counselor’s vision for improving health in underserved neighborhoods includes free services and a mobile unit.
BY LAURIE JAMES
NIGHT & DAY
Meow Wolf, the Me-Thinks, Dixie, Raising Her Game, and more are popping this week. BY JENNIFER
BOVEE
EATS & DRINKS
STUFF
MUSIC
MARIANI
Dropped by Texas Pit Oyster Bar once again and left with a W. BY ANTHONY
The Rangers roar into 2025 with a dominant outing against the Red Sox. BY
The new 7” by All Clean and Stress Palace arrives right on dark times. BY STEVE
OZZIE GARZA
STEWARD
Come break the rules and say “yes!” to new art experiences at the Carter’s Second Thursdays! Every Second Thursday is different than the last — mingle with fellow art lovers, make art, and meet visiting artists, sometimes with live music and always with themed cocktails. You’ll never think of museums in the same way again.
Thursdays at the Carter
generously supported by:
This exhibition has been organized by the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, in cooperation with the Kimbell Art Museum.
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Additional support provided by Arts Fort Worth and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Promotional support provided by
Christina Berger, E.R. Bills, Jason Brimmer, Buck D. Elliott, Juan R. Govea, Patrick Higgins, Laurie James, Kristian Lin, Cody Neathery, Wyatt Newquist, Steve Steward, Teri Webster, Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue, Elaine Wilder, Cole Williams
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Laurie James, Anthony Mariani, Emmy Smith, Steve Steward
COPYRIGHT
By Steve Steward
By Anthony Mariani
METROPOLIS
CHAMPions
A counselor’s vision for improving health in underserved neighborhoods includes free services and a mobile unit.
BY LAURIE JAMES
Community Healing and Mental Health Project (CHAMP) is a nonprofit dedicated to fostering a community where conversations about mental health are encouraged, resources are available, and prioritizing healing take center stage. CHAMP focuses on the ZIP codes of 76104, 76105, and 76116, areas that CHAMP founder Lachelle Goodrich identified as “low-to-moderate income and under-resourced.”
Goodrich, a professional counselor, has worked for five years to fine-tune her nonprofit, advocating for self-care, meaningful conversations, and policy change. Next week, CHAMP will leverage all of this energy into Nurture & Thrive: A Black Maternal Health Experience. The event aligns with the annual national Black Maternal Health Week commemoration (which likely won’t be celebrated by the federal government this year). Started by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance several years ago, the week of April 11-18 advocates for policies and programs that improve Black maternal health. The theme this year is Healing Legacies: Strengthening Black Maternal Health Through Collective Action and Advocacy.
Goodrich said that at Nurture & Thrive, CHAMP will “provide a self-care experience, where mothers can learn about resources available to them.”
Participants can receive a care box with supplies for the baby and themselves, resources, and tools for mental wellness. The event is also sponsored by BRAVE/R Together, which aims to reduce all inequities (including health) in the 76104 ZIP code.
Maternal death rates in Texas have been a national embarrassment for over a decade, and 76104 has the second-highest rate of maternal deaths in the state. Since 2013, Texas has released a nonpartisan biennial report called the Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Review (MMMR). The 2024
iteration confirms that the death rate for all Texas mothers remained fairly high at 24 deaths per 100,000 live births. While white Texas women die during pregnancy at a rate of 16 women per 100,000 births, Black Texas women die at a rate of 39 per 100,000 births –– more than double the rates of their white peers. The worst part of this story is that firearm deaths account for almost 10% of overall deaths of new mothers in this state. About 80% of those pregnancy-related deaths were preventable.
More alarming is that severe maternal health complications are rising as well –– conditions like infection, pregnancy-related hypertension, aneurysms, significant mental health challenges, and obstetric hemorrhage, where post-delivery bleeding from a woman’s uterus can’t be stopped. Many of these conditions are also preventable or at least predictable. White Texas women experience these complications at a rate
of 72 per 100,000 births. Black women experience severe maternal morbidity at about double the rate of their white peers (134 per 100,000 births).
The MMMR recommends some proven initiatives, including helping women already struggling with mental health challenges to access care and supporting them during and after pregnancy. The report also favors expanding access to doulas –– trained professionals who provide personalized support from pregnancy through childbirth and into the tenuous postpartum period when women are often left alone to care for their babies and their healing bodies. Additional funding for prenatal screening for depression, general preventive women’s health care, and treatment of postpartum depression were also recommended.
Those recommendations fit squarely into the mission of CHAMP. Goodrich is a former social studies teacher at Stripling Middle School
and has worked with Housing Solutions in resident services. She helped families transition post-Hurricane Katrina, then helped families in Stop Six access workforce training and education.
As a teenage parent, Goodrich said the social worker in her high school helped her “navigate the systems because I was a teenage mom.” Goodrich defied the odds and became a teacher in her mid-20s, but her background and experiences led her to want to do more. “I decided I would take my gift and passion and put it to work.”
As a licensed professional counselor (LPC), Goodrich has a passion for “helping people see things from a different perspective, working with kids, and understanding how our childhood plays a part in our adult life.”
CHAMP is aimed at specifically addressing what Goodrich calls the “T word” — trauma. Childhood trauma creates changes in the brains of young people, and the damage may be felt for years. Starting in 2020, Goodrich saw a need for counseling around the social isolation and chaos brought on by COVID. CHAMP began to offer free short-term counseling sessions for youth ages 11-17 who have experienced gun violence, abuse, or other trauma, aiming to reduce juvenile incarcerations and increase positive coping skills.
