Magazine picks Fort Worth's Fairmount as one of 'South's Best Comeback Neighborhoods'

Southern Living magazine "scoured the South to find neighborhoods that were once down on their luck but are now resurging with community pride."

The search led to 17 cities, including New Orleans, Nashville, Baltimore and Chattanooga, Tenn.

But also featured is a neighborhood on Fort Worth’s near south side.

Established in the 1880s and once a fashionable neighborhood, Fairmount fell into disrepair after World War II. But in recent years, the efforts of property owners have brought renewed vitality and made it, according to the magazine, one of the "South’s Best Comeback Neighborhoods."

"Families move here for the sense of place and belonging," said Fran McCarthy, who relocated to Fairmount seven years ago. "Who knew suburban flight would be a round trip?" — Tim Madigan


Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram

Bride marries arriving groom at Corpus Christi airport

The Associated Press

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A woman in a wedding gown surprised her fiance by greeting him at a Texas airport along with a justice of the peace. Robyn Moore and William Acosta exchanged vows Monday at Corpus Christi International Airport after he got off a plane arriving from Toledo, Ohio.

Photos were taken near a Christmas tree at a security checkpoint.

Acosta, who was wearing jeans and a sweater, says he was speechless and thrilled by the wedding Moore planned.

Moore says she and Acosta "spent half our relationship in airports."

The couple got a marriage license last week and planned to tie the knot this month, at a site to be determined.

Moore and Acosta met in 2008 in Dallas, where she lived and he was on a business trip. They plan to live in Toledo.


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Fans at Cowboys Stadium's first basketball game wowed by size of venue, but they say arena lacks intimacy

09:43 PM CST on Saturday, December 19, 2009
By ERIC AASEN / The Dallas Morning News
eaasen@dallasnews.com

ARLINGTON – Pigskin was kicked to the curb at Cowboys Stadium on Saturday, replaced by the sounds of squeaking tennis shoes, the thud of a bouncing basketball and a blaring basketball buzzer.

A gleaming maple hardwood court took center stage as the University of Texas defeated the University of North Carolina, 103-90, in the stadium's first basketball game.

The weekend battle was a dress rehearsal for February's NBA All-Star Game, and NBA and stadium officials were on hand to study the scene.

From the stands, basketball fans said a wide seating bowl designed for football can't replicate the intimacy of a basketball arena. Some thought the size of the stadium drowned out their cheering and screaming.

But the $1.15 billion stadium's grandeur is impressive, and the huge video screens make up for any bad seats in the house, fans said.

"I feel like we're in a big arena, it's so spread out," said Jesse Allen of Duncanville. He left his lower-level seats to stand at a table to get a better view. "I don't feel like the sixth man."



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