It’s here. Construction is complete on the Fall Dream Home in the La Cantera at Team Ranch development, with the house open for tours starting Oct. 4. But before you go, take an inside look at the details of this luxurious Hill Country contemporary, outfitted with modern features and a few nods to the TCU Horned Frogs. by Scott Nishimura
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Rising One of Fort Worth’s oldest golf courses has transformed into a classy distillery. Let’s take a tour. by Courtney
Dabney
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Professional chefs take on home kitchens at a Wish with Wings’ annual Kitchens Tour. Here’s a sneak peek at the kitchens being showcased. by Jennifer
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185 Medical Guide
A directory of area hospitals, rehab and cancer centers.
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Craig Rogers President & CEO
Scoop Five companies move into one building on West Vickery, a Dallas macaron shop moves west, and other
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Escapes An ode to a tropical paradise that offers more than the typical island offerings. by Kyle Whitecotton
Culture A local author’s self-published book becomes a major Hollywood film. by Samantha Calimbahin
Be Well Needle-free wrinkle treatment and a ride-along with the Fort Worth Rowing Club. 40
Cooking Candied pecans. Apple-spiced cupcakes. Pumpkin pie cheesecake. Oh yes. This is fall. by Beth Maya
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Style A Fort Worth gal takes on New York Fashion Week. by Angie Garcia
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Goodwill Bet you didn’t know these local figures were artists. by Samantha Calimbahin and Meg Hemmerle
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Up Close From rhinos to macaws, this TCU professor is on a mission to help animals and the environment. by Jennifer Casseday-Blair
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Snapshots The Dallas Cowboys lunch for a cause, and the Kimbell Art Museum opens a new exhibit. Check out these photos.
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In Other Words A new Texas house bill could benefit breast health, according to this month’s columnist.
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Heywood When your brewery dreams don’t pan out, you write about them.
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fwevents Proceeds from this Fort Works Art event will go toward refugees around the world and victims of Hurricane Harvey.
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fwdish Fried chicken and pizza. Aww yeah.
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Dish Listings Believe it or not, this Fort Worth barbecue stop is turning 90.
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Parting Shot Rawr.
Texas, You Look Good
AS A HOUSTON NATIVE, TRIPS WESTWARD TO THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AS A CHILD REVEALED AN ENTIRELY NEW LANDSCAPE — ONE FILLED WITH HILLS AS THE NAME WOULD SUGGEST. What a lot of out-of-towners don’t know is that Fort Worth has quite a few hills of its own. Said hills roll more fervently as you make your way southwest, where we planted this year’s Dream Home — in the up-and-coming La Cantera development.
Bryan Braswell built a unique Hill Country contemporary that’s a little bit Fort Worth, a little bit Hill Country and even a little bit Horned Frog. From the purple wine closet, to the children’s loft, to the views of the downtown skyline, this home is truly a dream. And the vendors are a who’s who of local homebuilding. Take a tour of the expertly planned space on page 52.
This month’s second feature takes us on yet another tour with more downtown views as we travel to Whiskey Ranch — the new Firestone & Robertson distillery. Writer Courtney Dabney scored an early peek of the 112-acre property and the former home of the storied Glen Garden Country Club. There’s still golf. There’s still greenery. There’s still a clubhouse. But, the new owners created what might be the most unique 19th hole ever. Read more about the space, sure to become one of the city’s most popular attractions, on page 146.
Finally, I must mention that while we were concentrating on building a Dream Home, many other Texans were losing theirs, no thanks to Hurricane Harvey. Our hearts have been heavy at Fort Worth Magazine watching the devastation. As I mentioned, Houston is my hometown, and many other staffers have ties to South Texas. Creative Director Craig Sylva’s family lives in Port Lavaca. Video Producer Steve Reeves grew up in Houston. Senior Account Executive Marion Knight has family there. And, FW Inc. Executive Editor Scott Nishimura regularly wears a Hawaiian Astros shirt (I didn’t know it existed either), thanks to time he spent visiting family in Houston as a child.
Sadness was the initial reaction to the devastation, but pride is where we landed, thanks to the images of Texans helping Texans. Now, we also see Texans helping Floridians post Hurricane Irma. We had long planned on featuring the Florida Keys in this issue, and we weren’t going to let a hurricane stop us. So, we continued with the story to honor our country’s southernmost point. You can find that on page 24.
One of our core values here at Fort Worth Magazine, one displayed on the wall every day for us to read, is to be philanthropic. So, we encourage you to read this issue. But, more than that, we encourage you to donate to those in need in our beautiful state of Texas and beyond.
The Most Interesting Thing in My House Is...
We asked our staff, What’s the most interesting thing in your house, and how did it get there? Here’s what they said:
Spray Gleaves, Art Director
“A metal sculpture by my brother Jeff called Ida, so named because it looks like the Darwinius masillae, which lived about 47 million years ago. Ida was the name they gave to the only known fossil ever discovered. This piece was actually an accident, as it started as drippings from something else he was welding and noticed the resemblance, so he picked it up off the ground and made a finished piece.”
Angela Rothstein, Traffic Manager
“The ketubah hanging in my entry way. A ketubah is one of the most important features of a Jewish wedding and traditionally outlines the groom’s obligations to the bride. Since my husband and I have an interfaith marriage, we decided to call on an artist in Israel to create a nontraditional ketubah — one that embraces our differences and also shows our love and respect for tradition, our family and our Maker. To me, it’s not just a contract — it’s a work of art that hangs in my home as a daily reminder of the beauty of our marriage.”
Brian Ritenour, Sales Director
Amy Horany, Audience Development Manager
“My handcrafted, live-edge coffee table in my living room. I worked closely with the furniture maker to design the piece to fit my needs and design aesthetic. The wood slab is milled from an ash tree all the way from Minneapolis, Minnesota.”
Marion Knight, Senior Account Executive
“I have some of my great-great grandmother’s antique furniture from England that I inherited. One of the most interesting things to me is a carved eagle top table that I used to play hide-and-seek behind when I was young. It’s a large, openwinged carved wood eagle with a marble top. I don’t think my mother thought that was an appropriate thing to play hideand-seek behind, but it sure was fun. Lots of fun memories.”
“I have an Olympic luge from the 2002 winter games signed by the doubles silver and bronze medal winners. The company I worked for at the time was a major team sponsor, and it was a gift from the Olympians.”
Paige Edge, Digital Account Executive
“A velvet couch I got from the River Crest Country Club when it remodeled. It's so dark and romantic-looking. I absolutely love it. It adds a lot of character to my bedroom.”
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Jennifer Casseday-Blair once served as executive editor at Fort Worth Magazine and continues to contribute via the writer’s chair. Want to smooth out wrinkles but scared of needles? Turn to page 34 for her rundown of poke-free alternatives to Botox. Then on page 154, she gives us an early peek at the kitchens that will be showcased at a Wish with Wings’ Kitchens Tour. After that, flip to page 166 to meet the man behind TCU’s Rhino Initiative.
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Courtney Dabney is a hometown girl, having graduated from Arlington Heights, TCU and Dallas Theological Seminary. This month, she visits what used to be a historic golf course, now turned into one of the newest distilleries in town (page 146).
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As we continue to keep the Gulf Coast in our thoughts and prayers following the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, we celebrate the beauty of the Florida Keys, with traveler Kyle Whitecotton giving us a tour on page 24.
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Jocelyn Tatum has a master’s degree in narrative journalism and undergraduate degree in philosophy, so she spends most of her time analyzing and inquiring about the world around her. This month, she explores the growing popularity of rowing in Fort Worth. Find out what happens when she steps into the boat herself on page 36.
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Food stylist, writer and home entertainment expert Beth Maya called on her baker friends to whip up some sweet treats with fall flavors like gingersnap, cinnamon and apple spice. Flip to page 40 to find out how to make them at home.
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Local fashion photographer, painter and dog mom Angie Garcia was back in New York this year to shoot New York Fashion Week. Get a glimpse through her lens on page 47.
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Born and raised in Fort Worth, TCU alum Celestina Blok is a fitness instructor and freelance food news writer. On page 238, she visits the newly opened Gus’s Fried Chicken to find out if it lives up to the hype.
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Growing up in New Orleans, Jessica Llanes learned to appreciate good people and great food at an early age. On page 242, she visits Chimera Brewing Company and turns the spotlight from the craft beer to the food, sharing her take on the pub menu.
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Hugh Savage is a distant twin cousin of our frequent columnist, Heywood. On page 174, the funnyman offers a few thoughts on our feature story on Whiskey Ranch — and craft drinks in general.
10 Originally from Connecticut, Meg Hemmerle’s passion for celebrating life and sharing stories led her to TCU, where she is currently a senior journalism major and English literature minor. On page 160, she highlights the artwork of a few Fort Worthians you may not have known were artists. Then on page 244, she takes a sip of a few local drinks that taste like fall — minus the proverbial pumpkin.
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Top Dog
Congratulations to our Pet Contest winners — Charlie took the title of “Best Pet,” while Norma Jean was named “True Texan.”
Fall Is for Football
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Vickery Gets a Wave of Business
FIVE BUSINESSES ARE SET TO OPEN AT 3610 WEST VICKERY BLVD. — ALL FOCUSED ON DESIGN, AND ALL OWNED BY LOCAL WOMEN.
The project, dubbed LOCAL Design Studios + Gallery, will house children’s boutique Lila + Hayes, hair bow and bow tie company The Bow Next Door, jewelry designer Kori Green Designs, home furnishing shop Ro Rynd Interiors and paper type and printing company Wabash Road. The grand opening for the 2,880-square-foot space will be Oct. 4.
The companies will use the space primarily for office and warehousing, but a storefront will be open to the public every Wednesday. On the first Wednesday of each month, the shop will host a monthly gallery night with wine and shopping and “possibly feature guest designers, artists, and trunk shows,” says Paige Casey, who co-owns Lila + Hayes with Amanda Galati. Casey and Galati spearheaded the creation of LOCAL. Each company started as a simple creative outlet before eventually becoming a business collaboration.
From left to right: Kori Green, Ro Rynd, Amanda Galati (seated), Emily Lee, Paige Casey (seated), Calli Galati and Rachel Hausser inside the LOCAL gallery space.
Lila + Hayes first began when Paige and Amanda struggled to find “sweet, soft clothing” for their children. The Bow Next Door, owned by Emily Lee, began after Lee created a bow out of leftover fabric for her daughter. Kori Green’s namesake Kori Green Designs, currently sold at various area boutiques, will carry her already popular eclectic jewelry. Ro Rynd Interiors, owned by Ro Rynd, will carry modern, contemporary and traditional furniture. Wabash Road, owned by Calli Galati and Rachel Hausser, will offer items like personalized stationery, gift tags and invitations.
“We all know the challenges of running a small business and a family, but working together with LOCAL, we will all now have the support of our fellow mompreneurs,” Lee says.
A version of this story originally appeared on fwtx.com.
Cheers to Macarons
EVEN DALLAS’ SWEETEST SHOPS ARE MAKING THEIR WAY WEST.
JOY Macarons, the French macaron and macaron-ice-cream-sandwich shop, will open its third retail store at The Shops at Clearfork in early fall. The original location opened in Dallas’ Oak Cliff neighborhood in 2014, but founder Liz Lanier’s roots are in Fort Worth.
“I grew up in Fort Worth, graduated from TCU, and have many close friends and family members who live nearby,” Lanier said.
The Clearfork location will highlight JOY’s signature macarons (with flavors like honey and lavender, rose and lychee, and cookie dough), ice cream or sorbet sandwiches, and individual boxes of house-made ice cream and sorbet. The new store will also be the first JOY Macarons location to offer champagne, wine and beer.
Bonobos to Open in WestBend
Say “Yes” to the Book
AFTER 20 YEARS OF WATCHING AND LISTENING, FOUR DAY WEEKEND WANTS YOU TO READ.
The local improv comedy troupe, who hosts shows from their theater in downtown’s Sundance Square, released the book Happy Accidents: The Transformative Power of “Yes, And” at Work and in Life, in September.
The book’s authors are the founding members of the group — David Ahearn, Frank Ford and David Wilk. Published by Wiley, Happy Accidents teaches the impact of applying the “yes, and” improv philosophy to life and business decisions.
“It’s a semi-autobiographical account of our journey over the last 20 years,” explains co-founder and co-author David Wilk.
As the show became more successful, the guys behind Four Day Weekend realized they were running a business. “We are not business people, and in those days, we were 80 percent show, 20
percent business. Now, we’re 80 percent business and 20 percent show,” says Four Day Weekend’s Frank Ford.
The book details how the group, instead of just saying “no” to a lowball offer from a major company that asked them to perform, said “yes, and,” eventually parlaying that offer into a positive magazine article that ultimately landed them the opportunity to perform for members of the U.S. Congress, meet President Barack Obama and perform for troops.
“The philosophy of ‘yes, and’ worked so well for us onstage,” Ford continues. “We asked, well, what if that was our business model as well? It not only opened up our ability to communicate within the group, but opened us up to so many different business opportunities.”
Four Day Weekend celebrated the book with a launch party and show in early September in Sundance Square.
The 169-page book is available for purchase on Amazon.
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER TENANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ONE OF FORT WORTH’S NEWEST DEVELOPMENTS. WestBend announced in August that popular men’s apparel retailer, Bonobos, will open at the mixed-use development off of University Drive
“In response to the growth of online shopping, Bonobos rethought the process of how we purchase clothes, and ultimately how they engage with their customer In the same way, we are rethinking how we curate our retail space at WestBend by focusing on adding tenants, design elements and amenities that create a unique experience,” Terry Montesi, CEO of Trademark Property Co , said in a press release
Bonobos launched online in 2007, specializing in men’s pants in a flattering cut and grew to become the largest apparel brand ever built on the web in the U S Each retail space, referred to as a “Guideshop,” gives buyers the chance to shop the brand in person with a one-on-one guide Purchases are then shipped directly to your home or off ice.
“We’ve seen tremendous success at our Plano and Dallas locat ions, so Fort Worth was a natural next step for us,” sa id Erin Ersenkal, chief revenue off icer at Bonobos.
The 1,200-square-foot location wiil open between Warby Parker and Drybar this fall
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Key West Dreaming
Anticipating the return of one of the country's most prized getaway spots
| by Kyle Whitecotton |
Editor’s
ASSUMED BY MANY TO BE JUST ANOTHER LUXURIOUS TROPICAL GETAWAY FILLED WITH THE USUAL SNORKELING, BOATING AND BEACH-GOING EXCURSIONS, Key West is often lumped in with other island getaways. Sure, Key West has warm, sunny weather, sandy beaches and endless watersports to pass the day. A dozen other islands make the same claim, right? This 7 square miles, though, is packed with anything but the routine island offerings, and it all starts with the drive down.
While visitors can easily fly into Key West International Airport or hop aboard the Key West Express ferry from
Fort Myers Beach, a proper arrival is the breathtaking drive down U.S. Route 1 and the 113-mile Overseas Highway, a National Scenic Byway also known as the “Highway That Goes to Sea.”
The 3 1/2-hour drive from Miami along the Overseas Highway takes roadtrippers through Key Largo, the largest of the Florida Keys, along the six tiny islands of Islamorada, a worldrenowned sport-fishing destination, and past the Dolphin Research Center amid the islands of Marathon. From the famous Seven Mile Bridge joining the Middle and Lower Keys, drivers will pass noteworthy sites like Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary on Big Pine Key and Perky Bat Tower on Sugarloaf Key.
From mainland Florida to the southern tip of the United States, drivers of the Overseas Highway will cross 42 bridges, encounter more than 30 islands, and pass through an endless spread of natural beauty set against a shimmering expanse of crystalline waters.
Perched at the very tip of the Florida Keys Archipelago, Key West is a mere 90 miles from Cuba. Declaring the island the southernmost point in the continental United States, a giant, red-and-black concrete buoy sits at the tip of Key West, accompanied by a host of southernmostthemed attractions including guesthouses, restaurants and bars. Backdropped by turquoise waters, this iconic landmark is a
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Note: On Sept. 1, Kyle Whitecotton submitted the story below on Key West, detailing how its beauty and charm contribute to its immense appeal as a travel destination. On Sept. 10, the eye of Hurricane Irma hit the Florida Keys, leaving it in devastation. We continue with the story in an effort to celebrate the area and its inevitable return as a tourist destination. At press time, the Keys were temporarily closed to visitors, but Monroe County Administrator Roman Gastes told CBS Miami he was confident the community would rebuild, adding, “We'll be fine. This is the cost of living in paradise."
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portunity. It also marks a unique sunset vantage point, and some claim that on a clear night it’s possible to see the faint glow of lights over Cuba.
Every evening, the warm subtropical sun expires into the Gulf of Mexico and commences the world-famous Key West Sunset Celebration at Mallory Square. Amid this historic seaport, once a commercial hub for delivering fresh fish, sponge and shrimp to Florida, a mesmer-
izing carnival of magicians, jugglers, tightrope walkers, fire-eaters, sword swallowers, clowns, psychics, musicians, artists and food vendors gather for an unforgettable artistic showdown.
Mallory Square is also the place to be for shops, galleries, restaurants and one-of-akind attractions like the Key West Aquarium, which opened in 1935 as the island’s first attraction; the Key West Shipwreck and Treasure Museum, with interactive
exhibits and a spectacular view from atop a 65-foot lookout tower; and the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum, the only fully accredited museum in the Florida Keys.
On the north end of the island, old blends with new at the Key West Historic Seaport. This half-mile harbor is home to a 156-slip marina filled with sailboats, catamarans and ferries that deliver dive, snorkel and sunset cruise expeditions. After a morning fishing charter, stop in at the Key West Turtle Museum or enjoy waterfront shopping and live music while mingling with the locals.
Then there are the lively offerings of Duval Street with iconic watering holes like Sloppy Joe’s and Captain Tony’s Saloon, art galleries with collections inspired by the local culture, and a slice of paradise at the mouthwatering Kermit’s Key West Key Lime Shoppe. Duval’s lively tourist strip is also home to the island’s New Year’s Eve celebration, the notorious 10-day Fantasy Fest, and the family-friendly Goombay Festival celebrating Bahamian, Caribbean and West African culture.
It’s difficult to imagine Key West without picturing the island’s most notorious denizen — Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway’s Key West years were his most prolific and helped inspire one of his most notable short stories, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” as well as the novel To Have and Have Not.
Today, visitors can tour his breathtaking house in Old Town Key West, where he and his second wife Pauline lived for more than 10 years. Today, the house is filled with the writer’s original furnishings, favorite artwork and an assortment of architectural details sure to impress even nonliterary types. Visitors will also
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appreciate the property’s sprawling garden, the stunning swimming pool that was itself an architectural feat to construct, and a clowder of 40-50 feline descendants from Hemingway’s own six-toed cat, Snow White, that call the property home.
Other famous Key West houses include Harry Truman’s Little White House, once a vacation retreat for Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy; the Audubon House and Tropical Gardens, filled with 18th and 19th century furnishings and a collection of engravings from John James Audubon; and The Oldest House in Key West, built in 1829 and filled with the original furnishings.
The list of unique Key West offerings is extensive and includes the island’s historic and story-filled cemetery, a preCivil War fortress at the Fort Zachary
Taylor Historic State Park and the remote Dry Tortugas National Park, which is one of the world’s most unique and bountiful eco-attractions and the site of a Civil War prison.
It’s clear to see that Key West is anything but a typical tropical vacation spot where the sand and sun and shops are all identical to the islands next door. This place has history, culture, and a freewheeling, fun-loving, partywithout-consequence philosophy that gets in your blood and stays. So pack your flip-flops and leave behind your preconceived notions, and head south to the place where the sunset is cause for celebration. No one will blame you if you don’t come back.
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in Key West Bottom: The museum is home to many six-toed cats, decendants of Hemingway's cat, Snow White
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Same Difference
How a local author’s story went from self-published book to major Hollywood film.
| by Samantha Calimbahin |
RON HALL REMEMBERS THE LAST WORDS HIS WIFE DEBBIE TOLD HIM JUST HOURS BEFORE SHE DIED: “RON, DON’T GIVE UP ON DENVER.”
“Denver,” being Denver Moore — a homeless man once bent on “killing everybody” until he experienced a change of heart after the Halls befriended him while volunteering at the Union Gospel Mission.
“God is going to bless your friendship in a way that you can never imagine,” Debbie told Ron.
She was right. Ron made good on his promise to his wife, not
only letting Denver move in with him after she died from cancer in 2000, but also turning their story into a book, Same Kind of Different as Me. The book went on to become a New York Times Bestseller, and now, it’s a feature film, produced by Paramount Pictures and starring Renée Zellweger as Debbie, Greg Kinnear as Ron, and Djimon Hounsou as Denver. The film releases Oct. 20.
“I want [the audience] to come away with new eyes — to see the homeless through the lens of God and make the homeless people visible, whereas most of America sees the homeless as invisible … I would like for them to look at [the homeless] the way Debbie looked at them,” Ron says.
The real-life story began when Debbie had a dream of a man who looked like Denver. Believing it was a vision from God of a man that needed help, she and Ron drove around Lancaster Avenue to look for him. When they couldn’t find “the man of her dream,” as Ron called him, they stopped at the Union Gospel Mission and decided to become volunteers in hopes of seeing him there.
Djimon Hounsou as Denver and Renée Zellweger as Debbie in "Same Kind of Different as Me "
And he made an entrance, Ron says, storming into the dining hall and turning over tables, angry that someone had stolen his shoes.
“That’s him,” Debbie said.
Prompted by his wife, Ron reluctantly pursued Denver and took him to breakfast. They got to know each other and became friends. After Debbie died, Ron took Denver into his own home, and the two would continue volunteering at the mission until Denver’s death in 2012.
It was Denver’s idea to turn their story into a book, Hall says. They co-authored Same Kind of Different as Me but had difficulty publishing it at first, as several publishing companies rejected it. So Hall decided to publish the book himself in 2004 and send copies to friends.
feel that the book would ever have any success,” Hall says.
One of those copies, however, happened to make its way into the hands of Ken Gire, author of religious books like Windows of the Soul and Moments With the Savior. Gire connected Hall with Thomas Nelson, which then published the book in 2006. In 2014, Hall signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to produce the film. He’d co-write the screenplay with Michael Carney and Alexander Foard.
Hall says it was “very strange” to see himself and life moments portrayed on screen. The moment when an enraged Denver storms into the dining hall, for example, was among those captured on film. Hall also said Kinnear and Zellweger would often come to him to ask for advice on how their respective character would speak or react. Hall himself has a few cameos in the film, shown shaking Kinnear’s hand in one scene and playing a wheelchair-bound homeless man in another.
“[Kinnear] did a very good job,” Hall says. “They all did.”
While most of the movie was shot in Jackson, Mississippi (the state provided funding to have it shot there), the story itself does take place in Fort Worth, and local audiences will recognize an establishing shot of the familiar downtown skyline at the beginning of the film.
And while Hall says he has enjoyed watching his story rise from a self-published book to major film, what he ultimately hopes for, is that the audience will leave the theater with a greater burden to help the homeless.
“I was turned down so many times that I didn’t really
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“Sometimes random acts of kindness make an enormous difference in another person’s life — and even in your own life,” he says.
le known for his work in action ke “Blood Diamond” and ans of the Galaxy,” actor mon Hounsou took a fferent route when he ined the cast of “Same Kind of Different as Me ”
He took a break from filming “Serenity” in Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian
Ocean, to chat with Fort Worth Magazine about playing Denver Moore
On preparing for the role… “One thing’s quite difficult — it’s trying to emulate a real-life hero without making a parody of them, you know? Working out his tonation, his sound. Literally, I let myself go physically, letting my nails grow and everything.”
On what can be learned from Denver Moore... “[Denver was]
a real-life hero in the way he empowered his neighborhood. His life condition did not stop him.”
On his visit to the Union Gospel Mission last January... “It was impressive to come and see the center, to see the area which we tried to emulate … it was beautiful to see the support that the organization is able to drive. All the help, all the donations that come through is beautiful.”
Greg Kinnear as Ron
Djimon Hounsou as Denver in "Same Kind of Different as Me "
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Better Than Botox?
There are several alternatives to consider before getting your first injection.
| by Jennifer Casseday-Blair |
DESPITE HOW MANY SERUMS WE APPLY, LASER TREATMENTS WE ENDURE, FILLERS WE HAVE INJECTED OR GREEN DRINKS WE TIP BACK, GRAVITY EVENTUALLY FINDS US ALL.
Proven and popular wrinkle-fighters like Botox relax muscles and puts them in a state of paralysis, smoothing out the skin. Dysport and Xeomin, two other FDA-approved, injectable neuromodulators, have similar benefits. Dysport sometimes works faster than Botox, which can be an advantage if you have a special occasion and need a really quick fix. But, injectables aren’t the only option out there. A handful of natural products are on the market that have had some success in wrinkle reduction — helping to keep that needle at bay for just a bit longer.