In 2023, Goodrich said she had an idea come to her in a dream: Why couldn’t she take CHAMP’s services directly to the community in the form of a mobile unit? Mammography mobile units took off in the early 2000s as a way to bring needed services to people not visiting the places where the services were offered. Inspired by the Black Heart Association service van, Goodrich said she thought, “We don’t have anything that is a mental-health response on wheels.”
And that began CHAMP’s Mobile Mental Health Unit. Unlike first-response crisis units like police, ambulance, and fire and rescue, which arrive at a crisis immediately, Goodrich envisions CHAMP’s mobile unit appearing within 48-72 hours of a traumatic incident to offer group therapy, education assistance, and a virtual reality program aimed at rapid healing. CHAMP purchased the basic mobile unit last year, and Goodrich is currently raising funds to fully equip and outfit the VR piece.
As a counselor, Goodrich and her staff at iLegacy Consulting and Counseling have built up a large business with virtual counseling, but she said that sometimes, there is no substitute for in-person sessions.
“We all are different learners,” she said. “Virtual counseling has worked wonders, continued on page 5
CHAMP founder Lachelle Goodrich was an adolescent parent. Her mission with her nonprofit is to provide education and advocacy.
and we’ll continue to have these things in place. But if you’ve been exposed to gun violence and trauma, it brings a different experience.”
Goodrich said it’s important for people in situations of trauma –– whether it’s gun violence or a maternal mental-health need –– not to have to seek out the help. And navigating health insurance for services ––especially Medicaid –– is “a hassle [because] there’s no timeframe on healing,” she said, but insurers often restrict or limit payment for services.
CHAMP’s services are culturally competent, which Goodrich said is crucial “in order for people to feel safe to process their emotions.”
That’s true whether you live in a neighborhood impacted by poverty or if you’re a pregnant woman.
There’s a bit of good news for pregnant Black women, who are most at risk in Tarrant County. Taking one of the MMMR recommendations to heart, the United Way of Tarrant County has already trained 120 men and women in the 76104 ZIP code to be doulas. These community members have a set of life experiences that parallel the expectant mothers’ and their partners’. The doula services include coaching, advocacy, and assistance through pregnancy and delivery and into the critical first six weeks post-partum. The partnership links
community advocates and medical providers and leads to better, healthier outcomes for mothers and their babies.
The agency is also implementing TeamBirth, a program designed to improve patient care by giving women the tools they need to improve communication with their medical providers for a safer birth and better recovery experience. TeamBirth was pioneered at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Northeast and was integrated into a
small cohort of women and their providers across Baylor Scott & White, JPS Health Network, and Texas Health Resources in January.
Information on the state’s Maternal Health website has not been updated since 2021, so if you’re looking for statistics, you’ll have to go to partner sites, like the United Way of Tarrant County or the Texas Women’s Healthcare Coalition. Nobody can argue that Texas Black women and their
babies have been in a life and death struggle for health care for the last decade, across four presidential administrations. Thanks to CHAMP, BRAVE/R Together, and other partnering agencies, a change may be coming. To support CHAMP or learn more, visit Facebook.com/CHAMPTexas. l
Longtime Weekly contributor Laurie James is a board member of CHAMP.
The inside of the CHAMP mobile unit is a comfortable space for youth to meet with licensed counselors and unpack traumatic issues. Services are provided free of charge.
CHAMP’s Nurture & Thrive aims to help Black women navigate the path to safe labor and delivery.
ORGANIZING LOCAL
Let’s Save Democracy
Practical
Actions to Fight Back
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According to astrology writer Robert Brezsny, all of us who are paying attention should understand that we are embedded in a red-alert emergency crisis. “For now, I’ll refrain from enumerating the US government’s relentless ongoing attacks on freedom and democracy.” Instead, Brezsny encourages you to join him in channeling our outrage into intentional, creative, and vitalizing acts of resistance, uprising, and transformation.
”Let’s begin by making our passionate presence felt at the MASS MOBILIZATION that will rise up in American cities on Saturday, April 5” when people are taking to the streets nationwide to fight back with a clear message: Hands off! The organizers of Hands Off 2025, feel that Donald Trump and Elon Musk think the country belongs to them. “They’re taking everything they can get their hands on, and daring the world to stop them.”
This Sat, Apr 5, local volunteers have organized events in Arlington, Burleson, Dallas, Denton, Flower Mound, and Frisco. Here are the locations and times. ARLINGTON: Tarrant County SubCourt, 700 E Abram St, Noon-1:30pm. BURLESON: Walgreens Pharmacy
(sidewalk out front), 833 SW Wilshire Blvd, 3pm-6pm. DALLAS: Dealey Plaza, 400 Main St, 3pm-6pm. DENTON: Denton Courthouse-on-the-Square, 110 W Hickory St, 1pm-3pm. FRISCO: Intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 423 & Stonebrook Parkway, 1pm-2pm.
There is also an event in Flower Mound. Once you sign up online, the organizer will email you the location. For more info about the MASS MOBILIZATION, go to HandsOff2025.com or TinyURL. com/HandsOffOurWorld.
Brezsny also has suggestions on guides to inspire us to be effective change-makers including Fighting
Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance at Archive.ph/FzAyY, Indivisible: Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink at Indivisible.org/resource/guide, and What You Can Do to Fight This Cou at ChooseDemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/.
Another essential action that he says we can all take is to rely on robust sources of truth. You can find a list of alternative media at TinyURL.com/AlternateMedia. You can also study a fascinating political science finding at TinyURL.com/ FocusedActivism: All it takes to ensure major political change is the focused activism of 3.5% of the population. If you would like to review one of his core
statements about how to proceed, read his first post-election essay at Tinyurl.com/ ThisIsRealNow.
