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.

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.

In case you didn't know it Fort Worth is cold

Images of the ice-enslaved Metroplex.

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.

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.

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.'

A short history of Fort Worth's split personality

“Cowboys and Culture” has always been a dubious marketing slogan.