Fort Worth Magazine - July 2017 by fwtx

Wild Child

A prestigious International Baccalaureate school ﬁnds success in the scenic pastures of Westlake

Here Comes the Boom Facebook, Hillwood and shopping drive homeowners to Alliance

MODERN MEETS WESTLAKE

July 2017

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Dream Home Summer 2017: Westlake

Construction is complete, and the doors are open. Fort Worth Magazine’s Summer Dream Home is finally here – a 6,700-square-foot Spanish Mediterranean transitional nestled in Westlake’s gated Granada community. Here’s a preview of every luxurious nook and cranny this house has to offer. by Scott Nishimura

76 Wild Wild Westlake Academy This little Westlake charter school is making a name for itself nationally, but its climb to the top is anything but done. by Samantha Calimbahin

82 Here Comes the Boom Why the Alliance area is the hottest place to be right now. by Samantha Calimbahin with Kacie Galloway

88 Fall 2017 Dream Home: La Cantera

Yes, another Dream Home is on its way. Here’s how construction is taking shape. by Scott Nishimura

Walk through the art-gallery-inspired spaces of our Summer Dream Home on page 44.

Jay Novacek has an eye for good range land. He also has a lender he can count on. Since 1917, Heritage Land Bank has been a dependable source of financing to those buying land in rural Texas. If you’ve found your piece of Texas, talk to a Heritage lender today.

Scoop Rockwood Golf Course gets a makeover, West Bend gets an eyewear shop, Southlake gets a new healthy eatery, and more on the latest openings and closings.

fwliving Treats for your taste buds, your face and your feet.

Escapes A look at San Miguel and the historic vacation home built by some of Fort Worth’s own. by Kyle Whitecotton

Culture Local artist Jay Wilkinson launches his first solo exhibition, titled everyone poops. Yup. by Kendall Louis

Be Well The owner of an old-school shaving company shares the four products he can’t start the morning without. by Sarah Jane Grisham

Cooking Six homemade frozen treats that’ll make the ice cream man jealous. by Beth Maya

Style Eight shoe trends you need to get on your feet this summer. 132

Heywood The traffic on Interstate 35 is enough to make you download crazy phone apps. 136

Up Close Tom Brymer talks what it’s like to be both Westlake town manager and school superintendent. by Jennifer Casseday-Blair

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Goodwill A local recovery organization turns 60, and a 9-yearold leads a campaign to help fight cancer. by Samantha Calimbahin

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Snapshots How we celebrated the Best of Fort Worth, along with our newest magazine, Fort Worth HOME.

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fwevents Fort Worth’s newest outdoor art gallery is an Instagrammer’s dream.

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fwdish Two restaurants worth getting out of Fort Worth for. 180 Dish Listings Where to get a piña colada served in a pineapple.

192 Parting Shot Let’s play bridge.

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Due North

IT’S RAINING HOUSES OVER HERE AT FORT WORTH MAGAZINE. You probably noticed that last month we published the premiere issue of our quarterly luxury shelter publication, Fort Worth HOME. We’re pretty proud of it, and we’re bragging about it on bus benches, billboards and radio spots all over town. This month we’re back in the home game again, with our biannual Dream Home issue.

And. This. One. Is. Big. 6700-square-feet big. $2.495 million big. Lighted, glass-enclosed refrigerated wine room big. Turn to page 44 and read as Scott Nishimura takes you on a tour of the Westlake estate, diving inside the mind of the builder, designer and other vendors that made it possible.

We were so inspired by our Dream Home’s Granada development location that we decided to dedicate the majority of this issue to the Town of Westlake and north Fort Worth. On page 82, Associate Editor Samantha Calimbahin explores north Fort Worth’s Alliance with a look back on how far it has come, where it’s going and who’s behind it all in her feature story, “Here Comes the Boom.”

Samantha is at it again on page 76 with her feature on Westlake Academy. The prestigious charter school, run by the Town of Westlake, is an International Baccalaureate program that has garnered national attention. Read the feature to find out how the school is making the Town of Westlake even more desirable, and how the Town of Westlake is making the school even more desirable.

You’ll see other nods to the northern suburbs throughout the pages of this issue. Our food editors get a taste of some suburb spots on page 171, our staff brings you news of Chef Kalen Jane’s newest Southlake project on page 18 and Jennifer Casseday-Blair gets Up Close with Tom Brymer, the Westlake city manager on page 136.

We hope you enjoy an adventure north with us this issue. But don’t be gone too long.

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Fort Worth... Becoming Dallas?

With luxury retailers rolling into town, some Fort Worthians fear the city is looking more east-ly

One of the hottest topics among our readers right now is The Shops at Clearfork – a 500,000-square-foot shopping and entertainment center in the works off Chisholm Trail Parkway in southwest Fort Worth. This fall, Louis Vuitton, Burberry and Tiffany & Co. will all be joining the development, and it’s reminding some locals of a couple places they’ve seen out east: NorthPark Center and the Galleria.

Some love it, others...not so much. Either way, here’s what y’all have been saying.

This is exactly what Fort Worth has needed for a long time.

-DeeDee Flatt Chandler

So exciting! Now we just need a Nordstrom, and we will never have to leave the city limits!

-Jack i e Gonzalez

Corrections :

- The “Starting ‘Em Early” story in our June issue incorrectly named one of the co-creators of the Itty-Bitty Art Program

Awesome (that it ain’t in the Stockyards)!

-Damon Lovett

So now we're Dallas. There's a reason I moved from there to here.

-K im McKenney M ilam

Never, life is too short to live in Dallas.

-Raymond S Mart in

at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art Jessica Kennedy, the museum’s public programs manager, helped start the program

This isn't good. We are slowly turning into Dallas.

-Kev in Cas illas

We only left two years ago, and the place is turning into Dallas? What on earth?

-Rachel W igg ins

So what's the best thing about Fort Worth? We asked that question at our Best of Fort Worth Party last month and got these responses:

"Kat ie Murray 's murals!"

"All the cool kids live here!"

"The Horned Frogs " "Pr ime sw imming weather " "The great restaurants!"

"Rockin' the River " "Downtown walkabili ty!"

"Main at South Side."

"Bacon Burnt Ends ."

"The people." "...i t ain' t Dallas!"

For the latest on all thi Clearfork, v i s i t fwtx top i cs/shops-clearfork

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Jocelyn Tatum has a master’s degree in narrative journalism and an undergraduate degree in philosophy, so she spends most of her time analyzing and inquiring about the world around her. She tees it up on page 17, exploring the newly renovated Rockwood Golf Course.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for Beth Maya’s latest recipes on page 32. From classic favorites like basic vanilla to creamy blackberry popsicles, our resident food stylist, writer and home entertainment expert has the sweetest treats to help you cool off on a hot Texas summer day.

Growing up in New Orleans, Jessica Llanes learned to appreciate good people and great food at an early age. She revisits an old Westlake favorite on page 176, giving her review of the Italian cuisine at Pizzeria La Scala.

Jennifer Casseday-Blair once served as executive editor at Fort Worth Magazine and continues to contribute via the writer’s chair. On page 136, she goes one-on-one with Westlake town manager (and superintendent of Westlake Academy) Tom Brymer to talk about what it’s like to wear two hats. Then on page 172, she makes the drive to Southlake to review Modern Market’s healthy fare. Lastly, on page 178, she offers four tips for preserving those extra summer vegetables.

5 Kyle Whitecotton takes readers to San Miguel this month, highlighting the Mexican city’s artistry, eateries and architecture. But perhaps one of San Miguel’s truest treasures is a historic mansion built by a Fort Worth family. Turn to page 22 to read all about it.

6 Hugh Savage is a distant twin cousin of our frequent columnist, Heywood. This month’s column was inspired by a traffic jam and some odd smartphone apps. Flip to page 132 for his explanation.

A Fort Worth resident who loves spending time outdoors and playing with her goldendoodle, Kacie Galloway contributes to a feature on the massive commercial and residential boom happening right now in the Alliance area (page 82).

8 From owning a typewriter in elementary school to pursuing a journalism degree with a business minor at TCU, where she is currently a senior, Oklahoma native Sarah Jane Grisham has always been about telling stories. On page 30, she introduces us to Coffee Mug Shaving, where fine beards and good brews meet.

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Welcome Home

Tour through elegant Fort Worth abodes Go one-on-one with designers. Get the latest on décor shop openings. And just straight-up be inspired. All this awaits on our website, thanks to our new quarterly title, Fort Worth HOME. Read up on all things design. Go on, make yourself at home. fwtx.com/fwhome

Top Dog (or Cat!)

The second round of our search for the cutest pet in the city starts July 3. Vote on the Top 10 finalists on fwtx.com/ contest/petphotocontest.

We Caught You Dancing

If you “brushed with the best” at our 2017 Best Of party last month, or wish you did, check out our recap video of the night at fwtx.com/blogs/fwculture.

In Case You Missed It

If you aren’t following the fwtx.com blogs, why not? Here are a few of the exclusive online stories you missed this month:

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Black Rooster Café Moves Into Former La Perla Space Downtown

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Three Popular Local Businesses Move Into Historic O.B. Mac Building

Okay, So We Can’t Make You Insta-Famous... ...but we can get a lot of eyes on that super-cool shot you got of your favorite Fort Worth spot. Tag us in a photo and use the hashtag #fwtxmag for a chance to be featured on our Instagram page.

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Fort Worth Zoo Welcomes Baby Giraffe

Vacation or staycation? Either way, fwtx.com has

CONNECTING

INTEGRITYCREATIVITY VISION

2018 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

We are looking for those entrepreneurs whose vision, creativity and integrity have made Fort Worth the premier place to do business. FW Inc.’s Entrepreneur of Excellence Awards showcase and honor the contributions of exceptional entrepreneurs in the area. This unique EOE connection has become the voice for the entrepreneurial community in Fort Worth.

This year there will be EOE awards in 13 categories. Finalists from each category will be featured in a future issue of FW Inc.

Anyone can nominate an exceptional entrepreneur – you can even nominate yourself. Nominations for the 2018 EOE Awards open June 5 and run through Sept. 22. For more details on the award and to nominate an outstanding entrepreneur today, go to fwtx.com/fwinc/eoe.

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Staying connected with the latest local happenings

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The New Rockwood Park Golf Course

A remodel nearly 50 years too late.

| by Jocelyn Tatum |

LIVE OAKS DATING BACK HUNDREDS OF YEARS STRETCH THEIR LONG AND ARTHRITIC BRANCHES BACK AROUND TO THEIR ROOTS, reaching the ground and creating little cavernous outdoor rooms that entertain the golfer’s eye at Rockwood Park Golf Course. A gang of big black figures moves around in the distance. “Look at those turkeys!” owner of Colligan Golf Designs, John Colligan, says. The awkward birds lurch across patches of tall native grasses and wildflowers, which were purposefully seeded by the course designers at the newly renovated course.

These scenes take you back to Fort Worth’s blank-slate prairie days, which elegantly juxtapose new purposeful “window frames” of the modern city — now the 16th largest in the country. The organic scenery was intentional for the course-designer-duo Colligan and his colleague, Trey Kemp, because it “acts like a wildlife habitat and adds character.” It also cuts back on irrigation and maintenance costs, adding to one of the many thoughtful changes that restore this course aesthetically, while also making it more efficient and ecologically sensitive.

“Fort Worth is known as a great golfing town, and we wanted to have a golf facility that was on the same level as the private clubs and enjoy some of the history. It is going to be every bit as beautiful as private clubs,” Colligan said.

Fort Worth commissioned Colligan and Kemp in 2008, when Parks and Recreation got a $2 million check from mineral leases to remodel the nearly 80-year-old, 175-acre Rockwood Golf Course. They changed almost everything, from rearranging all of the greens to the logo, restoring it to its original 1930s charm. The course scheduled a June 30 opening as of press time, a slight delay because of excessive spring rains.

Details like hard geometric lines on the greens echo back to what Texas golf legend John Bredemus created when he originally designed the course in 1938. Kemp pulled up aerial views of the course taken in 1941 during his research to recreate the retro look.

“The course was designed to have a ‘classic’ appearance and resemble what courses back in the 1930s looked and played like, while having all of the modern advantages, such as new turf varieties, a state-of-the-art irrigation system and subsurface drainage, to name a few,” Kemp said.

Cardinals, Blue Jays, and Scissor-Tailed Flycatchers, also known as Texas’ bird of paradise, continue to fly overhead and dart in across the cart lanes on an unseasonably cool and breezy late spring day. The balance of rustic native Texas landscapes, retro-style greens, polished landscaping, modern technology and delicate use of the sophisticated topography lends to what Colligan poetically compared to a sheet of music.

“A golf course is like a sheet of music. You want it to ebb and flow [in level of difficulty],” Colligan said.

Rockwood Park Golf Course provides views of downtown. Photo by Hugh Hargrave.

“And then there is the crescendo.”

Hole 18 sits atop a hill looking back over the rolling verdant hills of the course the visiting golfer just completed. And then, crescendo.

Peeking over the complex topography, manicured retro greens, and Texas wildflowers is a perfect view of Fort Worth’s many layers, starting with the Trinity River, then the top of the Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum Pioneer Tower, the courthouse and then downtown Fort Worth as a backdrop.

Also on the horizon is the project’s phase two, which would be the construction of a new clubhouse to complement the new course.

“The clubhouse is currently proposed as part of the 2018 Bond Program, which still is to be vetted by the City Manager’s office, the City Council and ultimately approved by the citizens of Fort Worth,” assistant director of golf and athletics for park and recreation Nancy Bunton said.

It would include a snack bar to seat 32 people and banquet hall to seat 120. Bunton would like to see these potential projects accommodate a host of golf tournaments.

Book It

GROUND BROKE JUNE 19 FOR FORT WORTH’S NEWEST LIBRARY, LOCATED AT 4264 GOLDEN TRIANGLE BLVD. IN FAR NORTH

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WORTH. The library, to be named Golden Triangle Branch Library, will span 15,000 square feet. Amenities include a makerspace with 3-D printers, a laser cutter and audio/video equipment, and a children’s area. Local artist Sara Lovas will design a public art piece for the building. Funding for the approximately $9.1 million project comes from the 2014 bond program. The library is expected to open fall 2018.

The Shops at Clearfork Adds to Its Menu

Five additional restaurants have been added to the lineup for The Shops at Clearfork – the 500,000-square-foot, open-air center that is home to the new Neiman Marcus. New names include: rise no.3. A Dallas-based French restaurant serving sweet and savory soufflés. As the name suggests, this will be the third rise location in Texas.

Doc B’s Fresh Kitchen. This Chicago-based, fresh-eating concept will offer lunch and dinner menus concentrating on burgers, sandwiches, wok bowls and an extensive craft beer and cocktail list.

Twigs Bistro and Martini Bar. Based in Spokane, Washington, Twigs is known for martinis and “regional American” food. This will be the first Twigs in Texas. A press release described it as “a casual yet elegant dining experience.”

City Works Eatery and Pour House. Think a fancy sports bar open for lunch, dinner and late night. City Works is also set to open in a 16,000-square-foot space inside The Star in Frisco in July.

Crú Food & Wine Bar. This wine bar has many cozy Dallas locations and more than 350 selections of wine. Food items include shared appetizers, gourmet pizzas and cheese plates.

The first mix of new regional and national restaurants and entertainment options is slated to open in the fall of 2017 through 2018, including B&B Butchers & Restaurant, Fixe, Malai Kitchen, Mesero and Luna Grill.

Healthy Heads to Southlake

PROTEIN FIT KITCHEN WILL OPEN IN EARLY JULY IN THE PARK VILLAGE SHOPPING CENTER IN SOUTHLAKE. Chef Kalen Jane, formerly of FW Market + Table and Tillman’s Roadhouse, will serve as executive chef and general manager.

Customers at the healthy-concept eatery can pick up pre-prepared meals on the go; purchase meals via counter service from a variety of options including breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and drinks; or order a week’s worth of meals ahead of time.

The menu teases items like build-your-own bowls, Avocado Toast, and Peaches and Green Salads. A “mylkshakes” section of the menu will include shakes made with nut milk, like the Watermelon Crawl made with yogurt, watermelon and mint, and the Ja Mocha Me Crazy made with coffee and almond milk.

Protein Fit Kitchen will be open seven days a week from 7 a.m. - 7 p.m.

PROTEIN FIT KITCHEN | 1151 E. SOUTHLAKE BLVD., STE. 390, SOUTHLAKE | PROTEINFITKITCHEN.COM

Turning Tides

TCU head swimming and diving coach Richard Sybesma announced his retirement in June after 38 years of coaching. Sybesma, who started at TCU in 1979, was the longest tenured head coach for any sport in TCU history.

“I’ve had an incredible 38 years at TCU and couldn’t imagine a better place to spend my career and raise my family. It ’s been an incredible journey. TCU, this program and all the student-athletes

I’ve come in contact with hold a special place in my heart. I will always bleed purple and support this program,” Sybesma said in a press release.

The Horned Frogs won seven team conference championships and 16 individual league titles under Sybesma. A five-time conference coach of the year, Sybesma’s career at TCU yielded seven national champions, 18 All-Americans and four Olympians.

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The Magic of San Miguel

| by Kyle Whitecotton |

IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORIC HEARTLAND OF MEXICO LIES SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, A MAGICAL LANDSCAPE WITH A LOCAL SCENE FULL OF YEAR-ROUND FESTIVALS, FIREWORKS AND PARADES. This enchanting world consists of magnificent 17th-century mansions, picturesque churches, elegant courtyards

and lavish gardens preserving Mexico’s rich colonial history and earning this Spanish Colonial city a UNESCO World Heritage designation in 2008.

San Miguel’s meandering cobblestone streets, invoke thoughts of Europe, and are lined with craft shops, fashionable boutiques, unique art galleries and charming restaurants. It’s a year-round destination famous for its mild climate

and more than 320 days of sunshine. But what makes San Miguel truly magical is its unique combination of artistic residents, colonial history and stunning landscape that creates an Old-World ambiance unmatched in Mexico.

Often referred to as “Frida’s Hideaway,” Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera spent much time there, and by the 1930s San Miguel became known as an artists’

The town of San Miguel de Allende has preserved many of its cobblestone streets

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colony. Today the town boasts an endless supply of art galleries and museums, the best of which can be found within a 15-minute walk of the town center. Moreover, scores of local art schools offer courses in painting, drawing, sculpting, weaving, jewelry, photography and ceramics from beginner to advanced levels.

San Miguel has also become a mecca for a host of other creative types, as well as an assortment of American and Canadian expats coming to escape the winters or altogether retire. Many believe this large population of foreigners helps give the town its unique collection of eclectic shops and exceptional eateries. From street food to gourmet restaurants that use fresh, locally sourced ingredients, eating well in San Miguel is a way of life. Dining options are extensive, and thanks to the weather, many of San Miguel’s restaurants and bars offer rooftop dining.

The town’s creative vibe extends to

culinary arts with several cooking schools serving up Mexican culture and history alongside the study of food and cooking styles informed by the local markets. Even learning to speak Spanish is simple in San

Miguel, where several language schools like The Warren Hardy School, the well-known Instituto Allende and the total immersion curriculum of Academia Hispano Americana offer Spanish language learn-

Views like this can be seen from many of San Miguel's rooftops

Espinosa Statue, San Felipe Church, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Kris Brown-Burroughs was an active member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority as a student at Tarleton State University before deciding to follow in her father’s footsteps in the automotive industry.

Today, part of a new professional sisterhood, she uses her experience and education to help lead a wave of women in successful forays into formerly male-dominated businesses, taking risks and breaking down the walls that once limited achievement. , ,

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ers a wealth of experience. San Miguel also offers many cultural events, including lectures, house tours, concerts, theatrical productions and a calendar of seemingly daily festivals and celebrations.

“One day God created a beautiful angel and sen[t] her to Fort Worth, Texas. She went to Mexico & saw a lot of Misery & decided to help Mexican [women], also the people she knew. The sweetest lady was named Martha B. Hyder.”

— The words on a weathered plaque upon entering Casa Hyder

Located in Mexico’s central highlands, San Miguel is a high desert town that embraces the spectacle of its surrounding mountains. Beyond the creative pursuits in town, visitors can choose from a wealth of outdoor activities and plenty of daytrips to nearby farmlands, river valleys and archeological sites. Some of the best daytrips from San Miguel include the sixmile trip to the village of Atotonilco and the natural hot springs of La Gruta.

Many of the expat residents of San Miguel have bought and restored some of the town’s most impressive old mansions to their original beauty. However, the most extraordinary architectural contributions of this kind came from Fort Worth natives Martha and Elton Hyder, who, beginning in 1959, built the iconic San Miguel Haci-

enda known as Hyder House.

Casa Hyder is a nearly 14,000-square-foot colonial home. Starting with a small structure that originally housed a machine shop, the Hyders’ multi-year project morphed into an elaborate complex of great rooms, libraries, patios, magnificent stairways, numerous plazas, stone arches, hand-forged ironwork and beautiful balconies.

Inside, Casa Hyder is filled with 17thcentury collectables and artwork displaying Martha’s peculiar sense of design, which joins Mexican folk art and Indian and Afghan textiles with 17th-century Spanish and Italian furnishings. There are 11 uniquely decorated bedrooms and 10 bathrooms, as well as three kitchens and three dining venues that include the

main dining room, the pool loggia and the upper terrace. And while this might seem overwhelming, the house was designed to maintain a sense of privacy for all guests. Still, Casa Hyder is wellequipped for gatherings of any size and offers a picturesque setting for weddings, anniversaries and birthdays.

Outside, the estate is awash with lively flora in sprawling manicured gardens populated by verdant ivy, bougainvillea, climbing roses, mesquite trees, purpleblooming jacarandas, trumpet vines and rows of cypress trees. Meanwhile, a sizeable tiled pool, surrounded by stone gargoyles and tons of outdoor lounging spaces, offers guests a place to relax.

It’s no wonder then that San Miguel de Allende is so popular with tourists. But don’t be mistaken; tourism has not altered the authenticity of this town or the experience it provides. San Miguel is unspoiled colonial Mexico at its finest, and a stay at Casa Hyder is unspoiled magic.

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A bedroom inside Casa Hyder

A Casa Hyder courtyard and walkway

Everything Is Fine

| by Kendall Louis |

JAY WILKINSON IS MAKING BIG MOVES. I learn this quickly while talking to him inside his temporary studio tucked in the back of Montgomery Street’s Fort Works Art, where he is currently the artist in residence. And it’s clear he has made himself at home, as he shows me the art he’s working on for his upcoming show, barefoot with coffee cup in hand.

The name he chose for his first solo exhibition – everyone poops.

Fort Works Art owner and creative director Lauren Childs cringed at the name when Wilkinson told her, but he soon explained it with both his reasoning and charm.

“It was a little bit jarring to say the least, and I definitely fought him on that title for a while, but eventually I came around. His work is all about these experiences he had as a child of divorce and what that means,” Childs says.

The title of the exhibition is based on a children’s book Wilkinson’s mother read to him when he was a child – “when everything was fine,” as Wilkinson says. It’s his childhood that influenced the more than 20-piece show – each painting is based on a candid photo of a family member or friend. One of the largest pieces is Wilkinson on a pony at a carnival as a child.

Describing his work as “somewhere between contemporary portraiture and indirect portraiture,” he says each painting is really about the moment and not really about the person. “It’s kind of like when lyrics fade back into the song.”

“For me it’s kind of a humanizing idea, and the ability to trans-

Everyone poops runs June 28 - July 29 at Fort Works Art and will include an exclusive Opening Night Reception as well as a moderated evening of conversation with the artist. fortworksart.com

late those little feelings that everybody has. I just want to approach [art] from this concept of what it means to be a human being. What it means to be alive, make mistakes, be in love, hurt people, and do all of that at the same time.”

Childs treasures the abundance of negative space in Wilkinson’s work. “As a viewer, you feel almost like there’s a portal of entry, and you can go in and become a part of it,” she says. “His paintings are very interactive and nostalgic. Because of his negative space, they allow you to enter them and become a part of them and have a nostalgia for what things were like when ‘everything was fine.’”

Wilkinson’s road to his first solo show was paved by big moves just like this one. After spending time at the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and University of North Texas in Denton, Wilkinson went out on his own, opening a few different businesses including a comic store, a music-booking business and Gorgonzilla food truck – which is still in business today – before officially landing on art.

It was a giant installation show at Shipping & Receiving with his collective, Bobby on Drums, in 2015 that first got him recognized. Following that, he earned the chance to be the artist in residence in Fairmount for Art South and created a 27-foot sculpture of a mother and her child for Arts Goggle. “I try to take the biggest, hardest risk possible.”

Wilkinson says over the last three years his art has gotten smarter. “Before, it was can I do this?” Wilkinson says. “Now, it’s why am I doing this? What’s the purpose of making art?”

Just as our conversation starts to get serious about art’s larger purpose, it pivots with Wilkinson’s mention of an artist he looks up to – Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets. “He was real ambitions and crazy … he made these crazy shifts.”

When asked if he anticipates another shift in his own career, Wilkinson responds with an emphatic yes. “I don’t know what yet. I’m a leap-before-I-look kind of guy,” he says.

“But, it’s a good time to be an artist in Fort Worth. There’s still magic in it.”

Jay Wilkinson is the artist in residence at Fort Works Art

May 14–August 13, 2017 • Admission Required

A Modern Vision features works from America’s ﬁrst modern art museum, including masterpieces by Manet, Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Matisse, Picasso, and Braque.

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Organized by The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Image: Wassily Kandinsky, Autumn II (detail), 1912, oil and oil washes on canvas. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

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Wake Up and Smell the Lather

Coffee Mug Shaving, a new Fort Worth-based men’s grooming company, was inspired by a cup of joe.

| by Sarah Jane Grisham |

IT’S ONLY FITTING THAT THE CONCEPT OF COFFEE MUG SHAVING CAME TO LIFE EARLY ONE MORNING. Around 4 a.m. two summers ago, Dean Fry woke up and scribbled down ideas about how he could share his two passions with the Fort Worth community: good coffee and a good shave.

Fry remembered what it was like to grow up in small town Liberty, Texas, frequently visiting the barbershop with his dad. He saw shaving done the old-school way, where the process was an art form and not a frantic five-minute scramble before rushing out the door.

Fry wanted to change that.

“We live in a disposable society,” he said. “This is not a disposable product.”

So a few months later, he began the process of establishing Coffee Mug Shaving, collaborating with all-natural Crowley-based

skincare company Olive Tree Body Care to create a product line of shave soaps and beard oils, with names you would find on a coffee shop menu, like Amaretto, Espresso, and Mocha.

In addition to high-quality skin care products, Fry wanted durable shave brushes and accessories with a rustic aesthetic to be part of the Coffee Mug Shaving experience. He makes the brushes out of badger hair, known for its long-lasting quality, and he handcrafts the shave brush and razor stands out of metal and stone.

Coffee Mug Shaving products can be found on the counters of Fort Worth Barbershop and The Lathery. Fry, who launched his website in July 2016, also sells many products online, reaching the faces of customers in North Carolina, Arizona, and other states.

Now without further ado, here’s the all-star lineup of products that make up the morning routine of the shave master himself.

Unscented

Beard Oil: Fry says cologne users like himself should be wary of using an oil that would clash with the cologne’s fragrance, which is why he chooses a beard oil without scent.

Mocha Shave

Soap: Fry lathers up with the aroma of coffee, a little chocolate, cinnamon, and a touch of creaminess. Fry says the soap works into a perfect texture that doesn’t dry out the skin.

Coffee Mug:

As a self-described “klutz,” Fry needed a cup to lather his shave soap in that wouldn’t slip

off his countertop. His solution? The steel cup with a handle, which looks just like an ordinary coffee mug.

Americano Shave Brush: Fry also uses a brush made with 100 percent badger hair, which naturally holds water, a key element in creating a good lather.

