Pressed Out
When a company called Brown Media of Ohio bought the Fort Worth Business Press in September, a spokesman for the new owners told the...
Big Hat, More Closet
In their ongoing obsession with Dallas, Cowtonians love to play it up big any time we beat the Beast to the East. But a...
Who Shot B.S.?
Someone tell J.R. Ewing that the Texas city he helped make famous is being knocked off the marquee for an even better soap opera....
Dump the Dumping
It's tough being an environmentalist in Texas - not as bad as being a snowball in hell, but perhaps akin to rolling a very...
A Credit, Lovely as a Tree
One of the best things about living in Texas is that it is seldom boring for long. Boorish, frequently. Boring? How can it be,...
Outlawing Crack
Cities around the country are trying to make it a crime to wear pants in the popular hip-hop style, and Dallas is the latest...
Fox-less Lady
Five years ago, Fort Worth Weekly's annual "Best Of" edition named KDFW/Channel 4's Rebecca Aguilar as top TV reporter for her aggressive style of...
A U-Turn on Beautiful Highways
Lady Bird Johnson was barely cold in her coffin before federal highway administrators began gutting her heralded beautification efforts.
Back in the 1960s, the former...
Lost (or Tarnished) Gold
The bizarre news a few days ago that Newsday had, um, lost three of its storied Pulitzer gold medals for public service, reminded Static...
Mad Boy, Mad Boy
Static has no excuse for waiting weeks to look at its Tivo-recorded premiere of Jail, except maybe that it seemed like duty rather than...
