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Slimmer Streets
In the fall of 2009, Mistletoe Heights resident Susan Pressley was waiting at the intersection of Park Place Avenue and Forest Park Boulevard with...
Best Of Getting & Spending 2013
Customer Service
Readers’ choice: Spec’s, 2750 S Hulen St, FW
Critic’s choice: Marquita Sims, Whole Foods Market, 801 E Lamar Blvd, Arl
In the rare instances when...
Best Of People & Politics 2013
Thing Tarrant County Needs
Critic’s choice: Endowment fund for the Arts Council of Fort Worth
Two years of budget battle losses have left local arts groups...
Keep a Firm Grip on Your Gimme Cap
Pink tennis shoes or combat boots? It’s been that kind of in-the-trenches year in our fair burg and, really, the rest of the state....
Separation of Church and Trail
A granite monument sporting an engraved Bible scripture was recently installed on public property near Fort Worth’s Trinity Trails, and some folks aren’t happy...
Protecting Industry
A natural gas compressor ordinance passed by the Fort Worth City Council last week has closed a several-years-old loophole favoring drillers but simultaneously expanded...
Egg on the Edge
I’m on my back in a dimly lit room on the seventh floor of a Dallas research hospital. Though I can’t see it, a...
Troll-free Tellygram
The racist, name-calling, confrontational, and sensationalistic comments sometimes left by trolls at the bottom of online newspaper stories are no longer welcome at the...
Fiddling as the Sea Rises
Five years ago, Hurricane Ike, one of the costliest storms in U.S. history, plowed into Galveston Bay, chewing through $29 billion in homes, businesses,...
Out of Sight, Out of Gas
A green alley runs behind houses along West Magnolia and Harrison avenues in the historic Mistletoe Heights neighborhood, providing city and utility workers access...