FROWNIES
These patches of sticky paper are applied to the skin to temporarily “freeze” the muscle movements that cause wrinkles. frownies com
YAMUNA SAVE FACE BALLS
Yes, face balls. About the size of a softball, these rubbery balls are worked into the skin and massaged on the face to reduce sagging skin, prevent thinning of the facial bones and improve circulation and skin tone. The face is supposed to appear fuller due to increased circulation. yamunausa com
SNAKE VENOM
Daireds Salon and Spa Pangéa in Arlington offers clients an UltraLuxe professional grade facial peel. LAbased skin care company, UltraLuxe, has been developing anti-aging products for nearly 20 years. “In some of our products, we incorporate the active ingredient of synthetic snake venom, which acts as a muscle inhibitor,” says Nate Dakar, president of UltraLuxe. “To use a metaphor, think about when a snake attacks. The venom constricts the movement of its prey. Our product slows down the movement and contraction of the muscle, which is the cause of wrinkles.” Dakar calls the UltraLuxe-9 Age Control Complex “the Rolls-Royce of all the products.” daireds com
WATERMELON RIND
The Watermelon Glow Sleep Mask from Glow Recipe is so popular, the site often runs out of stock. The “pillow-proof” mask uses watermelon extract, along with other unique ingredients like licorice, peony and cabbage, to hydrate and radiate. glowrecipe com
Rowing Fort Worth
The sport gains popularity as Trinity River plans open the gateway for rowing closer to town.
| by Jocelyn Tatum |
ONCE RESERVED FOR ENGLAND, THE SUMMER OLYMPICS OR IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS, rowing, or “crew” as it is more commonly referred to in the U.S., is slowly gaining popularity in the region. Yet the Fort Worth Rowing Club has been quietly navigating the Trinity River for more than 25 years.
On a brief visit to the main boathouse off Beach Street, I noticed club members with a true devotion to the
Eighty-year-old Lee Smith, one of the Fort Worth Rowing Club founders, and three generations of his family row in perfect unison on the Trinity River. Photo by Amy Rice
This conceptual graphic shows kayak lockers along the Trinity River Promenade
The Promenade will allow public access to the river for rowing, kayaks, canoes and stand-up paddle boards
sport — from an 80-year-old crew veteran like club co-founder Lee Smith, to a beginner starting out in his late 40s like Charles West. All were preparing their boats for rowing, or “sculling,” on their 3,000-meter patch of river between Beach Street and Fourth Street bridges.
At dawn a few days later, I met FWRC president Pete McIntosh at Marine Creek Lake and “sculled” in TCU’s purple, double (2X), sculling shell (sculling rowers have two oars) named “Two Step” that was 30 feet long, 55 pounds and only a foot wide. This toothpick boat could flip with the tiniest misstep.
Once we got the mechanics of the four steps — “the catch,” “the drive,” “the finish,” and “the recovery” — somewhat down, Pete let me row us across the golden lake reflecting the dawn sunrise. It wasn’t until he began to row with me that I really started to get it (and totally freak out).
He added speed and power to our toothpick water ship from the “bow” or backseat, and I felt myself lose control. I tightened my grip on the oars, pulling them out of their oarlocks to regain control, but then the oars began to dip way down into the water and drag during the recovery. Any slight movement like this in the wrong direction could quickly turn us into soaking-wet river rats.
Pete noticed I was beginning to flounder. He patiently told me to close my eyes, reset and listen to all the tiny movements of what we were doing — the plop of the oars during the “catch” and the swish during the “recovery.” He assured me he would observe and follow my movements because if we fell out of sync, it could get messy. For this to work, the high-strung control freak in me had to let go, relax and work with him in unison.
Rowing has been building momentum in Fort Worth and area cities the last few years. University of Texas women’s “Texas Crew” won the Big 12 Rowing Championship last year. TCU has a new rowing team. The FWRC helped the TCU Rowing Club co-founders, Rachel Bynum and David DeCorrevont, get started three years ago.
“The reason for rowing growth not taking off in Fort Worth [in the recent past] is that the section of the Trinity River we row on,
which is perfect for smaller boats, is not ideal for the larger 8+ boats, which junior and university programs primarily use,” Pete later said in an email.
During the interim, Pete said the TCU rowing team uses Marine Creek Lake for its larger sweep boats, but this will all change with the completion of “Panther Island,” or properly named “Central City” set to be complete in late 2024 or early 2025. Plans for the Trinity River promenade include launch pads and on-site storage for kayaks and canoes.
“The Fort Worth Rowing Club is working with TRWD, Streams and Valleys and TRVA to find the ideal location on the future Panther Island By-Pass Channel. This future waterway will be centrally located and an ideal location for junior (high school) rowing programs,” Pete said.
The few FWRC members at the Boat Club that hot, late summer evening had a difficult time explaining in words why they have spent nearly all of their free time for decades dedicated to rowing. If it were about the exercise, they would find the rowing machine at a nearby gym more efficient. At a loss for words, nearly all of them deferred to the book, The Boys in the Boat, (2013) by Daniel James Brown. So I downloaded the book to my Kindle.
It’s about the American Olympic rowing team who won the gold medal in Berlin during the 1936 Olympics under Hitler’s watch. The first pages tell us that what these die-hard rowers love about the sport was above any one moment or thing. I got a glimpse of the bliss described in the first page of The Boys in the Boat during my outing. It describes near ecstasy when all of the moving parts work together in perfect harmony and move with the sound of the water beneath them.
Twenty-year FWRC member, Pat McDonough, who competes in races all over the world, wrote from England that rowing is about “reaching for the unachievable magic of swing from college days. A rowing team boat turns into something far greater than the sum of its parts.”
George Yeoman Pocock, who designed and built the shells for rowing boats and gained international recognition for providing the eight-oared racing shells in the 1936 Olympics said, “It’s a great art, is rowing. It’s the finest art there is. It’s a symphony of motion. And when you’re rowing well, why it’s nearing perfection. And when you near perfection, you’re touching the Divine. It touches the you of yous. Which is your soul.”
*All ages are welcome to sign up beginning “Learn to Row” classes at FortWorthRowing.org. Ages 18 and under need to be accompanied by an adult
living cooking Sugar and Spice
AS A SAVORY CHEF,
I’VE ALWAYS ENVIED PEOPLE WHO ARE EXCELLENT BAKERS. As temperatures dropped, I caught myself thinking about all of the wonderful fall baking options — from apples, to pumpkin, to nuts and spice. It all feels like a warm hug. Since I’m no baker, I reached out to two experts in all things sugar and spice — Mandi Giunta and Amber Hash. They are the owners of Basically Bakers, a small baking business specializing in cakes. So, with their help we put together some decadent baked goods to help celebrate the season and usher in my favorite time of year. I got them to share some recipes and, of course, make some beautiful creations for this month’s shoot. If you’re not up for trying to master these on your own — Basically Bakers to the rescue.
CANDIED PECANS
This simple recipe for candied nuts only calls for seven ingredients. They are perfect for topping various salads, entrees and desserts. And they also make a delicious gift.
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon cayenne
• 4 cups (12 ounces) pecans halves, unsalted
• 1 egg white, whisked
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
Add the granulated sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt and cayenne to a large bowl or Ziploc bag. Toss or whisk until evenly combined. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, add pecans and egg whites, and gently toss until combined and the pecans are evenly coated. Add in the sugar mixture, and toss until combined.
Spread the mixture out in a single layer on a parchment-lined baking sheet. (If your baking sheet is not that large, you may need to split the batch onto two baking sheets.)
Bake for about 40 minutes, removing the nuts and giving them a stir every 20 minutes, until the pecans are fragrant and the sugar coating is cooked. (The sugar will harden more once the pecans are out of the oven.)
Remove from the oven, and let the baking sheet cool on a cooling rack until the nuts reach room temperature. Transfer them to a sealed container and store until ready to use.
| story and food styling by Beth Maya |
Candied Pecans
BASIC BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Using whisk attachment, whip butter and cream cheese for 2 minutes. Add powdered sugar 1 cup at a time; mix for 1 minute between each addition.
Mix in cinnamon, vanilla and salt. Mix 1-2 more minutes or until light and fluffy.
Refrigerate frosting 15-30 minutes before piping onto cupcakes.
APPLE-SPICED CUPCAKES WITH CINNAMON CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
FOR THE CUPCAKES
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 cup Musselman's Apple Butter
• 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt or sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon sea salt FOR THE FROSTING
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
CUPCAKES:
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Cream together butter and sugar. Mix in egg, apple butter, yogurt and vanilla.
Sift together flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder and salt.
Gradually mix in dry ingredients with wet.
Divide batter between 18 standard muffin tins prepared with paper liners.
Bake 25-27 minutes or until cooked through.
Transfer to rack and allow to cool completely before frosting.
FROSTING:
Using whisk attachment, whip butter and cream cheese for 2 minutes.
Add powdered sugar one cup at a time, mix for 1 minute between each addition.
Mix in cinnamon, vanilla and salt.
Mix 1-2 more minutes or until light and fluffy. Refrigerate frosting 15-30 minutes before piping onto cupcakes.
SWIRLED PUMPKIN PIE CHEESECAKE BARS WITH GINGERSNAP CRUST FOR THE CRUST
• 2 cups crushed gingersnaps
• 1/4 cup melted butter FOR THE CHEESECAKE
• 2 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1 (15-ounce) can pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon cloves
• 1/4 teaspoon allspice
• 2 tablespoons milk
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a small bowl, stir together crushed gingersnaps and melted butter. Press mixture into the bottom of a 9-by-9-inch baking dish. Bake for 8 minutes. Remove to a wire rack.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, or with an electric mixer, beat together cream cheese, sugars and flour until creamy. Remove 3/4 cup of the mixture to a small bowl and set aside.
Add pumpkin, eggs, and vanilla extract to remaining mixture and beat until smooth. Stir in spices until combined.
Pour pumpkin mixture over the top of the crust. Stir milk into reserved cream cheese mixture. Drop mixture by spoonful over pumpkin mixture. Using a knife, swirl the cream cheese mixture through the pumpkin mixture.
Bake for 35-40 minutes or until center is set and knife inserted in the center comes out clean. If the top starts to brown and the center isn't set, cover with aluminum foil to prevent further browning.
Remove to wire rack to cool for 30 minutes before placing in the refrigerator for 2 hours or until completely cooled.
SWEET POTATO PECAN CAKE
FOR THE SWEET POTATO CAKE:
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, melted and browned, bits included
• 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
Apple-Spiced Cupcakes With Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
Swirled Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake Bars With Gingersnap Crust
QUICK TIP
• 1 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
• 6 eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
• 22 ounces canned sweet potatoes puree
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and lightly flour three 8-inch round pans. Line with parchment paper circles.
Melt butter in saucepan over medium heat. Cook, swirling occasionally, until butter turns brown. Remove from heat and let cool.
Maple glaze should be thick yet pourable so that it flows down the side of your cake with a little resistance Unsure if your glaze is the right consistency? Set a small bowl upside down on a larger plate and do a test drizzle onto the bowl If it is too thick and doesn’t drip down the side, even with some assistance, add a few more drops of milk to loosen the glaze If it is too thin and runs right off the side of the bowl and pools onto the plate beneath, add a little more confectioners’ sugar to thicken the glaze
wire rack to finish cooling.
FOR THE MARSHMALLOW BUTTERCREAM:
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1/2 cup salted butter, softened
• 16 ounces marshmallow fluff
• 4 cups confectioners’ sugar
• 2 tablespoons milk
In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat butter and marshmallow fluff on medium speed for two minutes until creamy.
Add in confectioners’ sugar 1 cup at a time, mixing and scraping bowl as necessary.
Add milk and continue to mix on medium speed, 3-4 minutes until fluffy.
FOR THE MAPLE DRIP GLAZE:
• 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
• 4 teaspoons milk
• 1/2 teaspoon maple extract
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons light corn syrup, optional
Combine all ingredients in a small bowl. Whisk until smooth. Use immediately.
For the assembly: Once the cakes have cooled, trim off the top so that they are level. Place one layer of cake onto serving plate or cake stand and top with 1 cup of marshmallow frosting. Repeat with second cake layer, more frosting and then last layer of cake. Crumb coat the cake and refrigerate 10 minutes until set. Frost the cake and smooth the sides and top, reserving about 1/2 cup frosting, for garnish. Using the tip of a spatula, create swirls on sides, if desired. Make glaze and drizzle over the top with small drips overflowing the edge. Wait 5 minutes for the glaze to set up a tad. Using a large round tip, pipe dollops of frosting on top of the set glaze, sporadically but in a circular form. Sprinkle with chopped pecans and a light dusting of cinnamon to finish.
NOTES:
1. Maple glaze should be used right after whisking, as it will harden as it dries. If needed, cover bowl of prepared glaze with a damp paper towel to prevent it from setting. Whisk again before using.
Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
In a large bowl, combine browned butter (including any brown bits on the bottom of pan), granulated sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla bean paste. Whisk until combined.
Whisk in dry ingredients, adding in two batches. Add sweet potato puree and mix well.
Divide batter evenly between the three 8-inch round pans.
Bake for 32-36 minutes, until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
Let cool in pans for 10 minutes, then remove to
2. Milk can be substituted for the light corn syrup in the maple glaze, if desired. However, the glaze will not have the same shine.
Serve at room temperature. Store in refrigerator.
Special thanks this month to basicallybakers.com for providing all the cakes. For more info, please visit their website or Facebook page. Special thanks to Central Market for providing all the ingredients. For more info on Beth Maya, please visit foodbybethmaya.com.
Sweet Potato Pecan Cake
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The contemporary home forms a U shape around the stunning pool.
The Fort Worth Hill Country
An understated Hill Country contemporary, rich in features but low on pretense, pops up in Benbrook’s luxury La Cantera at Team Ranch community.
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OUR FALL DREAM HOME, BUILT ATOP A HILL IN BENBROOK’S LUXURY LA CANTERA AT TEAM RANCH GATED COMMUNITY, DOESN’T OVERWHELM. Even at 5,300 square feet, four bedrooms, four bathrooms and three half-baths, with views of downtown Fort Worth, it’s not complicated, and that’s by design.
Its new owners wanted a home packed with the latest amenities and features, but without haughtiness. The color palette is full of creams, grays and taupes. Arrays of large windows allow light to flow in and augment the spaces without the need for a lot of added light. Designers Brenda Blaylock and Susan Sem-
melmann — whose Grandeur Design & Interiors was in charge of the construction detailing, finishes, furnishings, accessories, and artwork — elevated the Dream Home’s straight lines and monochromatic scheme with contrasting textures and use of natural materials like woods and metals.
There’s also a nod to the TCU Horned Frogs here; its new owner played football at the university, and the Dream Home has splashes of purple throughout: in the lighting for the kitchen’s glass-enclosed wine wall and living room’s gas fireplace, blooms in the outdoor Texas sage, and custom sofas and Frog memorabilia in the game room. Even the pool’s underwater lighting is programmable in numerous hues for light shows,
Light flows into the Great Room through windows throughout the home.
like red, white and blue for the Fourth of July and purple for the family’s Frog football parties.
“They wanted a rustic, modern home that was very clean, very minimalist, very simple,” Semmelmann says. She and Blaylock planned and sourced or fabricated the Dream Home’s flooring, tile, paint, fixtures, furnishings, accessories, artwork, floral,
The Texas Hill Country exterior is in gray leuders stone and stucco.
drapery and bedding. (Grandeur, through its manufacturing center, made virtually all of the Dream Home’s accent pieces, including artwork, floral, drapery and bedding.)
This Dream Home, like our others, is going to be doing a lot of entertaining, and its owners want it to invite. “They want there to be warmth, rather than just hardcore modern,” Blaylock says.
This is the 16th in Fort Worth Magazine’s long-running series of Dream Homes, in which we team with builders and vendors to present the latest in luxury building and fashion trends. Dale Grandmaison of Grand Home Designs designed the home, built by Bryan Braswell of Braswell Homes. The home will be open for tours in October (see box) to benefit the magazine’s charity, a Wish with Wings, which fulfills wishes for sick children in Texas.
The Dream Home’s contemporary vernacular is the latest transitional move away from Old World styles that have dominated Fort Worth’s luxury scene. Transitional is in vogue; this home draws its flavor from the Texas Hill Country and midcentury modern designs.
Its exterior is in gray leuders stone and stucco. The extended roof overhangs offer more shade, particularly important around the pool deck. Its ample Jeld-Wen window treatments and double-glass entry door by Durango Doors provide a transpar-
ent street profile. Inside the Dream Home, the floor plan is wide open a characteristic of transitional and enhanced by 22.6-foot ceilings and glass. “There’s a lot of light; it feels like you’re outside, almost,” Braswell says.
Braswell, whose home and story we featured in the September issue of Fort Worth HOME , entered construction doing remodeling work as a teenager and then started a roofing company at 18. Two years later, he built his first home and then went into business with a friend building houses. “We built six customs together, but I realized I really didn’t know what I was doing,” Braswell says.
So he went to work for David Weekly Homes and then Village Homes, while getting his bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Texas at Arlington. Then in 2001, Braswell, who grew up in Arlington, went out on his own with a partner, building houses in Mansfield in the $400,000-$800,000 range.
“And architecturally correct houses,” he says. “Mansfield didn’t have any of that. It had just cookie-cutter houses.” He soon moved into building luxury homes in Fort Worth in neighborhoods like Montserrat.
Today, Braswell says he likes to run seven to 10 projects at the same time, including the major remodels he does. And “it’s just me, a superintendent, and one office person,” he says.
Grandeur Design's contrasting swatches (clockwise from upper left): Teenage girl's bedroom; young daughter's bedroom, both on right; master bedroom and bath
SHOWING OFF The Dream Home, for its simplicity, shows off several design flourishes.
A floating urban-flavored corner staircase connects the first floor to a second-floor bridge. The bridge looks down into the dining and living rooms and kitchen, and out onto the pool deck through double doors in the living room’s all-glass, backyardfacing wall. It connects both ends of the second floor, including two bedrooms and a game room.
The staircase — made of black metal stringers and rails, stained wooden treads and white oak banisters (also mimicked on the bridge) — is accented by a floor-to-ceiling gray, drystacked tile wall evocative of midcentury modern architecture, and illuminated by four windows. The open stairwell contrib-
Three cylindrical metal-and-glass pendants from Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting draw the eye up.
Gray, dry-stacked tile accent walls form the focal points of the foyer and living room.
The staircase fronts a floor-to-ceiling tile wall evocative of midcentury modern architecture. The open stairwell makes the foyer feel even larger.
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Another dry-stacked tile wall frames the modern fireplace in the Great Room.
utes to the oversized feeling of the foyer.
The living room is anchored by another dry-stacked tile wall, which frames a linear gas fireplace and serves visually as a simultaneously grand but understated mantel, with a builtin white Advanced Architectural Stone cast stone bench at the foot of the wall. The Dream Home’s direct vent fireplace, provided by Nix Door and Hardware, draws combustion air from outdoors and sends its exhaust through a second vent, circulating the warm air and keeping the cold air out.
One wall of the Dream Home’s kitchen is accented by a 400-bottle-plus wine closet featuring stainless steel walls, stainless steel cable rack system, floor-to-ceiling double glass doors, one-zone cooling system, and high-density LED lighting. Vendors Vineyard Wine Cellars, Petro Metal Fabrication and J&S Air worked together to create the attractive and functional closet.
The modern kitchen is modest in scale, but the contrasting finishes add another focal point to the Dream Home. The cabinets are Wood-Mode Fine Custom Cabinetry, provided by The Kitchen Source, the Dream Home’s longtime kitchen cabinetry vendor. The subtle weathered finishes are in grays and mostly
whites. The fronts of the upper cabinets, refrigerator and freezer are in white back-painted glass. The stainless steel vent hood and metal tile backsplash add further texture and contrast. The result is a “stunning ultramodern finish,” says Elizabeth Tranberg, The Kitchen Source lead designer on this project.
The appliance package, provided by Expressions Home Gallery, includes a Sub-Zero refrigerator and freezer, Wolf oven, Wolf steam oven (“You can cook your steaks in that,” Braswell says), six-burner Wolf gas cooktop, small Sub-Zero wine refrigerator, and Asko dishwasher. More and more, with the aging population, Braswell says he finds homeowners shy from ranges in favor of
Metal-tile backsplash and back-painted glass cabinets give the gray and white kitchen an ultramodern finish.
built-in ovens. “People don’t want to bend over,” he says.
The kitchen’s island and breakfast bar, topped by a gray waterfall edge Quartz Master countertop, features a 5.5-foot Galley Workstation stainless sink that includes a sliding colander and brings “new definition to how you prep, cook, serve and entertain,” Tranberg says.
The cabinets themselves are highly functional, with plate racks and defined drawer and rollout storage for flatware, cooking implements, oils and spices, cookware and bakeware, and trash. A pocket door system hides a coffee and beverage bar that’s plumbed for water. The upper and lower cabinets feature soft LED under lighting. An adjacent butler’s pantry includes a microwave, icemaker and more storage space. “We’re doing a lot of back kitchens,” Braswell says.
The master bath is one space in the Dream Home that’s “over the top,” Semmelmann says.
It features his-and-hers vanities and water closets, with a glass-enclosed, three-sided, double-door, triple-headed shower room in the middle of the bathroom. A white acrylic tub fronts the shower enclosure. The cabinetry, by Mike Conkle's Custom Cabinets, includes interior plugs and concealed storage for de-
One wall of the Dream Home’s kitchen is accented by a 400-bottleplus wine closet.
Herringbone patterns are found throughout the master bath. The floor is fully heated.
vices like hair dryers and shavers.
The triple mirrors over each vanity are framed by Carrera tile backsplashes, painstakingly cut and laid in intricate herringbone patterns. The countertops are Quartz Master. The floor, ceramic tile, is also laid in a herringbone pattern and is fully heated.
The three-sided wainscot wall of the shower enclosure is in marble. The interior shower wall is done in a waterfall-patterned steel, glass and marble tile down the middle, surrounded on both sides by the same marble as used on the exterior of the enclosure. The shower floor and ceiling are in the Carrera stone, laid in herringbone. A built-in bench in the shower is done in the marble. LED tape under lighting on the vanity baseboards and recessed lighting in the ceiling throw off soft light in the evening, and six 5-foot windows bring the outside in. Vintage Floors laid every piece of flooring and tile in this Dream Home.
A giant walk-in closet by The Container Store mimics the feel of a country club locker room, featuring ebony cabinets with LED soffit and under lighting on dimmer switches, stackable washer and dryer (one of two laundry centers in the home), laundry chute from the children’s room upstairs, and an island dresser. “The LEDs make the whole room,” Braswell says.
The cabinets — from The Container Store’s TCS Closets line — are made of 1-inch thick Thermofused Laminate boards fab-
The masculine and spacious walk-in closet by The Container Store mimics the feel of a country club locker room.
ricated from recycled and reclaimed wood and have soft-close solid and glass doors, chrome hardware, tie rack, valet rod, belt rack, full-length pivoting pull-out mirror, and double and long-hang capability.
The master bathroom is one distillation of Grandeur’s contributions to the Dream Home. It’s the third Dream Home for Semmelmann and Blaylock. The first two were a green home in Montserrat and a transitional in Fort Worth’s Edwards Ranch.
The two partners first teamed up in 2001. Grandeur prides itself on being involved at the design stage in its projects, planning all finishes, furnishings and accents, and manufacturing most of the accents it puts in. “We don’t go out and buy lamps from anybody else,” Blaylock says. “We don’t buy candles from anybody else.”
To Semmelmann and Blaylock, finishes work together within each room and flow perfectly from one to the next. “Everything feeds off [something else],” Blaylock says. “There’s not anything odd.”
The gray prefinished, engineered hardwood flooring they
chose runs through the Dream Home’s common spaces, and cream and gray carpet highlights all of the bedrooms. Woods and metals chrome, stainless steel, nickel, platinum, and metallic colors — are found in the furnishings, fixtures, and accents. Wood-like texture and metal are also found in some of the tile.
The Dream Home’s dining room offers another distillation. Semmelmann and Blaylock contrasted the room’s straight lines and color with a mix of furnishings: rustic wooden Ber-
The middle of the master bathroom is anchored by a tub and a glassenclosed, three-sided, doubledoor, triple-headed shower room.
nhardt dining table with stainless legs, and curvedback gray fabric chairs with stainless nail heads. The set sits on a patterned rug with grays, creams and blacks. To draw the eye up, they hung three cylindrical metal-and-glass pendants from Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting, and floor-to-ceiling accent drapes on both sides of the windows.
Semmelmann and Blaylock created a tabletop centerpiece of floral, driftwood and metal. Because the home’s new owner is a horse lover, Semmelmann and Blaylock found a photograph of two horses running in a river, enlarged it to 10 feet by 8 feet, cut and mounted it on four panels, and erected it on the room’s one full wall. Homages to horses, wildlife and nature can be found in Grandeur’s accent pieces throughout the Dream Home. “The way you change things up is by
The master bedroom has its own covered patio accessible through double doors.
Infinity Pedestal Sink
changing the texture,” Semmelmann says.
TIES THAT BIND The Dream Home’s dining room, living room and kitchen flow easily together. The dining and living rooms are separated visually by archways created as part of the bridge.
The living room vignette, like others Semmelmann and Blaylock chose for the Dream Home, is simple, with sectional sofa and blended fabrics, two stainless-frame chairs, wood and stainless tables, and hair-on-hide pillows. The two lamps feature curved stainless bases and circular hide-covered shades and hair-on-hide pillows.
