HonkyTonk Heroes
Two years before Billy Bob’s Texas became reality, its namesake, Billy Bob Barnett, invited Stockyards fixture Steve Murrin on a tour of the old...
Dark and Scary Wells
When the Barnett Shale drilling boom first swam into the public consciousness almost a decade ago, people all over Tarrant County had questions, mostly...
To Hollywood And Back
“The movie business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart...
Let the Right Ones Out
Cory Session is busy these days. The Fort Worth native is spending a lot of time in Austin, lobbying the Texas Legislature to make...
The Deficit Monster
In 2006, Texas had a multi-billion-dollar budget surplus. Under state court order — yet again — to come up with a school finance system...
Queens of the Night
The Imperial Court web site says the same thing, but it’s best heard in person from the reigning empress: “We serve the community $1...
Dis-Connects
This is the time of year when high school seniors usually receive the fall semester transcripts they need to apply for college. It’s also...
Egypt to Texas, Giza to Giza
A modest strip mall in Bedford is a long way from the current troubles in Egypt. But for 39-year-old Emad Nagib, it’s a salient...
Welcome, Y’all Yinzers, Packers, cowpokes, and locals
To all of our guests: Welcome to The Show. Hope you have a great time, drop a lot of dough, and, in general, stay...
Making a Killing
A former literary agent of Fort Worth novelist Roxanne Longstreet Conrad’s once told her: “You’re the kind of writer who pokes along doing OK...