Shave soap and Americano Shave Brush

Ice Cream Dreams

story and food styling by Beth Maya |

photography by Alex Lepe |

prop styling by Deborah Points |

Basic vanilla ice cream and grilled peaches

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SUMMER IS FINALLY HERE, BUT IT WILL NOT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT EVERYONE’S FAVORITE FROZEN TREAT – ICE CREAM. Making your own ice cream may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you want to enjoy your favorite summer splurge, but why not? Making it at home can ensure that it’s made exactly to your liking. Think fresh milk and cream, farm fresh eggs, fruit from the farmers market, buckets of ice and rock salt. But gone are the days of relentless churning and turning the crank until your arms fall off. Now there are many affordable homemade ice cream machines to add to your kitchen inventory. And don’t forget to bring the kids into the mix to make their favorite ice cream concoctions and spark lifelong memories. I’m going to give you a few basic recipes to use as a base for your ice cream, but then feel free to add or change ingredients to make your own family favorite. Did someone say cookies and gummy worms?

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BASIC

VANILLA ICE CREAM

• 2 cups heavy whipping cream

• 2 cups half-and-half cream

• 1 cup sugar

• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Combine all ingredients, stirring to dissolve sugar completely. Fill cylinder of ice cream maker no more than two-thirds full; freeze according to manufacturer's directions. (Refrigerate any remaining mixture until ready to freeze.) Serve immediately or store in covered containers in freezer.

CHERRY SWIRL ICE CREAM

• Homemade vanilla ice cream, freshly churned but not frozen

• 1 jar of good-quality cherry preserves

Transfer freshly churned ice cream to a freezer

container. Layer the ice cream and drop good-size dollops of cherry preserves across each layer. Take a butter knife and drag the preserves through the layer until a beautiful swirl forms. Continue to ﬁll freezer container layer by layer until all ice cream has been used and you have a beautiful chunky cherry swirl.

Cover with plastic wrap and freeze until set, a few hours or overnight is best. This can be scooped over a simple angel food cake or served in a small bowl with a drizzle of bourbon for adults.

BLACKBERRY POPSICLES

• Homemade vanilla ice cream

• Fresh blackberries or any summer berry

• 1 tablespoon of sugar (optional)

• Crushed graham cracker or shortbread cookies (optional)

Smash a carton of fresh blackberries in a small

bowl with a fork. Leave them chunky or as large or small as you like. If the blackberries are not very sweet, add one tablespoon of sugar to the smashed mix to taste.

Using popsicle molds, pour some of the blackberry mixture to the bottom of each popsicle, then ﬁll the rest with soft ice cream. For extra crunch, ﬁnish the very top of the popsicle with crushed graham cracker or shortbread cookies. Add popsicle lids and freeze according to package directions.

GRILLED PEACH SUNDAE

• 3-4 whole peaches

• 3-4 almond biscotti cookies

• 1 teaspoon per peach half, local honey

• 1 teaspoon of brown sugar per half peach

• 1 scoop homemade vanilla ice cream per half peach

• Pinch of cinnamon

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Cut peaches in half and remove pit. Set grill pan on medium high and sear peach halves cut side down 3-4 minutes until some nice grill marks appear. Flip peach over and sprinkle with brown sugar and grill another 1-2 minutes until brown sugar starts to dissolve. Pull from grill pan and set aside.

Set one scoop vanilla ice cream per half peach and top with crumbled biscotti, a drizzle of honey and a pinch of cinnamon. Serve while peaches are still warm.

BASIC CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM

• 3/4 cup sugar

• 1 cup milk

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 2 tablespoons unsweetened

cocoa powder

• 3 egg yolks, lightly beaten

• 2 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped

• 2 cups heavy cream

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Combine sugar, milk and cocoa powder in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly. Bring to a simmer. Place the egg yolks into a small bowl. Gradually stir in about 1/2 cup of the hot liquid and return to the saucepan. Heat until thickened, but do not boil. Remove from the heat and stir in the chopped chocolate until chocolate is melted. Pour into a chilled bowl, and refrigerate for about two hours until cold, stirring occasionally.

When chocolate mixture has completely

cooled, stir in the cream, and vanilla. Pour into an ice cream maker. Freeze according to manufacturer’s directions.

THE COOKIE SHAKE

• 1 cup homemade vanilla ice cream

• 1/2 cup milk

• 1/2 cup of your favorite cookie, roughly chopped

Add all ingredients to a blender, and blend until smooth and delicious.

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Enter

the grand foyer through the doubleglass doors of the newest Dream Home in Westlake, and it’s as if you’ve stepped into a gallery where lines of sight take you off in multiple directions. Straight ahead, and you’re in the 6,700-squarefoot Spanish Mediterranean transitional home’s great room, which opens onto a covered patio, hot tub and pool through four sliding sectional glass doors. Transitional design brings the outdoors in, dramatically expanding the living space, and the Summer 2017 Dream Home at 2017 Granada Trail is up to the challenge. “You’re suddenly open to the air,” the builder, Curt DuBose, says.

Look up into the entryway atrium, and you get a glimpse of the game room loft that serves as an enormous landing for the second floor, its three bedroom suites, and big covered veranda.

Turn left, and you’re in the formal dining room, warmly lit with 12 glass pendants and splashed with light from the Dream Home’s entry courtyard. Turn right, and step into the spacious home office with generous white oak built-in cabinets and a secret entry to a private guest casita that has its own exterior entry onto the front courtyard. A glass-curtained tile wine room, lit with cascading LEDs, is tucked into the nook beneath the stairs that lead to the loft.

Step further into the great room, and off to the right, there’s the first-floor game room, which opens onto the covered patio through a sliding-glass-door

wall on one side, and onto a pergolacovered patio through double doors on another side.

To the left of the great room is the master suite, which opens onto the covered patio through small French doors. A massive bath and shower provide Dream Home’s future owner with a spalike retreat.

A functional modern kitchen –packed with the latest appliances – and a breakfast bar open into the great room and a second, informal dining space.

“Everything has real clean lines,” says DuBose, a managing partner for Vesta Custom Homes, the Dream Home builder. “The building world has always been caught up in texture and paint and all things that interfere with clean lines.”

Dream Home’s arrays of windows help light move through. AVID Associates, the Dallas-based interior designer for the Westlake project, augmented the spaces with light fixtures and fans in metals and woods that blend antique, modern and industrial looks.

Upstairs, more invites. The three bedrooms open into the upstairs game room loft, which opens onto a covered veranda through a wall of sliding glass doors. The veranda, almost as big as the loft, overlooks the tub and pool that are built into a gently sloping hill.

And Dream Home is smart too. The future owner will be able to easily control functions like air and heat, audio and visual, and security. And, the system is upgradable. “It’s fully automated,” DuBose says.

The dining room's light ﬁxture is a "deconstructed chandelier" providing a layered look.

A contemporary gate opens to the home's multiple garages provided by Open Up Garage Doors.

The great room opens to a covered patio, hot tub and pool.

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The grand foyer with double glass doors.

The oversized master suite features a massive light and airy bathroom.

An informal dining space sits next to the back staircase leading up to the second ﬂoor.

The game room has a white oak bar topped with Brazilian quartzite.

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2017 Granada Trail, Westlake 76262

Slight changes were made to the ﬂoorplan throughout the building process.

SECOND

Dream Home No. 14: Westlake

The five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath Westlake Dream Home is the latest in the magazine’s long-running series, in which the magazine teams with builders and vendors to showcase the latest in home design and fashion.

Dream Home is nestled in the heart of Westlake, close to Texas 114, Southlake Town Square, Solana, and Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. It overlooks the Entrada European village under development nearby. Residents have access to either Westlake or Southlake public schools, “which is unbelievable,” DuBose says.

Vesta is building the Dream Home on spec. Our vendors, working in conjunction with the builder, offer up everything from the trusses to the drywall, interior amenities, swimming pool and landscaping.

Dona Robinson Associates of Brigg’s Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty, the magazine’s official Dream Home

Realtor, is listing it at $2.495 million.

Dream Home is the latest project for Vesta, which is preparing to rebrand as PentaVia. Vesta has 14 homes underway in Granada and is building 12 townhomes in the neighboring Entrada development “that will lead to 72 townhomes that we will do,” DuBose says.

DuBose has been building homes for 20 years, including in the Park Cities and Preston Hollow and for the Kaleidoscope of Homes luxury showcase. Vesta’s rebrand will focus on homes in three price ranges: $450,000-$750,000, $1 million-$1.5 million, and $1.6 million and up.

DuBose’s company provides digital simulations of its homes to prospective buyers, using virtual reality Google Cardboard headsets to allow customers to take virtual tours before they buy. “It’s enabling the customer to touch, see, feel the space before it’s built,” he says.

AVID: Southlake-born

AVID Associates, founded in 2010 in Dallas by the Southlake resident Alana Villanueva, specializes in interior architectural detail. It’s involved at construction in 90 percent of its projects, working with the architects and builders to influence traffic flow and design of spaces. Seventy-five percent of its projects are residential, including “a lot of specs,” Villanueva says.

The three-employee firm recently completed work on a home in Dallas’ Highland Park, which sold for $6 million, Villanueva says. The firm also does corporate work, including a 10,000-square-foot conference center and kitchen in a corporate office in Coppell, and a conference room, office, bar, and retail space for a luxury jewelry boutique in Dallas’ Galleria Towers. AVID also is looking to add more wellness and LEED-certified energy-efficient projects to its portfolio, Villanueva says.

Villanueva, who has an associate degree in interior design from Wade College in Dallas, started her career in

2003, working on the upscale private neighborhood Vaquero in Westlake. She moved to the Dallas Design Group, where she spent five years before deciding to go out on her own, giving her more freedom to be mom to her four children. “Friday is work-fromhome day,” she says.

For the Dream Home, AVID is doing the interior architectural detailing, choosing the floor, molding, lighting, plumbing fixtures, cabinetry, paint, countertops, tile, stonework, and exterior paint and stains. She’s also doing the interior and exterior staging and, off of the Dream Home project, launched a staging company.

For Dream Home, Villanueva and her team chose a color palette full of greens, blues, aquas, teals and yellows.

“Soothing tones,” she says. The fixtures throughout the home are largely of modern-slanting metals and LED lights, art pieces in themselves. For staging, Villanueva brought in artworks to augment the transitional and modern spaces and commissioned a number of custom-made furniture pieces.

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Soothing and neutral paint colors are used throughout the home.

A Chihuly-inspired light ﬁxture in an upstairs bedroom.

First Impressions

Walk up to the Dream Home, and you’re greeted first by its spacious courtyard, with living spaces built around an exterior fireplace and an outside entry to a guest casita. Such extroversion is not unusual among homes in the neighborhood, Villanueva says.

Enter Dream Home through its big metal-framed glass doors, built by the Dream Home vendor Durango Doors, and you step onto the light and airy engineered white oak wooden floors AVID chose.

The atrium entryway is accented by a polished nickel globe fixture with light produced by LED tape on the interior.

Villanueva framed the entries to the dining and great rooms with ebonystained, 1-by-12 pine moldings, matching the color in the kitchen cabinets and fireplace accents in the great room and adding elegance to the modern spaces. “It defines the spaces,” she says.

For the lighted, glass-enclosed refrigerated wine room, beneath the staircase that leads to the second floor, Villanueva chose interlocking natural limestone for 3-D texture on the back wall, the same treatment she uses for a niche separating the dining and great rooms.

Floating ceiling-to-floor wine racks provide a vintage view of several hundred bottles. “It’s almost an art installation in itself,” Villanueva says.

Dream Home's front entrance.

A dramatic wine room is tucked in a nook beneath the stairs in the front entry.

The entry foyer offers a view of the formal dining room and many other spaces inside the home.

AVID Associates, the designer on the Dream Home project, used soothing tones with pops of color throughout the home.

The Kitchen Source installed vertical grain high pressure laminate that provides detail beneath the waterfall island.

Sit Down and Eat

The dining room is augmented by a triple-pendant fixture, with blown glass globes with smoked and black hues.

Dream Home doesn’t incorporate many interior architectural elements, so “the lighting was really called into action to be a focal point,” Villanueva says.

AVID staged the dining room with an ebony tabletop on a carved, linear sculpted base, dining chairs in gray woven fabrics, and abstract art pieces.

Dream Home’s kitchen, which flows into the great room in a big open space, shows off the work of The Kitchen Source, Dream Home’s exclusive provider of kitchen cabinetry, and the appliance package installed by Expressions Home Gallery. The kitchen includes Wood-

Double pendants by Elan Zanne light the Dream Home's kitchen island.

A nook provides a space for an additional bar in the dining room.

An abstract rug provides hues of blue and a mix of warm and cool tones.

Mode fine custom cabinetry and Brookhaven by Wood-Mode.

“We have featured some of our latest soft contemporary finishes, including the sleek white back-painted glass doors and vertical grain high-pressure laminate on the island, which incorporates our integrated hardware,” says Elizabeth Tranberg, The Kitchen Source’s designer.

The cabinetry also uses ebony wirebrushed white oak. The island cabinetry is done in gray-stained white oak. Select cabinets include interior LEDs that turn on when the doors open and illuminate the contents. The Kitchen Source did the refrigerator and freezer wall in a rich cherry finish; the wall conceals a coffee bar and hidden door to the walk-in pantry.

The island countertop and breakfast bar are done in Cristallo Quartz natural stone, with mitered edges and waterfall sides, provided by KLZ Stone.

“The material is brought in from Brazil and will illuminate with undercounter lighting,” says Maggie Addison of KLZ. “Beautiful, subtle and peaceful.” The countertop is accented by stainless hardware provided by Pierce Decorative Hardware & Plumbing, which provided fixtures throughout Dream Home.

A wall surrounding the vent hood is created with porcelain limestone-effect, tile-clad. The vent hood is covered with a sheet of gray back-painted glass. The backsplash is a linear porcelain plank.

AVID again uses lighting to elevate the space, bring some modern lines into the kitchen, and offset the dark colors. Villanueva brought in frost-textured glass pendants 42 inches above the countertop. “It has a cascading waterfall effect,” Villanueva says.

Dream Home’s panel-ready appliance package starts with a Wolf 60-inch dual fuel range with six burners and infrared dual griddle. The range offers more than nine cubic feet of convection capacity in two ovens.

Dream Home’s kitchen also sports SubZero: a 36-inch integrated column refrigerator with internal water dispenser and soft-close doors and drawers, a 36-inch integrated column freezer, and a 15-inch ice maker. Dream Home’s dishwasher is a 24-inch XXL panel-ready Asko.

The kitchen and breakfast bar flow into an informal dining space that flows into the great room. Villanueva positioned a straight banquette against a wall, with rustic distressed white oak tables with chrome legs and seating.

KLZ Stone did the island in a Cristallo Quartz natural stone.

Red knobs on the Wolf 60-inch dual fuel range provide a pop of color.

The Great Room

One of the great room’s focal points is a fireplace with a limestone-clad surround and ebony-stained wood mantel. A second focal point is a floating, drop-down sheetrock ceiling element that Villanueva augmented with three circular ebony and LED-lit fixtures, in wood veneer.

AVID staged the large great room with two conversation areas. A sofa in gray brushed velvet with accent pillows highlights one of the spaces. Two sculpture accent chairs with burnished metal frames, a cocktail table in ebony and nickel, and petrified wood side tables complete the vignette. Artwork and ethnic and tribal-themed accessories accentuate the space. Villanueva staged the second great room space with a glass cocktail table and two swivel chairs.

The great room boasts built-in cabinets and a ﬁreplace with limestone-clad surround.

Interlocking natural limestone adds texture to a niche between the living and dining rooms.

The large great room provides multiple seating spaces and a seamless ﬂow to the back patio.

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Study in Flexibility

The study and casita give Dream Home’s new owner plenty of flexibility. Combined, the suite can be a two-room home office with its own bathroom and exterior entrance. “It can be a great home office,” Villanueva says.

She staged the room with its own entry as a guest bedroom. “It’s a destination space, with almost a cabana feeling,” she says. She’s brought in a distressed wood canopy bed with polished nickel accents, an accent chair, and natural gemstones and minerals showcased in the art and accessories.

Villanueva staged the study, separated from the casita by a hidden door in the built-in cabinetry, with a floating desk in the middle of the room, fashioned of riftcut white oak and an invisible acrylic leg. “We had it fabricated for the house,” she says. The built-in white oak credenza includes an emerald quartzite countertop.

A hidden door in the study leads to a casita for guests.

Glass doors lead to the Dream Home's study.

The calming bath with eclectic lighting in the Dream Home's casita.

The home's casita overlooks the front courtyard through arch windows and has its own exterior entrance.

Playtime

The game room, just off of the great room, includes a bar done in oak. Its countertop is a Brazilian quartzite that boasts large quartz and mica formations throughout.

Villanueva staged the room with a glass-topped game table and sculptured metal base and four chairs, and a pool table, all furnished by Fort Worth Billiards, a Dream Home vendor.

The adjoining carpeted media room, which opens from the game room through a set of pocket doors, shows off four overstuffed barrel swivel chairs in textured black and ivory fabric, a hammered round cocktail table, and two bar-height tables and chairs in the room’s corners, all oriented toward a big wall-mounted flat panel.

Four swivel chairs anchor the media room.

Fort Worth Billiards provided the pool table for the game room.

A circular pearl light ﬁxture hangs above the bed in the master bedroom.

Getaway: Master Suite

The multi-room master suite is highlighted by a circular, globe glass pearl light fixture in the bedroom. Villanueva augmented the room space with a king bed and upholstered wingback headboard, two sculptured nightstands, an ebony and polished nickel credenza, and circular mirror with a plaster and silver finish.

Dream Home is full of surprises, and a barn-style door separates the bedroom from the master bath. The bath features a large, sauna-like, floor-to-ceiling glass-walled shower and built-in tub enclosure, with a central door. The shower features spa, rain and handheld heads. The bathroom floors and walls are finished in large-format porcelain stone

to match the Calcutta Caldia marble countertops from Italy.

“The perfect piece of transitional stone,” KLZ’s Addison says.“It’s very modern,” Villanueva says.

The cabinetry is done in white oak, with a floating system that doesn’t extend to the floor. Storage is all drawers – no doors – and the wooden surround hides two medicine cabinets.

A glass mosaic wall by Daltile creates a geometric backsplash above the oversized floating vanity. An assortment of rectangular mirrors, broken up by two pendant lights, emphasizes the pattern.

The master bath also features a water closet, big walk-in closet, and bonus massage room.

Porcelain stone tile on the wall and ﬂoors of the master bath match the Calcutta Caldia marble countertops.

A combination of mirrors and windows create a geometric pattern above the ﬂoating master cabinets.

A room off the master suite is staged as a massage room.

Upstairs: Kids’ Cave

Dream Home is full of art – and places to display it – and, on the way up the main staircase to the second floor, Villanueva made use of a big landing wall for a sculpture and art installation. She’s put in a 3-D white cube accent with silver leaf mounted on the wall. And in a niche at the top of the stairs, Villanueva also brought in original art.

The second-floor entertainment loft leads to the three upstairs children’s bedrooms and to a covered patio that overlooks the pool.

For the room, Villanueva chose a sofa, chaise lounge, cocktail table, and swivel chair, oriented toward a wallmounted flat panel screen. A snack bar with tile backsplash serves the kids and their guests.

One of the three bedrooms is tailored for a boy, with cool tones and slate blue accents. The king bed frame is in rustic wood. Villanueva chose an accent chair with a brass base. The porcelain-clad

shower wall incorporates petrified wood imagery.

A second upstairs bedroom is for a girl, with a textured glass blossom light fixture that’s an homage to the glass artist Dale Chihuly, featuring polished chrome detail and petals made of Murano glass imported from Italy. “It’s made to look like a piece of artwork,” says Shannon Nogar, lighting manager for Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting Gallery, which provided Dream Home’s ceiling, wall, under-counter, and stair lights.

Villanueva furnished the room with an ivory-tufted wingback headboard and king bed, scalloped Dorothy Draper-inspired nightstands, a 3-D floral framed mirror, chair and natural-specimen shadow boxes. The bathroom shower is done in polished porcelain tile in ivory and cream.

A third bedroom is furnished with a king bed and upholstered headboard in bronze fabric, abstract art and a colorful rug. An umber-colored leather wing chair sits as an accent near a window.

The second ﬂoor game loft.

A snack bar with tile backsplash in the corner of the game loft.

Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting installed a Chihuly-inspired light ﬁxture in one of the upstairs bedrooms.

Rustic hardware and ﬁxtures in an upstairs bathroom.

The designer infused rustic accents into the upstairs bedroom staged for a boy.

Each upstairs bedroom has its own bathroom.

The designer staged a third upstairs bedroom with a tufted upholstered bedframe.

A leather wing chair in one of the upstairs bedrooms.

A ﬂoral framed mirror above a vantiy/ writing desk in a staged girl's room.

Transitional: Bringing the Outside In Transitional design brings the outdoors into the living space. Dream Home’s great room sweeps into the covered living space, shielded from the heat by retractable screens provided by Southwest Shade Solutions.

Our outdoor furniture vendor, Yard Art, outfitted the patio with a dining room table and chaise lounges around the pool. It also provided the outdoor kitchen beneath a pergola outside the game room. For the upstairs veranda, Villanueva brought in a U-shaped sectional.

The pool, built by Watercrest Pools, includes a negative-edge hot tub just off of the covered patio. “Motion elicits emotion,” says DuBose, the builder.

Vesta’s designs embrace five principles, DuBose says: physical, intellectual, social, emotional, and personal/spiritual.

Physical encompasses the building and its environs. The intellectual aspect of design encourages exploration, he says. Example: a kids’ playroom with a stage. Social: “How does the house facilitate communication?” Emotional: “Where does the Christmas tree go? And the very next question is, how’s Christmas going to present as the kids come down the stairs?” Personal and spiritual: “How do we set up a home so it engages and challenges you?”

“It’s not just about the house,” says DuBose, who’s signed on to build the magazine’s 2018 spring Dream Home, a $2.9 million modern transitional hacienda in the second phase of Granada. “It’s about the wedding in the backyard. It’s about bringing the baby home for the first time. It’s about Christmas morning, the high school graduations.”

A night view of the Dream Home's pool, hot tub and expansive patio.

A view of the pool and hot tub from an upstairs exterior balcony.

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Here’s who’s who in Fort Worth Magazine’s Summer 2017 Dream Home:

BUILDER :

Vesta Custom Homes

660 N Carroll Ave. Southlake, Texas 76092 | 817-768-3884 vestacustomhomes.com

INTERIOR DESIGN AND DECORATION : AVID Associates

135 Pittsburgh, Suite A3 Dallas, Texas 75207 | 214-934-7374 avidassoc.com

REALTOR :

Dona Robinson Associates, Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty 112 State Street #200 Suite 102 Southlake, Texas 76092 | 214-906-7069 donarobinson.com

AIR AND HEAT:

J&S Air Inc.

7307 Business Place Arlington, Texas 76001-7135 | 817-695-1840 jsair.com

APPLIANCES:

Expressions Home Gallery

325 Commerce Street, Suite 100 Southlake, Texas 76092 | 682-6514000 expressionshomegallery.com

AV AND LOW-VOLTAGE WIRING : Universal Systems

2960 Wesley Way Fort Worth, Texas 76118 | 817-589-9966 uni-sys.com

BUILDING MATERIALS: BMC

104 E. Hurst Blvd. Hwy 10 Hurst, Texas 76053 | 817-737-8877 buildwithbmc.com

CABINETS:

Chip’s Cabinets & Baths

7503 U.S. Highway 287 South Arlington, Texas 76001 | 817-478-2447 chipskitchens.com

COUNTERTOPS AND GRANITE FABRICATION: KLZ Stone Supply 11129 Zodiac Lane, Suite 300 Dallas, Texas 75229 | 972-807-6187 klzstone.com

DRYWALL:

Partin Drywall

P.O. Box 952 Boyd, Texas 76023 | 940-433-8305

ENTRY, FRONT: Durango Doors

4015 West Vickery Blvd. Fort Worth, Texas 76107 | 817-368-5709 durangodoors.com

FABRICATION :

Century Granite & Marble

695 E. State Highway 114 Southlake, Texas 76092 | 817-329-9499 centurygranitemarble.com

FIREPLACE, EXTERIOR/FIREPLACE AND STONE:

Metro Brick and Stone 2184 Joe Field Road Dallas, Texas 75229 | 972-991-4488 metrobrick.com

FIRE SPRINKLERS:

Haynes Fire Protection 2129 Carlotta Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76177 | 682-365-8343 haynesfire.com

FLOORING, CARPET AND HARDWOODS: Vintage Floors

3004 W. Lancaster St. Fort Worth, Texas 76107 | 817-877-1564 vintagefloors.co

GARAGE DOORS:

Open Up Garage Doors

10500 E. Hurst Blvd. Hurst, Texas 76053 | 817-399-9092 openupgaragedoors.com

GUTTERS: Loveless Gutters 6816 Harmonson Road North Richland Hills, Texas 76180 | 817-590-2583 lovelessgutter.com

HARDWARE: Pierce Fine Decorative Hardware and Plumbing 4030 West Vickery Blvd. Fort Worth, Texas 76107 | 817-737-9090 piercehardware.com

INSULATION : Red Oak Insulation

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Wild Wild Westlake Academy

Meet Westlake Academy, the little Texas charter school with a growing reputation.

| by Samantha Calimbahin | photos by Alex Lepe |

About 35 minutes from Fort Worth, nestled between winding roads, stately houses and stretches of open land, a school sits on top of a hill. The campus, covering about 23 acres, is not out of place from its surroundings – the buildings are noted for their wood and stone architecture, reminiscent of a vacation lodge. Cattle graze just directly across the street, and geese have been known to roam the school's athletic fields.

Then, in the midst of the country-like serenity, come reminders that this place is indeed a school. Sounds of children playing on the playground. Backpacks sprawled across a walkway. Cardboard milk boxes and lunch bags on a picnic table. All the things any other school would have.

But this is Westlake Academy – a town-owned, K-12 International Baccalaureate (IB) charter school in Westlake, Texas.

Being an IB charter school means Westlake Academy follows both the state requirements and format of the IB curriculum. And being owned by the town means elements of the school and the Town of Westlake overlap. The superintendent, for example, is the town manager. The town council, including the mayor, are all part of the school board.

And somehow, it all seems to be playing together in Westlake Academy’s favor. The school has a waitlist of more than 2,300 students (830 students were enrolled this past school year, and 856 are expected for next year). It’s getting national attention too. This year, U.S. News and World Report gave Westlake Academy a “gold” medal, ranking it as the No. 253 high school in the nation and No. 43 high school in Texas – a drop from No. 9, but only because the IB organization didn’t submit its data to U.S. News as it had done in previous years.

needs of struggling students, and additional facilities.

In short, the work at Westlake Academy is far from over.

“The communities of the future that are going to be successful are the ones that are based on knowledge,” Brymer said. “Not just information, but knowledge.”

ANY GIVEN SCHOOL DAY

It's the last week of school.

Westlake Academy's executive director Mechelle Bryson steps through the momentarily quiet halls of a PYP/MYP building (that is, Primary Years Programme and Middle Years Program, as the IB divides grades by Primary, Middle and Diploma). From the lobby, the building resembles a cabin. Long wooden beams stretch across a high ceiling. A modern, circular chandelier hangs overhead. Two lounges, used as study spaces, each have its own fireplace.

Dr. Bryson asks how the student is.

The design is meant to let the “outdoor influence the indoor,” Bryson said. The school is surrounded by open field after all.

Bryson stops at a sixthgrade classroom and peeks inside. A student in glasses and a bright orange polo shirt immediately recognizes her.

“I am well,” he responds – notably, a grammatically correct response, as opposed to the typical “good.”

But while rankings are nice, the school isn’t putting too much stock on its laurels, says superintendent and town manager Tom Brymer, who went on a retreat with administration shortly after the school year ended to discuss what’s next for Westlake Academy. Among factors the school has on its radar are growth, meeting the

Bryson asks what he is learning, and he explains the scientific method – one of the last lessons before classes break for the summer. They wave goodbye as Bryson floats through the rest of the campus. It’s not uncommon for a student to say hello, or simply tell her that a class is in session or out on a field trip

Aerial shot of Westlake Academy campus. Photo by William Gibbons

when she pokes her head through the door.