Pinks, whites and grays adorn a young girl's bedroom.
Above top: The bathroom attached to a young girl's bedroom.
Above bottom: A first-floor guest room.
Left: A first-floor guest bathroom.
For the master bedroom, which has his-andhers entry into the bath, Semmelmann chose a combination of contrasting rustic and modern treatments infused, again, with nature. The bed canopy, in white oak with stainless accents, comes from the same product line as the dining room set. The base is in light textured raffia wood. The shams are in animal fur, and the comforter, snake print. The furnishings include a shiny metal applique dresser and stainless-and-leather bench.
Upstairs, which includes two bedrooms and a game room with an exterior staircase leading to the pool deck, the Dream Home shows off more flourishes.
One of the bedrooms, for the owners’ young daughter, features a play loft with vaulted ceiling and an iron ship’s ladder created by Aaron Iron Works. The room is decorated in soft pinks, grays, and whites, with treatments like white suede and por-
A spacious guest bedroom.
The TCU-themed game room has subtle hints of purple throughout, including on the custom couch.
The game room's exterior sliding doors lead to a balcony with a view of downtown and an exterior staircase that leads to the pool.
celain flowers on the wall above the bed.
The game room’s feel is decidedly masculine, from the point you enter through an industrial-style, woodand-glass sliding door. Decorative pine beams adorn a recessed space in the ceiling. The room is decorated with TCU memorabilia. The boxes in the built-in wooden bar wall feature mirrors and LED lighting, which illuminates the owner’s bottle selection. The room is linked to the Dream Home’s whole-house audio system, installed by Universal Systems, which also put in the security system. A pool table from Fort Worth Billiards sits on one end of the room.
On the other end of the game room, Kisabeth Furniture of Haltom City turned out the custom sofas and chairs, done in grays and purples and arranged in front of a large wall-mounted flat-panel screen. The company had clear marching orders for the furniture, says Lauren McEuen, Kisabeth’s creative director.
They were to be larger and very durable and comfortable, “but still highstyle,” McEuen says. (Kisabeth also made the three conical-shaped barstools for the Dream Home’s kitchen breakfast bar.)
For the sofas, McEuen and Grandeur decided on a hybrid of Kisabeth’s popular Gunnison style. Its sofas typically are 96-inch or sectionals, but the Dream Home’s design team decided on two 84-inch custom sofas.
The downstairs barstools were the biggest challenge, McEuen says. “They’re
completely custom,” McEuen said. Before approving the final design, the designers had questions. “Are they going to be topheavy? Can we put them on a swivel?”
BRINGING THE OUTSIDE IN
The Dream Home’s outdoor living spaces, like the rest of the home, are highly functional, built around the home’s C-shaped footprint, with the pool and spa notched in.
The covered galley-style outdoor kitchen, made of the same leuders stone that’s on the home’s exterior, features a built-in grill with vent hood and poolside walk-up bar with sink and refrigerator. Steps away, a covered dining vignette seats 10.
And on the other side of the pool is the master bedroom’s own covered patio, with a built-in fire pit and giant flat panel. Yard Art Patio & Fireplace provided the outdoor furniture.
The outdoor kitchen, dining area and master patio are heated by Infratech infrared electric, flush-mounted heaters, installed by JetStream Outdoor Cooling. JetStream also installed a proprietary cooling system for the master patio.
JetStream’s pump misting system allows “flash evaporation” of the moisture to occur, cooling the air and dropping the ambient temperature by up to 25 degrees, JetStream’s Forrest Woods
says. The cooling system is concealed and ducted, requiring accessible attic space above the patio.
The heating and cooling systems are easily controlled. The heaters are provided by switches that provide off, low, and high choices. The cooling system includes independent switches for the blower and mist pump. The blower can be used without mist to circulate air.
Claffey Pools built the linear, contemporary jump pool, which goes to a depth of 7 feet 6 inches, and spa. The eight-person rectangular spa has a full-perimeter overflow, glass-tile edge on all four sides; when the water is still, the top of the spa looks like a sheet of glass. The pool also has glass tile accents.
The pool and spa lighting and variable-speed pump can all be controlled by mobile app. The sections of the concrete deck around the pool are accented by artificial turf. “The project is an extension of the home and provides a great entertaining atmosphere,” says Shelly Claffey of Claffey Pools.
SMART: EFFICIENT
DREAM HOME
The magazine’s Dream Homes are remarkably energy-efficient. This Dream Home’s efficiency starts with its Jeld-Wen’s Siteline windows and patio doors, which meet or exceed 2016 Energy Star 6 standards
and were provided by Texas Custom Window & Door.
Siteline’s LoE 366 glass blocks infrared rays. In warm weather, the glass reflects the sun’s energy and prevents it from entering the home. In cold weather, the glass reduces heat lost by reflecting it back inside.
The Dream Home also sports ZIP System sheathing, an engineered wood panel with built-in wrap that reduces air leakage and moisture damage inside the walls. The attic has full foam encapsulation in the attic and walls.
The Dream Home has a Trane XR17 central air and heat system with a two-stage outdoor compressor system and a variable-speed indoor furnace, provided by J&S Air. The system also has Trane’s new Wi-Fi capability, allowing the Dream Home’s owners to control operations by mobile phone. The speed and size of the HVAC system change to accommodate the temperatures needed throughout the day. Mild days require low speeds, while hotter days require high speed and more cooling capacity.
All of the Dream Home’s light fixtures — the interior and exterior lighting being provided by Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting, and landscape lighting by Passion Lighting — feature LEDs. “They are 80 percent more efficient than a standard halogen light,” Braswell says.
Barstools pull up to an outdoor kitchen next to the pool in the backyard.
“And the new LED lights have a 25,000-hour life.”
And the Dream Home’s two tankless water heaters, provided by ProServe Plumbing, mean the Dream Home expends energy heating water only when hot water is being used. “It is an on-demand system, only heating water when it is necessary,” Braswell says.
FINAL FRONTIER: GARAGE Our Dream Homes typically have three- or four-car garages and lots of storage space, but we don’t tend to write about the space beyond that. In this case, we made an exception.
The Dream Home’s new owners chose to trick out their threecar garage with a package provided by Garage Living of Dallas/Fort Worth. And they’re not alone. The New York Times, in December, called garage finish-outs the “final frontier” in high-end homes.
Why? Because a clean, well-designed garage space can serve as an extension of the rest of the home, serve as an extra entertaining space and accommodating surrounding for the homeowner’s luxury vehicles, and support a home’s value, according to Garage Living of Dallas/Fort Worth, which designed and installed the
garage floors, cabinetry and slatwall organizers.
The Dream Home’s garage shows off a textured Floortex Coating for the concrete floor. The color: “Nightfall.” This unusual airy garage, like the rest of the home, sports plenty of windows, including diffused glass divided lights in the doors.
Garage Living’s GL Cabinetry modular units — dark gray with black trim — are power-coated welded steel, with magnetic door latches and large lockers for sports equipment. The gunmetal gray and black slatwall organizers allow the homeowner to hang up tools, toys, tires, bikes and golf clubs.
The garage also has a motorized attic lift that enables the easy movement of items for storage into the attic above the garage.
MODERN: IT’S COMING ON The Dream Home stands out now as unusual in Fort Worth, but expect to see more of it. If modern is difficult to find in the Fort Worth area, that starts with the dearth of available lots, says Braswell, who built his own modern home in La Cantera.
“Right now, it’s hard to even find a place to put it,” he says.
Outdoor
Fort Worth Magazine contracted with the following companies for our fall 2017 Dream Home, scheduled to open for tours in October, to benefit a Wish with Wings.
DESIGN : Grand Home Designs 817-696-0520 grandhomedesigns.com
WINE CLOSET COOLING : J&S Air 817-695-1840 jsair.com
WINE CLOSET, STEEL ACCENT WALL: Petro Metal Fabrication 817-645-9127 petrometalfab.com
Celebrating Ten Years of Fort Worth Giving
Celebrating Ten Years of Fort Worth Giving
A decade ago we gathered together some of Fort Worth’s best and brightest minds of the nonprofit community. We wanted to create something special – a better way to give during the holidays.
We created an exciting program that not only allows 100 percent of gifts to go directly to the nonprofit organizations, but also doubles gifts made through The Catalog thanks to matching funds. There isn't a better way to give in Fort Worth.
Over the past ten years The Greatest Gift Catalog Ever has produced $11 million in charitable impact and provided $825,000 in matching funds to 40 local non-profits serving more than 250,000 of our Fort Worth neighbors.
www.TheGreatestGiftCatalogEver.org
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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Braswell Homes Inc.
FOCUS: Braswell Homes is focused on providing its customers with a truly personalized custom home building experience. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: Braswell Homes limits the number of ongoing projects to ensure the highest quality standards, and this personal attention to every project distinguishes Braswell Homes from other builders. EXPERIENCE: Bryan Braswell has more than two decades of experience. He incorporates his passion for history, architecture and design into every home. The foundation of his experience began with a career in residential construction and later expanded to include his extensive knowledge of architecture. WHAT SETS THEM APART: Building distinctive homes that fit an individual’s lifestyle and needs through a unique architectural statement is the goal. The refinement of the design and style is an ongoing process encompassing study of different architectural elements and research of new processes. Braswell Homes strives to create time-
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Claffey Pools
FOCUS: Building the highest-quality residence and commer cial projects while striving to be the leader in the industry with cutting-edge technology and design. AWARDS/HONORS: Baylor Institute of Family Business, 2003, Community Commitment Award; Better Business Bureau of Fort Worth, 2003, Golden Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics; AQUA 100 Sixteenth Annual Excellence in Building, Retailing and Service, Bronze Medal; APSP Region III and APSP International Design Awards, 2004-2017, over 150 Design Awards received; Master Pools Guild Awards, 2013-2017, over 75 Design Awards received; Grapevine Courier, Colleyville Courier and Southlake Journal, 2005-2017, Best of Best year after year; Fort Worth Small Business Award, 2016; Fort Worth Home and Garden Best Pool and Spa Company, Star-Telegram, 2017; Pool and Spa News, Top 50 Builders, 2017, Claffey ranked No. 5 in the nation.
of Commerce. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Family owned and operated for 30 years while achieving steady growth. MOTTO: Quality is our commitment to you. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: Our core values are Christian, Integrity, Honesty, Loyalty, Trust, Teamwork, Leadership, Positive, Respect, and Selfless Service. FREE ADVICE: Research and get plenty of referrals; hire and trust the professionals. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A POOL: Understand what you are purchasing and the quality of the purchase. PICTURED: Charlie Claffey, Shelly Claffey and Brian Claffey.
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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 have 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 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. 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. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Based here in Fort Worth, we have been in business for 100 years. We are committed every day to our customers. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: To be the most preferred and trusted source for clients’ showroom needs, such as plumbing, appliances, lighting and hardware. 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.
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-
for customer service is easy to see after just one
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visit to one of our four Dallas-Fort Worth showrooms. PICTURED: (left to right) Lisa Womack, Kaitlin Smith, Bo Reese, Danielle Urbina, Stephanie Doran and Missy West.
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Kisabeth Furniture
FOCUS: For over half a century, Kisabeth has specialized in handcrafting heirloom-quality furnishings, both upholstered seating as well as millwork and casegoods, for residential, commercial and hospitality interiors. Each piece is made from start to finish in Fort Worth, Texas, by a dedicated, knowledgeable team through traditional methods, allowing us to achieve a high level of customization and a personalized experience for our clientele. We are well-known for collaborating with designers, architects, builders, and other specifiers in pursuit of a polished, tailor-made product. In addition to executing completely custom designs, Kisabeth offers modifications on all products from both our residential and commercial lines, and because all pieces are built-to-order, we can easily adapt any style for residential or com-
mercial use, allowing us to accommodate a broad range of interior spaces, client needs, and project challenges. It’s all about frame of mind, and ours is set on craftsmanship. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Kisabeth’s primary focus has always been craftsmanship. It was Carl Kisabeth’s commitment to craftsmanship and the quality it begets that first attracted Joy and Keith Webster, the mother-and-son team who purchased the company in 2013. The Websters recognized that Kisabeth was making a product craftsmen and customers alike could be proud of, and they wanted to save the Fort Worth manufactory from closing its doors. Their intent has always been to preserve and champion Kisabeth’s tradition of craftsmanship, which is why all products are still built-to-
order with traditional furniture-making techniques by a skilled team of woodworkers, seamstresses and upholsterers, some of whom have been with the company over 35 years. MOTTO: Your ideas, expertly realized. FREE ADVICE: Though we also produce commercial products that require the durability of our traditional furniture-making techniques, we know discerning homeowners deserve the same quality, and that when it comes to residential spaces, it pays to invest in your home and in your personal style by buying long-lasting, sustainable, high-end furnishings that will meet the demands of your lifestyle. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Not treating furniture like fixtures. While it is tempting to fill your home with quick-ship furniture and change
your interior schema with the seasons, you want furniture that is an extension of the structure of your home and can stand the test of time. PICTURED: Alan Novikoff, Jim Anglin, Jessie Triana, Joy Webster, Nettie Ervin, Tina Edwards, Gracie Estrada, Virginia Hickey, Manuel Ramirez, Laurel McEuen, Mitch Parr, Duey Way, Bill White, Keith Webster.
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sales@kisabethfurniture.com kisabethfurniture.com
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The Kitchen Source
SPECIALTY: Our team at The Kitchen Source is dedicated to providing the finest products and service for the kitchen and bath, including Wood-Mode Fine Custom Cabinetry, Brookhaven by Wood-Mode, Sub-Zero/Wolf and Miele appliances, and many other extraordinary materials. By creating the most functional room for our clients’ needs, we provide a working space that fits their specific lifestyle. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Legacy of Design awards for kitchens and baths; Wood-Mode’s Platinum Level Award; Wood-Mode Masters Award; NARI Contractor of the Year Award 2016 and 2017; Sub-Zero Design Contest Winner 2015 and Runner Up 2016; ASID Designer Choice Award Winner. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: We are industry partners with ASID (American Society of Interior Designers), NKBA (National Kitchen & Bath Association), NARI (National Association of the Remodeling Industry), DBA (Dallas Builder’s Association) and ICAA. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Serving the DFW metroplex for over 25 years and having our clients rely on us to complete their projects anywhere
from New York to Las Vegas to the Cayman Islands. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: The Kitchen Source has built a reputation for professionalism and quality work. Our goal is to give our clients an exceptional experience throughout their remodeling or building project. FREE ADVICE: Select a contractor the way you would a doctor. Your home is the body of your family, and the kitchen is the heart of your home. PICTURED: Elizabeth Tranberg, Haleigh Gray, Jennifer Johns, Corinne Danicki, Haley Gibbert and Amber Paulk
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KLZ Stone Supply Inc.
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FOCUS: To supply America with the finest stone on the market today for homes and businesses. MEMBERSHIPS: NKBA, ASID, MIA, NTSFA. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: We are the largest supplier in the state of Texas. KLZ also is one of the only suppliers in the state to do processing. MOTTO: From our hearts to your home. FREE ADVICE: Look for a supplier who does more than take orders. At KLZ we pride ourselves on service and guidance. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: The biggest mistake people make is not budgeting their entire vision before they begin. Do some homework. Shop around and get ideas of what you like before ever starting the building process so you can get an accurate budget. PICTURED: Robert Gurfinkel and Maggie Addison.
klzstone.com maggie@klzstone.com
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Texas Tile Roofing Co. LLC
FOCUS: Our focus is to be the leading tile, slate and metal roofing company in North Texas concentrating on installing quality roofs with high standards. RECOGNITIONS: We have been given the Golden Hammer award 2008 and 2009. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: NTRCA, NRCA, FTW Home Builder’s Association, Dallas Home Builders Association and TRI (Tile Roofing Institute). PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Our greatest achievement has been our ability to grow with the market in the ups and downs that it has had in the last 10 years. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: Our philosophy is giving customer service long after the roof is installed. Also paying it forward. We are very blessed to have grown in this business when other companies in our industry have not fared as well. We pay it forward with donating to various charities and organizations such as Soldiers Angels, veterans’ organizations, police officers and a few others when we can. BIGGEST BUILDING MISTAKE PEOPLE
MAKE: Not doing thorough research on their builders/contractors and also their sub-contractors. The cheapest bid is not always the best value. You pay peanuts, and you’re going to get monkeys. PICTURED: Renee Cremean, Mary Cremean, Larry Cremean, Jennilee Draper, Lazaro Castillo, Kendra Rushing, Miguel Sandia, Javier Sosa, Evencio Gaona, Elmer Campos-Garcia, Jay McCurry, Wilfredo Molina-Garcia, Jason Nelson, Steve Reckard.
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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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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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Advanced Architectural Stone
FOCUS: Manufacturing of cast stone for residential and commercial applications. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: We have obtained numerous awards for our work from several associations including Masonry Contractors Association of America, Cast Stone Institute, Texas Masonry Council (Golden Trowel Awards) as well as Architectural Precast Association. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/ AFFILIATIONS: Masonry Contractors Association of America, Cast Stone Institute, Architectural Precast Association, and DFW Builders Associations. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: The Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: We believe in
building relationships through honesty and fairness. FREE ADVICE: Treat others how you want to be treated. It is simple but true. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Cutting corners – saving a little now will cost you more later.
PICTURED: Gary Wall, Susie Lindsey, and Arturo Romero.
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gwall@advstone.com advancedarchitecturalstone.com
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Ajax Glass & Mirror Company
FOCUS: Sales and installation of custom glass work – mirrors, shower doors, commercial storefronts and builders’ hardware. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: We are often recognized as one of Fort Worth’s top glass firms. MOTTO: Complete Glass Service for the Home Builder. FREE ADVICE: Ask questions of any trade you are working with. They may be able to offer alternative options so you can avoid the pitfalls. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Building or remodeling is a huge undertaking. Usually, things do progress smoothly, but you are working with many trades that depend on each other – be patient. PICTURED: Display of custom shower doors.
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Mike Conkle’s Custom Cabinets Inc.
FOCUS: Providing exceptional custom cabinet products and installation for our customers with quality and exceptional service. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Featured in several local magazines for exceptional craftsmanship. Outstanding payment history from all our vendors. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: FSC certification. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVE-
MENT: Constantly producing a high-quality product at a competitive price using innovative design techniques and high-tech machining centers. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: Take care of our customers; our livelihood depends on it. FREE ADVICE: Good quality is
defined by the details. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Not choosing a building contractor that uses high-quality building materials and quality subcontractors.
PICTURED: Bill Horn.
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mikeconkle@mikeconkle.com mikeconkle.com
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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 ACHIEVEMENT:
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
Garage Living of Dallas/Fort Worth, LLC
FOCUS: Garage Living of Dallas/Fort Worth is a premium, full-service company specializing in all aspects of garage improvement and transformation, utilizing state-of-the-art flooring, slatwall, organizers, and cabinetry. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Featured in Fort Worth
HOME, Fort Worth Magazine and FW Inc. and most recently selected as subcontractor supplier for the Fort Worth Dream Home garage in La Cantera. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT:
Opening our new Garage Living DFW showroom in April 2017 after four months of planning and design. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY:
To redefine the garage by offering the highest quality products and unmatched customer service. In doing so, we extend the clean, functional, organized and luxurious lifestyle of the homeowner beyond the interior of the home and into the garage. FREE ADVICE: As the old
saying goes, you get what you pay for. Spending wisely does not mean settling for the least expensive product. Buy quality that is made to last. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Failing to complete the entire home, including the garage, with the intent of “getting to it later.” Coat and protect the floor from the beginning, and set yourself up to be fully organized prior to the completion of your home. PICTURED: Dave Hinderland, Owner.
FOCUS: Grandeur Design specializes in residential and commercial design. We provide construction detailing along with full-service design for every design style. AWARDS/HONORS: Best 2016 and 2017 Fort Worth Designer; 12-page feature in American Dream Homes Magazine for the original artistic creations of our work and being recognized for being a superior manufacturer of one-of-a-kind products; Fort Worth Magazine 2014 Best of Home Furnishings; 2012 Best in Show for Furniture Finds International WTC. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: The most fulfilling achievement is when a customer hires us to do a second, third and fourth home or project. Our clients become lifelong friends. MOTTO: Your design desire with our creative vision forms beautiful results. ADVICE: First you must know the style and colors that inspire and make you happy. Select your fabrics at the beginning as the inspiration for the entire project.
Start acquiring the bigger pieces that become the foundation of your style. Then select rugs, drapery, art and lighting to complete the look. Your accessories should be the last items you acquire after you assess what finishing touches are needed. BIGGEST BUILDING MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE: Not having a realistic budget. Educate yourself on the average cost of construction for the home you want and the cost to furnish your home. PICTURED: Brenda Blaylock and Susan Semmelmann.
CONTACT INFORMATION: grandeurdesign.com
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Grand Home Designs
SPECIALTY: With over 50 years of combined design experience, the team members at Grand Home Designs have innovated the home design process into an exclusive and interactive journey. We gently guide you through the creative process with sketches and visually beneficial 3D models until finally crafting and delivering your construction drawings. AWARDS: People’s Choice Award, Kaleidoscope of Homes. MEMBERSHIPS: American Institute of Building Design, Texas Institute of Building Design, Society of Professional Building Designers, National Council of Building Design Certification. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Receiving the phone call from our clients to let us know how happy they are with the design of their new home and often being trusted to design second and third homes for the same clients. MOTTO: A Grand Experience. A Grand Home Design. WHAT
SETS US APART: Our uniqueness is not only in the process, but in the designs themselves. Understanding how important function, style, and scale are to the way you live in your home is crucial to your project’s development. During your time with us, we will work with you to create personalized plans that match your lifestyle. Come experience a better way to design your home. PICTURED: Christian A. Crivellaro, Dale Grandmaison, Gina Evans, Mitchell Young, Ryon Wilson and Chase Hackwell.
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info@grandhomedesigns.com grandhomedesigns.com
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Ideal Partners LLC
FOCUS: Simplifying the lives of our customers by managing their residential and commercial property needs in the areas of Pest Control, Fire Protection, Security, Landscape and Concrete. MEMBERSHIPS/ AFFILIATIONS: Better Business Bureau, Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, TRA, National Association of Fire Equipment Distributors (NAFED), American Fire Sprinkler Association (AFSA), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), National Pest Management Association (NPMA), Fire Equipment Distributors of Texas (FEDOT), Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), and Texas Pest Control Association (TPCA). GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Our greatest achievement is creating cornerstone relationships by providing multiple requisite services that add value on a recurring basis.
BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: Ideal Partners’ customer-driven team strives for extraordinary service every day. FREE ADVICE: Do your research. Know the company with which you are doing business and feel comfortable in every aspect of your dealings. PICTURED: Todd Allen, Team Leader; Natalie Falcon, Planner/Facilitator; Kevin Pedigo, Project Manager.
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Interceramic Tile & Stone Gallery
CONCENTRATION: Tile, porcelain, marble, granite, travertine, limestone, decorative accents and setting related materials. AWARDS/ RECOGNITIONS: Green certifications; fourth year to receive recognition as a Socially Responsible Company; voted one of the Best Managed Companies in Latin America by Forbes; recognized in Floor Focus magazine as a leader in design for ceramic tile. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Providing 4,200 great jobs, producing $500 million in sales, providing great financial stability even in difficult times, establishing a large franchised retail network in Mexico and China and having the best family-friendly environment for all employees to work in! MISSION STATEMENT: To provide our customers in North America with the most innovative, high-quality ceramic tile and related products, as well as world-class customer service by employing
a highly qualified team, innovative sales strategies and an efficient technology-driven distribution network. FREE ADVICE: When buying or building a home, it’s wise to invest in good brands, to carefully review your options of what the best materials are when it comes to quality and design, and to find the most reputable place to buy them for good service and guarantees. It’s worth the investment in the long run! One more tip: replace all the carpet you can with Interceramic tile because of the low maintenance and durability. PICTURED: Bret McIntire, Don Scruggs.
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J&S Air, Inc.
FOCUS: J&S Air specializes in premium air-conditioning and heating installation and repair for residential and commercial properties.
RECOGNITIONS: J&S Air is one of the top Trane dealers in North Texas, 13-year Top Ten Dealer Award Winner, and achieved the elite Comfort Specialist status. 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, J&S Air has also expanded to proudly serve Austin, San Antonio, and Houston. 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. MOTTO: We care about your comfort. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: Fort Worth Builders Association; Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. 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.
FOCUS: Outdoor Cooling and Heating of any Outdoor Space. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/ AFFILIATIONS: Dallas Builders Association; Greater Fort Worth Builders Association. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: A long list of happy and satisfied customers! MOTTO: Revolutionizing Outdoor Comfort! FREE ADVICE: If you design your outdoor spaces with our specifications in mind, we can cool and heat those spaces for year-round enjoyment. With our integrated ducted cooling system, we can drop the temperature dramatically without the wetness of conventional mist systems you may have encountered in the past. PICTURED: Forrest Woods.
