Fort Worth Weekly // January 4-10, 2023

By The Texas Tribune

The Horny Toads Did

By Buck D. Elliott

Smashing

STAFF

Anthony Mariani, Editor

Lee Newquist, Publisher

Bob Niehoff, General Manager

Ryan Burger, Art Director

Jim Erickson, Circulation Director

Edward Brown, Staff Writer

Emmy Smith, Proofreader

Michael Newquist, Regional Sales Director

Jennifer Bovee, Marketing Director

Stacey Hammons, Senior Account Executive

Julie Strehl, Account Executive

Tony Diaz, Account Executive

Wyatt Newquist, Digital Coordinator

By Edward Brown

Broken Hearts, Strings

By Juan R. Govea

Clintastic, Brand Ambassador

CONTRIBUTORS

Megan Ables, Christina Berger, E.R. Bills, Jason Brimmer, Sue Chefington, Buck D. Elliott, Juan R. Govea, Patrick Higgins, Bo Jacksboro, Laurie James, Kristian Lin, Vishal Malhotra, Cody Neathery, Wyatt Newquist, Linda Blackwell Simmons, Madison Simmons, Teri Webster, Ken WheatcroftPardue, Cole Williams

EDITORIAL BOARD

Snowbound

METROPOLIS

BY KAREN BROOKS HARPER, THE TEXAS TRIBUNE

Dallas-based Southwest Airlines faces a federal investigation into whether it violated its own legally required customer service plan amid a blizzard of flight cancellations that ruined plans and angered travelers over the Christmas holiday.

The service meltdown that resulted in the cancellation or delay of most of the carrier’s flights over the holiday weekend was “disproportionate and unacceptable,” said officials at the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) in a statement.

As Winter Storm Elliott started to impact a large chunk of the states, the vast majority of canceled flights across the nation were operated by Southwest Airlines. And air travelers’ woes are likely to continue this week.

“USDOT is concerned by Southwest’s unacceptable rate of cancellations and delays & reports of lack of prompt customer service,” the agency posted on Twitter on Monday evening. “The Department will examine whether cancellations were controllable and if Southwest is complying with its customer service plan.”

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tweeted shortly after that he was “tracking [the issue] closely” and would have more to say about this soon.

Late Tuesday afternoon last week, USDOT tweeted that Buttigieg had spoken “with union leaders and the CEO of Southwest Airlines to convey the Department’s expectation that Southwest meet its obligations to passengers and workers and take steps to prevent a situation like this from happening again.”

Southwest officials said in a message to employees, obtained by the Dallas Morning News last week, that staffing issues were a large part of the reason the planes were

being grounded after pilots and other staff couldn’t get to the airports where they were needed.

Some travelers were told that no new bookings were being made before the new year.

In a statement to the DMN, a spokesperson for the airline — the largest in 23 of the nation’s Top 25 travel markets — said that it was slashing flights and halting ticket sales for the coming days while it recovers.

“Due to our limited schedule and large number of re-accommodations, inventory available to book flights across our network is very low, but we are still operating flights,” Southwest spokesperson Chris Perry said in a statement.

Mike Santoro, vice president of the pilots union for the airline, told CNN the core of the issue was an outdated scheduling system that was already overwhelmed before the storm became the catalyst for the current problems. Those technology problems, he said, have left pilots and crews stranded in cities across the country looking for accommodations, unable to get through to airline officials to find out where they — or the planes they’re scheduled to staff — are supposed to be.

“We don’t know where we are, they don’t know where the airplanes are, and it’s frustrating,” Santoro said. “We are tired of apologizing for Southwest. Our hearts go out to all of the passengers.”

Last Tuesday, the airline scrubbed 64% of its flights, representing nearly 90% of cancellations from all carriers into and out of

the country, according to the online airline tracker FlightAware.

The carrier has already canceled 62% of its flights last Wednesday — accounting for all but 33 of more than 2,500 canceled U.S. flights that day.

Southwest officials issued “heartfelt apologies” Monday that they said were “just beginning” as challenges they also described as “unacceptable” are expected to continue this week.

