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Touching Lives
It started with a phone line in his garage.
Or more accurately, with a phone call from a charity that led Dr. Basheer Ahmed to...
Lots of Small Talk
Fort Worth Weekly goes to print on Tuesday nights, so at press time Static didn’t know whether State Sen. Wendy Davis’ filibuster would be...
A Win with Asterisks
In state district court last week, an attorney for the Fort Worth school district called former assistant principal Joe Palazzolo a liar, a bully,...
Caveat Rider
The drinks were flowing on a recent evening at a 7th Street area bar, and at closing time Chad Sessom decided it might be...
Dad from U.N.C.L.E.
When I was young back in Houston in the ’60s, summer was endless and sometimes dangerous. Boredom hadn’t been invented yet. We didn’t have...
Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards 2013
First, thank you for supporting local music. As you’ve probably learned by now, the best stuff doesn’t always come from someplace else. Like, say,...
Redistricting: Hamster Wheel
Redistricting in Texas is like grabbing a tar baby. Once you pick it up, it’s very difficult to put down. And it sticks on...
Jeez, GEO
The latest entry in the ever-popular “worst private prison operation in the country” sweepstakes comes to us from Meridian, Miss. — a fur piece...
Protesting the Drug War
The leaders of DFW NORML, a group that works for reform of marijuana laws, are used to being stereotyped. Some folks figured that their...
A Perilous Grid
They crisscross the country in a complex maze just below ground level, carrying flammable, dangerous, and highly polluting liquids and poisonous gases. They are...
