Sunny Roads Ahead for J. Walkers
Take a look at the scrubbed-clean MySpace photos of the pop rock quintet
The J. Walkers
, and you can tell from their shiny smiles, cherubic faces, and variously styled mop tops that these Tarrant County natives are being groomed with a specific target audience in mind.
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Copenhagen Chills Stage West
Every so often, Heisenberg’s 1927
principle of uncertainty
–– a foundation of quantum mechanics –– pops up as a theme in art. The Coen brothers’ acclaimed recent comedy
A Serious Man
depicted a Midwestern Jewish professor who tried to teach this tenet on the inscrutability of th...
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St. Stephen’s Day Any Day
My friend
Emily
is possibly the
funniest woman in the world
. At least, in my world. And she is brilliant at organizing
boozy get-togethers
. Late last year, she organized a
St. Stephen’s Day Party
. Not being familiar with saints (other than those of the
Who Dat?
variety), I had to a...
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Breathers Beware
In the summer of 2008, Sandra DenBraber was terrified that if she went to sleep, she might never wake up.
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Night & Day
WED ▪ 10
Essential viewing for anyone who likes their movies completely insane,
Sukiyaki Western Django
is a Western by Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, who wrote the script in English and then hired non-English-speaking Japanese actors to play the roles. The results are absol...
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Film Shorts
OPENING:
Green Zone
(R) Matt Damon stars in this thriller as a U.S. Army officer in the early days of the Iraq war who goes rogue while trying to find weapons of mass destruction. Also with Brendan Gleeson, Greg Kinnear, Amy Ryan, Khalid Abdalla, and Jason Isaacs. (Opens Frida...
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Manning-Dickson Drive, Dru B Rhymes
There are tons of ways for you,
Mr. Local Musician
, to get your name out there. There’s advertising in the local alt-weekly (wink, wink). There’s forking over wads of cold, hard American currency to a third party who will gently caress and stroke the radio program director of...
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Gallery
Fort Worth native Randall Reid’s mixed-media works make heavy use of distressed materials, frames within frames, and found objects to create abstract studies in texture and color. His show at William Campbell is up through this weekend.
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The Ghost Writer: A Real Roman à Clef
We’ve had examples of prison literature throughout history, but
The Ghost Writer
may be the closest we’ve ever had to prison filmmaking. Roman Polanski shot the footage prior to his arrest last year, after which he proceeded to edit the film and make postproduction decisions f...
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Remember Me: An Affair to Forget
Oscar Wilde once wrote, “All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.” I’m not sure to what extent that applies to movies, but one reason sincerity doesn’t carry a lot of currency with me is that I’ve seen so many bad films that came straight from their creators’ hearts.
Reme...
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Private Prisons, Public Pain
Reeves County straddles I-20 in West Texas, between Odessa and El Paso. Pecos is the county seat, anchored in cowboy mythology. Tiny homes, many of them 100 years old and made of stone, line several dozen downtown streets; beyond them, sandy soil dotted with clumps of short ...
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Island Life
The tiny restaurant on the west side of I-35W near Berry Street has had several names over the last few years: Betos American Caribbean, Exodus Caribbean, and, since a new owner took over about seven months ago, A Taste of Jamaica.
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Better than Chef Pants
The instant Chow, Baby heard that
Brad Haskovec
was launching a new cafe, the obsession began: Would he have the soup? Would he have the soup? A week before
Freda’s Place
even opened, Chow, Baby was haunting 609 S. Jennings Ave. (the former Coffee House Gallery), asking bewilder...
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The Blues Got the Blues
The musicians at
Mambo’s Tapas Cantina
were recently doing what their predecessors have been doing for ages: showing off licks, telling life stories set to music, and improvising within the unspoken rules of the discipline called the blues.
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Pandora's Wells
In 2006, with drillers poking gas wells into the Barnett Shale beneath Fort Worth as fast as they could get mineral leases signed, Fort Worth granted a permit for the first well in this city of another kind - a hole not for taking minerals out, but for forcing back undergrou...
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Panhandling Law Hampers Buskers
Ray Russell has been playing blues guitar around Fort Worth for more than 25 years. For the past year, he has been a busker, meaning that he performs on the street instead of playing in traditional venues. He says he earns more in tips on the street than he would in a club. ...
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Fort Worth Grill Goes Downhome
The Fort Worth Grill is best described as "classic Southern diner." If food can be fried, baconated, or covered in gravy, you'll find it on the menu. The joint in North Fort Worth is co-owned by brothers Weldon and Dale Cypert and decorated in an odd combination of NASCAR ra...
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He's Changed
While making
We've Changed
, Fort Worth troubadour
David Matsler
faced his demons and found them less daunting than he had feared. After five years of obsessively devoting his life to music, he finally relinquished his need for perfection and let things happen as they would. Thi...
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Not in Vain
The parents of
Michael Jacobs Jr.
, killed last April by a Fort Worth police officer wielding a Taser, have never been satisfied with the police department's handling of their son's case. But now, they believe, something good may have come from his death.
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Calhoun, Dove Hunter Recording
Calhoun
is getting ready to record with
James Barber
, who produced
Ryan Adams
' critically lauded
Rock N Roll
album and also
Courtney Love
's
America's Sweetheart
, as first reported on
Blotch
(Sun., Feb. 14, 2010). The co-songwriters who make up Calhoun, frontman/lyricist
Tim Locke
and g...
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Private Prisons, Public Pain
Reeves County straddles I-20 in West Texas, between Odessa and El Paso. Pecos is the county seat, anchored in cowboy mythology. Tiny homes, many of them 10...
Island Life
The tiny restaurant on the west side of I-35W near Berry Street has had several names over the last few years: Betos American Caribbean, Exodus Caribbean, ...
Sunny Roads Ahead for J. Walkers
Take a look at the scrubbed-clean MySpace photos of the pop rock quintet
The J. Walkers
, and you can tell from their shiny smiles, cherubic faces, and vario...
The Ghost Writer: A Real Roman à Clef
We’ve had examples of prison literature throughout history, but
The Ghost Writer
may be the closest we’ve ever had to prison filmmaking. Roman Polanski shot ...
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San Diego, Texas
Most of the time he was growing up in Fort Worth, painter Drew Snyder wanted to be a musician. It was his first artistic identity. Some of his friends and fello...
Breathers Beware
In the summer of 2008, Sandra DenBraber was terrified that if she went to sleep, she might never wake up.
Film Shorts
OPENING:
Green Zone
(R) Matt Damon stars in this thriller as a U.S. Army officer in the early days of the Iraq war who goes rogue while trying to find weapons of ...
