Best Of
On The Town // Best Of 2024
Bar-Bar
Readers’ Choice: Oscar’s Pub, 6323 Camp Bowie Blvd, Ste 125, 817-732-3833
Critic’s Choice (Top 3): A Great Notion, 2024 Ridgmar Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-731-8521; The Boiled...
Latest from NEWS
Anti-Rainbow Coalition
An embattled metaphysical shop on the North Side is under attack again.
A far-right North Texas coalition plans to “peacefully” march outside 3-year-old Higher Purpose...
Draining
There’s never been a more stressful time to be a teacher. I say that as someone who worked in K-12 schools for more than...
Latest from ARTS
Fantasy Life
As soon as I saw her, I LOL’d. A cigarette dangling precariously from the side of her mouth, her tangled strawberry-blonde hair matted against...
Fall Gallery Night
Before the lockdown, Fall and Spring Gallery Nights raged. Local exhibition spaces invited the community into their art-filled embrace, and we responded by tippling...
Latest from EATS & DRINKS
Tasty Licks
The Singing Chef Cafe, 8000 Wichita St, Ste 113, Fort Worth. 682-220-9261. 11am-7pm Tue-Fri, noon-4pm Sat.
A quintessential Renaissance dude, Sammy Fox is the singer/musician...
Melting Pot
Cafe Americana, 403 E Main St, Arlington. 682-338-3033. 11am-11pm Tue-Sun, 11am-1am Fri-Sat.
When Chef Mark Vincent Guatelara closed Ober Here, it was another disheartening loss...
Latest from SCREEN
My Old Ass: Double El
I wasn’t expecting a meaningful cinematic experience from a movie entitled My Old Ass, but this high-concept comedy that turns into a teen weeper...
Film Shorts // September 25 – October 1, 2024
OPENING
Azrael (R) This dialogue-free horror film stars Samara Weaving as a young woman who fights to prevent herself from being made a human sacrifice...
Latest from MUSIC
Digging Through Lost ’N Sound
As an aging musician with a comprehensive malignancy of good-ol’-days syndrome, I spend a sizable chunk of time contemplating, and consequently lamenting, the current...
Court Hoang’s Triptychs
Introspective indie-rock singer-songwriter Court Hoang will release his latest EP on this year’s fall equinox and continue putting out more music every seasonal solstice/equinox....
Latest from STUFF
Buck U: Perspective
Deep breaths, everyone. After last week’s 21-point collapse while hosting UCF, the stage was set for a bounce-back game against cross-town little brother SMU,...
Sinkhole
I harbor no personal resentment toward the University of Central Florida Knights. Way back before I knew my now-wife in 2012, she was completing...
Creature Comforts
Creature Comforts 2024
We were inside no longer than 45 minutes tops, and when we went back outside, he was gone. Just gone.
Miles Gamera enjoyed the playpen...
Pride Month
Rainbow Warriors
wHeRE’s y’All’S sTrAIgHt PRiDe isSuE?
Tell me next time straight people are murdered, fired/unhired, or ostracized for being straight, and we’ll happily give you your...
Summer Edition
Summertime Is Here!
Welcome to Summa-Summa-Summertime! Step right in. We've got kids' camps to recommend and great ideas for staycationing and how to spend your four-day weekends,...
Holidays
Holidays 2023
We get it. Not everyone digs the holidays. I kinda don’t. The biggest reason is probably that my family buried our 63-year-young father on...
Zest Magazine
Welcome to Zest 2024
It’s time for our annual deep dive into our local culinary scene, and why not now? With patio season upon us and all the...
Blotch Blogs
How to Find the Best Casting Calls for Young Performers in Your Area
For parents of aspiring young performers, navigating the world of acting opportunities can feel overwhelming. From finding local casting calls to preparing for auditions, helping...
Which Generations are More Accepting of Cryptocurrencies?
If you’re aware of the wonders of blockchains, tokens, NFTs and digital assets, you probably already know that cryptocurrencies have taken over the world...
Brighterly: Revolutionizing Math Education for Kids – A Comprehensive Review
For many students, mathematics is not an easy subject; however, Brighterly offers a new approach for teachers to adopt and teach kids math easily....
On the Calendar
Sundance Square Car & Culture Show 2024
When: Saturday, September 21, 2024
Time: Noon to 8 pm
Place: Sundance Square Plaza, Downtown Fort Worth
Free: No admission cost / Family Friendly
The public is invited from Noon to 8...
N&D 9.18.24 // Cinderella, Lost ’N Sound, & PolaCon
Since next week is our annual Best Of edition, full of blurbs about the best of everything our area has to offer and no regular...
ATE DAY8 a Week 9.18.24 // A Dozen Days of Tacos
You actually have 13 more days, not 12, to try this year’s competitors for “Arlington’s Favorite Taco,” but who’s counting? (Me. I’m always counting.)...
N&D 9.11.24 // John Wayne, West Main Arts Festival, & Time Capsule 1979
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
On the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 2001, or sometime before Election Day, I intend to revisit the documentary film...
