Not Just a Holiday
BY MADELYN EDWARDS
KRISTIAN LIN
Anthony Mariani, Editor
Lee Newquist, Publisher
Bob Niehoff, General Manager
Michael Newquist, Regional Director
Ryan Burger, Art Director
Jennifer Bovee, Marketing Director
Good Omens?
After a glance at next year’s Frogs via their recent bowl game, the results are in.
By Buck D. Elliott
Top Docs
Counting down the best nonfiction cinematic achievements of ’24.
By Kristian Lin
Turkish Delights
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By Cody Neathery
Best Tunes, Shows
Our esteemed critics praise all the sounds and experiences that made this year somewhat bearable.
By Fort Worth Weekly Staff
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CONTRIBUTORS
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
EDITORIAL BOARD
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COPYRIGHT
Cover photo by National Juneteenth Museum
METROPOLIS
Not Just a Holiday
There’s more to the National Juneteenth Museum than just scholarship and presence.
BY MADELYN EDWARDS
Lauren Cross remembers growing up learning about her formerly enslaved ancestors and wanting to know more. Executive strategist of Fort Worth’s forthcoming National Juneteenth Museum (2026), Cross hopes the place will spark that curiosity in visitors and help them preserve their family histories.
The holiday Juneteenth was established to acknowledge the fact that even though the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted in 1863, not all slaves in the United States were freed at that time. It took two and a half more years for freedom to reach enslaved people in Texas by way of 2,000 Union troops arriving in Galveston Bay on June 19, 1865.
President Joe Biden made Juneteenth a national holiday in 2021, thanks to the efforts of multiple activists, including Opal Lee, who walked from her home in Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., in 2016 to raise awareness for Juneteenth to be recognized on the federal level.
The National Juneteenth Museum will be in Fort Worth’s historic Southside neighborhood at the corner of Rosedale Street and Evans Avenue. This area is especially significant for the museum because Lee operated a Juneteenth museum there since 2005 and the location was home to the first Black millionaire in Fort Worth, William Madison McDonald, or Gooseneck Bill.
The 50,000-square-foot museum is expected to include immersive exhibit galleries, a 250-seat theater for lectures, speakers, and performances, a business incubator space for local entrepreneurs, a food hall, a flexible Black Box space, and a public courtyard.
The museum’s design takes inspiration from the Juneteenth flag, which features a nova star in the middle that symbolizes rebirth, said Douglass Alligood, an architect on the National Juneteenth Museum design team. The 12-pointed star that is expected
to be placed on the ceiling in the center of the museum also represents the 12 freedoms gained when the formerly enslaved were freed and became citizens. The building’s design is supposed to create a unique experience for visitors.
“You would know you were in the National Juneteenth Museum,” Alligood said. “You wouldn’t confuse it for any other place.”
Cross’ role at the museum is curatorial, helping to build the museum’s permanent collection and the stories that will be
presented in the space. Juneteenth means a lot to her as a native Texan whose family has lived in this state for multiple generations. She recalled that her mother’s side of the family was particularly adamant in celebrating Juneteenth. For them, it was their duty to recognize the day and pay tribute to their ancestors. Her grandfather served as the family’s oral historian and would tell stories passed down from his grandfather, a former slave and Cross’ great-great-grandfather.
Hearing the family stories is what made Juneteenth real and significant for Cross.
“This is not just a holiday,” she remembered realizing. “This is what my ancestors went through, and, therefore, this holiday really means something. It’s about actual people and their journey to freedom.”
Hearing about her great-great-grandfather, who was a runaway slave, sparked Cross’ interest in freedom stories, efforts that abolitionists and formerly enslaved people made to fight for their freedom prior to Juneteenth and the Emancipation Proclamation
“People weren’t just sitting around waiting to be free,” she said. “There was action. There was effort. Some successful, some not.”
Through the National Juneteenth Museum, Cross wants to highlight and preserve family stories that, like her own, have been passed down for generations. She plans for the museum to be a place for visitors to learn more about their family histories and genealogy and record oral history.
Some of these stories received for the museum feature people who are still fighting for things their ancestors were promised after being freed, like land. This is one of the ways that the past is connected to the present, which is a theme in the museum.
“People might be looking at Juneteenth as ‘What’s the relevance for right now?’ ” Cross said. “And the relevance is that there are families that are still grappling with these very things, even in this moment. And so that right there is resonant. And
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The 50,000-square-foot National Juneteenth Museum is expected to include immersive exhibit galleries, a 250-seat theater for lectures, speakers, and performances, a business incubator space for local entrepreneurs, a food hall, a flexible black box space, and a public courtyard.
Courtesy of National Juneteenth Museum
The National Juneteenth Museum’s design takes inspiration from the Juneteenth flag, which features a nova star in the middle that symbolizes rebirth. The 12-pointed star expected to be placed on the ceiling in the center of the museum also represents the 12 freedoms gained when the formerly enslaved were freed and became citizens.
of National Juneteenth Museum
then also that Juneteenth has been used as a vehicle and as a mode of change for quite some time.”
Cross mentioned modern Juneteenth pioneers, such as Ronald Myers, Lula Briggs Galloway, Charles Taylor and, of course, Opal Lee, who have used Juneteenth to address issues in the present day. The museum is expected to be a place to learn about and pay tribute to the people who spent time spreading awareness about Juneteenth across the country prior to its becoming a national holiday.