Elements of Westlake Academy’s teaching methods are well in play. In one room, each student is using an iPad – as part of the school’s 1:1 iPad program, which provides all students with iPads for academic purposes – as a guide to construct animals with plastic shapes. In another room, students examine a work by modern artist Marc Chagall on a projector and are prompted to draw their own personal interpretation of the work. In another, exercise balls act as desk seats for students who get a little fidgety.

HOW TO GET IN:

Westlake Academy is an open enrollment school, so the main requirement for getting in is one’s area of residence. Students who live within the boundaries of Westlake town limits get priority enrollment, and students living in approved surrounding areas are placed on a lottery and notiﬁed in August as to whether they have a spot or not. Still, the majority of Westlake Academy’s students don’t actually live in Westlake. Approximately 30 percent of students are from the town, while the rest are from approved surrounding areas.

But it’s not all fun and games. Fifth-graders, for example, take part in Exhibition – a required culminating project in which Primary students synthesize all elements of the IB Primary Years Programme curriculum, spending months preparing a presentation for peers and community members. Sophomores spend the year working on a Personal Project, required for graduation from the IB Middle Years Programme, in which students must complete a year-long independent project of inquiry into any area of interest, whether it be writing a book, interning at a hospital, or becoming an “expert” in the subject matter of their choice.

By the time students reach their junior and senior years, they’re expected to take at least three higher level courses (along with courses titled Theory of Knowledge and Creative Action Service), complete a maximum 4,000-word extended essay within two years, and spend

about three weeks taking the IB Diploma Programme exams.

Bryson said she likes to think of the curriculum in this way – the state requirements dictate “what” needs to be taught in each grade, while IB guides “how” it should be taught. Writing is heavily emphasized throughout the curriculum, as well as the concept of “deconstructing” knowledge, Bryson said.

“It’s not enough just to know,” she said. “You have to know how you know.”

According to the school, 100 percent of Westlake Academy graduates since 2010 have been accepted into college. This year’s valedictorian will attend the California Institute of Technology, while the salutatorian is going to Yale. Westlake Academy keeps up with its students too, using the National Student Clearinghouse to track how many students are actually staying in college, how long they are enrolled, and how many are graduating with a degree. According to Bryson, about 90 percent of Westlake Academy’s first graduating class (2010) has a college degree.

“We try to teach our students to stay curious longer,” Bryson said. Bryson reports to the town manager (that is, Brymer) since Westlake Academy is owned by the Town of Westlake. It’s a concept known as a “shared service model,” or as Brymer likes to call it, “a plate of spaghetti or marble cake.”

“You can’t treat them as a dichotomy,” he said. “They’re very blended, so you have to work closely together.”

WELCOME TO TOWN Working for both the town and the school can be a matter of juggling, as “no two days seem alike,” says mayor and school board president Laura Wheat. Wheat’s day can start at 6 a.m. and end at 11:30 p.m. Her schedule shows a mix of school and town functions, from speaking at an awards

Westlake Academy Board President / Mayor Laura Wheat, Trustee / Council Member Michael Barrent, and Trustee / Mayor Pro Tem Carol Langdon pitch in to help students plant vegetables in the new garden.

Executive Director Mechelle Bryson

ceremony to leading a town hall meeting. But she still makes time for herself, squeezing in a little Peloton and learning Spanish through online programs Duolingo and Fluencia.

“The school board piece is probably more challenging than the town piece because you’re dealing with people’s most precious assets – their children,” Wheat said.

The Town of Westlake offices sit about 10 minutes from the school, inside the modern and manicured Solana office complex. It doubles as a school administration office, since both the school and town share the same finance director, human resources director, facilities director, communications director and other various employees.

“Westlake Academy is very much a department of the town, in much the same way that the utility department is a department of the town, or fire and EMS,” Wheat said. “It’s who we are.”

The shared service model had been the plan for Westlake Academy since day one. Westlake Academy was the brainchild of former Mayor Scott Bradley, who began conceptualizing the school around the late ‘90s. The school opened in 2003.

The integration of town and school creates a “different type of mentality,” since both staffs work together, Wheat said. Brymer said sharing employees helps avoid duplication of service and cost to both school and government.

The key to making it work, Bryson said, is to maintain a close relationship between both entities.

“It really is a beautiful model,” she said. “Those relationships become very critical – those relationships that the teachers have with the municipal staff, and that the municipal staff has with our teachers… It’s very important that we cultivate those relationships and remember that we’re one school together, but we’re also one organization together.”

AN UPHILL CLIMB

Managing growth is currently one of the school’s priorities. While most classes are held in the school’s main facilities, some are still held in portable metal buildings within the school’s campus. The Board of Trustees is currently revisiting its facilities plan to find ways to accommodate more students.

Along with facility growth, Bryson said Westlake Academy continues to tackle issues like instructional scaffolding – how to support both the struggling students and the students who are ahead. She also said the school wants to better connect students

with Westlake Academy’s history and give students a “Westlake Academy identity.”

“When you’re taking people from different communities and making them one community, that is the challenge,” she said. “We’re an open enrollment charter school, bringing in students and helping them academically get to where they need to be, so that at the end of the 12th grade, they truly are college ready.”

WHAT IS IB?

International Baccalaureate, or IB, is a nonproﬁt educational organization that provides a specialized, and often more rigorous, curriculum to schools in more than 140 countries. The curriculum focuses on six main tenets: Who We Are, Where We Are in Place and Time, How We Express Ourselves, How the World Works, How We Organize Ourselves, and Sharing the Planet. Schools must become authorized in order to offer IB, and Westlake Academy is one of just four Texas schools to offer the curriculum from kindergarten through 12th grade.

One of the school’s most recent additions is an outdoor learning center, which opened in May. According to Westlake Academy, the $116,000 project was funded entirely by the Westlake Academy Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to raising money for the school. Brymer said the school’s funding comes primarily from both the foundation and the state, with 80 percent of revenue coming from the state, and 20 percent from the foundation.

Leading up to the outdoor learning center is a concrete path lined with painted rocks and animal footprints. The half-acre plot of land features planter boxes in which students can grow and study plants, conduct experiments and work on projects. The second phase of the project will include a large sundial, compass and 35-foot ruler.

It’s all situated on top of a hill, overlooking the vast, open fields encircling the campus. Bryson, while sitting on a bench near the planter beds, said the outdoor learning center also makes for a picturesque study space.

Still, she says, the pretty spaces and fancy resources are ultimately meant to serve Westlake Academy’s bottom line: learning. And while Westlake Academy may look like it’s on top of the hill – both literally and figuratively – the climb is just getting started.

“Every day when I get up and drive here, my goal is to help Westlake Academy become the best place for teachers to teach and for students to learn,” Bryson said. “I believe that we have all the tools to make that a reality.”

The lobby inside a PYP/MYP building.

Here Comes the Boom

Why the Alliance area is Fort Worth’s hottest place to live and work right now...and why it keeps getting hotter.

| by Samantha Calimbahin with Kacie Galloway |

FROM ATOP THE HILL AT THE INTERSECTION OF HERITAGE TRACE PARKWAY AND INTERSTATE 35 WEST, the Fort Worth skyline comes into view 10 miles to the south, but turn west, and what was once a couple of small neighborhoods and horse ranches is now a sea of suburban homes. Along a stretch of Bonds Ranch Road, swaths of private acreage have been sold, cleared and leveled for new construction. Stoplights, water lines and wider roads have been added in anticipation of even more growth in the areas around Saginaw, Haslet, Westlake, Keller and Roanoke.

People have been moving to the Alliance corridor and north Fort Worth area for more than a decade – the driving force being jobs. The recently opened Facebook data center and other proposed developments show signs this trend will continue. With affordable housing, a moderate commute and large business parks in Westlake and Alliance, it goes without saying that the north Fort Worth area is a significant draw for many families as well as businesses. However, while residential communities have expanded significantly over the past decade, the area has been sorely lacking in convenient and diverse

shopping, dining and entertainment. That is, until now. (Hello, Alliance Town Center and Presidio Junction.)

And while it may seem as if north Fort Worth is just now starting to become a destination, Robert Sturns, economic development director at the City of Fort Worth, says the “Alliance boom” isn’t so much a recent phenomenon. Rather, it’s the result of careful planning by visionaries like former Mayor Bob Bolen and Ross Perot, Jr., founder of development company Hillwood, which owns the 18,000-acre, master-planned community, AllianceTexas. According to Hillwood, AllianceTexas

Fidelity Investments is just one of the many businesses ofﬁcing in Alliance.

“It is very uncommon to have an area of the city that’s experienced that kind of growth – all different types of growth, being business, retail, residential –it all seems to come together at Alliance."

ROBERT STURNS

is responsible for an economic impact of approximately $64 billion.

“It is very uncommon to have an area of the city that’s experienced that kind of growth – all different types of growth, being business, retail, residential – it all seems to come together at Alliance,” Sturns said.

DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WORKS

A number of factors come into play in Alliance’s favor, Sturns says. Among them – proximity to Alliance Airport, availability of land and affluent residents. But it’s Hillwood, perhaps, that remains as one of the area’s most influential players, bringing a streamlined approach to development in Alliance as a whole.

“Anytime that you have one main company that is really taking the lead and involved in the vision, I think that’s helpful in keeping a consistent idea of what the development should be,” Sturns said. “If you have that one large player that’s guiding things, you don’t have a lot of hodgepodge development.”

Hillwood’s key to success? One word: planning.

“We have planned and planned and replanned many times,” said Bill Burton, executive vice president of Hillwood Properties.

Development of Alliance really began around the late 1980s with the construction of Alliance Airport, Burton said. The airport, coupled with the BNSF Intermodal Facility built later, “changed the whole dynamics and trajectory of our development,” Burton said, creating connectivity between Alliance and the world, from the West Coast to Asia. Growth in logistics and industry gave rise to residential growth, which then gave rise to retail. Between July

2015 and July 2016, the Tarrant County population increased by more than 35,000 people, and with the waves of new residents finally came a wave of development.

Hillwood is responsible for one of the first retail projects to break ground in the area – Alliance Town Center, home to a Kroger Marketplace, Sam Moon, Cinemark XD, Haverty’s, JCPenney, Rooms to Go, Mi Cocina, Chuy’s, and Plucker’s Wing Bar, to name a few. In total, it’s home to more than 39 restaurants, 41 retail shops and is still growing, with new restaurants, luxury apartments and parks and trail systems rolling out in multiple phases. The mixed-use project has recently debuted several comprehensive medical facilities, including fullservice hospitals and emergency rooms. When the project is complete, it will feature up to 2.5 million square feet of Class-A office space, hotel and conference venues and extensive residential options for individuals and families.

But Hillwood’s Alliance Town Center isn’t alone. Across the highway sits the new Presidio Junction, which has added more than 60 tenants since it opened and is anchored by a Costco Wholesale, Target, WinCo Foods and Main Event. There are the staples – think Starbucks and popular fast food chains, and there are also more unique offerings like Texas’ first Chicken Salad Chick location and Daiso, a popular Japanese value store. Gone are the days when local residents had to drive all the way to Southlake or downtown Fort Worth for their weekend errands.

Even the beloved home furnishing store IKEA is vying for a piece of the action in north Fort Worth. The Swedish company submitted a proposal earlier this year to

build on the southwest corner of North Tarrant Parkway and I-35W. Construction on the 289,000-square-foot store and 900 parking spaces could begin in the summer of 2018, creating 500 jobs during the construction phase and 250 once it opens, according to a news release. Day trips to Frisco for sheepskin rugs, classic bookcases and Swedish meatballs will be a thing of the past come 2019, when the store is set to open.

Another developer, NTP 35, is aiming to further expand the opportunities in north Fort Worth, planning a mixed-use project anchored by the proposed IKEA. The development will include 75,000 square feet of Class-A office space, 66,000 square feet of retail/commercial space and 48,000 square feet of restaurant space, which could further diversify the offerings in the area.

About eight miles north, across from Texas Motor Speedway, the Champions Circle development is in full swing as well, with the 18-hole Golf Club at Champions Circle already drawing visitors. The 500-acre site will feature a Tanger outlet mall — set to open in late October of this year, just in time for holiday shopping — as well as restaurants, hundreds of new apartments and much more. The Tanger outlets will feature 75 different brands, including Banana Republic, Children’s Place, Express, Gap, H&M, Levi’s, Nike and Restoration Hardware. All of this will be located right beside the recently opened Buc-ee’s Travel Center, a Texas-sized gas station and convenience store chain that has earned a revered cult following thanks to its always-clean restrooms and extensive food, beverage and gift selections.

“Everything points to [Alliance] being a high-growth area for us,” Sturns said. “I don’t anticipate anything slowing down that growth.”

A PLACE TO PLAY, WORK AND LIVE Embracing the latest trends in urban living and wellness, area developers have pursued options focusing on convenience,

sustainability, quality design and active, social living. This is especially apparent in the commitment to accessible wellness activities and venues, from carefully designed outdoor spaces to extensive medical facilities. The newly opened 14-acre Bluestem Park at Alliance Town Center was designed with help from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and showcases more than 500 native species of trees, shrubs, grasses and flowers along walking paths and a peaceful stream. Other familyfriendly outdoor activities, such as Food Truck Fridays and outdoor concerts, help draw locals outdoors to the 7-acre pond at Prairie Vista Park.

North Fort Worth has more options than ever when it comes to choosing a place to live.

With the increasing demand for well-planned housing in the DallasFort Worth metroplex, construction will likely not slow down on these developments any time soon. In fact, Tarrant County had the sixth largest population increase in the country last year, and the Dallas-Fort Worth area had the second largest increase (the city of Houston led the nation in population growth).

In addition to the shopping and entertainment, other important services are now easily accessible. Several new health centers, such as Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital and Medical Center Alliance, provide highquality, full-service medical care within a

quick driving distance.

In addition to appealing to potential homeowners, the developers behind the master-planned Alliance Town Center have tapped into unique features to appeal to discerning business-owners. Offering build-to-suit and campus sites with two-story and mid-rise designs, the LEED-certified office spaces are drawing a variety of small and large companies to the region. The extensive retail developments are also promising thousands of new full- and part-time jobs in north Fort Worth, both during construction and after stores open. In addition to the

hundreds of promised jobs coming along with the IKEA store and surrounding development, the Tanger outlet is set to generate 900 or more positions in retail.

While there are still several acres of mesquite-dotted prairie left in north Fort Worth, new developments are rapidly transforming the region. It won’t be long before the area gets its own trendy hashtag and starts drawing city-dwellers outside of their bubble to the north side of town.

“It’s very important how each piece fits together to build this community,” Burton said. “Whether it be a residential or corporate community, it’s knitted together.”

An aerial look at Alliance

Alliance Town Center

Bluestem Park

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Fall 2017 Dream Home: La Cantera

Dream Home’s interior designers bring 17 years of background to the table.

| by Scott Nishimura |

OUR FALL 2017 DREAM HOME, A HILL COUNTRY CONTEMPORARY IN WEST FORT WORTH’S GATED LA CANTERA DEVELOP-

MENT AT TEAM RANCH, is the fourth Dream Home for our interior design and decoration partner, Grandeur Designs. The Dream Home will be “warm and comfortable, fresh,” says Brenda Blaylock, who heads the 17-year-old firm with partner Susan Semmelman. “It has a lot of texture, and texture feeds on texture.”

2017 FALL

DREAM HOME VENDORS

Fort Worth Magazine has contracted with the following companies to date for the 2017 Fall Dream Home, scheduled to tour in October.

Aaron Iron Works: Interior Stairs and Exterior Stairs

Advanced Architectural Stone:

Caststone Surrounds /Mantel/Chimneys

Ajax Glass & Mirrors: Glass Shower

Doors & Mirrors

BMC: Lumber & Trusses, Interior Doors & Trim

Chips Cabinets: Cabinets Other Claffey Pools: Pool & Spa

Durango Doors: Front Door

Expressions Home Gallery: Appliances

Ferguson: Plumbing Hardware/Fixtures, Interior & Exterior House Lighting

Garage Living: Garage Design and Finish-out

Grand Home Design: Architect Plan

Grandeur Design & Interiors: Interior

Design/Window Treatments

Ideal Partners: Foundation/Slab, Security Cameras

Interceramic Tile: Flooring and Backsplash Material

J&S Air: A/C & Heat (HVAC)

J&V Painting: Paint Labor

JetStream Outdoor Cooling: Patio HVAC

Masonry Custom Design: Stone Labor

Kisabeth Custom Furniture: Furniture for Gameroom

KLZ Stone: Countertops

Loveless Gutters: Gutters

Metro Brick: Stone

Nix Fireplace: Fireplace and Firepit

Olde World Finishes: Game Room

Box Beams

Open Up Garage: Garage Doors and Openers

Partin Drywall: Sheetrock

Passion Lighting: Landscape Lighting

Pierce Fine Hardware & Plumbing: Cabinet & Door Hardware

ProServe Plumbing: Plumbing Labor

Red Oak Insulation: Insulation

Sherwin Williams: Paint Material

Southwest Shade Solutions: Veranda Automatic Screens

Tarrant Concrete: Concrete Material

Texas Tile Roofing: Roofing

The Container Store: Master Closet Cabinets

The Granite Shop: Countertop Fabrication

The Kitchen Source: Kitchen Cabinets

The Original Mattress Factory: Mattresses

TX Custom Windows & Doors/Jeldwen:

Wood Windows & Exterior Doors Other Universal Systems: Audio/Video/Cat5/ Home Automation

Vintage Flooring: Flooring and Backsplash Installation, Carpet and Wood Material and Installation

Vineyard Wine Cellars: Wine Storage System for Wine Closet

Whiz-Q: Dry Stack Tile Stone

WinterGreen Synthetic Grass: Pool Deck Mondo Grass

Yard Art Patio and Fireplace: Outdoor Patio Furniture

Views from the Fall Dream Home look toward the downtown skyline.

The exterior is Hill Country Contemporary.

Glass tile in the guest bathroom is set vertically and detailed with a metal circle waterfall mosaic.

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The Dream Home will include a lot of stainless, glass and wood finishes, which Semmelman says will combine for a “very clean urban, yet rustic feel. It’s bringing in a very industrial element.”

Tall ceilings, window arrays and hardwood floors with a distressed feel boost the Dream Home’s warmth. The color palette is full of grays, dove whites, mink and warm silvers, with bright metals and champagne accents. Semmelman and Blaylock have consulted with the homeowners on all of the home’s construction detailing, finishes and furnishings. Grandeur is also designing and constructing window treatments and bedding for the home.

The 5,300-square-foot home, on Estribo Circle in the fast-growing La Cantera development at Team Ranch just inside Loop 820, is the 15th in the magazine’s long-running series of Dream Homes. Fort Worth Magazine teams with builders, designers, decorators and vendors to present the latest in design and fashion trends. The Fall 2017 Dream Home in La Cantera, already sold, will be open for tours in October to benefit a Wish with Wings, a Fort Worth charity that grants wishes to terminally ill children.

The upstairs catwalk.

The Baldridge House | 76107 7,950,000

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22 Mile Ranch | 76044 1,710,000

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1301 Thomas Place | 76107

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DREAM HOME VENDORS WORTH KNOWING

To create our 2017 Dream Home, we relied on the skill and expertise of the best in their ﬁeld. From the builders and decorators to the landscapers and those who helped kick off touring, the combination of their efforts resulted in a home of the highest quality. Whether you are looking to update your house or begin building, those featured on the following pages can help make the dreams for your home become a reality.

The information in this section is provided by the advertisers and has not been independently veriﬁed by Fort Worth Magazine.

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BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: With products and styles for every budget, Daltile delivers the broadest array of tile with unmatched availability, helping customers bring any design imaginable to life. FREE ADVICE: When moving forward with developing a design, it is important for homeowners to focus on the things that will make them happy in their home, addressing current and future needs. Don’t skimp on big-ticket items, like ﬂoor tile or countertops, as those features deﬁne a space. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: The biggest mistake people make when

building a home is focusing on the short-term. When selecting products, it is important to consider how the product will hold up in the future. Will the product last for years to come, or will it need to be replaced in a few short years? A higher price now may prevent maintenance or replacement costs in the future. Choose low-maintenance products, like tile, to simplify life and save money in the long-term.

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Durango Doors of DFW

CONCENTRATION: Since opening our doors in 2003, we have seen the building industry, especially fenestration, make big changes in the form and function of the products that are offered. In the 90s and early 2000s, the largest functioning doors were 16-by-8-foot sliding French doors, where you had two panels opening in the middle and sliding to each side. Now with the advent of bi-folding and multislide doors, those openings can be as big as 30 by 10 foot with door panels bi-folding or sliding and pocketing into a wall. The trends of indoor/outdoor living and more contemporary architecture has spurred the use of bi-folds and multi-slides that are basically moveable walls. GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT: Durango products meet the need of today’s architecture, whether Old World, transitional or contemporary. SPECIALTY: We still sell a significant amount of decorative wrought iron doors, but our thin profiled Millennium Steel Line is becoming the choice of the market. The minimum stiles and rails maximize glass size to provide a sleek open look. We offer our Millennium line in both bi-fold and multi-slide configurations. We think of ourselves as an architectural products boutique, where one

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can go and get a level of personalized service that is not offered at the big box retailers, lumber yards, or millwork companies. All of our products are made to order. In the 2016 Dream Home, we provided a custom designed Millennium entry door with the glass dividers shaped in a “V” fashion. INNOVATIONS: The newest addition to our product line is Panda Windows & Doors. Panda offers thermally broken windows and doors in both bi-fold and multi-slide operations that span ﬂoor to ceiling to accommodate today’s contemporary architecture. Other products we sell include decorative wine gates, stair railings, and gas and electric lanterns. PHILOSOPHY: We always strive to exceed our customers’ expectations through personalized service, creative design, and industry knowledge. PICTURED: Scott Pereth.

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Expressions Home Gallery

FOCUS: At Expressions Home Gallery, we have perfected the home customization experience. We get to know you, your style and your vision. In a relaxed atmosphere, like visiting a friend’s home, you will ﬁnd the perfect elements to complete your dream home. Pick out the appliances that don’t just look great, but also make your life easier. Discover plumbing products that turn a master bath into a home spa. Find just the right lighting to transform a room. Feel the hardware pieces in your hand before they’re installed throughout your home.

When the time comes to pick out the pieces that will make your home stand out, come to a place where you’ll be treated like you deserve. Come to Expressions. WHAT WE OFFER: Attentive customer service by expert showroom representatives; unmatched showroom experience that is low pressure, relaxed and designed to be most comfortable for you; wide assortment of innovative, on-trend appliances, plumbing, lighting and hardware. MEMBERSHIPS/ AFFILIATIONS: GFWBA, NARI, NKBA, ASID, AIA, ALA, TAB, and

Jill Bolton, Caroline Freeman, Amy Burns, and Kevin Adams.

KLZ Stone Supply

FOCUS: KLZ is focused on bringing the design and fabrication community the most exquisite selection of granite and quartz slabs on the market. We scour the best quarries to ensure we always have a wide variety of aesthetics in our slabs to meet whatever look designers are creating. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: We house the largest inventory and selection of stone in the state of Texas with upwards of 30,000 slabs. We are confident we carry every combination of hue and gradient that granite and quartz have to offer. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: If our customers aren’t 100 percent satisfied with the quality of slab, selection and service, then we are 0 percent satisfied. Our job isn’t done until we’ve found the perfect slab for your home. We understand that both the wrong choice and the perfect one are literally set in stone. FREE ADVICE: If you

have a dream, it’s worth the work to make it a reality. You can do it … but only if YOU do! BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: The biggest mistake people make is not budgeting their entire vision before they begin. Budgeting your entire vision before the first board is placed gives the architect and project manager the ability to efficiently plan the project. This saves you money and time and ensures there are no unexpected surprise costs. PICTURED: Robert Gurfinkel and Maggie Addison.

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info@klzstone.com

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Vintage Floors

FOCUS: We specialize in custom wood ﬂoors, tile, stone and carpet. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Our greatest reward is the smile on the faces of happy, satisﬁed clients. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: National Wood Flooring Association, Greater Fort Worth Builders Association, Custom Builders Association, Better Business Bureau, Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA), ASID Industry Partner. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Our ability to maintain a large, loyal client base. We are so privileged to work with wonderful people who refer and recommend us to others. MOTTO: Quality products, trusted service. FREE ADVICE: When making selections for your home, always invest in quality products. Remember, “the bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of a low price is forgotten.” BIGGEST BUILDING MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE:

Being in a hurry to complete the project. When building a new home or remodeling an existing one, please be patient. You can’t rush quality. Unforeseen delays can occur, but you must allow the necessary time to properly complete the project so the quality and craftsmanship are not compromised. PICTURED: (left page, front) Wendy Whitehead, Julie Behr (Interior Designer); (back) Matt Zentell (General Manager), Gary Huckabay, Riggs Byther; (right page, left to right) Nicholas Locke, Bryan Page (President), Tim York, and Brady Gibson.

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bryan@bryansvintageﬂoors.com vintageﬂoors.com

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Aaron Iron Works, Inc.

Stephen Stratton and Todd Brock

HISTORY: After 32 years serving the Metroplex and all parts of Texas and the surrounding states, Aaron Iron has continued to ﬂourish through the range of economies that they have faced in that time. A commitment to industry excellence, safety and quality has taken this company from a local supplier of homeowner driven products such as hand-forged driveway gates and railings to the increasingly demanding arena of commercial construction. This turn of events has grown us into not only a shop providing the decorative elements to complete a structure, but also a shop that erects the structure itself. WHAT SETS US APART: Our ability to design, engineer and create gives us the creative license to take and handle the full metal package on a new project from I-Beams to forged rails. This understanding of the metal aspect on any level gives Aaron the edge in information and perfor-

mance when considering your next project. And, we still value our local homeowner market! PICTURED: This hand-fabricated stair and railing system, designed by the project architects Architexas, involved the creation of hand formed I-Beams, a custom cast poured stair system and hand-forged railings. It is the centerpiece of the Grapevine Convention and Visitor Bureau’s new facility. The engineering, detail and craftsmanship of this project begs the question: “Why call anyone but Aaron Iron to handle our project?”

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AVID Associates, LLC

FOCUS: Interior Design, Construction, Interior Architecture for Residential and Commercial Projects. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: D Home Best Designer, 2011-2017; ASID Award Winning Designs, 45 awards from 2011-2017. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: Allied ASID (American Society of Interior Designers); ICAA (Institute of Classical Architecture and Art). GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Creating luxurious spaces for our clients that create emotional experiences and memories with their families and friends is the driving force behind AVID’s passion for design. PHILOSOPHY: AVID believes that implementation of cohesiveness, innovation and technical advances, value engineering and sound business principles are all key factors that AVID Associates attribute to its projects. FREE ADVICE: Go with what you love. Interior design is more than just a trend; it’s an opportunity for artistic expression of who you are tied into the practicality

of how you live. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Not bringing a designer into a project from the concept phase. We prefer to start a project at the architectural design phase. If we are involved from start to ﬁnish, we can create continuity between architect and design and construction. This is the best way to avoid the client feeling “if I had only” about their project at the completion. PICTURED: Kristin Granger, Senior Designer; Alana Villanueva, Principal Designer; Tara Whyte, Drafter; Maggie Greer, Purchasing Manager.

CONTACT INFORMATION: 214.934.7374 alana@avidassoc.com avidassoc.com

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Century Granite & Marble

FOCUS: Fabrication and installation of granite, marble, onyx, quartz, and limestone for residential projects; countertops for your homes kitchen, master bath, guest baths, and outdoor grill. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: Marble Institute of America Member since 2004, Better Business Bureau Member since 2004. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Supplier for Gaylord Texan (Grapevine), Crescent Hotel (Dallas), Omni Hotel (Las Colinas), The Mansion at Turtle Creek (Dallas), Renaissance Hotel (Austin). Many Dream Homes in Vaquero Estates, Preston Hollow, University Park, Southlake, Westlake, Montserrat, Carillon. MOTTO: Better Living Through Extraordinary Surfaces. We strive to give our customers personal attention to design and install products to accent their living spaces, improving their homes with the beauty of natural

stone surfaces. FREE ADVICE: Today there are so many choices in materials, colors, and options. It can be a dizzying experience to make your selections, to ensure that all things coordinate, and to make sure the ﬁnished product meets your dream expectations. Utilize the knowledge from your team of experts. We have experience from thousands of projects over the past decade. Let us help you bring out the very best in your living spaces. PICTURED: Trevor Arts, Director of Sales.

