Jordan Dowd had been struggling to find work when he landed a position as a bouncer at Texas Republic Bar & Grill in 2018. His duties at the bar/restaurant/nightclub in the bustling West 7th Street corridor included turning people away for attire that violated the clubs’s dress code....

My head snapped back as her right glove hit my jaw. The blow from my 132-pound opponent was just enough to knock me off balance, and before I’d repositioned my hands to protect my face, I was catching my fall with my 10-oz. red boxing gloves...

...The rain stopped about half an hour later, and I watched as Danni & Kris’ singing and playing pulled audience members back out of the bar to the patio again. You couldn’t find a dry seat, but people were braving wetting their jeans or crowding in standing room to watch....

“Three hours of peace and music” – those are the words on the newest poster for the 10th-annual Frogstock, an end-of-semester music festival held on TCU’s Campus Commons....

The TCU overlay, which restricts the number of unrelated people who can live in single-family homes near the university, isn’t enough for many people in the Westcliff and Westcliff West neighborhoods. Residents there said they are still plagued with parties, noise and congested parking, as duplexes and multiplexes have become the latest “stealth dorms.” The greatest concern for residents is not traditional duplexes, but duplexes targeted at college students, said councilwoman Ann Zadeh...

Fifth-grader Abril Martinez earned her first bicycle by coming to class every day at Westcliff Elementary. Martinez is one of 21 kids at the school who have benefited from a program that rewards students for perfect attendance. The idea for “Wheels for Westcliff” began with Cathy Cushman, a former president of the Westcliff Parent Teacher Association. Cushman remembers riding her bike everywhere as a kid. “I used to put my feet on the handlebars..."