Unholy Ground
Landon Schott’s confusing but mostly LGBTQ-bashing social media posts have made him a pariah to many and a celebrity to right-wing nuts seeking elected...
Red Wrong
If you were the average, red-blooded, teenaged American boy in the late ’80s, you weren’t sure of too many things, if anything at all,...
Takin’ Care of Business
Two weeks. That’s how long we’ve been waiting for a response from Jody Johnson about emails that may show fellow government employees working on his...
Local Elections Cheat Sheet
If times were simpler, ballot choices would be public referenda on taxation, government policies, and spending priorities. And while those issues largely remain at...
Blessed Are the Bigoted?
According to Instagram, Landon Schott, the lead pastor at Mercy Culture Church, has no problem outing himself as a conspiracy nut in public or...
Memo to the Texas Taliban
I received a message a couple of days ago from a local critic, and it made me smile.
it’s a shame no one has not...
Immortalizing the Not-So-Nice
Recently deceased art and culture critic Dave Hickey had a thing or two to say about the art world. Run by a class of...
News Roundup
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” — Elie Wiesel
Most...
Causation in Conroe
A good friend emailed me this past Sunday morning and asked me why Donald Trump spoke in Conroe, Texas, the day before.
I didn’t know....
Primary Reasons to Worry
Following the murder of George Floyd in mid-2020 and the resulting protests that erupted in Fort Worth and across the globe, then-mayor Betsy Price...
