A New Curve
One of my early newspaper assignments was to stand on a median on McCart Avenue in south Fort Worth and note the number of...
Ludwig!
Classical music is all about anniversaries, and this year marks a big one. Yes, it’s the 200th birthday of Henri Vieuxtemps, the Belgian violin...
Soul Chain
The little business located at the intersection of two huge freeways was packed. It was Saturday night, and AJ's Chicken & Waffles, open since...
Royal Sons
If there’s one thing that’s been depressingly absent in popular music since basically the turn of the century, it’s rockstar mystique. Where stages were...
Fare Thee Dwell
One late afternoon this fall, I sat on a park bench under a mammoth oak tree visiting with a few of the residents still...
A Shade of Redemption
The receptionist left a handwritten message on my desk recently asking me to call Jennifer Pedroza. Something about a soap opera.
What the?
I googled the...
Grabbing the Purse
Dorothy Luck was enjoying the fruits of a lifetime of hard work: a well-cared-for house, a good-running Cadillac Deville, a million dollars in a...
Failing Grades
Eagle Mountain and adjacent Saginaw are probably the last two places in Tarrant County where you can escape the smog and hellish traffic that...
Master’s Degree of a Mess
In October 2004, when Tarrant County College District officials posed at a ceremonial groundbreaking for their downtown campus along the Trinity River bluff just...
Eff the Media
For a while, I thought that maybe my listlessness was due to the compounding effect of triple-digit heat, pre-dawn workouts, and long days at...
