s Black History Month, and we just watched a Super Bowl. There were Black players and white players but mostly Black. And it was...
The 2023 Turkey Awards
Dig In
Everyone makes mistakes, but the antics we point out in this issue aren’t just slipups. Most of them have been committed by bad...
The 5400 Block
“Watch, watch, watch, it’s about to happen,” said one of the men clustered beside the counter of Mike Discount Food Store in the 5400...
Black Tie Dynasty
In the mid-aughts, Fort Worth’s Black Tie Dynasty was one of the most popular North Texas bands around. Their blend of pulsing rhythms, slinky...