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 & Patio
FOCUS: Fences, pergolas and outdoor patios. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Super Service Award, Angie’s List, 2015-2017; Best of Fort Worth, 2017; XTO Energy Safety Contractor of the Year. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: American Fence Association (AFA) and Young Professionals of Fort Worth. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Providing a stable and safe work environment for 30-plus full-time employees, 80 percent of which have been with us for three-plus years. While industry standard subcontracts the work out, we have created a model against that. 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 let it become stressful. Slow down and enjoy building your home. CONTACT INFORMATION: 817.995.7467 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.
FOCUS: Our goal is to help our customers create a comfortable home with great style. We offer classic modern furnishings for every room, including eco-friendly, American-made upholstery, plus tables, storage, lighting, rugs, bed linens, accessories, draperies and art. If you’d like help creating spaces that truly fit your lifestyle, our talented designers can work with you in our beautiful new 10,000-square-foot Fort Worth store or visit you at home. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS : Human Rights Campaign’s 100 percent Corporate Equality Rating, every year since its inception. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: Sustaining Member of the Sustainable Furnishing Council. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Maintaining our entrepreneurial spirit, personal caring, and commitment to comfort while growing the brand to where it is today – an internationally renowned brand headquartered in a 600,000-square-foot modern fac-
tory. MOTTO: Comfort for All. In addition, we live by a set of mantras called Who We Are that explain our ethos and core values. FREE ADVICE: Before you buy furnishings, think about how you’ll use each room. This will help you know what pieces you need for storage, seating, serving, and more, and ensure spaces are comfortable for you and your family. Then you can move on to colors and style! PICTURED: Tim Lane, Christina Catterson, Jesse Meraz, and Laura Walker.
CONTACT INFORMATION: The Shops at Clearfork
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Nix Door and Hardware, Inc.
FOCUS: Customer Satisfaction. SPECIALTY: We offer a wide range of wholesale building products to meet your needs: wood, iron, fiberglass, and metal doors customized to your exact specifications; a variety of custom and stock windows, builder’s hardware, fireplaces, solar screens and skylights, made by the name-brand manufacturers you want and trust. And with a 47,000-square-foot facility, we have the inventory to meet your needs quickly and efficiently. AWARDS/ RECOGNITIONS: Fort Worth Business Press “2017 Top 100 Woman-Owned Business.” MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIA-
TIONS: Greater Fort Worth Builders Association, Texas Association of Builders, National Association of Home Builders. MOTTO: Service After the Sale. FREE ADVICE: When it comes to design, love what you are choosing to live with, and never settle for someone
else’s style … own your dream. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Homeowners often underestimate the time that it takes to do the research and make the best selections for themselves, their family and their lives. Time is so precious today – everyone is pulled in so many directions – but these decisions are ones you will look at, live with, and use every day.
PICTURED: Diane Nix.
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OWF, Inc.
Olde World Finishes
SPECIALTY: Our unique niche in the market is providing real wood, custom box beams to any room in your home. It doesn’t have to be a $1 million-plus home to create a showpiece statement and enhance the appearance of any room. HISTORY: Olde World Finishes was started in 1999 with the company name recommended by a builder friend that we still work for today. Based in Fort Worth, OWF serves all areas of Fort Worth, Southlake, Grapevine, Arlington, Dallas and surrounding counties of the Metroplex. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Our greatest achievement has been growing our business by word-of-mouth and being fortunate enough to gain more business through current clients and referring builders in the Metro-
plex. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: Providing our clients with the best customer service and quality work in a timely manner. We are growing our business by word-of-mouth, with no advertising, website or social media. BIGGEST BUILDING MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE: Hiring the wrong person because of a better price. PICTURED: Steve Thomas, owner, and Graham Thomas, son.
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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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The Original Mattress Factory
FOCUS: Building America’s best mattress and selling it directly to you – quality, service and value!
AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: A-plus rating with the Better Business Bureau for more than five years.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: CCCA, ACA, BBB, and ISPA. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: In business since 1896, our greatest achievement is building relationships with our customers. MOTTO: Have a great night’s sleep on us! FREE ADVICE: Buy directly from the factory, and buy a mattress that is double-sided. PICTURED: Peter and Tami Duncan.
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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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Petro Metal Fabrication
FOCUS: With nearly 100 years of combined industry experience, Petro Metal offers the highest quality fabrication, machining, and installation services. Our fabricators are proficient in a broad range of markets from light/medium industrial, commercial, and residential custom projects. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT:
Our shop has survived the fluctuations in the local fabrication industry for more than 60 years with no plans of slowing down. We continue to grow our client base and develop our skill by seeking innovative and exciting projects in the greater DFW area. Recently, we fabricated the stainless steel accent wall in the wine closet as well as the exterior steel corbels in the Fort Worth Magazine fall Dream Home. BUSINESS
PHILOSOPHY: We strive to be the company that our clients WANT to do business with. FREE ADVICE: Be a problem-solver
and never stop learning. To stop learning or accepting new challenges creates limits, and limits are roadblocks to your future prosperity.
BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Take the time to do it right. Quality is a hard thing to rush! RECOGNITIONS: We’ll go a different direction with this one and give some recognition to the guys that make our successes possible: James Womack, Glenn Womack and Jamie Nix … thank you!
PICTURED: Andrew Wells.
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Pierce Hardware – Fine Hardware and Plumbing
FOCUS: Fine door hardware, plumbing fixtures and fittings, as well as cabinet hardware. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: 2016 DPHA Showroom of the Year. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: Decorative Plumbing and Hardware Association (DPHA); NKBA, Forte. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Being in business for over 80 years. Converting the business to a 100 percent employee-owned company. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: Experience matters! We only employ the finest and most knowledgeable professionals in the industry. They will save all stakeholders time and worry. FREE ADVICE: Come to one of our two showrooms and see for yourself how our experience and knowledge will benefit you. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE
MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Don’t wait to get education on what we offer. Many items customers love require planning before the framing stage of construction. Coming in too late may prevent you from installing many of our life-improving technologies.
PICTURED: Lenny Russo, Karen Visage, Paula Roberts and Sam Furrow.
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!
CONTACT INFORMATION: proserveplumbers.com
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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 percent. Guaranteed. PICTURED: Dean Villanueva, Estela and Justino Villanueva, Sr., Justino Villanueva, Jr.
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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 Camp Bowie location 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 ACHIEVEMENT: We celebrated our 150th Anniversary in 2016. MOTTO: Cover the Earth. Ask Sherwin-Williams. FREE ADVICE: Your home is one of the biggest
investments of your life. Invest into a quality paint product from SherwinWilliams 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: Kristen Valenski (Assistant Manager), Justin Musso (Manager), Christion Fernandez (Outside Sales Representative), Joshua Spalding, Ande Floyd, Reid Miller and Joseph Flobeck (Store Manager of Benbrook location opening at the end of September).
FOCUS: Providing products for our customers to enhance their outdoor living comfort. With our retractable, motorized screens, we are able to provide needed shade and help with insect and wind control. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Rainier Shade No. 1 Retail Dealer nationally for five years and running; Somfy Expert Program Platinum Level, 2011. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: Better Business Bureau; Greater Fort Worth Builders Association. BUSINESS MOTTO: Complete Customer Satisfaction. We want our customers to thoroughly enjoy the products they purchase from us. FREE ADVICE: Check references when choosing a contractor for any trade. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Trying to get the lowest bid on most trades is the biggest mistake people make when building a home. PICTURED: Jay and Jennifer Newton.
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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, and vinyl products along with Thermally Controlled aluminum products, such as La Cantina doors and Ram Thermally Controlled windows and Milgard windows and doors.
GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: This is our fourth Dream Home to be involved in, and it has been a pleasure to work with Braswell Custom Homes on this project that benefits a Wish with Wings charity. 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 Ranger 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.
FOCUS: We specialize in the design, fabrication and installation of granite, marble and other natural stone products. Working with both professionals and homeowners alike, we strive to provide the highest level of craftsmanship and skill in all your custom stone needs. Whether you are building a custom home, remodeling, or searching for a unique accent for your home, no job is too small. AWARDS/ RECOGNITIONS: Designer’s Choice Award (ASID) Best Slab Fabricator; North Texas Stone Fabricators Association First Place in Residential Design Features, Artistic Design, and Residential Baths. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), North Texas Stone Fabricators Association, BBB Better Business Bureau. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Staying in business for over 35 years through the cultivation of invaluable relationships with our customers and vendors, our continued growth and our highly skilled employees. BUSINESS
PHILOSOPHY: The Granite Shop is committed to providing our customers with exceptional service, high-quality materials, and the best workmanship to see your project through from beginning to end. FREE ADVICE: Go with something you love. Granite and marble are often a focal point in your home and, with proper care, will last a lifetime and beyond. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A HOME: Not utilizing the exceptional beauty and versatility of natural stone in the design of their home.
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: 22 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.
CONTACT INFORMATION: info@uni-sys.com uni-sys.com
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Vineyard Wine Cellars
FOCUS: Vineyard Wine Cellars is the leading provider of wine cellars for enthusiasts seeking inspired solutions for the preservation and enjoyment of their collection. We source state-of-the-art products and materials in wine cellar cooling, construction, finishes, lighting, and racks to provide wine storage solutions for all applications and to suit any design style. Over the last 15 years, Vineyard Wine Cellars has earned a reputation as Texas’ premier wine storage provider by bringing ingenuity and quality workmanship to the process of designing and installing award-winning wine cellars. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: We have created more than a thousand wine cellars in homes, businesses, retail and hospitality spaces. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: Our consultative approach, attention to detail and superior customer service are the foundation of our reputation. FREE ADVICE: Building a wine cellar
is a specialized project that requires a team of creative and technical experts. Be sure you have professional guidance on the design and the function of your wine cellar. BIGGEST MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE WHEN BUILDING A WINE CELLAR: The most common mistakes are related to the enclosure of the space and ensuring a consistent and optimal climate. PICTURED: Sarah Palmer and Andy Daniels (second generation brother and sister team; son and daughter of the company founders, Bonnie and Gary Daniels).
FOCUS: Whiz-Q Stone was founded with a purpose to provide contractors and homeowners a quality and wide variety of natural stone and landscape materials. Over the years as the company grew, so did our product lines. The same concentration on quality products still shows true in the natural stone, masonry, landscape, hardscape and building industry, making Whiz-Q Stone a true leader and innovator in the industry. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Thirty-four years in business, 30-plus years as participants in Texas Home and Garden Shows, various booth display awards, 2016 TNLA Summit Award recipient. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Our team – over the years we have had the blessing to have amazing team members. Creating a company culture and a true extended family that creates real relationships with our customers is the greatest professional achievement we could ask for! MOTTO:
Build the Lifestyle of Your Dreams. FREE ADVICE: While a great company needs to have a great product, this is not what makes up the company itself. Having the philosophy to provide quality and truthfulness in what you do, how you interact, and how you lead your team will always overcome. It comes down to do what you love to do and do it truthfully to the absolute best of your ability. PICTURED: Mike Whisenand, Jim Whisenand, Justin Whisenand, Janice Whisenand, Derek Whisenand.
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WinterGreen Synthetic Grass
SPECIALTY: Residential and commercial synthetic turf. Based in Fort Worth and serving Fort Worth, Southlake, Grapevine, Arlington, Mansfield, Dallas, Westlake and surrounding areas of the Metroplex. Whether you are searching for perfectly straight and clean lawn surfaces or genuine, real-looking grass with thatch, WinterGreen has the grass product that matches your exact project specs.
EXPERIENCE: With a combined work experience of over 10 years in service industries, in 2014 Winter and Ashley Moore decided to follow their entrepreneurial instincts by launching WinterGreen Synthetic Grass. WHAT SETS US APART: Artificial grass needs no trimming, edging or mowing. It also needs no water, fertilizer or weed control. Artificial grass won’t get people or pets muddy when it rains or when it is too shady for natural grass to grow, and artificial
grass is great for water conservation in dry or drought-prone areas. BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: “Our goal is to approach each job as a unique challenge and to focus on completing each detail, one job at a time.”
FREE ADVICE: WinterGreen grass is ideally suited for golf and putting greens, driving ranges, residential and commercial landscapes, athletic and recreation fields, playgrounds, roof decks, balconies, patios and dog runs. PICTURED: Winter and Ashley Moore.
CONTACT INFORMATION: Wintergreengrass.com
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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
As you enter through the guard gate, you will notice the 100-year-old golf course has a new name — Whiskey Ranch.
But, not to worry, the famous golf course is still intact and will remain one of the primary features of this unique 112-acre property that is now home to Firestone & Robertson Distilling Company. Owners Troy Robertson and Leonard Firestone wouldn’t have it any other way.
“I don’t think there is anything like this anywhere … a distillery set in the midst of a golf course,” Robertson said. “When we purchased the property, the Glen Garden memorabilia came with it. So, you will see memorabilia that tells the story of Glen Garden Country Club history blended with our own.”
Robertson and Firestone are both golfers so keeping the course and preserving its history were important to them. “We reconfigured four tee boxes and added two more holes to make it a full 18-hole course. It is now a par 67 golf course,” he said. “To be clear, we are not going into the golf business. We are in the whiskey business, but the course will be maintained and will be available for corporate use and private events.”
The setting of the new, state-of-the-art distillery and corporate headquarters is lush, overlooking a lake and dotted with crepe myrtles, cedars and oaks.
When Firestone & Robertson launched their TX Straight Bourbon last January, people stood in line for hours to get their hands on just one bottle. “We can’t bottle it fast enough,”
Robertson said. This expansion means they can keep pace with the growing demand for their TX Whiskey and TX Straight Bourbon products.
The long lead time it takes to produce their bourbon cannot be rushed. Aging bourbon barrels for around four years requires a lot of space. Now they have plenty of it as well as room to grow.
The charcoal gray building seen as visitors arrive looks like it could be a new hotel or dormitory with rows of evenly spaced windows all around. That is the first Barrel Barn on the property (Barn A), and the windows provide the necessary ventilation along with natural light (the less electrical wiring the better when you have wooden barrels stacked to the ceiling).
Firestone & Robertson plans to build five of them as it continues to grow. Each Barrel Barn adds a storage capacity of 20,000 — 53 gallon barrels.
The main building, adorned with pergolas at its entry, is called the Ranch House, which is a stunning visitor center and event space. Guests will arrive to see details like a wall of basketwoven barrel staves and a backboard decorated with a colorful collection of Firestone & Robertson’s handmade leather bottle tops (one of the brand’s signature features). The welcome desk itself is a formed concrete counter perched atop whiskey barrels. This flows into the retail space, the Ranch Store, filled with
The entry to Whiskey Ranch.
merchandise that has been curated from around the state of Texas and, of course, TX Whiskey and Bourbon for purchase, along with T-shirts, hats and all the rest of the F & R-branded accoutrements.
Soaring wooden rafter beams with their decorative black braces blend with rustic reclaimed materials used for wall finishes.
Visitors can even design their own leather bottle top here to commemorate their trip or to give as a special gift.
The tour continues through a narrow corridor filled to the brim with bourbon and whiskey barrels. The design is a replica of what is inside the Barrel Barn (since touring that space is simply not practical). “It is a classic rickhouse [or rackhouse] design, allowing for maximum storage as well as proper airflow while aging whiskey,” Firestone said.
At the other end of the hallway, the racks of barrels open into The Tavern, a window-filled tasting room and bar, with its inviting patio beyond. This gives fans and first-timers a chance to sip and savor the distillery’s wares. The Tavern will house some inspiring Ben Hogan and Glen Garden memorabilia in recessed wall cases.
The same barrel-lined hallway also takes a right turn. This leads into the main event space, The Oak Room, which is a grand reception hall. It will host weddings and corporate events. The focal point is a floor-to-ceiling, tiered rock fireplace. Sealed concrete floors glimmer with the light from
two round chandeliers and industrial metal pendant lighting overhead. The Oak Room can accommodate seating for 180 and opens onto a two-sided deck and covered patio, with additional seating space for 130.
The patio area, known as The Back Porch, wraps The Oak Room on two sides, one covered and the other open air. Each side has a separate fireplace and soaks up commanding views of the course and existing lake beyond. The course itself has been reconfigured so that the 18th hole now ends at the Ranch House.
Wrapped in reclaimed barn-wood finishes, the design of the deck gives a nod to the craftsman style of the original Glen Garden Club House, circa 1912. The design incorporated thoughtful elements like heavy stone bases supporting the wooden post beams, and classic stickwork beams. The original Glen Garden Club House has been retained and will continue to function as the Club House for the golf course.
A wide staircase with wooden rails leads down to Benders Lake, which will eventually have a dock overlooking the water. “We planned every aspect of Whiskey Ranch with a respect for the history of the area,” Firestone said.
When Robertson and Firestone bought the property, they didn’t know about one amazing secret Glen Garden was just waiting to reveal. While walking the grounds one winter day, they glimpsed something hidden behind decades of overgrown
The lawn set up for a wedding with the downtown skyline in the distance.
landscaping, through the leafless trees — it was a spectacular view of the downtown Fort Worth skyline.
They cleared away all the brush and trees to reveal that view. The entire layout of the property has been oriented to maximize it.
The Courtyard is surrounded on three sides by buildings (Ranch House; Stillhouse, the distillery; and what they call the Farmhouse, which serves as their corporate offices). It is lined with a grove of trees and has a cozy fire pit. Its lush, paved walkway leads guests toward that downtown vista and an open grassy bluff. The space is ideal for outdoor weddings and cocktail parties (tented or open-air) and easily accommodates several hundred people.
Lined up opposite the beckoning view, at the other end of The Courtyard, is the main attraction — Stillhouse, where the magic happens. The total covered space being utilized by the distillery itself is approximately 80,000 square feet.
Since a tour of Stillhouse will be the highlight for most visitors to Whiskey Ranch, like the rest of the property, an amazing amount of thought went into its design. “We want to hit all the senses on our tour,” Robertson said. To that end, Stillhouse is not just a functional, working distillery; it’s a gasp-worthy spectacle.
Two 19-foot-tall sliding barn doors open to another aweinspiring view — a gleaming copper column still which stands
Top to bottom : The golf course is available for private events; the Porch at the new Ranch House; "Grown at Glen Garden" by Jeff Miller; the rustic, reclaimed, wood-clad exterior of Ranch House; entering the Oak Room event space through a hallway lined with barrels.
The Tasting Room.
Leonard Firestone and Troy Robertson in the Tasting Room.
The awe-inspiring column still is the focal point of the distillery.
50 feet tall. That is over three stories in full view. “We had it installed so you can see the entire column, which is another unique feature. Most distilleries simply enclose it. But we wanted people to have that visual,” Robertson said. Grand staircases frame the space on either side.
The soaring column still was made by Vendome in Kentucky, and it is the first of its size (the largest west of the Mississippi). The column still has a viewing window (sight glass) on its pot. This still has the capacity to produce 40-45 (53 gallon) barrels per batch in a single eight-hour shift. Robertson says it allows them to make whiskey continuously, ensuring that production will never lag. Although they will not need to run the operation around the clock, they could.
Visitors to their first distillery, located at 901 Vickery Blvd. (simply referred to as “901” by its owners), are familiar with the copper pot stills in use. Whiskey Ranch has one large pot still as well (known as the doubler), and it has been fitted with an oversized sight glass so guests can get a peek inside.
Also on the tour is the Bottling House. Here you will find the Blending Room, the Bottling Room with two bottling lines, and the Storage Room, where the bottles are packed and readied for distribution. All blending and bottling operations for the company will be moving from “901” to Whiskey Ranch.
The company hopes that taking the tour will help educate the public about the process and all that goes into each bottle of TX Whiskey and TX Straight Bourbon. “People may not understand that you can’t rush it; you cannot accelerate the distilling and aging process. It’s a very sophisticated process to create something of quality,” Firestone said.
Every ingredient contributes to the flavor. “The grain we use makes a difference, and we source our corn and wheat exclusively from Sawyer Farms in Hillsboro, Texas,” Firestone said.
F&R developed its own strain of yeast, known as Brazos (captured from a Texas Pecan tree in Somervell County), and will be utilizing the four deep water wells on the property for its water source. These wells draw fresh water from the Upper and Lower Trinity Aquifers.
leading from the silos toward the Stillhouse and explained that even the pattern of those conduit lines had been precisely engineered by Century Mechanical and installed for aesthetic purposes, to look as orderly and even as possible.
The grain passes from the silo to the mill room. Next it moves to the scale, then on to the hopper, followed by the cooker. Then it goes to the fermenter and finally on to the still.
Even though the back-of-house operations, like those more-tidy-than-average conduit lines, will never be seen or noticed by the public, every aspect was a part of their intended vision, and each one has been executed with precision. No detail of the operation, no grain of wheat nor kernel of corn, has been overlooked in the crafting of the entire campus of buildings.
Office space is located in what Firestone and Robertson call the Farm House. The reception desk is a custom design incorporating an opened and arched barrel. The flooring is reclaimed wood from old truck beds. The 1-inch-thick bed-lining is stained and worn, adding instant patina to the Farmhouse. Wainscoting on the walls comes from wood found at their Vickery distillery.
Firestone and Robertson worked on the design with David Tryba, of Tryba Architects out of Denver. Local construction firm, Steele & Freeman, along with architect of record, Hahnfeld Hoffer & Stanford, made their vision a reality.
“We never thought we would be this far, this quickly. Fort Worth has truly embraced us, but our success has been all organic … all word of mouth,” Robertson said. “It’s also a testament to the product. People like our product,” Firestone said.
“Texas is the second largest whiskey-consuming state, and nobody else was doing it,” Robertson said. “Whiskey actually ages best with heat and temperature fluctuation, so we thought the North Texas region ought to be a benefit in the process,” Firestone said. Their intuition has certainly paid off, and the Fort Worth-based whiskey distillery has a growing fan base to prove it.
The water in these aquifers is very rich in limestone, which is also great for whiskey distilling.
Standing out back, near their shiny new grain silos, the duo’s perfectionism was on full display. They pointed up at the maze of pipes
Two years ago, the company expanded to markets in Oklahoma and Louisiana. And, just four months ago, it began distribution in Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia and even New Jersey. With the new facilities at Whiskey Ranch, their distribution should finally be able to keep pace with the high demand for their products.
Whiskey Ranch is not just a corporate campus and production facility. The distillery was designed to welcome visitors and entertain gatherings in its event spaces. The intentional design and forward-focused permanence of the place are truly impressive.
The distillery, with its layout, amenities and killer views, is a testament to the long-term staying power of this up-and-coming brand. Firestone and Robertson plan to grow their brand’s own history on these storied acres for generations to come.
Whiskey Ranch is destined to become one of Fort Worth’s must-see tourist destinations. The investment that Firestone & Robertson have put into its new distillery and corporate headquarters is showcased here on a grand scale.
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A 501(c)3 organization founded in 1982, a Wish with Wings was Texas’ first wish-granting agency. For more than 34 years, it has granted more than 1,400 wishes to Texas children fighting life-threatening medical conditions. For more information on how you can help, visit awishwithwings.org.
Heart of the Home
A Wish with Wings’ Kitchens Tour returns for its sixth year, featuring culinary treasures from the area’s best chefs and offering a peek at some of the most lavish kitchens in West Fort Worth’s premier luxury community — the home of our fall Dream Home, La Cantera.
| by Jennifer Casseday-Blair |
THE ANNUAL KITCHENS TOUR ALLOWS VISITORS TO NOURISH THEIR NEED FOR CULINARY EXCITEMENT WHILE HELPING RAISE MONEY FOR A WISH WITH WINGS so the organization can continue its mission of granting wishes for Texas children with life-threatening medical conditions. This year’s tour takes place on Saturday, Oct. 14, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Guests will enjoy gourmet treats and interact with noteworthy chefs from Waters, Grace, Del Frisco’s Double Eagle, Cuisine for Healing, River Ranch and more. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $30 each or $35 at the door.
Each chef will be housed in one of five gorgeous kitchens located in the luxury La Cantera community. Here is a sneak peek into this year’s kitchens.
Buffy and Jon Day
8624 Cantera Way Although they’ve only lived in their home for four months, Buffy and Jon Day technically began their move-in process a while back. “We purchased the lot and started the design of our home a couple of years ago. It’s been a long process but well worth it because we had the right builder involved,” Buffy says.
Buffy works with Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee, and Jon has a career in wholesale distribution with Morsco. The couple has two daughters, Brooke and Ashley.
When designing their home, Buffy and Jon said that they kept the idea of entertaining family and friends in mind. “We both have a passion for cooking and love spending time together and with friends,” Buffy says. A long bench under a bank of windows at the Days’ kitchen table provides ample seating for guests.
The couple describes their design style as transitional. This is evident in their kitchen with the marriage of traditional, timeless features, such as the white granite countertops and sophisticated silver pendant lighting and hardware, with a few
contemporary additions like the wine fridge and glass doors on upper cabinets. Dark stained beams set against the white arches in the ceiling add a dramatic pop, as does the darkly painted, oversized island containing a farmhouse sink.
With all of the premium finish-outs they thoughtfully integrated into the design and functionality of their kitchen, Buffy and Jon agree on their favorite feature. “We are crazy about the steam oven. It’s changed the way we cook,” says Buffy.
