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1 week ago | 
fwweekly.com | Anthony Mariani |Juan R Govea
It’s the year of the rabbit in more ways than one. First, the debut recording from the Arlington rock outfit Playtime Rabbit came out 15 years ago, when the bandmembers were late teenagers fresh out of high school. They yanked Year of the Rabbit a while back but reposted the EP onto Bandcamp just recently. “Some of the songs seemed a bit naïve in nature,” said 30-year-old Chris Bell, who fronts the band with younger brother Jordan Bell on drums and Jordan Oliver Hall on bass.
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1 month ago | 
fwweekly.com | Juan R Govea |Anthony Mariani
In all the verbiage about venues closing over the past couple of years, there’s been little mention of third spaces or nontraditional rooms. There are a few around town, including The Grackle, Sally Herring Birthisel’s front porch, and one that’s really blossoming on the East Side. Since 2023, Printed Threads has been hosting intimate concerts in its warehouse at 210 S Fwy, and the 15-year-old company is now becoming as popular for Showroom Sounds as for graphic design and merchandize.
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2 months ago | 
fwweekly.com | Steve Steward |Patrick Higgins |Juan R Govea
Here’s an interesting gift idea: a record collection of Black artists who, for one reason or another, have called Fort Worth home.
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2 months ago | 
fwweekly.com | Anthony Mariani |Juan R Govea
After a year’s hiatus, The Post came back with a bang and some twang the other night. In a new location but still. Nearly 100 folks piled into 2736 W 6th Street Thursday for performances by two Fort Worth stalwarts: dancehall studs Cory Cross & The Burden and pop singer-songwriter Ryker Hall. The space isn’t as large as The Post’s former location, on Race Street, but it felt like the old, rowdy Lola’s Saloon in many ways, a good thing.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
fwweekly.com | Juan R Govea
Lake Simons remembers her mother in a lot of ways — “wonderful,” “unique,” a “devoted wife and mother” — but also as a “soulfully loving human being.”Lake and the entire Fort Worth theatre community are mourning her mother’s passing last week. Co-founder of Hip Pocket Theatre, Mary Diane Simons was 80 years old. The family said she died peacefully after a long battle with dementia. She is survived by husband Johnny Simons, daughters Lake and Lorca, and grandchildren River Barley and Cy Dyer.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
fwweekly.com | Anthony Mariani |Juan R Govea
As anyone who remembers the old Lola’s knows, the place was essentially two places: a bar-bar (Lola’s Saloon) and a backyard with a nice stage (Lola’s Trailer Park). Since the pandemic shut down Lola’s a couple of years ago after 16 years in business total, Birdie’s Social Club has been running the whole spot, but now Birdie’s will be turning over the bar-bar/Saloon part to Brooks Kendall.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
fwweekly.com | Patrick Higgins |Steve Steward |Juan R Govea
Let’s be honest. At this point, we’re all just trying to run out the clock. The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s tend to blur into a delirious wash of indistinguishable days with approximately four and a half hours of sunlight and 40-degree temperature swings.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
fwweekly.com | Juan R Govea
Fort Worth mourns the passing of Matt Sacks. Along with his kindness and creativity, the multi-disciplinary artist may have been best known for the Grackle Art Gallery. A venue for all manner of creative expression, the Arlington Heights space hosted everything from jazz to pop, landscapes to abstract-expressionism, and all points in between. Uniting each style, though, was an experimental sensibility. Close friends said Sacks had been battling assorted cancers for the past two years. He was 72.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
fwweekly.com | Juan R Govea
After losing most of their catalog due to a copyright error, The McGrath Project has kept plugging along. Frontman Gary McGrath’s outfit even has a couple of upcoming tour dates with members from Guns N’ Roses and Bon Jovi, including here in North Texas. Fort Worthian McGrath, who’s been alt-rocking for two decades, said he’s known Bon Jovi’s Phil X, GNR’s Gilby Clarke, and ’90s singer-songwriter Jill “I Kissed a Girl” Sobule for a while.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
fwweekly.com | Anthony Mariani |Juan R Govea
Like superheroes and cheesy music, Halloween is another kid thing that we adults have co-opted for our own enjoyment and entertainment. “Screw dem kids!” we say. “We’re allowed to have fun, too.” (Nostalgia is a helluva drug.) Now, instead of Snickers bars, Milky Ways, and Reese’s Cups and their evil, twisted cousins, Mallo Cups, which can f*ck all the way off, most of us crave boozy treats enjoyed in supernatural settings. And Funkytown does not disappoint.