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trevor@centurygranitemarble.com centurygranitemarble.com

Chip’s Kitchens & Baths

FOCUS: Remodeling kitchens and bathrooms with emphasis on minimal inconvenience to the homeowner. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Better Business Bureau – A-rating accredited business, Angie’s List accredited contractor, Best Picks reports accredited and veriﬁed business. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: N.A.R.I and BBB. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Over 40 years of satisﬁed customers. MOTTO: The customer is always right! 100 Percent Satisfaction! FREE ADVICE: Try not to be too trendy. Pick a timeless and lasting design. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Putting price over quality and not allowing enough time in the selection process.

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Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting Gallery

SPECIALTY: Dreaming of a new kitchen or bath? No one helps homeowners bring their vision to life better than Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting Gallery. See, touch and compare top-selling lighting, appliances, and bath and kitchen products in our Fort Worth showroom. WHAT SETS US APART: Whether you’re renovating an outdated bathroom or designing your dream kitchen, Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting Gallery can help. Our state-of-the-art showroom is stocked with beautifully displayed products in a welcoming, hands-on environment. From lighting and appliances, to bath and kitchen faucets, ﬁxtures and accessories, Ferguson’s knowledgeable product experts ensure your selections are perfect for your project. Our pas-

sion for customer service is easy to see after just one visit to one of our ﬁve Dallas-Fort Worth showrooms. PICTURED: (left to right) Angela Wiseman, Kaitlin

and

Spaans, Shannon Nogar,

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Fort Worth Billiard Supply Company

FOCUS/CONCENTRATION: Our focal point is to exceed expectations with unprecedented customer service. Product selection and availability are paramount so that when our clients are ready to purchase, we can deliver promptly. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS:

As one of the Brunswick Billiards’ largest dealers, Fort Worth Billiards received over 20 JM Brunswick awards for Outstanding Sales and most recently received recognition as Brunswick’s No. 1 single store worldwide dealer. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: Billiard Congress of America. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVE-

MENT: Celebrating an anniversary milestone, this year marks 65 years in providing game room sales and service. We want to thank Fort Worth and surrounding cities for their support and loyalty in buying local. Our employees have dedicated their time and have illustrated the persever-

ance in making our company successful. MOTTO: “More than just billiards.” FREE ADVICE: When designing a game room, it’s a “must” to bring your game room measurements with you so we can help with the right pool table size that ﬁts best. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Making an assumption that you have enough room for a pool table. Let us help you and advise what will work best in the game room. PICTURED: Albert Trujillo (President) and Ernest Lazo (Vice President).

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dfwbilliards.com

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Guardado Landscaping

Eloy Guardado

CONCENTRATION: Guardado Landscaping is a landscaping and retail garden center. RECOGNITIONS/AWARDS: 2006 and 2008 Fort Worth Magazine Dream Homes; 2008 Fort Worth Magazine Green Home; 2008 Kaleidoscope Home. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: Texas Nursery and Landscape Association, Alabama Nursery Association, Better Business Bureau, Greater Fort Worth Builder’s Association. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: “Every day there is a professional achievement. The entire staff receives a sense of accomplishment when a project begins and when it is completed. That’s important not only to myself, but to my staff.” PHILOSOPHY: You only get one chance at a ﬁrst impression — let us design a landscape that they will remember. FREE ADVICE: The team at Guardado Landscaping believes that a job well done means that promises have been kept and the customer

is delighted with their project. Always keep your word and offer your customer the best possible service. There are many landscaping companies to choose from, so be sure that the vendors you choose are licensed, bonded and fully insured. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Not taking the landscaping seriously. Because landscaping is the ﬁrst thing people see when they drive up to a home, shouldn’t it be the best impression as to what’s inside?

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sales@guardadolandscaping.net guardadolandscaping.com

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J&S Air, Inc.

FOCUS: J&S Air is a full-service air conditioning and heating company that has served Texas since 1991 and specializes in the design, installation and service of residential and commercial systems. Impeccable service and quality for a competitive price is their main focus. J&S Air proudly services DFW, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston markets. RECOGNITIONS: One of the top Trane dealers in North Texas, 13 Year Top Ten Dealer Award Winner, achieved the elite Comfort Specialist status. J&S Air is an A+ Accredited Business with the BBB and a 12-time award winner for the top voice of the customer award through at-home services. CHARITABLE WORK: Habitat for Humanity Homes in North Texas, Santa Fe Youth Services, the ABC Extreme Makeover Home Edition, The Home Depot

makeover projects, Toys for Tots, SafeHaven, the Community Services “Beat the Heat” Program, Operation Finally Home, a Wish with Wings, Leukemia Texas, as well as the YMCA. PHILOSOPHY: To provide our customers with the best indoor comfort possible through innovative design, quality installation and the highest level of service while maintaining integrity and providing our employees opportunities for success within our company. PICTURED: Grant Hall.

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J & V Painting Plus, LLC

FOCUS: J & V Painting services your commercial, residential and faux painting needs. We specialize in small sheetrock jobs, texture, faux ﬁnishes and tape and bed work. We are also the leading edge on acrylics as noted by our competition. We also use oil bases, epoxy and lacquer. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: 2000, Southern Living ; 2002, Historic Fort Worth Designer Showcase; 2008, Charity Designer Showhouse; repetitive recommendations of decorators and customers. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: BBB, IDAL - International Decorative Artisans League. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL

ACHIEVEMENT: Continuing to service nine out of my ﬁrst 10 customers for the last 41 years. Sadly, the one was a result of a death. PHILOSOPHY: Do it right by continuing to deliver quality work for over 40 years, with a dedicated workforce. FREE ADVICE:

Don’t expect to get a perfect paint job for a cheap price. Ask what you are going to get; for example: what type of paint, number of coats, what will I get for this price? BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Getting in a hurry at the end of a job. Don’t start with a deadline. If you must, let everyone involved in the process be aware so that they can tell if it is possible.

PICTURED: Sara Hiett, Jon Nappier, and Kim Nappier.

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jon@jandvpainting.com jandvpainting.com

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Loveless Gutters

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SPECIALTY: Seamless 1/2 Round Aluminum, 1/2 Round Copper, 5-inch and 6-inch Ogee Gutter Systems; 6-inch Seamless commercial box gutter. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: Better Business Bureau and Builder Association. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: I run Loveless Gutters today with the following values instilled in me by my father over the years: Hard Work, Dedication, Perseverance, and Pride. My father’s motto was always “Take the time to do it right.” And it still holds true today. I take pride in our name and in our work. I am dedicated to bring Quality, Function and Aesthetics to every job. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Not being involved enough. CHARITABLE WORK: Dream Homes, House for Cook Children’s. PICTURED: James Loveless.

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Magnolia Fence and Patio

FOCUS: Fencing, patios, outdoor kitchens, metal work/ welding, most anything outdoors. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Best of Fort Worth; XTO Most Improved Safety Program. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: American Fence Association and Texas Young Professionals Fort Worth. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Gaining the respect of our customers. We get a lot of great reviews and repeat customers. Our crews are great at what they do and it shows. MOTTO: If you dream it, we can build it. FREE ADVICE: Do your research. Know your contractors. Take the time to meet with them and get to know them. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE

MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: They rush and let it become stressful. Slow down and enjoy building your home. Don’t rush anything, jeopardizing quality and creating costly mistakes.

PICTURED: (left to right) Amy Birmes, Todd Spitzer, Marisol Segura, and Robert Whittaker.

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magnoliafenceco@gmail.com magnoliafenceandpatio.com

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Metro Brick & Stone Company

FOCUS: We have long been known as the preeminent brick and stone supplier for high-end custom homes in Dallas/Fort Worth. In recent years with the economic downturn and changes in building demand, we have also moved into the volume builder and commercial markets, which has proven to be very successful for us. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: BIA (Brick Industry Association), BSI (Building Stone Institute), DFW Brick Council. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Helping build the metroplex over the last four decades. MOTTO: Building Success Upon Integrity. FREE ADVICE: Create a checklist of the most important amenities you want in your new home. Visit model homes and ask questions. Compare with similar builders. Don’t assume that all homes in your price range or neighborhood are created equal.

BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Ineffective communication with the builder is one of the biggest mistakes you can make. The builder is your point man in the building process. It is his or her job to take your dream home vision and make it a reality. So take the time to meet with your builder on a regular basis. PICTURED: Dennis Calander, Owner, and Pete Hanson, Sales.

CONTACT INFORMATION: petehanson@metrobrick.com metrobrick.com

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Open Up Garage Doors & Services

FOCUS: Our company prefers to focus on custom garage door applications to ﬁt the needs and visions of our clients. AWARDS/ RECOGNITIONS: Gold Award for Outstanding Sales. MEMBERSHIPS: International Door Association (IDA) member since 2008, four-star recognized CHI Dealer, awarded 2015 No. 1 Garage Door Company in the Nation for customer service from American Home Shield (AHS). GREATEST PROFESSIONAL

ACHIEVEMENT: Our industry is not known for providing custom, quality options with actual showroom facilities to physically touch and view before making ﬁnancial decisions for your home. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: “Whatever It Takes” customer service, professionalism and just being kind and courteous will always be our ﬁrst

priority. FREE ADVICE: Research your options regardless if it’s for your new home or your existing home. Be more involved in where, how and with whom you spend your money. Information is free. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING

A HOME: The biggest mistake people make is not realizing all their available options and understanding some of their choices long-term. PICTURED: William and Colleen Roberts.

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Partin Drywall

FOCUS: Our specialty includes wallboard remodeling, domestic wallboard repairing, home dry wall ﬁttings and residential dry wall engineering. We work together to provide top quality work for our customers. RECOGNITIONS: Over 25 years of service and experience. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVE-

MENT: Growing a small company into one of the largest in the metroplex. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: Work together and treat each job as if it were our own, with a positive attitude and a grateful heart. FREE ADVICE: Always put our Lord and Savior Jesus

Christ ﬁrst. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Always check references, and stick to your budget. PICTURED: Ernest Partin, Tracey Partin

CONTACT INFORMATION: partindrywall@embarqmail.com

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Passion Lighting

FOCUS: Everything lighting, interior and exterior, including products and design. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: National Lighting Showroom of the Year ﬁnalist for eight years in a row - only two showrooms in the nation have made the ﬁnalist list every time since the award started - and winner in 2012; Arts Award Finalist in four of the last seven years; Lutron RadioRA 2013 winner; Lutron 2014 Visionary Award winner. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: American Lighting Association, Grapevine Chamber of Commerce. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: We started our business a decade ago from scratch, with zero customer base, building it into a major showroom in the DFW area with national recognition.

MOTTO: Everything Lighting. FREE ADVICE: Lighting makes a huge difference on any project when done right; use professionals from the lighting industry for assistance. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Not using high-quality recess lighting, not using enough, and not using it properly. PICTURED: Bruce D. Paul, CLC.

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Pierce Hardware

FOCUS: Pierce Hardware strives to provide unparalleled value in the process of choosing and delivering plumbing ﬁxtures and ﬁttings, as well as elegant door and cabinet hardware for the DFW Metroplex. PHILOSOPHY: To offer the finest quality products and most experienced staff in the industry.

AWARDS/HONORS: Pierce Hardware is a certified 3-Star Toto Showroom, authorized Dornbracht, Franke, Blanco, Rohl and DXV Showroom. Pierce Hardware was awarded the DPHA Showroom of the Year for 2016 and named D Magazine’s Best Hardware & Design Materials Store. GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS: Pierce’s Fort Worth and Dallas showrooms display game-changing designs and technologies from kitchen sinks that allow a family to prep, cook, serve and clean all within the same workstation, to showers that are pre-programed for delivering choreographed therapies, to toilets that self-clean. Wow! FREE ADVICE: So why do

clients, builders, and interior designers keep coming back to Pierce Hardware? Only an experienced sales team knows the questions to ask to ensure a client’s needs and desires are met, without wasting our client’s precious time. Pierce Hardware’s sales team has over 300 years of collective experience! PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/ AFFILIATIONS: Pierce Hardware’s commitment to quality also includes their afﬁliations with DPHA, ASID, NKBA, NAWIC, and the Salesmanship Club. PICTURED: Lenny Russo, Mollie Quicksall, Sam Furrow, Jim Wilcox, Paula Roberts, and Karen Visage. CONTACT INFORMATION:

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Pro Serve Plumbing LLC

Kenneth and Melissa Golden

COMPANY FOCUS: To provide exceptional quality plumbing services with attention to detail. We want our customers to feel conﬁdent in selecting us and to know that we will provide them with professional service every time. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: We have created a company that continues to experience professional growth, and our employees really like working for us. We have created long-lasting relationships with them, which allows us to provide our customers with the knowledgeable and professional workmanship that we promise. MOTTO: We take care of you so you can take care of what is important. FREE ADVICE: Do your research and ask questions. Nobody knows you like you know yourself. Most of the time, people know what they want, and it helps in the over-

all building process if they are able to convey that to their contractor. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Sacriﬁcing on the things they really want, thinking they will do it later. Often times, later never comes, and they wish they had gone ahead and gotten that beautiful freestanding tub, or exotic granite, or elaborate light ﬁxture. It’s your dream home; get what you want!

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Red Oak Insulation, Inc.

FOCUS: We deliver our ultra-energy-efficient EnergyWise package which guarantees and warranties healthy and ultra-energy-efficient homes. The package consists of our high performance insulation and our engineered HVAC system. We produce amazing results from small retreat homes to the largest estate homes in America. AWARDS/ RECOGNITIONS: We are family owned and operated. We have been in business for almost 35 years. AFFILIATIONS: Red Oak Insulation is the exclusive EnergyWise Spray Foam Contractor in DFW. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Creating the first healthy and ultra-energy-efficient indoor environment package. The package includes a dollar value guarantee and a performance warranty. We recently guaranteed $350/month to heat/cool an almost 15,000 square feet living estate home with our EnergyWise package. MOTTO: We are the Guaranteed Energy Savers. FREE ADVICE: When building new or upgrading your current home, don’t

neglect the insulation and HVAC system. A beautiful home should also be the most comfortable. We guarantee heating and cooling on a 5,000 square feet house at $150/or less a month. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: The biggest mistake we see is the over spending on high energy-rated windows and HVAC systems. The best return on investment is with the perfect combination of high performance insulation with properly sized HVAC equipment. We reduce your heating/cooling costs 50-70%. Guaranteed. PICTURED: Dean Villanueva, Estela and Justino Villanueva, Sr., Justino Villanueva, Jr.

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Dona Robinson Associates

Briggs Freeman | Sotheby’s

International Realty

FOCUS: We specialize in new developments. Dona Robinson Associates works with Briggs Freeman | Sotheby’s International Realty to allow our clients maximum marketing exposure locally, nationally, and on an international level. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Dona

Robinson is a licensed real estate broker and a Certiﬁed Luxury Home Marketing Specialist. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: Metro-Tex Association of Realtors, National Association of Realtors, and Luxury Home Institute. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL

ACHIEVEMENT: Dona was nominated as Fort Worth’s Top Realtor in 2016 and 2017. D Magazine nominated Dona, Susan and Gabriella as Top Producers in 2016, as well. MOTTO: Our slogan is “A Spirit of Service.” FREE ADVICE: We recommend that buyers and sellers work with real estate professionals who bring years of expertise to assist you with one of the largest business transactions most people

make in their lifetime. Although a lot of information can be found online, ﬁnding a true professional with a history of market knowledge can prove to be invaluable. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: One of the biggest mistakes is thinking only about how they live today. If they plan to live in the home more than a few years, it is important that they consider how the ﬂoor plan works both now and in the future for their lifestyle.

PICTURED: Susan Mathews, Dona Robinson, Gabriella Miller.

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214.906.7069

drobinson@briggsfreeman.com DonaRobinson.com

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The Sherwin-Williams Company

FOCUS: Founded by Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams in 1866, The Sherwin-Williams Company has not only grown to be the largest producer of paints and coatings in the U.S., but is among the largest producers in the world. Our Keller store services DIY homeowners, residential repaint contractors, multi-family apartment facilities, and commercial paint contractors. It’s our goal to provide quality products to our customers along with exceptional Trademark Service. AWARDS/ RECOGNITIONS: Ranked among the Top Painting and Coating Manufacturers, named one of America’s Best Employers by Forbes magazine, Forbes Top 100 Most Innovated Companies and the innovation of Paint Shield, the ﬁrst EPA-registered microbicidal paint that kills 99.9 percent of germs within two hours of exposure on a painted surface. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT:

We celebrated our 150th Anniversary in 2016. MOTTO: Cover the Earth. FREE ADVICE: Your home is one of the biggest investments

of your life. Invest into a quality paint product from Sherwin-Williams to protect it. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Acting as your own general contractor, not utilizing a professional paint contractor, and cutting corners on budget. PICTURED: (sitting, left to right) Nashally Lopez and Char Hetcher (Outside Sales Representative); (standing, left to right) Wayne Henager (Assistant Manager), Lizzy Hensley (Manager), Bruce Sendra, Miles Fortner (Outside Sales Representative) and Joshua Heinze.

CONTACT INFORMATION: Multiple Locations sherwin-williams.com

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Texas Custom Window & Door

FOCUS: Our main focus is with the Custom Home Builders in the DFW area. Probably 90 percent of our work is in residential. We have also been involved in several restaurant projects along with ofﬁce buildings and apartments. Our largest project to date was the upscale Edgemere Assisted Living complex in Dallas. We provide Jeldwen aluminum clad wood, wood, vinyl products along with Thermally Controlled aluminum products, such as La Cantina doors, Ram windows and Heritage windows/doors. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: This is our third Dream Home to be involved in; fourth coming in the fall; and it has been a pleasure to work with Vesta Custom Homes. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Usually not knowing what kind of products are available. There has been an increasing number of

large door openings being speciﬁed on jobs. This started in California, where it is 70 degrees year-round; however, we are doing more and more lift and slide, multi-slide and bi-fold door units. We are working on one project in Dallas for an ex-Texas Rangers baseball player that has a 32-foot wide, 11-foot tall, four-panel lift and slide on it. Everybody now is wanting to bring the outside in…even if it is 100 degrees.

PICTURED: Kelly Russell, Owner.

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Universal Systems

FOCUS: Universal Systems is a full-service company for ALL of your electronic needs. Since 1995, we have provided home/business owners with technological solutions for anything from a media room to a corporate boardroom. We proudly serve the greater DFW area as well as anywhere you need us to go. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS:

Featured in multiple Fort Worth Magazine Dream Homes; CE Pro Top AV 100 Companies, 2014. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: CEDIA; Texas State licensed since 1995; In-house MASTER Crestron Dealer/Programmer; Better Business Bureau Accredited Business A+ Rating. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: 27 years of providing quality Audio/Video & Security services to the greater DFW area. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: To go above and beyond what is expected, creating a conﬁdent relationship with the client for many years. FREE ADVICE: Technology is evolving

faster than you think. Don’t be surprised when your old computer or TV isn’t what you thought it once was. Upgrading your home technology is an ongoing process, but we can help take the stress out of keeping you on the cutting-edge. BIGGEST BUILDING MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE: Not pre-planning for your electronic needs when designing or remodeling. All too often, we see people who do not think about their A/V, Security and Networking needs and end up spending more money in the end. PICTURED: Hank and Dorenda Lohmer.

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FOCUS: Our focus is to design and build luxurious, well-crafted outdoor living spaces for the discerning client. Watercrest Pools creates and builds a limited amount of projects each year. Therefore, we are able to form lasting relationships with our clients and provide high-end personalized service. AWARDS/HONORS: Pebble Technology, World’s Greatest Pools 2016; Society Life, Tops in Tarrant 2016. GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT: Our greatest achievements are the referrals we receive from our clients. Our business thrives on our clients and their experience with us. These referrals are vital to our business. PHILOSOPHY: To build our clients an exquisite, long-lasting out-

door space using the best construction methods, ﬁnest materials and most current technology. FREE ADVICE: Take time to plan the project; keep the equipment simple and reduce your long-term cost of ownership; spend more time to understand your pool structure, and build the pool properly the ﬁrst time. PICTURED: Sam Swingle, President.

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Yard Art Patio & Fireplace

FOCUS: Yard Art Patio & Fireplace is focused on creating a relaxed shopping experience with a knowledgeable team and the best selection of outdoor furniture in the world. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Apollo Award winner in 2015, 2010 and 2004; Apollo Award ﬁnalist in 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2008; Casual Living 100 Powerhouse winner 20042016. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: We are members of the ICFA, ASID, HPB and AFHA. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Our greatest professional achievement is that we were able to stand strong and grow during a time of recession and small businesses closing, thanks to our dedication, hard work and, most of all, our customers. PHILOSOPHY: Our business philosophy is to provide our clients with the best outdoor furniture, at the best prices!

FREE ADVICE: Like everything else out there in the world, you get what you pay for. We are lucky because we specialize in quality outdoor furniture. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: The No. 1 mistake people make when building their home is space. Most people do not take in to account how much space the furniture they want will take up. PICTURED: Geneva Wallace Switzer, Butch Wallace and Garrett Wallace.

CONTACT INFORMATION: MyYardArt.com

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Automobiles and Apps

| by Heywood | illustration by Charles Marsh |

I MAY HAVE EXPERIENCED A MIRACLE THE OTHER MORNING.

I was northbound on Interstate 35 near downtown, and I actually reached the speed limit. Many of you probably don’t believe that, but it’s true. Sure, it was only for a few seconds, but still. Anyway, once I was back sailing along at the customary 3 miles per hour along that road, I decided I best phone ahead and confirm a lunch meeting with some guys in Denton, as long as they didn’t mind eating lunch the following morning.

Now, as you probably know, when you’re stuck in traffic for a long period of time, you become much more aware of your surroundings. All you see are angry faces in every car around you, which is understandable, but really just a waste of energy. There are better ways to handle anger. That’s because it takes 48 muscles to frown, but only four to extend your middle finger. However, be careful not to overdo it. I wound up tearing a ligament in mine just driving back and forth from Dallas. As the hours drift away, you also become more contemplative. You begin asking yourself questions that no one’s bothered to answer, such as What is the second rule of Fight Club? or Shouldn’t there only be one First Baptist Church? And of course you’re checking your

cell phone every 15 seconds or so to see if anybody liked your new Facebook post. But during this particular logjam on I-35, I noticed that my battery was almost dead, even though I’d only used it to make one phone call. I needed some answers. Quick. After a few heated exchanges with Siri, she finally suggested that the problem may be due to one of my apps that could be draining an excess amount of battery life. Siri was wrong. It was a number of apps, none of which I recalled downloading. I deleted all the culprits except one. I just had to keep it. The app is called “Yo,” and that’s the only thing it says when you tap the screen. It’s perfect for people like me who are too socially awkward to initiate a conversation or have difficulty pronouncing it and similar tongue twisters like “Hey,” “Hi” or “Sup?”

I’m not tech savvy enough to know how those applications suddenly pop up, but with over 20 million software developers across the world, I’m sure several of them figured out how to maneuver their apps into a bunch of smartphones. There are now millions of mobile apps in the Apple store alone, and they’re adding 20,000 new ones each month. Hard to

believe, seeing how Apple only had 500 apps available when Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone back in 2008.

But anyway, while I was spending the afternoon doing a slow crawl past Alliance Airport, I decided to ask Siri to search her massive database for other practical apps like "Yo," and the little lady didn’t disappoint. Here are a few that I feel are indispensable.

Carrr Matey - All of us forget where we park our car at one time or another. Right? Well, there’s now an app that will tell you where it is in a pirate’s voice.

After you pay the ransom.

Bristlr - This app connects bearded guys with people who love hairy faces. True. Perfect for ZZ Top lookalikes and lonely werewolves.

Siri’s favorite is one that tracks all the places you’ve ever used the restroom. It’s ideal for those times you just want to sit back and reminisce about the fancy hotels, nice homes, expensive restaurants or Olympic swimming pools you’ve ever frequented.

With all the valuable information I acquired, I feel like my two-day road trip was a positive learning experience. I’m positive I’ll never get on I-35 again.

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Tom Brymer

Westlake Town Manager and Superintendent of Westlake Academy

| by Jennifer Casseday-Blair |

WEARING MANY HATS, INCLUDING THOSE OF WESTLAKE TOWN MANAGER AND SUPERINTENDENT OF WESTLAKE ACADEMY, MEANS

EVERY DAY IS DIFFERENT FOR

TOM

BRYMER. “The variety of my responsibilities is one of the things that makes my job both challenging and fun. Some days I’m dealing with development issues or projects related to the growth Westlake is experiencing, and other days it could be budget planning for the academy or strategic planning for the school. Sometimes it’s planning the town’s capital improvement programs or following up on a citizen or parent question or concern … ,” Brymer says.

In 2011, under Brymer’s watch, Westlake was named the most affluent neighborhood in the country by Forbes magazine. It’s a town occupied by approximately 1,250 residents in its 6.6 square miles. Brymer believes Westlake’s greatest strengths are its people and its location. “We have a very well-educated and bright population. We are right on the 114 corridor. Our location is very near the DFW Airport, and we have a lot of land that is available for development,” Brymer says.

The town manager of Westlake since 2008, Brymer brings more than 40 years of experience in the public sector and public administration in local government, specifically city management. At just 25 years old, he began his life in the public sector by taking the role as city manager of Gilmer, a small East Texas town. Repairing the town’s economy by shifting it from in the red to in the black, Brymer was able to help Gilmer invest in infrastructure projects. He went on to offer his public service to Lockhart, College Station and Olathe, Kansas. Brymer was in part attracted to Westlake because of its academic facility –Westlake Academy – the only municipally owned, open-enrollment charter school in the state of Texas.

“Our open enrollment means we are a public school, and the only prerequisite for a student to attend the academy is the geographic location of the student’s primary residence,” Brymer

says. In his role as superintendent, Brymer coordinates the efforts of the academy principals and administrative staff to provide a unique and highly sought-after International Baccalaureate education.

He believes that education plays an incredibly important role as the “crucible where a child begins to not only learn, but also to experience new things and develop a sense of inquiry and interest in various topics and subjects.”

Growing up, there was no question about whether or not Brymer would attend college; it was expected. “My father and mother were the first in their families to graduate from college. Education was viewed as essential for becoming a complete person and for attaining success in whatever field we decided to pursue after college,” Brymer says.

As a true Renaissance man, Brymer has many diverse talents and interests. “I don’t have as much spare time outside of work as I’d like to, but I enjoy gardening and landscaping.” He immerses himself in the humanities by reading about history and playing guitar, bass guitar and the drums. Brymer also dabbles in acrylic painting.

While his children are grown and living elsewhere, he and his wife of nearly 40 years have benefited from the positive impact of the Westlake community and vice versa. “My position with the Town of Westlake has afforded us a rare opportunity to be a part of building something special, a unique and beautiful premier knowledge-based community … Public service has always been attractive to me, in the sense of wanting to contribute and, hopefully, leave things a little better than I found them,” Brymer says.

