MAF’14, Round 2
The full lineup for Fort Worth Weekly’s 12th Annual Music Awards Festival is just about done.
For the free daylong concert on Sunday, June 22,...
He-Man Knows “What’s Up”
As the bass thumps intensely and a rattling snare grows louder, He-Man pumps his right arm back and forth awkwardly, robotically. The camera draws...
Sub Sahara: “Blue Lives Don’t Matter”
Driving along 35-North the other day, I ended up behind an SUV with a “blue lives matter” bumper sticker. I immediately thought, “Well, there’s...
Double Feature
The popular Horseman Club on Bryant-Irvin Road closed its doors last weekend.
The 14,000-square-foot dancehall has been sold to a Houstonian who, according to former...
Remembering Chris Hardee
I don’t remember exactly when, but the last time I saw Chris Hardee, he’d popped into the Boiled Owl Tavern while I was bartending,...
Open-the-Bars Rally Saturday
Nearly 800 bars across Texas are prepared to swing open their saloon doors Saturday as part of a protest launched by a Fort Worth...
Once-and-Future Toadies
One day, someone is going to write a book about local rock icons the Toadies. The band’s storyline seems plucked out of a John...
Trumpster Josh Weathers?
Josh Weathers is a good cat. Anyone who’s spent even 30 seconds with him knows that he also would have played an Obama inaugural...
Cheeseburger in Paradise
Things are crazy, we know. With the election looming, prickly nerves over the fate of democracy are being thrown into relief by minor infractions or...
R.I.P. Wesley Hathaway
On Sept 26, longtime club owner and eccentric local music emissary Wesley Hathaway, 69, finally succumbed to cancer. I first met her in the...