Officials said in the statement that the severe winter weather caused “wide-scale disruption” and that the airline is working at full capacity to restabilize service.

“We’ll work to make things right for those we’ve let down,” the statement read.

That may not comfort travelers who spent the entire holiday weekend in Austin-Bergstrom International Airport or those separated from stacks of luggage at Houston Hobby Airport and who were dropped off at Love Field in Dallas —Southwest’s hub — without having been notified that their flights were canceled. On Christmas Day, more than 100 flights were delayed or canceled at the San Antonio International Airport.

The chaos left some travelers sleeping on airport floors, waiting for hours in lines, and overwhelming hotels in the scramble to find last-minute accommodations.

But federal officials are limited on what they can do beyond a harshly worded social media callout for an airline to enforce its customer services commitments. Those commitments are not required for an airline

to keep its license but were established in 2011 law as a sort of traveler’s bill of rights that airlines are supposed to enforce on themselves.

Airlines can be heavily fined by USDOT for breaking their rules on how to respond to long delays of planes filled with passengers sitting for hours on the tarmac, but it is unclear yet if those were among the major issues since most flights were canceled altogether.

“It’s posturing on DOT’s part,” said Charlie Leocha, president of Travelers United, which advocates for air travelers and has pushed for stronger ways to enforce airline customer service plans and other requirements.

Typically, he said, Southwest is a “customer service champion” as the only airline with no change fees, with credits that don’t expire, and without charges for up to two bags, with few limitations.

The weather has been unprecedented, and as the largest carrier in the U.S., he added, Southwest is bound to have higher cancellation numbers during busy flight seasons.

“This weather situation is overwhelming,” he said. “I can’t remember a period with such cold temperatures and an amazing amount of snow. It is a shame that the real customer service champion has found itself in the crosshairs. All airlines have the same problems.” l

A version of this story originally appeared in The Texas Tribune.

Dallas-based Southwest has canceled more flights than any other airline during the holidays, prompting federal investigators to ask why.

Southwest is struggling to stabilize its operations after a winter storm caused a backlog in travel, mass flight cancellations and delays at major airports.

Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

The Factual Retelling of History Is the Greatest Tool that Activists and Advocates Have.

Just a few months ago, a monumental case that protected the constitutional right to privacy for women was overturned. After 50 years of serving as precedent, Roe v. Wade was rolled back, and 167 million people in this country have had their equality further chipped away and their bodily autonomy threatened. How did this happen? I have several different thoughts about how the political landscape of this country has shifted over the past seven years and pushed us to this point, but a better question would be why have we rolled back this protection knowing why it was originally put in place? Have we forgotten the history of what happened to women before abortion was legal and federally protected? Have we forgotten our collective history?

In a time when many conservative states are openly and actively changing history curriculums to better fit their warped and “alternative truth” agendas, knowing our history and knowing it factually is one of the greatest tools that activists and advocates have.

This country is currently in an era when book bans and unprecedented restrictive changes are being made to school curriculums to push far-right extremist views and falsify and alter the very dark and often racist history of this country. Over the past two years, 15 states have passed laws restricting curriculum which will affect nearly 122 million people. Between January and August of 2022, 36 states issued 137 pieces of legislation aimed at limiting the way that teachers are able to teach their students. Most of this legislation has aimed to restrict how race, sexuality, and gender are taught, and most of this legislation has been aimed at K-12 schools. Of the 137 pieces of legislation, only one has been introduced by a Democratic politician.

While these changes are currently being aimed at K-12 schools, an increasing number of these laws will apply to colleges and universities, too. This is troubling.

It is not just an adage or a cliche to say that if you don’t know your history, then you’ll repeat it. In this case, history is literally being rewritten, changed, and/or erased. That’s exactly what is happening in real time in our country as we witness historic rollbacks on human and constitutional rights and the systemic denial of scientific facts. We — or rather a select group who have collectively been able to sway us toward the opinion that it doesn’t even matter — don’t even know our history. We have been swayed to not acknowledge facts, and we are paying for it and will continue

to do so until we collectively change.