“That’s our big heavy lift for the exhibition is to really educate the public about what Juneteenth actually is and that it’s not just a Texas thing,” Cross said. “So much of the advocacy about making Juneteenth a federal holiday happened outside of Texas by people who didn’t live in Texas and were not even from Texas.”
Still, Juneteenth is also a Texas thing, and the National Juneteenth Museum’s place in Fort Worth highlights the historical event’s relevance in our city. Fort Worth has a long history of celebrating Juneteenth and was part of the Juneteenth revival in the 1970s, Cross said.
Cross acknowledged that sometimes average people don’t always feel welcomed in museums, but the National Juneteenth Museum is out of the ordinary. Not only will it be a place to learn, but museum leaders hope that it will connect with and enrich the
historic Southside community by providing performance space, dining experiences in the food hall, and a place for up-and-coming entrepreneurs to find resources.
Alligood said he connected instantly with the museum leaders from the very beginning of their partnership. He and his team have met with people in the community and devised the building plan based on local needs.
“Their basis of this design is that it’s more than a museum,” Alligood said. “It’s a celebration of African-American community and, to a certain extent, the historic Southside.”
For Alligood, Juneteenth is an event that needs to be celebrated and remembered.
“It feels as though our country, our whole world, is just willing to forget or deny huge swaths of history,” Alligood said.
“I think we need to establish, or reestablish if we’ve lost it, connections to history and invaluable, important turning points. And just because it’s history, just because it’s truth, doesn’t mean we’re grieving and doomed to sadness. Truth is truth. History is history, and we can celebrate. We can learn from it. We can explore it. I think the only thing we don’t want to do is deny history.” l
The National Juneteenth Museum will be in Fort Worth’s historic Southside neighborhood at the corner of Rosedale Street and Evans Avenue. This area is especially significant for the museum because Fort Worth resident Opal Lee operated a Juneteenth museum there since 2005 and the location was home to the first Black millionaire in Fort Worth, William Madison McDonald, or Gooseneck Bill.
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BUCK U
Land of Disenchantment
TCU lambasts the Ragin’ Cajuns 34-3 in a bowl as exciting as professional pickleball.
BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT
Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot in the days of auld lang syne? I’m not going to go into a lengthy explanation of what exactly these popular New Year’s lyrics mean — you can work the Google machine yourself — but it seems appropriate enough because it’s a general query regarding the retaining or releasing of friends while reminiscing on joyous days past.
I’m comfortable representing Frog Nation in acknowledging that none of us were over-the-moon excited upon the announcement that we would play in the New Mexico Bowl against the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. The Ragin’ Cajuns, who finished second place in the mid-major Sun Belt Conference, weren’t the opponent we were hoping for. That was perhaps our collective hubris, wanting the Frogs to prove themselves against SEC mediocrity like Oklahoma, Florida, or Arkansas. Yet as I can attest, Albuquerque called the ’Burque (pronounced Boar-kay) by those in the know — is a lovely venue to beat up on a much less fortunate team, and the Frogs did exactly that. Sure, it was sponsored by a resort that the majority of onlookers had never heard of, but blue skies and temperate weather made for a pleasing landscape to preview next year’s Frogs against a squad ravaged by injury and transfer-portal theft.
Frog receiving leader and future pro Jack Bech was sidelined with a knee injury, and general offensive weapon Savion Williams has departed to pursue his NFL aspirations, so what remained represents at least a foundational framework for next year before transfer and recruiting pieces are added. Did we like what we saw? Eh, kinda.
Kendal Briles’ offense hummed through the first half, scoring on their first four possessions as Josh Hoover — now TCU’s single-season passing record holder — connected
early and often with Eric McAlister, who is now the go-to threat with Bech and Williams moving on from collegiate life.
Saturday was never close. Yet scoring 34 points against U-LA-La seemed disappointing after a 27-point first half. The offense mostly stalled after scoring on their first second-half possession. Why? Because TCU still can’t run the ball consistently, and without Williams in the backfield, it was kind of embarrassing.
The play selection was nearly balanced, 34 passes and 33 rushes, but even with three running backs receiving almost 10 touches each, no one finished with more than 50 yards, and the closest, Trent Battle, broke one nice scamper for 24 yards, which greatly skews his 42 total yards. This, in essence, explains how Hoover can eclipse Max Duggan and Trevone Boykin for Fort Worth’s single-season passing record but finish the year with an unranked team. Duggan and Boykin led their teams to second and third place AP rankings in those years, respectively. As I’ve written in the past, Briles is great at accumulating stats, but the winning-alot-of-games part doesn’t necessarily follow.
The Frogs are set to ingratiate UTSA transfer Kevorian Barnes to try to replace Cam Cook, who is transferring, and Trey Sanders, who is graduating. Neither departing Frog made significant headway toward TCU establishing a serviceable ground game, and their snaps had already been stolen by Battle and Jeremy Payne. I expect Cook saw two messages scribbled on the wall: “You’re not effective enough” and “We won’t scheme for your success.”
Despite deficiencies in the backfield, Hoover is acquitting himself as an excellent and maturing passer, as well as a better decision-maker as time goes on. That said, he did toss an interception on Saturday that put the Ragin’ Cajuns in position to knock through a short field goal and spoil a stellar defensive performance and potential shutout by
Andy Avalos’ platoon, who have shown steady improvement through the latter portion of the season. The Frog D bullied the Cajuns to 43 total first-half yards and 151 in the second while only allowing a field goal.
