Culture
Posted By Anonymous on 2013 May 31 - 12:25pm
Local band, The Unlikely Candidates, just signed their first record deal.
by Noah Anderson
So how did you guys settle on the name The Unlikely Candidates? I would love to tell people it came from the hammering pang of some epiphanic moment of adversity or Jim Morrison came to me in a dream. Truth is, we made a list of about a thousand names and that was the only...
Posted By Anonymous on 2013 May 31 - 12:20pm
what locals are listening to by Noah Anderson
To Be Loved
Michael Bublé
$9.99
Famed Canadian singer-songwriter Michael Bublé is back again with his eighth studio album, To Be Loved, that promises to be a shining contribution to the artist’s already...
Posted By Anonymous on 2013 May 31 - 12:09pm
True Hero
by Trilby Argubright
Chris Kyle was born in 1974 in the town of Odessa, Texas. His father began teaching him to shoot at the age of eight, and he was trained as a rodeo bronc rider at a young age. Kyle enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served four tours in the second Iraq war. Kyle’s career...
Posted By Anonymous on 2013 May 31 - 12:03pm
an overview of our favorite best-sellers. by Trilby Argubright
Give and Take:
A Revolutionary
Approach to Success
by Adam Grant
$15.97
Adam Grant, the youngest tenured professor at Wharton, applies his own innovative research to remodel the traditional assumptions of the...
Posted By Anonymous on 2013 May 31 - 11:43am
The Caves was painted in 1869 by Robert Seldon Duncanson, and now it can be seen at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821 – 1872) was the first African-American artist to achieve international acclaim. “...
Posted By Jcasseday on 2013 May 31 - 11:35am
In collaboration with Historic Fort Worth, Inc., Tarrant County College Trinity River Campus students are presenting the results of their historical and creative research.
The new exhibit, Interconnected Endeavors, depicts significant places in the city that may be losing attention in modern times, such as Thistle Hill, Will Rogers Coliseum, the Fort Worth Power and Light plant and other sites on Fort Worth’s Most Endangered Places list.
A photo of the actual...
Posted By Alison Rich on 2013 May 2 - 5:09pm
Despite the note of melancholy in the air, this year’s Van Cliburn — the 14th in the series — promises to dazzle with a crescendo of talent and an incredible coda.
He was a musical force to reckon with — and a beloved fixture in the Fort Worth community. With Van Cliburn’s passing in February, the globe lost one of the grandest pianists ever to tickle the ivories. Cliburn was a world-class virtuoso, to be sure, but he also was every bit the Texas...
Posted By Anonymous on 2013 May 2 - 4:59pm
Just Say Yes…And
David Ahearn, founder of the locally based comedy troupe Four Day Weekend, tells us how the fundamentals of his improvisational group have become a successful business strategy for corporations nationwide, even the White House.
What is the lesson people will learn? Business owners and leaders...
Posted By Anonymous on 2013 May 2 - 4:18pm
an overview of our favorite best-sellers. by Maggie Tarwater
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
By Cheryl Strayed
$18.95
A memoir about a young woman’s hike on the Pacific Crest Trail, Wild recounts the three months that Cheryl Strayed spent alone in the...
Posted By Anonymous on 2013 May 2 - 4:03pm
Rising Star: Conner Youngblood
The multi-talented, self-taught musician draws inspiration from bluegrass to dubstep and everything in between to create his unique, folk-rock sound with an edgy electronic twist.
A Dallas native and recent Yale graduate, Conner Youngblood is an up-and-coming musical artist who describes his music...
