Leaf the Sleeves Alone
Downtown Fort Worth was hoppin’ on New Year’s Eve. As many Fort Worthians knocked back drinks and said adios to another year, one longtime customer...
You Want It Darker?
I began writing this on the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year — appropriate, I suppose, at the end of such a...
Real Atlases
The other early evening, I was standing in the front entry near the register at one of my favorite local eateries. I was by...
ATE DAY8 a week // January 5-11, 2022
While 360 West is kind of a competing publication here in our backyard, we respect that they are sponsoring the 2022 Winter Restaurant Week, a...
Holding Out for A Hero
In the wake of Iran’s phony election of 2009 that re-installed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president, the country cracked down on its filmmakers, so Abbas...
Macbeth: Toil and Trouble
And still I haven’t seen a convincing film version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood comes closest, and Scotland, PA comes a...
Flickerstick Redux
For all you young guns, or young’uns, out there who think you’re hot shit now, you might do well to, first, check yourself and,...
They Are What We Thought They Were
Blow it up. We’re done. Dak can’t throw, the receivers can’t catch, the O-line is aging and overrated, the defense can’t get pressure, put...
Omicron’s Canaries
We’re shattering records again. The U.S. is averaging 400,000 new COVID cases a day as the omicron variant continues to disrupt every aspect of...
Lower Expectations
Last year was a reminder that no matter how bad things get, they can always become a helluva lot worse. The economic and psychological...
