The top local stories this evening from KERA News:
The NCAA Women’s Final Four is set to tips off Friday night at American Airlines Center in Dallas. Tonight’s doubleheader starts off with Stanford and South Carolina. Later, Connecticut squares off against Mississippi State.
KERA’s Gus Contreras breaks down the matchups.
Other stories this evening:
The grass-roots arts scene in Fort Worth is definitely growing – and groups are exploring different ways to keep it growing. One of these is a hybrid gallery-community center-museum. It’s called Fort Works Art and it opened a new space last year. For this week’s State of the Arts, Jerome Weeks asks owner Lauren Childs what she hopes to accomplish with it.
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