Jim Bradbury, the District 9 representative on the City’s Gas Drilling Task Force, is West and Clear’s guest for today’s podcast. He discusses the Task Force’s work on this issue, as well as many of other related areas, such as the Trinity Trail and public parks, eminent domain abuse and pipelines, injection wells and setback requirements. I would like to encourage concerned citizens of Fort Worth to attend the Public Hearing on Monday night at 6:30 at City Hall. I’d also like to encourage you to listen to Jim’s explanation of the issues.

 

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I had a chance to sit down with General Director Darren Woods of the Fort Worth Opera last week for a preview of this year’s festival, which kicks off Friday night at the Scott Theatre with Angels in America. Tickets are still available for all four operas. Hope to see you there.

 

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We had a great time today out at Tandy Hills Nature Area, talking to fans and hopefully new readers. Don Young has created an amazing thing with this festival, and we were thrilled to be a part of it!

Today’s podcast was recorded live at Prairie Fest, and the usual crew was joined by new friend of W&C, Brad Newman. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording it.

 

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Editor’s Note:At about 5 minutes into the show, the air compressor kicks on in the bike shop. Turn your speakers down. It only lasts about 15 seconds.

This week’s guest is Don Young, the man behind the Friends of Tandy Hills and lead organizer of Prairie Fest, which will be held on Saturday, the 26th from 11AM to 7PM.

Also this week:

Don’t forget to get out and vote on Tuesday in the Democratic Primary runoff for Railroad Commissioner.

There will be a $60 buy-in charity poker tournament benefiting the Euless Trinity Trojans Football team this Friday at the Rahr & Sons Brewery. The tournament starts at 7PM. I have no info on prizes.

If you’re looking for a way to spend your morning on Saturday the 26th, you could do worse than to start at Dane Fest in Keller. (Why NOT hit two Fests in one day?) Normally we don’t plug things outside the city limits, but this is a good cause.

Special thanks to this episode’s sponsor: Rahr and Sons Brewing. They tell me that Summertime Wheat is in the works and should be out within the next two months, just in time for 100 degree weather. The Monk tells me that local beer is the best no matter the style, because it’s as fresh as it can be without drinking directly from the bottling line hoses. (He also says that the “local is better” rule only applies if your local brewery makes good beer.)

 

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This week, we’re joined by Jason Smith, the attorney challenging the shady dealings at the TRWD and City Hall around the Trinity Trees Drilling site.

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This week:

Sign the petition to put a moratorium on high-impact gas well variances!

Arlo Guthrie is appearing at Bass Hall Wednesday. Bernie has tickets, but he doesn’t know much about the guy except that he wants to go see it.

Central Market and The Fort Worth Weekly are resuming their “Burgers and Bock” concert series this week. (I can’t find a damn thing on that black hole they call a website, so I’m just going to link to it, and you can give it a go.) One of my favorite local celtic rock bands (OH MAN am I white!), The Killdares, will be the headliner for the annual Paddy O’ Party, this Saturday, the 15th. It must not be that big of a deal, though, since NEITHER website says a damn thing about it.

We probably talked about other things, too, but I’m too tired from following Bernie (and everyone else who went) on “The Official Monday Night Group Ride.” Here’s a tip, kids, for living comfortably after YOU have turned 30. If your idea of exercise is trotting up the 9 stairs between your sub-basement cube and the main office in the slightly-less-basementy part of the building, DON’T try to jump back into fitness with a 20 mile bike ride. Take it from me. I’m still numb in the you-know-where.

 

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You’re just going to have to listen to this one.

We give our takes on the upcoming primaries, Rick Perry’s book, and squirrel vs. grackle deathmatches.

Special guest this episode: SteveB from FortWorthBlogorrhea

 

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This week:

Special guest Chris Cole from Rahr and Sons Brewing joined us tonight to shoot the breeze for about 25 minutes.

If you’re looking for something to do on Valentines day (besides ride your bike to the Hill Country), check out the swank dinners being offered at Fred’s Texas Cafe and Cafe Modern.

Spend some time at LaGrave Field this summer. Even if you don’t like baseball, you’ll have a good time.

If you can, be sure to get out to the Rahr brewery this Saturday to get a taste of the Bucking Bock. We were drinking it tonight, and it is excellent!

 

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This week:

PeteW attended the Django Reinhardt festival at Arts Fifth Avenue Saturday night. Great time, and a really warm, enviting venue for arts events in the Fairmount/Ryan Place area.

Steve-O listened to the Fort Worth Symphony at Carnegie Hall this weekend. He thought it went off well, and so did both the Star-Telegram and the NY Times. (Quick correction: the new piece was a fresh arrangement of a 1999 composition.)

Kevin clues us in to a couple of new green developments (well, one green and one “green“) happening in Fort Worth.

“Ria!”

Flynn’s Irish Pub - A great place to stop for a cold Rahr beer. (No, neither of them is paying us to say that.)

 

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This week on the show:

• Discussion of the recent events at the Lone Star Film Society, as well as our coverage of the possible effects on the Lone Star Film Festival.
• The Stock Show is going on downtown. Pete took some awesome pictures, and the Star-Telegram is providing some excellent coverage. Think of them as the play-by-play and us as the color commentary.
• Budget Travel magazine writes up the 25 things they love about Fort Worth, MSNBC picks it up, and while we like some of it, we’re all bothered by the fact that our WORLD-CLASS museums (how many times do we have to say that before people take notice?) come in at number 8.
• Steve sat down with Darren Woods, Managing Director of the Fort Worth Opera, to talk about the upcoming season and where he thinks the Opera in Fort Worth is headed. Look for his writeup on that interview later this week. Also, I commit to going to one of the shows with Steve, despite my general avoidance of all things opera.

We had a good time recording this one, we hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!

 

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