As for Robert Brezsny’s Freewill Astrology, see page 20.
TRINITY METRO
Heading to the MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival April 10–13? Take an easy, breezy trip on a Trinity Metro bus, train or bike, and you’ll appreciate the ride just as much as the art! RIDE TRINITYMETRO .org / MSFWAF
STUFF
Play Ball!
Like all good things, Rangers Opening Day was here one minute, then gone the next.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY OZZIE GARZA
While not a national holiday, Opening Day is certainly celebrated like one across the country.
The day is circled on lots of calendars. It’s a time to take off work, enjoy the start of a new season, and forget about life for a while. It’s a time when school districts have a lot of absences, not only by students but also teachers — Arlington ISD was looking for substitute teachers on March 27.
Many medical appointments are rescheduled because “the doctor is not available on that day.” It’s time to go to the ballpark, come what may.
That is what Rangers fan Sophie McCook did as she interrupted her studies at the University of Arkansas to be at Globe Life Field.
“This is so special,” the native Arlingtonian said. “I’ve been eagerly waiting for this day. To me, it’s a holiday.”
At Globe Life Field, local TV crews arrived before dawn to do their morning shows on location. The media gate opened at 9 a.m., and the tailgating around the stadium began well before noon, more than three hours before the scheduled first pitch at 3:05 p.m. It was a festive atmosphere with much optimism for the 2024 season.
The optimism is because Rangers Manager Bruce Bochy goes on World Series winning streaks. He won it in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2023, and now he should win it again in 2025.
For me, the day began at 7:30 a.m., when my alarm clock rang with the booming voice of Rangers public address announcer Chuck Morgan saying, “It’s baseball time in Texas.” The alarm clock was a promotional item the Rangers gave to fans a few years ago. I use it every Opening Day eve.
This was my 25th consecutive Rangers home opener, the sixth at Globe Life Field. Upon entering the stadium, one of the first persons I saw on the concourse was Eric Nadel, the Hall of Fame voice of the Texas Rangers who would be broadcasting his 47th home opener.
After the long offseason, it was good to see fellow media members and stadium staff.
The offseason, unlike the previous one, was a little longer because the Rangers failed to make the playoffs. Their opponents, the Boston Red Sox, also watched the playoffs from home in 2024. So, the two high-profile teams were eager to begin the 2025 campaign.
The Rangers are no longer the defending champs, and the first thing I noticed as I walked onto the field was that the World Series champions banner that hung from the right-field rafters the entire 2024 season was gone. A smaller World Series banner is now in left field, joining the other championship banners.
Prior to the gates opening, Rangers ownership held an Opening Day toast as
to hot dogs and nachos. A savory aroma of grilling filled the air. The Rangers’ mariachi band was also outside performing for the revelers as John Fogerty’s “Centerfield” competed with the live music.
As the gates opened, so did the stadium’s 240,000-square-foot, 19,000-ton retractable roof, letting the sunshine in. It opened to “Also Sprach Zarathustra.” The roof closed before the start of the game. The roof’s opening and closing, which takes about 12 minutes, is a must-see, especially for first-timers.
Upon entering the stadium, fans were given a magnetic schedule, which has become an Opening Day tradition. Hungry fans headed to the concession stands to check out the new delicacies (“Globe Life Food,” Mar. 26). Some lined up to purchase the new 2-foot Boomstick Burrito with its 26-inch-diameter tortilla.
“I just had to try it,” said Mike Erickson of Plano. “My wife said I had to finish it by the fifth inning.”
The roof closed prior to the pregame ceremonies. Because of the closed roof, there was no flyover this year.
However, there was a special event in the stadium’s press box. Team owner Ray Davis announced that the press box would be named after John Blake to recognize the decades of contributions by the Rangers’ longtime communications executive.
the front office staff sipped Champagne while Mariachi de los Texas Rangers, the team’s official mariachi band, provided the entertainment.
At the Rangers clubhouse, it was Opening Day Christmas as players were surprised to see a large gift bag in front of their lockers. The Santa was Josh Jung, who filled the bags with various goodies.
“Opening Day is basically our Christmas, so I wanted to do that,” said the young third baseman. “I truly believe if you’re going to develop and create an unselfish culture, you got to be unselfish.”
As I approached the Rangers’ dugout, the first person I saw was Rangers slugger Adolis Garcia, who shook my hand and said, “Hola, todo bien?” (Hello, all good?), a common greeting from many of the Rangers’ Latin players.
Soon, the media crowded around Bochy in the Rangers’ dugout. The skipper has seen nearly 40 Opening Days, as a player, coach, and manager.
“There’s nothing like Opening Day,” he said. “You’re excited. You’re pumped. You work hard to get ready for it, and here we are. We’re hungry to get back” to the World Series.
Players agree that an Opening Day game, whether at home or away, is not like any other contest.
“There’s that little extra excitement, a faster beating of the heart,” Garcia said. “There’s the anxiety to get off to a good start, for yourself and for the team. It can be nerve-racking.”
Outside, the tailgaters also felt the anxiety and excitement as they feasted on all types of food, from crawfish and brisket
As gametime neared, the players were on the field, which was in pristine condition. They did their stretching and pregame rituals. Some went to the centerfield area to greet some Red Sox players.
