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Bobby Bradford

By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Mar 20, 2014

Former Texan Bobby Bradford, a jazz trumpeter/cornettist, was alongside Fort Worth saxophonist Ornette Coleman during the birth of free jazz in the 1960s. Bradford’s in town courtesy of Nameless Sound and will lead a raucous performance with Norwegian saxophonist Frode Gjerstad. Bradford and Gjerstad first collaborated in the 1980s. The...
Dallas Beer Scene: Revolver Brewing Gets Serious in Granbury

By Joshua Justice
Dec 14, 2012

It's been a big year for craft beer in Texas. One of the biggest stories, however, is news that hasn't quite made its way down to Houston. Dallas is currently experiencing a boom in breweries as big as, if not bigger than, the expansion Houston and Austin have seen in...
Kelly Clarkson

By Chris Gray
Sep 6, 2012

Kelly Clarkson has managed to last a solid decade in the fickle, feverish pop world without ever really "falling off" — but then, good Texas girls are supposed to be tough, with a big-ass voice to match. The Fort Worth native moved back to her hometown about as soon as...
Does Dallas-Fort Worth Have the Worst Tippers in the State?

By Katharine Shilcutt
Aug 13, 2012

Last week, Eater alerted the great foodie masses to a Web site called Lousy Tippers that contains a pretty scary database of the nation's worst tippers. "There is a consequence," the site preaches ominously from its header. Call it the ultimate form of societal pressure to make sure you leave...
Billy Joe Shaver

By Chris Gray
Aug 8, 2012

Billy Joe Shaver has a tab on his Web site called "Owed to Billy Joe," a list of maybe 200 of his songs that have been recorded by other artists. It could well be a way for the wily old five-and-dimer to make sure that his publishing is in order...
Some Girls: Live in Texas '78

By Jef with One F
Jun 14, 2012

What if you could see the Rolling Stones for a fraction of the price of a concert ticket and at one of the peaks of their career to boot? Today you can. The Alamo Drafthouse is presenting Some Girls: Live in Texas '78. Recorded in 1978 right here in Texas...
Hudson Moore

By Chris Gray
Jun 14, 2012

Frankly, Hudson Moore's rising stock in the Texas country scene seems like a pure accident. Even apart from his quarterback good looks, the 22-year-old Fort Worth native's music is much closer to pop troubadours like Jason Mraz than cowboy-hatted hunks Bart Crow or Josh Abbott. With an abundance of frisky...
Jazz on Film: Ornette: Made in America

By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Jun 14, 2012

In 1983, legendary saxophonist Ornette Coleman returned to his hometown, Fort Worth, for a concert. Filmmaker Shirley Clarke was there to capture the free-jazz pioneer's performance. It became the nucleus of her documentary Ornette: Made in America, screening today as part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Jazz on...
I Finally Ate an In-N-Out Burger

By Katharine Shilcutt
Jan 3, 2012

When the first locations of California-based burger chain In-N-Out Burger opened in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, emotions ran high. Perhaps too high. One notable woman wept loudly into her fries as she exclaimed, "Pinch me, it doesn't feel real!" It felt very real to me as I waited in a...
Tim Love and Tequila Take Over Top Chef: Texas

By Katharine Shilcutt
Dec 15, 2011

Seven episodes in, and I'm sorry to report that none of the challenges thus far have involved the contestants being forced to shoot their own horses and grill them over a fire of cactus paddles. What is this, Bravo? Amateur hour? THAT'S RATINGS GOLD. On a more positive note, the...
Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live in Texas

By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Oct 13, 2011

Just in case your time machine is broken and you can’t get back to the late 1970s to see the Rolling Stones in their heyday, here’s the next best thing — a theater broadcast of never-before-seen concert footage from a July 18, 1978, show in Fort Worth. Rolling Stones: Some...
“Dance: Loli Kantor”

By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Feb 3, 2011

Specializing in documentary and fine art photography, Loli Kantor spent four years as resident photographer for the Bruce Wood Dance Company, then based in Fort Worth. She also photographed several other Texas dance companies, such as Contemporary Dance Fort Worth, Metropolitan Classical Ballet and Texas Ballet Theatre over the years...
First Friday Poetry Reading: Mike Guinn