Prior to 1973 and before Roe v. Wade was decided in the Supreme Court, it was routine for women to die due to being denied access to safe abortions. Let’s be clear. Women have always gotten abortions. They have not always been able to access safe abortions, and that has resulted in death. Nearly 100 years prior to Roe v. Wade, the Comstock Law was passed, making it a federal crime to disseminate birth control through the mail or across state lines. By the early 1900s, medical journals were filled with the stories of women with perforated and infected uteruses from unmonitored and medically questionable abortions. Women who sought abortions had little to no options to safely get them, and by the 1930s, it is estimated that more than 600,000 abortions were taking place yearly, with roughly 10,000 women dying due to medical complications. After Roe v. Wade was passed into law, the mortality rate for those receiving abortions drastically dropped to about 70 deaths per every 100,000 abortions. After Roe v. Wade was passed into law, it became statistically safer to have an abortion than to give birth to a child.

I’m worried that the people who have advocated for the reversal of Roe aren’t concerned enough with what life was like for women aiming to get abortions before the law. Those stakeholders who are anti-abortion are committed to continuing to push a false history that posits that women have never gotten abortions and have never prac-

ticed family planning. Have they forgotten the bloody and gory tales of women dying from their wounds during and after abortions? Do they not care? The women who died pre-Roe deserve to be remembered, and their deaths deserve to be remembered and spoken about so that other women do not meet the same fate. We cannot forget them, and we cannot forget what awaits us if women do not have full bodily autonomy to make decisions for themselves, their bodies, and their futures. If abortion access is limited or taken away, there will be casualties. We as a nation must decide if we are OK with politicians allowing and advocating for that to happen.

Signed, Celeste Graham Dallas

Celeste Graham is a mother, a high school special education teacher, and a Ph.D. candidate at Texas Woman’s University in the department of social sciences and historical studies. She is currently writing her dissertation about formerly incarcerated mothers of color and their lives after they are released from prison.

This letter reflects the opinions and fact-gathering of the author(s) and only the author(s) and not the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a letter, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly.com. He will gently edit it for clarity and concision.

Why Is TRWD Appointing Electoral

Losers to the Board?

The recent passing of Jim Lane of the Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD) board has exposed a gaping hole in leadership at the helm of TRWD, led by board chair Leah King. The Dec 13 meeting of TRWD commemorated Mr. Lane’s public service. Within the same meeting ensued a discussion on a method to fill the now-vacant seat. (State law requires the vacancy to be filled by the board within 60 days of occurrence. The term for this appointment expires in May 2023.)

With great confusion, King volleyed clumsily with board attorney Stephen Tatum on a proposed method of filling the vacancy with defeated and rejected candidates from prior elections. The words “transparency,” “optics,” and “accountability” were tossed about by board member James Hill during the discussion on the method to fill the current vacancy, and he concurred with King to select from defeated and voter-rejected 2021 candidates. Neither Ms. King nor Mr. Hill spoke to their conflicts of interest in making this selection.

One of the failed 2021 candidates campaigned on a slate with Ms. King and Mr. Hill. He is a land developer named C.B. Teams. Moreover, in 2019, Teams was also on the TRWD ballot and was defeated by Jim Lane, whose seat is now open due to his passing. These individuals who failed to get elected in 2021 were vetted by the voters and rejected.

Mr. Hill and Ms. King’s vapid argument is that these people have been vetted by the public. It troubles one to think that this is proper and well thought out. The irony is that their collective message in 2021 to the voters was transparency and accountability. The board voted to fill Mr. Lane’s vacancy using the unelected 2021 TRWD candidates.

Board member Hill requested staff to derive a policy in case vacancies occur in the future so future boards will have a standard set of rules for guidance. The policy requested from staff by Mr. Hill is vital. This policy will amount to an appointment of an elected position and should require a period of public input and comments before consideration.

When will voters within the TRWD start electing competent transparent leaders?

