Joy Donovan

Joy Donovan is a contributing writer for CandysDirt.com covering the Midcities and Fort Worth.

Opal Lee, The Grandmother of Juneteenth, Will Get Her Family Home Back

By Joy Donovan / March 22, 2024 /

If ribbon cuttings are for “wimps,” as said Thursday morning, then the board sawing was very appropriate for Opal Lee, the honoree of a Fort Worth wall-raising ceremony. One of Fort Worth’s favorite daughters and the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” Lee used a power saw to cut the 2-by-6 symbolic board for her new house at…

What do Taylor Sheridan And Cowtown’s Best Spot For Tex-Mex Have in Common?

By Joy Donovan / March 19, 2024 /

Let’s talk some “hot goss” in Cowtown. Taylor Sheridan — you might have heard of him — is a big darn deal in a lot of places, but especially in Fort Worth. He’s got this TV show called “Yellowstone,” which you might have heard of. It’s a big deal, and so is he. He grew…

Midcentury Modern With Jukebox and Snoopy Catches the White Rock Home Tour Beat

By Joy Donovan / March 14, 2024 /

If music to live by is needed, then it’s as close as the living room at 8812 Rolling Rock Lane in Dallas. That’s because the living room of Katie and Billy Withrow houses a 1962 Wurlitzer jukebox. The couple found it on Craiglist, thinking it would be perfect for their 1957 Midcentury Modern. The jukebox…

Laundry Evangelist Patric Richardson Says The Perfect Laundry Room Needs This

By Joy Donovan / March 4, 2024 /

Patric Richardson was destined with a clear — and might we say clean — path to become The Laundry Guy. The first clue might have been that his favorite childhood gift was a toy washing machine Santa delivered to him at the age of 3. The second was majoring in fashion merchandising and textiles at…

Realtor And ‘Title Guy’ Team Up a Fourth Time to Co-Chair Fort Worth’s Cowtown Ball

By Joy Donovan / March 2, 2024 /

It’s not the first time, definitely not the second time, and it’s not even the third time … but it’s the FOURTH time a real estate dynamic duo has stepped up to serve as co-chairs of the Cowtown Ball. Yes, Virginia Durham and Christian Burton are pulling on their Luccheses and once again throwing their…