Ultimately, no one can be upset about a nine-win season. Actually, eff it. I’m still going to gripe about it. This year could have been better, much better, and the veteran talent leaving, especially on offense, is disheartening considering Briles’ one-trick offense. Hoover finished 51 shy of 4,000 passing yards — are we hoping for 5,000 next season after losing two NFL-caliber receivers? Granted, fewer turnovers, and the conversation surrounding this season could be turned on its head.
Next season, because that’s what really should concern purple people, looks much more difficult, comparatively. TCU transitions back to playing against the Corn Belt teams (Kansas State and Iowa State) and swaps in what was the much better team from Utah this season, BYU. Perhaps most sobering, they’ll start their season against North Carolina, whose new coach might just be the greatest breathing schematic mind in football. Six-time Super Bowl champion Bill Belichick is fresh to the college game with a graduate student-aged girlfriend to match. Belichick focusing his next seven months plotting against Briles’ offense should drive even the most optimistic Frog fanatic to discomfort.
This year’s staff did enough to keep their jobs, and hopes, alive. Frog athletics are undergoing a regime change while the school headhunts a new athletic director, but I’m not convinced this season wouldn’t have been better long-term if TCU had performed worse. In the case of the offense, simply sing that famous New Year’s Scottish ballad with a Champagne buzz and really ponder the rhetorical question posited. I know personally what my answer is, as you probably do, too. l
The Frogs dominated but struggled to establish a ground game without Savion Williams in the backfield.
Courtesy TCU Athletics
WEEKLY LISTINGS
The List
Top resources for everything. Okay, almost everything.
By Fort Worth Weekly
Below are some resources for your consideration, including Free Will Astrology and info from faith-based organizations, health and wellness providers, mind-body-spirit businesses, home resources, and more. Welcome to Fort Worth Weekly Classifieds.
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19)
In 2025, specialize in making new connections and deepening your existing connections. Summon extra creativity as you regularly blend your energies with others and thrive on never-before-linked elements.
TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20)
In the coming months, the work you do will be unusually replete with grace and dynamism. It will be focused and diligent work that is smart and largely free of delusion. Your brimming levels of confidence will be primarily due to your conscientious work.
GEMINI (May 21-Jun 20)
In the coming months, be an innocent rookie, a newcomer with great instincts, an exuberant amateur who specializes in fun experiments. Approach every experience with zero assumptions or expectations, as if seeing everything for the first time.
CANCERIAN (Jun 21-Jul 22)
You will have welcome opportunities to clean up messes that have lingered for far too long. Take full advantage of these cosmic invitations to sweep karmic debris out of your life.
LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22)
In 2025, you will have exceptional power to transform the environments you share with others, and an enhanced ability to revise and reinvigorate the systems and the rules you use. Don’t underestimate your influence during the coming months. Assume that people will be listening especially closely to your ideas and extra receptive to be affected by you.
VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22)
In the coming months, you can make dramatic progress in formulating vivid, detailed visions of the life you want to live.
In the words of this famous Aquarian, “Movement and change are the essence of our being.”
Undertake robust action steps to make those visions a practical reality. Write your big-picture, long-range dreams in a special notebook or a file on your tech device and keep adding this year.
LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 22)
Far too many months have passed since you have located a fresh source of a certain treasure or bounty you crave. That will change in 2025. Here come long-delayed blessings!
SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 21)
You will dramatically enhance how togetherness works for you. Explore potential breakthroughs with romantic love, intimate relationships as an essential part of your spiritual path, and healing your old wounds and thereby make yourself a better partner and collaborator. Help your best allies to do the same.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21)
In Japanese, the word for “frog” sounds similar to the word meaning “to return.” That’s one reason frogs are considered a lucky symbol for travelers returning home safely, health being restored, and spent money being replenished. Satisfying and enjoyable returns will be a key theme this year. Consider keeping the likeness of a lovable frog in your living space.
CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19)
Use your stature and clout to perform an array of good works that are of service to your world this year. Animal rights, environmentalism, and human rights are all areas for your consideration.
AQUARIUS (Jan 20- Feb 18)
In the words of famous Aquarian author Virginia Woolf, “Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death: let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says.”
PISCES (Feb19-Mar 20)
You will glean pleasing rewards generated from seeds planted in the past.
EXPANDED HOROSCOPES
For unabridged versions of the horoscopes above by Rob Brezsny, go to FreeWillAstrology.com.
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SCREEN
Top Docs of ’24
It’s time to count down the year’s best nonfiction cinematic achievements.
BY KRISTIAN LIN
Earlier this year, I wrote in our Pride Month issue that trans filmmakers might be the next wave in LGBTQ filmmaking. Now I find that such directors have made entries in both my Top 10 list from last week and here. I’m pretty sure that’s never happened before in the same year. That’s why cinema isn’t going to die anytime soon, because we haven’t had these stories yet. May they continue in 2025, and may you have a happy New Year.