Signed, Water District Accountability Project

This letter reflects the opinions and fact-gathering of the author(s) and only the author(s) and not the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a letter, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly.com. He will gently edit it for clarity and concision.

Members of the Water District Accountability Project do not believe TRWD board chair Leah King will appoint a noninsider to fill Jim Lane’s vacated seat this month.

Courtesy TRWD

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Two Women at a Window,

1655–60, oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Widener Collection, 1942.9.46

This exhibition is organized by the Kimbell Art Museum.

The Kimbell Art Museum is supported in part by Arts Fort Worth, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

All About Rapshit!

for. Of course, HBO is probably just using the Black experience to pull itself out of the billion-dollar debt it has fallen into by way of so many mistakes, like greenlighting Girls by pseudo-feminist Lena Dunham. In fact, a prime example of the rise of “That Bitch” feminism from a dormant fem culture can perhaps be seen most clearly in the downfall of Dunham juxtaposed against the rise of Rae, whose first project was the groundbreaking and critically acclaimed Insecure

HBO’s

new rap-centric dramedy goes places Girls and other less-inspired shows didn’t or wouldn’t.

BY JESSICA WALLERA

In the last couple of years after #MeToo, an evolution of feminism spearheaded by dynamic Black women like Beyonce, Lizzo, and Issa Rae (to scratch the surface) has taken over in popular culture, a movement lovingly coined “That Bitch” feminism. (If not by me, then who?) It probably has something to do with the fact that #MeToo was started by a young Black woman, Tarana Burke, in 2006 but didn’t seem to really matter until 2017 — when it was popularized by white celebrities Ashley Judd and Alyssa Milano. Add all the previously silenced voices tearing through the veil of the willfully ignorant aughts, and the zeitgeist has much to make up for.

Indeed, the end of the ’90s and the start of the new millennium was bleak in mainstream culture. Most subversive artists, inspired by the digital takeover, used the internet to start their own labels or even cut out the middlemen entirely with the invention of livestreaming. A new genre called indie music drove serious artists further underground to the detriment of the mainstream culture at large. A new air of misogyny fueled by cultural phenoms like Eminem and Dave Chapelle raged on as we enjoyed songs about the abuse and murder of women and laughed at date-rape jokes in sketches like “The Hook-Up Hall of Fame.” In the medium of film, predatory creeps like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and Woody Allen were lauded by audiences until rising tensions finally ex-

ploded with the arrival of #MeToo in 2017.

Truly, though, nobody really cared until Judd and Milano spoke out about it, but even though it was appropriated by whites, Black girls are taking it back and making the newest wave of feminism all their own. And the results are quite a fucking thing to behold.

Specifically, I’m talking about Rapshit! Issa Rae’s new show is about the constrictive dichotomy faced by female musicians, especially women of color, in their struggle to be taken seriously as artists while remaining sexually liberated under the exploitation of the male gaze.

Shawna and Mia support each other in their daily struggles to be recognized as important rappers in a field dominated by men that’s often rife with toxic masculinity. Mia, as an impoverished single mother left by her manipulative boyfriend, especially symbolizes the real struggle of modern women. Unlike most shows about struggling young people, the girls’ parents are not present. The young women are on their own entirely — except in the most moving scenes when Mia is degraded by her mother’s sly putdowns about her artistic ambitions.

The way her mother exudes negativity around Mia’s daughter is something Mia refuses to accept as part of a new generation of women trying to break the Boomer generation’s callous treatment of children. As Mia, the phenomenal KaMillion is mesmerizing, dominating every scene she’s in. Her rendering of this experience is especially unforgettable.

At times, this poignant story feels like a memoir, even — or especially — as it sometimes unfolds via the main characters’ phone screens. Rae explicitly gives voice to the way

people of color have deconstructed the mass media’s narrative by way of technology, giving birth to a raw agency never possible before the invention of cell phones and social media. She highlights an unfiltered narrative that has given marginalized people the platform they needed all along to own their voices in real time without the dissolution of a third party’s influence. Like say for instance: the police.

