AltWeeklies Wire
The Whiskey Folk Ramblers Stroll Through Styles & Erasnew
The Texas trad-country band is a history lesson told in plinks, plunks, and a whole lotta heart.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jimmy Fowler |
11-09-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Southland Tales': Dead on the 4th of Julynew
The maker of Donnie Darko goes funnily and frustratingly off the deep end.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
11-09-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Kelly, Southland Tales
Barton Scott's Bad Yearnew
The Mansfield, Texas, mayor's sex-offender crusade keeps getting punctured.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
11-09-2007 |
Politics
Outlawing Cracknew
Cities around the country are trying to make it a crime to wear pants in the popular hip-hop style, and Dallas is the latest to sniff the wind, so to speak.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Staff |
11-01-2007 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
The Hype Keep the Rap-Rock Torch Alivenew
If you can imagine AC/DC covering Poison but replacing Angus with a, um, turntable, you pretty much get The Hype.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Steve Steward |
11-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: The Hype, Wash THIS Off
100 Damned Guns is Blazin' Grassnew
With a new album under its belt, the band artfully assaults C&W tradition.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Caroline Collier |
11-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Hope Is Alive for Rachella Parksnew
The illness-stricken Fort Worth saxophonist hasn't lost a step.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Caroline Collier |
10-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rachella Parks
A New Kind of Wage Slavenew
Corporations are getting rich using federal prisoners as captive labor pools.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Betty Brink |
10-18-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
'Michael Clayton': Mr. Bagmannew
The flawed legal thriller still wins favorable judgment.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
10-11-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy
The Frontier Brothers: Boldly Goingnew
Part space-rock, part melodic-groovemeisters, the Austin band is all courage.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jimmy Fowler |
10-11-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Frontier Brothers
Viva Mariachi!new
The Mexican-born musical genre is claiming more territory in Texas schools.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jeff Prince |
10-11-2007 |
Music
The 'New' New Orleans: Better for Whom?new
New Orleans' reconstruction, like Iraq's, is mostly building private bank accounts.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Laurie Barker James |
10-04-2007 |
Commentary
Red Stick Ramblers Bring the Joyeux Vibenew
Listening to Made In the Shade, you may get the feeling you're at a shade-tree party in their native Southern Louisiana, which is no accident.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Tom Geddie |
10-04-2007 |
Reviews
Smoothvega: Unbreakablenew
He's been through a lot, but this Fort Worth rapper has a ways to go.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Caroline Collier |
10-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Smoothvega
The Scariest News May be the Stuff You Haven't Seen Yetnew
This year's Project Censored articles cover issues so weighty that many observers wonder how they could have slipped through the cracks. "The civil liberties aspect of this year's list is personally troubling for many people," director Peter Phillips says.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
10-04-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