It was now time for the pregame festivities as large U.S. and Texas flags were unfurled in centerfield by Rangers season-ticket Lone Star members. Then West Texas native Randall King performed the National Anthem. The ceremonial first pitch was thrown by All Elite Wrestling’s Maxwell Jacob Friedman. MJF will return to Globe Life Field on Sat., July 12, for AEW All in: Texas, which will mark the first-ever professional wrestling event at the home of the Rangers.
That was followed by the introduction of both teams as players and coaches lined up on the foul lines in front of their respective dugouts.
Then at exactly 3:05 p.m., the sellout crowd of 37,587 heard the welcome voice of Chuck Morgan saying, “It’s baseball time in Texas.”
The Rangers took the field, and at 3:08 p.m., home plate umpire Todd Tichenor signaled to “play ball.”
Rangers ace Nathan Eovaldi’s first pitch to lead-off hitter Jarren Duran was grounded to first baseman Jake Burger, who stepped on the bag for the first out.
Two hours and 34 minutes later, the game was over as the Rangers lost 5-2. It was the Rangers’ first-ever loss in an Opening Day contest at Globe Life Field.
They bounced back, however, and defeated the Red Sox the following three games, winning the four-game series 3-1. The unofficial holiday came and went. l
Ozzie Garza has written about the Texas Rangers for more than 25 years. He is a frequent contributor to the Fort Worth Weekly
Opening Day weekend for the Texas Rangers was a huge success — on the field and off.
Tailgaters started grilling around noon before the 3:05 first pitch.
SCREEN
Blockheads
A hit video game receives a movie treatment that’s too square.
BY KRISTIAN LIN
What’s become clear in the last decade or so is that any intellectual property can become a great movie if it’s treated with enough imagination and creativity. So, it’s no surprise that we have A Minecraft Movie , a film version of the wildly successful video game where players mine cubes of material and use them to craft structures, weapons, vehicles, and whatever else they care to invent. I hate to report, though, that the charm that has won the game hundreds of millions of users around the world is little in evidence in this big-screen adventure.
The story begins with young, orphaned Henry (Sebastian Hansen) and his older sister/legal guardian Natalie (Emma Myers) moving to a small town in Idaho, where the boy befriends Garrett “Garbage Man” Garrison (Jason Momoa), a washed-up video-game champion and owner of a gaming store that’s about to go under. When Henry finds a glowing cube in Garrett’s shop, the thing opens a portal that pulls them, Natalie, and their Realtor/ zookeeper Dawn (Danielle Brooks) into the Overworld, a place made of Minecraft blocks where night falls every 20 minutes or so.
Honestly, the best stuff in the movie comes in Idaho, as the townspeople of this new place constantly overshare. A random schoolteacher (Matt Berry) announces to his class: “I teach gym.
I teach art. Financially, I’m living in a nightmare. Most of my money is tied up in a drone kiosk at the mall.” The movie could have made more of Natalie’s job as a social media coordinator for a potato-chip factory full of geriatric employees, though someone does mention that her career goal is to get the company’s account up to 75 followers. The film is directed by Napoleon Dynamite ’s Jared Hess, and he gives us a spectacular tater tot dish prepared by Natalie as well as some of that film’s deadpan sense of humor.
Alas, you can feel it all leaking away when the characters reach the Overworld. It’s ruled by Steve (Jack Black), a doorknob salesman who finds true fulfillment building giant Minecraft projects. He promises to bring the team back to
Earth if they reunite him with his pet wolf, Dennis, and help him defeat Malgosha (voiced by Rachel House), the queen of the Nether who wants to take over the Overworld and mine it for gold until it collapses.
The game gives its millions of users a sense of purpose and joy from building digital palaces and fortresses, and Stephen Chbosky’s Wonder is better at capturing that feeling than this film. Actually, forget that. We’d settle for just a bunch of funny jokes, but the gags’ effectiveness and Hess’ sense of pacing desert us in the Overworld.
The Lego Movie was better at building its fantasy environment out of 3D bricks, and if you want to point out that this movie is working with practical effects, I’d say that Barbie did better with those at
creating a world like the one that kids imagine with real sets and props. The ones here look all too much like sets, and the Minecraft monsters generate neither fear nor awe nor any other emotion.
To compensate, the estimable actors here all scream their lines in misguided efforts to make this seem like fun. The only cast member who finds something like the proper groove is Jennifer Coolidge in a relatively small role as Henry’s vice principal, who stays back in Idaho and falls in love with a Minecraft villager who has found his way into the Gem State. The other plotlines, however, feel like so much padding, and the five credited screenwriters have the characters run hither and yon trying to give some story to a game that famously has no plot. Yes, intellectual properties can make great movies, but it takes a filmmaker with peculiar talents, and A Minecraft Movie didn’t find one. l
In front of a cubic moon, Dennis the wolf lets out a howl in A Minecraft Movie. Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
A Minecraft Movie
Starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa. Directed by Jared Hess. Written by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer, Neil Widener, Gavin James, and Chris Galletta. Rated PG.
NIGHT & DAY
With the iconic Tupperware brand in bankruptcy, Dixie is also calling it quits.
Dixie’s Tupperware Party is returning to Bass Performance Hall’s McDavid Studio (301 E 5th St, Fort Worth, 817-212-4280) for its final season. Dixie Longate is the fast-talking, gum-chewing, ginger-haired Alabama gal who brought your grandma’s Tupperware party into the 21st century. Along with demonstrating the many alternative uses for the iconic plastic kitchen staple, she tells outrageously funny (but adult-oriented) tales and enlists audience members to participate. Performance times include 7:30pm Wed-Fri, 3pm and 7:30pm Sat, and 3pm Sun. Tickets start at $55 at BassHall.com.
