Godmother to Rock ‘n’ Roll
The phone rings. A woman wearing a flowered blouse and black slacks rolls her office chair across the room and snatches up the receiver.
“Ema’s...
Laundry Day
There is nothing quiet about the courtroom on the second floor of the Wise County courthouse. The cherrywood floors in the 118-year-old building creak...
Pure Texas Boogie
It was getting pretty rowdy. On a random Monday night in the middle of last winter at Lola’s Saloon, psychedelic Fort Worth rockers Secret...
Royalty Rip-off
Donald Feusner used to be a dairy farmer. His 370 acres of land in northeast Pennsylvania border New York state in a gloriously lush...
Big Man on Canvas
“I’m going to paint over that one,” artist JT Grant said, pointing to a large canvas hanging high on the 14-foot white wall of...
Training Them Wrong
On Jan. 14, Andres Javier Vianes, an ROTC instructor at Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School, turned in his letter of resignation to the Fort Worth...
Antiques and Angst
The hum of conversation meshing with the clink of silverware created a pleasant serenade inside The Secret Garden restaurant, where a dozen antique hunters...
Visionary Awards
Fort Worth Weekly is not an advocacy mag, unless you consider exposing sources of anti-truth, anti-liberty, and anti-justice some sort of biased mission. But...
Moving Up Mental Health
Maurice Dutton understands the feeling of complete helplessness in the face of mental illness. His son Michael was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 14....
Troubles in Eden
When Shellie Smith moved into the two-story house on three and a half acres of land in remote southwest Arlington in 1996, she was...