Nicole and Jordan Scott
5109 Pato Court Nicole and Jordan Scott own Mama’s Pizza and are partners in a new ice cream concept, Creamistry, coming soon to the Left Bank Development in Fort Worth. Nicole also works full time in real estate development with Bobby Cox Companies, Inc.
With hectic work lives, it’s imperative that the couple has a place where they can relax and regroup. That place is their La Cantera home, where they have resided for the last year and a half. “We spend a lot of time in our kitchen and love entertaining and cooking for friends and family; it’s truly the heart of our home,” Nicole says.
Designed in Spanish/Mediterranean style, the Scotts’ kitchen has modern twists throughout, although the exposed brick and wooden beams maintain an Old World charm and add warmth to the large space. Nicole did insist on one feature in their kitchen. She says, “Our kitchen island is our favorite feature. There’s always plenty of room around it for food, drinks, family and friends.”
Monica and Ryan Wood
8632 Cantera Way When Monica and Ryan Wood were approached about participating in this year’s Kitchens Tour,
there was no hesitation. Monica says, “No one is more deserving of our time and gifts than a child in need.”
By day, Ryan is a commercial real estate broker, and Monica feels blessed to be able to devote her time to their sons, Ian and Blake. She says, “Both boys love the wildlife we encounter in La Cantera, including deer, turkeys, rabbits, roadrunners and even coyotes.”
When it came to the design of their kitchen, Monica and Ryan wanted to marry the transitional look of the exterior of the house with natural elements. When they decided that they wanted a “living edge” wooden table in the nook, their resourceful designer found them one supported by a chrome base that pairs well with their light fixtures. Monica says, “We tried to go beyond our comfort zone in some places to give the house a little bit of dramatic flair, such as with our wall decor.”
The couple’s favorite thing about their kitchen is the bluegray granite and stained wood island. “The granite is called Blue Tortuga, and we chose it for its unique color ...,” Monica says. “Our builder helped us select a wood stain and accents to make the island resemble furniture, which we think turned out beautifully,” Monica says.
Christi and Bryan Braswell
5017 Cantera Way Clean and contemporary … that best sums up Christi and Bryan Braswell’s style. Their kitchen exemplifies this with the refrigerator, coffee machine and storage compartments neatly camouflaged and the lack of upper cabinets. A quartz slab backsplash matches the counters, and one small built-in planter holds Christi’s fresh flowers or succulents. “I love for everything to have a clean, uncluttered space,” Christi says.
Living in their home for a mere six months, the couple has already hosted several parties. “We love to entertain guests
8632 Cantera Way
and family. Our favorite part of the kitchen is the butler’s kitchen, which allows for easy entertaining and catering and keeps the front kitchen nice and tidy,” Christi says.
As the owner of Braswell Custom Homes, Bryan is no stranger to quality finish-outs. It’s the attention to detail, such as the waterfall counter edges on the island, self-closing drawers, a countertop air switch disposal button and hidden outlets, that makes the Braswell kitchen so special.
The couple has two children in their early 20s, Madison and Caleb, and a 5-year-old son, Roman. Christi spends much of her time volunteering at their youngest son’s school, as well as serving on charitable committees including a Wish with Wings. She says, “This charity is especially close to our hearts. We love supporting charities that help children and families within our community.” Want to see more of the Braswell’s home? Purchase a copy of the fall issue of Fort Worth HOME.
Camille and Hal Brown
2017 KITCHENS TOUR
Benefiting a Wish with Wings
Saturday, Oct. 14
8900 Estribo Circle Now, this kitchen you already know. It’s the show-stopping modern kitchen featured on page 61 in the Dream Home. Read the story for information on every detail in the open-concept space. And see the kitchen for yourself during the 2017 Kitchens Tour.
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
La Cantera at Team Ranch
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5017 Cantera Way
8900 Estribo Circle
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Bet You Didn’t Know They Were Artists
Local figures come together to showcase their art for a cause.
| by Samantha Calimbahin and Meg Hemmerle |
EVERYONE HAS A SECRET HIDDEN TALENT. For those participating in the Public Figures/Private Artists event, a fundraiser hosted by The Art Station, that hidden talent is, well, art. From country singer Pat Green to Mayor Betsy Price, over 40 different public figures are trying their hand at art — whether it
be painting, photography, or sculpting — to benefit The Art Station’s goal to provide art therapy for more individuals. The event will also feature live entertainment, food and drinks at Masonic Center on Oct. 17.
Here, four participants share their works — and a little about themselves.
Albon Head, partner with Jackson Walker law firm, honorary co-chair of Public Figures/Private Artists
His work: Wheeler Peak & Williams Lane (May 2017); acrylic painting
Albon Head was once the chairman of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and is now a partner at Fort Worth law firm Jackson Walker, but he’s loved art since childhood. His piece, Wheeler Peak & Williams Lane, is a landscape of his favorite hiking trail in New Mexico.
“I’ve had an interest in pursuing artistic expression since childhood,” he says. “It comes naturally, but I need to practice more. In addition to providing a means of self-expression, creating art provides a means of relaxing and reducing stress.”
Debbie Head, honorary co-chair of Public Figures/ Private Artists
Her work: A Sense of Wonder; photograph
Having studied documentary film and photography at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts — with fellow student
Albon Head with Wheeler Peak & Williams Lane (acrylic painting) and Debbie Head with A Sense of Wonder (photograph)
Diamond Design (segmented bowl made of mahogany, walnut, maple, cherry, yellowheart and ebony) by Jeff Wentworth
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Ken Burns — Debbie Head finds her inspiration from nature.
“An abiding curiosity of nature’s wonders underlies much of my work,” she says. “This piece evokes that sense of wonder. I love sharing my gift of photography with others. My tour with The Art Station was exhilarating, and I am thrilled to be involved with the event and promote art therapy.”
Jeff Wentworth, former District 7 city councilmember
His work: Diamond Design; segmented bowl made of mahogany, walnut, maple, cherry, yellowheart and ebony, 8”x12”
Since Jeff Wentworth's retirement from Nation’s Bank after 25 years of service, he's remained active in the Fort Worth community, serving on the boards of Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show, and others. But
he's also dabbled in art.
“My artistic exploration began with a little encouragement from a friend,” he says. “I enjoy learning new things, and woodturning provides a creative means of self-expression, as well as a means of relaxing.”
She paints too?
After contributing a painting last year crafted by using printmaking techniques, Mayor Betsy Price was willing to do it again this year, though her work was not yet ready at press time. The finished piece will be showcased at Public Figures/Private Artists on Oct. 17.
Pat Green, Grammynominated, Texas country musician
His work: The Hand of Christ; bronze sculpture
Pat Green is seen as a poster child for Texas music, having sold over 2 million albums. He started learning about art under the guidance of Gil Bruvel, and this is his first sculpture that he bronzed.
“All of my early work is signed by both of us ... those pieces are truly collaborative in nature,” he says. “I wish in my heart that all aspiring artists could learn the craft under the wing of such a modern master.”
The Hand of Christ (bronze sculpture) by Pat Green
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Dr. Michael Slattery
Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies, Texas Christian University
| by Jennifer Casseday-Blair |
A PRINCE AMONG MEN … that’s how one could best describe this environmental steward whose efforts are already making a visible impact on the planet during our lifetime. Dr. Michael Slattery swings unyieldingly from one ecological crusade to the next with eager TCU recruits following closely behind him.
Born in South Africa, Slattery grew up in a lower-class white neighborhood. “In many ways I had an ideal childhood, whatever that means. I grew up in a beautiful country surrounded by gorgeous surroundings. It was a safe upbringing, but also a naïve and sheltered one. I went to a whites-only school. That was the only kind there was. I had no understanding about the social injustices of the apartheid until I reached college,” Slattery says.
After completing high school, barely scraping by with average grades, Slattery served in the military for two years. He received a bachelor’s and honors degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1989. Following that, he went on to get a masters of science from the University of Toronto and a doctorate of philosophy from Oxford in 1994.
Slattery accepted a professor gig with TCU in 1998. He says his teaching style has evolved over the years from the traditional stand-up lecture to a more interactive structure in which he pushes his students to utilize critical thinking to solve issues that affect their everyday lives. “I’m pretty laid back and approachable; however, I set a high standard. If you are going to get an A, you are going to have to show some creative thinking and work really hard,” Slattery says.
His true passion, however, lies in field teaching. In 2014 Slattery co-founded the TCU Rhino Initiative, a global partnership dedicated to saving the endangered animal. Estimates in the early 20th century showed a thriving rhino population of 500,000 across Asia and Africa. Today, poached to the brink of extinction because of the belief that their horns possess medicinal properties, there are fewer than 30,000 rhinos left in the wild.
The killing spree began in 2008 due to a spike in demand in Asian countries. In Vietnam the horn is desirable among the wealthy class as a novelty and is considered a symbol of power. Working on several fronts, the initiative most notably supports ground efforts by sending TCU students to South Africa to help with the rehabilitation of rhinos that do survive poaching. (To
learn more about their efforts, visit planetrhino.com.)
Among Slattery’s other undertakings while at TCU has been the preservation of the green macaw population in Costa Rica. “We raise money to buy Almendro trees. It’s basically an almond tree, and it makes beautiful furniture. The problem is that the green macaw uses this tree to nest, and as the Almendros were disappearing so was the green macaw population. TCU’s Green Macaw Protection Initiative allows people to purchase the trees from the farmer and keep them from being harvested.”
Slattery, in partnership with NextEra Energy Resources, has also led the charge in researching key environmental and social issues related to wind power. The project evaluates the coexistence of wind power with thriving bird and bat populations, ecological footprints of wind farms, carbon offset analysis, and benefits of wind farms to ecosystem health and local communities.
Currently Slattery is on sabbatical. He’s working on a complete rewrite of his Contemporary Environmental Issues textbook, which has been widely adopted by many university classes. Slattery is also working on three research papers he’s been trying to get off his desk, a website for the rhino initiative and funding proposals, including one for the Disney Corporation.
His time at home has afforded him more time with his wife, Lauren Geffert, and 15-year-old son Liam. Geffert is a faculty member at TCU as well. “With Liam, we try to keep him grounded. We impress upon him that he is very fortunate in his upbringing, and that’s not the way most of the world lives. My wife is far smarter than me and keeps me on my toes. It’s remarkable to have a life partner and professional colleague all wrapped into one … I have a beautiful family, and I get to do what I’m truly passionate about at an amazing university. I’m a lucky guy.”
While Slattery’s pedagogic surroundings have him engulfed in students’ essays, funding proposals and faculty meetings, South Africa incessantly beckons his return. “My mother still lives in Cape Town. She’s 89, and my brother lives there also. I go back at least once a year for the student rhino trip … Africa is home to me and will always be in my blood. I never feel as connected to myself and settled as when I go back among the animals and see the African sunset.”
Dr. Michael Slattery on The Lotus Marsh Boardwalk at the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge.
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Cowboys Kickoff Luncheon
The NFL Alumni Association, DFW Chapter, hosted the annual Flowserve Dallas Cowboys Kickoff Luncheon, Aug. 30, as part of its “Caring for Kids” mission. The luncheon was held on the field at AT&T Stadium and benefited the Cowboys Courage House at Happy Hill Farm.
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Jason Witten, Lucas Shipman
Dez Bryant, Happy Hill Farm Kids
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Casanova: The Seduction of Europe
A member preview reception was held at the Kimbell Art Museum for the opening of Casanova: The Seduction of Europe Aug 24 and Aug. 25.
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Texas Women Have Reason to Celebrate
| by Dr. Erin Happ |
THIS
PAST
JUNE,
GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT SIGNED A NEW TEXAS HOUSE BILL INTO LAW. House Bill 1036 mandates Texas private insurance companies cover the cost of 3-D mammography (also known as digital breast tomosynthesis). On Jan. 1, 2018, all Texas insurance health benefit plans that are delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in the state of Texas must cover the full cost of an annual 3-D screening mammography with no copay for women over the age of 35. Texas became the sixth state to have such a law.
James Polfreman, president and CEO of Solis Mammography says, “Today, in many states, a woman’s ability to benefit from the advances of 3-D mammography is not based on education or physician recommendation, but rather upon her financial means. This can and is changing with active support from many, including our Texas state representatives.”
THE HISTORY
The technology of 3-D mammography has been around for nearly a decade. In 2010, Solis Mammography’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Stephen Rose presented the very first patient in the country diagnosed with 3-D mammography to a Food and Drug Administration medical panel. The following year in 2011, the FDA approved 3-D mammography. Peer-reviewed research, co-authored by Dr. Rose, published in the American Journal of Roentgenology in 2013, demonstrated that 3-D mammography increases early detection of breast cancer by 54 percent and decreases recall rates by 37 percent. In 2015, Medicare announced full coverage for 3-D mammography, and in 2016, CIGNA became the first national
private insurer to cover 3-D mammography. Since then, various private insurers have followed suit.
HOW IT WORKS
From a patient’s point of view, there is no noticeable difference between a 2-D exam and a 3-D exam. The procedure takes the same amount of time, compression and positioning. The only change a woman will see is that instead of the camera arm of the machine remaining stationary, as in a 2-D mammogram, the arm will swing around the breast as it takes the multiple 3-D images.
However, from a radiologist’s point of view, the difference in images is night and day. Providing the equivalent of 60 images of breast tissue, divided into 1-millimeter slices, 3-D mammography allows the radiologist to see cancers as early as stage zero and to find masses that might otherwise be hidden within dense breast tissue. The conventional 2-D mammography offers the radiologist just two images of each breast through compressed breast tissue.
In layman’s terms, imagine a closed
book with clear covers and pages. With 2-D, the radiologist must peer through the front or back cover, looking for a single word that does not have the same characteristics as the other words. With 3-D, the breast becomes like an open book — with the 60 images giving the radiologist an ability to look for that abnormal word, one “page” at a time.
DENSE BREAST TISSUE
Women who have denser breast tissue tend to be younger. Of the women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in 2015, 22 percent were under the age of 50.
Mammogram images are black and white. Breast cancer and dense glandular tissue appear white, while fatty tissue appears gray on a mammogram. Radiologists can better differentiate cancer from overlying glandular tissue with 3-D mammography.
Additionally, medical research shows that annual mammograms (2-D and 3-D) for women between the ages of 40 and 64 are key to early detection. Self-exams are great — but per the Mayo Clinic — the mass needs to be 1.5 centimeters (a little over the size of a pea) to be felt. The average anomaly found by a woman doing breast self-exams is the size of a walnut. The advantages of early detection include the possibility of avoiding chemotherapy, radiation, surgery or other invasive treatments.
With all of the advances in treatment for breast cancer, mammography remains the gold standard for detecting it, and 3-D mammography is the best technology available. Simply put, early detection saves lives, improves quality of life, and reduces the costs and risks associated with latestage diagnosis.
To sum up, it’s quite simple. Peace of mind and overall wellness come from getting the facts about your breast health — starting with your annual mammogram. This October, remember that the best offense is a good defense.
Dr. Happ is a board-certified radiologist with Dallas-based Solis Mammography.
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| by Heywood | illustration by Charles Marsh |
AS YOU LEARNED ON PAGE 146, ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO, A COUPLE OF GUYS NAMED LEONARD FIRESTONE AND TROY ROBERTSON DECIDED TO BUY GLEN GARDEN,
a legendary country club located in southeast Fort Worth that was built over a hundred years ago. It just happened to be the place where a couple of young guys learned to play golf as caddies. You may have heard of them. Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan.
The club had been up for sale for quite a while, and all of us assumed the new owners were going to renovate the golf course. I didn't see a particular reason for doing that. After all, there are not many golf courses where you can drive all the par-5s. But that was not their plan. Leonard and Troy wanted to create my favorite hole on any golf course. The 19th. Why? Because that's the one with a bar. But this 19th hole was going to be a little bit different. Those two weren't going to be serving alcohol. They were going to be making it. The name of their company is Firestone & Robertson Distilling Co., and they have only been in business since 2011. Their brands, TX Blended Whiskey and TX Straight Bourbon Whiskey, are
two of the best whiskeys around. In fact, TX Whiskey was named "Best American Craft Whiskey" in 2013. That's quite an accomplishment in such a short period of time. But some of the best craft whiskeys and beers we have now also didn't take long to get started.
When I was growing up, I had dreams just like all my other little friends I hung around. Some wanted to be a fireman. Others wanted to be a policeman. I wanted to own a brewery. Still do. I think it'd be fun. (Hey, I was born premature and remained that way.) But I finally gave up on that dream when I couldn't seem to come up with the billions of dollars I would need to purchase one. But apparently some other folks shared my dream, and several years ago decided to just start making it themselves. They were originally called microbreweries because they
were in contrast to macrobreweries like Anheuser-Busch and Coors. Microbreweries eventually morphed into the term "craft" beer. Of course the macrobreweries didn't pay much attention to them because they never thought they could compete for market share. They probably figured they'd have a harder time than Kim Jong-Un trying to reach for something on the top shelf. They couldn't have been more wrong. Witness the success of local craft beers like Rahr & Sons in Fort Worth and Revolver in Granbury.
There are over 4,000 craft breweries in the U.S. now, and their market share grows every year. So somebody figured that if craft breweries work, how about craft distilleries? Now one of the earliest craft distilleries in the United States popped up during Prohibition. In fact, you probably have one where you're living. It's called a bathtub. And because gin was the most popular drink back in the 1920s, it was called bathtub gin. It was a pretty nasty concoction of ingredients. The only reason it wasn't called kitchen-sink gin is because the bottles they used were too tall to be topped off with water from that tap, so they had to use the one in the bathtub instead. It was disconcerting to whoever was bathing at the time. Fortunately, Prohibition ended, and people didn't have to drink that nasty stuff anymore. It supposedly tasted worse than fat-free mayonnaise.
Craft distilleries only started taking off again when some folks started noticing the success of craft beers. In fact, there are already over 1,000 of them, with many located right here in Texas. Tito's Handmade Vodka comes to mind. And the growth rate for these distilleries is actually higher than the craft beer industry. Yep, some people are getting rich doing this with relatively little start-up capital. So who knows, one day I might try it, and my childhood dream will come true. But I don't care about getting rich. I just want to make enough money to finally be able to afford name-brand aluminum foil.
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HOSPITALS
Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical CenterFort Worth
1400 Eighth Ave. Fort Worth 76104
817.926.2544
bswhealth.com
574 beds, 1,048 physicians
Baylor Fort Worth offers a comprehensive range of services including programs in cardiology, transplantation, neurosciences, oncology and women’s services.
Baylor Orthopedic and Spine Hospital at Arlington
707 Highlander Blvd. Arlington 76015
855.41.ORTHO
baylorarlington.com
24 beds, 6 operating rooms
Baylor Orthopedic and Spine Hospital at Arlington offers inpatient and outpatient treatment for orthopedic and spine disorders.
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine
1650 W. College St. Grapevine 76051
817.481.1588
baylorhealth.com/grapevine
313 beds, 902 physicians
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guide to Greater Tarrant County area hospitals, rehab and cancer centers.
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine is a full-service hospital offering advanced cardiovascular and women’s services, diagnostic imaging, orthopedics, spine, oncology, neurology, intensive and emergency care and a Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Baylor Surgical Hospital at Fort Worth
1800 Park Place Fort Worth 76104
817.334.5050
mcsh-hospital.com
34 beds, 183 physicians
Baylor Surgical Hospital is an affiliate of United Surgical Partners International. Specialty areas include orthopedics, pain medicine, urology, general surgery, gynecology, ophthalmology, pediatric surgery, plastic surgery, podiatry, oral surgery and ear, nose and throat surgery.
Cook Children’s Medical Center
801 7th Ave.
Fort Worth 76104
682.885.4000
cookchildrens.org
430 beds, 694 medical staff
Cook Children’s Health Care System is a not-for-profit,
nationally recognized pediatric health care organization comprising eight entities — a Medical Center, Physician Network, Home Health company, Northeast Hospital, Pediatric Surgery Center, Health Plan, Health Services Inc. and Health Foundation.
Texas Health Hospital Clearfork
5400 Clearfork Main St. Fort Worth 76109
682.703.5000
texashealth.org/clearfork
54 beds, 12 operating rooms
Texas Health Hospital Clearfork specializes in joint replacement and is a licensed department of Texas Health Southwest Hospital Fort Worth, which is
located less than five miles away.
JPS Health Network
1500 S. Main St. Fort Worth 76104
817.702.3431
jpshealthnet.org
537 beds, 600 providers
A highly regarded teaching hospital, JPS is home to nine residency programs and is the only Level I Trauma Center in Tarrant County and the only psychiatric emergency center in the county.
Kindred Hospital
Fort Worth
815 8th Ave.
Fort Worth 76104
817.332.4812
kindredfortworth.com
67 licensed beds, 155 physicians
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Kindred Hospital Fort Worth is a long-term, acute-care facility that specializes in treatments such as chronic cardiac conditions and neuromuscular, complex orthopedic conditions, multi-system organ failure, multiple intravenous therapies, and organ transplant care.
Kindred Hospital
Tarrant CountyFort Worth Southwest
7800 Oakmont Blvd.
Fort Worth 76132
817.346.0094
kindredhospitalfwsw.com
80 beds, 100-plus physicians, all specialty physicians on staff Kindred Hospital is a longterm acute care hospital that specializes in the treatment and rehabilitation of medically complex patients who require an extended stay in a hospital setting. Kindred offers a wide variety of OP services such as wound care, hyperbaric, infusion, endoscopic procedures, permacath placement, pulmonary rehab, CT and radiologic exams.
Kindred Hospital
Mansfield
1802 Highway 157 Mansfield 76063
817.473.6101
kindredmansfield.com
55 beds, 107 physicians
Kindred Hospital Mansfield is a long-term, acute-care facility that specializes in ventilator dependency, wound care complications, chronic cardiac conditions, multi-system organ failure, complex orthopedic conditions, dysphagia management, postoperative complications/trauma care, multiple intravenous therapies, chemotherapy, preoperative and postoperative organ transplant care, chronic nutritional management and total parental nutrition.
LifeCare Hospital of
Fort Worth
6201 Overton Ridge Blvd. Fort Worth 76132
817.370.6078
lifecare-hospitals.com
80 beds, more than 180 physicians LifeCare specializes in the treatment of medically complex patients who require extended hospitalization. Services include nursing, case management, pharmacy, nutritional services, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, hyperbaric therapy and wound care, recreational therapy, social services and psychological services.
Medical City Arlington
3301 Matlock Road
Arlington 76015
817.465.3241
medicalcenterarlington.com
342 beds, 600 physicians
Medical Center Arlington is Arlington’s first certified Chest Pain Center, Tarrant County’s first designated Primary Stroke Center, Arlington’s only trauma designated hospital (Level III), Primary Cancer Center certified, and the official hospital of the Texas Rangers.
Methodist Mansfield Medical Center
2700 E. Broad St. Mansfield 76063 682.622.2000
methodisthealthsystem.org/mansfield
168 beds, 216 physicians
Methodist Mansfield Medical Center is a modern acute-care hospital that has served the community since 2006 and is among the top performers nationwide in both patient satisfaction and quality care.
Medical City North Hills
4401 Booth Calloway Road North Richland Hills 76180 817.255.1000
northhillshospital.com
176 beds, 490 physicians North Hills Hospital is an acute-care hospital that offers a wide range of services from
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24-hour chest pain emergency care to diabetes education and a senior health clinic.
Oceans Behavioral
Hospital Fort Worth
6200 Overton Ridge Blvd. Fort Worth 76132
817.361.1991
ohcg.info
48 beds
Oceans provides 48 geriatric beds in a secured unit for ages 55 and above who require inpatient hospitalization for psychiatric illness.
Medical City Fort Worth
900 8th Ave. Fort Worth 76104
817.336.2100
medicalcityfortworth.com
320 beds, 675 physicians
Medical City Fort Worth offers comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services, including cardiac care, neurosciences, oncology, orthopedics, kidney transplant surgery, and emergency care.
Regency Hospital of Fort Worth
6801 Oakmont Blvd. Fort Worth 76132
817.840.2500
regencyhospital.com
44 beds, 190-plus physicians
Regency Hospitals treat patients who have a need
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The Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer center in North Texas. That means more than 200 dedicated professionals and a dozen major cancer care programs are available. Here, we’re advancing the treatment and prevention of cancer through innovative therapies, leading-edge clinical trials, and the latest technology. It’s why we’re one of only 48 NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the world.
UT Southwestern is ranked the #1 hospital in DFW by U.S. News & World Report
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for longer hospital stays due to illness, multiple injuries, pulmonary or medical complications that require more intensive, focused, hospital care and aggressive therapy.
Texas Health
Huguley Hospital
Fort Worth South
11801 S. Freeway
Fort Worth 76028
817.293.9110
texashealthhuguley.org
223 beds, 350 physicians
Operated as a joint venture of Texas Health Resources and Adventist Health System, Texas Health Huguley is an acute-care hospital with a cardiovascular critical-care unit, behavioral center and a top-ranked wound center.
Texas Health Harris
Methodist Hospital Alliance
10864 Texas Health Trail
Fort Worth 76244
682.212.2000
texashealth.org/alliance
74 beds, 357 physicians
Texas Health Harris
Methodist Hospital Alliance offers services like acute care, neonatal intensive care and occupational health and wellness programs to communities in north Fort Worth, Keller, North Richland Hills, Haslet and the surrounding areas.