It's Mike Guinn, not Jones

By Anthony Nguyen
Sep 9, 2010

Author and spoken-word performer Mike Guinn hopes to convey a message of social significance in his work. By merging traditional poetry with spoken word, Guinn believes it's possible to "bridge the gap between mainstream academic or literary poetry and underground spoken word." He'll be doing just that at this month's...
RealFilms Screening: Living with the Trinity

How the Trinity River made political history

By Troy Schulze
Jul 29, 2010

Younger generations might not be aware of the Trinity River's extraordinary history. The waterway links Dallas/Fort Worth to Galveston Bay, and in the early 1970s there were controversial plans to transform the Trinity's entire length into a barge canal, turning Dallas/Fort Worth into a competitive inland port. Presented by RealFilms...
Delbert McClinton

By William Michael Smith
Dec 23, 2009

There's an old adage, especially for blues singers, that when the women start coming to your shows the men will follow, and Delbert McClinton is its epitome. Born in Lubbock in 1940 and raised in the rowdy honky-tonk/R&B cauldrons of Fort Worth, McClinton has carved out one of the most...
Society for the Performing Arts: Nobuyuki Tsujii

Web exclusive

By Blake Whitaker
Sep 24, 2009

Classical pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii has never seen his instrument. Despite being born blind, the Japanese 20-year-old is creating a name for himself as a virtuoso. Fresh off a tie for first at the prestigious Van Cliburn piano competition in Fort Worth, Tsujii will perform a selection of Beethoven and Chopin,...
King Bubba

The bacon cheeseburger at this Cypress roadhouse Rockwell Tavern blows all of Texas Monthly's favorite Houston burgers out of the water.

By Robb Walsh
Aug 19, 2009

Rockwell Tavern on Telge Road in Cypress opened in January, but the interior already looks well worn. That's because it was furnished with used tables and chairs bought from another restaurant. When you sit down, your forearms stick to the tacky wooden tabletops. The floor is stained concrete. There's a...
Shauna Glenn

Pinot Grigio and midget porn — somehow she fits it all in

By Julia Ramey
Aug 6, 2009

On her Web site, author Shauna Glenn writes, “If you stick around long enough, you’ll probably hear me say the word vagina (but only really positive things about it) and you’ll also learn about my sick fascination with midget porn.” Clearly, this is someone we should get to know better...
Houston, Where Seventeen Railroads Met the Sea

Web exclusive!

By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Jul 16, 2009

Take a good look at the city seal of Houston, and you'll see a train engine. (It's been there since 1840.) That's because Houston was once a major railroad hub, with tracks from more than a dozen companies crisscrossing the city. During today's Houston, Where Seventeen Railroads Met the Sea...
Wooden Birds

By Sara Brickner
Jul 1, 2009

It's been four years since we've heard from Fort Worth native Andrew Kenny, former front man of American Analog Set. But Magnolia, the debut LP from his new band Wooden Birds, has proven to be worth the wait. Tambourines rustle like leaves or like Kenny's hushed, raspy voice, which takes...
“Quest for High Bear: A Boy’s Odyssey through Indian Country 1925-1939”

Web exclusive!

By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Nov 13, 2008

Texas has one more thing to be proud of with the exhibition “Quest for High Bear: A Boy’s Odyssey through Indian Country 1925-1939,” rightfully thought to be a state treasure. Fort Worth’s Gordon W. Smith was just a child in 1925 when he started collecting Native American artifacts. Over the...
Welcome back, Toadies

No Deliverance from Evil

By Pete Freedman
Aug 27, 2008

It was a Big Deal time slot: Lollapalooza co-headliners Wilco and Rage Against the Machine were scheduled to go on at8:30 p.m. Saturday, August 2, about an hour after the Toadies' slot at the three-day Chicago festival. Almost all roads in Grant Park that day, then, led fans to the...

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