Arlington Grows Up Too Fast
Apparently, Arlington is the Miley Cyrus of North Texas mid-cities –– willing to go to any lengths to prove they’re all grown-up and ready...
Blockbuster Goes Bust
About 20 years ago, Jay Leno joked on The Tonight Show about a mooted idea for a national identity card. "We already have one,"...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
Dallas Buyers Club (R) Matthew McConaughey stars in Jean-Marc Vallée’s biography of Ronald Woodroof, an electrician who starts an extralegal drug market for AIDS...
Night & Day
WED ▪ 6
Kenneth Branagh won raves for his theater-in-the-round version of Macbeth, which he staged earlier this year in a deconsecrated church in Manchester,...
Tacos to Ease the Pain
Chow, Baby was sad when La Media Naranja (961 W. Magnolia Ave.) closed its doors earlier this year. The tiny taqueria/juice bar was never...
Beer Week Is Here
Do you like beer? How do you feel about weeks? If you’re a fan of both, North Texas Beer Week is right up your...
Conserving Compassion
Back in the 1990s when George W. Bush was governor, he made “faith-based initiatives” and “compassionate conservatism” his buzzwords for welfare reform. The buzzwords...
GRO-ing Up
Somewhat quietly, Green River Ordinance has become Fort Worth’s most famous rock export not named The Toadies. The band has been around for an...
Killer or Filler?
The problem with genre music is that it all tends to sound alike. Well, if it sounded like anything else, it wouldn’t be part...
Coming Clean
In 2007 a long list of witnesses told Fort Worth Weekly they’d seen Texas Christian University football player Matty Lindner threaten two Fort Worth...