Texas Health Arlington
Memorial Hospital
800 W. Randol Mill Road
Arlington 76012
817.960.6100
texashealth.org/arlington
369 beds, 640 physicians
Texas Health Arlington
Memorial Hospital is a fullservice medical center, a Cycle IV Chest Pain Center,
nationally accredited breast center and a Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecology.
Texas Health Heart and Vascular Hospital
Arlington 811 Wright St. Arlington 76012
817.960.3500
texashealthheartandvascular.org
48 beds, 335 physicians
Texas Health Heart and Vascular Hospital Arlington is a joint venture by Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital and participating physicians on the campus of Texas Health Arlington Memorial. The hospital is a Cycle IV Chest Pain Center and is certified as a full atrial fibrillation facility by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care.
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Harris Methodist Hospital Azle
108 Denver Trail Azle 76020
817.444.8600
texashealth.org/azle
36 beds, 108 physicians
Texas Health Harris
Methodist Azle is a community-based hospital with 24-hour emergency services, diagnostic imaging, endoscopy services, and after-hours urgent care.
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Cleburne
201 Walls Drive Cleburne 76033
817.641.2551
texashealth.org/cleburne
137 beds, 74 physicians
Serving Johnson County, Texas Health Cleburne is an accredited Level IV Trauma Center, Chest Pain
Center and designated as a “Baby Friendly” facility by the World Health Organization and UNICEF.
Texas Health Harris
Methodist Hospital Fort Worth
1301 Pennsylvania Ave. Fort Worth 76104
817.250.2000
texashealth.org/fortworth
726 beds, 1,165 physicians
Texas Health Harris
Methodist Fort Worth
Hospital is a Magnetdesignated hospital and is Tarrant County’s largest hospital and regional referral center.
Texas Health HEB offers a Level III Trauma Center, a Cycle IV Chest Pain Center and Heart Failure Center, and has been certified as a Primary Stroke Center and designated as a “Baby Friendly” facility by WHO and UNICEF.
Texas Health Harris
Methodist Southwest Fort Worth
6100 Harris Parkway Fort Worth 76132
817.433.5000
texashealth.org/southwest
222 beds, 576 physicians
Texas Health Harris
Methodist Southwest Fort Worth is a Texas Ten Step that offers a range of comprehensive services including 24-hour emergency service, surgical and imaging services, orthopedics and sports
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therapy, a Level IIIA neonatal ICU, adult critical care, obstetrics and gynecology, cardiovascular services.
Texas Health Harris
Methodist
Hospital
Stephenville 411 N. Belknap St. Stephenville 76401
254.965.1500
texashealth.org/stephenville
98 beds, 70 physicians
Texas Health Stephenville has received national accreditation as a Level IV Trauma Center, Cycle III Chest Pain Center and Breast Imaging Center of Excellence.
USMD Hospital at
Arlington
801 W. I-20 at Matlock Road Arlington 76107
817.472.3400
usmdarlington.com
28 inpatient suites, 16-bed day surgery, four-bed SICU, 418 physicians USMD Hospital at Arlington is equipped with the latest technology that allows the hospital to perform leadingedge spinal procedures, gastric sleeve and bypass surgery for obesity, and robot-assisted prostate and gynecologic procedures.
USMD Hospital at Fort Worth
5900 Altamesa Blvd. Fort Worth 76132
817.433.9100
usmdfortworth.com
8 inpatient suites, 6 operating rooms, more than 100 physicians
USMD at Fort Worth is part of a growing network of physician-owned hospitals that serves both pediatric and adult patients. The hospital also has diagnostic imaging and an emergency department.
Victory Medical Center Mid-Cities
1612 Hurst Town Center Drive Hurst 76054
817.345.4100
victory-healthcare.com/mid-cities
16 private inpatient suites
Victory Medical Center MidCities is a surgical hospital that performs specialty procedures including spinal, vascular, orthopedic and general surgery as well as podiatry, gynecology, hand surgery, neurosurgery, urology, bariatric, ENT and pain management procedures.
Weatherford Regional Medical Center
713 E. Anderson St. Weatherford 76086
682.582.1000
weatherfordregional.com 103 beds, 119 active physicians
Weatherford Regional specializes in numerous areas including cardiology, oncology, pediatrics and sports medicine.
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Free Pregnancy Testing Center
1115 E. Pioneer Parkway, Ste. 143 Arlington 76010
817.460.1147
freepregtestcenter.com
Medical Center Arlington offers free pregnancy testing with no appointment necessary, free physician referrals, free Medicaid application assistance, as well as free childbirth education.
Touchstone Imaging
Southwest Fort Worth
6001 Harris Parkway Fort Worth 76132
817.294.1131
touchstoneimaging.com
Touchstone Medical Imaging LLC is a leading provider of diagnostic imaging services in the United States. Diagnostics include High field 1.5T MRI, 3T MRI, Open MRI, CT, PET/CT, Ultrasound, Digital Mammography, Bone Density, Fluoroscopy and walk-in X-ray.
Additional Locations:
Touchstone Imaging Keller
601 South Main St., Ste. 100 Keller 76248 817.482.2000
Touchstone Imaging
Arlington
601 W. Arbrook Blvd. Arlington 76014 817.472.0801
Touchstone Imaging Fossil Creek
5455 Basswood Blvd., Ste. 550 Fort Worth 76137 817.428.5002
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Downtown Fort Worth Rosedale 1701 W. Rosedale St. Fort Worth 76104
817.922.7780
Touchstone Imaging Grapevine
2020 W. Highway 114, Ste. 100 Grapevine 76051
817.424.4800
Touchstone Imaging Grand Prairie
2740 N. State Highway 360, Ste. 200 Grand Prairie 75050
972.579.4480
Arlington Cancer Center 906 W. Randol Mill Road Arlington 76012 817.261.4906
arlingtoncancercenter.com
Arlington Cancer Center is a comprehensive outpatient treatment facility providing innovative and personalized diagnosis, treatment, research, education and support services to adult cancer patients from around the world.
Additional Location:
Trophy Club
2800 E. Highway 114, Ste. 200 Trophy Club 76262
Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at Fort Worth – Oncology
1400 8th Ave. Fort Worth 76104
817.926.2544
baylorhealth.com/allsaintscancer
Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at Fort Worth’s oncology program consists of site specific cancer conferences such as lymphedema services, stroboscopy and speech therapy, palliative care, chronic pain management and stereotactic radiosurgery for treatment of brain tumors.
JPS Center for Cancer Care
601 W. Terrell St. Fort Worth 76104
817.702.8300
jpshealthnet.org
The JPS Center for Cancer Care provides medical oncology/hematology, including chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, immunotherapy, clinical research, pain palliation, hospice care and radiation therapy for Tarrant County residents.
UT Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Institute
400 W. Magnolia Ave. Fort Worth 76104
817.288.9800
moncrief.com
Moncrief Cancer Institute, affiliated with UT, focuses on
cancer prevention, survivorship, research and cutting-edge clinical trials. Its new facility features a fitness area free for all cancer survivors, genetic testing and risk assessment, psychological counseling, free nutrition classes, and breast screening for insured and uninsured women.
UT Southwestern Moncrief Medical Center at Fort Worth
600 South Main St. Fort Worth 76104
817.882.2400
UT Southwestern Moncrief Medical Center focuses on outpatient care and offers consultations in 12 different areas including allergy and immunology, pharmacy and rheumatology.
Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital Oncology Care Unit
Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital Oncology Care Unit provides surgical care, chemotherapy, high-dose chemotherapy, biotherapy, pain management, blood transfusions, neutropenic support and radiation therapy.
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Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth Klabzuba Cancer Center
1300 W. Terrell St. Fort Worth 76104
817.820.4700
texashealth.org
The Klabzuba Cancer Center is recognized by the Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons as an approved comprehensive community cancer program, ranking it among the best cancer treatment facilities in the country.
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Hurst-Bedford-Euless Oncology Care Unit
1600 Hospital Parkway Bedford 76022
817.848.4700
texashealth.org/heb
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Hurst-Bedford-Euless Hospital Oncology Care Unit offers inpatient and outpatient services to patients who require all aspects of cancer care.
Texas Oncology is united with The US Oncology Network and participates with the largest network of clinical research trials nationally to provide highquality care in communities throughout the state.
Additional Locations:
Texas Oncology-Arlington North
902 W. Randol Mill Road, Ste. 150 Arlington 76012
817.664.9600
Texas Oncology-Arlington South
515 W. Mayfield Road, Ste. 101 Arlington 76014
817.664.4400
Texas Breast SpecialistsBedford 1609 Hospital Parkway Bedford 76022
4351 Booth Calloway Road, Ste. 208 North Richland Hills 76180
817.284.4994
Texas Oncology-
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Weatherford
911 Foster Lane
Weatherford 76086
817.597.7900
The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders - Central Campus
800 W. Magnolia Ave. Fort Worth 76104
817.759.7000 thecentertx.com
The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders provides patients with services that include medical oncology, radiation oncology, cyberknife, hematology, and a wide array of patient support services.
Additional Locations:
The Center at Arlington
300 W. Arbrook, Ste. A Arlington 76014
817.333.3300
The Center at Burleson (inside Texas Health Resources
Huguley Fort Worth South Hospital)
11805 S. I-35 W., Ste. 201 Burleson 76028
817.551.5312
The Center at Cleburne
141 S. Westmeadow Drive Cleburne 76033
1.817.641.1700
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817.333.3282
The Center at Granbury Lake Granbury Medical Center
1308 E. Paluxy Road, Ste. 205 Granbury 76048
817.573.7338
The Center at Mineral Wells
400 SW 25th Ave. Mineral Wells 76067
940.325.0627
The Center at Stephenville
150 River North Blvd. Stephenville 76401
866.454.6560
The Center at Weatherford 920 Santa Fe Weatherford 76086
866.596.0637
USMD Breast Health Center
801 W. Interstate 20 Arlington 76017
888.444.USMD
usmdbreasthealth.com
USMD Breast Health Center is the only breast center in North Texas that can care for patients from diagnosis, to treatment, to recovery. USMD provides patients with integrative care comprised of physical, mental and spiritual elements, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, nutritional therapy, counseling and massage therapy.
USMD Prostate Cancer Center
801 W. I-20, Ste. 1 Arlington 76017 1.888.PROSTATE usmdpcc.com
USMD Prostate Cancer Center offers comprehensive
prostate cancer treatment and management, with an allinclusive facility for prevention tactics and diagnostic procedures in addition to a wide variety of treatment options.
REHABILITATION CENTERS
Baylor All Saints Medical Center Rehabilitation and Outpatient Therapy
1400 8th Ave. Fort Worth 76104
817.922.7105
baylorhealth.com
Baylor Rehabilitation System is a network of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation programs and services located across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
Cityview Care Center
5801 Bryant Irvin Road Fort Worth 76132
817.346.3030
cityviewcare.com
Cityview Care Center provides 24-hour skilled nursing care in an advanced facility with innovative programs. It also boasts the Express Recovery Unit with 36 beds offering rehabilitation geared toward average stays of two weeks or less.
Emerald Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center
5600 Davis Blvd. North Richland Hills 76180
817.503.4700
emeraldhillsrehabhcc.com
Emerald Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, with its partner Rehab Pro, offers physical, occupational and speech rehabilitation in a patient-centric approach.
Fort Worth Center of Rehabilitation
850 12th Ave. Fort Worth 76104
817.882.8269
fortworthcenterofrehabilitation.com
34 physicians
Fort Worth Center of Rehabilitation offers a 4,000-square-foot gym that serves as the base of operations for rehab services, such as multiple trauma, pulmonary, oncology, respiratory, orthopedic and neurological rehabilitation.
HealthSouth
Rehabilitation Hospital of Fort Worth
1212 W. Lancaster Ave. Fort Worth 76102
817.870.2336
healthsouthfortworth.com
60 beds, number of physicians varies HealthSouth specializes in acute inpatient rehabilitation and pain management.
Kindred Rehabilitation Hospital Arlington is a state-of-the-art inpatient rehabilitation hospital that has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval.
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For leading-edge technology and the highest level of breast cancer expertise, visit Texas Breast Specialists, part of the Texas Oncology network. We offer comprehensive breast care, including diagnostics, surgical services, and medical and radiation oncology. With compassion and understanding, our physicians partner with you to help you understand your options and develop the best possible treatment plan. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please visit www.TexasBreastSpecialists.com.
Texas Breast Specialists is a part of Texas Oncology.
W. Lee Bourland Jr., M.D., FACS Dallas, TX
Mary B. Brian, M.D., FACS Bedford, TX
Lynn Canavan, M.D., FACS McKinney and Plano, TX
Tuoc N. Dao, M.D., FACS Carrollton and Dallas, TX
Allison A. DiPasquale, M.D. Dallas and Mansfield, TX
Katrina P. Emmett, M.D. Dallas, Mansfield and Waxahachie, TX
Archana Ganaraj, M.D. Dallas, TX
Meghan Hansen, M.D. Frisco and McKinney, TX
Melissa Kinney, M.D. Flower Mound and Lewisville, TX
Martin L. Koonsman, M.D., FACS Dallas, TX
Alison L. Laidley, M.D., FACS Dallas, TX
Jeffrey P. Lamont, M.D., FACS Dallas and Plano, TX
Angela E. Seda, M.D. Arlington, Bedford and Keller, TX
Jennifer Snow, D.O. Cleburne and Fort Worth, TX
Carolyn L. Thomas, M.D., FACS Dallas and Greenville, TX
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Southwest Nursing & Rehab Center 5300 Altamesa Blvd. Fort Worth 76133
817.346.1800
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Southwest Nursing & Rehab Center specializes in individualized treatment programs with a team of occupational therapists, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and speech language pathologists.
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance 10840 Texas Health Trail Fort Worth 76244
682.212.5000
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The therapy center at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance features progressive rehabilitation technology paired with a caring and experienced team that offers a handson, personalized treatment approach.
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth Mabee Rehabilitation Center 1301 Pennsylvania Ave. Fort Worth 76104
817.250.2000
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With the professional staff and spacious facilities at the Mabee Rehabilitation Center and Texas Health Ben Hogan Sports Therapy Center, patients can expect personalized and effective treatment to get them back to their lives.
Programs center on education and progressive exercise designed to help those who have chronic lung disease to return to an active and enjoyable lifestyle.
As a Tarleton student, Dr. Karla Dick majored in pre-med and played basketball for the TexAnns. She credits her college student-athlete experience with teaching her the time management skills and self-discipline necessary to graduate in the Top 10 of her medical school class and earn a spot in the prestigious John Peter Smith residency program.
Her career in family medicine allows her to diagnose and treat ailments that affect young and old, as well as incorporating education and all-important prevention strategies into her patient care.
The cardiac rehabilitation program offers one-on-one consulting, classroom sessions and exercise.
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth 6100 Harris Parkway Fort Worth 76132
817.433.1600
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A team of physical and occupational therapists and speech pathologists provide patients comprehensive therapy in a 7,000-square-foot facility. Services include sports medicine and orthopedic services, occupational and physical therapy, speech therapy, sports rehab, certified hand therapy and vestibular and balance therapy.
Texas Health Harris Methodist Outpatient Center Burleson
2750 Southwest Wilshire Blvd. Burleson 76028
817.782.8050
texas.health.org/burleson Services include comprehensive outpatient physical therapy, sports therapy, hand therapy and cardiac rehabilitation. The center features advanced technology and equipment for patient evaluation and treatment coupled with a team of professionals who oversee a patient's rehabilitation.
Texas Rehabilitation Hospital of Fort Worth
425 Alabama Ave. Fort Worth 76104
817.820.3400
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Texas Rehabilitation is designed for patients recovering from major illnesses, traumas or surgeries. It is a joint venture between Texas Health Resources and Centerre Healthcare Corp.
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Compassion and Innovation in Cancer Treatment at Texas Center for Proton Therapy
With high technology and a personal touch, this North Texas facility offers cancer patients a new option for maintaining quality of life
From its 63,000-square-foot facility in Irving, Texas Center for Proton Therapy leads the state in life-saving proton therapy — an advanced cancer treatment it provides its patients alongside compassionate care.
“We offer the most advanced proton therapy in the state, and some of the most advanced cancer therapy in the world,” says Texas Center for Proton Therapy Medical Director Dr. Andrew Lee. “The power and promise of proton therapy offers better outcomes, improved quality of life and new hope for cancer patients.”
An advanced type of radiation treatment, proton therapy uses a focused beam only a few millimeters wide to precisely “paint” tumors with therapeutic proton radiation, minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissue and reducing side effects. Proton therapy is especially important for pediatric patients, whose bodies are still growing and developing, and for adult patients with cancers in highly sensitive areas, such as the brain, spine, chest, prostate, head and neck.
Since opening its doors in November 2015, Texas Center for Proton Therapy has treated approximately 650 patients with its 220-ton cyclotron. This magnetpacked particle accelerator produces a beam of protons moving at two-thirds the speed of light to target patient tumors with pinpoint accuracy.
“The size and weight of the cyclotron belies the precision that this form of radiation treatment delivers in destroying cancer cells,” said Texas Oncology Chairman and President Dr. Steven Paulson when the machine first arrived. The Center is a collaboration of Texas Oncology and The US Oncology Network, supported by McKesson Specialty Health and Baylor Scott & White Health.
The Center also actively expands the frontiers of proton therapy. Director of Physics Dr. Chang Chang pioneered “automated volumetric re-painting,” a proton-treatment technique available only with the latest generation of proton treatment machines for treating cancers in the lung and liver. Volumetric repainting treats an entire tumor several times with a quick succession of therapeutic spots of protons to greatly improve tumor coverage. The technique is especially important for tumors that move as a patient breathes.
Alongside its high-end technology, the Center remains committed to a personal touch, the compassion that its staff extends to every patient who comes in for treatment. Medical Director Dr. Andrew Lee weaves these two threads together: “We are — and always will be — committed to delivering the best cancer care with the best expertise the field has to offer.”
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MEET THE EXPERTS
Dr. Yahya Mansour, D.D.S. graduated from
School of Dentistry. He is also designated as a Fellow in the International Congress of Oral Implantology. Prior to receiving his D.D.S., he received two bachelor’s degrees in neuroscience and biology from the University of California.
Dr. Saam Zarrabi, D.D.S. is a graduate of
School of Dentistry in San Francisco. Before receiving his D.D.S. he received his bachelor’s degree in business economics from University of California, Los Angeles.
strating that cavities could be prevented or managed once a patient’s risk of decay had been assessed. To analyze a patient’s cavity -
tionnaire about their genetic predispositions, dietary habits, oral hygiene, medications and other environmental factors. A swab test is then conducted on the lower teeth to get a total number of the bacteria in the mouth. This is known as ATP bioluminescence. All of this information helps to measure the risk of dental problems. Rodeo Dental & Orthodontics sees
Dr. Mansour and Dr. Zarrabi are extremely passionate about creating a positive dental experience for every patient. They have written and published several articles and have been featured guest on Good Morning Texas as well as Fox’s Good Morning Valley.
WHAT EXACTLY IS CAMBRA
CAMBRA stands for Caries Management by Risk Assessment and is a method used to assess a patient’s risk for tooth decay. Ten years ago the Journal of the California Dental
educate our patients and proactively treat highrisk individuals before cavities and tooth decay occur.
Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF) is one of the newest ways to combat cavities. What is it?
Silver Diamine Fluoride or SDF, as it is more commonly known, is used as part of our CAMBRA program because it helps to control active tooth decay and prevent its progression. SDF is comprised of silver and fluoride and each ele-
as an anti-microbial and kills bacteria, and the down of the tooth. SDF was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2014 but has been available for decades in China, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia.
or teeth are isolated so that they are cleaned of debris and kept dry. A brush is dipped into the SDF and placed on the tooth and concentrated on the area(s) of decay. After two minutes, we remove the excess SDF, and patients are instructed not to eat or drink for one hour.
How effective is SDF in cavity treatment and prevention?
guarding against cavities and stopping tooth also takes less than 10 minutes and is very to more families. SDF treatment is virtually risktooth on the application site, which is totally reversible.
Aside for SDF treatment, what other preventative measures do you advice?
of dental and medical research and is endorsed by six national dental associations. It is a natural sugar substitute found in plants that looks and tastes like sugar, but instead of speeding up tooth decay, as sugar does, xylitol actually prevents it and helps repair tooth enamel. Our high-risk patients are advised to use special oral rinses, gels, gums, and sprays containing xylitol at home to help decrease the likelihood of cavity formation. In fact, we encourage all of our patients to integrate xylitol into their daily lifestyles and diets.
What can patients expect when being treated with SDF?
SDF is a fairly fast and painless way to treat tooth decay and there is no downtime needed afterward. In preparation for the SDF application, the teeth are brushed without toothpaste,
HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS WORTH KNOWING
The partnership between you and your doctor is one of the most vital pairings for a happy and fit lifestyle. In matters of health, you should never settle. Selecting the right practitioner can make all the difference. To aid in choosing the perfect person for your medical needs, a few local physicians have purchased space to tell you more about themselves, their practices and how partnering with them will improve your quality of life.
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Fort Worth Heart, P.A.
SPECIALTY: Diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS: All physicians are graduates of cardiology fellowship training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and are board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in cardiovascular diseases. Some are also board certified in nuclear cardiology, electrophysiology, echocardiography, vascular medicine and interventional cardiology. AWARDS/HONORS: Fort Worth Heart members have distinguished themselves through academic achievements, performing clinical research and organizing educational conferences on cardiovascular diseases. They have held leadership positions in the Fort Worth medical community such as chief of staff, chief of cardiology,
chief of credentials, chief of internal medicine and secretary of the cardiology division at local hospitals. Members have also served on the board of trustees of Fort Worth hospitals and regional healthcare systems and in community-oriented leadership positions such as president of the American Heart Association of Tarrant County. MEMBERSHIPS/ AFFILIATIONS: All the physicians are fellows of the American College of Cardiology or are eligible for fellowship; members of the Texas Medical Association and Tarrant County Medical Association; fellows of the Society of Coronary Angiography and Intervention; and members of the Heart Rhythm Society. HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS: Texas Health Resources Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital; Baylor All Saints Medical Center; Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation; Texas Health
Huguley Hospital; Texas Health Resources Harris Methodist Southwest Hospital; Texas Health Harris Methodist Azle; Texas Health Specialty; Heart & Vascular Center of Fort Worth; Texas Health Resources Heart & Vascular Hospital, Arlington; Lake Granbury Medical Center; Kindred Southwest Hospital; Medical City Fort Worth Hospital. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Serving the Fort Worth community and surrounding area with comprehensive and compassionate cardiovascular care since 1951. INNOVATIONS: Full range of imaging services including PET scan, vascular ultrasound, SPECT scan and echocardiography. Proficient in radial angiography and intervention. PICTURED: Louis S. Cristol, M.D.; Denzil G. D’Souza, M.D.; Alvaro S. Rios, M.D.; John V. Jayachandran, M.D.; L. Frank Liao, M.D.; Vijay G.
Kalaria, M.D.; George C. James, M.D.; Deval Mehta, M.D.; Sukesh C. Burjonroppa, M.D.; Steve A. Simpson, M.D.; Amit Prasad, M.D.; Syed Nayyar Shah, M.D.; Arun Padala, M.D.; Sanjay Bhargava, M.D.
CONTACT INFORMATION: fortworthheart.com
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on You Cosmetic Surgery Center and Medical Spa
Y. Anthony Nakamura, M.D., P.A.
SPECIALTY: Plastic Surgery. EDUCATION: B.A., UT Austin; M.D., UTMB, Galveston; Intern resident and general surgery, LSU School of Medicine, Charity Hospital New Orleans; Plastic Surgery resident, UTMB, Galveston. CERTIFICATION: Board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: American Society of Plastic Surgeons, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, Texas Medical Association, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Dallas Society of Plastic Surgeons, Fort Worth Society of Plastic Surgeons. WHAT SETS HIM APART: My concentration in the body contouring part of aesthetic surgery as well as 30 years of experience in knowing what works and doesn’t. Providing our patients with an experienced artistic eye to achieve maximum results while exercising the utmost in safety and providing a great experience for all patients. COSMETIC SURGERY CENTER SERVICES: Breast Enlargement,
Breast Lift, Tummy Tuck, Lipo Suction. MEDI SPA SERVICES: High Speed Laser Hair Removal, Restylane/Juvederm, Voluma, Botox/Dysport, Kybella, Medical Facials/Peels, IPL Photorejuvenation, Microdermabrasion, Micropen, Cool Sculpting, Extreme Lash Extensions. FREE ADVICE: “Check your surgeon’s credentials, and make sure your doctor is certified in plastic surgery by the American Board of Medical Specialties. Find a surgeon with sufficient experience.” AFFILIATIONS: Methodist Mansfield Medical Center, Medical Center of Arlington. CHARITABLE WORK: Boys & Girls Club, Wounded Warrior, Grace, CWC.
CONTACT INFORMATION: accentonyou.com
Avondale Family Care
SPECIALTY: Our goal is to provide a nurturing, caring environment for our patients. With the use of our expertise and latest technology, we will always strive to provide the most compassionate care possible to your whole family.
