Film Shorts // April 14-20, 2021
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Jakob’s Wife (NR) The latest horror film by Travis Stevens (Girl on the Third Floor) stars Barbara Crampton as a small-town minister’s wife who...
Near Southside, Inc. Presents District 9 Candidate Forum
A Q&A session with eight candidates for city council's District 9 seat (Near Southside, downtown, parts of South Fort Worth) was recently posted by...
In the Earth: Lost in the Woods
Most filmmaking activity has shut down during this pandemic, but not all of it. Inevitably, some directors were always going to look at the...
ACLU Weighs in on Fort Worth Police Cameras
The line between public safety and trampled Constitutional rights is one that law enforcement officials deal with on a daily basis. In Fort Worth,...
Writing to Live
“The writing was my safe space,” shared one of my former students, Selena Park. “It was healing for me.”
Park was one of 19 students...
Building a Dream
“Everything that could have happened,” Caleb McCallum said, “happened in 2020.”
Sitting in a sprawling Keller warehouse next to his business partner Alan Scott, McCallum,...
Clay Perry Bets on Himself
As well as being one of the more erudite rhyme masons in the local hip-hop scene, over the last few years rapper Clay Perry...
R.I.P., Jerry Hudson
Fort Worth has lost a true original. After an extended illness, Jerry Hudson passed away on April 12, said sister Kathy Hudson Kennedy. He was...
Grounded
During the middle of the COVID pandemic, Maurice Ahern expanded Gold Ribbon Confections, the baking enterprise he began in 2017, into Grounds and Gold,...
Rising Water, Rising Bills
After noticing unusually high bills not long after the city installed new water meters in her neighborhood, Tabitha Williams reached out to other neighborhoods...