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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...
Taser Gets Zapped
The Arizona company that makes Tasers, the allegedly “less-lethal” weapons that have killed hundreds of people around the world, has lost another lawsuit. This...
The Sizzle on 7th
A walk down Crockett Street in the West 7th development on a recent Saturday afternoon felt like a stroll through a ghost town. The...
Gloat? Us?
“Blown away” is a pretty good description of how Static’s colleagues at Fort Worth Weekly feel about the rag’s showing in a couple of...
