Metro
Water Restrictions?
Dried UpANDREW MCLEMORE
There’s the hydrological cycle, which describes how water moves across the earth, and then there’s the “hydro-illogical cycle,” which describes the painfully short memories of Americans after a drought. “It’s where ...
Morning in Morningside
An innovative partnership seeks to help kids with a cradle-to-college approach.ANNABELLE MASSEY MALLOY
Bleak doesn’t begin to describe Fort Worth’s Morningside neighborhood, a beleaguered little slice of the city’s near southeast side. Regardless of which data set you choose, Morningside is trending down — way down — f...
The Last Tenant
She clings to an apartment that’s due to be torn down.ANNABELLE MASSEY MALLOY
The once-stately house at 1108 Grainger St. has had its bones picked by an architectural salvage team, and most of its windows are boarded up. At the peak of the roof, the center gable windows are two gaping holes, open to the ...
Still Bringing Up Stories
A new Titanic exhibit reminds a North Texan of his family’s tie to the tragedy.JEFF PRINCE
An upcoming Titanic exhibit designed to showcase the human stories from the sinking of that famous ocean liner in 1912 includes a 26-gem bracelet inscribed with the name “Amy.” That’s just one of 250 artifacts recovered f...
Getting and Spending 2012
FORT WORTH WEEKLY STAFFCustomer Service Readers’ choice: Grapevine Guitar Works, 1689 W NW Hwy, Grapevine Critic’s choice: Ashleigh Keeney, Starbucks, 2600 W 7th St, FW Some managers run their business like a yoga class, speaking in soft tones an...
Playing Defense
Lockheed lays off workers when military spending drops — and when it soars.ANDREW MCLEMORE
The argument of defense companies like Lockheed Martin, which employs thousands at its Fort Worth plant, is simple: Don’t force us to lay off workers when you know the economy can’t afford it. That’s what the defense indu...
BREAKING NEWS: Grand jury indicts SMU student on rape charge
One SMU panel has found him “guilty,” another “not guilty”By Natalie Posgate, Brooks Igo. and Patricia Boh
Editor’s note: Fort Worth Weekly has reported several times over the last several years about controversies regarding the reporting and handling of crime on college campuses, in Texas and nationally. Included in that coverage...
On the Green
Hollace Weiner mines a rich lode of local history in a book about River Crest Country Club.JEFF PRINCE
It started out as a vanity book celebrating a historic country club, but River Crest Country Club: the First 100 Years evolved into something of surprising heft — physically and figuratively. Author Hollace Ava Weiner spent t...
Elementary Ethics
A daycare center run by Kennedale administrators on school property draws fire.ANDREW MCLEMORE
A handful of pissed-off parents are shaking things up in the Kennedale school district, where a private daycare business run by two district administrators has raised questions about a conflict of interest. The after-school pro...
End Run for Chesapeake
Refused once, landowners are trying again to get a zoning change for a huge compressor station.PETER GORMAN
A company that failed to get a zoning change on a piece of Eastside land last year — which would have permitted Chesapeake Energy to build one of the largest urban natural gas compressor stations in the country — is trying ...