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Unique '50s home for sale leads this week's 5 most-read Fort Worth stories

Stephanie Allmon Merry
Oct 16, 2021 | 10:15 am

Editor's note: A lot happened this week, so here's your chance to get caught up. Read on for the week's most popular headlines. Want a list of best things to do this weekend? Find that here.

1. '50s house for sale in south Fort Worth is in impeccable original condition. There's a '50s house for sale in Fort Worth that's not only in original condition, it's also in great shape. That's a combination you don't often see. The house, built in 1957, is located at 4100 S. Henderson St., in south Fort Worth.

2. Where to drink in Fort Worth right now: 5 hottest spots for tequila and margaritas. Texans love their tequila. Sales of the Mexican spirit in the Lone Star State are the second highest in the country. Here are the five best places for tequila in Fort Worth right now, from next-level margaritas to creative new cocktails.

3. Texas music icons George Strait and Willie Nelson to share stage for just 2nd time in history. On the cowboy boot heels of his acclaimed headlining performances at this year’s ACL Music Festival, the king of country music George Strait will not, in fact, ride away. He's returning to the stage with another Texas music legend, Willie Nelson, in a shared-stage performance that's happened just once before in the icons' storied careers.

4. One Texas billionaire is richer than Fort Worth's Alice Walton, Forbes says. No shocker here: The latest Forbes 400 list puts Tesla and SpaceX guru Elon Musk at No. 2 among the richest Americans and No. 1 among the richest Texans. Before Musk arrived in the Lone Star State, Walmart heir Alice Walton of Fort Worth ranked as the richest person in Texas. She’s now in second place, with a net worth estimated at $67.9 billion (up from last year's estimated $62.3 billion).

5. It's bath bombs away at Lush Cosmetics' blissful new Fort Worth pop-up. Holiday shopping just got a little bit bubblier and a whole lot fizzier in Fort Worth, with the opening of Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics' very first pop-up at The Shops at Clearfork. The store's limited run will last only until January 15.

This show is going to be legendary!

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These are the 12 best things to do in Fort Worth this weekend

Alex Bentley
Oct 27, 2022 | 6:00 am
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Chris Stapleton will play at Dickies Arena on October 27.

Although this weekend across Fort Worth starts off with a bang thanks to a major concert, it will be the smaller local events that dominate next four days. They include a new theater production, a symphony concert, five concerts featuring mostly local musicians, and a Sunday full of art openings and closings.

Below are the best ways to spend your precious free time this weekend. Want more options? Lucky for you, we have a much longer list of the city's best events.

Thursday, October 27

Chris Stapleton's All-American Roadshow
Country singer Chris Stapleton can't seem to get enough of Dallas-Fort Worth. He was supposed to headline the first-ever event at Globe Life Field in Arlington on March 14, 2020, but, well, you know. He did make it back there the following summer, and now he's back yet again, only this time at Dickies Arena. This version of the All-American Roadshow will find Stapleton playing songs from his 2020 album, Starting Over, joined by special guests Elle King and Morgan Wade.

Circle Theatre presents Kodachrome
Welcome to Colchester, a small town where everybody knows everybody and the pace of life allows the pursuit of love to take up as much space as it needs. Tour guide Suzanne, the town photographer, allows a peek into her neighbors’ lives to catch glimpses of romance in all its stages of development. Kodachrome is a play about love, nostalgia, the seasons, and how we learn to say goodbye. The co-production with Theatre TCU will run at Circle Theatre through November 19.

Friday, October 28

Magnolia at the Modern: Triangle of Sadness
In Ruben Östlund’s wickedly funny Palme d’Or winner, social hierarchy is turned upside down, revealing the tawdry relationship between power and beauty. Celebrity model couple, Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain (Woody Harrelson). What first appeared Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival. The film will screen six times through Sunday at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents "A Trip to St. Petersburg: Glinka, Glazunov, and Tchaikovsky"
With more than 20 years serving as the orchestra’s lieutenant-general under his belt, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra concert-master Michael Shih steps into the spotlight to deliver Glazunov’s Violin Concerto. This all-Russian program launches with Glinka’s Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila and wraps up with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. The concert, conducted by Delyana Lazarova, will have three performances through Sunday at Bass Performance Hall.