This show portrays the struggle of impoverished females with real problems like making rent and being a good single mother under the constant pressures of homelessness, mental illness, self-sacrifice, and failure. Shawna is fixated on being taken seriously as an intellectual feminist given that she dropped out of college to pursue her career based on promises from a male scene-maker who dropped her from a label for not being sexual enough. To pay rent, Shawna is now involved in white-collar crimes. She also covers her face while rapping abrasively, using the same brazen brutal truths as the riot grrrls of the ’90s but with far better lyricism, to broadcast her message of equality and justice for women. This does not go over well in a genre interested in making fun music for hard lives as opposed to hard music for fun lives, like white people have always loved in their unencumbered privilege.

Mia tries to explain the new feminist concept of sex as a weapon owned by and operated on a woman’s terms to flip the script of exploitation. In this way, Shawna and Mia learn from each other and come together beautifully in a body of work that showcases Shawna as the brain, Mia as the heart, and both ladies as the soul.

Rapshit! is the show that all marginalized females have needed and been waiting

This barometer comes through quite clear in that both ladies were given their own shows on the same network, where they portrayed their own respective experiences as awkward and unapologetic underdogs growing up in the new millennium, trying to succeed as leaders in a patriarchy: Rae in California and Dunham in New York. But as Rae made it known even back then, this is where the similarities ended. Rae even had enough foresight to balk at such comparisons in interviews.

Dunham was signed by HBO in 2012 but Rae not until 2017, so this belies a strong connection between her hiring and the rippling of the movement. HBO most likely sought out Rae only in a panic to seem progressive to marginalized fem voices finally surfacing through digital platforms. Also, it was in answer to the controversy surrounding Dunham’s protest to a #MeToo survivor’s testimony against a sexual predator who worked on her show. She later apologized for this in 2018, but by then, everyone could see her as more harmful than helpful to the movement.

Both shows are loosely autobiographical. However, being self-made on YouTube, with a built-in audience, Rae personally embodies a new demographic grossly underrepresented in mainstream culture: the successful and liberated Black girl. This was accomplished largely through the power of social media. Rae, however, didn’t receive accolades nearly as fast as Dunham, who “earned” her big shot through the classic nepotism that comes with being raised in Manhattan by artist parents who knew Judd Apatow and gave Dunham his email address for her screenplay.

The new show Industry that Dunham produced is not great. It’s about as sterile and boring as her entire ethos has become. Conversely, on Rapshit!, Rae — in all of her self-made grit and depth of character — has given life to vivid, relatable, and important characters who marginalized feminists can finally relate to. In other words, Rapshit! is a neon paragon of “That Bitch” feminism.

Which might be my favorite wave yet. l

Aida Osman (right) and KaMillion are trying to figure out the rap game along with life in Rapshit!

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TCU punches the Big 12’s first ticket to the college football national championship in the playoff era.

BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT

Full disclosure time. I’m a Wolverine fan. Not by choice but by birth. As a first-generation Texan in a family full of Michiganders and U of M alums, I’ve worn Maize and Blue since before I could walk and was bred to hate all things Ohio State — it’s kind of in my DNA. So on New Year’s Eve when my beloved wife (who has degrees from three colleges, including TCU and Iowa State) asked me if I felt like I’d win no matter what during the TCU/Michigan halftime show, I replied succinctly and soberly: “No, I don’t feel that way.”

The Frog is out of the bag, and I sit writing a game recap and preview I sincerely never thought would be necessary: TCU is playing for a national championship. They are the first Big 12 school to do so in the playoff era, the first Texas school to even appear in the playoff, and the first TCU squad with a legitimate shot at victory since FDR’s second presidential term.