1.) No Other Land is agitprop filmmaking at its finest. Made by a team of two Palestinian Muslims and two Israeli Jews, this movie takes a scant 95 minutes to chronicle Israel’s actions in Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank. In that time, co-directors Yuval Abraham (one of the Jews) and Basel Adra (one of the Palestinians) become friends as the latter’s legal status in his own country becomes increasingly tenuous. You won’t be able to look away when Abraham shoves his camera in the faces of Israeli soldiers and settlers to ask them why they’re destroying Palestinians’ homes. The soldiers seem way more pissed off at him than at any of the Palestinians. Is he the next Michael Moore? He may just need to be.
2.) We had some fine documentaries about movies this year, but the best movie-as-film criticism was Chasing Chasing Amy. Sav Rodgers looks back at Kevin Smith’s 1997 indie comedy, how it has aged well and poorly, and how it came as a thunderbolt to the teenage Rodgers growing up gay in Kansas. Just as compelling is Rodgers’ transition during the filmmaking from lesbian to transgender man and his wife sticking by him. Do not miss the interview with Joey Lauren Adams about the terrible time she went through while acting the female lead in the film. No surprise, Harvey Weinstein treated her like crap, but she’s well aware that it could have been worse.
3.)
Ibelin. Using World of Warcraft, it re-creates the in-game life of Mats Steen, a Norwegian man born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The disease prevented him from doing many things and eventually took his life at age 25, but it didn’t stop him from creating the alter ego of Ibelin Redmoore and living out a rich fantasy life, unbeknownst to the parents he lived with. It culminates in a deeply moving scene when gamers from all over the world who knew Ibelin from the game show up to his funeral in Oslo and then hold an annual gathering in World of Warcraft to celebrate his memory.
4.) Mati Diop made my list of great debut filmmakers with her feature Atlantics back in 2019. Now the Senegalese-French director makes this list with Dahomey, a startling, vivid, and sometimes bizarre accounting of the French government returning 26 works of art looted during the 19th century to Benin as they’re loaded onto crates in Paris and transported to the West African nation. The Beninese don’t receive them as positively as you might think, since France still possesses hundreds more such works in its museums. Diop takes this in and includes a mysterious voiceover narration from the point of view of one of the statues. The beautifully photographed film runs a scant 68 minutes and leaves an indelible impression.
5.) A creative music biopic finds its way onto this list, as Pharrell Williams requested that Piece by Piece be made as an animated Lego movie. Thus, Morgan Neville tracks the superstar music producer’s career via interviews with Lego versions of Kendrick Lamar, Gwen Stefani, Snoop Dogg, and the other members of the Neptunes. The approach allows for moments of transcendent visuals as Pharrell describes the effect music had on him, as well as the well-known beats from songs like “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and
“Hollaback Girl” whimsically represented by stacks of pulsating blocks. Neville won an Oscar for his previous music documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, but I’ll watch this movie before that one any day.
6.) Raoul Peck doesn’t get enough credit as one of the world’s great documentarians. The Haitian filmmaker came through again this year with Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, a retrospective of the short-statured, shortlived Black South African photographer who kept a visual record of his country under apartheid. The movie’s power comes from Cole’s astonishing images (many of them unseen before this movie’s release) but also his astute written observations of life in South Africa and America, read sonorously by narrator LaKeith Stanfield. Who deposited 60,000 of Cole’s photos in a Swedish bank vault while the man was homeless on the streets of New York? Cole’s family is still trying to find out.
7.) Indian entomologists travel to different altitudes of the Himalayas and study the moths that live there in Nocturnes. Directors Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan follow the scientists as they spend summers hanging up bedsheets and lighting them with ultraviolet light to attract the insects. As they deal with inclement weather, bad roads, and elephants, they ponder the endless variety of these nighttime flyers and why they come in such brilliant colors when they live in places where hardly any light (from the sun or humans) penetrates. This feast for the eyes is must-viewing for fans of nature documentaries.
8.) The year’s best prison movie was Natalie Rae and Angela Patton’s Daughters about Patton’s own pilot program that throws a party to reunite men incarcerated in Washington, D.C., with their daughters for
one night a year. Honestly, father-daughter dances creep me out under normal circumstances, but seeing these men able to hold their children without the constraints of prison visits and the effect it has on them is inspiring. Along with No. 2 on this list, this movie originated as a TED talk. Our prison system could probably use more carrots like Patton’s program and fewer sticks.
9-10.) (tie) In Agniia Galdanova’s Queendom, model and performance artist Gena Marvin (né Gennadiy Chebotarev) goes from a fishing village on Russia’s eastern coast to becoming a national pariah when she opposes her country’s invasion of Ukraine and uses fashion as a medium of protest. In Josh Greenbaum’s Will & Harper, Will Ferrell is already famous when he sees his longtime friend and colleague come out as trans woman Harper Steele and asks all the dumb questions that I would ask. (Why the name Harper? And do the kids she fathered still call her “Dad”?) The Russian film has striking visuals and costumes. The American film has Kristen Wiig writing a song for Harper and Will’s road trip. They both testify to the experiences of their LGBTQ protagonists as they navigate the perils and pleasures of this life.
Honorable mention: Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat’s Sugarcane … Jazmin Jones’ Seeking Mavis Beacon … Johan Grimonprez’ Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Edmund Stenson and Daniel Roher’s Blink … Erin Lee Carr’s Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara … David Hinton’s Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger … Laurent Bouzereau’s Music by John Williams … Alejandra Vasquez and Sam Osborn’s Going Varsity in Mariachi … Clair Titley’s The Contestant … Lucy Lawless’ Never Look Away … Errol Morris’ Separated l
One of the year’s best animated films was Benjamin Ree’s The Remarkable Life of
A Muslim and a Jew, Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham collaborated on No Other Land Courtesy Film Forum
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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.
