Marcheta Fornoff
Arts ReporterMarcheta Fornoff is an arts reporter at KERA News. She previously worked at the Fort Worth Report where she launched the Weekend Worthy newsletter. Before that she worked at Minnesota Public Radio, where she produced a live daily program and national specials about the first 100 days of President Trump’s first term, the COVID-19 pandemic and the view from “flyover” country. Her production work has aired on more than 350 stations nationwide, and her reporting has appeared in The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Report, Texas Standard, Sahan Journal and on her grandmother’s fridge. She currently lives in Fort Worth with her husband and rescue dog. In her free time she works as an unpaid brand ambassador for the Midwest.
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The project is called The Art Docks, and it adds large-scale murals to Inwood Design District and Ace on Inwood, which host a mix of industrial buildings and retail spaces. -
Justin Robinson and Jake Blount are among the performers at the festival Saturday at Southside Preservation Hall. -
In 2025, several states passed laws limiting speech at colleges and universities. Texas is one of them. -
Liz Mikel, who has credits on Broadway, film and TV, takes the reins in the one-woman show "Where We Stand," a co-production of The Dallas Theater Center and Stage West. -
ICE inspired a wave of new protest music -
Local musicians across the country are speaking out. -
The radio program airs on nearly 200 stations across the country, including WRR 101.1 FM in Dallas -
Ian Derrer announced he will lead the Canadian Opera Company when his current contract expires -
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio’s set was a tribute to Puerto Rico -
The city is using goats to help clear privet, an invasive plant, that overwhelms native vegetation -
Antonio Lechuga taught himself to sew after the shooting and opened a new chapter in his career. -
The Civil Rights activist is one of several figures depicted in Mattel’s “Barbie Inspiring Women” series.
