{"id":375048,"date":"2026-07-16T04:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375048\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T04:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:26:13","slug":"it-just-is-what-it-is-fort-worth-dancehall-closes-after-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375048\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It just is what it is’: Fort Worth dancehall closes after four years"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I\u2019m so sad to hear this. We loved coming there and dancing. We will definitely miss y\u2019all,” one commenter wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Karissa Ring, a former bartender and Fort Worth realtor, posted an emotional tribute to the venue days before its closure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“This is a huge blow to West Exchange,” she said.<\/a><\/p>\n

Madam Pearl’s was known for its regular open mics and live music and regularly hosted country acts big and small nearly every weekend, according to its Facebook page<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I\u2019m so sad to hear this. We loved coming there and dancing. We will definitely miss y\u2019all,” one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[46004,2466,1704,85744,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-375048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-alertable-realestate-chr","tag-chronculture","tag-chronstaff","tag-chrontexas","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}