Quantcast

Bartleby Is Dead

Fort Worth Magazine: Stay White, Stay Proud

Cruising Gateway Park

In Mineral Wells, Pigs Fly

Static

Static

Yes They Might

The Arlington powers that be probably hoped their burg would drop out of the negative national headlines for a while, after local schools superintendent...

’Tis of Us

If you are reading this on the Fourth of July, rest easy in the knowledge that, somewhere in North Texas, Static, like normal people,...

Hearing? What Hearing?

Monday night's hearing before the city's gas drilling task force turned out more than 100 people, and turned the flame even higher on all...

Buy Me Some Peanuts and Two Six-Packs

Six old friends decided to get together last week and attend a Texas Rangers game. They'd all grown up in Arlington in the 1970s...

Good News … Eventually

And as for the wildly careening buggy of the U.S. economy, the stock market may be falling, but Ravi Batra's stock is rising. The...

She Can See His Hair From There

It's hard to imagine who would be a worse governor, incumbent Republican Rick Perry or Republican challenger U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Unless, gosh...

Flattened by a (Two-Party) Mack Truck

As if our governor wasn't already having a bad hair day last week, just as the Weekly was putting to bed its latest story...

Journalism 101:

Kiss No Butts Rumors that their newspaper might be for sale usually strike fear into the hearts of journalists. At the Fort Worth Business...

Opposition — like the Tar Sands — Runneth Over

As the tar sands spill in Arkansas — brought to you by Exxon — continues to poison the neighborhood, wetlands and now parts of...

At Least in the Movie, the Chief Got Away

The city's dogged efforts to cram gas wells down everyone's throats reminds Static of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The movie's sympathetic characters...