Karleen "Kay" Swift Shackelford, 83, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. Graveside Service: 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Fort Worth. Memorials: https://www.prestonwoodestatesgardenclub.org/donate Kay was born in Dallas, on Oct. 21, 1942. She was the eldest of three
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The irony is, there already has been a documentary about concrete. Victor Kossakovsky’s Architecton came out last year, and it was pretty good. However, John Wilson makes his feature filmmaking debut with The History of Concrete, which opens this weekend at Alamo Drafthouse Dento...
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AeternZ Semiconductor Testing Corp., a subsidiary of King Yuan Electronics Co. of Taiwan, said it is considering establishing a $1.3 billion manufacturing 23-acre plant at 273 W. Everyman Parkway in Fort Worth. Fort Worth City Council will consider a tax abatement for the company...
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Southwest Fort Worth is getting an H-E-B. The San Antonio-based supermarket company announced Friday it has purchased more than 20 acres in a master-planned development that is part of the Edwards Ranch. Located at the northeast corner of Chisholm Trail Parkway and Oakmont Boulev...
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These days, most people take photographs with their phones. A few may work with professional cameras. But how many know the history of the medium? When and where was photography invented? How creative were early photographers? What did those first images look like? Questions like...
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Former Texas Longhorns quarterback Colt McCoy faced plenty of daunting challenges during his career. But one that occurred off the field in Fort Worth sticks with him. That was in 2010 when McCoy was preparing to speak as he received the prestigious Davey O’Brien Award, given to ...
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September produced several impressive starts, but the early standings and the championship market are not telling exactly the same story. Buffalo, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Minnesota and San Francisco all closed the month at 3-0, yet their Super Bowl prices remained spread across a...
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The Southside Community Center held a grand opening Thursday at its new Historic Southside location after its previous property was acquired to develop the National Juneteenth Museum. The Southside Community Center at Hazel Harvey Peace Center for Neighborhoods at 818 Missouri Av...
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Fort Worth City Council member Deborah Peoples is suing Tarrant County’s Republican commissioners and elections administrator, seeking a temporary injunction to halt the approved list of polling sites for the November midterm elections. Peoples, in her capacity as a private citiz...
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Friday Night (High-)Lights On Fri, Oct 2, in South Main Village at The Cicada (1002 S Main St, Fort Worth, @The_Cicada_FTW), Nightshade Burlesque will serve up its annual spooktacular showcase of sexy, sassy Halloween thrills and chills. Onyx Fury, Xio Nova, Violent Lavender, Fai...
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Your website in Fort Worth might be getting a plenty of visitors every month, but traffic alone doesn’t guarantee conversions. If those visitors aren’t filling out your contact form or requesting a quote, there’s likely a good reason (or several) why they’re not turning into payi...