Educators from the Kimbell Art Museum and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will gather from 10am to 3pm to explore contemporary creative practice in conversation with traditional artforms from across the centuries at Then & Now: Art in Dialogue at The Modern (3200 Darnell St, Fort Worth, 817-738-9215). This immersive gallery and studio art experience will highlight works from the Modern’s special exhibition Feeling Color: Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling and the Kimbell’s collection of ancient American art. Tickets are $15 at TheModern.org.
Me-Thinks frontman Ray Liberio let us know they’re playing their annual birthday bash at Growl at Division Brewing Pizza Kitchen (513 E Abram St, Arlington, 682-259-7011) with The Dangits and Knock ’Em Back. It’s also a record release show of a split of the Me-Thinks and Dangits covering each other’s songs. (!) Ray says Division’s food is fantastic. “Hell, we’d play for free pizza!”
The Troumatics are also doing a release show today, for the single “I Am a River,” at Magnolia Motor Lounge (3803 Southwest Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-332-3344) with Good
Latimer and The Infamists. Troumatics frontman Steve says, MML has “a great, underrated Bloody Mary.”
I’m from Dallas. My apologies. I got here as soon as I could. Inexplicably, I was turned on to former Dallasite and musical genius St. Vincent only a few years back, long after she’d left North Texas. I could kick myself that I never went to a local show. I’ve never even seen her on tour. She’s playing at The Bomb Factory (which recently took back its historic original name) in Deep Ellum (2713 Canton St, Dallas, 214-749-5757) at 8pm with special guest Glass Beams, so I’ll rectify the situation then. My husband bought me tickets for Christmas, so I’m good (thanks for asking), but for those on the hunt, you can still get them starting at $54.50 on AXS.com.
Ahead of Sunday’s show, Meow Wolf Grapevine (3000 Grapevine Mills Pkwy, Ste 253, Grapevine, 866-636-9969) is teaming up with the Grammy winner and North Texas for a St. Vincent-themed AdultiVerse (21+ event) on Thursday evening. Though St. Vincent won’t be on-site, her artistic influence will be everywhere you look (and listen), complete with a special
New docuseries Raising Her Game covers the developments in U.S. soccer and women’s sports that have led to present-day successes, all through the eyes and experiences of the team at the University of Texas.
curated playlist, music video dance party, surprises for guests, themed cocktails, and more. It’s an immersive tribute and celebration to one of North Texas’ boldest artists. Tickets are $40 at Tickets.MeowWolf.com.
Women’s soccer is having a moment. There is a new docuseries called Raising Her Game that covers the developments in U.S. soccer and women’s sports that have led to present-day successes, all through the eyes and experiences of the team at the University of Texas. You can stream it for free on the new sports app Victory+, which also shows Dallas Stars games. Find it at VictoryPlus.com, your phone’s app store, or with an app search on your smart TV. For more details on the series, check out their website at RHGMovie. com or follow @RaisingHerGame1 on Instagram. (P.S. RHG was written and directed by the Weekly’s own Rush Olson, who writes the Sports Rush column.)
By Jennifer Bovee
Ahead of her hometown show this weekend, Meow Wolf is hosting a St. Vincent themed Adulti-Verse night on Thursday.
Learn more about Aubrey Williams’ “Abstraction in Diaspora” at Then & Now: Art in Dialogue at The Modern on Friday.
EATS & drinks
Chomping Down
Texas Pit Oyster Bar is the national champion for rocky bivalves in North Fort Worth.
Texas Pit Oyster Bar, 3349 Western Center Blvd, Fort Worth. 817-306-0700. 11am-9pm Sun-Wed, 11am-10pm Thu-Sat.
BY ANTHONY MARIANI
As part of our errand-running weekend routine, my seventh-grader and I sometimes like to stop for a bite, and even though they’re out of season, technically, oysters have been eating up a huge amount of space in our brains. And I’m not sure why because every place we’ve tried not named Walloon’s
has let us down with mealy, sometimes even hard, chewy oysters. Like chicken fingers. It’s no one’s fault. Times are tough all around, whatever the season.
Wheeling down Western Center Boulevard near our abode in North Fort Worth and not wanting to go into town, we felt obliged to stop at a place our family frequented often in the past but quit on after a sub-subpar meal one time. This was pre-pandemic, so it’s
been a while. Working in our favor: That one sorry experience we had at Texas Pit Oyster Bar was not oyster-related. We’d ordered some fried stuff that tasted as underwhelming as it looked. On this errand-running outing, our bar was pretty low.
When my family first moved to North Fort Worth, there wasn’t much there except
“restaurants” but places with comestibles. (I still dream about those 7-Eleven pizza sandwiches.) Old me would not even recognize the neighborhood now. Every corner groans with a bona fide restaurant, almost all of them chains, though I’m not going to knock them for that reason alone. My family’s had some pretty swell eats at 54th Street, Boston’s, Uncle Julio’s, and two or three other Big Restaurant assets.
Texas Pit Oyster Bar is a local chain of
Compared to every other spot not named Walloon’s where the author has tried oysters, Texas Pit’s were succulent and tasted just-caught.
The catfish filets (top) were lightly fried to perfection while the shrimp brochette popped with heartwarming flavors.
same initial name in Saginaw. The oyster bar was among our neighborhood’s “new” establishments way back when, which means it opened not long after Flips, the O.G. of non-fast-food, non-chain dining in North Fort Worth. Finding fresh oysters in town was hard enough. Finding them a block from our house had to be a sign. Though my vegetarian wife can only eat the saltines and maybe a salad, and I guess suck on some ketchup, she was always up for a Pit stop and for one very good reason — to expose our child to foods other than nuggets and pizza, because we had heard horror stories of never-satisfied, whiny, picky children, we drove to Texas Pit Oyster Bar one day long ago, planted our child in a seat, and placed a cold, shiny tray of oysters in front of him. And he’s been a fan ever since.