HOME BUILDERS WORTH KNOWING

There are many decisions to be made when building a home. With so many options, the task can seem daunting. The key to success lies in selecting a builder who understands your concerns and can help you achieve your goal. To assist you with this decision, the builders on the following pages offer information about themselves, how they approach their profession and what they can do to make your house a home. The information in this section is provided by the advertisers and has not been independently veriﬁed by Fort Worth Magazine

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John Askew Company

SPECIALTY: Our specialty is the amount of personal attention each customer receives from our team of specialized professionals. Starting from home site selection, through completion of construction, our unique and organized approach of assisting our customers through the entire process is what makes building a home with John Askew Company such a great experience. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Voted Best Builder by Fort Worth Magazine readers in 2015 and by Star-Telegram readers in 2013. Awarded First Place in 9 of 13 categories in the Fort Worth Kaleidoscope of Homes Competition including Best of Show, People’s Choice, Realtor’s Choice and Best Craftsmanship. GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT: Assembling the ﬁnest team of professionals to provide outstanding quality and service. The majority of our customers have come as a result of direct referrals from previous customers, friends and Realtors. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: “Honor God.

Build high-quality homes with honesty and integrity. Establish a customer referral network of highly satisﬁed homebuyers who will recommend us without reservation.” FREE ADVICE: Homebuyers should choose their builder before engaging a plan design ﬁrm or architect. Our comprehensive design build approach provides a clear path from their vision to their dream home. CHARITABLE WORK: I Am Second, E3 Partners, Beautiful Feet Ministries, Fellowship of the Sword, March of Dimes, Young Life, Race for the Cure, Aledo Advocats and Gracefully Strong. PICTURED: John and Linda Askew.

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Atwood Custom Homes

SPECIALTY: Custom Home Building. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Houzz 2015-2017 service awards; Best Of, D Magazine (Best of Builders) 2016-2017; 2015 Fort Worth Magazine Dream Home builder; 2016 Tops in Tarrant County; 2016 Best Of, Society Life home builders; 2016 featured builder in Building SAVVY MEMBERSHIPS: Fort Worth Builders Association. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: The accumulation of three-to-four milestones, such as 100 percent customer satisfaction with many repeat customers; building timeless homes that are unique in the community; winning multiple awards over the years and being recognized as a leader in this industry; and publishing my ﬁrst book, Building a Quality Custom Home - What You need to Know, now in its second edition. MOTTO: Always the best and nothing less.

FREE ADVICE: Do your homework about your builder. Knock on doors and ask questions about the builder/company you are thinking of building with before you sign a contract. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Not picking their builder before buying land or designing their home. CHARITABLE WORK: Spokes 4 Hope, a Wish with Wings, Colleyville Woman’s Club. PICTURED: Jon A. Atwood.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

jon.atwood@verizon.net atwoodcustomhome.com

Heritage Homes

SPECIALTY: Heritage Homes creates beautiful custom homes, each as unique as our clients. Their needs, preferences and priorities are part of the equation, but it’s in capturing the vision each client has for one of life’s most important purchases that separates Heritage Homes from other builders. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Watching Heritage Homes become an emerging leader in the custom home market is gratifying to the entire HH team. We judge our success based on the satisfaction of our clients, and our greatest achievement is making sure our next client is as delighted with their new home as the last. PHILOSOPHY: A signature Heritage Home tells the story of its owner through style, design, craftsmanship and attention to detail. Character and integrity are as important as the materials used in our homes. We strive to make a positive contribution in the communities

we serve, in the homes we create, the partnerships we build, and the lives we touch. FREE ADVICE: Learn from the past, plan for the future. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Failing to think long-term, particularly with respect to design. Most clients intend to remain in their custom-built home for many years, and taking the long view at the construction phase can save headaches down the line. PICTURED: John Webb, President.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

sales@yourheritagehomes.com yourheritagehomes.com

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Sean Knight Custom Homes

SPECIALTY: Custom Home Building and Remodeling. AWARDS/ RECOGNITIONS: Awards for Kaleidoscope of Homes in 2000 and 2008, and Spring Tour of Homes, including the Spring Tour Grand Award in 2010. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: Certi-

fied Master Builder, Fort Worth Builders Association, Better Business Bureau. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: The number of extremely satisfied customers we have obtained through the years and the relationships that we have built with those customers. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: We provide excellent service and superior craftsmanship, along with honesty and integrity. ADVICE: Take time to evaluate several builders so that you find someone who is right for you. You will be dealing with your builder for a period of several months. Find a builder who you feel can transform your ideas into reality. BIGGEST BUILDING MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE: Select-

ing the wrong builder. You should look for a builder who has been in business for a number of years and has an established reputation. You need to know that your builder will be around to not only ﬁnish your construction, but also to handle any issues that may arise later.

CHARITABLE WORK: Sean is on the board of the Sportmen’s Club of Fort Worth, an organization that devotes its resources to outdoor and wildlife charitable and educational activities with an emphasis on serving area youth and youth organizations. PICTURED: Sean Knight.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

sknight@ﬂash.net seanknightcustomhomes.com

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60 Years and Counting

The Recovery Resource Council celebrates its 60th year and looks to the future.

| by Samantha Calimbahin |

AS THE RECOVERY RESOURCE COUNCIL CELEBRATES ITS 60TH ANNIVERSARY, THERE’S A LOT THAT CEO ERIC NIEDERMAYER WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN THE COMING YEARS. Growth in behavioral health resources. Expansion of services for first responders. A greater presence in the field of trauma recovery. But there’s another thing Niedermayer says he’d like to see as the organization heads toward the future: a greater appreciation for the past.

The Recovery Resource Council began in 1957, but its roots date back to 1944, the year that the National Committee for Education on Alcoholism (now known as the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence) was formed. Its founder, Marty Mann,

was one of the first women to achieve sobriety through Alcoholics Anonymous and formed the National Committee for Education on Alcoholism as a way to help raise awareness for the issue.

In 1957, the Recovery Resource Council launched as an affiliate of Mann’s organization and has since grown its presence as one of the leading recovery centers in North Texas. On average, the council services over 75,000 people each year.

“Our mission has been broad to include alcoholism, drug abuse and mental health issues,” Niedermayer said. “I see us growing in that area, that we’re becoming more of a behavioral health organization, because the type of services that you need to offer someone struggling with drugs or alcohol or mental health issues, you need to be able to offer them a full scope.”

A few milestones, Niedermayer says, include the Enduring Families program and Project New Start, as well as its youth programs like the Sunshine Club and Camp L4. Enduring Families began in 2013, counseling servicemen and women with PTSD-related issues, and to date has served more than 450 veterans and family members. Project New Start, a housing program for homeless or disabled men and women, is celebrating its 10th year.

The Recovery Resource Council also has programs for at-risk youth. The Sunshine Club, for example, has been around since 1986, helping elementary school children dealing with trauma. Camp L4, which stands for Live, Learn, Laugh and Love, takes children in shelters to Camp Carter for activities like horseback riding, arts and crafts, and life skills classes. According to the council, about 79 percent of those served by the organization are under age 18.

Niedermayer said he would like to eventually expand the organization’s work with first responders, such as police and firefighters, who often deal with traumatic experiences on a daily basis.

“They suffer similar trauma as our veterans have, but at home,” he said. “I don’t think they often get all the intervention and support they need around that.”

And yet, through growth and change, Niedermayer said he wants the Recovery Resource Council to continue honoring its history – especially Marty Mann, the woman who started it all. “I think it’s important that we know where we came from,” Niedermayer said.

Camp L4, a children's program by the Recovery Resource Council

Council volunteers in 1964

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Kids These Days

A 9-year-old boy leads a fundraising effort to help ﬁght cancer.

| by Samantha Calimbahin |

IT STARTED WITH THREE WORDS THAT AN 8-YEAR-OLD BOY ASKED ONE DAY AFTER OVERHEARING HIS MOTHER’S PHONE CONVERSATION: “WHAT IS CANCER? ”

Taken aback, his mother – Gloria Starling, managing partner at The Capital Grille – realized she had not yet discussed the topic of cancer with her son. She had just gotten off the phone with Emily McLaughlin, a breast cancer survivor who was starting a fundraiser called BoobiQue. McLaughlin asked Starling for a donation, and Starling gladly obliged. Then shortly after hanging up, Gloria’s son Gabriel posed the question. After learning what cancer was, he quickly went to his room, found an old box full of change and handed it to his mother.

“Can you please give this to Emily?” he said. And Gloria did.

To this day, McLaughlin still has the box, so touched by it that she refuses to spend the money inside. But the act spurred on a much bigger effort to raise money for breast cancer research – one led by Gabriel himself, that would raise much more than a box full of change.

About $20,000 to be exact.

The initiative is called Tough Stars Give Back, and it started after Gabriel and his mother attended last year’s BoobieQue, an event in which businesses like Heim Barbecue and Rahr & Sons teamed up to raise money for Cancer Care Services and the National Breast Cancer Foundation. After the event, Gabriel wanted to do more. He decided that when his basketball season started, he would donate $5 for every basket he made. He also started a GoFundMe page so that others can donate as well. Some of Gloria’s friends also joined in, helping design a logo and open an account for the fundraiser, which Gabriel likes to call his “foundation.” By the end of basketball season, Gabriel’s “foundation” raised about $5,000.

Gabriel invited McLaughlin to attend his last game, where he would present her with the first unofficial check. She arrived with the box he first gave her, hoping to place the check along with the first batch of change he had raised. Instead, she was surprised with a 12-foot-long check that was much too big for the box. Gabriel also presented her with a pink basketball, with which he played during the game.

“He gets it, you know?” Gloria said. “It’s a hard conversation having to talk to him about cancer, but sooner than later, he was going to have to hear it. Cancer is real, cancer is happening, and cancer is here, so we need to be prepared for that.”

But Gabriel still isn’t done. Now 9 years old, Gabriel and his mother raised an additional $10,000 during an event at GRACE restaurant in May. They plan to continue raising money through October, when the next BoobieQue takes place. All funding is raised on McLaughlin’s behalf but ultimately goes toward Cancer Care Services.

And through it all, Gloria says she has “no words” to describe how proud she is of her son.

“He’s learning and growing up knowing that it is important to give back,” Gloria said. “He has a passion for it. All I can do is help.”

Gabriel’s reason for giving back? It’s simple.

“Because I want all kids to have moms,” he said.

Gabriel Starling

Photo by Rachel DeLira

Tough Stars Give Back "Foundation" presenting its donation to Emily McLaughlin, founder of BoobiQue Photo by Rachel DeLira

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Best Of Party

Fort Worth Magazine celebrated its Best of Fort Worth winners on June 2 at the Mopac Event Center. Guests enjoyed food, live art and music while dancing the night away. Photos by Honey Russell.

Lori & Rick Parilla

Hubert & Sherry Garrett

Lesa Abney, Dana Stilley, Kara Gregory

Wanda Conlin, Don Boren

Mark Donnachie, Elizabeth Lazono, Gus Martinez, Anna Donnachie, Sarah Martinez

Juan & Kendra Torres, Jeff Murray

Enter your well-designed space for a chance to be featured in the December issue of Fort Worth HOME. Winners from 10 different categories will be recognized at a future event in front of the top Dallas/Fort Worth design professionals. Nominations end Aug. 1.

For more information, visit fwtx.com/FWhome/design-awards

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Fort Worth HOME Launch Party

Bryan and Christi Braswell opened their home on June 8 to celebrate Fort Worth Magazine's newest publication, Fort Worth HOME Photos by Honey Russell.

Shilo Urban, Jill Lozano

Margaret Motheral, Elizabeth Falconer, Peggy Muir

Winter & Ashley Moore

Brittany & Stephen Rivers, Fernando Canchola

Andrea Rotman, Tammy & Johnny Stevens

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Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Join us for an adults-only (21 and up) evening featuring innovative Girl Scout cookie desserts, created by local female chefs, and complimentary wine.

Sponsorships begin at $500. For more information e-mail kcurtis@gs-top.org or visit http://bit.ly/dessertsfirst17

Things to do in July

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Take in North Texas’ largest ﬁreworks show and live music by the Tejas Brothers during Fort Worth’s Fourth at Panther Island Pavilion on July 4.

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Send calendar information to Fort Worth Magazine, c/o Kendall Louis, executive editor, 6777 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ste. 130, Fort Worth, Texas 76116, or e-mail ideas to kendall.louis@fwtx.com. Special consideration will be given to submissions that include photographs. To meet publishing deadlines, information must be received two months prior to monthly magazine issue.

Spanish Ballet. A selection of modern “European Masterworks” from the Phillips Collection are on display at the K imbell through Aug 13 Pictured: ”Spanish Ballet,“ 1862, by Edouard Manet Acquired by the Phillips Collection.

MUSEUMS

Doug Aitken : Electric Earth, through August 20

Electric Earth is the ﬁrst survey that examines Aitken’s experimentations across mediums and disciplines, from his 1997 multichannel video installation to his 2012/2015 performancebased works. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. 3200 Darnell St. themodern.org. 817.738.9215.

Hide and Horn on the Chisholm Trail, through August 27

This exhibition celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Chisholm Trail and the greatest migration of livestock in world history. Displays include items from the cattle trail era, such as an 1873 trail map and guidebook. Sid Richardson Museum. 309 Main St. sidrichardsonmuseum. org. 817.332.6554.

Amon Carter Museum of American Art : Storytime, through July 26

The Amon Carter Museum is encouraging

families with young children to join them for free storytime series every Wednesday in June and July. The storytime will take place from 10 a.m.- noon. A snack will be provided by GoGo squeeZ. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. cartermuseum. org/calendar. 817.989.5036.

Avedon in Texas : Selections from In the American West, through July 2

Renowned New York City fashion and portrait photographer Avedon West (1923-2004) went to the Rattlesnake Round in Sweetwater, Texas. The result was a commission of the Amon Carter: a portrait of the American West through its people. This exhibit includes 17 images from the project. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. cartermuseum.org. 817.738.1933.

Homer and Remington in Black and White, through July 2

The work of two of America’s ﬁnest artists, Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington, are

combined in this black and white exhibit. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. cartermuseum.org. 817.738.1933.

Between the Lines : Gego as Printmaker, through August 6

This small exhibition of abstract artist Gego’s works consists of zigzags, curves, diagonals, scribbles and more. The richly saturated lithographs consist of dramatic blacks and reds among a lightly colored paper sheet. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. cartermuseum.org. 817.738.1933.

A Modern Vision : European Masterworks from the Phillips Collection, through August 13

A Modern Vision presents a selection of European paintings and sculptures from The Phillips Collection, the ﬁrst modern art museum in the United States. Kimbell Art Museum. 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd. kimbellart.org. 817.332.8451

Fluid Expressions : The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler, through September 10

Fluid Expressions highlights Helen Frankenthaler’s original print production that is often overlooked. This exhibition includes more than 25 prints made in various techniques. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. cartermuseum.org. 817.738.1933.

Abstract Texas : Midcentury Modern Painting, through October 8

This exhibition includes work from Jack Boynton, Ben L. Culwell, Seymour Fogel, Michael Frary, George Grammer, Robert O. Preusser and Donald Weismann, all of whom are the most signiﬁcant contributors to mid-twentieth century modernism in Texas. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. cartermuseum.org. 817.738.1933.

Darryl Lauster : Trace, through March 25

Texas-based artist Darryl Lauster created 10 fragmentary Carrara marble tablets and carved phrases in them for his sculptural installation, Trace. The phrases obscure the original meanings of American founding documents, parts of the inscription of the Statue of Liberty and more. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. cartermuseum.org. 817.738.1933.

Gabriel Dawe : Plexus no 34, through Sept. 2, 2018

An installation of more than 60 miles of multicolored thread by internationally celebrated Mexican-born, Dallas-based artist Gabriel

Dawe. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. cartermuseum.org. 817.738.1933.

FOCUS: Katherine Bernhardt, through July 9

The subject of these “pattern” paintings by New York City artist Katherine Bernhardt are popularity and consumer culture. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. 3200 Darnell St. themodern.org. 817.738.9215.

The Polaroid Project, through September 3

The U.S. debut of the polaroid project will feature more than 100 artist-photographers with examples of the tools and artifacts that made Polaroid a household name. 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., cartermuseum.org, 817.738.1933.

Sid Richardson Museum, Ongoing

From docent-guided gallery tours to handson studio activities, the museum provides programs and events year round to illuminate the Western art of Frederic Remington (18611909), Charles M. Russell (1864-1926) and their contemporaries. Sid Richardson Museum. 309 Main St. sidrichardsonmuseum.org. 817.332.6554.

National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Ongoing

Honoring the women that made an impact on the American West, the National Cowgirl

Museum and Hall of Fame houses interactive exhibits, artifacts, photographs and other features. 1720 Gendy St. cowgirl.net. 817.336.4475.

Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Ongoing

With lifesize dinosaurs, interactive science exhibits and the Omni IMAX Theater, the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History has been wowing children and adults alike for more than 75 years. Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. 1600 Gendy St. fwmuseum.org. 817.255.9300.

Kimbell Art Museum, Ongoing

The Kimbell Art Museum features art from all over the world, with a relatively small permanent collection of about 350 works. Kimbell Art Museum. 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd. kimbellart. org. 817.332.8451.

Sensory Saturdays, Second Saturday of every month

Sensory Saturdays is a free program for families with children who are ﬁve to 12-years-old and on the autism spectrum. While the needs of individuals with autism are the focus of this program, it is also intended to be fun for parents, siblings (of all ages) and other relatives. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. cartermuseum.org. 817.738.1933.

American Airlines C R Smith Museum, Ongoing

The C.R. Smith Museum takes visitors on a ﬂight through American Airlines history with interactive exhibits. C.R. Smith Museum. 4601 Texas Highway 360 at FAA Road. crsmithmuseum.org. 817.967.1560.

Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Ongoing

The Fort Worth Aviation Museum tells the story of the aviation heritage and accomplishments in North Texas since 1911. Fort Worth Aviation Museum. 3300 Ross Ave. fortworthaviationmuseum.com. 855.733.8627.

Leonard’s Department Store Museum, Ongoing

View displays featuring hundreds of vintage items from the iconic downtown retail giant. Mon. - Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Fort Worth Screen Printing Building. 200 Carroll St. bestburgerfortworth.com/leonards-museum. 817.336.9111.

Texas Civil War Museum, Ongoing

The largest Civil War museum west of the Mississippi River consists of three separate galleries and a 75-seat movie theater that hosts a commissioned movie, “Our Homes Our Rights – Texas in the Civil War.” Tues. - Sat., 10 a.m.–5 p.m. 760 Jim Wright Freeway N. texascivilwarmuseum.com. 817.246.2323.

Cattle Baron Mansions, Ongoing Tour the mansions Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House and Thistle Hill and stand where the famous cattle barons stood when livestock was king and ranching ruled the Southwest.

Wed. - Fri. hourly, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; Sun., hourly, 1–3 p.m. Tickets: $20/adults, $10/children 12 and under. Historic Fort Worth. BallEddleman-McFarland House. 1110 Penn St. historicfortworth.org. 817.332.5875.

Log Cabin Village, Ongoing

Step back in time to the 1800s at Log Cabin Village, a living history museum devoted to the preservation of Texas’ pioneer heritage. Tues. - Fri. 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Sat. - Sun. 1-5 p.m., Mon. closed. Tickets: $4.50–$5.50. Log Cabin Village. 2100 Log Cabin Village Lane. logcabinvillage. org. 817.392.5881.

Galleries

Jay Wilkinson- Solo Show at Fort Works

Art , July 29

Recognized Fort Worth artist Jay Wilkinson, well-known for his major murals and participation in local pop up shows, showcases his work at Fort Works Art. 2100 Montgomery St., 76107. fortworksart.com. 817.759.9475.

Lectures and Discussions at the Kimbell, Ongoing

Year-round evening, weekday and Saturday lectures by staff and guest speakers explore various topics relating to the permanent collection and special exhibitions on view at the Kimbell Art Museum. Some programs require advance reservations. Kimbell Art Museum. 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd. kimbellart.org. 817.332.8451.

Adobe Western Art Gallery, Ongoing Works in various media by John Barger, Lyndy Benson and Lorie Leigh Lawrence. Free admission. 2324 N. Main St. adobewesternart.com. 817.624.4242.

Art on the Boulevard, Ongoing

This gallery houses 15 to 20 artists at a time, whose styles range from abstract expressionism to photo realism. Tue. - Fri. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. or by appointment, Sat. 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. 4919 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ste. B. artontheboulevard.com. 817.737.6368.

Art7 Crockett Community Gallery 820 Currie St. west-7th.com/attractions/art.

Fort Works Art

2100 Montgomery St. fortworksart.com. 817.759.9475.

Fort Worth Community Arts Center

Mon. - Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 1300 Gendy St. fwcac. com. 817.738.1938.

Milan Gallery

505 Houston St. milangallery.com. 817.338.4278.

Rebecca Low Sculptural Metal Gallery and Studio

Wed. - Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. 7608 Camp Bowie W. rebeccalow.com. 817.244.1151.

Films

Sundance Square Movie Nights

Bring blankets and chairs and meet on the square at dusk to watch family favorites in the heart of the downtown. 201 Main St. 76102. sundancesquare.com.

Jazz it up. The Bobby Falk Group w ill perform July 20 at the Fort Worth Central Library

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Children’s

Pick of the Month

Inspiration Alley, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

One of Fort Worth’s newest outdoor art spaces is located on the walls of warehouses in The Foundry District, just north of West Seventh Street

That’s Inspiration Alley – seven bright and Instagrammable murals that make up more than 4,600 square feet of wall space in an alley of the development See the work of local artists like Jeremy Joel, Hillary Dohoney, Jana Renee and Drigo, now open to the public two days a week

The Foundry District 2625 Whitmore St m2gventures.com/thefoundrydistrict

Ferris Bueller ’s Day Off, July 6

Grease, July 13

Coyote Drive-In, Ongoing View ﬂicks the “old-fashioned way” in an under-the-stars, drive-in movie theater that’s anything but antiquated. 223 N.E. Fourth St. coyotedrive-in.com/fortworth. 817.717.7767. Family Movie Fun, Second Saturday of every month

Stop by the Central Library for a free, familyfriendly ﬂick on the second Saturday of every month. Fort Worth Central Library. Youth Center Discovery Theatre. 500 W. Third St. Parking is free on the streets and in the Third Street garage after 6 p.m. fortworthlibrary.org. 817.392.7323.

Films at the Modern

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth offers a variety of events and programs on ﬁlms. 3200 Darnell St. themodern.org/ﬁlms. 817.738.9215.

Omni IMAX Theater and Noble Planetarium

Coral Reef Adventure, through July 14

Bugs ! A Rainforest Adventure, through July 14

Check the museum website for times. Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. 1600 Gendy St. fwmsh.org/calendar. 817.255.9300.

Music

Levitt Pavillion Free music under the stars. 100 W Abram St., 76010. levittpavillionarlington.org. 817.543.4308.

Ray Wylie Hubbard, July 1

Jaime y Los Chamacos, July 2

Daphne Willis, July 3

Brad Thompson and the Undulating Band, July 3

Sing-a-long Grease, July 6

The Unlikely Candidates, July 7

Walt Wilkins and the Mystiqueros, July 8

Sgt Pepper ’s Lonely Bluegrass Band, July 9

Jason Eady, July 14

The Suffers, July 15

Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines, July 16

The Drifters, July 21

Junior Brown, July 22

Shinyribs, July 23

Rockin’ the River – Live on the Trinity, Saturdays July 1-Aug 5

Enjoy your summer on the Trinity River with a free weekly summer concert series every Saturday night. The live music concerts can be enjoyed on land or water. 395 Purcey St., 76102. pantherislandpavilion.com/rockintheriver. Fort Worth’s Fourth, July 4, 2017

Celebrate Independence Day at the Panther Island Pavilion. General admission and KidsZone activities are free, with food and drink available for purchase. Listen to live music by

honky tonk band, the Tejas Brothers, watch jet ski shows, and take in North Texas’ longest fireworks show. 395 Purcey St. 76102. pantherislandpavilion.com/fortworthsfourth.

Fort Worth Library ’s Jazz Series, Every Third Thursday June- September

A lineup of local and international artists perform live jazz music at the Central Library. 500 W. Third St. 76102. fortworthtexas.gov/library/ thirdthursdayjazz. 817.392.7323

The Bobby Falk Group, July 20

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s Concerts in the Garden, through July 8

Enjoy live concert music and fireworks every night at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The concerts include Elvis tribute music, ABBA tribute music, the music of Pink Floyd, and more. You can purchase tickets by calling the ticket office or by visiting Fort Worth Symphony’s website. 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd. fwsymphony.org. 817.665.6000.

Billy Bob’s Texas

Fort Worth Stockyards. 2520 Rodeo Plaza. billybobstexas.com. 817.624.7117. Thursday concerts at 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 10:30 p.m., unless noted otherwise.

Billy Bob’s Fouth of July Picnic, July 1

Chris Janson, July 2

Ted Nugent Rockin’ America Again ! , July 8

Jon Wolfe, July 14

Kevin Fowler, July 15

Sara Evans, July 21

Ronnie Milsap, July 22

Mark Chesnutt, July 28

Whiskey Meyers, July 29

Capital Bar

3017 Morton St. capital-bar.com. 817.820.0049. Over Drive, July 1

Grady Spenser, July 5

High Definition, July 8

Blue Water Highway, July 12

Studio 54, July 15

Jason Boland, July 19

Mullet Boyz, July 22

Vegas Stars, July 29

Lola’s Saloon

Check the website for upcoming shows. 2736 W. Sixth Street. lolassaloon.com. 817.877.0666. Alien Knife Fight, July 7

Scat Jazz Lounge

Live jazz from local and nationwide artists perform in a speakeasy-style lounge in downtown Fort Worth. Check the website for upcoming shows. 111 W. Fourth Street, Ste. 11. scatjazzlounge.com. 817.870.9100.

Roxy Roca, July 1

Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie 1000 Lone Star Parkway, 75050. lonestarpark.com. 972.263.7223.

Randy Rogers Band, July 7

Pat Green, July 21

Sports

Texas Rangers

All home games at Globe Life Park. 1000 Ballpark Way, Arlington, 76011. texas.rangers.mlb. com. 972-RANGERS.

vs. Boston Red Sox, July 3-5 vs. Los Angeles Angels, July 7-9 vs Miami Marlins, July 24-26 vs Baltimore Orioles, July 28-30 vs Seattle Mariners, July 31

Fort Worth Vaqueros

All home games at Martin Field. 599 Collard St., 76105. fortworthvaqueros.com. 817.200.7355. vs. Houston Regals, July 8 vs. Dallas City FC, July 29

Texas Motor Speedway

3545 Lone Star Circle, 76177. texasmotorspeedway.com. 817.215.8500.

Stage and Theater

Amphibian Stage Productions

120 S. Main St. amphibianstage.com. 817.923.3012.

The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged), July 7-Aug. 13 Bass Performance Hall 525 Commerce St. basshall.com. 817.212.4300. Casa Manana 3101 W. Lancaster Ave. casamanana.org. 817.332.2272.

Circle Theatre

230 W. Fourth St. circletheatre.com. 817.877.3040.

King O’ The Moon : through July 15

Hip Pocket Theatre

1950 Silver Creek Rd. hippocket.org. 817.246.9775.

Distant Echo of Ancient Youth : July 8-31

TCU Theatre Main Stage Series 2800 S. University Dr. theatre.tcu.edu/series/ main_stage. 817.257.7625.

Jubilee Theatre

506 Main St. jubileetheatre.org. 817.338.4411. Beehive The 60s Musical, July 28Aug. 27

Rose Marine Theater

1440 N. Main St. artesdelarosa.org. 817.624.8333.

Stage West

821 W. Vickery Blvd. stagewest.org. 817.784.9378.

Sex With Strangers : through July 23

Stolen Shakespeare Guild Fort Worth Community Arts Center. 1300 Gendy St. stolenshakespeareguild.org. 817.988.2058.

Comedy

Arlington Improv and Restaurant, Ongoing Different standup comedians perform weekly. 309 Curtis Mathes Way, Ste. 147. improvarlington.com. 817.635.5555.

Four Day Weekend, Fridays and Saturdays

A staple of the local entertainment scene for many years, this popular Fort Worth-based improvisational comedy troupe performs skits and songs based on audience suggestions. Fri.Sat. 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Ages 18 and older are welcome. Tickets: $20 plus tax. 312 Houston St. fourdayweekend.com. 817.226.4329.

