AltWeeklies Wire
A Gay Cure?new
Things are getting even stranger in the right's campaign to counsel people out of their homosexuality.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
06-14-2007 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Love 'Bug'new
The craziness is contagious in this claustrophobic, unsatisfying thriller.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
05-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Bug, William Friedkin
The Never-ending Battle Against Warnew
As a major international peace conference gears up in Dallas, peace workers and researchers say the United States and the UN don't appear to have learned many lessons from recent fiascos like Rwanda -- and now, Darfur.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kendall Anderson |
05-24-2007 |
War
Tags: war & peace
A Fitting, If Uneven, Paeannew
Anchored In Love is as much of a tribute to a passing -- or passed? -- time as it is to the woman and her music.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Tom Geddie |
05-24-2007 |
Reviews
Wilco's Latest Shinesnew
Gone are the beds of noise and extended, Crazy Horse-esque fireworks of the band's last two records, but upfront and accounted for are the hum-worthy and affable ditties with dark underbellies.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Joshua Loewen |
05-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Wilco, Sky Blue Sky
Cory Morrow: Hello Nash-Vegasnew
Have you ever bet everything on a nag to win, and then watched your horse burst out of the starting gate like a comet, only to blaze out and limp down the home stretch? Welcome to Cory Morrow's latest album.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jeff Prince |
05-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Cory Morrow, Ten Years
Students Want Textbook Publishers to Slow Down on the Updatesnew
The frequent "updating" of textbooks, often for seemingly trivial reasons, prevents college students from being able to sell back those expensive texts -- and means the next round of students will have to buy the new, not the cheaper used, version of the book.
Fort Worth Weekly |
I'sha Gaines |
05-17-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
Desiree Fairooz, Freedom Fighternew
She was once a full-time teacher -- now she spends her days protesting the war in Iraq.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Briceida Cervantes |
05-03-2007 |
War
Tags: war in iraq, code pink
Relatively Heavynew
With a stunning debut album under their belt, the two brothers and a friend who make up Jefferson Colby are Inadaze.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Caroline Collier |
05-03-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jefferson Colby
Coastal & Westernnew
This is one of Taylor's strongest efforts and well worth a listen.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jeff Prince |
05-03-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Times, Larry Joe Taylor
Texas Episcopalians Struggle to Find a 'Middle Way'new
The American-based Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion of which the church is a part are engaged in a bitter struggle over the roles of homosexuals and women within the church.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
05-03-2007 |
Religion
Tags: religion
Herd Mentalitynew
In his new book, Robb Walsh dispels many popular notions of cowboy cuisine, starting with the cowboys themselves.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Dan McGraw |
04-26-2007 |
Nonfiction
Keite Young: Sometimes Soulful, Sometimes Funky, Sometimes Folkynew
The rhythms of life Rise and Fall throughout Young's stellar new album.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jimmy Fowler |
04-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Keite Young
Booze-soaked Texas Mythology Turned Up to 11new
With their blend of breakneck two-step and pick-scraping punch, The Von Ehrics clearly worship at the altar of St. Johnny (Cash) and take their communion from Reverend Horton Heat, but they don't trip over any psychobilly cliches.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Steve Steward |
04-26-2007 |
Reviews
Activists: Denial of Hospital Care to Immigrants May Be Unconstitutionalnew
Members of Allied Communities of Tarrant are pressing the John Peter Smith hospital system to provide its full range of medical services to undocumented residents -- they now believe that the denial of those services may violate the Texas Constitution.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
04-26-2007 |
Science
