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Beerfeast 2014

The Game 'Fugitive' Probably Won't Kill Your Children, Despite What You Read in the Media

Kids chase each other. They have probably have chased each other since man could walk upright on two legs. Maybe it's some sort of Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest struggle. However you look at it, kids have always chased and ran away from each other. A game of tag recently ended very badly for o ... More >>

AF B's Cocktails Are the Real Deal

Since opening earlier this year, AF B has been cranking out food and cocktails that are impressive enough to justify a drive to Fort Worth even if you don't have other plans. What hasn't gotten as much fanfare, though, is the restaurant's impressive (if short) cocktail menu. In an effort to bring ... More >>

Drunk Football

Hell Is I-35 This Weekend

If you had planned to drive anywhere near I-35W in Fort Worth and Denton County this weekend, we and the Texas Department of Transportation have one request: Don't. Really. Please, just don't. You may have seen some of the warning signs flashing from Waco to Denton County, telling drivers about th ... More >>

Fort Worth Is Recruiting Gay Cops, and They Won't Even Be Openly Harassed by Colleagues

The Fort Worth Police Department has come a long way since 2009, when it marked the 40th anniversary of the landmark Stonewall riots, sparked by the ill-conceived, poorly executed raid of a New York gay bar, by conducting an ill-conceived, poorly executed raid of the Rainbow Lounge. The department r ... More >>

The Ultimate List of Dallas Fourth of July Celebrations

July Fourth is upon us, and no doubt you're looking forward to a Friday filled with hot dogs, apple pies and a good ol' fashioned three-day weekend. Thankfully, there are plenty of other ways to celebrate the red, white and blue in DFW, and we've put together a handy list to help you find them all. ... More >>

Fort Wort Music Festival Strikes an Accessible Balance in Fourth Year

As rock radio mainstays Jimmy Eat World ran through their albums at Fort Worth Music Festival on Saturday, a man in his 50s wearing a Suicide Girls t-shirt looked on as a group of thirty-somethings danced and relived their youth. Close by some college kids took breaks from dancing to drink heavily f ... More >>

TCU Students in Drug Bust Have Had a Helluva Time Getting Their Cars Back From Police

Most people have more or less forgotten the high-profile TCU drug bust of February 2012. Aside from the presence of four football players among the 18 arrested and the relatively rare chance for TV stations to run a mugshot gallery full of privileged college kids, the revelation that a bunch of youn ... More >>

You Won't Believe The Weather In Fort Worth This Weekend (NSFW)

We step away from our usual prediction of the weather in Dallas to say hello to everyone in Fort Worth! Hello Fort Worth! We haven't forgotten about you. In fact we have a very special NSFW FW post ready for you. NSFW, of course, stands for No Shit, Fort Worth! Are you ready for how the weather will ... More >>

Five Can't-Miss Opening Bands Playing Ft. Worth Music Fest This Weekend

The moment when a festival lineup is revealed is always an exciting one. It's a split second that's rife with anticipation, and it can be downright exuberant if it contains unexpected surprises and bucket-list bookings. Conversely, that moment of concert-going epiphany can quickly be deflated if the ... More >>

Take It to the Streets

Fort Worth's Not Sure Its Lawns Could Take Permanent Twice-a-Week Watering

In the two years since the Dallas City Council made twice-per-week watering restrictions permanent the water situation in North Texas hasn't improved much. We're still in severe drought, lake levels are still low and long-term projections of drought and population growth still aren't pretty. A sligh ... More >>

Drink Along with the Opera

Cancer Gets a Kick in the Ass

Untapped Fort Worth - Rain on 35 Denton Weekend? Surely Not

Under a chilly and sometimes sprinkling sheet of grey Fort Worth sky that turned stout black sooner than usual, the second edition of Untapped Fort Worth successfully kept its attendees spirits high with quality ales and well-crafted musical performances. The several food trucks on-hand even lent th ... More >>