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EATS & drinks
ATE DAY8 a Week
Upcoming (or Ongoing) Food & Booze Events
BY ELAINE WILDER
While Fort Worth-based mobile farmers market the Roadside Stand has a permanent location at 950 N University Dr (817-688-7094), they still bring their fruits and vegetables to locations around town. Right now, they are on a Road Trip Tour that will bring them to several residential communities, including the Parker House Apartments (250 W Lancaster Av, Fort Worth, 817-318-6665) 5pm-8pm. For other upcoming locations, follow them at Facebook.com/RoadsideStandUSA.
Rockfish Seafood Grill has a Shrimp Boil & Hurricanes deal for you today. From 11am to 10pm, you can get one dozen large peel-and-eat shrimp, with corn and potato tossed in your seasoning of choice, for $8.99. Their famous Pat O’s Hurricanes are also $5 all day. Rockfish locations near us include Fort Worth (6333 Camp Bowie Blvd, Ste 240, 972685-4327), and Arlington (3785 S Cooper St, 817-419-9988).
Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse (812 Main St, Fort Worth, 817-877-3999) is hosting its 9th Annual Bloody Marys, Butterflies & Boots event from 10am to 1pm, benefiting A Wish With Wings, a nonprofit that has been granting wishes for young Texans with life-threatening medical conditions since 1983. Tickets are $200 per person and include a brunch buffet with Bloody Marys, mimosas, whiskey tastings, and more. Besides enjoying the boozy brunch, you can participate in silent auctions and try your luck at the raffle table. This is also the day of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo All Western Parade, which you can watch from the Del’s balcony.
Blue Mesa Grill (612 Carroll St, Fort Worth, 817332-6372) is the place to be for lunch on Wednesdays. From 11am to 2pm, enjoy the popular $12 lunch buffet. Then, from 3pm to 6pm, enjoy happy hour specials, including $5 Blue Margaritas, $5 bites, and $2.50 tacos.
A beverage made from the roots of the kava plant is the main attraction at Fool’s Kava House (200 N Mesquite St, Ste 110, Arlington). If challenging your palate with something new is on your resolutions list, boy, do I have an event for you. On Thursdays from 11am11:45am, Fool’s has an all-you-can-drink special on Tongan, Loloma, and Vanuatan kava for $15 per person. Do it! (Then, report back. Thanks.)
On Saturday mornings from 9am to noon (current winter hours), the Clearfork Farmers Market (4801 Edwards Ranch Rd, Fort Worth, @FarmersMarket1848) is open on the riverfront of the Trinity Trails, near Bike Mart and Press Cafe, offering locally grown products from more than 30 artisan vendors, farmers, and ranchers. In the event of severe weather, such as lightning,
thunder, high winds, or temperatures below 40 degrees, the market may close early or cancel. For weather updates, visit Clearfork1848.com/blog.
If you are interested in helping the homeless, First United Methodist Church (800 W 5th St, Fort Worth, 817-336-7277) hosts Friends Breakfast at 7am on Sundays, and they have volunteer opportunities. If you would like to take part and serve in this program or other ministries, reach out to Brenda Brooks-Alexander at BAlexander@myfumc.org or fill out the form at FUMCFW.org/Serve/#ServeForm.
Cidercade Arlington (500 E Division St, 682-206-3918) just announced that it is now serving food from a brand-new kitchen and craft beer from Wild Acre Brewing. Admission is $12 and includes unlimited play on hundreds of games all day, including Deadpool pinball, a fan favorite. See the new menu at Birdeye.cx/pzb4el.
Blue Mesa Grill’s $12 lunch buffet on Wednesdays is always a good call.
Cidercade Arlington is now serving Wild Acre beers and food from a brand-new kitchen.
JONAH FREEMAN + JUSTIN LOWE
Photo: Jens Henrik Daugaard.
Lower left: Colony Sound 2019–20. Installation view, Marlborough, London, 2019. Mixed media. Dimensions variable.
Lower right: RANDOM FOREST (THE WHISPER IN THE KITCHEN) 2019–24. Installation view: Colony Sound, 2019–20, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2020. Mixed media. Dimensions variable. Photo: Jens Henrik Daugaard. All images courtesy of San San International.
EATS & drinks
Flying Carpet Ride
It’s about time we tried 2.0 of this Turkish/ Mediterranean institution on the Near Southside.
The Flying Carpet Turkish Cafe, 1223 Washington Av, Fort Worth. 11am-9pm Mon-Sat. 682-200-9300.
BY CODY NEATHERY
After a decade of serving Turkish and Mediterranean cuisine under chef/owner Cebrail Demirtash, the Flying Carpet Cafe suffered a kitchen fire in 2023 that
cottage, announcing Flying Carpet’s impending opening. But the question still lingered: When?
lot of good things about it and couldn’t wait to dive in. The warmth I felt walking inside added to the air of excitement.
indefinitely halted business with no timetable for reopening. From the heart of the Near Southside near West Magnolia Avenue, the cafe eventually reappeared but in Lewisville. (?)
