Subject: Fort Worth

• Cash Cow or White Elephant?

  The return of the convention center hotel plan

  September 2, 1999

• Beating a (Nearly) Dead Horse

  August 14, 2006

• Playbill: Jake Hooker

  February 15, 2007

• We Heart CFS

  June 22, 2007

• So Bad They're Good? Not Exactly.

  August 23, 2007

• We Heart CFS

  June 22, 2007

• Lewis Black Hates Dallas, Loves Houston (When the A/C Works)

  July 25, 2008

• Fort Worth's School Superintendent Has A Bigger Salary Than Houston's

  Houston, you have been dissed by Fort Worth. Fort Worth.That cowtown up north has gone all big-time, paying its school superintendent the highest salary in the state. Abe Saavedra here in Houston has been relegated to the poverty line.Fort Worth ISD superintendent Melody Johnson received a 1.4 percent pay raise last night; it brought her salary to $328,950. That is just above Saavedra's salary of $327,010.We know what you're up to, Fort Worth. Tossing around money like you're Jerry Jones. We can

  December 17, 2008

• Pop Moment

  March 2, 1995

• Make It Ugly, By All Means

  February 1, 1996

• The Roosevelt Special at the Original in Fort Worth

  Commenting on the Palmetto Inn's Number #10 Dinner, a plate of cheese enchiladas with chili and queso Jim Sherman wrote: "Needs a sunnyside-up fried egg on top!" That reminded me of another famous Tex-Mex dish--the "Roosevelt Special" at the Original Mexican Eats Café on Camp Bowie Boulevard in Fort Worth. That plate combines a fried-to-order chalupa shell topped with beans and cheese, a crispy beef taco, and a cheese enchilada in chili con carne topped with two sunnyside-up fried eggs. The

  February 4, 2009

• Tonight: Son Volt at the Continental Club

  No doubt we'll hear this, a highlight from the band's most recent album, 2007's The Search... "Methamphetamine," live at Fort Worth's Main Street Arts Festival, April 2008

  February 24, 2009

• News of the Weird

  March 11, 1999

• Cowboy in the Kitchen

  June 8, 2000

• “Quest for High Bear: A Boy’s Odyssey through Indian Country 1925-1939”

  Web exclusive!

  November 13, 2008

• Temples of Tex-Mex: Vintage Restaurants

  July 3, 2008

• Temples of Tex-Mex: A Diner's Guide to the State's Oldest Mexican Restaurants

  July 3, 2008

• Americans Recording Mexican Songs

  The Bueno, the Bad and the Muy Ugly

  May 22, 2008

• Larry McMurtry and Willie Nelson in Houston

  May 1, 2008

• Joyce Yang

  The Society for the Performing Arts presents a piano prodigy in her Houston recital debut

  February 28, 2008

• No Show: EMC Expos

  A long line of people say they've been stiffed by Rolando Dumagan and company.

  December 13, 2007

• Feature Photo

  September 27, 2007

• Tea Parties and Tex-Mex:

  April 23, 2009

• I Love CFS

  Thank goodness it's still popular in the small towns of the Chicken-Fried Steak Belt.

  June 21, 2007

• Parish Predators

  Despite the bishop’s remarks to the contrary, the Galveston-Houston Roman Catholic Archdiocese had child molesters and let them go. But don’t blame just the Church.

  August 17, 2006

• Faith's Fusillade

  The gunman moved methodically, killing cowering churchgoers, before one of them stood up for the final confrontation. Then came the last shot.

  November 4, 1999

• Young Gun

  Collin Herring hits somewhere between Merle Haggard and Hüsker Dü -- and that's a good place to be

  August 4, 2005

• Scenes from a Picnic

  Willie, Dylan, Kinky and the Ghost of Bob Willis descends on Fort Worth. Wack is there too.

  July 21, 2005

• And the Winners Are

  Houston Press does well in a two-state contest

  April 21, 2005

• Recognition Time

  Contests honor Houston Press writers

  March 31, 2005

• Dance Fever

  HISD kills a reality show on high school dancers

  October 21, 2004

• Songs of Sorrow

  American Analog Set rocks lightly

  April 15, 2004

• Catching Elevators

  Dr. Hitoshi Nikaidoh stepped on a St. Joseph Hospital elevator and died. His death was gruesome and horrifying. But it wasn't unique.

  October 9, 2003

• All-You-Can-Eat Bait

  At this sushi buffet, the lobster is gone Todai. Will it be here tomorrow?

