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Outlaw Tasers
To the editor: The Aug. 3 Metropolis story, “Taser Gets Zapped,” is testament to the need for a moratorium on the use of this...
Hanna Barbarians at the Gate
There’s rock ’n’ roll. And then there’s rawk ’n’ rolllll!, a peculiar species of music-centric living that fills parents’ rapidly graying heads with nightmares...
Revolving Door
Weekly staff writer Jeff Prince recently blogged about the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s head-in-sand reporting style on Tarrant County courtroom issues, specifically pointing out puff...
Wasting the Green
Forty days of 100-degree weather without rain can do a number on newly planted trees, particularly when their water source gets cut off.
“What...
A Theatre Family: 35 Years of Hip Pocket
Siddhartha debuted its four-week run at the Hip Pocket Theatre recently, and the stage adaptation of Herman Hesse’s novel is a fitting choice for...
Weep No More, My Ladies
Staff writer Jeff Prince’s recent Blotch post regarding a local judge (“FW Star-Telegram Is The Spin Doctor,” July 25) made the Fort Worth Weekly...
Free Gas — for Drillers
A group of homeowners in the University West neighborhood are fighting mad over Chesapeake Energy’s use of an old Texas Railroad Commission rule to...
Racism’s Echoes
A best-selling novel called The Help, set in Jackson, Miss., in 1962, is about the relationships between black maids and the white families they...
Praise The Lord And Pass The Kool-Aid
I like to think I’m relatively well-liked by my colleagues in the news business and that I’ve been doing this long enough to know...
PETA’s Deep Pockets
Jesus surely loved a good fish sandwich despite the fact that tartar sauce wasn’t invented until years later. Mr. Loaves and Fishes himself once...