As I was driving down Magnolia in April, I noticed a banner tied between the Victorian columns on the primitive wooden
Fast-forward to mid-October, when the Flying Carpet made a quiet return but without founder Demirtash. In fact, an entire new management team has taken over, and if you’re familiar with Istanbul Cuisine Mediterranean Grill in Southlake and Flower Mound, then you’ll find their owner, Chef Can Karatas, now steering the ship here with a similar menu.
Though I never ate at the Flying Carpet under the previous ownership, I had heard a
Currently, guests should expect to bring their own booze, and diners will notice a lack of rugs hanging from the natural shiplap walls, mostly replaced with framed pictures depicting Turkish imagery, but rest assured that customers still can purchase rugs. It was a rainy, dreary Saturday morning when we walked in, first guests of the day, which gave us seating preference. An outdoor courtyard patio with garden lights
Other selections from the Ottoman menu include ground beef and chicken.
would have been ideal if not for the wet weather, but the cozy interior was just right. The caffeinated injection from the Turkish coffee woke our senses before kicking off our meal with the cold sampler platter with our choice of three of five items: babaganoush, dolma, and pink sultan. The remaining options are hummus and tabbouleh. There will be a pronunciation quiz at the end of this article.
The babaganoush was presented as a creamy mound of roasted eggplant with herbs, tahini, garlic, and yogurt holding a pool of olive oil like a volcano, and the pureed beets of the pink sultan mixed with yogurt looked like dessert. Both dishes, readied for the toasted table bread, were immaculately fresh. So were the dolma (grape leaves wrapped around a mix of rice and herbs). They were softly delectable with the hint of citrus from the lemon garnish. Rotate dabs of each dipping condiment on the dolma for an even more splendid experience. It would be rather sacrilegious to pass on falafel in a Turkish café, so mid-dining, my guest and I agreed upon the Flying Carpet’s, and that decision proved clutch. The four fried, hockey puck-shaped discs rested upon a bed of rich hummus. Warm ground chickpeas with herbs gave way to flavorful bursts on their own, even better with a touch of the hummus. Pan-fried calf’s liver, stuffed ground lamb, spinach pie, and
a feta cheese-filled fried dough stick called the Feta Cigar round out the rest of the appetizer menu.
The signature platters consist of kebabs and gyros, all served with salad and a bed of basmati rice. While lamb is the dominate protein on the menu and we did not want to be handcuffed to one choice, the practical move here was the kebab trio, which features chunks of beef, chicken, and lamb. Each cut of meat delivered an immense flavor from the seasoning complementing the natural flavors. Adding a dash of hummus or garlicky tzatziki sauce or both should be routine.
Though there’s grilled salmon and shrimp kebabs or whole branzini straight from the Mediterranean Sea, lamb still dominates: baked eggplant stuffed with cubes of lamb, a lamb casserole covered in dough reminiscent of chicken pot pie, eggplant-layered Turkish lasagna (moussaka), sauteed cubes of lamb, and oven-baked bone-in lamb shank. We opted for the shank and enjoyed the organic flavors of the lamb topped with a rich tomato sauce that one wouldn’t have guessed to be tomato-based. Under the shank lay a bed of mashed eggplant that was like the babaganoush and edible on its own. Other selections from the Ottoman menu include ground beef and chicken.
For dessert, the Flying Carpet serves a variety of baklava, including a sweet cheese pastry known as kunefe and the bread pudding-esque ekmek kadayifi, a specialty consisting of kataifi dough, syrup, custard, and sweet cream cheese.
Although under new management, the Flying Carpet Turkish Cafe is still a Near Southside standout. l
The Flying Carpet’s Turkish coffee is a fine wakeup call.
Babaganoush, dolma, pink sultan, hummus, and tabbouleh round out the cold sampler.
Falafel, pan-fried calf’s liver, stuffed ground lamb, spinach pie, and a feta cheese-filled fried dough stick called the Feta Cigar are just some of the delightful appetizers awaiting at the Flying Carpet.
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The Year in Music
Our crack music writers reflect on some of the tuneage that got them through another wild year.
BY PATRICK HIGGINS, STEVE STEWARD, AND JUAN R. GOVEA
Welp, we made it, kids. It’s finally time to rip that last page from the calendar, diligently set it afire, and blow its dregs into the eddies of the Mighty Trinity™. So long, and thanks for all the fish. Like all years, this foul and contemptible year of our ill-humored lord of 2024 was a mixed bag. On the one hand, the past 365 showered us with a few blessings. Like Willie Nelson covering the Flaming Lips or our brief collective obsession with an adorable, yet no less deadly, baby hippo. On the other, we had to endure the year’s share of curses, too. Like the inexplicable 15 minutes afforded to the “Hawk Tuah” girl and having to witness a deranged electorate apparently flush the entirety of American history occurring between January 2017 and January 2021 from their Mountain Dewaddled brains and deciding a certain former reality TV star — this time toting 34 felony convictions and an insatiable bloodlust for revenge along with him — deserved another crack at manning the nuclear codes.
Thankfully, there was a ton of great music to soundtrack the last 12 months. Here’s just some of the music that helped us make it over the finish line and that we’ll remember fondly as we’re all frog-marched to the Woke Gulags next month, then forced to listen to nothing but Tucker Carlson-curated Lee Greenwood and Kid Rock Spotify playlists between our daily Two Minutes Hate. — P. H.