I’m glad to report that Texas Pit blew up our dire expectations. Shame on us. This place has withstood the construction of dozens of competitors and a pandemic. We should all know a survivor when we see one. I’d venture to say Fort Worthians need to see more Texas Pit Oyster Bar, because for a lovely weekend afternoon, the effervescent, Margaritaville-esque restaurant was scandalously barren. I counted only four other diners at the time we popped in (around lunch) and eight by the time we left, including two of the original quartet.
The lone wait staffer handled the small but roomy space comfortably, making me think she wasn’t new to this kind of volume.
To save you some time, I’ll just say that if you’re a fan of raw oysters, Texas Pit is worth a visit. Big, succulent, hefty, and requisitely slimy, they came on quietly but packed a brisk, salty finish. My boy does them up with just cocktail sauce, while I opt for that stuff spiked with horseradish. No crackers. Come on now.
Texas Pit’s oysters were so good, they had us thinking entrees. The fried catfish filets were lightly breaded and cooked to a mild crispiness. They had that fresh-fishy flavor and harmonized well with the zesty
house-made tartar. The shrimp brochette was fun and tasty. Melted cheese covered six medium-sized skewered crustaceans wrapped with bacon and jalapeno slivers.
“Skimpy,” you say? Negatory. I appreciated the delicateness, especially in a country — and, I admit, a household — with a portion-control problem.
At one point, I stole a glance at the one TV tuned to the Florida/UConn game. I’d consciously avoided it because it was close and the Gators are my bracket’s national champs, and since the world is dramatic enough, I don’t need to make it any worse by getting all caught up in frustrating, maddening, always disappointing, stupid sportsball.
Florida went to the foul line. Bro missed. The ref calmly collected the ball and bounced it back to the shooter.
“Why’s he getting a second chance?” said my football-/baseball-playing child.
“Everyone deserves a second chance,” I quipped lazily because my football-/ baseball-/hockey-playing self really had no earthly idea and the game was muted, but the cliché is true. Just about everything is worth another try. Friendships. Jobs. Oyster bars. I like knowing that this second chance will definitely turn into a third and probably even a thirtieth. We’ll save Walloon’s for a special occasion, like whenever I win the big Mariani Family Bracket Challenge. And it’s happening! l
Everyone deserves a second chance.
Texas Pit has a cozy Margaritaville vibe that’s perfect any time of year.
Come on, Gators.
SHOPPING LOCAL
Delicious Digital Offers at Your Fingertips
With the release of a new Digital Offers app feature, shopping at Central Market just got more exciting, especially with a smartphone in hand.
Promotional Feature
Central Market recently launched a new app feature called Digital Offers, which are digital coupons that are available for instore shopping, as well as online shopping for curbside and delivery orders. With these Digital Offers, savvy shoppers across Texas will be introduced to even more ways to save with the convenience of the Central Market app.
Digital Offers joins other Central Market app features designed to make shopping easier, like curbside and delivery ordering and shoppable recipes. New Digital Offers will be released weekly — every Wednesday — and customers are encouraged to download the Central Market app to begin adding offers to their account and start enjoying their extra savings right away.
Start Using Digital Offers
To access Digital Offers, sign in to your Central Market account through the Central Market app or online at CentralMarket.com/digital-offers. To download the Central Market app, visit the Apple Store app on your iOS device or the Google Play Store on your Android device. From the Central Market app, tap on “Offers” to access a selection of Digital Offers. From the website, you can access offers at CentralMarket.com/digital-offers. Sign in to your Central Market account to access all Digital Offers.
Redeeming Digital Offers
Under “Offers” add the offers you want to use to your account by clicking the “+” (plus) button. You must add offers to redeem them.Next, open the Central Market app on your phone and tap the barcode icon in the top right corner. You can then show your barcode to the cashier or scan it at self-checkout. If you’re shopping online, check out as you normally would, and eligible offers will apply automatically.
Frequently Asked Questions
For those with lots of questions, find the answers (or most of them) at CentralMarket. com/faqs/digital-offers. Meanwhile, here are the Top 5:
1.) Where can I see the offers I’ve added to my account? You can view the offers you’ve added by clicking on the “Offers” tab in the Central Market app or at CentralMarket.com/ digital-offers.
2.) When will I receive Digital Offers? Check the app every Wednesday to see what new Digital Offers are available.
3.) How long do I have to wait before I can redeem a Digital Offer? You should be able to use them within two minutes after you have added them to your account.
4.) Can I print Digital Offers and scan them at the register? We like to keep the “Digital” in Digital Offers. To redeem Digital Offers in store, you will need to use your smartphone to show your in-app barcode to the cashier when you check out. We do not accept Digital Offer redemption using printouts.
5. Can I use Digital Offers online for Curbside and Delivery? Yes! After you’ve added the offers to your account, check out as you normally would, and the discounts will be automatically applied.
About Central Market
A division of H-E-B, Central Market opened its doors in 1994 and now has ten store locations across North Texas, including Fort Worth (Chapel Hill Shopping Center, 4651 West Fwy, 817-989-4700) and Southlake (Shops of Southlake,1425 E Southlake Blvd, 817-310-5600). A bountiful produce department with unmatched quality and variety, an 80-foot seafood case, hundreds of cheeses, 2,500 wine labels, and extensive specialty grocery aisles make the Central Market experience unique. For more information, follow us on Instagram (@central_market), Twitter (@centralmarket), or visit us at CentralMarket.com. #CentralMarket #ReallyIntoFood.