Hyena’s Comedy Nightclub, Ongoing There are various performances each week in downtown Fort Worth, ranging from local to national stars. Thursdays 8:30 p.m., Fridays 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., Saturdays, 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. 425 Commerce St. hyenascomedynightclub.com/fortworth. 817.877.5233.

The Wondercrust Movie Watchers Club, last Thursday of every month

Comedy group “Shut Up and Prance” hosts the show where comedians and some guests perform live commentary over old movies. Free popcorn and a theme alcoholic shot per movie. The show is free for anyone over 21 starting at 9 p.m. The Grotto Bar. 517 University Dr. 817.882.9331.

Other Attractions and Events

Some Like It Hot 5K, July 8

Run along the banks of the Trinity River on a USATF-certified course. Event photography is also provided. Pavilion No. 3. Trinity Park Ct. 76107. polanskyrunning.com. 817.228.6261. Fort Worth Magazine Top Chef Competition, July 13

Watch Fort Worth chefs compete for the the title of “Top Chef.” There will be live auctions, hors d’oeuvres, adult beverages, and endless entertainment. River Ranch. 500 NE 23rd St. 76164. fortworthtx.com/TopChef. 817.560.6111.

Fort Worth Magazine 2017 Summer Dream Home Tour, through July 23

Step inside Fort Worth Magazine’s recentlycompleted Summer Dream Home in Westlake. Tickets are $15 which includes a one-year subscription to Fort Worth Magazine. A portion of proceeds benefit a Wish with Wings. Buy tickets at fwtx.com. 2017 Granada Trail, Westlake. fwtx.com/2017-summer-dream-home/RSVP. 817.560.6111.

National Day of the American Cowboy, July 22

Parade and cattle drive celebrating the American cowboy. Stockyards Station. 130 East Exchange Ave, 76164-8210. stockyardsstation. com/events. 817.625.9715.

Gaylord Texan SummerFest, through Sept. 4

Texas-themed family-friendly entertainment. Work together solving clues in the Escape the Wild West: Escape Room game, explore caves in Crazy Pete’s Panning Adventure, and learn new skills at Junior Chefs Camp. There will also be fireworks, a local artists show, a western comedy show and more. 1501 Gaylord Trail, Grapevine. 76051. www.gaylordtexan.com/ summerfest. 817.778.1145.

Indigo Yoga Sunday Funday, every Sunday, through August

Experience yoga overlooking the Trinity River on the Panther Island Pavilion Stage and support the local nonprofit, the Blue Butterfly Project, through a donation based class. 395 Purcey St. 76102. 817.698.0700.

Martin House Brewing Co Tours and Tastings, Thursday and Saturdays

Admission includes a souvenir pint glass, guided brewery tour and three complimentary pints (must bring your ID). $10 tour and tasting admission. Thu. 6-8 p.m., Sat. 2-5 p.m. Martin House Brewing Co. 220 S. Sylvania Ave., Ste. 209. martinhousebrewing.com. 817.222.0177. Wild Acre Brewing Co Tours and Tastings, Saturdays

The taproom is open to the public on Saturdays from 2-6 p.m for $15. Wild Acre Brewing Co. 1734 E. El Paso St., Ste. 190. wildacrebrewing. com. 817.882.9453.

Rahr & Sons Brewing Co Tours and Tastings, Wednesdays and Saturdays

There is a $10 tour admission fee for anyone over 18, but a tour of the brewery and a Rahr & Sons pint glass that holds up to three free beer samples are yours for no additional charge. Wed. 5–7:30 p.m., Sat. 1–3 p.m. Rahr & Sons Brewing Co. 701 Galveston Ave. rahrbrewing. com. 817.810.9266.

Fort Worth Ghosts Bus Tour, Thursdays –Saturdays

Visit the haunts of mysterious ghosts from long ago and local well-known ghosts who cannot seem to find their rest. Before the tour, enjoy wine or beer at Grand Cru. The tours start at

Kickin’ it. The Fort Worth Vaqueros play the Houston Regals on July 8 and Dallas City FC on July 29

Benefitting the Home-Delivered Meals Program

Saturday, September 16, 2017

6:00 p.m.

Omni Fort Worth Hotel

To purchase tickets, visit mealsonwheels.org/events or contact Karen Greenwood at 817-258-6414 or karen@mealsonwheels.org

7 p.m. and 9 p.m. and last for about an hour and a half from Thu. - Sat. Acre Distillery. 1309 Calhoun St. fwghostbus.com. 817.812.6963.

Vintage Railroad : Trinity River Ride, Thursdays – Sundays

Hit the rails in an authentic Victorian-style coach between Grapevine and the Fort Worth Stockyards. From the Fort Worth location, visitors can ride on a trip to the Trinity River and back. 3:15-4:15 p.m. $6–$10. Grapevine Vintage Railroad – Fort Worth. 140 E. Exchange Ave. grapevinetexasusa.com/ grapevine_vintage_railroad. 817.410.3123.

Revolver Brewing Tour and Tastings, Saturdays

Great beer, fresh country air, picnic tables, a band, food, corn bag toss and an informative tour of the brewery. Noon-3 p.m. Admission is $10 for everyone over 18 and includes a Revolver Brewing pint glass. Revolver Brewery. 5650 Matlock Road, Granbury. revolverbrewing.com. 817.736.8034.

Granbury Ghosts and Legends Tour, Fridays and Saturdays

Hour-long walking excursion around Gran-

bury’s historic downtown square guided by actors dressed in Civil War Era attire. 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. $7-$10. Nutt House Historic Hotel. 119 E. Bridge St. granburytours.com. 817.559.0849.

Stockyards Walking Tours, Daily The Wrangler Walking Tour includes historical facts, culture and stories of the Stockyards. Mon. - Fri. 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m.; Sun. noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tickets: $5-$7. Stockyards Station. 130 E. Exchange Ave. stockyardsstation. com/attractions/historical-walking-tours. 817.625.9715.

Zumba in the Plaza, every other Saturday Free Zumba classes in Sundance Square Plaza are open to all levels. Classes are from 8:30-9:30 a.m. Sundance Square Plaza. 201 Main St., Ste. 700. sundancesquare.com/events/sundancesquare-zumba. 817.255.5700.

Yoga in the Plaza, every other Saturday Yoga classes for all levels are held in Sundance Square Plaza by the Amon G. Carter, Jr. Downtown YMCA. Classes start at 8:30 a.m. Sundance Square Plaza. 201 Main St., Ste. 700. sundancesquare.com/events/sundance-squareyoga. 817.255.5700.

Botanical Research Institute of Texas Tours, Ongoing

Lace up your sneakers and learn about BRIT’s past, present and future - research programs, herbarium, libraries, educational programs and its sustainable building. Free. Thu. 1:30 p.m., first Sat. of each month 10:30 a.m. Botanical

Research Institute of Texas. 1700 University Dr. brit.org. 817.332.4441.

Fort Worth Botanic Garden, Ongoing A peaceful haven nestled in the heart of Fort Worth’s Cultural District, the Garden is home to more than 2,500 species of native and exotic plants that flourish in 23 specialty gardens. Open daily from dawn until dusk. 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd. fwbg.org. 817.392.5510.

Fort Worth Herd Cattle Drive, Ongoing

The world’s only twice daily cattle drive. 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Historic Fort Worth Stockyards. East Exchange Avenue in front of the Livestock Exchange Building. fortworth.com/the-herd.

Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge, Ongoing

The 3,621-acre refuge is one of the largest cityowned nature centers in the United States with more than 20 miles of hiking trails. Refuge: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Hardwicke Interpretive Center: 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily. Admission: $2–$5. 9601 Fossil Ridge Road. fwnaturecenter.org. 817.392.7410.

Fort Worth Water Gardens, Ongoing

Designed by famed architect Philip Johnson, the five-acre downtown park features a peaceful oasis of fountains and pools. 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m. daily. Free. 1502 Commerce St. 817.392.7111.

Fort Worth Zoo, Ongoing

The Fort Worth Zoo has grown into a nationally ranked facility, housing more than 7,000 native and exotic animals. Open at 10 a.m. daily. Tickets: adults (13+), $14; children (3–12), $10; children (2 and under) free; seniors (65+) $10. Wednesdays: half-price. 1989 Colonial Parkway. fortworthzoo.org. 817.759.7555.

River Legacy Living Science Center, Ongoing

The 12,000-square-foot nature center offers interactive exhibits, terrariums, aquariums, nature trails and Saturday events. Mon.Sat., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free admission. 703 N.W. Green Oaks Blvd., Arlington. riverlegacy.org. 817.860.6752.

Stockyards Championship Rodeo, Ongoing

Full-on rodeo action Friday and Saturday night, year-round at the historic Cowtown Coliseum. 8 p.m. Tickets: $13.50-$27.50.121 E. Exchange Ave. stockyardsrodeo.com. 817.625.1025.

Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show, Ongoing

A historical reenactment of the original Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show featuring trick roping, shooting, riding among other performances. Every Saturday at 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Adult $18.50. Child $11.50. Senior $14.50. Reserved $21.50. Cowtown Coliseum. 121 E. Exchange Ave. stockyardsrodeo.com. 817.625.1025. or 1.888.COWTOWN.

Welcome to the neighborhood. Fort Worth Magazine's 2017 Summer Dream Home in Westlake is open for tours through July 23

Our annual Top Chef competition brings the heat year after year, and 2017 is no exception. Hosted by Scott Murray and head judge Jon Bonnell on July 13, our four ﬁnalists Jason Harper of Trio New American, Jenna Kinard of MAX’S Wine Dive, Juan Rodriguez of Magdalena’s and Derek Venutolo of The Capital Grille will gather to compete for the title of Fort Worth Magazine Top Chef 2017. The winner of this competition will go on to compete with three other past Top Chefs for the Master’s Challenge in January 2018.

Get your tickets now –go to fwtx.com/TopChef

Jason Harper Trio New American

Juan Rodriguez Magdalena’s

Jenna Kinard MAX’S Wine Dive

Derek Venutolo The Capital Grille

Culinary ventures in and around town

172 Modern Market / 176 Pizzeria La Scala / 178 Extra Bites

Pizzeria La Scala's Cannoli. Turn to page 176 for more from this New Yorkstyle Italian favorite.

Satiating Southlake

Modern Market manages to please everyone with its menu that meets virtually any dietary requirement from vegan, celiac and paleo to raw, South Beach and low carb.

| by Jennifer Casseday-Blair | photography by Alex Lepe |

IT’S A FORMULA THAT MAKES MODERN MARKET, A COLORADO-BASED CHAIN WITH A SOUTHLAKE LOCATION, SO SUCCESSFUL: simple counter service with scratch-made food. A seasonally changing menu includes farmfresh salads, scratch-made soups, pizzas with whole grain dough and organic tomatoes, toasted sandwiches, classic homestyle plates and breakfast entrées made with cage-free eggs and all-natural, nitrate-free breakfast meats.

The restaurant’s model is rooted in using simple, whole ingredients purchased from farmers, ranchers and suppliers that are well-known and trusted. Even the salad

dressings are made from scratch.

Located in the premium shopping district, Park Village, Modern Market has a fresh and cheery ambiance. Bright yellow metal chairs and dense wood tables occupy the dining room, and vintage Edison bulbs illuminate the space. An open kitchen allows visitors in line at the counter to observe as food is prepared. Standing in the fast-paced line, I was able to narrow down my choices to a less traditional soup and

sandwich combo. Advertised as Modern Market’s “signature soup,” I selected the Green Chicken Chili ($4) to start things off. A blend of tender chunks of chicken, onions, celery and gold potatoes swam in a bold yet mildly spiced green chili broth. This comforting soup was hearty, flavorful and wellseasoned. Next up was the Blueberry Pesto Sandwich ($8). Always a fan of fruity compotes on my sandwiches, I was immediately drawn

Modern Market has scratch-made food and a seasonally changing menu

Modern Market

to this creative concoction. Fresh mozzarella, ripe tomatoes, peppery arugula, basil pesto and blueberry balsamic jam harmoniously mingled between pieces of toasted ciabatta bread. Another winner for the books.

Location: 1161 E. Southlake Blvd., Ste. 260, Southlake 76092

For Info: 817.442.0123

Hours: Open Daily 7:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.

Price: $

What We Liked: Ordering was quick and easy, the environment was clean and the food was fresh with premium ingredients.

What We Didn’t: The prosciutto on the pizza was a little burned on the edges and really tough.

Our Recommendations: Modern Market is a great spot for a quick healthy lunch with many vegetarian, vegan, paleo and gluten-free options.

I couldn’t help but also try the Prosciutto

Brick-Oven Pizza ($9.75) that my friend had ordered. The combination of salty prosciutto, arugula, tart pear and threecheese blend on whole grain dough was brilliant; however, the pizza stayed just a smidge too long in the brick oven. The prosciutto was dry to the point of being tough, and the edges of the crust were blackened.

Modern Market’s straightforwardness and transparency about what guests are eating is refreshing. It even breaks down the nutritional content of meals on each

receipt. Overall, the visit was a home run. I don’t find myself in that neck of the woods often, but now I’ve got my go-to for healthy fast food in Southlake.

Blueberry Pesto Sandwich

Prosciutto Brick-Oven Pizza

Green Chicken Chili Soup

A Family Tradition

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Italian favorites and built a loyal fan base that goes far beyond its Westlake neighborhood.

| by Jessica Llanes | photography by Alex Lepe |

ANYONE WHO HAS SPENT ANY SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME IN THE METROPLEX IS PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH THE JOE’S PIZZA AND PASTA BRAND, a collection of casual New York-style pizzerias owned and operated by several family members who relocated to Texas from Brooklyn in the 1980s.

Then in 1996, the Perolli family developed Joe’s upscale cousin, Pizzeria La Scala. The idea was to create a fancier alternative to the relaxed pizza joint with a menu that offered steak, seafood and veal in addition to the normal pies and sandwiches, as well as a bar for late night patrons.

The concept has worked, and despite La Scala’s seeming off-the-beaten-path location, the restaurant attracts patrons not only in Westlake and Trophy Club, but also from around Fort Worth and Mid-Cities. Located close to a Marri-

ott, the restaurant also attracts its share of outof-town visitors.

The extensive menu includes various shellfishbased seafood dishes, plus a filet mignon and Marsala steak option, as well as more traditional pizzas, subs and pasta dishes. Diners can choose to eat their meal al fresco on the patio or in the bar if they don’t want the more formal feel of the dining room.

and then served in a sinful portion of lobster cream sauce. Presentation lacks some polish, but both dishes have that satisfying, slowmade flavor of home.

Location: 3 Village Circle No. 115, Westlake (Off of Hwy 114 and Solana Blvd.)

For Info: 817.491.3779

Hours: Mon.-Thu., 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Fri.-Sat., 11 a.m. - 10:30 p.m., Closed Sun.

What We Liked: Although it’s evident not everything the restaurant serves is made from scratch, the sauces — particularly the marinara and cream sauces — taste like mom made them.

What We Didn’t: The bar atmosphere is welcoming, but we could do without the cigarette smoke.

Our Recommendations: Opt for some of Pizzeria La Scala’s more unique seafood and pasta offerings on your ﬁrst visit.

When we visited for a mid-evening dinner, most of the patrons were seated in the bar and patio areas, so we opted to do the same. I’m sometimes leery of ordering food from the bar, but La Scala’s bartender was friendly and took the time to explain the dishes and make suggestions when she realized we were first-time guests. We decided to start with a pair of appetizers. The generous portion of Fried Calamari ($6.99) is served with a flavorful, housemade marinara sauce and slices of lemon. The breading is crispy, but the meat is still tender. We also tried the Stuffed Mushrooms ($7.29), six mushroom caps filled with crabmeat and breadcrumbs

For the main course, we tried La Scala’s Chicken Parmesan ($8.99) served with marinara over angel hair pasta and topped with melted mozzarella. The boneless chicken breast isn’t pounded as thin as I prefer, but it’s moist and very sizeable for the price point. We also sampled the Veal Saltimbocca ($12.99). The thin-cut veal slices are marinated in white wine and served over angel hair with a topping of Prosciutto ham, sautéed spinach and melted cheese that is not diet-friendly but buttery delicious. The pasta is not fresh-made and nothing special (not surprising, considering menu pricing), but the meat and sauce preparations at La Scala more than make up for what the pasta lacks in pizazz.

Also, La Scala’s sides are pretty limited, so don’t expect anything more than pasta to accompany most dishes. If you are craving something green, order a salad with your meal.

To finish, we decided to split one of La Scala’s Cannoli ($3.25). It’s a standard and satisfying representation of a classic dessert — fried pastry shells are filled with a creamy filling of ricotta and cream cheese. Instead of mini chocolate chips, the shell is drizzled in chocolate sauce.

Through the years, La Scala has maintained a neighborhood charm and hospitality, paired with its generously portioned dishes at pocketbook-friendly prices that the Joe’s brand is known for.Its outof-the-way location may preclude regular visits for anyone not in the neighborhood, but it’s definitely worth stopping by if you’re in the Solana Westlake area.

Stuffed Mushrooms, Chicken Parmesan, Fried Calamari and La Scala's Cannoli.

extrabites

Savoring Summer

A high-yielding vegetable garden can be both a blessing and a curse. When nature’s bounty is too much, here are ways to store and preserve your harvest.

| by Jennifer Casseday-Blair |

DRYING

Crops that dry well include tomatoes, peppers and herbs. Drying can dramatically alter the flavor and texture of your crop. Begin by washing and thinly slicing your fruit or vegetable and arrange the pieces in a single layer on a baking tray. The easier method is to set your oven to its lowest temperature setting (250 degrees) and leave the trays in for several hours until the pieces have shrunk in size and are nearly crisp. Once dry, you can store the pieces in a sterile, airtight container and consume within a few weeks.

CANNING

Glass jars should be used as opposed to tin cans to eliminate the risk of BPA contamination. BPA-free liners and lids should also be utilized when canning vegetables. This method applies heat to food in a closed glass home-canning jar to stop the natural spoilage that would otherwise take place and removes air from the jar to create a seal. Waterbath canning and pressure canning are two methods that can be done relatively easily at home. Tomatoes, salsas, jellies, jams, fruits, sauces, chutneys and pie fillings are ideal for preservation by canning.

PICKLING

Radishes, okra and cucumbers are delicious when pickled and will keep for several months. Wash and prepare veggies (don ’t remove the tops too closely to the root; this can cause the color to leech out). Boil in water for 30 minutes or until the skins and tops rub off easily. Slice them and place in a sterile j ar and cover in pickling vinegar. Leave them overnight and then rinse thoroughly. Finally, place in a sterile j ar and cover with pickling vinegar.

FREEZING

When you’re freezing fruits and veggies, store in usable quantities so produce can be easily defrosted. Choose only firm, justripe fruit and vegetables, and freeze them as quickly as you can after harvesting. Pack in an airtight freezer bag or plastic container. Some fruits and vegetables will need blanching before freezing. This prevents a soggy, soft consistency when defrosted. Do this by plunging the fruit or vegetable into a large pan of boiling water for about one-third to one-half of the normal cooking time and then transfer to ice cold water before drying and freezing.

Keep It Fresh

While your first instinct might be to put your overabundance in the fridge to make it last until you’re ready to eat it, the average refrigerator temperature is too cold for many warm-weather crops. These tips will ensure your summer vegetables will last a little bit longer.

01. DO NOT wash vegetables until you’re ready to use them. Lingering moisture in the crevices of the vegetables can cause them to go bad more quickly. Simply brush off any dirt, and then wash well before actually preparing them for a meal.

02. Leave the stem attached. This will help seal the stem end against bacteria.

03. Put peppers, summer squash, green beans and cantaloupe in the fridge. Wrap fresh produce in a paper towel, and place in a plastic bag to enhance humidity.

04. Store tomatoes, eggplants, okra, cucumbers and watermelon in a cool place with some humidity out of direct sunlight. These guys can’t handle the chill of the fridge.

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American

ARLINGTON/MID-CITIES

Babe’s Chicken Dinner House 230 N. Center St., 817.801.0300. Lunch Hours 11am-2pm Mon.Fri.; Dinner Hours 5pm-9pm Mon.-Fri; All Day 11am-9pm Sat. and Sun. $

BJ’s Restaurant And Brewhouse 201 E. Interstate 20, 817.465.5225. 11am-midnight Mon.-Thur.; 11am-1am Fri.; 11am-1am Sat.; 10am-midnight Sun. $-$$

Chef Point Cafe 5901 Watauga Rd., Watauga, 817.656.0080. 11am-9pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am10pm Fri.; 7am-10pm Sat.; 10am-8pm Sun. Breakfast Saturdays. $-$$

Dave & Busters 425 Curtis Mathes Way, 817.525.2501. 11am-midnight Sun.-Thur.; 11am1am Fri.-Sat. $$

Houlihan’s 401 E. 1-20 Hwy., 817.375.3863. 11ammidnight, bar 1am Mon.-Thu.; 11am-1am, bar 2am Fri.-Sat.; 11am-10pm, bar midnight Sun. $$-$$$

Humperdink's Restaurant And Brewery

700 Six Flags Drive, 817.640.8553. 11am-midnight Sun.-Thurs.; 11am-2am Fri.-Sat. $$

J Gilligan's Bar & Grill 400 E. Abram. 817.274.8561. 11am-10pm Mon.-Wed.; 11ammidnight Thu.-Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun.; drafthouse open nightly 11am-2am $ Mac’s Bar & Grill 6077 W. I-20 Frontage Rd., 817.572.0541. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am11pm Fri.-Sat.; 10am-2:30pm and 3pm-10pm Sun. $$ No Frills Grill 4914 Little Rd., 817.478.1766. Other locations: 801 S. Main St. #109, Keller, 817.741.6344. 2851 Matlock Rd., Ste. 422, Mansfield, 817.473.6699. 1550 Eastchase Pkwy., Ste. 1200, Arlington, 817.274.5433. 11am-2am daily. $ Rose Garden Tearoom 3708 W. Pioneer Pkwy., 817.795.3093. 11:30am-3:30pm Mon.-Sat.; closed Sun. $

Restaurant 506 at The Sanford House 506 N. Center St., 817.801.5541. Closed Mon.-Tues.; 11am-2pm, 5:30pm-9pm Wed.-Fri.; 10:30am2pm, 5:30pm-9pm Sat.; 10:30am-2pm Sun. $-$$ Southern Recipes Grill 2715 N. Collins St., 817.469.9878. 11am-9pm Mon.-Fri.; 8am-9pm Sat.; 8am-4pm Sun. $-$$

Steve's Garden & Grill 223 Depot St., Mansfield. 817.473.8733. Tues.-Thur. 11am-9pm; Fri. 11am-10pm; Sat. 4 pm-10pm; Sun.-Mon. closed. $-$$

Ventana Grille 7005 Golf Club Dr., 817.548.5047. 6:30am-9pm daily $-$$

BURLESON

Babe’s Chicken Dinner House 120 S. Main St., 817.447.3400. 11am-2pm lunch and 5pm9pm dinner Mon.-Fri.; 11am-9pm Sat.-Sun. $ Dalton's Corner Bar & Grill 200 S. Main St., 817.295.5456. 11am-2am Mon.-Sun. $$ The Porch 140 S. Wilson St., 817.426.9900. 6:30am-8pm Mon.-Thu.; 6:30am-9pm Fri.-Sat.; 9am-8pm Sun. $$

COLLEYVILLE

Market Street 5605 Colleyville Blvd., 817.577.5020. 6am-10pm daily. $

Trio New American Cafe 8300 Precinct Line Road, Ste. 104, 817.503.8440. Closed Sun.-Mon.; 11am-3pm, 5pm-9pm Tue.-Sat. BYOB. $$

FORT WORTH

Bird Cafe 155 E. 4th and Commerce, 817.332.2473. 11am-midnight Mon.-Thur.; 11am1am Fri.; 10am-1am Sat.; 10am-10pm Sun. $$ Bluebonnet Café 2223 Haltom Rd., Haltom City, 817.834.4988. 6:30am-2:30pm Mon.-Sat. $ Brewed 801 W. Magnolia Ave., 817.945.1545. 8am-10pm Tue.-Wed.; 8am-11pm Thu.; 8ammidnight Fri.-Sat.; 9:30am-2:30pm Sun. $-$$ Buffalo Bros Pizza Wings & Subs 3015 S. University Dr., 817. 386.9601. 11am-2am daily. $$

Buttons 4701 W. Freeway, 817.735.4900. 11am10pm Sun.-Tues.; 11am-midnight Wed.-Thu.; 11am-2am Fri; noon-2am Sat. $$$

Cork & Pig Tavern 2869 Crockett St., 817.759.9280. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thurs.; 11am11:30pm Fri.; 9am-11:30pm Sat.; 9am - 9pm Sun. $$$

Cast Iron Restaurant 1300 Houston St., 817.350.4106. 6am-11am Breakfast; 11am-2pm Brunch, Sun.; 11am-2pm Lunch, Mon.-Sat.; 5pm-10pm Dinner, daily. $$

Cat City Grill 1208 W. Magnolia Ave., 817.916.5333. Lunch: 11am-2:30pm Mon.-Fri.; Dinner: 5:30pm-9pm Mon.-Thu.; 5:30pm-10pm Fri.-Sat.; Brunch: 10:30am-1:30pm Sun. $$-$$$ Charleston’s 3020 S. Hulen St., 817.735.8900. 11am-10pm Mon.-Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun. $$ Clay Pigeon 2731 White Settlement Rd., 817.882.8065. 4:30pm-10pm Mon.-Sat.. $$$

Curly ’s Frozen Custard 4017 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.763.8700. 11am-9pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am10pm Fri.-Sat. $

Del Frisco's Grille 154 E. 3rd St., 817.887.9900. 11am-4pm Lunch, Sat.; 11am-3pm Lunch, Sun.; 4pm-10pm Dinner, Sun. and 4pm-11pm Mon.Sat. $$

Dixie House Cafe 3701 E. Belknap St.,

817.222.0883. Other locations: 6200 Calhoun St., 817.451.6180. 5401 S. Hulen St., 817.361.8500. 5401 Blue Mound Rd., 817.625.4115. 6:30am8:30pm Mon.-Sat.; 7am-3pm Sun. $ Drew ’s Place 5701 Curzon Ave., 817.735.4408. 10:30am-6pm Tue.-Sat.; 11am-3pm Sun. $-$$ Ellerbe Fine Foods 1501 W. Magnolia Ave., 817.926.3663. Closed Sun.-Mon.; 11am-2pm and 5:30pm-9pm, Tue.-Thu.; 11am-2pm and 5:3010pm, Fri.; 5:30pm-10pm, Sat. $$-$$$ Fred’s Texas Cafe 915 Currie St., 817.332.0083. 10:30am-midnight Tue.-Sat.; 10am-9pm Sun. 10:30am-9pm Mon. 2730 Western Center, 817.232.0111. 10:30am-midnight Tue.-Sat.; 3509 Blue Bonnet Circle, 817.916.4650. 10:30am-midnight, daily. $$

HG Sply Co. 1621 River Run, Ste. 176, 682.730.6070. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thurs.; 11ammidnight Fri.; 10am-midnight Sat.; 10am-10pm Sun. $$-$$$

Little Red Wasp 808 Main St., 817.877.3111. 11am-10pm Mon.-Fri.; 10am-10pm Sat.-Sun.; Brunch to 4pm Sat.-Sun. $$-$$$

Lucile’s Stateside Bistro 4700 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.738.4761. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.; 9am-11pm Sat.; 9am-10pm Sun. $$

The Lunch Box 6333 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.738.2181. 8am-2:30pm, daily. $

MAX's Wine Dive 2421 W. 7th St., Ste. 109, 817.870.1100 4pm-11pm Mon.-Thu.; 4pm-midnight Fri.; 10am-midnight Sat.; 10am-10pm Sun.; Brunch 10am-3pm Sat. & Sun.; Happy Hour 4pm-6pm Mon.-Fri.$-$$

Pappadeaux 2708 W. Freeway, 817.877.8843. Other location: 1304 E. Copeland Rd., Arlington, 817.543.0544. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat. $$

Montgomery Street Café 2000 Montgomery St., 817.731.8033. 6am-2pm Mon.-Fri.; 7amNoon Sat.; Closed Sun. $

Old Neighborhood Grill 1633 Park Place Ave., 817.923.2282. 7am-9pm Mon.-Fri.; 8am-9pm Sat.; Closed Sun. $

Ol’ South Pancake House 1509 S. University Dr., 817.336.0311. Open 24 hours. $

Paris Coffee Shop 704 W. Magnolia, 817.335.2041. 6am-2:30pm Mon.-Fri.; Breakfast Only 6am-11am Sat. $

Park Hill Cafe 2974 Park Hill Dr., 817.921.5660. 10am-2:30pm Mon.-Fri.; 10am-1pm Sat.-Sun. $-$$

Pop’s Safari 2929 Morton St., 817.877.0916. 9am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 9am-midnight Fri.-Sat.;

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Pick of the Month

Kokitos

Piña coladas served in whole pineapples with whipped cream and a cherry on top? Yes, please. Mexican drink and dessert shop Kokitos opened a second location at 6425 McCart Ave. on June 3 (the ﬁrst is at 6708 Camp Bowie Blvd.). Along with its signature piña coladas, the shop is also known for aguas frescas and mangonadas, along with desserts like mango on a stick and strawberries and cream. “Kokitos” is a play on the Spanish word “coco,” meaning “coconut.”