Patrick’s Playlist
For this music obsessive, this past year was one that paid off a lot of anticipation. Some of my favorite artists, both homegrown and from around the globe, finally released music that I’d been waiting for — for years or even decades — with all requisite clichéd Christmas morning excitement.
One local highlight consisted of the long-awaited return of Black Tie Dynasty. Their May release Steady finally filled a hole left by their signature danceable synth-rock 14 years ago. Also, one of the area’s most underrated artists, Rachel Gollay, gave us an incredibly beautiful album in The Edge
of April, while singer-songwriter Hannah Owens overcame a serious physical injury to deliver a pair of great singles (“Kites,” “State I’m In”) that saw her music grow along with her life perspective.
Speaking of perspective, hip-hop guru SageMode Wrex offered more of his (a’hem) sage wisdom with Calm in the Storm. His liquid flow and laidback beatscapes were a consistent blood-pressure dropper for me.
Heavy-gazers Trauma Ray’s Chameleon was another huge leap for one of Cowtown’s best bands. Of course, Fort Worth’s favorite son Leon Bridges released his most introspective and, in my opinion, best album so far. But by far my favorite 817-related release of the year was Rodeo Fortune by Spring Palace. The debut full-length from the erudite indie-rockers is big, bold, and beautiful and was in steady rotation this fall.
My musical anticipation wasn’t limited to the Fort. I was giddy with goth excitement for The Cure’s Songs of a Lost World, which is their best album since 1989’s Disintegration and the closest thing to it. Former Sonic Youth-er Kim Gordon’s The Collective was an interesting mix of smart lyrical musings and woofer-busting dubstep. Radiohead teaser outfit the Smile dropped two (!!) LPs this year which were both so good they reiterated the wonder why they weren’t just Radiohead records. Nick Cave’s Wild God was a return to form for the enigmatic Aussie songsmith, while Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus debuted the Hard Quartet, an indie-rock supergroup with veteran guitarists Emmett Kelly and Matt Sweeney and Dirty Three’s Jim White.
The record that spent the most time on my turntable in 2024 was Fontaines D.C.’s Romance. The follow-up to their 2022 breakout Skinty Fia (my favorite album released that year) saw the Irish post-punks expand their sound, creativity, and apparently their commercial viability to new heights. There are Grammys in their future.
While I didn’t take in as much live music as I did last year, I still managed to see some phenomenal shows. The “divorce pop” of supergroup Son of Stan, the lock-tight
rock of Hotel Satellite, and the dreamy folk of Sleepy Atlantis at The Cicada last February was a particularly special night. The inaugural Lost ’N’ Sound festival series allowed me to pack in a lot in a single day. Standouts for me at the September leg were Dallas sludge thrashers Chemical Spell, the lighthearted Western swing of Ginny Mac, the fully improvised spectacle of Stadium, and the live debut of Burette Douglas’ new classic country outfit Ghost Roper. Nationally, I was able to catch French electronic duo AIR for the first time in two decades, while my favorite live-music experience of the year was taking my 11-year-old son to see Weezer with the Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr. It was a lineup seemingly made in a lab for me as a teenager and to share it with him, scream-singing every word to “Say It Ain’t So,” made it crack the Top 10 best shows of my life. — P.H.
Steve’s Playlist
I had a couple of poignant moments at Panther Island Pavilion this year. The first was while watching NOFX on April 7. After 40 years, the self-proclaimed “punk rock Rolling Stones” were retiring. That show was in the first part of the last leg of their final tour that had begun in Austin a whole year prior. Seeing as how they have soundtracked my life at various points across 30 years or so, seeing them play “Linoleum” live for the last time hit me like a ton of bricks. Or at least a ton of unsold Survival of the Fattest compilations. While I expected to feel the emotions knot up in my throat like a sad, swollen beer burp, I had also never quite felt so middle-aged as I did while watching a long-running pop-punk band crewed by men all pushing the age of 60 play a song about a monosyllabic girlfriend. At various times, I found myself wiping tears out of my eyes from behind my sunglasses. They say the music you get into the most in your teenage years is what sticks with you for the rest of your life, and seeing NOFX say their final goodbyes at the end of “The Decline” made me really think about where the time has gone.
The other Panther Island moment, which was poignant in a “sign of the times” sort of way, was on November 16, when I saw Jake Paul, fresh off his victory over Mike Tyson the night before, join Shaquille “DJ Diesel” O’Neal onstage during his set at this Shaq’s Bass All Stars concert. I don’t have enough room here to articulate all the ways that fight bothered me, but the combination of Paul’s win and Netflix’s shitty broadcast — their failure to anticipate how many people would watch Iron Mike battle the God-Emperor of YouTube fuckheads made for an incredibly glitchy stream — seemed, in my estimation, to be symptomatic of the forces that brought Donald Trump back to the Oval Office. Paul’s appearance during an otherwise good time just reminded me that everything is gross and that the technological progress promised by our technocratic overlords is pretty much always a bait-and-switch grift.