  July 17, 2003

• Chicken-Fried Honor

  George's civic slur

  January 11, 2001

• The Not-So-Grand Experiment

  "Black Coffee," part of Video Radio

  February 10, 2000

• Dish

  April 30, 1998

• Swine Flu Closes Three HISD Schools, Episcopal High -- And All Of Fort Worth ISD (UPDATED)

  HISD has announced two schools have closed until further notice because of possible -- but not confirmed -- cases of swine flu.Harvard Elementary and Hamilton Middle School, both in the Heights, are the schools."Late last night the City of Houston Health Department informed HISD Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra of two probable, but not confirmed, cases of swine flu and advised the district to immediately close both schools as a precaution," HISD spokesman Norm Uhl said. "The principals of both s

  April 30, 2009

• School Districts Don't Need To Close To Protect Funding, TEA Says

  When the Fort Worth school district made the seemingly bizarre decision to close down for a week even though they hadn't experienced a single confirmed case of swine flu, there were some rumblings that FWISD officials were more concerned about budgets than parents.Parents might have to spend a week scrambling for child care, but FWISD would not need to worry about any ADA money.And ADA money is very, very important to schools. It's got nothing to do with the Americans with Disabilities Act; the

  May 1, 2009

• Road Trip!

  May 21, 2009

• How To Celebrate Gay Pride Day In Fort Worth: Bust Some Heads

  How did cops in Fort Worth celebrate the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, that epic day when gays fought back against cops harassing them in a bar? By harassing gays in a bar. Allegedly.Protests have sprung up in Cowtown over events at the Rainbow Lounge Sunday night.The Dallas Voice reports: Sources have said that seven people were arrested in the raid although witnesses at the scene said many more people were handcuffed with zip ties and taken out of the bar. One man, identified by his sister as

  June 30, 2009

• Single-Album Sets We'd Like to See, Part 1: Bob Dylan, George Strait, The Pogues and More

  Initiated by indie-rockers like Sonic Youth, Slint and Built to Spill at mid-2000s festivals - UK/U.S. hopover All Tomorrow's Parties and its various tie-ins being the most prominent - playing a beloved LP front to back in concert is now the hottest thing going on the classic-rock circuit. Within the next month, Houstonians can see Aerosmith revisit 1976's Toys In the Attic (The Woodlands, July 17), Judas Priest do 1980's British Steel (Verizon, July 24) and Motley Crue gas up 1989's Dr. Feelgoo

  July 7, 2009

• Shauna Glenn

  August 6, 2009

• George Strait Week, Part 5: Texas George

  Like the man himself said, easy come, easy go. Happy as we are that it's Friday, and almost quitting time to boot, Rocks Off a little sad too, because that means George Strait Week is almost over. But not quite. We're putting it to bed the only way we know how - with the King's five best Texas songs. "All My Exes Live In Texas" (Ocean Front Property, 1987): A masterpiece of whimsical honky-tonk with the dark implication that sooner or later, Strait's playboy lifestyle is going to place him at t

  August 7, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas, Part 2: "Trinity"

  [Note: This week Rocks Off is looking at the musical heritage, highs and lows, for each of the five possible states that might result should Texas secede from the U.S. like Gov. Rick Perry wants it to. Yesterday we began with the Panhandle/West Texas "Palo Duro" territory; today it's northeastern quadrant "Trinity."] View Five States of Texas in a larger map Trinity Capital: Dallas Patron Saint: Blind Lemon Jefferson ​Lesser Icons: T-Bone Walker, Alex Moore, Old 97's, Pantera, The D.O.C., Ray

  August 12, 2009

• Gay Panic in Cowtown

  August 20, 2009

• Texas Blind Salamander Blues

  Photo by Robb Walsh​The Texas blind salamander lives in a dark cave in San Marcos and doesn't see very well, hence the blues-guitarist moniker. It's also an endangered species. Blind Salamander Pale Ale from Rahr Brewery in Fort Worth is the first of a new series called "Rare Breed" beers. Each will be dedicated to a different Texas endangered species. When you buy the beer, Rahr makes a donation to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation to help with the recovery of the critter. Drinking

  August 28, 2009

• Gay Panic in Fort Worth, Best Burgers and Taylor Hicks Defenders

  September 3, 2009

• Houston Companies Don't Do Too Badly In Survey Of Gay-Friendly Workplaces

  ​The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has issued its latest rankings of how businesses treat their gay and lesbian employees, and things look a little better than last year.The report gave 305 businesses a top score of 100 this year; that's an increase from last year's 260. Eleven of the top 20 Forbes-ranked companies got perfect scores. (Not ExxonMobil, which has such a nice large building here and has yet to adopt the gay-friendly benefits policy that Mobil had.)How'd Houston do?Trevor Thoma

  September 11, 2009

• Fort Worth Police, TABC Clear Themselves In Gay-Bar Raid

  Courtesy Chuck PotterThe raid, where everything was fine and dandy​A lot of people were up in arms about the raid by Fort Worth police and TABC agents on the Rainbow Lounge, a gay bar in Fort Worth.Patrons were beat up because, cops reportedly said, they were making goo-goo eyes at police, or however such things are described in official police language.You'll be glad to know that all the outrage was not necessary -- the cops and agents didn't do anything wrong. Says the TABC. And the FWPD, wh

  November 5, 2009