6425 McCart Ave

682 708 8535

Mon -Fri. 10 a m -8 p m.; Sat 10 a m -9 p.m.; Sun. noon-9 p.m.

Closed Sun. $$-$$$

Press Cafe 4801 Edwards Ranch Road, Ste. 105, 817.570.6002. 7am-10pm Mon.-Sun. $-$$

Rise & Shine 3636 Altamesa Blvd., 817.423.3555. 6am-2pm daily. $

Secret Garden Tearoom 2601 Montgomery St., 817.763.9787. 10am-6pm Mon.-Sat.; Noon6pm Sun. $

The Rose Garden Tea Room 7200 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.731.7673. 11:30am-3:30pm Mon-Sat.; 12pm-3:30pm Sun. $$

The Social House 840 Currie St., 817.820. 1510. 11am-2am Mon.-Sun. $$

Twin Creeks Café 3400 W. Loop 820 S. (inside Frank Kent Honda), 817.244.9600. 7:30am3:30pm Mon.-Fri.; 8am-3:30pm Sat. $

Vidalias Southern Cuisine 200 Main St., 817.210.2222. 6am-10pm daily. $$

Varsity Tavern 1005 Norwood St., 817.882.6699. 11am-2am Mon-Sun. Brunch 11am-4pm SatSun. $$

Westside Café 7950 W. Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.560.1996. 6am-9pm Sat.-Thurs.; 6am-10pm Fri. $ GRAPEVINE

Mac's on Main 909 S. Main St., Ste. 110, 817.251.6227. 11am-3pm, Lunch Mon.-Sat.; 4:30-9:30pm Mon.-Thu.; 4:30pm-10pm Fri.-Sat.; 10am-2:30pm Brunch, Sun.; 4:30pm-9:30pm Sun. $$

Tolbert's Restaurant 423 S. Main St. 817.421.4888. 11am-9pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am9:30pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-8:30pm Sun. $$ Winewood Grill 1265 S. Main St., Grapevine, 76051 817.421.0200. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun. $$-$$$ KELLER/LAKE COUNTRY

FnG Eats 201 Town Center Ln., Ste. 1101, 817.741.5200 11am-9pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.; 10:30am-10pm Sat.; 10:30am-9pm Sun. $$ ROANOKE

Babe’s Chicken Dinner House 104 N. Oak, 817.491.2900. 11am-2pm, 4:30pm-9pm Mon.Thurs.; 11am-2pm, 4:30pm-9pm Fri.; 11am-9pm Sat.; 10:30am-9pm Sun. $

Classic Cafe 504 N. Oak St., 817.430.8185. Lunch Hours 11am-2:30pm Mon.-Fri.; Dinner Hours 5pm-9pm Mon.-Thu.; 5pm-10pm Fri. & Sat.$$$$$

Dove Creek Café 204 S. Hwy. 377, 817.491.4973. 6am-8pm Mon.-Fri.; 6am-3pm Sat. & Sun. $

Reno Red's Frontier Cooking 304 S. Hwy. 377, 817.491.4855. 11am-9pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-10pm Sun. $-$$

SOUTHLAKE

Café Express 1472 Main St., 817.251.0063. 7am9pm Sun.-Thu.; 7am-10pm Fri.-Sat. $$

The Cheesecake Factory 1440 Plaza Place, 817.310.0050. 11am-11pm Mon.-Thu.; 11ammidnight Fri.-Sat.; 10am-11pm Sun. $$

Del Frisco's Grille 1200 E. Southlake Blvd., 817.410.3777. 11am-11pm Mon.-Sat.; 10am-9pm Sun. $$ Modern Market 1161 E. Southlake Blvd. Bldg. O,

Suite 260. 817.442.0123. 8:30am-9:30pm, Mon.Sun. $$

Wildwood Grill 2700 E. Southlake Blvd., 817.748.2100. 11am-10pm, daily. $-$$

WEATHERFORD

Fire Oak Grill 114 Austin Ave., 817.598.0400. Lunch: 11:30am-2pm Tue.-Fri.; Dinner: 5pm9pm Tue.-Thu.; 5pm-10pm Fri.-Sat. $$-$$$ Weatherford Downtown Café 101 W. Church St., 817.594.8717. 7am-3pm Mon.-Wed.; 7am-8pm Thu.-Sat.; 8am-3pm Sun. $

Asian ARLINGTON

Bethany Boba Tea House 705 Park Row Dr., 817.461.1245. 11am-10pm daily. $ Genghis Grill 4000 Five Points Blvd., Ste. 189, 817.465.7847. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am11pm Fri.; 10am-11pm Sat; 10am-10pm Sun. $$ Orchid City Fusion Cafe 2135 Southeast Pkwy., 817.468.3777. 11am-9pm Mon.-Sat.; noon-9pm Sun. $$

Pei Wei 2100 N. Collins St., 817.299.8687. Other locations: 4133 E. Cooper St., 817.466.4545. 11am-9pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat. $ Piranha’s Killer Sushi 859 N.E. Green Oaks Blvd., 817.261.1636. Other locations: Arlington Highlands 309 Curtis Mathes Way, Ste. 149 817.465.6455 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am11pm Fri.; noon-11pm Sat.; Noon-10pm Sun. $$ Sukhothai 423 Fielder North Plaza, 817.860.4107. 11am-2pm Mon.-Fri.; 5pm-9:30pm Mon.-Sat.; $ Taste Of Thai 2535 E. Arkansas Lane, 817.543.0110. 11am-10pm Mon.-Fri.; Noon-10pm Sat.; Noon-9:30pm Sun. $ BEDFORD

MK's Sushi 2400 Airport Fwy., Ste. 130, 817.545.4149. 11am-10pm Mon.-Sat.; 4:30pm10pm Sun. $$

Thai Jasmine 3104 Harwood Rd., 817.283.8228. 11am-9pm Sun.-Thurs.; 11am-9:30pm Fri.-Sat. $

BURLESON

Taste Of Asia 130 NW John Jones Drive, Ste 206, 817.426.2239. 11am-9pm Mon.-Sun. $ FORT WORTH

Asia Bowl & Grill 2400 Lands End, Ste. 115, 817.738.1688. 11am-9pm Sun.-Thurs.; 11am9:30pm Fri.-Sat. $

Blue Sushi Sake Grill 3131 W. 7th St., 817.332.2583. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11ammidnight Fri.; noon-midnight Sat.; noon-10pm Sun. $-$$

Cannon Chinese Kitchen 304 W. Cannon St. 817.238.3726. 11:30am-2:30pm Lunch, Tues.-Fri.; 5pm-9pm Dinner, Tues.-Thurs.; 5pm-10pm Dinner, Fri.-Sat. Closed Sun. $$

Edohana Hibachi Sushi 2704 S. Hulen, 817.924.1144. Other locations: 5816 S.W. Loop 820, 817.731.6002. Lunch 11:15am-2:15pm Mon.-Fri.; Dinner 5:15pm-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 4:45pm-10:30pm Fri.-Sat.; 4:45pm-9:30pm Sun $$

Hanabi Ramen & Izakaya 3204 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.420.6703. Lunch 11am-2:30pm Mon.-

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Sat.; Dinner 5pm-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 5pm-11pm Fri.-Sat.; Closed Sun. $$

HoYA Korean Kitchen 355 W. 3rd St., 817.334.7999. 11am-9pm Mon.-Sun. $

Japanese Palace 8445 Camp Bowie W., 817.244.0144. 5pm-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 5pm-11pm Fri.-Sat. $$-$$$

Kona Grill 3028 Crockett St., 817.210.4216. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-10pm Sun. $$

Little Lilly Sushi 6100 Camp Bowie, Ste. 12, 817.989.8886. 11am-2pm Mon.-Sat.; 5pm-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 5pm-11pm Fri.-Sat.; noon-9pm Sun. $$

My Lan 4015 E. Belknap St., 817.222.1471. 9am9pm Mon.-Sun. Closed Wed. $

Pappa Chang Asian Bistro 1526 Pennsylvania Ave., 817.348.9888. 11am-9:30pm Sun.-Thurs.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat. $

Pei Wei 5900 Overton Ridge Blvd., Ste. 130, 817.294.0808. Other location: 2600 W. 7th St., Ste. 101, Montgomery Plaza, 817.806.9950. 11am-9pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat. $

P.F. Chang ’s 400 Throckmorton, 817.840.2450. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat. $

Pho Little Saigon 1712 Mall Circle., 817.738.0040. 10am-9pm Mon.-Sun. $ Phu Lam 4125 E. Belknap St., 817.831.9888. 10am9pm Daily $-$$

Piranha Killer Sushi 335 W. 3rd St., 817.348.0200. 11am-10pm Mon.-Wed.; 11am11pm Thu.; 11am-midnight Fri.; noon-midnight Sat.; noon-10pm Sun. $$

Shinjuku Station 711 W. Magnolia Ave., 817.923.2695. 5pm-9pm Mon.; 11am-9pm Tues.Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.; 5pm-10pm Sat. $-$$ Sushi Axiom Japanese Fusion Restaurant 4625 Donnelly Ave., Ste. 101, 817.735.9100. 11am-10pm Mon.-Fri.; Noon-10pm Sat.; Noon9pm Sun. Other locations: 2600 W. 7th St., 817.877.3331. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am11pm Fri.; noon-11pm Sat.; noon-9pm Sun. $$ Szechuan 4750 Bryant Irvin Rd., Cityview Plaza, 817.346.6111. 11am-10:30pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am9:30pm Sun. Other location: 5712 Locke Ave., 817.738.7300. 11am-10:30pm Fri.; 11am-9:30pm Sat.-Sun. $-$$

Taste Of Asia 4484 Bryant Irvin Road, Ste. 101, 817.732.8688. 11am-9:30pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat.; 9324 Clifford St., Ste. 116, 817.246.4802. 11am-9pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat,; 7420 Beach St., 817.503.1818. 11am-9pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat. $ Thailicious 4601 W. Freeway. Ste. 206 (Chapel Hill at I-30 & Hulen), 817.737.8111. 11am-9:30pm Mon.-Thu. 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat. $-$$

Thai Select 4630 SW Loop 820, 817.731.0455. 11am-9:30pm Mon.-Thur.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun. $

Thai Tina’s 600 Commerce St., 817.332.0088. 11am-9pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-midnight Bar, Sun.-Sat. $$

Tu Hai Restaurant 3909 E. Belknap St., 817.834.6473. 9am-8pm Mon.-Sat; Closed Sun. $

GRAPEVINE

Edohana Hibachi Sushi 1501 W. State Hwy. 114 Ste. 100, 817.251.2004. 11:15am-2:30pm Lunch, Mon.-Fri.; 5pm-9:30pm Mon.-Thurs.; 5pm10pm Fri.-Sat.; 5pm-9:30pm Sun. $$ P F Chang ’s 650 W. Highway 114, 817.421.6658. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat. $$ HURST

Sweet Basil Thai Cuisine 977 Melbourne Rd., 817.268.2899. Lunch: 11am-2:30pm Mon.-Fri.; Dinner: 5pm-9:30pm Mon.-Fri.; 11am-9:30pm Sat.; 11:30am-8pm Sun. $-$$

MANSFIELD

Sake Hibachi Sushi And Bar 100 W. Debbie Lane, Mansfield, 817.453.5888. 11am-10pm, Mon.-Thu.; 11am-10:30pm, Fri.-Sat.; noon10pm, Sun. $-$$

SOUTHLAKE

Kobeya Japanese Hibachi & Sushi 1230 Main St., 817.416.6161. 11:30am-2pm Lunch, Mon.-Fri.; Noon-3p.m. Lunch, Sat.; 5pm9:30pm, Dinner, Mon.-Thurs.; 5pm-10:30pm Dinner, Fri.-Sat.; Noon-9pm Sun. $$

Pei Wei 1582 E. Southlake Blvd., 817.722.0070. 11am-9pm Sun.-Thurs.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat. $

RA Sushi 1131 E. Southlake Blvd. Bldg. L. 817.601.9590. 11am-12am Sun.-Thu.; 11am-1am Fri.-Sat. $$

Sushi Sam 500 W. Southlake Blvd., Ste. 138, 817.410.1991. 11am-9:30pm Mon.-Thurs.; 11am11pm Fri.-Sat.; 5pm-9:30pm Sun. $-$$

Barbecue

ARLINGTON

David's Barbecue 2224 W. Park Row Dr., Ste. H, 817.261.9998. 11am-9pm Tues.-Sat. $

Dickey ’s Barbecue Pit 5530 S. Cooper, 817.468.0898. 1801 Ballpark Way, 817.261.6600. 11am-9pm daily. $

Oh My BBQ 901 E. Arkansas Ln. 817.303.1499. 10am-8pm Mon.-Thurs.; 10am-9pm Fri.-Sat. $ FORT WORTH

Angelo’s 2533 White Settlement Rd., 817.332.0357. 11am-9pm Mon.-Wed.; 11am10pm Thu.-Sat.; closed Sun. $

Billy Bob's Texas Honky Tonk Kitchen 2520 Rodeo Plaza. 817.626.2340. 11am-9pm Mon.Wed.; 11am-10pm Thu.; 11am-1am Fri.-Sat.; noon-9pm Sun. $

Billy's Oak Acres BBQ 1620 Las Vegas Trail North, 817.624.7117. 11am-8pm Tue.-Sat.; 11am3pm Sun. $

Cooper 's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que 301 Stockyards Blvd., 817.626.6464. 11am-8:30pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-9:30pm Fri. and Sat. $

Cousin’s Pit Barbecue 6262 McCart Ave., 817.346.2511. Other locations: 5125 Bryant Irvin Rd., 817.346.3999. 9560. Feather Grass Ln., 817.750.2020. 11am-9pm Mon.-Sat. $

Dickey ’s Barbecue Pit 451 University Dr., 817.231.8813. 11am-9pm daily. Other locations: 951 N. Beach St., 682.647.0222. 11am-9pm daily. 1989 Colonial Pwy., 817.759.7400. 11am-9pm daily. 5412 Blue Mound Rd., 817.289.0027.

10:30am-8:30pm Sun.-Thu.; 10:30am-9pm Fri.Sat. $

Heim Barbecue 1109 W. Magnolia Ave., 817.882.6970. 11am-10pm Wed.- Mon. Closed Tues. $$

Railhead Smokehouse 2900 Montgomery St., 817.738.9808. 11am-9pm Mon.-Sat. $

Red Hot And Blue 3000 S. Hulen St., 817.731.8770. 9143 Grapevine Hwy., 817.605.1333. 11am-9pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat. $$

Riscky ’s 6701 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.989.1800. Other locations: 140 E. Exchange Ave. 817.626.7777. 300 Main St., 817.877.3306. 9000 Benbrook Blvd., 817.249.3320. 10:30am-8:30pm Mon.-Sat. $

Sammie's Bar-B-Q 3801 E. Belknap, 817.834.1822. 9am-9pm Mon.-Thu.; 9am-10pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-5pm, Sun. $-$$

Smokey's Bbq 5300 E. Lancaster Ave. 817.451.8222. 11am-"until we run out" Mon.-Fri.; 8am-"until we run out" Sat.-Sun. $ The Smoke Pit 2401 E. Belknap St., 817.222.0455. 10:30am-3:30pm Mon.; 10:30am-7pm Tues.Wed.; 10:30am-8pm Thurs.-Fri.; 10:30am-6pm Sat. $-$$

Trailboss Burgers 140 E. Exchange Ave, 817.625.1070. 11am-7pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-9pm Fri.; 11am-10pm Sat. $-$$ HURST

Dickey ’s Barbecue Pit 1858 Precinct Line Rd., 817.656.0200. 10:30am-9pm daily. $ WHITE SETTLEMENT

Soda Springs Bar-B-Q 8620 Clifford St., 817.246.4644. Mon.-Sat. 11am-2pm; Thurs. 4 pm-8pm; Fri. 11am-8:30pm; Sat. 11am-8pm; Sun. closed. $-$$

Brazilian FORT WORTH

Rafain Brazilian Steakhouse 2932 Crockett St., 817.862.9800. 11am-2pm, 5pm-9:30pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-2pm, 5pm-10pm Fri.; 4:3010:30pm Sat; 12pm-3pm, 4:30pm-9pm Sun. $$$

Texas De Brazil 101 N. Houston St., 817.882.9500. 11am-3pm Brunch, Sun.; 11am3:30pm Lunch, Sun.; 11am-2pm Lunch, Fri.; 5pm-9:30pm Dinner, Mon.-Thu.; 5pm-10pm Fri.; 4:30pm-10pm Sat.; 4pm-9pm Sun. $$$ GRAPEVINE

Boi Na Braza 4025 William D. Tate, 817.251.9881. 5pm-9:45pm Mon.-Sat.; 5pm8:45pm Sun. $$$

Burgers & Sandwiches ARLINGTON

Al’s Hamburger ’s 1001 N.E. Green Oaks Blvd.. Ste. 103, 817.275.8918. 7am-9pm, daily. $ Chapps 2045 N. Hwy. 360, 817.649.3000. Other locations: 153 Southwest Plaza (1-20 & Little Road), 817.483.8008, 11am-9pm Sun.-Thurs.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat. 2596 E. Arkansas, 817.460.2097. 10:45am-9pm Mon.-Fri.; 11am-

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Chop House Burgers 2230 Park Row Drive, Ste. A, 817.459.3700. 11am-9pm Mon.-Thurs.; 11am10pm Fri.-Sat. $

Kincaid’s 3900 Arlington Highlands Blvd., Ste. 113, 817.466.4211. 11am-9pm Mon.-Sat.; 11am7pm Sun. $

Tom's Burgers & Grill 1530 N. Cooper St., 817.459.9000. 6am-10pm Mon.-Sat.; 6am-9pm Sun. $-$$

FORT WORTH

Dutch’s 3009 S. University Dr., 817.927.5522. 11am-9pm Sun.-Wed.; 11am-10pm Thu.-Sat. $

The Great Outdoors 3204 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.877.4400. 9am-9pm Mon.-Sat.; 10am-8pm Sun. $

Kincaid’s 4901 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.732.2881, 11am-8pm Mon.-Sat.; 11am-3pm Sun.

Other locations: 4825 Overton Ridge Blvd., 817.370.6400. 3124 Texas Sage Trail, 817.750.3200. 11am-9pm Mon.-Sat.; 11am-7pm Sun. $

The Love Shack 110 E. Exchange Ave., 817.740.8812, 11am-9pm Sun.-Wed.; 11am-10pm Thurs.; 11am-1am Fri.-Sat.$

M & O Station Grill 200 Carroll St., 817.882.8020. 11am-4pm Mon.; 11am-9pm Tues.-Sat. Closed Sun. $

Rodeo Goat 2836 Bledsoe & Currie, 817.877.4628. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-midnight Fri.-Sat. $-$$

Shaw 's Patio Bar And Grill 1051 W. Magnolia Ave. 817.926.2116. 11am-2:30pm Mon.; 11am9pm Tue.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.; 10:30am-11pm Sat.; 10:30am-8pm Sun. $-$$

Tommy ’s Hamburger Grill 5228 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.569.1111. Other location: 2455 Forest Park Blvd., 817.920.1776. 11am-9pm Mon.-Sat.; 11am-8pm Sun. $

Woodshed Smokehouse 3201 Riverfront Drive, 817.877.4545. 8am-11am Breakfast, Mon.-Sat.; 8am-2pm Brunch, Sun.; 11am-10pm Lunch, Mon.-Thurs.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat.; Noon-10pm Sun.; until midnight, Bar, Wed.Sat. $-$$

Z’s Café 1116 Pennsylvania Ave. 817.348.9000. 10am-2pm Mon.-Fri. $ SOUTHLAKE

Johnny B’s Burgers & Shakes 2704 E. Southlake Blvd., 817.749.0000. 10:30am-8:30pm Mon.-Thu.; 10:30am-9pm Fri.-Sat.; 10:30am3pm Sun. $

Kincaid’s 100 N. Kimball Ave., 817.416.2573. 11am-9pm Mon.-Sat.; 11am-7pm Sun. $

Continental

ARLINGTON

Café At Daireds 2400 W. I-20, 817.465.9797. 817.465.9797. 12pm-6pm Sun.; 9am-6pm Mon.; 9am-7pm Tue.; 9am-9pm Wed.-Thu.; 9am6pm Fri.; 8:30am-5:30pm Sat. $-$$ FORT WORTH

Six10Grille 610 Main St., 817.332.0100. 6:30am10:30am Mon.-Fri. $-$$$

Delis & Bakeries ARLINGTON

Iris Bagel And Coffee House 5801 W. Interstate 20, 817.561.9989. 5:30am-2pm Mon.-Sat.; 7am-2pm Sun. $

FORT WORTH

Baker Bros American Deli 6333 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ste. 244, 817.989.1400. Other locations: 501 Carroll St., Ste. 658., 817.332.0500. 3300 Heritage Trace Pwy., Ste. 110, 817.750.6666. 10am-9pm daily. $

Black Rooster Bakery 2430 Forest Park Blvd., 817.924.1600. 7am-6pm Tue.-Fri., 8am-4pm Sat. $

Bluebonnet Bakery 4705 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.731.4233. 7am-6pm Mon.-Fri.; 7am-4pm Sat. $

Boopa’s Bagel Deli 6513 N. Beach St., 817.232.4771. 5:30am-2pm Mon.-Fri.; 6:30am2pm Sat.; 6:30am-1pm Sun. $

Carshon’s Delicatessen 3133 Cleburne Rd., 817.923.1907. 9am-3pm Mon.-Sat. $

Corner Bakery Café 3010 S. Hulen St., 817.665.9949. 6:30am-9pm daily. $ The Cupcake Cottage 5015 El Campo Ave., 817.732.5670. 10am-4pm Tues.-Fri.; 10am-2pm Sat. $

Esperanza’s Mexican Café & Bakery 2122 N. Main St., 817.626.5770. 6am-7pm daily. Other locations: 1601 Park Place Ave. 817.923.1992, 6:30am-9pm Mon.-Thu.; 6am-10pm Fri.-Sat.; 6am-5pm Sun. $

J Rae's 935 Foch St., 817.332.0090. 9am-7pm Mon.-Fri.; 9am-5pm Sat. $

Jason's Deli jasonsdeli.com. Hours vary. $-$$ McKinley ’s Fine Bakery & Café 1616 S. University Dr. Ste. 301, 817.332.3242, 7am-6:30pm Mon.-Fri.; 8am-6:30pm Sat.; 11am-5pm Sun. $ Panera Bread 1700 S. University Dr., 817.870.1959. Other location: 1804 Precinct Line Rd., 817.605.0766. 1409 N. Collins, Arlington, 817.548.8726. 2140 E. Southlake Blvd., Ste. S. 817.416.5566. 4611 S. Hulen St. 817.370.1802. 6:30am-9pm Mon.-Sat.; 7am-8pm Sun. $ Pearl Snap Kolaches 4006 White Settlement Road. 817.233.8899. 6am-2pm Mon.-Fri., 7am-2 pm Sat.-Sun. $ Sweet Sammies 825 Currie St., 817.332.0022. 11am-9pm Mon.-Wed.; 11am-10pm Thurs.-Sat.; Noon-9pm Sun.$ Swiss Pastry Shop 3936 W. Vickery, 817.732.5661. 7am-6pm Bakery, 7am-11am Breakfast, 11am-3:30pm Tues.-Sat. $ The Snooty Pig 2401 Westport Pkwy., Ste. 120, 817.837.1077. Other locations: 100 Country Club Rd., 940.464.0748; 2940 Justin Rd., 972.966.1091, 6:30am-2pm Mon.-Fri.; 7am-2pm Sat.-Sun. $

Yogi’s Deli and Grille 2710 S. Hulen St., 817.924.4500. 6:30am-3:30pm Mon.-Fri.; 7am3:30pm Sat.; 7:30am-3pm Sun. $ Yolk 305 Main St., 817.730.4000. 6am-3pm Mon.Fri.; 7am-3pm Sat.&Sun. $ GRAPEVINE Breadhaus 700 W. Dallas Rd., 817.488.5223.

