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Monday, November 25, 2024

Random Stuff

Random Stuff

Taste of Haloumi

As this week’s ”Eats” review indicates, Terra Mediterranean Grill served some of the best Greek and Middle Eastern food I’ve had in a while. On...

Clint Eastwood Kicks Ass At 80

It’s hard to imagine, but the king of bad-asses, Mr. Dirty Harry himself, turned 80 yesterday. Movie critics enjoy tearing down Clint Eastwood, picking apart...

Great Books: John Waters

Here’s your summer reading assignment: John Waters just released a new collection of essays called Role Models. It’s a beautifully indulgent litany of “The...

Stage West’s Playwriting Festival

The naked word is celebrated by some of the Fort’s top actors and directors at this weekend’s Texas Playwriting Competition Festival May 28-30. For...

The End: Lost Series Finale (Spoiler Alert)

The finale to the greatest thing ever to happen to television was, to be charitable, a major letdown. Over the last six years, all...

Dig This Groovy Woodstock Book

Nobody comes across any sweeter than Jimi Hendrix in Back To The Garden, an insightful, backstage look at the 1969 Woodstock music festival. Longtime New...

Ronald McDonald: Force for Good

The CEO of McDonald’s said something yesterday that made me spit out a mouthful of Big Mac: “Ronald McDonald does not hawk food. He...

High School Playwrights Honored

Attention, high school creative writing teachers: Do you have a student who makes mysterious classroom comments like “actors are exhausting” and “the fourth wall...

Fort Worth Writer Profiled in National Mag

The March/April issue of Poets & Writers magazine contains a small profile of Alex Lemon, the 30-year-old TCU creative writing prof whose slight memoir...

The Not Gay Actor (or, WTF, Ramin Setoodeh?)

Ramin Setoodeh’s recent culture piece in Newsweek last week has set off quite the conflagration in the gay blogosphere, with repercussions for those of...