Retrospectively, the Big 12 championship game was instrumental toward this moment. Head Coach Sonny Dykes and Offensive Coordinator Garrett Riley clearly learned lessons from TCU’s failures in overtime against Kansas State. I counted not one but two successful Max Duggan sneaks for short-yardage conversions, and they were both things of beauty. The overwhelming narrative, which even I fell victim to, was that the Horned Frogs would struggle in the trenches against the lumbering NFL-style offensive line of the Wolverines. That didn’t happen. Michigan’s first snap from scrimmage spelled impending disaster for fans from Fort Worth (who showed up to Glendale in droves). Donovan Edwards took the first handoff straight through the A-gap for a 54-yard sprint and an exclamation mark on the expectation TCU would just get pushed around for the entire game. Ironically, U of M’s game plan expired on the same play. Edwards gained only 65 additional yards the rest of the game and needed 22 attempts to do so. Michigan’s sophomore quarterback J.J. McCarthy added 52 rushing yards of his own during timely scampers in the second half while the Wolverines were clawing back from TCU’s dominant 21-6 first half.

Instead, it was the Frogs who won the rushing battle that the northerners were

expected to smash everyone to bits with, as McCarthy said before the game. Kendre Miller’s nation-leading touchdown-ina-game streak expired because the bruiser left the game with a lower leg injury midway through the second quarter. Miller was looking in typically elite form and was easily finding the edge against Michigan’s defense, who turned out to be the worst unit on the field (more on that later). Miller still accumulated 57 yards on only eight attempts before being sidelined, and Duggan complemented him with another 57 of his own on the ground.

The man of the hour was senior Emari Demercado, who had to assume sole RB duty in the second half, resulting in a 69-yard rush that led to a Duggan touchdown from the 1-yard-line. Demercado finished with 150 on the ground as TCU bested their opponent by nearly 80 yards as a team. Dykes said leading into the contest that their primary objective would be to shut down the rushing attack, which Joe Gillespie’s troops did successfully. The impetus — by Frog design — fell on Michigan’s sophomore QB to win the game, and his youth was the difference. McCarthy threw two interceptions that were housed for scores by Bud Clark and Dee Winters, respectively. McCarthy was also partially responsible for a bad exchange between him and his fullback which led to a fumble recovery and touchback for TCU’s defense. This was after that pass reception spotted on the half-yard-line which Wolverine fans will proclaim was a touchdown on their deathbeds.

As far as phases, the TCU offense was the best unit on the field and netted a collective 39 points thanks to big games from Quentin Johnston, who nabbed six passes for 163 yards and a score, Demercado, and to an efficient performance from Duggan, who played well in clutch spots as fans have become accustomed to. Michigan’s offense was second-best on the day, scoring 45 but also surrendering 12 for a net of 33 points courtesy of second-half adjustments and second-half breakdowns in Frog coverage. The third best — but biggest surprise — was the purple defense, who scored 12 points off two interceptions, recovered a fumble that saved a sure touchdown, and stymied two fourth-down attempts for a collective five possession swaps (two of them in the shadow of their own goalposts). That leaves U of M’s defense festering in the basement, surrendering 12 more points specifically to TCU’s offense than they had to anyone in a single game all season.

The collective feeling of the Wolverines — and concurrently national media — is that Michigan lost the game rather than TCU winning it, but they’re wrong, and it’s understandable not to think straight when you’re that cold and overpaid all the time. TCU’s offensive miscues prevented a Frog runaway. Both quarterbacks slung two interceptions each, but while McCarthy’s were bad decisions and throws to go with them, Duggan’s were what we’ll call “Dak Prescott interceptions,” where they bonked his receiver straight in the hands and popped straight to a defender.

Michiganders will blame the referees — inevitably a loser’s MO — but these bounces from the football gods have gone largely unmentioned and were instrumental to keep-

ing the game manageable for the Wolverines toward the end.

Frankly, the better team won, no upsets about it. Vegas doesn’t really know who is faster and stronger — it was TCU, by the way. The oddsmakers simply set betting lines to balance the money and their own books based on expectations of gamblers. Dykes’ boys forced Michigan to play one-dimensionally, and it wasn’t their prettiest side, though they were still plenty serviceable in the passing game despite their individual receiving talents being deficient to the Frogs. It also became obvious near the end that this game, despite the stakes, was not even close to breaking the top four of challenging or close games the Frogs have played this year. Other than Texas and Iowa State, TCU played their most complete contest of the season, and while Michigan scrambled to understand a team who played fast and physical, the moment seemed business as usual for a group whose majority of starters never even played in the Riscky’s BBQ Bowl, let alone a playoff semifinal.

