Fort Worth wants a ‘trash wheel’ to clean up the Trinity. City still needs $445K to build it
Despite public and private fundraising efforts, Fort Worth is still struggling to find enough dollars to build its long-awaited “trash wheel” — a water wheel capable of removing up to 50,000 pounds of floating waste each day from the Trinity River.
![Before retiring from KERA as senior arts-producer reporter, Jerome Weeks sat down with local All Things Considered host Justin Martin for a final conversation about the decades Weeks spent covering North Texas culture and culture-makers — from set designers to leather workers, novelists to choreographers.
Justin Martin: Jerome, you had 20 years at The Dallas Morning News covering theater and books and now 16 years here at KERA, covering all of the arts in North Texas. So the first question has to be over that time, what has changed here? Good or bad?
Jerome Weeks: OK, two things, one good, one bad, and I’ll start with the bad.
One factor that the North Texas art scene is always going to struggle with is sprawl. I was thinking about this the other day because I was driving through Deep Ellum, and it’s the opposite of sprawl. It’s a place of nightclubs and bars and restaurants all together.
It’s always been a kind of music center, but back in the ‘80s and ‘90s, it also had a substantial number of ambitious, young, innovative theater companies: the Undermain Theatre, which is still there, the Deep Ellum Theatre Garage [its founder, Matthew Posey, now works out of nearby Exposition Park with his Ochre House Theater], Theater Commerce, the Pegasus Theater [which has moved to Richardson].
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