Posts Tagged ‘tcu’
A Game of Creepfrog
STATICResidents of the University West neighborhood just can’t get a break from the “TCU creep.” No, that’s not some weirdo performing lewd acts in public, but the nickname locals have given to the double whammy of steady enc...
Ticket to Ride
Phone apps and start-ups are bringing new options for getting around Fort Worth without a car.EDWARD BROWN
When Texas Christian University sophomore Kirina Awamoto moved to Fort Worth two years ago, she made the tough choice to leave her car in California. With insurance, parking, maintenance, and gas, the costs would have been too ...
Beautiful Festival of American Song
EDWARD BROWNAmerica has left an indelible mark on the world of vocal music, thanks in no small part to composers like George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, among others. The American song genre can be difficult to define, though, since it pul...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪23 Tonight’s performance of UNT Symphony Orchestra figures to be emotional, as longtime voice professors Linda DiFiore joins the ensemble before her retirement. The mezzo-soprano will sing Brahms’ anguished, questing...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 19 Rock music and Broadway haven’t always been best friends, but what the stage version of American Idiot may lack in plot or character, it makes up for in raw, idiosyncratic music, courtesy of Green Day’s ambitious...
An Odyssey to Twin Peaks
LAST CALLBack in July, I crushed the dreams of some poor TCU sorority gal trying to sell ad space in some Greek-centric student paper to the bar where I work. The issue of The Odyssey (because being in a Greek social organization is app...
Off Asides On Dallas Cowboys vs. Saints, Divine Intervention
Jeff PrinceBefore we get into this week’s Off Asides, I have breaking news to report: Tony Romo’s mom has filed a bullying complaint against the New Orleans Saints after last night’s unsportsmanlike 49-17 drubbing of the...
Coming Clean
A former TCU football player issues an apology — and a reason to hope.ERIC GRIFFEY
In 2007 a long list of witnesses told Fort Worth Weekly they’d seen Texas Christian University football player Matty Lindner threaten two Fort Worth men with a gun stuck in his waistband, after an argument outside Fuzzy’s T...
Why Did TCU Nix the “Fully Loaded” Flier?
JIMMY FOWLERIn terms of political issues, I probably disagree with the right-wing student group Young Americans for Freedom on most things. In terms of the ongoing national debate over gun rights, I definitely disagree with them –– I s...
Purple Patches
BIG TICKETThe last time TCU played in the Cowboys Classic, it was the beginning of an undefeated season. Fans of the Horned Frogs must be hoping that this year’s game will be a good omen, though they’ll probably take more hope from t...