EDUCATION: Dr. Garima Prasad – B.S., Houston Baptist University; D.O., University of North Texas Health Science Center – Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine; Residency, University of Houston Health Science Center for Family Practice Residency. Dr. Shilpi Mittal – M.D., Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, India; Medical Internship, St. John Medical Center; Residency in Family Practice, Goppert Family Practice, Baptist-Lutheran Medical Center. Amanda Rose Rosales, DNP, APRN, FNP-C – doctorate, Texas Christian University. Amy Van Zee, RN, BSN, MSN, FNP – Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ashley M. Potter, PA-C – Drexel University, Philadelphia. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: We enjoy serving
our community in state-of-the-art facilities that boast convenience and comfort. We offer a range of medical treatments including primary care, urgent care and preventive health care. INNOVATIONS: We have a beautiful facility with high-tech X-rays and on-site lab draws. The clinic offers BioTe pellet therapy and provides allergy shot therapy through United Allergy Services. PATIENT CARE/BEDSIDE MANNER: Caring about the patient as a whole, not a disease process. PICTURED: Amanda Rosales; Ashley Potter; Amy Van Zee; Dr. Shilpi Mittal; Dr. Garima Prasad; and Linda Thowe, office manager.
CONTACT INFORMATION: avondalefamilycare.com
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Diane G. Blaising, Au.D., ADA, FAAA
Cityview Audiology & Hearing Aids, Inc.
SPECIALTY: Audiology and hearing aid prescription and fitting. Expert advice in hearing aid product comparisons and technologies due to her 20-plus years of helping people hear better; tinnitus evaluation and treatment. Dizziness evaluation and treatment also available in our office with Dr. Heather Dean. EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS: Doctor of Audiology, A.T. Still University for Health Sciences; M.S. Communication Disorders, UT Dallas, Callier Center for Communication Disorders. MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS: Board Certified by American Board of Audiology; Fellow American Academy of Audiology; Academy of Doctors of Audiology; Member Christian Medical and Dental Association; Adjunct Faculty, Callier Center for Communication Disorders and University of North Texas. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: When a patient refers a family member or a friend into her care. INNOVATIONS: 1) Hearing aids can now treat tinnitus suffer-
ers with custom programmed habituation programs that bring relief. 2) Hearing aids today are better than ever, and so small that they go unnoticed. 3) Dizziness can be evaluated and treated with our advanced balance testing by Dr. Heather Dean. PATIENT CARE: Blaising takes the time needed to listen to patients’ concerns and formulate a unique treatment plan for each one. FREE ADVICE: Cognitive Decline — Those with untreated hearing loss experience a 30-60 percent greater decline in thinking abilities compared to those without hearing loss.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
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Bruce A. Bollinger, M.D. Custom Joint Center
SPECIALTY: Custom and Revision Joint Replacement of the Knee and Hip, Arthroscopy, Peripheral Neuropathy Surgery. EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS: Undergraduate/Medical School, St. Louis University; Orthopaedic Residency, Washington University/ Barnes Hospital; Board Certified, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. MEMBERSHIPS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, AMA, TMA, TOA, TCMS, American Association of Lower Extremity Peripheral Nerve Surgeons. ACHIEVEMENTS: Personal - Being a husband and father. Professional - Chief of Staff at Baylor Surgical Hospital Fort Worth. Also, he was one of only twenty surgeons in the country chosen to initially use the custom knee for two years prior to wide release to other surgeons. He is a nationally recognized expert and instructor of custom total knee and hip replacements.
INNOVATIONS: His practice provides custom knee replacements based on pre-op CT scans to make patient specific replacements, thereby allowing better outcomes for all patients. IN THE COMMUNITY: He supports the arts in North Central Texas, in particular, Texas Ballet Theater. FREE ADVICE: “Never be afraid to seek a second opinion.” WHAT SETS HIM APART: The ability to offer custom total knee and hip replacements in addition to conventional joint replacements, thereby offering patients a greater range of treatment choices.
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Center for Neurological Disorders (CND)
George Cravens, M.D., FAANS, FACS, Founder
MISSION: Committed to research and innovation, Dr. Cravens provides an unprecedented continuum of care in a non-hospital environment by bringing together the specialists needed for the treatment of neurological disease, including traumatic brain injury, tumors, spines and strokes. A stroke is a Brain Attack. PATIENT CARE: He has performed over 9,000 surgeries, including 3,000 craniotomies. He was among the first in the area to specialize in microneurosurgery; image guided, stereotactic computer-assisted surgery; programmable ventriculoperitoneal shunt; utilization of CO2 laser for peripheral nerve surgeries, intracranial and spinal cord tumors; neuroendoscopy for treatment of cranial and spine lesions; intraoperative evoked potential and transcranular doplar monitoring.
LEADERSHIP: Dr. Cravens serves on the Governor’s EMS and Trauma Advisory Council’s Stroke Committee. Under his leadership
as chair of JPS Hospital’s Department of Neurosurgery, JPS earned certification as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by the Texas Department of Health Services, one of 17 in the state. FREE ADVICE: Strokes are the fifth leading cause of death and the leading cause of disabilities among adults. Treatment should be sought immediately. Symptoms include the face drooping on one side when the patient smiles, slurred or strange speech when repeating a simple phrase, and one arm drifting downward when both arms are raised.
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Central Park Ear, Nose & Throat, L.L.P.
FOCUS: Central Park ENT is dedicated to being a premier provider of extensive/all-inclusive pediatric and adult ear, nose, throat, head, neck, audiology, and allergy care. WHAT SETS US APART: Central Park ENT & Surgery Center is committed to compassionately providing our patients at a reasonable cost the highest quality medical services and to constantly improving and striving for excellence in the best interest of patient care. A few of Central Park Ear Nose & Throat services and medical procedures offered include: adenoid and tonsillectomies, allergy testing and treatment, audiological testing and hearing aids, balloon sinuplasty, ear tubes, ear wax removal, head and neck cancer surgery, hearing and balance disorders, minimally invasive nasal and sinus surgery, salivary gland disorders, sinus disorders, snoring and sleep apnea treatment, thyroid and parathyroid surgery, voice and swallowing disorders.
Central Park ENT has four locations for our patients’ convenience.
PICTURED: Mark Palmer, M.D.; Chris Lee, M.D.; Stuart Thomas, M.D.; Rene Pena, M.D.; Dana Gibbs, M.D.; Tyler Scoresby, M.D.
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DFW Center for Spinal Disorders, PLLC
FOCUS: Spine Surgery. EDUCATION: Tinley – M.D., Medical College of Georgia; Fellowship, HH Bohlman Spinal Surgery Fellowship, Cleveland. Shah – M.D., Texas A&M College of Medicine; Orthopaedic Spine Surgery Fellowship, Stanford University. Happ –D.O., Midwestern University; Fellowship, Texas Back Institute. Patel – M.D., University of Toledo; Adult and Pediatric spine surgery fellowship at William Beaumont Hospital, Michigan. Toy – M.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. MEMBERSHIPS: Tinley – Cervical Spine Research Society, North American Spine Society, Tarrant County Medical Society, Texas Orthopedic Association, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. Shah – North American Spine Society, International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, American Medical Association. Happ – North American Spine Society, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, and American Osteopathic Academy of Ortho-
pedics. Patel – American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, North American Spine Society, and New York Medical Association. Toy –North American Spine Society, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. INNOVATIONS: Performing minimally invasive spine surgery with a focus on the least amount of post-operative pain and all efforts concentrating on eliminating the need for further procedures
PATIENT CARE: Not all patients require surgery. Our team uses a multidisciplinary approach to improvement. PICTURED: (left to right) Christopher Happ, D.O.; Jason Toy, M.D.; Jason Tinley, M.D. (Founder, DFWCFSD); Neil Shah, M.D.; Vishal Patel, M.D.
CONTACT INFORMATION: 817.916.4685
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HealthWave Physicians Institute
Jacob Rosenstein, MD
Johann Van Beest, DC, MBA
SPECIALTY: HealthWave Physicians Institute offers a revolutionary treatment for men suffering from Erectile Dysfunction, Peyronie’s Disease, or for men simply wishing to enhance the intimacy in their relationship. Unlike treatments that require pills, surgery, or potentially harmful supplements, the HealthWave solution uses low frequency, acoustical sound waves that stimulate the growth of new blood vessels. This evidence-based treatment that has no downtime or side effects can provide results that last for years. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: As a board-certified neurosurgeon, Dr. Rosenstein revolutionized healthy living when he was lacking energy and slowing down due to fatigue. Through his work, Dr. Rosenstein assessed many clients who suffered from Erectile Dysfunction and decided to make a difference. Offering a proven, non-surgical treatment that can benefit couples – of all ages – was a must. PATIENT
CARE: Dr. Rosenstein and Dr. Van Beest take great pride in ensuring their patients receive the very best care while providing treatments that are backed by years of research. Though the revolutionary treatment speaks for itself, it’s the discretion and professional care each patient receives that makes HealthWave an elite and innovative provider. PICTURED: Danielle Van Beest; Nick Roberts; Jessica Frankson; Javier Delgado; Johann Van Beest, DC, MBA (Executive Director); (not pictured) Jacob Rosenstein, MD (Medical Director).
CONTACT INFORMATION:
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Kelly R. Kunkel, M.D., P.A.
SPECIALTY: Plastic surgery including cosmetic surgery of the face, breast, and body, and reconstructive surgery for breast cancer and skin cancer. EDUCATION: Undergraduate, Notre Dame; M.D., University of Texas Medical Branch; Plastic Surgery, Oregon Health Sciences University. AWARDS/HONORS: Kunkel has been selected by Fort Worth Magazine as one of the area’s Top Docs for 16 years and by Texas Monthly magazine as a Texas Super Doctor 12 times. He was also named a Health Care Hero by the Fort Worth Business Press PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, American Medical Association, Tarrant County Medical Society. AFFILIATIONS: Baylor Scott and White All Saints Medical Center, Harris Methodist Southwest Hospital, USMD Fort Worth Hospital. GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: We
have created a remarkable culture of compassion, care, education and service in our office. BEDSIDE MANNER: In our practice, we treat you like you are a person who has desires and needs; you’re not just another surgical procedure. OFF HOURS: Kunkel enjoys landscaping and playing golf. FREE ADVICE: In cosmetic surgery, experience matters. Find someone who not only understands your needs but can demonstrate experience with a variety of techniques.
SPECIALTY: Ophthalmology: Cataract Surgery, Premium Lens Implants (Crystalens, ReStor, Tecnis, Toric Lens), Laser Refractive Surgery (LASIK with Intralase, VISX, Allegretto), Diseases of the Retina and Vitreous, Diabetic Retinopathy/Lasers, Macular Degeneration, Glaucoma Treatment. EDUCATION: B.A., Magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1986; M.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, 1990; Ophthalmology Residency, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, 1995; Vitreoretinal Fellowship, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1997.
CERTIFICATIONS: Board Certified, American Board of Ophthalmology. AWARDS: Physician’s Recognition Award, American Medical Association. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Texas Ophthalmological Association, Texas Medical Association,
Tarrant County Medical Society. AFFILIATIONS: Baylor Surgical Hospital at Las Colinas, Baylor Scott & White-Grapevine, Baylor Scott & White-Irving, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. PATIENT CARE: A commitment to excellence in eye care is enhanced by our outstanding, caring staff. Dr. Reinke is a uniquely talented surgeon who personally provides all preoperative and postoperative care.
SPECIALTY: Retina Specialist; Board-Certified, FellowshipTrained Ophthalmologists specia lizing in the most advanced treatments for medical and surgical diseases of the retina including macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vascular occlusions, retinal detachment, macular holes, and epiretinal membrane. EDUCATION: Dr. Qureshi and Dr. Warminski are honored to have had the opportunity to train at leading institutions for their ophthalmology training, including the Johns Hopkins Hospital Wilmer Eye Institute, Duke University Eye Center and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. PATIENT CARE: We believe the most important qualities of the doctor-patient relationship are communication, trust and compassion. As physicians, we should know more than our patients about their disease; our goal is to have them understand their disease
at least as well as we do. With communication, we strive to educate our patients every day. We are humbled by the trust our patients put in us and feel that trust is a strong foundation upon which our relationship is built. Finally, much of being a good physician is providing compassionate care to our patients. Our goal is to heal; often, that healing comes from soothing the mind or the heart through compassion. We advise our patients to take an active part in their treatment.
CONTACT INFORMATION: RetinaCenterTx.com
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Texas Spine Solutions
Dr. Shawn Henry
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SPECIALTY: Orthopedic Spine Surgery. EDUCATION: Gannon University; Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine; Orthopedic Residency Ohio University. AWARDS/HONORS: B.S. in Biology and Chemistry, magna cum laude. MEMBERSHIPS: North American Spine Society, American Osteopathic Academy, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. AFFILIATIONS: Baylor Medical Center at Trophy Club; Baylor Surgical Hospital at Fort Worth. INNOVATIONS: Innovations include minimally invasive surgery techniques and designs, motion preservation technology, and advanced fusion techniques. PATIENT CARE: My approach is always conservative, treating surgery as a last resort. The care I give to my patients is the same I would expect for myself or my family.
ADVICE: You are only given one spine in life; take good care of it. Exercise, healthy diet, proper lifting, weight control, all contribute to a healthy spine.
Get Your Boots On Time
to Stomp out Cancer in the Stockyards
by Joy Donovan
hen Thompson Square takes the stage at the 24th Cowtown Ball Oct. 28, country artist Shawna Thompson most likely will be sporting a very special necklace.
Shawna, and her hubby and vocal partner Keifer were not immune from cancer blasting into their lives, but when Shawna lost her beloved father and music mentor several years ago, the award-winning country singers became anxious to stomp out cancer. That special necklace reminds
them of their fight.
The two, who won CMA’s Vocal Duo of the Year in 2012, will headline “Stompin’ in the Stockyards,” this year’s American Cancer Society’s Cowtown Ball. The western-chic event featuring dinner and dancing will be held at River Ranch, in the historic Fort Worth Stockyards. The Thompsons are ready to stomp out cancer and rock out Tarrant County supporters.
“We’re not going to sing sad ballads,” Keifer said. “We’re
Stompin’ out cancer is a priority for Shawna and Keifer Thompson, since Shawna lost her father to cancer.
The duo behind Thompson Square will headline the 24th Cowtown Ball, a charity fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. Photo provided by Thompson Square
CBS 11’s Doug Dunbar competed last year in the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Hawaii for the fight against cancer. He continues that work this year by putting on his cowboy boots and emceeing October’s Cowtown Ball. Photo courtesy Doug Dunbar
Collins and Jeff Deets will cochair the 2017 Cowtown Ball, an American Cancer Society fundraising event now celebrating its 24th year.
2017 Cowtown Ball
Saturday, Oct. 28 River Ranch in the Fort Worth Stockyards
Sponsorships and tables still available. Tickets $250 per person. Tables start at $3,000. For more information, contact Loren Baker at 817-570-0618 or Loren.Baker@cancer.org. www.CowtownBall.org
Carla
Photo courtesy of Deckert Photography
going to have a great time.”
This year’s emcee, CBS 11 news anchor Doug Dunbar, has done his share of stomping out cancer, competing last year in the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. He was able to raise more than $150,000 for blood cancers.
“When I see young warriors like my friend, 6-year-old Ryan Mims, now in year three of his fight against AML, or Hamilton Grant, who had to be hit with a life-altering adult course of chemo at the tender age of 4 to stay alive, I have no choice to but ask myself ‘what can I do?’” Dunbar says. “But for the grace of God go the rest of us, who have never had to sit in that office and hear the words. Either ourselves, or for our children.”
Funding research for new therapies and cures is what drives him.
“I have watched too many friends suffer through the fight, and in some cases, lose,” Dunbar says of his commitment to fighting cancer. “I have also seen first-hand the difference being made in research. Real strides in new therapies, buying more time to build the life-extending
bridge to cures. We are getting closer every day. I pray in my lifetime that a cancer diagnosis becomes nothing more than a bump in the road of a long life.”
So with “Stompin’ in the Stockyards” set as the theme, the 2017 Cowtown Ball committee is planning a great party for a serious cause. Co-chaired by longtime volunteers Carla Collins and Jeff Deetz, the western gala will include lots of stockyards-style fun.
The past year Tarrant County volunteers have been putting plans in place for more than Thompson Square’s onstage entertainment. Included in this year’s party for a cause are mechanical bull riding, casino games and exciting auctions.
The fun is all part of a 24-year tradition in Cowtown. During that time, the cowboy-chic event has saddled a good time to raise more than $7 million to stomp out cancer.
“There’s zero point in moping around,” Keifer said about fighting cancer. “Our job is let people forget about their troubles for a little bit. The positive nature in those people and us is part of the battle. We’re going to have a hell of a time, and it’s going to be great.”
Cowtown Ball Committee: Top of truck Left to right: Kerri Mathews Caryn Evans Gina Moore Carla Collins Ground level Left to right: Jennifer Williams Monti Pack Laura Hamilton Shawna Duckworth Jeff Deets Christian Burton Viren Patel Terri Kantzos Zoe Kirby Julia Howarth Joy Trigg Megan Clifton Amy Cole Photo courtesy of Deckert Photography
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MUSEUMS
Seeing is a Nervous Habit, through Oct. 8
This photography exhibit features work by Kenda North, a professor and head of photography at UT Arlington, and 16 undergraduate alumni. Tickets can be purchased online or at the door. 201 West Main St., Arlington, 76010. arlingtonmuseum.org. 817.275.4600.
Dornith Doherty: Archiving Eden,
through Jan 14, 2018
This exhibition showcases the photography work of Dornith Doherty as he captured the transformation of seeds to plants. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., 76107. cartermuseum.org. 817.738.1933.
Misty Keasler: Haunt, Sept 23 – Nov 26
This exhibition showcases photographs of 13 themed haunted houses across America, allow-
ing guests to gaze at scenes they would usually quickly pass by. It raises questions about the psychological desire to intentionally induce oneself into fear. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. 3200 Darnell St., 76107. themodern. org. 866.824.5566.
Nature/Culture, July 15 – Dec. 10
This exhibit examines the relationship between nature and culture. Free tours are available upon request. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., 76107. cartermuseum.org. 817.738.1933.
Casanova: The Seduction of Europe, Aug 27 – Dec 31
This exhibition gathers paintings, sculptures, furnishings and period costume from all across 18th century Europe to highlight the life of Giacomo Casanova, famous for his love escapades in Italy, France and England. Kimbell Art Museum. 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd., 76107. kimbellart.org. 817.332.8451.
Happy Trails: A Tribute to Roy Rogers, through Feb 19, 2018
Happy Trails showcases the horses of Roy Rogers and Dan Stevens, Trigger and Buttermilk. The display also includes Bullet the Wonder Dog. Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame. 128 East Exchange, 76164. texascowboyhalloffame.org 817.626.7131
Constance Jaeggi : Aspects of Power, Light and Motion, Sept 19 – Feb 4, 2018
This photography exhibit highlights the dynamic and powerful movement of horses captured in their natural state. National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. 1720 Gendy St., 76107. cowgirl.net. 817.336.4475.
Abstract Texas: Midcentury Modern
Painting, through Oct. 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-20thcentury modernism in Texas. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. cartermuseum.org. 817.738.1933.
Darryl Lauster: Trace, through Mar 25, 2018
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
Forged in Paint. The work of local abstract art
Pictured: Space Trap by Lee Hill
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.
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.
Pick of the Month
Adrift, through Oct. 28
Calm yourself. Fort Worth artist Hillary Dohoney is presenting her first-ever solo exhibition at Fort Works Art, displaying 24 lifelike seascapes meant to portray feelings of tranquility One of the biggest highlights of the show — a 12-foot, 360-degree installation depicting calming waters Dohoney will also have four paintings dedicated to refugees around the globe, as well as one painting dedicated to victims of Hurricane Harvey Sales from those works will go toward both causes.
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.
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., 76107. 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 is 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., 76107. 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., 76155. 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., 76161. fortworthaviationmuseum.com. 855.733.8627.
Leonard ’s Department Store Museum, Ongoing
View displays featuring hundreds of vintage items from the iconic downtown retail giant. Free. Fort Worth Screen Printing Building. 200 Carroll St., 76107. 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.” 760 Jim Wright Freeway N., 76108. 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. Historic Fort Worth. Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House. 1110 Penn St., 76104. 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. 2100 Log Cabin Village Lane., 76109. logcabinvillage. org. 817.392.5881.
Galleries
Forged in Paint: Carefully Crafted, Sept. 10-Oct. 8 Gallery 414’s new exhibition, Forged Paint: Carefully Crafted, showcases artwork by local artist, Lee Hill. The exhibition is from Sep. 10 to Oct. 8. 414 Templeton St., 76107. gallery414.org. 817.336.6595.
Adrift, through Oct. 28
Fort Worth artist Hillary Dohoney presents her first-ever solo exhibition, featuring 24 lifelike seascapes, including a 12-foot installation piece displaying a 360-degree view of calming waters. Fort Works Art. 2100 Montgomery St., 76107. fortworksart.com. 817.759.9475.
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
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This gallery houses 15 to 20 artists at a time, whose styles range from abstract expressionism to photo realism. 4919 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ste. B., 76107. 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
Hugh the Hunter, June 10 – Feb 18, 2018 “Hugh the Hunter” depicts the New Yorkbased sculptor Hugh Hayden as the landlord of a Scottish estate. The film, directed by Zachary Heinzerling, brings the issues of race, class and the practice of hunting into the light. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., 76107. cartermuseum.org. 817.738.1933.
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
Check the museum website for times. Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. 1600 Gendy St., 76107. fwmsh.org/calendar. 817.255.9300.
Music
Bands on the Bricks, through Oct 26 Free concert series at Sundance Square. 420 Main St., 76102. sundancesquare.com. 817.255.5700
Jared Deck, Oct. 5
The Rocketboys, Oct. 12 Latin Express, Oct 19
Leigh Nash, Oct 26
Levitt Pavillion
Free music at a popular outdoor venue in Arlington. 100 W Abram St., Arlington, 76010. levittpavilionarlington.org. 817.543.4308. The Eddie Gomez Trio & The UTA Jazz Orchestra, Oct 1
Quaker City Night Hawks, Oct 6
Sunny Sweeney, Oct. 7
Little Joe y La Familia, Oct 8
Becca Mancari, Oct. 13
Humming House, Oct 13
American Jazz Composers Orchestra plays Stevie Wonder, Oct 15
Adam Hood, Oct 20
The Stray Cat Lee Rocker, Oct. 21
Billy Bob’s Texas
Fort Worth Stockyards. 2520 Rodeo Plaza. billybobstexas.com. 817.624.7117.
Josh Ward, Oct 5
Tanya Tucker, Oct 6
Scotty McCreery, Oct. 7
Muscadine Bloodline, Oct. 12
Corey Smith, Oct. 13
Frank Foster, Oct 19
Roger Creager, Oct 20
CMT on Tour w/ Jon Pardi feat
Midland and Runaway June, Oct 21
Trace Adkins, Oct. 28
Capital Bar
3017 Morton St. capital-bar.com. 817.820.0049.
Hip Hop Hooray!, Oct 7
Mullet Boyz, Oct 14
Electric Circus, Oct 21
Night Shift, Oct. 28
Lola’s Saloon
2736 W. Sixth St., 76107. lolassaloon.com. 817.877.0666.
Cottonwood Crows, Oct 5
Fatt Cheddar Jam, Oct 11
Jerret Zoch & The OSR Band, Oct 12
Yawning Man WE Are The Asteroid, Oct. 18
The Marfa Lights, Oct . 19
Aust in Allsup, Oct 20
Rosetta North, Oct 25
Curt is Gr imes, Oct 27
Scat Jazz Lounge
Local and nationwide jazz artists perform in a speakeasy-style lounge in downtown Fort Worth. Check the website for upcoming shows. 111 W. Fourth Street, Ste. 11., 76102. scatjazzlounge. com. 817.870.9100.
Sports
TCU Football
Oct. 7 vs West Virginia
Oct 14 @ Kansas State
Oct 21 vs Kansas Oct 28 @ Iowa State
All home games at Amon G. Carter Stadium. 2850 Stadium Dr. gofrogs.com
Texas Wesleyan Football
Oct. 7 @ Texas College
Oct 14 vs Bacone College
Oct 21 @ Lyon College
Oct 28 vs Wayland Baptist University
All home games at Farrington Field. 1501 University Dr. ramsports.net
Dallas Cowboys
Home Games:
Oct 1 vs L A Rams
Oct 8 vs Green Bay Packers
Home games at AT&T Stadium. 1 AT&T Way,
Man on deck. Jared Deck will perform Oct 5 at Sundance Square
Arlington, Texas. dallascowboys.com
Texas Rangers
All home games at Globe Life Park. 1000 Ballpark Way, Arlington, 76011. texas.rangers.mlb. com. 972-RANGERS.
Fort Worth Vaqueros
All home games at Martin Field. 599 Collard St., 76105. fortworthvaqueros.com. 817.200.7355.
