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Brandin Lea Is Back
Not so fun fact: When you’re an alcoholic at age 37, killing yourself slowly by downing pint after pint of Taaka, you’d think the...
Confessions of a Scofflaw
Barreling through red lights can be dangerous. No rational person would say otherwise. But red light cameras take enforcement too far. My 11-year-old Ford...
Defending Darlie
Like pretty much everyone else who watched the news on Channel 5 that evening back in June of 1996, I was dumbstruck at the...
Grady Spears Last Shot?
Cowboy cook Grady Spears is opening a chicken-fried steak café in the Stockyards next month, and, since the joint holds only about 60 diners,...
Arlington Police: No Justice
On a sunny October day in 2011, Paul Balson watched out the window of his Arlington home as a car with three men in...
Flamed Out
A sign hanging on the fence that surrounds this East Fort Worth property warns trespassers to keep out – it also promises “amazing things.”...
Tequila and Tater Salad
The interior of Will Rogers Memorial Center went dark. A man in black walked hurriedly toward two empty stools that stood center stage. He...
That Hotel Doesn’t Make Sense
For a few more months at least, Fort Worth will offer what very few other cities on the planet can: a trifecta and a...
Mourning Dark
When one is in the nosebleed section of the human lifespan, not returning a phone message for days can be worrisome. When I had...
Gentrification and its Adorable Violence
On West Magnolia Avenue on the Near Southside, a new sign outside of Melt Ice Creams reads, “Thumbs down for panhandling, thumbs up for...
