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Top Shops for Women

Where to shop in Fort Worth right now: 5 best womenswear boutiques

Kendall Louis
Oct 5, 2015 | 1:38 pm

Dallas may be better known for fashion-forward frocks, but Fort Worth is stocked with chic boutiques aplenty. From vintage to pricey to buzzy, these shops keep women on the west side of DFW dressing their best.

Beehive
This Austin-based shop off the bricks of Camp Bowie is filled with bold statement-makers like floral dresses, embroidered tops, and sequin pants. It’s the perfect run-in-and-find-something-trendy spot before a night out, and it won’t break the bank. We love the accessories for no-fail gift shopping, including clutches from DVRA and Austin-based Realm, plus tassel earrings, sunglasses, and dainty rings.

Coyote Urban Boutique
Boho meets the West at this Sundance Square boutique in downtown Fort Worth that concentrates on well-made, comfortable, and fashion-forward clothing like maxi dresses, caftans, and rompers. Brands include Alice & Trixie, Free People, and Gypsy 05. The clothes pair perfectly with the jewelry, from Texas-made gemstones to one-of-a-kind turquoise baubles from New Mexico.

Esther Penn
Duo Alyson Johnson and Kacey Cargile opened Esther Penn, where affordable fashion is the name of the game, nearly a year ago, and it was an immediate hit. TCU students and twentysomethings love the shop for easy party looks like patterned dresses and crop tops, which hang alongside everyday staples. And, thanks to grungy tanks and ripped jeans, this Seventh Street store provides just the right amount of edge. Look for brands like One Teaspoon and Yellow 108, plus accessories from Fort Worth brand Tribe Alive.

ReVint Boutique
This West 7th vintage boutique owned by a mother-daughter duo is all about funky vintage and designer finds. Shop Chanel backpacks, Louis Vuitton luggage, fun party frocks, and a shoe section overflowing with Western boots. Local bloggers love this shop for ’50s dresses from the likes of Pucci, Diane von Furstenberg, and Ungaro.

You Are Here
Owners Anne Walker Miller and Joanna Bennett started the store as a pop-up shop in 2011 before parlaying their customer base into a permanent spot. The 1,000 square-foot space is tiny, but it never feels like anything is missing, thanks to the well-curated selection that includes high-end casual cool labels like Lemlem, 360 Cashmere, Dallas-based Koch, Clare Vivier, and Day Birger et Mikkelsen. Keep an eye out for the semiannual sales — the discounts are major. Think $25 Elizabeth and James culottes and printed kaftans at 75 percent off. Plan your visit wisely, as this shop is only open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 10 am-3 pm.

ReVint Boutique has funky vintage and designer duds.

ReVint Boutique in Fort Worth
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ReVint Boutique has funky vintage and designer duds.
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These are the 11 can't-miss shows in Dallas-Fort Worth theater for November

Lindsey Wilson
Nov 4, 2022 | 9:05 am
Casa Mañana presents Here You Come Again: How Dolly Saved My Live in 12 Easy Songs
Photo courtesy of Delaware Theatre Company

Get some advice from Dolly Parton at Casa Mañana.

Before the onslaught of holiday shows begins — who are we kidding, they start right after Thanksgiving — take some time to check out a few new titles and old favorites.

In order of start date, here are 11 local shows to watch this month:

My Fair Lady
Broadway Dallas, November 1-13
Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a young Cockney flower seller, and Henry Higgins, a linguistics professor who is determined to transform her into his idea of a “proper lady.” But who is really being transformed? The musical boasts such classic songs as “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “The Rain in Spain,” “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly,” and “On the Street Where You Live.”

The Sound Inside
Kitchen Dog Theater, November 3-20
In the 17 years since she was last published, novelist Bella Baird has almost completely isolated herself from the world. But things change when she meets Christopher, a brilliant but enigmatic student in her creative writing class at Yale. Intensely intimate and deeply moving, The Sound Inside explores the stories we tell about ourselves, the stories that shape us, and the intersection of fact and fiction.

Gypsy
Mainstage Irving - Las Colinas, November 4-19
“Everything’s Coming Up Roses” with Gypsy, the ultimate tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughters' success while secretly yearning for her own. Set in 1920s and '30s America, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born, this landmark musical explores the world of two-bit show business with brass, humor, heart, and sophistication.

