Curtain Call - Weekend Entertainment Roundup
by Kevin BuchananScat Jazz Lounge | Map
Randy Lee - Friday - 9:00 PM
Bett Butler - Saturday - 9:00 PM
Bass Performance Hall | Map
Imagination Celebration presents Debbie Allen Dance Institute - Friday - 7:00 PM
Metropolitan Classical Ballet presents Summer Gala - Saturday - 8:00 PM
D Magazine and Bass Performance Hall present Bridal Show 2008 - Sunday - 11:00 AM
McDavid Studio | Map
No events scheduled.
Van Cliburn Hall | Map
No performances scheduled.
Click below for more great shows!
The Flying Saucer | Map
Pable & The Hemphill 7 - Friday - 9:30 PM
Boon Sky Down - Saturday - 9:30 PM
Mike Richardson - Sunday
The Pour House | Map
Hearsay - Friday - 9:30 PM
Turning Trixie - Saturday - 9:30 PM
8.0 | Map
Spazmatics - Friday
Big Daddy - Saturday
The Modern Art Museum Of Fort Worth | Map
Movie - “The Children of Huang Shi” - Friday - 6:00 and 8:30 PM
Movie - “The Children of Huang Shi” - Saturday - 5:00 PM
Movie - “The Children of Huang Shi” - Friday - 2:00 and 4:30 PM
Fred’s | Map
Shiffy the Kid - Friday
Topaz and James Hinkle & Johnny Mack Reunion - Saturday
St. Frinatra - Sunday evening
Lola’s | Map
The Frontier Brothers w/ Devon Williams and Man Factory - Friday - 9:00 PM
Russian Circles w/ Daughters and Young Widows - Saturday - 7:00 PM
Toadies after party w/ Dead Twins - Saturday - 11:30 PM
Pop’s Safari Bistro | Map
Hank & Jill featuring Sumter Bruton - Friday - 8:00 PM
Bret Taylor - Saturday - 8:00 PM
The Chat Room | Map
Teenage Cool Kids, Psychedelic Horseshit, Fabulous Diamonds - Friday - 10:00 PM
The Great Tyrant, Fight Bite, Koji Kondo, Blank Blank - Saturday - 8:00 PM
The Fairmount | Map
Amos Moses Band & Jody Jones - Friday
3 Rivers Alice - Saturday
1919 Hemphill | Map
No shows scheduled.
The Aardvark | Map
Arden’s Birthday Party - Mike’s Garage, King Cone, Repeat Offenders - Friday
Josh Tatum, Jefferson Colby, Grey Company, J. T. Wright, Solstice - Saturday
The Moon | Map
Telegraph Canyon w/ Oso Closo & Hurt Street - Friday
The Burning Hotels w/ Chatterton & The Cut*Off - Saturday
The Ridglea Theater | Map
Stage: StormHold, Beauxregard (CD Release), Zysu, Pet Hospital, and more - Lounge: The White Dukes - Friday
Toadies - Saturday - 8:00 PM (listed as sold out)
As always, if there’s something I missed, please let me know in the comments!
Tags: concert, curtain call, entertainment, movies, Music, play, screen, stage, weekend
17 Comments, Comments or Pings
Dustin
I have six FREE tickets to the Metropolitan Classical Ballet performance on June 21, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. at Bass Hall for the summer gala including Romeo & Juliet.
Great seats ORCL row I seats 3-8. (value $38 each). I can’t make it - so first dibs get them all! Please e-mail me if you are interested
Jun 20th, 2008
Dena
The Mother Truckers are on the 27th - next Friday.
Jun 20th, 2008
John MacFarlane
Just returned home from the sold out Toadies show at the Ridglea. Wow, great as usual. As good as I remember them when I first saw them at Mad Hatters on Magnolia back in the early 90’s.