Texas Motor Speedway
3545 Lone Star Circle, 76177. texasmotorspeedway.com. 817.215.8500.
Stage and Theater
Martin Luther, Oct. 14-15
Honor the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses and starting the Protestant Reformation by attending the free production of Martin Luther, a historical drama Oct. 14-15. W.E. Scott Theatre. 3503 W Lancaster Ave, 76109. 817.738.1938.
Tarrant Actors Regional Theatre
1300 Gendy St., 76107 thetart.org 682.231.0082
Amphibian Stage Productions 120 S. Main St. amphibianstage.com. 817.923.3012. Angels in America Part II: Perestroika by Tony Kushner, Oct 4-7
A Lost Leonardo by David Davalos, Oct 13- Nov 5
New Play Festival: Off Your Feet by Ashley Brooke Monroe, Oct 28-29
Bass Performance Hall
525 Commerce St. basshall.com. 817.212.4300. Yekwon Sunwoo, Oct 3
Prokofiev Symphony 5, Oct 6-8
I Love a Piano, Oct 13-15
Rent, Oct. 17- 22
Alisa Weilerstein, cello, and Inon
Barnatan, piano, Oct 19-20
A Hero’s Life, Oct 27-29
Casa Manana
3101 W. Lancaster Ave. casamanana.org. 817.332.2272.
Mr Popper ’s Penguins, Sept 29-Oct 15
Circle Theatre
230 W. Fourth St. circletheatre.com. 817.877.3040.
Hip Pocket Theatre
1950 Silver Creek Rd. hippocket.org. 817.246.9775. Luke of the Lake and Will of the Woods (A Cartoon Fantasy), Sept. 15-Oct. 8
Hip Film Fest: A Date With Judy, Oct 20
Hip Film Fest: Huzzytown, Oct 21
Hip Film Fest: Young Dowds, Oct 22
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.
Dueling Divas, Oct. 6-8
Gospel Hallelujah! Oct 20-22
Rose Marine Theater
1440 N. Main St. artesdelarosa.org. 817.624.8333.
Stage West
821 W. Vickery Blvd. stagewest.org. 817.784.9378.
Life Sucks: Oct. 12-Nov. 12
Stolen Shakespeare Guild Fort Worth Community Arts Center. 1300 Gendy St. stolenshakespeareguild.org. 817.988.2058.
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. 312 Houston St., 76102. 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. 425 Commerce St., 76102. 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., 76107. 817.882.9331.
Other Attractions and Events
Fort Worth Cocktail Week, Oct 14 – 20
Fort Worth Cocktail Week features six themed events showcasing some of the city’s top bartenders. Each event will include selections from different liquor brands and culinary treats. Tickets are $15. Locations vary. fwcocktailweek. com. 817.321.9705.
Dream Home Tours, Oct 4-Oct 29
The Fort Worth Magazine Dream Home, featured on page 52, will be open for tours to benefit a Wish with Wings, a charity that fulfills wishes for Texas children fighting life-threatening medical conditions. A $20 ticket includes a oneyear subscription to Fort Worth Magazine. Open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 8900 Estribo Circle, fwtx.com
Frontier Fall Fest, Oct. 21
Join the Log Cabin Village for an afternoon filled with living history, live music, crafts, and more. Admission is $6.50 for those older than 18, $6 for ages 4-17 and $5.50 for groups of 10 or more. The event is from 1-4 p.m. 2100 Log Cabin Village Lane., 76109 logcabinvillage.org. 817.392.5881.
Bell Helicopter Fort Worth Air Show, Oct 28 – 29
The U.S. Navy Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron and the U.S Air Force F-16 Viper Demonstration Team are a part of this year’s Bell Helicopter Fort Worth Air Show. General admission is free and parking discounts are available. Performances begin around 10 a.m. Fort Worth Alliance Airport. 2221 Alliance Blvd., 76177. allianceairshow.com. 1.800.318.9268.
No recants. Historical drama “Martin Luther” w ill play at the W E Scott Theatre on Oct 14-15
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Saints and Sinners Tour, Oct. 28 – 29
The North Fort Worth Historical Society is hosting its 12th Annual Saints and Sinners Tour. Hear the stories of early Fort Worth residents like John Peter Smith and Luke Short. Tickets are available at the gate, $10 for adults and $5 for students and children. Tours are approximately two hours long. Oakwood Cemetery, 701 Grand Ave, 76164. stockyardsmuseum.org. 817.625.5082. Cowboy to Doughboy: North Texas in WWI, through Oct 19
Home to Camp Bowie, where more than 40,000 men trained, three airfields, and the world’s largest livestock exchange, Fort Worth was a critical city in Texas during World War I. And consequently, the city saw hundreds of millions of dollars flow into Tarrant County. This exhibit is on display at the Central Library. 500 W. 3rd St., 76102. northtexasworldwar1centennial.org. 214.240.1872
Clearfork Food Truck Park Electr ic Bike Self-Guided Tour, Wednesday through Sunday
Ride along the Trinity Trails on a Pedego Electric Bike to the Clearfork Food Truck Park. From 12:30-2:30 p.m. Clearfork Food Truck Park. 129 W. Leuda St., 76104. pedegofortworth. checkfront.com.
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). Martin House Brewing Co. 220 S. Sylvania Ave., Ste. 209., 76111. 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., 76102. 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. Rahr & Sons Brewing Co. 701 Galveston Ave., 76104. rahrbrewing.com. 817.810.9266. Cowtown Cycle Party Make New
Friends Mixer, Sundays
Make new friends on Fort Worth’s party on wheels. Must be 21 and older. BYOB and make reservations 48 hours in advance. 129 W Leuda, 76104. cowtowncycleparty.com. 682.422.9253. 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 last for about an hour and a half. Acre Distillery. 1309 Calhoun St., 76102. 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. Grapevine Vintage Railroad – Fort Worth. 140 E. Exchange Ave., 76164. 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. Revolver Brewery. 5650 Matlock Road, Granbury., 76049. revolverbrewing.com. 817.736.8034.
Granbury Ghosts and Legends Tour, Fridays and Saturdays
Hour-long walking excursion around Granbury’s historic downtown square guided by actors dressed in Civil War Era attire. Nutt House Historic Hotel. 119 E. Bridge St., 76048. granburytours.com. 817.559.0849.
Stockyards Walking Tours, Daily
The Wrangler Walking Tour includes historical facts, culture and stories of the Stockyards. Stockyards Station. 130 E. Exchange Ave., 76164. 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. Sundance Square Plaza. 201 Main St., Ste. 700, 76102. sundancesquare.com/events/sundance-square-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., 76102. sundancesquare.com/events/sundancesquare-yoga. 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. Botanical Research Institute of Texas. 1700 University Dr., 76107 brit.org. 817.332.4441.
Fort Worth BotanicGarden, 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., 76107. fwbg.org. 817.392.5510.
Fort Worth Herd Cattle Drive, Ongoing
The world’s only twice daily cattle drive. 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 city-owned nature centers in the United States with more than 20 miles of hiking trails. 9601 Fossil Ridge Road., 76135. 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. Free. 1502 Commerce St., 76102. 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. 1989 Colonial Parkway, 76110. 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. 121 E. Exchange Ave., 76164. 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. Cowtown Coliseum. 121 E. Exchange Ave., 76164. stockyardsrodeo.com. 817.625.1025. or 1.888.COWTOWN.
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Turn to page 244 for some must-try drinks this fall.
Fried and Gone to Heaven
THE STAFF T-SHIRTS AT GUS’S FRIED CHICKEN SAY, “IF YOU HAVEN’T EATEN AT GUS’S, YOU HAVEN’T EATEN FRIED CHICKEN.” Well, I hadn’t eaten at Gus’s before the Tennessee-based chain opened a location in Fort Worth on West Magnolia Avenue in January, its second in Texas. But I’d had what I’d considered to be fantastic
fried chicken — from my grandmother’s tabletop “Jiffy-Fry,” to be exact.
Yet my childhood favorite was nothing like the spicy fried chicken Gus’s serves up, which is sold by the individual piece on a plate with baked beans, slaw and plain white bread, or as a “snack” with just bread. Fried in peanut oil, the crispy, glistening specimens arrive steaming in an amber-hued,
shell-like coating. Not to be confused with the cayenne-heavy, Nashville hot chicken, Gus’s is not quite as piquant — and won’t leave your fingers orange.
Gus’s casual interior makes patrons feel comfortable. Tables with checkered tablecloths in red and blue fill the smallish space, which is regularly packed during peak lunch and dinner hours. Diner-style barstool seating offers
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Two-piece dark plate with sides of mac and cheese and fried okra
Location: 1067 West Magnolia Ave.
For Info: 817.927.4693, gusfriedchicken.com
What We Liked: The casual atmosphere, the reasonable prices and, most of all, the juicy, perfectly fried spicy chicken.
What We Didn’t: When the restaurant is busy, which is often, there is virtually no room to wait for a table, creating a potentially awkward dinner for diners near the door.
Our Recommendations: Save room for chess pie.
glimpses into the kitchen, as well as into the refrigerated case filled with canned and bottled craft and domestic beers.
After ordering half-and-half iced teas that were served in souvenir plastic Gus’s cups, our visit started with Gus’s fried green tomatoes ($6.50), a Southern favorite not found on many Fort Worth menus. They came five to an order and were substantial in size. The slightly crunchy cornmeal coating encased soft, thick-sliced tomatoes that were tender and slightly tart. Demonstrate caution in eating them as they’re served tonguescorching hot, thankfully with a cooling side of ranch dressing.
Dinner entrees in our party included a four-piece chicken tender plate with baked beans, fried okra and a side of honey mustard for dipping ($10.65 plus 50 cents for subbing fried okra for the slaw). The tenders were just that — tender and thick with that same crisp, shell-like coating. The baked beans were slightly sweet, and the fried okra, while toothsome, was nothing much out of the ordinary. The same cannot be said about the mac and cheese, which was softer and denser than most varieties. Sprinkled with paprika, the hot, cheesy pasta was a balancing accompaniment to the crisp, sweet slaw of shredded cabbage and carrots. Both sides were part of my two-piece dark plate ($6.95 plus 50 cents for subbing mac and cheese for the baked beans), which included a juicy leg and hefty thigh. Dark meat lovers will agree, Gus’s spicy renditions of these bone-in favorites are lusciously succulent, yet hardly greasy.
Don’t miss the Southern chess pie ($2.95 per slice) for dessert. We ordered both chocolate and classic chess. Both buttermilk-based desserts offered a custard-like interior with a slightly crisp top and buttery crust. A scoop of ice cream may be added, but with the pie’s rich, creamy decadence, the addition isn’t necessary.
Fried Green Tomatoes
Southern chess pies in chocolate and classic flavors
The interior of Gus's Fried Chicken
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Brews, Bites and Really Good Pizza
| by Jessica Llanes |
EVER SINCE MAGNOLIA’S NEIGHBORHOOD TAVERN
ZIO CARLO’S BECAME CHIMERA BREWING COMPANY MORE THAN TWO YEARS
AGO, the hangout has endeared itself to patrons who come for the craft beer, made in-house, and its scratch Italian kitchen.
Housed inside a renovated 1950s-era laundromat, Chimera Brewing Company has a spacious and casual vibe that is welcoming and relaxed. Local artwork adorns the brick walls, and soccer jerseys and flags hang throughout the space. “We Love Soccer” signs around the bar proclaim, and they proudly support the Fort Worth Vaqueros FC, the city’s amateur soccer club.
Whether you are a soccer fan or not, Chimera has a warmth to it that makes you want to stay awhile and share a pizza and pint with friends. The bartenders are friendly — even when you aren’t a regular
— and the covered patio is nice on cooler nights.
Large blackboards list house beers and menu items, as well as specials.
lighter side — especially when I know I’m ordering pizza later. The Elote Style Corn Salad ($4.50) is the perfect appetizer. Creamy and spicy, the corn is served on a bed of mixed greens with a large chunk of fresh avocado.
What We Liked: Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m., Chimera has a happy hour or “Apericena” with buffet-style treats.
The “from scratch” menu at Chimera is casual Italian — pizzas, sandwiches and pasta — but the quality and flavors of the food are better than you might expect from a pub, thanks to Italian-born founding partner Carlo Galotto. Pizza toppings include rosemary potatoes, Gorgonzola and prosciutto, and its version of the BLT sandwich includes mozzarella and uses basil instead of lettuce. Chimera has also added a brunch menu on the weekends. Fresh-made bread is used for the bruschetta, and the garlic knots are delicious, but I prefer to start with something on the
What We Didn’t: There are limited options for anyone who doesn’t eat bread.
Our Recommendations: Although Chimera is great for a late-night meal, its lunch menu has reasonably priced pizza and pasta specials.
The pizza is a great choice, and Chimera does sell it by the slice ($4).
My favorite pie is the Brie & Speck ($16). Made on a rustic, hand-tossed crust, this pizza has no tomato sauce, but plenty of mozzarella, Brie and dry-cured Italian ham (speck). The saltiness of the ham is perfect with the tangy creaminess of the Brie. Be sure to pair your pizza with one of Chimera’s housemade brews. The restaurant/pub has six beers that are always available, as well as a couple of seasonal options. Fans of Mexican-style lager would enjoy the Playa Pantera, which is perfect for patio weather.
For the sweet tooth, Chimera has a couple of rotating desserts. I decided to try the classic Italian panna cotta ($5). Topped with fresh blueberries, this cold and creamy treat is perfectly smooth and just the right amount of sweet.
Chimera Brewing has found a good home on Magnolia as a casual brew pub serving up craft beers and unique bar food. It has earned its place as a solid choice in the regular bar and restaurant rotation.
Brie & Speck pizza
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Local
drinks that put other fall lattes (we’re lookin’ at you pumpkin spice) in hot water.
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COFFEE SHOPS IN FORT WORTH ARE SEEMINGLY GROWING BY THE MINUTE, thanks to the advent of local places like AVOCA Coffee and Craftwork Coffee Co. While some larger chains promote pumpkinthis or pumpkin-that, these three local shops offer something different. From sparkling iced teas to a martini-inspired Frappuccino, here are a few drinks created outside of the spice box that give the taste of fall an extra flare.
SPARKLING ICED TEAS
AVOCA
If coffee isn’t your cup of tea, AVOCA will be serving two new sparkling iced teas at both of its locations this fall. The “Whispers of Fall” tea is a jade oolong, green tea-based drink blended with a maple ginger syrup. For a more fruit-infused drink, the “M.C. Hustle” is a strawberry hibiscus tea with blueberry syrup. 1311 W. Magnolia Ave. & 835 Foch St. avocacoffee.com
THE SHAKERATO
CRAFTWORK COFFEE CO.
Craftwork Coffee Co. has a new location on West Magnolia Avenue and new drinks to go along with it. If you’re a Frappuccino person, the new Shakerato is the drink to get. Made of burnt honey, ginger, Chinese five-spice powder and a touch of vanilla, it is shaken in martinifashion with iced espresso and cream, served without ice in a chilled glass. Additionally, founder Collin Sansom says he’s working on another seasonal drink
to release later in the season. 4731 Camp Bowie Blvd. &1121 W. Magnolia Ave. craftworkcoffeeco.com
CAFE HOT CHOCOLATE BUON GIORNO
Buon Giorno’s Cafe Hot Chocolate is a family recipe that, according to the coffee shop, is top secret, but we do know that it ’s made with European chocolate imported from Belgium. While the drink is offered year-round, it is most popular during the fall and winter seasons. 915 Florence St. bgcoffee.net
The Shakerato at Craftwork Coffee Co.
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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. $
Mac’s Bar & Grill 6077 W. I-20 Frontage Rd., 817.572.0541. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat.; 10am-2:30pm and 3pm-10pm Sun. $$ No Frills Grill 4914 Little Rd., 817.478.1766.
Other locations: 801 S. Main St. #109, Keller, 817.741.6344. 2851 Matlock Rd., Ste. 422, Mansfield, 817.473.6699. 1550 Eastchase Pkwy., Ste. 1200, Arlington, 817.274.5433. 11am-2am daily. $ Rose Garden Tearoom 3708 W. Pioneer Pkwy., 817.795.3093. 11:30am-3:30pm Mon.Sat.; closed Sun. $
Restaurant 506 at The Sanford House 506 N. Center St., 817.801.5541. Closed Mon.Tues.; 11am-2pm, 5:30pm-9pm Wed.-Fri.; 10:30am-2pm, 5:30pm-9pm Sat.; 10:30am2pm Sun. $$
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Riscky’s
One of Fort Worth’s most iconic establishments is celebrating a milestone — Riscky’s Barbeque is turning 90, and to celebrate, it’s offering 90-cent specials throughout the month of October, starting with 90-cent fried pickles on Oct. 5. Then on Oct. 26, the restaurant will host a party in the Fort Worth Stockyards from 5-7 p.m., featuring free samples, craft beer from Rahr & Sons Brewing Company, and a live remote broadcast by 95.9 The Ranch. risckys.com
Stockyards Station 140 E Exchange Ave | 817 626 7777
Sun -Mon 11 a m -9 p m.; Tues -Thurs 11 a m10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m.
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. $ FORT WORTH
Le Cep 3324 W. 7Th St., 817.900.2468. 5:30pm10pm Tues., Wed., Sat.; 5:30pm-10:30pm Thurs.-Fri. $$$$
La Madeleine 6140 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.654.0471. 6:30am-10pm Sun.-Thu.; 6:30am-11pm Fri.-Sat. Other locations: 4626 SW Loop 820. 817.717.5200.; 900 Hwy. 114 W., Grapevine, 817.251.0255. 6:30am10pm daily $ Saint-Emilion 3617 W. 7th St., 817.737.2781. 5:30pm9:30pm Tue.-Thu.; 5:30pm-10pm Fri.-Sat. $$$
Buca Di Beppo 2701 E. State Hwy. 114, Southlake, 817.749.6262. 11am-10pm Mon.-Thu.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun. $$ Ferrar i’s Italian Villa 1200 William D. Tate Ave., 817.251.2525, 5pm-9:30pm Mon.-Thurs.; 5pm-10:30pm Fri.-Sat.; Closed Sun. $$-$$$
Mi Cocina 509 Main St., 817.877.3600, 10:30am-9pm Sun.; 10:30am-10pm Mon.-Thurs.; 10:30am-11pm
Fri.-Sat. Other locations: 4601 W. Freeway (I-30 and Hulen), 817.569.1444, 11am-10pm Mon.-Sun. 9369 Rain Lily Trail. 817.750.6426, 11am-10pm Tues.-Thurs.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat. $
The Original 4713 Camp Bowie Blvd., 817.738.6226, 11am-9pm Tues.-Thurs.; 11am10pm Fri.-Sat.; 11am-9pm Sun. $
Pappasito’s Cantina 2704 W. Freeway, 817.877.5546. Other location: 321 W. Road to Six Flags, Arlington, 817.795.3535, 11am-10pm Mon.-Thurs.; 11am-11pm Fri.-Sat.; 10:30am10pm Sun. $$
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
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. $
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. $$$$
The diagnosis is just the beginning of a very long journey for many cancer patients. Our goal is to save lives and stay involved, helping and supporting patients through their journey, giving families hope and keeping them focused on healing.
CAREITY BEGINS AT HOME
W E K E E P I T L O C A L
We continue to be an integral component in several North Central Texas counties for essential services provided to under-served or un-insured men and women oncology patients and children with devastating medical conditions.
Our team of health care professionals gives us the opportunity to have an insurmountable impact on the diverse needs of the community while providing a vast
array of life-saving and quality-of-life-enhancing services. We have trusted relationships with local cancer centers, local hospitals, local surgeons and our physician advisory board. In 2016 we were able to provide over $2 million of direct patient service to men and women with cancer and extend breast health to patients who would have otherwise been overlooked by the system.
ANNUAL SERVICES
CANCER NAVIGATION
850+ Patients!
A cancer patient navigator is an oncology nurse who is trained to help identify and resolve real and perceived barriers to care, enabling patients to adhere to care recommendations and thus improve their cancer outcomes. They help patients by meeting with them and their families, calling them and going to doctors visits with them when needed. Personal guidance is provided to patients as they move through their cancer journey. Patients who have nurse navigators are more involved in their care, more informed as to how their cancer affects their life, and are usually better prepared to deal with their cancer.
MAMMOGRAMS, DIAGNOSTICS, BIOPSIES AND SURGERIES
900+ Medical Procedures
Careity offers free early detection and a critical comprehensive indepth program for patients who are diagnosed. Access to our team of physicians for consults and surgery is rapid. A timely communication of treatment plans is vitally important. Within 48 hours of diagnosis, patients are contacted by a Patient Coordinator, through our team at The Center For Cancer and Blood Disorders. Careity patients are also eligible for clinical trials.
DIETICIAN SERVICES, NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
1500+ Services & Supplements
Nutrition plays an important role in cancer treatment and recovery. Registered and licensed dietitians help patients in their fight with cancer. A good nutrition plan helps keep the body stronger. Nutritional supplements are also provided to economically challenged patients.
PATIENT GAS CARDS
800+ Gas Cards
Cancer patients quite often exhaust their finances due to loss of employment, loss of insurance or lack of both. Many patients in our community have very long distances to travel for treatment and doctor visits. Radiology patients face a situation of having to commute to treatment on a daily basis for a long period of time. Many are forced into a position to choose between food and fuel. Our team of social workers determine the needs of economically challenged patients within our community.
PSYCHOTHERAPY, SOCIAL WORKER AND CHAPLAIN SERVICES
2500+ Patient Services
Psychotherapy counseling sessions are offered to cancer patients and their families as they are dealing with various emotional issues stemming from their cancer diagnosis. Depression, anxiety, grief, anger, fear, stress, insomnia and feeling overwhelmed are typically addressed.
MEDICAL MASSAGE THERAPY, REFLEXOLOGY, ACUPUNCTURE
700+ Patient Treatments
These medical therapies are provided to patients to help them manage and better tolerate pain and nausea. It gives them a better opportunity to consider the positive aspects of the drugs in spite of some of the negative impact on the body.
Amanda and children
When Beverly Branch and Lyn Walsh both lost their mothers to cancer, it sparked an even bigger flame under their get-going-and-do-something spirit. In 1999, 10 years after first joining forces as volunteer philanthropists/horsewomen/entrepreneurs, Lyn Walsh and Beverly Branch created Careity Foundation in 2003 to honor the memory of their mothers. Lyn and Beverly recognized the void in services for cancer patients who were without adequate insurance. As a result, their formidable talents are aimed at helping cancer patients who have limited resources. Together they have received recognition and awards for their unique approach providing care for local cancer patients.
AWA R D - WINNING TEAM
2017 AFP Philanthropic Foundation Award
Association of Fundraising Professionals
This award is presented to an organization with a proven record of exceptional generosity that, through direct financial support, demonstrated outstanding civic and charitable responsibility, and whose generosity encouraged others to take philanthropic leadership roles on a community, national and/or international level.
HEALTHCARE HEROES MILESTONE AWARD
Fort Worth Business Press
2010 ART OF GIVING AWARD
Fort Worth, Texas The City’s Magazine Lyn Walsh
2015 ATHENA LEADERSHIP AWARD Lyn Walsh
2015 PAPPY THOMPSON COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD
Beverly Branch 2013 AND 2014 CHARITY OF THE YEAR
Parker County Today
Lyn Walsh
2016 ATHENA LEADERSHIP AWARD Beverly Branch
2014 SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR Weatherford Chamber of Commerce
“When a person gets diagnosed with cancer, it affects them in so many ways. Cancer can impact their job, and they can experience financial distress. It can certainly affect them physically, mentally, and spiritually. As a cancer doctor I want to assure my patients have the most optimal outcomes possible.
It takes of village of people in my office to get that optimal outcome for our patients and to get them through their journey with cancer, but that’s not paid for by insurance plans, Medicare or Medicaid. They only pay for the direct patient/doctor interaction. They don’t pay for all the ancillary services that are required to get that patient through their journey with cancer.
That is where Lyn and Beverly and the Careity Foundation stand in the gap. They have worked tirelessly over the years to get good folks in our community to donate their time, talent or a little bit of their wealth to help cancer patients. That cancer patient could be your banker, your hairdresser, your neighbor or a loved one in your family. Through Careity, the money they raise goes directly to the many support services that are required to have a patient have the greatest possible success. For that reason, I’m thankful for Careity.”
ROBYN R. YOUNG, MD MEDICAL ONCOLOGIST
“Breast cancer treatment is my passion and my calling. Woman-towoman I bring you that special understanding about the effects of this disease. The part that goes beyond the physical aspects—the questions about your femininity, your appearance, your doubts, and your fears. I’ve been on the other side of the cancer table, having lost my father to lung cancer. There were times I didn’t feel like I was getting the whole story. I welcome your questions and concerns. We’ll walk through breast cancer together. You are not in this alone.”
RAY PAGE, DO PhD FACOI PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, THE CENTER
NO, IT’S NOT A TYRANNOSAURUS REX — it’s actually an Acrocanthosaurus, and a life-size replica can be found casually greeting visitors as they enter the Omni Theater on the north end of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. It’s one of several dinosaurs that can be seen throughout the museum, along with the bones of Paluxysaurus jonesi, the state dinosaur of Texas.