Green River Ordinance in concert
For over 15 years, Fort Worth rock band Green River Ordinance has paired warm, melodic, and occasionally rambunctious Southern rock with songs that centered around both enjoying life and staying focused on the things that matter. The band has released four albums in their career, most recently 2016's Fifteen. They'll play at Tannahill's Tavern & Music Hall.

An Evening with Rhett Miller
Singer Rhett Miller has a lot of love around Dallas-Fort Worth, both from being the lead singer of Old 97's and from his solo work. At this special concert at The Post at River East, Miller will put on an intimate acoustic performance, highlighting songs from his eight solo albums, most recently 2018's The Messenger.

Easton Corbin in concert
Country singer Easton Corbin was among the fastest rising artists in the genre in the early 2010s, releasing three albums in five years, including 2015's About to Get Real, which went to No. 1 on the Billboard County charts. Strangely, he has yet to release a fourth album, although he did release a new song, "I Can't Decide," earlier this year. He'll play at Billy Bob's Texas.

Saturday, October 29

Jonathan Tyler and The Texas Gentlemen in concert
Jonathan Tyler and The Texas Gentlemen will co-headline this special concert. Tyler has released three albums with his band, The Northern Lights, most recently 2015's Holy Smokes, while The Texas Gentlemen have released two albums, most recently 2020's Floor It!.They'll play at Tannahill's Tavern & Music Hall.

Kyle Park in concert
Texas singer Kyle Park has had modest success on the country music charts, peaking at No. 24 with his 2013 album, Beggin' for More. Like all musicians struck with the bug to keep creating, though, he's kept at it, with his most recent album being 2018's Don't Forget Where You Come From. This concert at Billy Bob's Texas will double as a Halloween party and costume contest, with prizes up to $300 being awarded to winners.

Sunday, October 30

Kimbell Art Museum presents "Guests of Honor | Modigliani: Three Works from the Pearlman Foundation" closing day
Sunday will be the final day to view three works by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani that have joined the Kimbell’s limestone sculpture, Head (c. 1913), as “guests of honor.” Drawn from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation and usually on loan to the Princeton University Art Museum, the three works include another limestone Head (c. 1910–11) and two paintings – portraits of the poet, designer and filmmaker Jean Cocteau (1916) and the Russian sculptor Léon Indenbaum (1916).

Fort Worth Museum of Science and History presents "Fort Worth and the Green Book" final day
Sunday will also be the final day to view "Fort Worth and the Green Book" at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. The family-friendly exhibition explores what the life was like for Black travelers in the 1930s, ‘40s, and ’50s, who faced many unique challenges both on and off the road, as well as the remarkable guide that helped them adventure with confidence. Visitors can step into the times through an immersive photo experience, chart a safe path through Texas using the Green Book as a resource, and examine artifacts from Fort Worth history and beyond.

Amon Carter Museum of American Art openings and closing
Sunday will be moving day at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, as two new exhibitions will open while another closes. Closing is "Art Making as Life Making: Kinji Akagawa at Tamarind," which offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of life in a 1960s print workshop. Opening are "Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography,"the first major museum survey to explore the practices of Indigenous photographers working today, and "Faces from the Interior: The Native American Portraits of Karl Bodmer,"which features over 60 recently conserved watercolors by Bodmer, including portraits of individuals from the Omaha, Ponca, Yankton, Lakota, Mandan, Hidatsa, Assiniboine and Blackfoot nations. Both new exhibitions will be on display through January 22, 2023.

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Palatial pampering

Texas' dreamiest destination spa unwraps regal $1,000 facial for 25th anniversary

Stephanie Allmon Merry
Oct 26, 2022 | 10:01 am
Texas' dreamiest destination spa unwraps regal $1,000 facial for 25th anniversary
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A red light mask is part of the $1,050 Regal by Valmont facial.

When the Lake Austin Spa Resort went shopping for a 25th-anniversary gift for guests, it aimed higher than traditional silver and picked treatments that incorporated gold, diamonds, and caviar. As a result, the dreamy destination spa now offers some of the most opulent, exclusive, and — at upwards of $1,000 — most expensive facials in the world.

In anticipation of its milestone anniversary in 2022, the Lake Austin Spa Resort’s LakeHouse Spa partnered with Swiss luxury skincare brand Valmont to introduce the new facials, which are as cutting-edge as they are indulgent.

