AltWeeklies Wire
Dead Zonenew
The Texas-Mexico border has always been violent — but nothing like this.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
01-05-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: U.S.-Mexico Border, Drugs
Aggie Secretsnew
Tarleton State’s attempt to keep public records from budding reporters isn’t winning friends for the college.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jeff Prince |
12-30-2010 |
Education
Film Farenew
Why is North Texas the center of the latest craze in movie theaters?
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
12-30-2010 |
Food+Drink
A Lost Hemingway Novel Becomes A Film That Should Have Been Lostnew
A partial manuscript by Ernest Hemingway was finished, controversially, in the '80s and now has become a period drama. They should have left it unfinished.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
12-09-2010 |
Reviews
Mimi and the Mannew
Wounded Iraq veteran Steven Woods denies that his pit bull Mimi, who has helped him overcome PTSD problems, bit an elderly man in his neighborhood.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
12-08-2010 |
Animal Issues
Tags: PTSD, Steven Woods
Dawn Treader: Narnia Watered Downnew
The third installment of the Narnia series continues the uniform, tasteful dullness of its predecessor.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
12-08-2010 |
Reviews
How Vernon Fisher Came to K-Mart Conceptualismnew
Artist Vernon Fisher escaped the bland certainties of a rural life through a fissure in his parents' Protestant facade -- and emerged into a life of art and ideas that have brought him, full-circle, back to the cold-War images he grew up with.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Anthony Mariani |
11-02-2010 |
Art
Tags: Vernon Fisher, Modern Art
A Kandi-Coated Worldnew
Even Ecstasy's young fans are worried about what the drug is doing to North Texas kids.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Caroline Collier |
10-30-2010 |
Drugs
Two Young Filmmakers Raise Funds for a Texas Nod to Kafkanew
Burt Rutherford and Tim Yager look like a mismatched comedy duo, and the idea isn't that far off: the two longtime friends are back involved in comedy courses while raising money for their first feature, Model Man.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
10-29-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Burt Rutherford, Tim Yager
Knuckle Up into Moviesnew
If you're looking for props and costumes of filmdom's monsters and super-heroes, you might start at a Fort Worth tattoo parlor.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Cole Williams |
10-29-2010 |
Recreation
Conviction Has Courage, Lacks Craftnew
A true story becomes a plodding, unoriginal legal drama.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
10-29-2010 |
Reviews
Johnny Got His Pillsnew
The U.S. military brass who are searching for solutions to the growing problems of soldier suicides aren't looking at the answer under their noses: their own dispensing of drugs to soldiers as a way to keep them functioning too long in too hellish a place.
Fort Worth Weekly |
E.R. Bills |
10-29-2010 |
Commentary
Equity and Philanthropynew
Last month 40 billionaires signed the "Giving Pledge," promising to donate most of their millions. A pledge by the same folks to contribute their support to changing the tax laws in this country would be even more valuable.
Fort Worth Weekly |
James Russell |
09-02-2010 |
Commentary
The American: This Gun for Hirenew
Director Anton Corbijn has a jeweler's eye for visual detail, but he's still trying to get a handle on other cinematic elements. The result is a beautiful, boring movie that's the least interesting George Clooney outing since Ocean's Twelve.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
09-02-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The American, Anton Corbijn
Bo Powell: A Life as Colorful as His Artnew
Bo Powell's murals, paintings and drawings depict much of the West -- but even a dozen murals couldn't capture the breadth of this 70-year-old artist's life.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Dan McGraw |
09-02-2010 |
Art
Tags: Bo Powell
