Fort Worth Magazine

A recumbent tricycle. A minivan. The Grand Canyon. A sailboat. A vegan food truck. And, at one point, plans to ride a bicycle into Mexico. Those were just a few of the stops along the way for Luu Lac before he was handed the keys to the kitchen of Duong DeVille, the much-anticipated, forthcoming restaurant from local chef Hao Tran.

For homeowners considering a major landscape renovation, inspiration is rarely the problem. Maybe it’s an outdoor kitchen built for entertaining, landscape lighting that changes the look of the property after sunset or a putting green that turns an unused corner of the yard into a place the family actually enjoys. But a well-designed landscape can do more than change the appearance of a property.

No one on the planet believed TCU had any chance in its Big 12 interfaith game with visiting No. 10 BYU, the conference’s highest-ranked team. Turns out those with little faith were right. The Horned Frogs fell 17-10 to the guests from Provo, Utah, on Saturday at a soggy Amon G. Carter Stadium. TCU fell to 0-2 in the Big 12 and 2-3 overall. BYU improved to 2-0 and 4-0. That 72-degree temperature was a nice change.

The Star Cafe served its last meal Wednesday night, ending the restaurant side of a nearly 90-year-old Fort Worth Stockyards landmark. The adjoining bar will remain open, and owner Drew Boatman told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that the restaurant space will be reconfigured into a new, to-be-determined concept. Boatman owns the Star through his Fort Worth-based Southern Hospitality Group, whose other concepts include Rusty Nickel Ice House, Townes Coffee, and Hell’s Half Acre Saloon.

The Fort Worth Zoo, though boasting an extensive menagerie of mammals, amphibians, birds, and reptiles, has been without perhaps one of the most crucial predators to any thriving ecosystem — that being the tiger. A tiger — which, we argue, should logistically hold the title as king of the jungle opposed to the lion — was last seen prowling the grounds in 2020, before a long multi-year habitat renovation.

One of our closest pals across the Atlantic — France, of course — arguably has the world’s greatest library. And while Paris’s Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) contains loads of dusty and impressive texts, it also has a prominent vault of photographs dating to the birth of the medium itself — photographs now on display at the Kimbell Art Museum. Titled “Photography’s First Century,” the exhibition opens Oct. 4 and will run through Jan.

For the better part 10 years and then some, you might have heard something about making America great again. No need to bore you with the details. Well, there’s a part of the story in private industry — with an assist from the public sector — that is playing out in Fort Worth, Texas.

Four properties in the city of Fort Worth’s real estate portfolio downtown will be sold, restored, and redeveloped as office space, condominiums, and retail space, according to a presentation to the City Council on Tuesday morning.

What if the problem with your medication is not the medication itself, but the dose, formulation or the way you take it? It is a question many patients may never think to ask, even when hormone therapy is not providing the relief they expected, a prenatal vitamin is difficult to tolerate, or a prescription creates side effects. At Perrone Pharmacy in Fort Worth, those frustrations can become the beginning of a conversation about personalization.

It wasn’t all that long ago — six decades, if you’re counting — that then-Mayor Tom Vandergriff led in ushering Texas A&M out of his beloved Arlington, believing the boys down there were neglecting its Johnson Station branch in the middle of DFW. Too much College Station, not enough Arlington was the memo sent to the Ministry of Complaints in Austin. T-sip Gov.