Jun 22nd, 2008
Anthony Mariani
Maybe I missed it, but I think you’ve overlooked arguably the biggest local show of the year, the Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards, today (Sunday) at five downtown clubs: 8.0, Bent Lounge, Flying Saucer, Paddy Red’s, and Scat Jazz. The show is free, proceeds from the $5 cost of the compilation CD we’ve put together featuring select nominees’ songs go toward our charity sponsor (SafeHaven of Tarrant County), and 30 bands are playing, including Calhoun, Collin Herring, The Burning Hotels, Stella Rose, April Geesbreght, Jefferson Colby, Josh Weathers Band, The Great Tyrant, Tame … Tame and Quiet, Pretty Baby, Stephen Pointer, Black Tie Dynasty (acoustic), Katsuk, Goodwin, Lifters, Stumptone, Pablo and the Hemphill 7, The Campaign, Titanmoon, Telegraph Canyon, Blackland River Devils, the cut*off, the Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Panther City Bandits, Rivercrest Yacht Club, Maren Morris, and more.
I’m sure you’ve mentioned the event somewhere, because overlooking it out of some deranged sense of professional pettiness is certainly beneath you all and because, well, you guys consider yourselves friends of the people and also probably buddies with many of the hard-working musicians who’ll be playing today and who continue to appreciate your not behaving like bratty children. Great work, boys.
Professionally,
Anthony Mariani
Associate Editor
Fort Worth Weekly
Jun 22nd, 2008
Bernie
Hey Anthony-
WTF was that last ‘graph about?
I just looked on the FWWeekly website and found no schedule of who is playing where. Just a list of who is playing (a couple of whom I do indeed plan to go see), and a list of venues. With that little info, it’s kind of hard to add to the schedule.
Jun 22nd, 2008
Kevin
WTF, indeed. You are reading WAY more into things than is actually there.
When I post these, I visit each venue’s web site, get their events for the weekend, and list them. That’s all. I’m not usually in the habit of going to the Weekly’s site as part of that process since, well, you guys aren’t a venue. Though as Bernie points out, there’s little actual information on your site in the form of a schedule. I don’t like listing things without at least some sort of basic schedule, because it confuses people. When the Main Street Arts Festival was here, for example, I was able to break it out by day and stage, since they provided that information.
Perhaps a bigger question for you should be why NONE of the venues I list had the awards listed on their own web sites. That’s where I get the information from. If somebody who’s not a regular Weekly reader - and thus did not know about the awards from the paper - visited any of the participating venues’ sites, they will not find even a brief mention of them. Perhaps you should look into the under-promotion of your event from your own partners in said event before accusing me of behaving like a “bratty child.”
Jun 22nd, 2008
Anthony Mariani
I agree that, to some extent, there should be a little more information on our web site re: anything but especially an event that costs us a ton of money and generates absolutely zero financial return, but if you’ve seen our web site … sigh …
Anyway, our intent was to get people to actually pick up last week’s issue and see (and use) the insert we’ve published that lists who’s playing where and when. I wouldn’t have flown off the handle as I did in my previous post had I not e-mailed one of you guys a press release and lineup about a week ago, just FYI.
I heartily apologize for behaving like, well, a bratty kid in my previous post.
Hope to see you all there.
Jun 22nd, 2008
paul
and as for how well anthony m. himself pays attention to local events - and their websites, with schedules and venues most definitely included - i offer this -
in his fw weekly “last call” column - http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=6459
nov. 14 2007 mariani writes concerning the lsiff -
“The event went from Wednesday through Sunday, and there were parties every night except Sunday.” -
but of course the sunday night party (yes there was a party on that sunday night) was one of the best of the whole week, featuring fw’s own “theater fire.” held at the flying saucer it seems everyone knew about it except anthony. john hawks knew about it. tommy alverson knew about it. and the list goes on …..
a very well attended shindig it was with people staying all the way to 2:00 am … and on a sunday at that.
Jun 22nd, 2008
paul
hmmm …. the link to my site wasn’t working. let’s try this one -
http://www.myspace.com/paulboll
just to be on the up and up
Jun 22nd, 2008
Anthony Mariani
You can go fuck yourself, Paul, as if our paper’s never done anything for the local arts scene. Keep your sharpshooting shit-head comments to yourself. Nobody fucking cares.
