Annexing Trouble
Cindy Owens remembers the night in chilling detail. Her daughter had been struck by a car. She’d called an ambulance and waited 45 minutes...
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...
Iron Men
When the tower crane's boom came crashing down on him at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport's control tower that day in 1972, it sent Rattlesnake...
Pitfalls and Predators
In the wee hours of the morning, she sat before her computer doing something that would mortify her parents. She pecked her way to...
Are You Going to Scarborough Faire?
I haven’t even parked my car, and I’m already interacting with people in costume.
Beckoning me to stop and pointing for me to park in...
Healing Moral Wounds
When retired Army Chaplain Herman Keizer Jr. comes to Fort Worth, strangers, seeing his Purple Heart cap, sometimes pay for his dinner.
Keizer appreciates the...
Walking for Justice
Leon Reed Jr.’s steadfast devotion to social justice issues is fueled by several influences. As a criminal defense lawyer, he sees the results of...
Under Par
Fort Worth is the center of the golf universe this week. That’s because the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, one of the oldest stops...
Funding the Arts, Part 1
Great performances aren’t the only things that are outsized about Fort Worth’s world-class arts groups. Funding is, too.
While festivals by the Fort Worth Opera...
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...