WEEKLY LISTINGS
The List
Top resources for everything. Okay, almost everything.
By Fort Worth Weekly Classifieds
Below are some resources for your consideration, including astrology, employment, faith-based listings, services, and more in a bulletin-board-styled format. Welcome to Fort Worth Weekly Classifieds.
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19)
It’s crucial to know when to slow down and let hunches and insights ripen. This is excellent advice for you. You’re in a phase when innovation is needed and likely. For best results, infuse your productivity with periodic stillness.
TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20)
Identify the experience, substance, or feeling you really, really want more of, and then resolve to get as much of it as you really, really want.
GEMINI (May 21-Jun 20)
I think the coming weeks would be an excellent time for you to begin your own version of Dream Torrent Essays, Gemini. You could generate maximum fun and self-knowledge by compiling all the reasons you love being alive on this mysterious planet.
CANCERIAN (Jun 21-Jul 22)
You are primed to be extra bold and super-responsive. Here’s one reason why: You are finely tuning your protective instincts so they work with effective grace—neither too strong nor too weak. That’s an excellent formula to make fun new connections and avoid mediocre new connections.
LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22)
We humans are connected via the psychic airways. I’m predicting at least three magical synchronicity events for you in the coming weeks, Leo. Treat them with the reverence they deserve. Take them seriously as signs of things you should pay closer attention to.
VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22)
You will be stronger and more impactful than you may appear. The quality you offer will be more effective than others’ quantity. Your focused, dynamic efficiency could make you extra influential.
Make April the month you get in closer communication with your own inner compass, Capricorn.
LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 22)
You now have the power to ensure that seeming gaffes and glitches will yield positive and useful results.
SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 21)
You are entering a phase when you will benefit from even deeper dives into your mysterious depths. It’s an excellent time to wander into the frontiers of your self-knowledge.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21)
Work smarter rather than harder. Look for tricks and workarounds that will enable you to be as efficient and stress-free as possible. Trust that as you align yourself with natural flows, you will cover a lot of ground with minimal strain. Celebrate the freedom that comes from embracing ease.
CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19)
Make April the month you get in closer communication with your own inner compass. It’s a favorable and necessary time to become even more highly attuned to your ultimate guide and champion: the voice of the teacher within you.
AQUARIUS (Jan 20- Feb 18)
Be tuned in to both the small personal world right in front of you and the big picture of the wider world. Balance and coordinate your understandings of them.
PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20)
Seek time-saving, boredom-preventing innovations in the coming weeks. Now is an excellent time to maximize your spacious ability to do things you love to do.
EXPANDED HOROSCOPES
For unabridged versions of the horoscopes above by Rob Brezsny, go to FreeWillAstrology.com. listings continued on page 22
MUSIC
This Is a Deathwatch
Local post-industrial doom merchants All Clean and Stress Palace release a split apropos of everything.
BY STEVE STEWARD
A strange realization: the word “dystopian” no longer feels futuristic. Apocalyptic weather, the unpredictability of artificial intelligence, the convenience of attack drones, erratic driverless cars, the end-of-the-world escape schemes of technocratic oligarchs, Orwellian doublespeak, government agents disappearing citizens off the streets — all of that shit is already here, sizzling out of your newsfeed every day like ooze from a knocked-over barrel of toxic waste. If dystopia is now, then I guess that makes the music of postpunk bands like All Clean and Stress Palace sound positively contemporary. They both make heavy, abrasive, ominous music that is both grimy and oppressive in atmosphere, their lyrical themes limned in the blacklight aura flickering where one’s wits end. On Saturday night at the Double Wide in Dallas, the two bands will release a vinyl 7” split featuring their newest singles, pressed and distributed by Kansas City, Missouri-based indie label The Ghost Is Clear. Between All Clean, Stress Palace, and the opening band, long-running Dallas-based doomgazers The Angelus, the vibe at the show will be appropriately gloomy and loud, the kind of auditory pummeling that offers moments of catharsis for times like these. All Clean formed in 2018 as the solo project of Fort Worth multi-instrumentalist Zachary Edwards (Ice Eater, Oil Boom, Son of Stan), initially as a series of loops and beats tapped out on his phone’s GarageBand app that quickly mutated into a terrifying, angst-and-anxiety-ridden engine of post-industrial doom. Once he hammered and grafted his ideas into coherent arrangements, he worked the songs out with a live band, currently crewed by himself on guitars and vocals, guitarist and synth player Charli Mireles, bassist Miguel Santana, and drummer Ivan Beltran. Though the 2020 pandemic and general life events slowed All Clean’s launch, he eventually took his material to producer Alex Bhore (This Will Destroy You, The Angelus, Pearl Earl) at Elmwood Studio in Dallas, and the band released a debut album, Down from the Inner
Work, in 2023. That album’s gritty, robot-psychosis sonics and the relentless propulsion of its rhythm section create an atmosphere of grimy paranoia, as Edwards’ lyrics tear at old wounds and new fears.
The band’s new single, “This Is a Deathwatch,” triples down on their debut’s computerized dread. Trapped in a junkyard warren of distorted, jagged guitars, mechanically precise percussion, and the ever-present throb of bass and synthesizer worming into your brain, Edwards’ baroque, baritone vocals sound like he’s on the brink of a breakdown, straining and frustrated beneath the crush of the inevitable collapse of society.
