Lost in Panther City
Lost in Panther City was blog about Fort Worth I maintained from 2022 to 2025. I wrote about the history, politics and culture of the city, with an emphasis on events and people that didn’t fit into the city’s typical understanding of itself.
This is an archive of the original blog, which was hosted on Substack. (This is a work in progress; the archive is currently incomplete.)
31 Mar 2023
Horns Up, Horns Down for this week in Fort Worth, Vol. 1, No. 1
A local column on the best and worst news of the week.
19 Mar 2023
I didn't expect civic boosterism to be this shallow
Visit Fort Worth’s hollow remake of ‘The Unexpected City’ discards everything that made the original interesting.
9 Jan 2023
In case you didn't know it Fort Worth is cold
Images of the ice-enslaved Metroplex.
9 Jan 2023
It just sounds like cruelty to me
The regular razing of tent cities and homeless encampments is a slow-burning news story in Fort Worth.
11 Dec 2022
The buried history of Fort Worth's labor struggles
Organized labor is mostly written about as a footnote to the city’s past — when it gets acknowledged at all.
20 Nov 2022
How Fort Worth censored the first black movie star
In 1910, the city banned screenings of a fight between champion boxer Jack Johnson and a white challenger. Officials feared its ’evil effects.'
13 Nov 2022
A short history of Fort Worth's split personality
“Cowboys and Culture” has always been a dubious marketing slogan.