Welcome to Billy Bob’s Texas – The World’s Largest Honky Tonk

• Wednesday: Ladies Night with Free Line Dance Lessons • Thursday: College Night with Free Line Dance Lessons • Saturday: Lunch & Line Dance at High Noon with specials in the Honky Tonk Kitchen for dancers WATCH REAL BULL RIDING

Over the past 39 years, more than 55,000 bulls have bucked in the Billy Bob’s Texas rodeo arena. We’re talking real bulls - not mechanical – every Friday and Saturday night at 9 & 10 p.m. World Champions including Tuff Hedeman, Ty Murray, and Adriano Moraes have all

tested their professional bull-riding skills in Billy Bob’s arena. The live bull riding inside the facility separates Billy Bob’s Texas from any other club in the world. life stories behind Billy Bob’s, The Fort Worth Stockyards, and Country Music. HOST AN EVENT

With 100,000 square feet of fun, the private events team at Billy Bob’s can plan a party for any occasion. Corporate events, anniversaries, graduation parties, engagement showers, family reunions, holiday parties – you name it, Billy Bob’s has a one-of-a-kind space for it. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, LISTEN TO LIVE MUSIC

House bands hit the Honky Tonk Stage every Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. Concerts take place on the Main Stage in the Showroom every Friday and Saturday night. In town for the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo? There’s plenty of time to enjoy the action and still make it to a concert!

The February concert lineup includes Pat Green, LANCO, Whiskey Myers, Valentine’s Day with Banda Los Sebastianes, Granger Smith ft. Earl Dibbles Jr., Bob Schneider, Old 97’s and Midland.

EXPLORE THE HONKY TONK HISTORY

Guests of Billy Bob’s Texas will enjoy almost four decades of rich history and memorabilia. The Handprint Hall of Fame is full of concrete impressions from hundreds of artists who have played the club. The Guitar Bar has 75 autographed guitars from past performers. Throughout the club are hints of the larger-than

Also, this month, just across the plaza at Billy Bob’s 81 Club - a special Valentine’s Day Lonestar Murder Mystery Show, Dr. Wu’ British Invasion, and Texas Bluesman – A Tribute to Blues Brothers. Come experience our Honky Tonk attitude, friendly Fort Worth hospitality, and truly unique atmosphere. 2520 Rodeo Plaza, 817-624-7117, www.billybobstexas.com.

West is Among the Best for Culture and Shopping-and-Dining Delights

by Michael H. Price A As long as we’re “out where the West begins,” as an iconic figure in Fort Worth’s history described this Cowtown, then we might as well look even further westward within the city itself. Pioneering publisher and civic booster Amon Carter may have intended to give Dallas the razz when he coined that phrase — but the West hardly could have picked a keener starting point than Fort Worth.

And Fort Worth, in turn, hardly could have picked a site more right for its burgeoning west side Cultural District. Rippling with heavy-duty commercial, artistic and residential growth since the dawn of the 21st century, the west side overall has seen its very skyline change with the transformation of a busy West Seventh Street into a streamlined conduit connecting the downtown area’s Sundance Square development with the Cultural District. Heading west (naturally) from downtown Fort Worth, one finds the Cultural District radiating from the intersection where Seventh Street crosses University Drive and, in the process, morphs into the historic, brick-paved Camp Bowie Boulevard. Visitors in search of western-style discoveries — from plain-and-fancy dining to fine art and varied entertainment — will find such delights in volume on the west side. Cultural attractions, restaurants, mainstream and special-interest shopping, and lavish natural gardens flourish as a reminder of how Fort Worth has built upon its frontier origins. Several of the world’s finer museums, playhouses and galleries anchor a vast Cultural District. The hand-laid red-brick pavement of Camp Bowie Boulevard is an attraction in itself, lined with an everexpanding array of art galleries, stage-andscreen auditoriums, boutiques, scholarly museums, restaurants and lounges, and shopping malls. The Cultural District The Fort Worth Museum of Science & Historycommands the westward view of the district from Montgomery Street, and just northward are additional cultural touchstones: Designed by renowned architect Philip Johnson, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art houses a definitive collection of American paintings, photography, and sculpture. The collection spans early nineteenth-century art to mid-twentieth century modernism. It is also home to nearly 400 works by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. Nearby is the Kimbell Art Museum still living up to Newsweek’s description as “arguably the most beautiful museum in America” including its new Renzo Piano Pavilion addition. The neighboring Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is the oldest such museum in Texas — housed in a workof-art 2002 building designed by worldrenowned Japanese architect, Tadao Ando, and featuring bold gallery exhibitions, concert attractions and, every weekend, leading-edge independent-studio films.

The Museum of Science & History, anchoring a campus within the Cultural District, has been designed by similarly renowned architects Ricardo and Victor Legorreta. Inside the Museum of Science & History, one finds vast galleries of Texas-bred dinosaur specimens and the state’s oil-and-gas heritage, in addition to the Cattle Raisers Museum, the Fort Worth Children’s Museum, Stars Café, and a new digital Noble Planetarium. The Omni Theater, an IMAX® superscreen dome, links with the Museum of Science & History and boasts a new digital sound system and enhanced lighting. The National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame is next door to the FWMS&H. The NCM&HF honors women of the American West from