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Just in time for Arts Goggle, Fort Worth South, Inc. has launched the all-new Near Southside web site at fortworthsouth.org. It is a big improvement over the old site, and it’s the work of local talent - none other than local marketing firm Starr Tincup created the site. Take some time to head [...]

The full program for tonight’s Near Southside Arts Goggle is now online. This time promises to be the best yet - there are an outstanding fifty-four venues all around the Near Southside full of art and music. This time around, Fort Worth South, Inc. will be providing a circulator bus and pedicabs, so [...]

Couple of quick things:
1) Don’t forget - Arts Goggle in the Near Southside is this Friday from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Fort Worth South, Inc.’s web site has the list of venues - a full program is supposed to be online by the end of the day tomorrow. Yours truly will [...]

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I think it’s about time we did another urban Fort Worth walking tour. I had a great time hosting the last one, and had meant to make it a regular thing. Due to a variety of scheduling factors, that hasn’t happened yet. I’m thinking September, after we’ve passed August heat.
The question is [...]

One of my favorite urban Fort Worth events is coming up again soon - it’s almost Arts Goggle time! For the uninitiated, Arts Goggle is a night of art, music, food, and general good times on the Near Southside. It’s centered around Magnolia, though not limited to it as the Park Place restaurant [...]

Surprise! As you’ll notice, the new Fort Worthology is here. This design takes us back to aspects of the original designs, including the return of the three towers logo style. I think this one is nice and clean and easy to use, and this design should stick around for a long time. [...]

So, I’m not entirely satisfied with the current “widebody” look of the site. I don’t think the benefit in width makes up for the more awkward text handling and such. I’m now cooking up a heavy redesign of the site, which might very well be the biggest one in site history (other than [...]

By the way, for those of you wondering - the whole “registering to post comments” thing has been turned off for a while. Come on back. :) I’d been considering doing that for a variety of reasons, but I’ve decided that it’s not worth the hassle to the rest of you. So, [...]

Just wanted to give a shout-out to Francis Shivone at Food in Fort Worth for his kind words about my humble little bit of blog nerdery here:
Much of Fort Worth near downtown is in some form of new construction, planned construction or renovation. The biggees are: the Trinity River Vision just north of Fort Worth, [...]

In case you missed anything during today’s flurry of construction update posts, here’s a list of them all:
Sawyer Grocery/Miller Manufacturing Building
South Village Lofts
Red Oak’s Rosedale & Hemphill Development
Oleander Place Townhomes
Museum Place
West 7th
7th Haven
SoSeven
Southwest Bank
Trinity Terrace City Tower
The Carnegie
Omni Hotel & Condos
City Parking Garage
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
United Way Building
Caceria Building/500 Commerce
714 Main

Try not to over-stress your cable and DSL modems. :)

I’ve been busy in real life and haven’t gotten a lot of construction update photos lately. That’s all going to be rectified tomorrow, because I’ve finally assembled a batch of them and will be posting them all in what I’ll just call the Friday Construction Update-A-Palooza. Watch for a bunch of posts tomorrow.

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It was only two days ago that I reported on the sale of the former United Way Building downtown to Pearl Real Estate, and commented on speculation that Pearl would use the site for a Westin Hotel. Now, reader Emanuel sends word that Globe St. is reporting that Pearl will indeed be [...]

Just a quick note - I’ve gotten a lot of questions since I’ve been running this place about my photography; more specifically, where it can be viewed apart from the occasional post on the site here. So, finally, I’ve created such a place. I have now launched a photoblog, Kevin Buchanan Photography, viewable [...]

For those of you who aren’t reading the other Fort Worth site I’m involved in, here’s a rundown of the goings-on over at our sister site this week:

Steve Smith looks at a response from Chesapeake Energy about their Tandy Hills drilling activity
Bernie Scheffler writes about the 2008 Fort Worth Guitar Guild Festival
Steve Smith says he’s [...]

Just a quick note on another media appearance by little ‘ole me. The new July issue of Indulge Magazine features a great story about, and overview of, local urban living options by Meda Kessler, and yours truly is quoted. Here’s an excerpt:
Buchanan is particularly a champion of Fort Worth’s South Side, where smaller [...]

Things are looking a bit different around here, and the work has only just begun. The site’s been streamlined into this new design, which consolidates primary navigation into the drop-down menus under the header. (Incidentally, if you’re viewing the site on Safari, Firefox, or Opera, you should see those menus appear slightly translucent.)
Relocating [...]

Another little photographic project for y’all. I took this panorama, made up of several images and then aligned in Photoshop, from the Amon Carter Museum porch on Sunday. I’d been wanting to get a new panorama from here now that the trees are green and the Omni, Carnegie, and various other projects have [...]

I’d meant to make a note of this earlier, but better late than never. Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine did a big story on Fort Worth for its May/June 2008 issue, and they contacted me for information and quotes. Sure enough, yours truly appears several times throughout the article. I was especially [...]

Just a note to inform that I’ve added another link to the blogroll - the site of the Fairmount Southside Historic District. Fairmount’s a very cool neighborhood, and I’d encourage everybody out there to take a trip and check it out.

I think I’ve been remiss in not covering all the activity happening around TCU and the Bluebonnet Circle area, so I’m planning to do some posts talking about all the new construction happening around the campus. Just another step in trying to provide the most thorough urban Fort Worth coverage I can. More [...]

Sorry for the lack of updates today - I have started a new job (no, Fort Worthology isn’t my job), and have been getting settled in. Normal updates resume tomorrow!
And yes, for those of you who know of my previous job - this one is back in urban Fort Worth! Hooray!

Magnolia Avenue will be getting a makeover beginning this summer. Funding has been approved to commence the project. Phase 1 will see the replacement of rotting bench slats with more durable wood, removal of weeds and dead trees, planting of new trees in empty tree wells, a five-year maintenance plan, and the installation [...]