Fort Worth

18 Jun 2025

'Raid of the Rainbow Lounge' is still relevant

This is kind of a film review but also just a rant.

9 Apr 2023

A short history of the long road to District 11

The structural racism of citywide voting.

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.