Table for one – and proud of it
While Fort Worth is supposedly growing into this great food city, it still doesn’t know how to...
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Category: Favorite Stories
Hickory Stick BBQ offers classic ‘cue – and no fat, 2012
Hickory Stick BBQ in Everman is the quintessential small-town restaurant, the kind of place...
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Steven Parker is keeping the art of bootmaking alive
I’d driven by Morris Boot Co. on Montgomery Street for years. Finally, I went in....
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All the news that fits…the school’s image, 2002
I came up with the idea to do a story about student reporters after hearing about an incident at...
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A fighting chance
Sort of a local Million Dollar Baby story, here’s a piece about a female boxer who, as the...
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How Fort Worth weathered the storm
Several Fort Worth businesses and individuals banded together to help those whose lives were...
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2020: The Unforgettable Year
My cover story for the December, 2020 issue of Fort Worth Magazine marked a first in my nearly...
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Who Will Save Our City?
The day I lost my day job due to COVID, I came up with this story idea – a look at the...
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Rockin’ Our World: Fort Worth’s garage rock scene in the 1960s was among the country’s most vibrant. A new CD evokes memories of dreams won and dashed. Star-Telegram story, 2004
In the 1960s, Fort Worth had a vibrant garage rock scene but it wasn’t really brought to...
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Greg’s Gifts: A car crash forced the family of a 19-year-old to make a life-altering decision, not just for potential organ recipients but for the young man’s own brother
By the mid-2000’s I was getting a little burned out on music. Covering Steve Miller and...
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Charlie Robison cover story for Texas Music magazine, spring 2001
Pretty Darn Texan Charlie Robison is a pure Texas music star – confident, intelligent, witty...
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Profile: FBI Evidence Response Team, 2000
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump jarred my memory of this story I wrote more than 20...
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About me
I’m a Fort Worth native who’s been writing about my hometown since 1992, when I joined the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Over a 26-year career there — 14 years on staff and 12 as a freelancer — I traveled across town, the state, and the country, writing about music, pop culture, food, and people, both famous and unsung, from Billy Joel to a young high school couple in love in a small Texas town.
My work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel, American Way, Texas Music, Pop Culture Press, and MTV.com. I currently freelance for Fort Worth Magazine and CultureMap.
This site is an ongoing work in progress, updated regularly with new stories and older work spanning my now 30-year-plus career.