As for new music, Absolute Elsewhere, released in October by Denver-based death metal band Blood Incantation, continues to blow my mind. If Robert Fripp had been a teenager in the Florida of the late 1980s and learned to play guitar from listening to Cannibal Corpse, this is what King
Crimson’s Red album would sound like. At this point in their career, I think Blood Incantation is pretty much a jazz-influenced prog band in a death metal disguise. In the way that Metallica’s black album rocketed from the thrash metal underground into the mainstream, so should Absolute Elsewhere do for Blood Incantation. — S.S.
Johnny’s Playlist
A lot of musicmakers burned my eardrums this year. While I mainly enjoy grunge, hardcore punk, and country/ folk singer-songwriter stuff, I often have moments when I need to hit the refresh button on my listening habits. One such palate-cleanser was experimental hip-hop producer BLKrKRT (Blacker Karat). Fort Worth beatmaker Phil Ford creates moody sample-scapes that don’t fall within typical “rap” parameters. He utilizes hard tempos, interesting measure counts, and atypical structures while employing unique takes on a wildly varied scope of genres that results in a singularly artistic and abstract sound. Insanely prolific, he released no fewer than four albums this year via Bandcamp: A Dark Place, Black Rock & Roll, EGO-DEATH, and Hold Me Closer Tiny Darko. I enjoyed all of them at least as much as if not more than that classic, ever-ready YouTube playlist LoFi Hip-Hop Beats to Study and Relax To. I love a good comeback story. After serving a seven-year sentence for gang activity, rapper Hermez the God turned his life around and released a pair of banger singles this year, “Hated by Most” and “Just Watch.” While he isn’t big on glorifying his past criminal activities, he acknowledges that his negative former life helped him grow and allowed him to become the man he is today. Working from his studio on Hemphill Street on the South Side, the Diamond Hill native has been pumping out tracks and music videos on his own and producing like-minded artists from the Fort and beyond. His August album Forsaken shines a bright and well-deserved light on Latin-influenced urban street music and culture. — J.G. l
Singer-songwriter Hannah Owens’ triumphant return was a highlight for local music this year.
Courtesy Hannah Owens/Instagram
The handiwork of moody hip-hop sample master BLKrKRT was a steady soundtrack for music writer Johnny Govea in 2024.
And We’re Walking
BY JENNIFER BOVEE
Get started on all that #NewYearNewYou stuff and slow-roll a new exercise routine with some walking-oriented activities this week.
What started as a kind of protest has become an annual tradition. To draw attention to potential fracking problems in 2009, the nonprofit Friends of Tandy Hills launched its walk through the beautiful Tandy Hills Nature Area (3325 View St, Fort Worth, 817-731-2787), a 210acre indigenous remnant prairie obtained
the Cadillac Hotel, Miss Molly’s B&B (as seen on the Discovery Channel), and the Stockyards Hotel, to name a few, and it all starts at the winery. The paranormal activity in the Stockyards is one of the country’s most active and written about, so put this tour on your local bucket list. Tickets are $13-25 at CowtownWinery.com.
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St, 817-738-9215) and in-house restaurant Cafe Modern present First Friday at the Modern. Gallery admission is always free on Fridays, but 5pm-8pm this evening, you can also enjoy food and drink specials and a complimentary 20-minute docent-led tour at 6:30pm.
Local historian Robert Kelleman, founder of the Texas History & Culture organization, leads a free guided walking tour of the Stockyards starting at 9:30am. The meet-up point is the Quanah Parker statue in front of the Hyatt Place Hotel (132 E Exchange Av, Fort Worth, 202-821-6325 text only). Look for the man in the fedora-style hat and a group of friendly people. The tour finishes shortly before 11:30am, just in time to catch The Herd on one of its daily cattle drives.
This weekend is your last chance to stroll through Lightscape at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden.
Every Sunday at 2pm, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St, Fort Worth, 817-738-9215) invites families with children to a free special tour for younger visitors Each tour visits a few works on view and includes a family activity focusing on a highlighted work from the collection.
by the City of Fort Worth in 1960 and designated as a preserve in 1987. Humans of all ages and dogs on leashes are welcome to attend for free. The meet-up point is just north of the playground off the main trail, and the hike follows the park perimeter. In other words, go take a hike! The 16th Annual Manly Men & Wild Women New Year’s Day Hike starts at 10am.
At 7pm any Thu-Sun, you can meet up in the Stockyards at Cowtown Winery (128 E Exchange Av, Ste 610, Fort Worth, 817-626-1011) and take a ghost tour. You’ll learn about the unexplained often happening in the area and the detailed history of the Stockyards and its bordellos, hangings, shootouts, and more. Stops include
End your holiday season at the final weekend of the third annual Lightscape event at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (3220 Botanic Garden Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-463-4160). Walk about the park and explore the whimsical nature of winter through color, fire, light, and music in this immersive experience that’s great for all ages. Lightscape is open daily thru Mon, Jan 1. Tickets start at $15 at FWBG.org/Lightscape.
Want to know more about Sundance Square? A 45-minute expert-guided walking tour starts at the Visitors Center (508 Main St, Fort Worth, 817-229-3569) any Wed-Sun from noon to 8pm. Walk-ins are welcome, but you can also call to schedule your $20 tour. For more information, visit SundanceSquare.com.
daily drives after a free guided walking tour of the Stockyards on Saturday mornings.
Humans of all ages and dogs on leashes are welcome to attend the 16th Annual Manly Men & Wild Women New Year’s Day Hike at Tandy Hills Nature Area.
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