Faith, Hope, Love
“Listen, whatever you see and love, that’s where you are.” – Mary Oliver, “Luke’s Junkyard Song”
I’m driving down I-30 toward one of the most...
Them Pickup Time Blues
Neil is pounding the drums. It’s 3 p.m. on the dot. Geddy and Alex are spinning around with their guitars. Pickup is in about...
Parking Magnolia
I first caught wind of the rumor of paid parking on West Magnolia Avenue on Friday, June 7, toward the end of my shift...
Fired Up
The aftershocks are subsiding slowly since associate editor Eric Griffey and I wrote an article about a local couple’s attempts to transform an abandoned...
Hemp Comes to Texas
Well, we’re finally there. Hemp, marijuana’s male counterpart, which does not make you high, was legalized nationally earlier this year. The passage of the...
Old Man with a Sign
In 2016, Gale McCray, like most Americans, was so positive the electorate would never fall for the demagogic mutterings of a former reality TV...
Has Fort Worth Lost the Blues?
Fort Worth’s musical topography features a wide gamut of genres exhibited by an even greater number of performers. Country, singer-songwriter, rock, pop, punk, metal,...
Meddle for Metal?
Though decades removed from its peak in the early ’90s, the Fort Worth heavy metal scene still refuses to crawl into the proverbial pine...
The Big 2-0
Welcome to the 2019 Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards, our humble celebration of the very best music in the 817. This is the 20th...
Fanboys Unite
Almost every month, a few men and women get dressed up as their favorite superheroes and meet at local malls to spread a little...


















