Night & Day: Sportsball Edition

Fort Worth Weekly 8/26 10:09A Fort Worth Weekly

While it’s still hotter than hell, it is, indeed, the start of football season . It’s so hot, in fact, that the Childress High School Bobcats from West Texas  recently moved football practice indoors...

Four-Leaf Frogs

Fort Worth Weekly 8/26 9:57A Fort Worth Weekly

Game week is here. Start Instacarting your Lucky Charms and Guinness to leave out for the leprechauns on Friday night as an offering to the American Football gods that the Horned Frogs find pots o’...

Beers Ahoy, Darth Vato Returns

Fort Worth Weekly 8/26 9:37A Fort Worth Weekly

To say it’s been rough on folks tryin’ to keep everyteeng irie in the Fort is an understatement. When Fort Worth punk-reggae legends Darth Vato sailed away on hiatus after a send-off for old Lola’s in...

Net Gains

Fort Worth Weekly 8/26 9:30A Rush Olson

Arlington will host a couple of preseason sporting events this week. We might consider one more meaningful than the other. Now, to be sure, Friday’s exhibition football game between the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints means a good bit to...

Buen Provecho

Fort Worth Weekly 8/26 9:24A Fort Worth Weekly

Almacén El Gallo , 500 W 7th St, Ste 175, Fort Worth. 817-937-2997. 3-8pm Sun, 11am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11am-10pm Fri, 3-10pm Sat. There’s always something to gripe about regarding the Fort Worth food scene,...

As driverless vehicles grow in DFW, Texas lawmakers weigh safety

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local) 8/26 5:50A Sara Sanchez

The Texas Senate Committee on Transportation examined the expansion of autonomous vehicles on Texas roads Tuesday and flagged potential gaps in current law after officials acknowledged that the Texas...

Hello Millions, Live Dealer Tables and What Free-to-Play Gaming Borrowed From Sportsbooks

Fort Worth Weekly 8/25 6:06A Fort Worth Weekly

It is a slow Tuesday load-in at a Near Southside room. A band coils cables under a single work light, the opener runs a line check, and the ten people who showed up early are all staring at their phones, waiting for something to start. Half of...

What Happened to Music NFTs After the Boom?

Fort Worth Weekly 8/21 5:26A Fort Worth Weekly

Music non-fungible tokens (NFTs) never settled into a single replacement for streaming, downloads, or physical records. After the boom, they persisted in narrower roles: a collectible attached to a release, a record of a direct sale, or a pass to...

UNT slashes projected $45 million budget deficit by half after cost-cutting

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local) 8/19 6:31A Milla Surjadi, Staff Writer | Th

The University of North Texas has trimmed its projected $45 million budget deficit to approximately $19 million, President Harrison Keller said at a Board of Regents meeting Thursday. Since February, the university has instituted cost-saving...

Adaptive Care Plans for Changing Needs of Residents In Assisted Living

Fort Worth Weekly 8/14 9:51A Fort Worth Weekly

Resident care rarely follows a straight line after move-in. Strength, appetite, continence, sleep, memory, and mood can shift after infection, medication changes, grief, or surgery. An adaptive care plan gives caregivers a current clinical...

TEA releases state accountability scores; 15% of Texas schools scored below ‘C'

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local Beat) 8/14 7:50A Wayne Carter

What to Know Look up Texas public school scores on the website txschools.gov . Scores are released annually by the Texas Education Agency. The TEA said 24% of districts increased their score, while 89% either stayed the same or increased their...

Planning Retirement in North Texas? Five Smart Downsizing Tips for a Fresh Start

Fort Worth Weekly 8/13 7:02A Fort Worth Weekly

Retirement is more than leaving the workforce. It is an opportunity to reshape daily life around comfort, flexibility, and the priorities that often get pushed aside during busy working years. Across North Texas, many retirees are finding that...

Three juveniles involved in Denton crash; one killed

DFW Scanner 8/6 3:24A dfwscanner

At approximately 1:08 p.m., Denton Police and Fire responded to a single vehicle crash on FM 1173 going eastbound toward I-35 near Krum. A juvenile driver and two juvenile passengers were transported to the hospital. The juvenile female driver...

Keller player wins top honors on Texas 6A all-state baseball team

NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (Local) 8/2 10:37A The Associated Press

The Blue Bell/Texas Sports Writers Association Class 6A all-state baseball team, distributed by The Associated Press: FIRST TEAM Pitchers — Blake Cox, Dripping Springs, sr.; Cole Koeninger, Keller, sr.; Cooper Webb, Lake Travis, sr. Relief pitcher...