Marilyn Bailey

The town, an easy back-roads drive from Austin or DFW, is both quiet and brimming with worthy new shops and eateries.

In one shared gallery, contemporary portraitist Kehinde Wiley and Baroque-era painter Artemisia Gentileschi both depict the violent biblical story of Judith.

An anxiety-inducing new show at the Modern Art Museum reminds us just how thoroughly screens have co-opted our daily lives.

It promises a grand time on a big lake, next to an awakening downtown square and miles of horse (and lemur!) country.

Thompson’s Bookstore, one of the most distinctive small businesses in downtown Fort Worth, is not a bookstore. Its owners, who opened up shop eight years ago in an atmospheric old building, borrowed the name from the bookstore that occupied the space from 1972 to 1993. What the new Thompson’s is is a bar, with stuffed bookcases and literary-themed cocktails. It has proved so popular that its owners just completed a $4 million expansion, adding an event space whose marketing touts “the aroma of a…

The book news out of Texas isn’t all about bans, lawsuits, and school board battles. We noticed something, out in the field: our state today has more independently owned bookstores than we’ve ever seen before. Texans crave bookshops in our communities, and whether as entrepreneurs or customers, we’ll take action to keep them there. Over the past decade or so, and especially since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, new indies have opened in Texas at a rapid clip, joining venerable old institu…

With “Tap Into Your (Fort) Worth,” Netflix’s fictional girl group has paid more (and better) attention to Cowtown than, well, some of you.

The man behind Rip Wheeler promoted his coffee company, Free Rein, in Fort Worth. Dozens of his adoring fans showed up before sunrise for a taste.