Shaky Foundation
In Lydia Gonzalez’ house on Fort Worth’s old South Side, leaky pipes rotted the floor under her bathtub, and the whole bathroom had to...
Gay Cure
Near the University of Texas at Arlington, in the shadow of a sprawling church, a small sanctuary occupies a suite in a towering office...
Spencer’s Last Fling
Over lunch at the Star Café in Fort Worth's Stockyards, Spencer Taylor is in one of his moods. He is upbeat and joking with...
Friendly Fire
These days, Donald Buswell’s job is not as exciting or dangerous as it once was. For the past few months, his working hours have...
Peace Work
The three former Peace Corps volunteers were armed with nothing but words and the trust that two warring countries had placed in them.
For two...
Drunk High
Marijuana's musty aroma escapes through the cracked windows of a car that's just pulled up outside a Fort Worth club. On this particular night,...
Broken Homes
On a treeless stretch of rolling land just north of the Riverside Drive and Berry Street intersection, four pastel-painted two-story model homes have risen...
A Great Schism?
Nestled behind a row of trees across from the TCU soccer fields on Bellaire Drive South is a quaint limestone building with large wooden...
Power to the People?
The fluorescent panels in the basketball gym at the Martin Luther King Center on the city’s East Side threw a harsh light that bounced...
Killed by a Dirty War
Ted Westhusing was a true believer. And that was his fatal flaw.
A colonel in the U.S. Army, Westhusing had a good job teaching English...