Here You Come Again: How Dolly Saved My Live in 12 Easy Songs
Casa Mañana, November 5-13
This rollicking and touching new musical is about a has-been-who-never-was comedian and his unusual relationship with his longtime idol, Dolly Parton. The show is a celebration of Dolly’s music and of the profound and funny things she has to say to us all about life, love, and how to pull yourself up by your bootstraps during the toughest of times — even if your bootstraps don’t have rhinestones.

Feeding on Light
Undermain Theatre, November 10-27
Nora is a curious writer who seeks to understand her friend and collaborator Katherine’s obsession with 20th-century French philosopher and activist Simone Weil. As their discussion deepens, Nora and Katherine embody scenes from Simone’s life in an attempt to communicate with her across time and space. Feeding on Light is based on playwright Lenora Champagne’s personal relationship and discussions with Undermain Theatre’s late founding artistic director Katherine Owens, to whom the play is dedicated.

Dutchman
The Classics Theatre Project, November 11-26
Taking place on a New York City subway car, the play is a two-character confrontation that begins playfully and flirtatiously between Clay, a young, middle-class, Black man, and Lula, a white woman, who approaches him. Their conversation builds rapidly in suspense and symbolic resonance until it becomes something else entirely, ultimately ending fatally.

Bravo Broadway!
Plano Symphony Orchestra, November 19
Featuring Broadway stars Scarlett Strallen, LaKisha Jones, and Hugh Panaro, the PSO’s ruby anniversary also commemorates Maestro Héctor Guzmán’s 40 inspiring years as the Symphony’s music director, and each concert in the season relates to his journey with the PSO. This concert includes songs from Tony Award-winning Broadway shows like Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Dreamgirls,and more.

A Christmas Carol: A New Musical Comedy
Casa Mañana, November 25-December 23
Casa Mañana presents a new, fresh twist on a classic Dickens tale that will have children ages 4 to 100 laughing alike. A Christmas Carol: A New Musical Comedy features a contemporary pop score and current pop culture references that are guaranteed to have audiences dancing in the aisles. This show is suitable for all audiences.

A Christmas Carol
Dallas Theater Center, November 25-December 24
Dallas Theater Center presents their annual production of A Christmas Carol, a delightfully reimagined take on Dickens’ enduring classic. Three spirits have come to visit the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge to take him on a fantastic journey through Christmases past, present, and future that annually delights audiences across North Texas. But will it be enough to save Scrooge’s soul?

Crystal City 1969
Cara Mía Theatre, November 26-December 18
Written by David Lozano and Raul Treviño, this play is inspired by the little-known true story of Mexican-American students in South Texas who protested against racial discrimination, walked out of school, and into civil rights history.

Jesus Christ Superstar
WaterTower Theatre, November 30-December 11
The iconic rock opera, featuring award-winning music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, is set against the backdrop of an extraordinary series of events during the final weeks in the life of Jesus Christ as seen through the eyes of Judas. Reflecting the rock roots that defined a generation, the legendary score includes "I Don’t Know How to Love Him," "Gethsemane," and "Superstar."

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Movie review

The Good Nurse flatlines as a great serial killer movie despite Oscar-winning stars

Alex Bentley
Nov 3, 2022 | 1:00 pm
The Good Nurse flatlines as a great serial killer movie despite Oscar-winning stars
Photo by JoJo Whilden / Netflix

Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain in The Good Nurse

It could be argued that American audiences and content makers have an uncomfortable obsession with serial killers. That fixation has only grown through the years with the proliferation of true crime podcasts and streaming shows, each of which has returned to mass murderers repeatedly. A relatively recent killer with an unusual method is showcased in the new Netflix film, The Good Nurse.

But anyone expected a dark and gritty film may be disappointed, as the film shifts focus from the killer, Charlie Cullen (Eddie Redmayne), to one of his co-workers, Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain). A nurse at Parkfield Memorial Hospital in New Jersey in 2003, she becomes quick friends with Charlie after he starts there as a night nurse.

