Brave New Broadcasting World
So you’ve refused to become a tv addict, glued to the tube for every re-run of The Sopranos or new episode of American Idol....
A Whiff of Payback
Friends and enemies continually circle the political planet of Tom Wilder, a Republican mainstay who recently won his fourth term as Tarrant County district...
Back from the Celluloid Grave
The Fort Worth Film Festival began with such promise. The first movie it screened, on Oct. 23, 1998, was Rushmore, a Texas-made film that...
Call Sign: Havoc
The Marines call it Route Michigan, a two-lane blacktop highway that’s the most direct route between Fallujah and a major U.S. airbase....
Call Sign: Havoc
The Marines call it Route Michigan, a two-lane blacktop highway that’s the most direct route between Fallujah and a major U.S. airbase. For Lima...
Re-Imagineering
Their buildings say it all.
Fort Worth’s three art museums — the Kimbell, the Carter, and the Modern — are gifts to the city from...
The Good Fight
Five years ago outside the Walls Unit in Huntsville, on the night the State of Texas prepared to execute Lois Robison’s son, young photographer...
Grasshopper, Clubhopper
A famous Zen proverb says: "You are where you are." In Clubland, a similar adage holds true: "The party is where you are."
Seriously. With...
Lionizing Lone Star Art
At first glance, it’s simply a painting of a black gardener in overalls and floppy hat, tin cup dangling from his fingers, a gentle...
Cell-Blocked
For Tarrant County Commissioner J.D. Johnson, receiving about $15,700 in campaign contributions from one group over the last three and a half years ain’t...