Creme de la creme among them is The Regal by Valmont, which costs a jaw-dropping $1,050. The Regal was designed in Switzerland exclusively for LakeHouse Spa, and Austin is the only place in the world to get it.

“It’s definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience for a lot of people,” says Becky Bence, Lake Austin Spa Resort lead esthetician. “And it’s definitely worth it.”

The 135-minute facial begins with the high-tech deep cleanse of the HydroFacial and proceeds with seven masks, including four collagen masks, a papaya enzyme, and a medical-grade LED light mask. Every single product from Valmont’s ultra luxe “masterpiece collection” called l’Elixir des Glaciers is used; some products are made with an uber anti-aging essence of gold sturgeon fish. All are applied using a Valmont signature “butterfly” motion that helps to lift and sculpt the face.

What puts the Regal over the top, though, are 35 minutes of choreographed massage, including a 500-year-old technique called “kobido,'' developed for the empress of Japan. Touted as a “surgical facelift as a massage," Bence says, kobido was once reserved only for nobility and the empress, then later handed down from masters to disciples.

So rarified is the Regal facial, that just six of the 21 LakeHouse Spa estheticians are trained to perform it. They learned at a weeklong “bootcamp” conducted by two Valmont experts who flew in to Austin from Switzerland.

“It was kind of like the Navy Seal program of facials,” Bence says. “It was kind of like being handed down something from a true master.”

The $1K price tag hasn’t kept people away. Since the Regal was introduced several months ago, guests have come from all over the world — and from all corners of Texas — to experience what the spa calls “the ultimate in anti-aging perfection and cellular renewal.” (After all $1,000 is still far less than an actual facelift or even regular nick-tuck-plump-ups by a cosmetic surgeon.)

Why reach all the way to Switzerland for the palatial new treatments? After emerging from COVID shutdowns, Bence says, LakeHouse Spa personnel “auditioned” just about every single skincare line out there. The estheticians voted, and Valmont won.

“We wanted to add something really special, something luxurious but yet something out-of-this-world amazing that truly benefited the skin,” Bence says. “Something almost to replace Botox and fillers …that gave you basically a natural face-lift without being invasive but still being relaxing.”

In addition to the Regal, other new Valmont facials introduced in this 25th anniversary year include:

  • The 150-minute Gold & Diamond Trifecta Facial that involves three massages, four masks, infra-red LED, and a hydrogel mask with micronized gold and diamonds, which costs $990.
  • The Golden Aura Rose & Caviar Facial, a 100-minute treatment that incorporates marine products containing caviar extract and Diamond Collagen, costing $790.
  • Energy of the Glaciers, a 90-minute facial that features rare ingredients from Switzerland and deep, structural massage of the face, stimulating muscles to tone and lift; $750.
  • Luminosity of Ice Facial, a 90-minute treatment described as a “toxin-flushing, facial reflexology-inspired facial” that uses a cocktail of seven plants organically cultivated at high altitudes; $650.

The spa also has a complete menu of non-Valmont facials and dozens of other signature treatments.

Luxe but laid back
Lake Austin Spa Resort’s Dallas-based co-owner, Mike McAdams, says the new facials are indicative of how high the spa wanted to aim for its 25th anniversary.

“Our guest demands a luxurious, more refined experience, and Valmont helps us deliver on that objective,” he says.

And yet, Lake Austin Spa Resort remains a place where robed guests can emerge from a $1,000 facial and step over geckos skittering along the sidewalk while a speedboat whizzes by pumping Beyonce through the speakers. It’s upscale but unpretentious, luxurious but laid-back — almost like “spa camp.”

“We never wanted to create the ‘zen’ spa with stark lines and absence of color – we aimed to create just the opposite,” McAdams says. “Your surroundings absolutely have an impact on how your wellness journey can unfold and influence your daily life. The colors and textures that surround you mimic the vibe of the Texas Hill Country and pay homage to nature.”

The top-rated spa and resort is a far cry now from the place McAdams purchased on January 1, 1997. Located along the shores of scenic Lake Austin in the Texas Hill Country, the property had lived previous lives as a fishing camp, nudist enclave, rodeo ranch, and diet camp.

McAdams — at the time a commercial real estate developer for Dallas-based Trammell Crow — experienced a personal work-life-balance crisis that's wholly relatable in today's post-pandemic, "great-resignation" world two-and-a-half decades later.

