Joy Donovan
Joy Donovan is a contributing writer for CandysDirt.com covering the Midcities and Fort Worth.
Where: Southlake Town Square, 1400 Main St., Southlake, TX What makes it special: It’s early! Celebrating July 4th on July 3rd means those who can’t get enough can stretch their celebration over two days. It’s also a participatory event that includes lots more than just oohing and ahhing over fireworks. “It is a family-focused…
If you’re describing the Texas Rangers baseball team, it could be said it’s like having a player on third base with no outs. Things are lookin’ pretty good right now for the Arlington team’s first season under new manager Bruce Bochy. The French-born manager has taken teams to the World Series four times, winning it…
Cutthroat. Ruthless. Creative. Gossipy. All that and a huge dose of the pretty people is what made the TV show “Million Dollar Listing” such a guilty pleasure. The Bravo television series featured both Los Angeles and New York versions of killer listings and the real estate agents who were trying to sell these properties in…
No monkeying around, Fort Worth gets to brag that it is the site of Texas’ oldest continuous zoo. Something to roar about, right? And even though it was founded more than 100 years ago, the Fort Worth Zoo recently made some headlines. Founded in 1909, the zoo was listed this year in U.S. News &…
Flag Day is June 14. Are you ready? It was 246 years ago on June 14, 1777, that the Continental Congress approved the first U.S. flag design. Then in 1915, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed June 14 Flag Day, followed by U.S. President Harry Truman signing into law that the president must deliver an annual…