The Menu at Bite, Eddy Thretipthuangsin's New Restaurant, Does Not Give Me Hope

Nearly every bit of news about Eddy Thretipthuangsin makes me a little sadder these days. When it was first announced that Eddy would be leaving Pakpao, the white hot Thai restaurant in the Design District, my disappointment was tempered by my hopes for his next destination. I fantasized about the t ... More >>

Death Before Dishonor

Untapped Festival - Band & Beer Pairings For Your Convenience

The North Texas region has become a national hot-bed of craft breweries and general good-times which circle around sudsy concoctions. Aside from the growing numbers of top-notch brewers and hops-focused gastropubs of the Metroplex, the burst of can't-miss beer festivals has been as enjoyable of a be ... More >>

Five Texas Barbecue Events to Put on Your Meat Calendar

What with the announcement of this year's Meat Fight date (more on that in a minute), and the sad fact that said date is way off toward the end of the year, we thought it might be time to have a quick poke around the internet to see what we could see. And what we saw was a bounty of barbecue events. ... More >>

The 10 Best Concerts in Dallas this Week, March 3 - 9

Festival season is upon us, and just because there's no 35 Denton this year doesn't mean things have slowed down for 2014. This week Untapped returns to Fort Worth, Three Links and Mad World Records will each celebrate their anniversaries with fests, and the inaugural ONE FEST will spend the weekend ... More >>

Is Water Conservation Really Bankrupting Texas Cities, or Are They Just Bad at Planning?

The people of Fort Worth have been doing a good job of using their water sparingly, and that has the Fort Worth Water Department very, very worried. Recent news reports claim that Fort Worth has been bleeding cash because of its noble water conservation efforts. The city lost $11 million "because o ... More >>

Fort Worth Food Wine Festival Announces Inaugural Event, Including $500 Ticket

Fort Worth is getting a highbrow food and wine event this spring. The four-day eating and drinking parade will start on March 27. The aim, other than to consume a lot, is to "infuse historic venues and homegrown flavor" with local chefs, wine makers, craft breweries and the like. The Fort Worth Fo ... More >>

Martin House Brewing Has Created a New Beer for the Toadies: Rubberneck Red

The Toadies are hitting the road this year to promote the reissue of their 1994 album, Rubberneck. Surely they're taking count of guitar picks, snacks, clean socks and whatever other provisions rock bands need for a comfortable road trip. And they also wanted to create an "official" beer to take alo ... More >>

Meet Mollie Reyes, Former Hailey's Talent Buyer and School of Rock Mansfield's New "Principal"

School of Rock's Mollie Reyes is quite the character. She's animated, never taking life too seriously, but she's in a new position for the school that can be easily filed under high-pressure: one that wedges her in between the parents of suburbia and the youngsters of the metroplex who are dying to ... More >>

DFW's The Hack and Slashers: "What's More Rock than Rock and Roll? Rock and Roleplay."

Metal has always had a natural fit with fantastical landscapes that look like they were crafted by the hand of Frank Frazetta. The Fort Worth metal group The Hack and Slashers, however, don't live in a world that looks perfectly suited for a custom painted van in the '80s or the cover of an early R ... More >>

Swiss Pastry Shop's Burger Validates Fort Worth's Existence

"Darlin'" count: 250 Chance of wood paneling: 100 percent Average age of diners: 75 "Why is Fort Worth?" you ask yourself on a daily basis. I can now tell you, with much confidence, that the answer is, without a doubt: "Because Swiss Pastry Shop's burgers." Chef/owner Hans P. Muller is making a k ... More >>

Two Local Breweries and One Coffee Roaster Launch New Beers This Weekend

Martin House Brewing in Fort Worth is launching a new session beer, Gateway XPA, today at The Beaded Lady in Fort Worth. The name pays homage to a trail near the brewery along the Trinity. The beers pays homage to sessions, which in beer world implies the ability to drink a few over and still be to ... More >>

Watch Local BMX Biker Mat Olson Ride the Arches on Fort Worth's New 7th Street Bridge