Their bond, one which becomes tighter after Charlie helps hide the fact that Amy has a debilitating heart condition, keeps her from understanding that Charlie is killing patients, poisoning them by injecting insulin into random IV bags in the hospital’s storage room. It’s only when an internal hospital investigation triggers a police inquiry led by detectives Tim Braun (Noah Emmerich) and Danny Baldwin (Nnamdi Asomugha) that Amy starts to have her doubts.

Directed by Tobias Lindholm and written by Kristy Wilson-Cairns, the film is well done, but never achieves the gravitas that would transform it into something great. Part of this is because the filmmakers never show Charlie as having any outward signs of being evil. He has a bland niceness about him that conceals his lurid impulses; that’s an effective way of showing that you can never know what’s happening in another person’s mind, but an ineffective way of building drama in a film.

The telegraphed nature of Amy and Charlie’s friendship takes on the feel of a slightly higher-class Lifetime movie, one that doesn’t quite fit the expectations brought by two Oscar winners in the lead roles. What ends up being more compelling is the hospital administrators, led by Linda Garran (Kim Dickens), covering up Charlie’s crimes for unknown reasons, and the doggedness of the two detectives trying to discover what exactly is happening.

On another note that’s admittedly a minor quibble, the film’s title does the story no favors. Using The Good… as the start of a title is a vastly overused crutch. Recent examples on both TV and in movies have included The Good Doctor, The Good Fight, The Good Wife, The Good Place, The Good Boss, and The Good House. Sometimes a film can overcome the plainness of such a title, but The Good Nurse is hampered by it.

Chastain and Redmayne each give respectable performances, but they’re nowhere near the award-worthy ones they’ve put on in the past. The most notable actor in the film winds up being Asomugha, a former NFL player who’s been inching into the entertainment industry over the past decade. He’s flat-out great in this role and could use it as a springboard to bigger and better parts.

The Good Nurse has its fair share of interesting moments and accomplished actors to bring them to life, but it falls short of being a must-watch. It’s a serial killer movie that mostly omits the killing, taking most of its reason for being with it.

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The Good Nurse is now streaming on Netflix.

Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain in The Good Nurse

Photo by JoJo Whilden / Netflix

Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain in The Good Nurse

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Ice Cream News

Fort Worth gets its first taste of acclaimed New York ice cream shop

Teresa Gubbins
Nov 3, 2022 | 10:30 am
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Their amazing ice cream is justifiably acclaimed.

An artisanal ice cream shop from New York is making its Fort Worth debut: Van Leeuwen, the Brooklyn-born ice cream brand, is opening a location in Fort Worth's WestBend development.

According to a release, the shop will open Thursday, November 10, with a party from 12-4 pm, when they'll be serving scoops for $1. It's located at 1653 River Run #141, and will be open Sunday-Thursday from 12-11 pm, and Friday-Saturday from 12 pm-12 am.

Van Leeuwen Ice Cream was started in 2008 out of a yellow truck on the streets of New York by Ben Van Leeuwen, Pete Van Leeuwen, and Laura O’Neill. They now have shops across New York, California, Pennsylvania, Texas, Colorado, and Connecticut. Pints and ice cream bars are also sold in grocery stores, and they'll ship nationwide from their website.

They're famous for their French-style ice cream, which means lots of cream and egg yolks, and for unique flavors like Honeycomb, Praline Butter Cake, Marionberry Cheesecake, and Earl Grey Tea.

They also offer sundaes, ice cream sandwiches, root beer floats, and milkshakes, and are especially beloved for their vegan and non-dairy selection made from oat and cashew milk, in flavors such as Churros & Fudge, Peanut Butter Brownie Honeycomb, and Cookies & Cream Caramel Swirl.

They also use high-quality ingredients such as pistachios from Mount Etna in Sicily, marionberries from their Oregon farm partner Stahlbush Island Farms, Rishi Tea for their Earl Grey Tea flavor, and for Texas, Praline Butter Cake, made with Texas pecans.

Fort Worth will be their 37th storefront nationally and their fifth in Texas, following their store in Dallas' West Village, plus three locations in Houston, and they have another location in the works for Dallas on Lovers Lane in spring 2023.

“We are psyched to open our first scoop shop in Fort Worth. Texas has been very good to us and we plan to expand further,” says Ben Van Leeuwen in a statement. “We can’t wait to bring the goodness that is Van Leeuwen ice cream to this unique and historic city.”

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