“It’s a commentary on the American decline and its slide into authoritarianism as we all just passively watch,” Edwards told me.
The lyrics are as cynical as they are grim. “Not right now,” he bellows in a verse. “I think I’ll deal with it later / Let’s put it off / Someone’s gonna come along / And probably make it better / Won’t get better / No it never gets better / Sit and watch while the world burns / And I’ll probably write a letter to myself.”
In “Deathwatch,” nobody is coming to fix it, and nobody can be bothered to care.
The split’s other single, “See You in Hell” by Dallas-based noise-rockers Stress Palace, is also just as jaded. Like All Clean, Stress Palace began in 2018, when a group of Dallas musicians — singer Michael Stoner, guitarist Sam Lomax, bassist JT Ward, and drummer Matt Gillispie, themselves veterans of post- and noise-rock bands such as Blitzer, Things of Earth, the West Windows, and Death Stairs — started working on material for a new group. The pandemic sidelined their live-show plans, and later drummer Gillespie had to bow out for personal reasons.
A friend named Brandon Butters replaced him, and in 2023, Stress Palace also recorded their debut with Bhore at Elmwood. The self-titled album is a suite of proggy arrangements and ominous
guitar figures that rush Stoner’s incendiary vocals ever forward, like a raft hurtling down a river flowing out of hell.
While the band was no stranger to atypical measures and the aural textures that come from tuning-and-pedal experimentation, the studio experience opened up their sound to other ideas beyond “guitars,” so they added another comrade-in-amps, guitarist Marshall Read, on synths. Recorded with Michael Smith at Sunland Sound in East Dallas, “See You in Hell” is Stress Palace’s first recording with this lineup. The track’s sludgy, sci-fi dread kind of sounds like what would happen if Fugazi were bathed in LSD and made to play near a slow-motion sinkhole in a city suffering real-time collapse. Stoner sounds as if he’s tried and given up on being nice, and his words pop off like the ferocious rant of a madman raving in the midst of a heatwave: “I’m truly suffering, and you know it / Can’t wake up from the nightmare / I’m in hell, and I’m burning up / And I always see you there / Stuck in Dallas forever / Until the wet, hot end / This is not where anybody / Wants to be in five years / I’ll see you in hell.”
The Ghost Is Clear, a small indie label specializing in punk, hardcore, and noise rock, has a dedicated fanbase — the subReddit about the label is fun to read for the fans’ enthusiasm — so the idea that this release will expose both All Clean and Stress Palace to wider audiences outside North Texas is not farfetched, nor is the idea that music like this will resonate with anyone living in these times. For me, these songs, for all their rage and discontent, are oddly comforting. It is very wearisome to feel helpless and angry every day as the world’s superseding forces continue to stack the deck in their favor at the expense of everyone else. And when you think about it, Dallas — and pretty much every other big city for that matter — is not so enjoyable to exist in anymore, and that also feels pretty dystopian. Hearing music like this makes me feel better, like at least I’m not the only one seeing everything catch on fire. l
SAT 5/31 ROB SCHNEIDER YOU CAN DO IT, TEXAS! TOUR
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THUR 4/17 CRUCIBLE SUN 6/15 “JALIL” – A MODERN HIP-HOP TAKE ON THE STORY OF JOB!
SAT 4/12 MICHAEL JACKSON TRIBUTE CONCERT
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If dystopia is now, then I guess that makes the music of post-punk bands like All Clean and Stress Palace sound positively contemporary.
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More books than, WOW!
The Published Page Bookstop (10 E Chambers St, Cleburne, 817-349-6366) is open 10am-6pm Wed-Sat and 1pm-6pm Sun. An authentic “Old School” bookstore on the courthouse square of Historic Downtown Cleburne, TX, just 20 minutes south of FW, it’s a true Texas treasure. For more info, visit PublishedPage.com or find us on Facebook (@BiblioTreasures).
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
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HISTORIC RIDGLEA THEATER
THE RIDGLEA is three great venues within one historic Fort Worth landmark. RIDGLEA THEATER has been restored to its authentic allure, recovering unique Spanish-Mediterranean elements. It is ideal for large audiences and special events. RIDGLEA ROOM and RIDGLEA LOUNGE have been making some of their own history, as connected adjuncts to RIDGLEA THEATER, or hosting their own smaller shows and gatherings. More at theRidglea.com
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More books than, WOW!
The Published Page Bookstop (10 E Chambers St, Cleburne, 817-349-6366) is open 10am-6pm Wed-Sat and 1pm-6pm Sun. An authentic “Old School” bookstore on the courthouse square of Historic Downtown Cleburne, TX, just 20 minutes south of FW, it’s a true Texas treasure. For more info, visit PublishedPage.com or find us on Facebook (@BiblioTreasures).
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The Published Page Bookstop (10 E Chambers St, Cleburne, 817-349-6366) is open 10am-6pm Wed-Sat and 1pm-6pm Sun. An authentic “Old School” bookstore on the courthouse square of Historic Downtown Cleburne, TX, just 20 minutes south of FW, it’s a true Texas treasure. For more info, visit PublishedPage.com or find us on Facebook (@BiblioTreasures).
REX’S BAR & GRILL
Come check out our express lunch menu, happy hour specials, and late-night dining! Visit Chef Brian Olenjack’s new home kitchen. We are open from 11am to midnight, 7 days a week. Watch the BIG GAME with us at 1501 S University Dr FWTX ( 817-207-4741, RexsFTW.com).
