Fort Worth started as just that-a fort. It was an Army outpost built in 1849 to protect the American frontier. Here, drovers trailed more than four million cattle through the city, earning it the name "Cowtown." But that is all changing.

Austin Wayne Underwood was born in 1978 with Down syndrome. His mother has since spent her life fighting to make sure he would have a normal life.

A local company believes that business should have a mission, so it participates in the Next STEP program that helps ex-offenders secure their first honest jobs after having many doors shut in their faces. Read the article here. It is a tear-jerker.

Open Meaning Business

Opera singer Ava Pine sits in the middle of the stage at the Bass Hall during a late February choral performance of Elijah. She heard the cello singing to her right. In between arias, she closed her eyes and listened to all the components of the production weave together a story like a tapestry. She melted into her seat feeling both pure joy and peace.

The night before her husband's assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy looks into a Monet painting titled "Artist's Granddaughter," which hung in their room at Hotel Texas in Fort Worth.

Open World Premiere Opera Opens in Fort Worth

Through collaborative efforts by Near Southside, Inc. and Leadership Fort Worth, the first micro-park, or moveable, tiny park, breathed life into a once blah space, May 18. It is significantly placed in the heart of Fort Worth's hippest and historic neighborhood on the corner of Magnolia Avenue and Henderson Street.

The Fine Line exhibition is coming back to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, April 16-May 31, asking the community one more time to overcome the stigma that comes with mental illness.

Open The Fine Line

Like all good stories, “Dog Days” is a contemporary opera that is meant to make its audience think about what it means to be human.

Open Culture Hound

The Fort Worth Japanese Garden was once a gravel pit and a cavalry unit dump filled with old plumbing and stable contents. When the architect behind the original and ongoing construction of the gardens, Al Komatsu, was first brought on to this project, he found a "tremendous ecological disaster" before him. But on its 40th anniversary, the people behind the project stand proud-it is one of the top Japanese gardens in the country attracting visitors from all over the world.

Open Fort Worth Japanese Garden Celebrates 40 Years

ABRAHAM ALEXANDER’S AGONY REACHED A CRESCENDO JULY 7, 2016, when Micah Xavier Johnson opened fire on Dallas police officers at the end of a rally for black rights, killing five, injuring nine others and two civilians.