Fort Worth's new "signature" West 7th Street Bridge may lack the flash of Dallas' Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, but the pavement is perfectly serviceable for driving over and, as the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's video from this weekend shows, the concrete arches are perfectly sized for bicycles. The rid ... More >>

Meet Lady Theresa Thombs, State Board of Education Candidate, Dame of Justice, Carrier of Diplomatic Papers

We missed a fascinating SBOE campaign forum in Fort Worth Monday night. It didn't start when Tea Party candidate Eric Mahroum kicked off the evening with some fringe buzzwords like CSCOPE and Common Core, and an invocation of the former President Ronald Reagan's "are you better off?" speech. Nor did ... More >>

Fort Worth Police Accidentally Declared a 14-Year-Old Dead

It was a chaotic scene overnight as emergency vehicles and news crews descended on the 3000 block of Hanger Avenue in Fort Worth. Details were scarce, but Fort Worth PD said that a 14-year-old boy had been shot in the face a few minutes before midnight on Thursday and that a 24-year-old was in custo ... More >>

The 30 Best North Texas Albums of 2013: Part One

There's no definitive way to say how many albums, EPs, mixtapes and other new music came from North Texans in 2013. Bandcamp keeps track of tags, and it has over 400 releases for "Dallas" since mid-April. So figure somewhere well into the thousands. We listened to as many of those as we could find ... More >>

North Texas Mayors Hatch Plan to Build Dallas-to-Fort Worth Bike Trail

Five North Texas mayors walk into a room. After some glad-handing and small talk, Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck launches into a soliloquy. "In the city of Arlington, we are constantly looking for new ways to encourage the community to sustain an active lifestyle," he begins. Residents should be made ... More >>

Fort Worth Police Gun Down Two Pit Bulls That Were Mauling a Man and His Daughter

Fort Worth police shot and killed two dogs that mauled a man and his daughter early Tuesday morning. According to police, the man heard a commotion outside his home, located in the 3300 block of N. Crump Street, just southeast of Meacham Airport, just after midnight. He stepped outside to find two ... More >>

Radio Host Rickey Smiley Bails Out 80-Year-Old Fort Worth Woman Who Almost Shot Husband

The story was absurd enough when the Fort Worth Star-Telegram first reported it earlier this week. Tempie Strickland, an 80-year-old Fort Worth woman fed up with her ex-husband's lip and his late-night trips to the barber shop and bingo hall, allegedly tried to murder him on Sunday. Police said she ... More >>

Closure of Sundance Square's Barnes & Noble Almost as Sad as the Grassroots Effort to Save It

Last week, Fort Worth unveiled the new, improved Sundance Square. Where once there were a couple of parking lots, now there is a pedestrian plaza complete with dancing fountains and a juggler. It's a good thing. Now for the bad thing: Sundance Square's 17-year-old Barnes & Noble is shutting its doo ... More >>

Revolver Brewing, Maker of Blood and Honey, Has a Limited-Run Anniversary Beer This Week

Revolver Brewing in Granbury, Texas hopped onto the local craft-brewing scene last year and is already releasing a special beer to commemorate its first year of brewing and bottling. Father-son founders Ron and Rhett Keisler picked out a parcel of land about 35 miles southwest of Fort Worth in par ... More >>

After 91-0 Blowout, Aledo High Fends Off Bullying Charges

The Aledo High School Bearcats didn't want to score 91 points over Fort Worth Western Hills on Friday night, nor did they intend to hold their opponent completely scoreless. When the team glanced at the scoreboard as time expired and discovered they'd done both those things, he pangs of remorse were ... More >>

Fort Worth Joins Arlington and Many, Many Landowners in Suing Chesapeake Energy Over Royalties

More plaintiffs are lining up to take a crack at Chesapeake Energy, this time joined by the city of Fort Worth. It's the second major North Texas city to file suit against the first player to make a big splash extracting natural gas from the Barnett Shale. Arlington brought its $1 million claim to c ... More >>

