More Trouble
The cover story in this issue describes how the Zetas drug cartel is wreaking havoc on the social fabric of huge swaths of Mexico....
Aggie Christmas Present
Well, the Texas A&M University System top dogs got a little something extra in their stocking on Christmas Eve — a letter from 15...
On the Green Prairie
The cowboy life means long hours in the sun. And even after cowboys hang up their spurs and get enshrined in the Texas Cowboy...
Flaw in the Ointment
This rag gave Payton Scarth and his daddy Danny, a three-term city councilman from the East Side, a hard time a few weeks back...
Forget “Don’t Drink the Water.”
Sometimes Static’s editor feels like it’s dangerous to open her e-mail inbox on Tuesdays, deadline day at your beloved Fort Worth Weekly. You never...
Mayoral Musings
January is usually when local candidates start announcing their election plans. Neighborhood advocate and former Fort Worth city councilwoman Cathy Hirt hasn’t officially announced...
Gas-Gobblers
Holidays promote a plethora of bad puns among writers and those who pitch stories to writers, so Static was neither surprised nor particularly amused...
Boxers for a Cause
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of months, you probably know that Fort Worth City Council member Joel Burns...
From the Mouths …
When Fort Worth Weekly’s multitalented freelancer Caroline Collier wrote about the spike in Ecstasy use among local high school students last month (“A Kandi-Coated...
Onward (Yikes) Democracy
The rain and cold didn’t keep them away. The fact that it was a midterm election didn’t stop them. Not even the mind-numbing confusion...