9am-6pm Tues.-Fri.; 9am-4pm Sat. $$

Main Street Bistro and Bakery 316 Main St., 817.424.4333, 6:30am-3pm Mon.; 6:30am-9pm Tues.-Thurs.; 6:30am-10:30pm Fri.-Sat.; 6:30am9pm Sun. $

The Snooty Pig 4010 William D. Tate, 817.283.3800. 6:30am-2pm Mon.-Fri.; 7am-2pm Sat.-Sun. $

Weinburger ’s Deli 601 S. Main St., Ste. 100, 817.416.5574. 10am-7pm Mon.-Sat.; 11am-3pm Sun. $

HUDSON OAKS

Ultimate Cupcake 3316 Fort Worth Highway, 817.596.9090. 10am-5pm Tue.-Fri.; 10am-1pm Sat.; Closed Sun.-Mon. $

SOUTHLAKE

Elegant Cakery 5351 Nolen Drive, Ste. 200, 817.488.7580. 10am-6pm Tue.-Fri.; 10am-3pm Sat. $-$$

Weinburger ’s Deli 3 Village Circle, Ste. 116, Westlake, 817.491.9119. 8:30am-7pm Mon.-Sat.; 11am-3pm Sun. $

Eclectic ARLINGTON

The Melt ing Pot 4000 Five Points Dr., Ste. 119, 817.472.9988. 5pm-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 5pm11pm Fri.; 3:30pm-11pm Sat.; 3pm-9pm Sun. $$-$$$

FORT WORTH

Café Modern 3200 Darnell, 817.738.9215. 11am2:30pm Lunch, Tues.-Fri.; 10am-3pm Sat.-Sun.; 5pm-8pm Dinner (during lecture series), Tues.; 5pm-8:30pm Dinner, Fri.; Bar: 10am-4:30pm, Tues.-Sun.; 10am-9:30pm Fri. $$

Fixture - Kitchen and Social Lounge 401 W. Magnolia Ave., 817-708-2663. 11am-9pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.; 10am-10pm Sat.; 10am-2pm Sun. $$

Kimbell Art Museum 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.332.8451, ext. 251. For reservations call 817.332.8541 ext. 277. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Tue.-Thu. & Sat.; noon-2pm Fri. & Sun.; Dinner 5:30pm-7:30pm Fri. $$

Lili’s Bistro 1310 W. Magnolia Ave., 817.877.0700. Lunch Hours 11am-2:30pm Mon.-Sat.; Dinner Hours 5:30pm-9pm Tue.-Thu.; 6pm-10pm Fri. & Sat. $$

Reservoir Bar, Patio And Kitchen 1001 Foch St. 817.334.0560. 3pm-2am Mon.-Fri.; noon-2am Sat.-Sun. $-$$

Righteous Foods 3405 W. 7th St., 817.850.9996. 7am-9pm Mon.-Fri.; 9am-9pm Sat.; Closed Sun. $$

Simply Fondue 111 W. 4th St., 817.348.0633, 5pm-10pm Sun.-Thurs.; 5pm-11pm Fri.-Sat. $$-$$$

Spiral Diner 1314 W. Magnolia, 817.332.8834. 11am-10pm Tue.-Fri.; 9am-10pm Sat.-Sun. $ Winslow ’s Wine Café 4101 Camp Bowie Blvd. 817.546-6843. Mon.-Thu. 4pm-11pm; Fri. 4pm-midnight; Sat. 10:30am-2pm and 4pmmidnight; Sun. 10:30am-2pm and 4pm-10pm. $-$$$$

Ethnic

ARLINGTON

Tandoor Indian Restaurant 1200 N. Fielder Rd., Ste. 532, 817.261.6604. 11:30am-2:30pm Lunch, 5:30pm-10pm Dinner, daily. $-$$

FORT WORTH

Bombay Grill 4625 Donnelly Ave., 817.377.9395. 11am-2pm Lunch, Mon.-Thurs.; 5:30pm-10pm Dinner, Mon.-Thurs.; 11am-2pm Lunch, Fri.; 5:30pm-10:30pm Dinner, Fri.; 11:30am-2:30pm Lunch, Sat.; 5:30pm-10:30pm Dinner, Sat.; 11:30am2:30pm Lunch, Sun; 5:30pm-9pm Dinner, Sun. $

Byblos 1406 N. Main St., 817.625.9667. 11am-4pm and 5pm-10pm Mon.-Wed.; 11am-2am Thu.-Fri.; 4pm-1:30am Sat.; Sunday available for private parties. $$

King Tut 1512 Magnolia Ave., 817.335.3051. 11am2:30pm Mon.-Sat. 5:30pm-9pm Mon.-Sat. $$ Maharaja 6308 Hulen Bend Blvd., 817.263.7156. 11am-2pm Mon.-Fri.; 11:30am-2:30pm Sat.-Sun.; 5:30pm-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 5:30pm-10:30pm Fri.-Sat. $$ Spice 411 W. Magnolia Ave., 817.984.1800. 11am9:30pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun. $$

French ARLINGTON

La Madeleine 2101 N. Collins St., Arlington, 817.461.3634. 6:30am-10pm daily. Other location: 4201 S Cooper St., Arlington, 817.417.5100. 6:30am10pm Sun.-Thu.; 6:30am-11pm Fri.-Sat. $ Le Cep 3324 W. 7Th St., 817.900.2468. 5:30pm10pm Tues., Wed., Sat.; 5:30pm-10:30pm Thurs.-Fri. $$$$

FORT WORTH

La Madeleine 6140 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.654.0471. 6:30am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 6:30am-11pm Fri.-Sat. Other locations: 4626 SW Loop 820. 817.717.5200.; 900 Hwy. 114 W., Grapevine, 817.251.0255. 6:30am10pm daily $ Saint-Emilion 3617 W. 7th St., 817.737.2781. 5:30pm9:30pm Tue.-Thu.; 5:30pm-10pm Fri.-Sat. $$$

German

FORT WORTH

Edelweiss 3801 Southwest Blvd., 817.738.5934. 5pm-9:30pm Wed.-Thu.; 5pm-10:30pm Fri.-Sat.; Noon-9pm Sun. $$ Greenwood’s 3522 Bluebonnet Cir., 817.921.6777. Lunch: 11am-2pm Thu. & Fri. 4pm-9pm Tue. Thu.; 4pm-10pm Fri.-Sat.$$

Greek

FORT WORTH

Café Medi 420 Grapevine Hwy., Ste. 101A, Hurst, 817.788.5110. Other location: 129 E. Olive St., Keller, 817.337.3204. 11am-2:30pm, 5pm-10pm Tue.-Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun. $ Greek House 2426 Forest Park Blvd., 817.921.1473. 11am-8pm Mon.-Sat. $ Jazz Caf é 2504 Montgomery St., 817.737.0043. 11am-3pm Mon.-Fri.; 9am-3pm Sat.; 9am-2pm Sun. $

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River Ranch Stockyards, 500 NE 23rd Street, Fort Worth, TX 76164

LEAD CHEF: Molly McCook, Ellerbe Fine Foods

EVENT CHAIRS: Lindsey and Ryan Dickerson, and Ashley and Hans Peeders

AMBASSADOR FAMILY:

The Wooleys: Kelly and Shawn; daughter, Avery

The Vine Greek Taverna 2708 W. 7th St., 817.334.0888. 11am-2pm Tue.-Sat.; 5pm-9pm Tue.-Sat. $

Indian FORT WORTH

Route 66 100 E Altamesa Blvd. 469.605.9684. 11am-9pm every day. Buffet every day, specials at dinner. $$

Italian ARLINGTON/MID-CITIES

Avanti 150 Throckmorton St., Ste. 140, 817.991.6455. 11am-2pm Mon.-Fri.; 5pm-10pm Mon.-Sat. $$

Birraporetti’s 668 Lincoln Square, 817.265.0555. 5pm-10pm daily. $$

Italianni’s 1601 Precinct Line Rd., Hurst, 817.498.6770. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat. $$

La Bistro 722 Grapevine Hwy., Hurst, 817.281.9333. 11am-9:30pm Tues.-Thurs.; 11am9:30pm Fri.; 5pm-9:30pm Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun. $$

Mama’s Pizza 1200 N. Fielder, 817.795.8700. Lunch buffet: 11am-2pm daily. Delivery through Entrees-To-Go: 11am-10pm Mon.Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat.; noon-10pm Sun. $

Mellow Mushroom 200 N. Center St. 817.274.7173. 11am-9pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat. $$

Moni's 1730 W. Randol Mill Road, Ste. 100, 817.860.6664. 11am-10pm Mon.-Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun. $$

Nizza Pizza 1430 S. Cooper, 817.274.5222. 11am10pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat. $

Palio’s Pizza Café 5712 Colleyville Blvd. Ste. 130, 817.605.7555. 11am-9:30pm Sun.-Thurs.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat. $

Piccolo Mondo 829 E. Lamar Blvd., 817.265.9174. Lunch: 11:30am-2:15pm Mon.Fri.; Dinner: 5:30pm-10:15pm Mon.-Thu.; 5:30pm-11pm Fri. & Sat.; 5pm-10pm Sun. $-$$

Prespa's 4720 Sublett Road, Arlington, 817.561.7540. Other location: 3100 W. Arkansas Ln. B, Dalworthington Gardens, 817.459.2775. 11am-9pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun. $$

Reflect ions Of Bella V ita 1507 N. Watson Road, Arlington, 817.633.0877. 10am-10pm Mon.-Fri.; 8am-10pm Sat.; 10am-10pm Sun. $

FORT WORTH

Avent ino’s Italian 5800 Lovell Ave., 817.570.7940.11am-2pm Mon.-Fri.; 5pm-9pm Mon.-Thurs.; 5:30pm-10pm Fri. & Sat. $$$

Bella Italia West 5139 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.738.1700. 11:30am-1:30pm Mon.-Fri.; 6pm9pm Mon.-Thu.; 6pm-10pm Fri.-Sat. $$

Café Bella 3548 South Hills Ave., 817.922.9500. 11am-10pm Mon.-Fri.; 4pm-10pm Sat. Closed Sun. $-$$

Campisi's 6150 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.916.4561. 11am-10pm Mon.-Sun. $$

Cane Rosso 815 W. Magnolia Ave., 817.922.9222. 11am-3pm Lunch, Tue.-Sun.; Brunch 11am-3pm Sat.-Sun.; Dinner 5pm-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 5pm11pm Fri.-Sun. $$

Fortuna 5837 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.737.4469. 11am-10pm, daily. $

La Piazza 2930 Bledsoe St., 817.334.0000, 5pm10pm Mon.-Thurs.; 5pm-11pm Fri.-Sat.; Closed Sun. (in the summer). $$$

Mama’s Pizza 1813 W. Berry St., 817.923.3541. Other locations: 5800 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.731.6262. 5811 Bryant Irvin, Ste. 101, 817.346.6262. Lunch buffet: 11am-2pm daily. Delivery through Entrees-To-Go: 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat. $ Mancuso’s 9500 White Settlement Rd., 817.246.7041. 10:30am-9pm Sun.-Thu.; 10:30am10pm Fri.-Sat.; 10am-9pm Sun. $

Margie’s Original Italian Kitchen 9805 Camp Bowie W., 817.244.4301. 5pm-10pm Wed.Thurs., Sun.; 5pm-11pm Fri.-Sat. $$ Mellow Mushroom 3455 Bluebonnet Circle, 817.207.9677. 11am-9pm Sun.-Thurs.; 11am10pm Fri.-Sat. $$

Milano’s 3416 W. 7th St., 817.332.5226. 11am10pm Mon.-Sat. $

Nizza Pizza 401 University Dr., 817.877.3900. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 10:30am-11pm Fri.Sat. $

Nonna Tata 1400 W. Magnolia Ave., 817.332.0250, 11am-2pm Lunch, Tue.-Fri.; 5:30pm-8:30pm Dinner, Tue.-Thu.; 5:30pm9:30pm Fri.; 5:30pm-9pm Sat. $-$$

Piola 3700 Mattison Ave., 817.989.0007. 11am-2pm Mon-Fri; 5pm-10pm Mon-Sat. $$

Pizzeria Uno Chicago Grill 300 Houston St., 817.885.8667. 11am-11pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-midnight Fri. & Sat. $ Taverna Risotter ia 450 Throckmorton St., 817.885.7502. Sunday brunch. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri. & Sat.; 10am-10pm Sun. $-$$

Thirteen Pies 2949 Crockett St., 817.769.3590. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Sat. $$ SOUTHLAKE/COLLEYVILLE

Brio Tuscan Grill 1431 Plaza Place, Southlake, 817.310.3136. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am11pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun. $-$$ Buca Di Beppo 2701 E. State Hwy. 114, Southlake, 817.749.6262. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun. $$

Ferrar i’s Italian Villa 1200 William D. Tate Ave., 817.251.2525, 5pm-9:30pm Mon.-Thurs.; 5pm-10:30pm Fri.-Sat.; Closed Sun. $$-$$$

Nizza Pizza 3930 Glade Rd., Ste. 101, 817.283.4700. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 10:30am11pm Fri.-Sat. $

Ruggeri’s Ristorante 32 Village Ln., Ste. 100, Colleyville, 817.503.7373. Lunch: 11am-2pm Mon.-Fri.; Dinner: 5pm-9pm Sun.-Thu.; 5pm10pm Fri.-Sat. $$

Fireside Pies 1285 S. Main St., Grapevine, 817.416.1285. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Sat. $$

Latin American COLLEYVILLE/FORT WORTH

Gloria’s Colleyville: 5611 Colleyville Blvd., 817.656.1784. 11am-10pm daily. Fort Worth: 2600 W. 7th St., 817.332.8800. 11am-9pm Sun.Mon.; 11am-10pm Tue.-Thu.; 11am-10:30pm Fri.-Sat. Arlington: 3901 Arlington Highlands Blvd., Ste. 137, 817.701.2981. 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat. $-$$

Trevino's 1812 Montgomery St., 817.731.8226. 11am-9pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.; 10am9:30pm Sat.; 10am-8:30pm Sun. $-$$ Yucatan Taco Stand 909 West Magnolia Ave., 817.924.8646. 10am-10pm Sun.; 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-midnight Fri.; 10am-midnight Sat. $$

Mediterranean FORT WORTH

Chadra Mezza & Grill 1622 Park Place Ave., 817.924.2372. 11am-3pm Mon.-Tues.; 11am10pm Wed.-Sat.; Closed Sun. $-$$

Istanbul Grill 401 Throckmorton St., 817.885.7326. 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Mon.-Thu.; 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Fri.-Sat.; 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sun. $-$$$

Saffron Sky 449 N. Beach St., 682.708.3901. 11am-6pm Mon.-Fri.; 11am-4pm Sat.; Closed Sun. $-$$

Terra Mediterranean Grill 2973 Crockett St., 817.744.7485. 11am-2:30pm, 5pm-10pm, Mon.-Fri.; 11am-11pm, Sat.; 11am-3pm Lunch, 5pm-9pm Dinner, Sun. $-$$

SOUTHLAKE

Luna Grill 1141 E. Southlake Blvd. Suite 530. 817.488.8811. 11am-9pm Mon.-Sun. $-$$

Mexican ARLINGTON

Chipotle 5001 S. Cooper St., Ste. 125, 817.522.0012. Other location: 2151 N. Collins St., 817.459.0939. 11am-10pm daily. $ Chuy's 4001 Bagpiper Way, Ste. 199, 817.557.2489. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat. $ El Fenix 1620 E. Copeland Rd., 682.558.8890. Other location: 4608 S. Cooper Rd., 817.557.4309. 11am-10pm daily. $

Fuzzy ’s Taco Shop 510 East Abram, 817.265.8226. Other locations: 4201 W. Green Oaks Blvd., Arlington, 817.516.8226. 2030 Glade Rd, Ste. 296, Grapevine, 817.416.8226. 480 W. Southlake Blvd., Ste. 101, Southlake, 817. 488.2500. 7am-midnight Mon.-Wed.; 7am-1am Thu.; 7am-3am Fri. & Sat.; 7am-10pm Sun. $ Rio Mambo 6407 S. Cooper St. 817.465.3122, 11am-9:30pm Mon.-Thurs.; 11am-11pm Fri.; 10am-1:30am Sat.; 10am-9:30pm Sun. $$

COLLEYVILLE / GRAPEVINE

El Fenix 401 State Hwy. 114 W., Grapevine, 817.421.1151. 11am-10pm daily. $

Esparza’s 124 E. Worth St., 817.481.4668. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-9:30pm Sun. $

La Hacienda Ranch 5250 Hwy. 121, Colleyville, 817.318.7500. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat. $$

Rio Mambo 5150 Hwy. 121, 817.354.3124. 11am9:30pm Mon.-Thurs.; 11am-11pm Fri.; 10am-11pm Sat.; 10am-9:30pm Sun. $$

FORT WORTH

Benito’s Restaurant 1450 W. Magnolia Ave., 817.332.8633. 11am-9pm Mon.-Thu., 11am-2am Fri.; 10am-2am Sat.; 10am-9pm Sun. $$ Cantina Laredo 530 Throckmorton St., 817.810.0773, 11am-9pm Sun.-Thurs; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat. Other location: 4020 William D. Tate, Ste. 208, Grapevine, 817.358.0505, 11am-10pm Mon.Thurs.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun. $-$$

Chimy’s Cerveceria 1053 Foch St., 817.348.8888. 11am-midnight Mon.-Sat. $

Chipotle 3050 S. Hulen St., 817.735.8355. Other locations: 3000 W. 7th St., 817.348.8530. 4484 Bryant Irvin Rd., 817.735.4506. 1312 W. Pipeline Rd., 817.595.3875. 3010 E. Southlake Blvd., 817.748.4745. 6370 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ste. 140, 817.840.3904. 11am-10pm daily. $

El Fenix 6391 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.732.5584. 11am10pm daily. $

El Rancho Grande 1400 N. Main St., 817.624.9206. 11am-9pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat. $-$$

Enchiladas Ole 901 N. Sylvania Ave., 817.984.1360, 11am-3pm Mon.-Wed.; 11am-8pm Thurs.; 10am9pm Sat.; Closed Sun. $$

Fiesta 3233 Hemphill St., 817.923.6941, Closed Mon.; 8am-9pm Tues.-Thurs.; 8am-10pm Fri.; 7am-10pm Sat.; 7am-8pm Sun. $

Fuzzy’s Taco Shop 2917 W. Berry St., 817.924.7943. Other Locations: 2719 Race St., 817.831.8226. 5710 Rufe Snow, 817.465.3899. 6353 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ste. 101, 817.989.8226. 5724 Bryant Irvin Rd., 817.292.8226. 9180 N. Fwy., Ste. 500, 817.750.8226. 7am-midnight Mon.-Wed.; 7am-1am Thu.; 7am3am Fri. & Sat.; 7am-10pm Sun. $

Joe T. Garcia’s 2201 N. Commerce, 817.626.4356. Cash only. 11am-2:30pm, 5pm-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-10pm Sun. $$ La Familia 841 Foch St., 817.870.2002, 11am-9pm Tues.-Thurs.; 11am-9:30pm Fri.-Sat.; Closed Sun.Mon. $

La Perla 910 Houston St., 817.882.8108, 4pm-11pm Mon.-Thurs.; 4pm-2am Fri.-Sat.; Closed Sun. $$ La Playa Maya 6209 Sunset Dr., 817.738.3329. Other locations: 1540 N. Main St., 817.624.8411. 3200 Hemphill St., 817.924.0698. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat. $

Los Asaderos 1535 N. Main St., 817.626.3399, 11am10pm Mon.; Closed Tues.; 11am-10pm Wed.-Thurs.; 11am-midnight Fri.-Sat.; 10am-10pm Sun. $-$$ Los Molcajetes 4320 Western Center Blvd., 817.306.9000. 11am-9:30pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.; 9am-10pm Sat.; 9am-9pm Sun. $ Los Vaqueros 2629 N. Main St., 817.624.1511, 11am-9pm Sun.-Thurs.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat. Other Location: 3105 Cockrell Ave., 817.710.8828, 10:30am-9pm Sun.; 11am-9pm Mon.-Thurs.; 11am11pm Fri.-Sat. Crown Valley Golf Club, 29 Crown Road, Weatherford. 817.441.2300, 11am-9pm Tues.-

Teresa’s Bartending & Serving

Sun. $

Mi Cocina 509 Main St., 817.877.3600, 10:30am9pm Sun.; 10:30am-10pm Mon.-Thurs.; 10:30am-11pm Fri.-Sat. Other locations: 4601 W. Freeway (I-30 and Hulen), 817.569.1444, 11am-10pm Mon.-Sun. 9369 Rain Lily Trail. 817.750.6426, 11am-10pm Tues.-Thurs.; 11am11pm Fri.-Sat. $

The Original 4713 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.738.6226, 11am-9pm Tues.-Thurs.; 11am10pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun. $

Pappasito’s Cantina 2704 W. Freeway, 817.877.5546. Other location: 321 W. Road to Six Flags, Arlington, 817.795.3535, 11am-10pm Mon.-Thurs.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat.; 10:30am10pm Sun. $$ Pulidos 2900 Pulido St., 817.731.4241. Other location: 5051 Hwy. 377 S., 817.732.7871. 11am9:30pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat. $ Revolver Taco Lounge 2418 Forrest Park Blvd, 817.820.0122, 11am-10pm Tues.-Thurs.; 11ammidnight Fri.-Sat.; 11am-5pm Sun. $$ - $$$$ Rio Mambo 6125 SW Loop 820, 817.423.3124, 11am-9:30pm Mon.-Thurs.; 11am-11pm Fri.; 10am-11pm Sat.; 10am-9:30pm Sun. 1302 S. Main St., Weatherford. 817.598.5944, 11am-9:30pm Mon.-Thurs.; 11am-11pm Fri.; 10am-11pm Sat.; 10am-9:30pm Sun. $$

Salsa Limon 4200 S. Freeway, Ste. 1099, 817.921.4435, 10am-9pm Mon.-Thu.; 10am-2am Fri.-Sat.; 10am-10pm Sun.; 2916 W. Berry St. 817.675.2519, 7am-9pm Mon.-Thurs.; 7am-2am Fri.-Sat.; 8am-8pm Sun. $ Torchy's Tacos 928 Northton St. 817.289.8226. 7am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 7am-11pm Fri.; 8am11pm Sat.; 8am-10pm Sun. $ Uncle Julio’s 5301 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.377.2777. 11am-10:30pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am11:30pm Fri.; 10am-11:30pm Sat.; 10am-10:30pm Sun. $$

Velvet Taco 2700 W 7th St., 817.887.9810, 10ammidnight Mon.-Wed.; 10am-3am Thurs.; 10am-4am Fri.; 9am-4am Sat.; 9am-midnight Sun. $

SOUTHLAKE

Mi Chula’s 1431 Southlake Blvd., Ste. 551, 817.756.6920. 11am-9pm Sun-Thu.; 11am10pm Fri.-Sat. $$

Seafood ARLINGTON

Fish City Grill 3900 Arlington Highlands Blvd., 817.465.0001. 11am-10pm Mon.- Thu.; 11am–11pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am- 9pm Sun. $-$$ Pappadeaux 1304 E. Copeland Rd., 817.543.0544. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am11pm Fri.-Sat. $$

Razzoo’s 4001. S. Cooper St., 817.467.6510. 11am11pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-midnight Fri.-Sat. $$ Rockfish 3785 S. Cooper St., Arlington, 817.419.9988. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am11pm Fri.-Sat. $$

FORT WORTH

Blu Crab 6115 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.763.8585.

Mon.-Sat. 11am-10pm; Sun. 11am-9pm. $$$$

Daddy Jack ’s 353 Throckmorton St., 817.332.2477. 11am-2pm Mon.-Sat.; 5pm-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 5pm-11pm Fri.-Sat. $$

Eddie V ’s 3100 W. 7th St. 817.336.8000, 4pm-10pm Sun.; 4pm-11pm Mon.-Thu.; 4pmmidnight Fri.-Sat. $$$$

J&J Oyster Bar 612 N. University Dr., 817.335.2756. 11am-midnight Sun.-Thu.; 11am2am Fri.-Sat. $

Lone Star Oyster Bar 4750 Bryant Irvin Rd., 817.370.0030. 11am-2am Tue.-Sat.; 11am-midnight Sun.-Mon. $

Pacific Table 1600 S. University Drive, 817.887.9995. 11am-10pm Mon.-Fri.; 11am10pm Sat.; 9am-9pm Sun. $$

Pappadeaux 2708 W. Freeway, 817.877.8843. Other location: 600 W. Hwy 114, Grapevine, 817.488.6220. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am11pm Fri.-Sat. $$

Razzoo’s 318 Main St. in Sundance Square, 817.429.7009. Other locations: 4700 Bryant Irvin Rd. in Cityview, 817.292.8584. 2950 Texas Sage Trail, 817.750.0011. 11am-11pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-2am Fri.-Sat. $$

Zeke’s Fish & Chips 5920 Curzon Ave., 817.731.3321. 11am-9pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am10pm Fri.-Sat.; noon-9pm Sun. $

SOUTHLAKE

Fish City Grill 2750 E. Southlake Blvd., Ste. 130, 817.748.0456. 11am-9pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.-Sat. $-$$

Rockfish 228 State St., 817.442.0131. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun. $$

Truluck ’s Seafood, Steak & Crab House 1420 Plaza Pl., 817.912.0500. 5pm-10pm Sun.Thu.; 5pm-11pm Fri.-Sat. $$$ WILLOW PARK

Fish Creek 4899 E. I-20., 817.441.1746. 11am9pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-10pm Fri.; noon-10pm Sat. $$

Southwest FORT WORTH

Blue Mesa Bar & Grill 612 Carroll St., 817.332.6372. Other Location: 550 Lincoln Square, Arlington, 682.323.3050. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat.; 9am-10pm Sun. $$

Bonnell’s Fine Texas Cuisine 4259 Bryant Irvin Rd., 817.738.5489. Lunch: 11am-2:30pm Tues.-Fri.; Dinner: 5:30pm-9pm Tues.-Sat. Closed Sun.-Mon. $$$ Buffalo West 7101 Camp Bowie W., 817.732.2370, 11am-10pm Mon.-Sat.; 10:30am8:30pm Sun. $-$$$

Lonesome Dove Western Bistro 2406 N. Main St., 817.740.8810. 11:30am-2:30pm Tue.Sat.; 5pm-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 5pm-11pm Fri.-Sat. $$$

Michaels Restaurant & Ancho Chile Bar 3413 W. 7th St., 817.877.3413, 11am-11pm Dining and Bar, Mon.Wed.; 11am-midnight Dining

and Bar, Thurs.-Sat.; 11am-11pm Kitchen, Mon.-Fri.; 11am-midnight Kitchen, Thurs.-Sat.; 11am-4pm Brunch, Sun. $ Reata 310 Houston St., 817.336.1009. 11am2:30pm, 5pm-10:30pm daily. $$

The Tavern 2755 S. Hulen St. 817.923.6200 11am10pm Mon.-Fri.; 9am-10pm Sat.; 9am-9pm Sun. $$

Steaks

ARLINGTON

The Keg Steakhouse & Bar 4001 Arlington Heights Blvd., Ste. 101, 817.465.3700, 4pm-11pm Mon.-Sat.; 4pm-10pm Sun. $$$

CLEBURNE

Fly by Night Cattle Co 2705 CR 1125, 817.645.7000. 5pm-10pm Thurs.-Sat. $S-$$$$

FORT WORTH

Bob’s Steak and Chop House 1300 Houston St., 817.350.4100. 5-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 5-11pm Fri. and Sat.; Closed Sun. $$$$

The Capital Grille 800 Main St., 817.348.9200. Lunch: 11am-4pm Mon.-Fri.; Dinner: 4pm10pm Mon.-Thu.; 4pm-11pm Fri.; 5pm-11pm Sat.; 4pm-9pm Sun. $$$$

Cattlemen’s Steak House 2458 N. Main St., 817.624.3945. 11am-10:30pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am11pm Fri.-Sat.; noon-9pm Sun. $$$

Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse 812 Main St., 817.877.3999. 5pm-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 5pm-11pm Fri.-Sat.; 5pm-9pm Sun. $$$$ Grace Restaurant 777 Main St., 817.877.3388. 5:30pm-9:30pm daily. $$$$

H3 Ranch 105 E. Exchange Ave., 817.624.1246, 11am-10pm Mon.-Thurs.; 11am-11pm Fri.; 9am11pm Sat.; 9am-10pm Sun. $$$ Hoffbrau 1712 S. University Dr., 817.870.1952. 11am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat. $$ M&M Steakhouse 1106 N.W. 28th St., 817.624.0612. Cash only. 5pm-11pm Tue.-Sat. $$

Riscky ’s Steakhouse 140 E. Exchange Ave., 817.626.7777. 11am-9pm Sun.-Mon.; 11am10pm Tue.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat. $$-$$$ Ruth’s Chris 813 Main St., 817.348.0080. 5pm-10 pm Mon.-Thu.; 5pm-11pm Fri.-Sat.; 4pm-9pm Sun. $$$

Silver Fox Steakhouse 1651 S. University Dr., 817.332.9060. Other location: 1235 William D. Tate, Grapevine, 817.329.6995. 4pm-10pm Mon.-Sat. $$$

GRAPEVINE / SOUTHLAKE / COLLEYVILLE

J.R.’s Steak and Grill 5400 State Hwy. 121, 817.355.1414. 11am-10pm Mon.-Sat.; Closed Sun. $$$

Kirby ’s Steakhouse 3305 E. State Hwy. 114, Southlake, 817.410.2221. 5pm-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 5pm-11pm Fri.-Sat.; 5pm-9pm Sun. $$$

Old Hickory Steakhouse Restaurant Gaylord Texan Hotel & Convention Center, 1501 Gaylord Trail, 817.778.2215 (after 5pm, 817.778.2280). Nightly, 5:30pm-10pm. $$$$

partingshot

SHE’S ONLY BEEN AROUND A FEW YEARS, BUT IT’S LIKE SHE’S ALWAYS BEEN HERE. The West Seventh Street Bridge opened in August 2013 amid much fanfare. It was the world’s first precast network arch bridge – in layman’s terms, it was constructed offsite at a nearby casting yard. Each arch is 163.5 feet long and weighs 300 tons. Ringing in at a cool $26 million, the bridge replaced a 100-year-old predecessor, and because of the innovative technology, the city only had to shut down traffic for less than 150 days. Photographer Brian Luenser captured the bridge often throughout the process, and this is one of our favorite shots of the beauty.

| photo by Brian Luenser |