Jun 23rd, 2008
Pete Wann
Awesome, Anthony. Just excellent.
Is this how you handle every demonstration of factual inaccuracy at the Weekly?
For the record, I was at the Sunday night party, and I can vouch that it was in fact the best of the week. Really laid back and low key. Everyone mingling and talking about what a great time they had over the week and how much they enjoyed being in Fort Worth, and that we really had something to be proud of with the LSIFF.
But that was probably too positive an angle, huh? It would have been hard to find a way to spin that into an opportunity to trash people who are making an effort to make things better here.
It’s funny; whenever I talk about West and Clear, if people ask what the site is like, I tell them: “We’re kind of like the FWWeekly, only we actually LIKE Fort Worth.” They usually laugh and immediately know what I’m talking about.
Jun 23rd, 2008
FWWeekly Anthony
I also misspelled “Euless” once in 1982 — anyone wanna drudge that up as further evidence of my “hate” for Fort Worth and, by proxy, our entire publication’s?
Jun 23rd, 2008
Jacko
Awesome. You guys should keep fighting on the interwebs instead of focusing on real stuff.
Seriously, I’m sure there is some real animosity between the two of you but it kind of takes away from the legitimacy of the site when you guys argue about a personal issue. It makes this whole discussion seem like each side has an angle that they can’t get past in promoting and reporting on Fort Worth.
Just my $.02
Jun 23rd, 2008
Mike
This is just sad.
Anyone with sense knows that if you go to a blog/forum and attack the folks that run the website and their readers that you’re just opening yourself up for all kinds of attacks in return. Petty or not that’s what you’re going to get.
Mr. Mariani, I don’t know you and don’t want to insult you, but your professional title alone should’ve been enough reason to leave this one be. Not that they’re a model for anything resembling appropriate behavior, but do you think the associate editor of the Startlegram would start dropping F-bombs on a local blog because it FORGOT TO MENTION AN EVENT THE PAPER WAS HOSTING?
Anyway, the sad part is that everybody you’ve insulted here was/is obviously a reader of your paper, cared enough about your thoughts to read your articles and voice their opinions, cared enough about the event you were hosting to search for a schedule and was verbally disappointed that your website couldn’t provide any useful information. In response you start a flame war. I don’t see any way you could pull a win out of this. It’s time to take off the ass-hat .
Jun 23rd, 2008
FWWeekly Anthony
“Take off the ass-hat”? You sound like me.
As for the facts, I dropped no “F-bombs” in my original post — I got upset only after Paul made an ad hominem attack on me for apparently screwing up the date on an event last year, from which he extrapolated that I can never be trusted as an information source. I also apologized for being a jerk and admitted that we could have done more on our web site to promote the event.
Also: I’m glad we have West & Clear, no doubt. I’m glad we have a super-active blogging community, and I wish I could be more apart of it, ESPECIALLY to be able to go off the cuff and chat/fight/debate like I’m at the coffeeshop or bar rather than at work. Now that I know I’m not perceived as part of the W&C community but just some institutional tool, I’ll sign off for good.
As former or existing journalists, every W&C contributor knows what it’s like to work your ass off for little or no thanks. The only time people contact you is either to A.) complain about something or B.) use you. I understand the occupational hazards of journalism — I don’t expect to be greeted by a surprise birthday party every time I walk into the office. But when someone accuses me of not caring, of not busting my ass, of not doing my best, I take it very personally. I think I have every right to, and I’m not gonna sugar-coat my feelings for the sake of rhetorical courtesy, ESPECIALLY in a web forum, where everyone SHOULD feel free to be him-/herself. I’m not a robot.
Jun 23rd, 2008
AndyN
Jeez. I don’t think I want in the middle of this in spite of my firmly held opinions.
But, how ’bout those musicians. I think Fort Worth has a superb music scene right now and I really enjoyed the Theatre Fire video posted on another thread.
Breath deep, everyone and count to ten before posting a reply.
Jun 24th, 2008