While it can be hard to determine a cultural scene’s beginnings with indisputable accuracy, I shouldn’t be surprised anymore when I hear that the catalyst was an empty warehouse. And in the case of Fort Worth’s Near Southside neighborhood, that catalyst was spelled “Where House.” This past October, I was admiring the event space’s long-shuttered brick building—a facade that marries Old West jail and 1980s Chinese restaurant—with its former co-curator, painter Jay Wilkinson, who laid out what was once his version of house rules: “Make sure nobody burns. No one dies. And besides that, go nuts.”Around the Where House’s inception, in 2010, Near Southside, just south of downtown, was becoming a paradise for young musicians and artists: a playground of abandoned warehouses and medical offices,…
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