Son of Stan's Jordan Richardson and the Re-Making of a Rock 'n' Roll Dream

The 50-foot limestone angels trumpeting from the façade of Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth face a trio of venues hidden from the outside world. Hyena's Comedy Night Club is down a grand staircase on the right. There's a smaller stage next to it. And on the left is Queen City Music Hall, which o ... More >>

Fort Worth Police Are Ticketing People for Not Using Parking Brakes

There was a time, back when manual transmissions were the only option and the slightest incline could potentially transform any car into an unstoppable projectile, when it made sense to have a law requiring drivers to use their parking brake. Those days have long since passed. Automatic transmissio ... More >>

Wendy Davis Is Running for Governor

It's official. Wendy Davis, the Fort Worth Democrat who rose to national prominence during her summer filibuster of abortion legislation, is running for governor. She made the announcement just now in the Haltom City auditorium where she graduated from high school. Already, pro-life groups are read ... More >>

Eisley Plays "Save My Soul" in Fort Worth: An Observer and Globe Trek Video

Earlier this week, we had a clip of Tyler's Eisley performing "Mr. Moon" on a ridge above the Trinity River in Fort Worth. Today, we have part two of that shoot -- in it, the sisters perform "Save My Soul" from this year's Currents.

A Fort Worth Store Is Selling "Craig James Killed Five Hookers" T-Shirts for the TCU-SMU Game

When TCU and SMU's football teams face off this weekend in the battle for the coveted Iron Skillet, the Horned Frogs are expected to dominate. The three-touchdown spread falls a couple of touchdowns shy of an abject humiliation, but it at least represents a solid pounding. That's not good enough fo ... More >>

William Leak Got Fired, So He Slit the Throats of His Boss' Border Collies

William Skyler Leak's tenure as the caretaker of a small Fort Worth stable was brief. Last August, after a short time on the job, he was fired and ordered to clear out of the on-site mobile home he'd been allowed to live in. "The owner didn't like his work performance," Fort Worth police spokeswoma ... More >>

Central Market's Brewniversity Is in Session; Here Are the Classes to Audit

Moment of truth: I started this post thinking Central Market was going to host some marginal events over the next week for their Brewniversity event and, mostly, I was excited that they're offering 20 percent off beer purchases of $25 of more. But as I dug through the store calendars, there are actu ... More >>

Fort Worth Police Will Soon Require Some Officers to Wear Video Cameras on Their Uniforms

We'll never be able to pin down exactly what went down on Havenwood Lane on the night of May 4, when Fort Worth police mistakenly gunned down 72-year-old Jerry Waller at his home. Police say he was outside the garage; his family maintains that he was just a couple of steps from the kitchen door. The ... More >>

Revolver's Blood and Honey Is the Next Local Beer Up to Be Bottled and Sold in Stores

Last week the Brewers Association reported that during the first half of 2013, Americans purchased some 7.3 million barrels of craft beer, up from 6.4 million over the first half of 2012. Overall dollar sales and volume were up 15 and 13 percent, respectively. All of this despite decreased overall b ... More >>

A Crack-Turned-Marijuana Dealer in Ft. Worth Was Busted for Pushing 100 Pounds of Weed a Week, Feds Say

Arnold Troy Crayton has matured a lot in the past decade. Back then, he was "Lil' Arnold," a 21-year-old junior member of a Fort Worth-based crack distribution ring busted by the feds in 2002. Now, according to federal prosecutors, Crayton's moved on to marijuana, apparently smuggled to him straigh ... More >>

A Fracking Truck Driver Who Ran Over a 14-Year-Old Boy in Fort Worth Has Been Cleared of Wrongdoing

Two days after 14-year-old Deston Bibbs was killed in a hit-and-run motorist as he crossed Sycamore Street Road at 9:20 p.m. on the night of April 25, his mother went to the media with a heartfelt plea. "Just turn yourself in already," DeShundria Parks