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To fill in your midweek, UNT is offering its
Summer Arts Festival
featuring both theater and modern dance. Kristin Jones'
Human Nature
and Chelsea Kubiak's oddly titled
EMPATHmE
are the dance pieces on the program, while David Ives'
All in the Timing
is a collection of six v...
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Pop music is filled with male
vocalists
, sincere dudes who favor attitude over ability and affect all kinds of little stylistic touches -- weird mumbles, growls, and eccentric nasal tones -- to distract the listener from the fact that they couldn't carry a note in a pocket.
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Todd LaRose loves watching the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels at the Alliance Airport air shows. It's easy for LaRose to see them every year because he lives about a mile southeast of the airport, on the opposite side of Interstate 35.
What LaRose doesn't love is feeling hi...
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My sweetie and I recently went to
J.R. Bentley's Restaurant & Pub
in
Arlington
, where she used to cocktail in a previous life (post-divorce, saving money to go to Australia). The occasion wasn't special, just burgers and drinkie-talkie with some muso pals. While the locatio...
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This past weekend was our
12th annual Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards Festival
downtown, and by most accounts the shindig went off without a hitch and may have been
the highlight of lots of people's weekend
. Easily
more than 1,000 folks
braved the heat to catch performances by
35 l...
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Self-taught artist Jesse Sierra Hernandez describes himself as influenced by Caravaggio, though perhaps Frida Kahlo is more evident in his renderings of human figures. Still, the sweep of his historical paintings and statements of cultural pride are undeniably his own. You c...
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OPENING:
The Brothers Bloom
(PG-13) There's much to admire and much to feel uneasy about in this comedy-thriller about two adopted brothers and con artists (Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo) who run a complex scheme to bilk an eccentric heiress (Rachel Weisz) out of her fortune.
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"If you're stupid enough to want a feel-good movie, go get yourself a foot massage," says Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David) to the camera early in Woody Allen's
Whatever Works
. Well, I am stupid enough, and this is a feel-good movie, and it left me still wanting that foot massag...
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Michael Mann's latest film,
Public Enemies
, is based on Bryan Burrough's voluminous history of the early days of the FBI, when the fledgling bureau spent 1933-35 bringing down John Dillinger, the Karpis/Barker gang, Bonnie and Clyde, and others. From this book, Mann fashions ...
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Spend enough time at the Ol' South Pancake House near Texas Christian University and you'll get the full picture of what students are thinking about these days. Some are worried about finding a job once they graduate, others about where to go: Stay here or leave?
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In his native Louisville, Barry King grew up in a house full of cooks. His grandmother, "Meemaw," made a coveted butterscotch pie and cooked pork ribs in the oven until the meat slid off the bone. His father presided over huge family barbecues in public parks and was a sough...
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Chow, Baby has figured out many of the
important seasonal changes
- Christmas (and Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, yeah yeah) decorations go up before Thanksgiving, Mardi Gras imbibing begins as soon as the New Year's hangover is gone, and we're not supposed to wear white shoes before M...
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A restaurant serving quality cuisine from the confines of a former convenience store? Trendy! Local foodies started raving months ago about Paco & John, the new Southside eatery owned by Bernard Tronche and Francisco Islas. Since Tronche also is behind the Fort's venerab...
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Hard to admit, but Chow, Baby had never heard the term "
breastaurants
" before last week. Never once been to a
Hooters
, not even "just for the famous wings." Never been to
Bone Daddy's
, either - not for fear of
boobie bars
(Chow, Baby's old terminology), but scared off by the
Hoot...
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Last month, Jason Manriquez got to fulfill a longtime dream: He performed a set with his band, Fate Lions, at a local drag show. The 36-year-old lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist grew up
in the San Francisco Bay area, so very little is outré to him. The Red Goose Saloon ...
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Good pizza by the slice has always been a rarity in Fort Worth. There are some good sit-down pizza joints but nothing spectacular, certainly nothing like in New York or the other East Coast hotbeds of Italian food, where you can go up to a counter and get a slice of pepperon...
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Spend enough time at the Ol' South Pancake House near Texas Christian University and you'll get the full picture of what students are thinking about these ...
In his native Louisville, Barry King grew up in a house full of cooks. His grandmother, "Meemaw," made a coveted butterscotch pie and cooked pork ribs in t...
Pop music is filled with male
vocalists
, sincere dudes who favor attitude over ability and affect all kinds of little stylistic touches -- weird mumbles, gr...
"If you're stupid enough to want a feel-good movie, go get yourself a foot massage," says Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David) to the camera early in Woody Allen...
This past weekend was our
12th annual Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards Festival
downtown, and by most accounts the shindig went off without a hitch and may have bee...
Todd LaRose loves watching the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels at the Alliance Airport air shows. It's easy for LaRose to see them every year because he lives ...
OPENING:
The Brothers Bloom
(PG-13) There's much to admire and much to feel uneasy about in this comedy-thriller about two adopted brothers and con artists (Adrie...