“I was living on a plane, traveling a lot. It was high stress, and high energy and I loved it,” he says. “In 1984, I found a place that changed my life — the Ashram in Calabasas, California. It was a true bootcamp, with physical activities and dietary restrictions that were very intense… This experience forced me to come down from my hectic lifestyle of traveling, eating, drinking, and not exercising."

After adopting healthier habits in his own life, he and an LSU fraternity brother, Billy Rucks, seized an opportunity to buy and transform the Lake Austin Spa Resort; they still co-own it today. “It was a diamond in the rough," McAdams says.

More 25th anniversary offerings
One of the biggest challenges running the spa the last 25 years (besides navigating a global pandemic), McAdams says, has been continually evolving in an industry dominated by fleeting fads and headline-grabbing gimmicks.

“The changes in the last 25 years in the spa industry have been monumental,” McAdams says. “The global wellness industry is now a $4.5 trillion economy, with ‘spa’ being one small part of the bubble. We are all seekers looking for ways to look and feel our best, and I think the growth is due to a demand in wanting to take our health into our own hands.”

One of the resort’s newest touts (proudly stated on their home page) is that they’re Texas’ only destination spa on a lake. Recently they’ve introduced a full range of water activities, including a water taxi that transports guests to the spa and back.

“When we bought Lake Austin Spa Resort in 1997, our guests would put a toe in the water — but we’ve also evolved and now understand the power of being near a moving body of water and how it affects your health, happiness, and even alleviates depression,” McAdams says.

Along with the new fancy facials and lake programming, the resort has also added new classes and activities and upgraded amenities for its 25th anniversary. Befitting its location in the “live music capital of the world,” Austin-area musicians now entertain guests nightly around s’mores pits. There’s new artwork around the campus, too.

“My favorite part of celebrating our 25th anniversary this year has been to watch a very special piece of commissioned art be installed in the first few months of the year,” McAdams says. “A local Austin artist created a 64-foot long, 400-square foot abstract mural of stone, glass, and tile designed to honor our magnificent natural location on Lake Austin.

"Within the creation, I wanted to honor all of the amazing past and present people who helped get to where we are today. Their names are included in this mural, discreetly placed within this homage to nature. Because of these special people, Lake Austin Spa Resort has enjoyed many wonderful accolades through the years.”

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To mark its 25th anniversary, Lake Austin Spa Resort is offering 25 percent off stays of at least two nights or more, through January 31, 2023. Reservations must be booked by October 31. Some packages include generous spa credits, but sadly, the $1,050 Regal facial is not 25 percent off. Find more information at www.lakeaustin.com.

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A red light mask is part of the $1,050 Regal by Valmont facial.

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Jonas Brothers gobble up halftime gig at Cowboys' Thanksgiving Day game in Arlington

Alex Bentley
Oct 25, 2022 | 2:30 pm
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Jonas Brothers will spend Thanksgiving Day at AT&T Stadium.

The pop group Jonas Brothers will return to Arlington to perform live during the halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day game between the Cowboys and the New York Giants at AT&T Stadium, the Cowboys announced October 25.

This will be Jonas Brothers' second time performing during the Thanksgiving Day halftime show, as they also did so in 2008.

The November 24 performance is a part of the kickoff for The Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign, which raises funds to provide Christmas gifts, food, shelter, and rent and utility assistance to millions of people struggling this holiday season and beyond. The campaign is now in its 132nd year.

The individual Jonas Brothers - Nick, Joe, and Kevin - teased the announcement on their socialmediaplatforms, which showed blue numbers on a white fabric background that when put together made the date of the game - 11/24/22.

“We couldn’t be more excited to return to AT&T Stadium and play The Salvation Army halftime show,” Jonas Brothers said in a statement. “We are honored that our performance will help raise awareness of the great need that exists and encourage everyone to donate to The Salvation Army to make a difference in their communities this holiday season and all year long.”

This is the first time Jonas Brothers have made an appearance in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since they played two shows at American Airlines Center in Dallas in late 2019 in support of their latest album, Happiness Begins.

In addition to Jonas Brothers, previous halftime performers for the Cowboys' Thanksgiving Day game have included Luke Combs, Meghan Trainor, Selena Gomez, Kelly Clarkson, Destiny’s Child, Clint Black, Reba McEntire, and many others.

The game starts at 3:30 pm and will be broadcast locally on KDFW/Fox 4.

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