He's Changed
While making
We've Changed
, Fort Worth troubadour
David Matsler
faced his demons and found them less daunting than he had feared. After five years of obsessively devoting his life to music, he finally relinquished his need for perfection and let things happen as they would. Thi...
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Not in Vain
The parents of
Michael Jacobs Jr.
, killed last April by a Fort Worth police officer wielding a Taser, have never been satisfied with the police department's handling of their son's case. But now, they believe, something good may have come from his death.
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Transient Songs
This full-length debut effort by a Seattle-based ensemble built around Haltom City expat and former
Hasslehorse
member John Frum marks a significant step forward from 2008's
Plantation To Your Youth
EP. In some ways,
Cave Syndrome
is the culmination of a
musical journey
that began w...
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Calhoun, Dove Hunter Recording
Calhoun
is getting ready to record with
James Barber
, who produced
Ryan Adams
' critically lauded
Rock N Roll
album and also
Courtney Love
's
America's Sweetheart
, as first reported on
Blotch
(Sun., Feb. 14, 2010). The co-songwriters who make up Calhoun, frontman/lyricist
Tim Locke
and g...
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Gallery
The art show at Rose Marine Theater is called
A-mal-ga-mate
, no doubt for its eclectic embrace of works in all media. You can see paintings on canvas as well as sculptures made from metal and soft fabric here, but hurry. The show ends Friday.
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North Carolina Burning
It all started with a casual remark. In 1970, Timothy Tyson was an 11-year-old white boy growing up in Oxford, N.C., when one of his friends said, "Pa and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger." Just like that, a boy he knew had confessed that his father and brothers had committed...
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GasLand Drills for Answers
In December 2008, live-theater producer and filmmaker Josh Fox (his 2008 film,
Memorial Day
, was based on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal) was approached by several landmen who wanted him to sign a deal to lease mineral rights for the natural gas under his property. Fox lives i...
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At the Gate
Steve and Marie Davis of Tyler decided to spend a romantic Valentine's weekend in the Metroplex this year, a little spur-of-the-moment getaway. On Saturday night they hit
Billy Bob's
for the Delbert McClinton show, not so much because they were big fans of the Fort Worth blues...
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Yee-Haw, Sir
The recently opened
Cowtown Diner
in Sundance Square has been getting some flak for daring to use the word "Cowtown." Perhaps it's because Fort Worth is shining itself up as more culture than cowboy, or maybe it's that Sundance Square sometimes forgets its roots. I don't have ...
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The Irony and the Ecstasy
OK, the reason Chow, Baby has been all depressed and road-tripping recently is because it got unexpectedly and non-negotiably
dumped by the beloved
. Chow, Baby didn't mark the precise dump-date, but going by its diary, a.k.a. this column, it must have been sometime between Ja...
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Children of the Damned
A front-runner for the Best Foreign Film Oscar this year,
The White Ribbon
is Michael Haneke's first German-language film since his original version of
Funny Games
back in 1997. This period piece, however, is less about shock and more along the line of a creepy meditation on evi...
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Crystal Blue Persuasion
When Colin Arnold of the Dallas psychedelic duo Eyes, Wings And Many Other Things admits that his and ex-Fort Worthian Sean French's band "lends itself to people in a
certain state of mind
," he clearly means "people who are stoned." But to really appreciate the scope and beau...
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Green House
On a bluff above Eagle Mountain Lake sits a rustic-looking house in the final stages of construction. The frame "casita" (Spanish for small house) looks like a simple Old- West cabin. In fact it's an ambitious project that could be the archetype for the future of "green" hom...
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A Cup of Union
In late December, a small group of Starbucks employees blocked the drive-through window at the company's coffee shop at Rosedale Street and 8th Avenue for about 20 minutes, in protest of the rising cost of their healthcare insurance, low wages, and a litany of other issues. ...
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Rahr-garitaville
A long time ago, I used to really like
Jack Johnson
. And
Sublime
. And
Bob Marley
. In fact, if there's a band you can associate with drunk dudes in college, it may still be
lurking on my iPod
. I've long since abandoned party-friendly, island-style, good-time acoustic balladry, an...
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U.S. to Blame for Haiti?
As grim accounts of the earthquake in Haiti came in, the accounts in U.S. news media all carried the same sentence: "Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere."
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JJ's R.I.P.
As first reported on
Blotch
by longtime staff writer
Eric Griffey
(Sun., Jan. 3, 2010), the lovable
J&J's Blues Bar
is closing its doors after
20-plus years
. Owner
Jim Schussler
refused to discuss details with the
Weekly
, saying that we never wrote about the shows there and that w...
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Michelangelo Glorifies Kimbell
We all know how important Michelangelo is. He painted a massive fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for, uh, Pete's sake, sculpted totally buff nudes out of marble (who knew that 24 Fitnesses existed back then?), designed buildings, wrote poetry, and did a bunch of o...
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Greening the Gas Field?
In North Texas these days, it seems like you can't drive 50 feet down the highway - or even a neighborhood feeder road - without spotting another gas well or compressor station or a well pad waiting to be drilled. In fact, the only thing growing faster than wells in the Barn...
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The Decade's Best
I'm not from Texas, and I didn't get here as fast as I could, but I like it here well enough. My first Lone Star stop was
Houston pre-9/11
. My second was Fort Worth a year or two afterward. What I'm trying to say is that, while I haven't lived in Fort Worth from Jan. 1, 2000,...
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At the Gate
Steve and Marie Davis of Tyler decided to spend a romantic Valentine's weekend in the Metroplex this year, a little spur-of-the-moment getaway. On Saturday...
Yee-Haw, Sir
The recently opened
Cowtown Diner
in Sundance Square has been getting some flak for daring to use the word "Cowtown." Perhaps it's because Fort Worth is shin...
He's Changed
While making
We've Changed
, Fort Worth troubadour
David Matsler
faced his demons and found them less daunting than he had feared. After five years of obsessiv...
North Carolina Burning
It all started with a casual remark. In 1970, Timothy Tyson was an 11-year-old white boy growing up in Oxford, N.C., when one of his friends said, "Pa and ...
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Calhoun, Dove Hunter Recording
Calhoun
is getting ready to record with
James Barber
, who produced
Ryan Adams
' critically lauded
Rock N Roll
album and also
Courtney Love
's
America's Sweetheart
, as fi...
San Diego, Texas
Most of the time he was growing up in Fort Worth, painter Drew Snyder wanted to be a musician. It was his first artistic identity. Some of his friends and fello...
Not in Vain
The parents of
Michael Jacobs Jr.
, killed last April by a Fort Worth police officer wielding a Taser, have never been satisfied with the police department's hand...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
Shutter Island
(R) Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo as U.S. marshals sent to investigate th...
