Daisy Edgar-Jones, the lead actress in the new ‘Twisters’ movie, is photographed at the Rattlesnake bar inside the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Dallas on Thursday, June 20, 2024.
Daisy Edgar-Jones, the lead actress in the new ‘Twisters’ movie, is photographed at the Rattlesnake bar inside the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Dallas on Thursday, June 20, 2024.
Eunice Nyangena poses for a portrait before entering Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour at AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023.
Michael Quincy-Sanders shows off his bedazzled outfit before entering Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour at AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023.
Jadin Anthony poses for a portrait with her facial accessories before entering Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour at AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023.
Adolph and Peggy Alvarez hold the urn of their daughter Abagil, who died from a fentanyl overdose on May 14, 2022 at 18 years of age, at their apartment in Fort Worth on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Adolph and Peggy said Abagil was in a room full of people when she overdosed, but was left unconscious for around 11 hours before being found by authorities.
Andrea McCutcheon looks at photos of her daughter Valerie Vineyard, who died from a fentanyl overdose on May 27, 2021 at the age of 19. Vineyard and her boyfriend were both found unconscious the morning after they decided to take a Percocet pill. Vineyard’s boyfriend survived, but she did not.
Zain Shafi, the owner of Sabar BBQ, is photographed at his barbecue trailer parked at the corner of E Vickery Street and S Main Street near downtown Fort Worth. After learning the basics of barbecue while working at Goldee’s in Kennedale, Shafi opened Sabar in 2021 with the hopes of satisfying Texas barbecue enthusiasts all while introducing it to the Muslim community of North Texas.
Nupohn Inthanousay is one of the co-owners of Goldee’s Barbecue in Fort Worth. Inthanousay’s family is from Laos and was encouraged from his fellow owners to incorporate dishes from his culture into the menu at Goldee’s. Despite being skeptical about what customers might say, he decided to introduce the smoked Lao sausage and the mango sticky rice which have both been popular items on their menu.
Darwin Payne, a former Dallas Times Herald reporter and professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University, was one of the first reporters on scene covering the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 23, 1963. Now, 60 years later, Payne, 86, reflects on his experience being on scene at Dealey Plaza covering that fateful day in his book, “Behind the Scenes: Covering the JFK Assassination.”
Diane Lao, a Cal State Northridge student enrolled in the fashion program, is photographed as she looks at her shadow in the parking lot at CSUN’s campus on July 11, 2021. Throughout her life, Lao said she has suffered with body dysmorphia, but wants to use her passion in fashion design to uplift others who also struggle with their image.
Special Education teacher Quincy Luper teaches at Willis Lane Elementary School and said he often stays late to finish work and uses his own money to supply his students with what he needs for class.
Former Butler Place residents Tremayne Kilgore, LC Timms, Joe Collier and Greg Wilson are photographed in front of their old elementary school, Carver-Hamilton Elementary, in the neighborhood where they grew up just outside of downtown Fort Worth on Tuesday, May 15, 2024. Butler Place was home to hundreds of residents despite the stigma of being in the projects and the violence surrounding them. Although the future of the neighborhood remains uncertain, demolition plans are in place for most of the area.
Actors Stanley Simons, Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson, who star together as the Von Erich brothers, pose for photos on the red carpet for the world premiere of the movie “The Iron Claw,” at the Texas Theater in Dallas on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023.
Actor Lew Temple, who plays Coach Mitch Belew, is photographed on the red carpet for the world premiere of the movie “You Gotta Believe” outside of the AMC Palace 9 Theatre in downtown Fort Worth on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. The film is based on the 2002 Westside Little League baseball team’s run to the World Series, after the team was inspired by a teammate's father's cancer diagnosis.
Los Angeles Lakers legend and Hall of Fame NBA player James Worthy, center, sits with elementary students after speaking to them about life lessons at the outdoor auditorium at Leona Cox Community Elementary School in Canyon Country, Calif., on Thursday March 17, 2022. Worthy spoke with the upper grade students about the importance of getting an education, learning to say no, and working as a team. Chris Torres/The Signal
Interim Fort Worth ISD Superintendent Karen Molinar is photographed in the Fort Worth Independent School District building in Fort Worth on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2024. Molinar was voted in as the interim superintendent after her predecessor Angélica Ramsey was pressured to resign after two years with the district.
Matt Nelson, the Director of the Tubman Art Gallery, is photographed at the gallery site Blank Space Fort Worth on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Nelson said Tubman is a fine art gallery that aims to empower underexposed artists to showcase their work without the confines of commercial appeal or profitability.
Dallas resident Alice Salas fills in her eyebrows in her bedroom before she gets ready to go out every day. In 2008 and 2016, Salas was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had to undergo a full hysterectomy and chemotherapy. Now, Salas has to live with the effects of the chemotherapy that has left her scalp exposed and eyebrows bare.
Loraine Lundquist, a climate activist, sustainability lecturer at CSUN and former candidate for Los Angeles City Council District 12, became an advocate for the facility’s closure after she witnessed her students experiencing symptoms of nosebleeds, nausea and dizziness during the gas leak in 2015.
“There are other trace chemicals within natural gas itself, but this gas that is stored at Aliso Canyon is stored in a depleted oil field. Oil has a lot of cancer-causing chemicals that have problematic health effects, such as benzene.”
O’neil Carter, 24, makes music on his keyboard with his cat, Halo, at his apartment in Glendale, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. Carter is the lead singer of his band named 'Carter Ace' and have grown from 500 monthly listeners in 2016 to almost 300,000 in 2021.
Azeezat Abiola Amusat, 42, is an award-winning, Nigerian fashion designer and make up specialist who designed pieces for critically-acclaimed films such as Beyonce’s Black is King and Eddie Murphy’s Coming to America 2. Amusat designs ‘gele,’ a fashionable headscarf with unique designs worn traditionally by African women at weddings, birthdays, and religious events.
“Everybody wants to meet the ‘gele’ lady, the Yoruba lady that ties Beyoncé. Once people see me they say, that's her, she did that,” Amusat said. Chris Torres/The Signal
Grover Castro Tiburcio, a CSUN alumnus who majored in music education, traded his original mariachi charro jacket with Dodgers relieving pitcher Joe Kelly in late June. Kelly later wore the charro jacket when the Dodgers visited the White House the following week to commemorate their 2020 World Series Championship win.
Andrew, 33, and Jessell Martinez, 31, drink coffee in their remodeled coffee bar area in their kitchen at their home in Valencia, Calif., on Monday, April 11, 2022. The Martinez’s, known as The Martinez Casita on Instagram and TikTok, gained thousands of followers on social media by creating DIY home improvement content and was also featured on the Rachael Ray Show and Target’s official Instagram. Chris Torres/The Signal
Sixth grader Ian Hounsell, 12, waits for his dad, Scott, to pick him up after school at North Park Elementary School in Valencia, Calif., on Thursday Mar. 3, 2022.
For the last two weeks, Hounsell decided to stop wearing a mask at school to protest the California Department of Public Health and the Los Angeles Department of Public Health’s mask mandate. He has been placed in a separate classroom to complete his classwork separated from his peers and teachers. Chris Torres/The Signal