TCU advances to the national championship game to play against Georgia at SoFi Stadium near Los Angeles on Monday, Jan. 9, and will be the largest underdog in a title game in the modern era — what else is new? Vegas and bettors have whiffed on the Frogs all season as they’re one of the best teams against the spread in the country. The Bulldogs are a more seasoned commodity than the Wolverines and not just because they’re the defending national champions. Michigan showed TCU no pre-game respect, but I bet they know what conference they’re in now. Kirby Smart — at least when talking to the press — won’t dare drop his zipper and expose his hubris like Jim Harbaugh’s boys did, but Dykes will keep his team humble and ready while pointing out the narrative that developed from analysis of the best day of college football semifinals since the inception of the playoffs. Georgia survived a pissed-off Ohio State squad who was curbstomped by the Wolverines in their final regular season game. I chose my words carefully, because every pundit is slackjawed by the impressive comeback win from the de -

fending champs. Those same talking heads are also screaming over the upset by TCU and pointing to potential game-changing decisions by Harbaugh and the officials. The underlying truth is the Bulldogs didn’t control the end of their game. The Buckeyes drove quickly into scoring range and could have won with a successful 50-yard field goal but Ray Finkled the kick in one of the worst misses I’ve seen at this level. Georgia didn’t do anything specifically to affect that play. The moment just became too big for State. Needing your opponent to miss a long but makeable — field goal is still a win, but as the top seed in what is supposed to be the best conference since Eve ate the apple, it’s survival in my book.

The Bulldogs are a more balanced offense than Michigan and Stetson Bennett a much better and more veteran — I’m pretty sure he’s 40 years old — quarterback. Coverage breakdowns in the TCU secondary will need to be minimized, and Frog receivers who aren’t named Johnston, Taye Barber, or Jordan Hudson need fresh gloves and 1,000 reps on the Jugs machine at full speed each. As far as health, Johnston looked in full form, but at the time of this writing, there aren’t any updates on the lower leg (probably knee) injury suffered by Miller, though he did return to the field to start the third quarter before removing his pads after that series. Despite Demercado’s performance, Miller is still the better back in all facets, including pass blocking, and the removal of their dual status is a notable loss should he be unavailable or less than full strength in the title game. Third-stringer Emani Bailey has seen limited action in a relief role both in rushing and receiving capacities but didn’t carry the ball in the Fiesta Bowl and will need to be worked into the game plan if Miller can’t suit up.

Dykes and TCU have single-handedly saved the national perception of the Big 12 conference with their advancement to the national title game. In fact, the only conference teams to win their bowls — out of eight who played — are both first-year coaches in Dykes and Tech’s Joey McGuire, who beat Ole Miss. Dykes has a chance to become only the fourth college coach to ever win a national championship during his first year and would be the first in 22 years to do that. The national championship game as we know it has existed only since 1998. Before then, all championships were awarded based on polls and not necessarily a head-to-head matchup. No pre-season unranked team has ever appeared in either the playoff or a BCS title game since they were established until the Frogs this year.

Last week I asserted that TCU had already won the season, and everything in the actual games is just a bonus. On Saturday, the nation got a taste of the entertainment value this team has provided fans all year, and everything henceforth is just a celery stalk in an overly vodka’d Bloody Mary. Right now, New Year’s Eve seems a bit like a dream where we got to French kiss Ryan Reynolds when the clock struck midnight, but this morning, Fort Worth faithful are rubbing their eyes as he brings an espresso with a beautifully poached egg to our bedside, because TCU is playing for the national championship. Really. l

Hoisting the Fiesta Bowl trophy, Sonny Dykes has led TCU to their first national title appearance in the modern era.

Courtesy TCU Athletics

The Animals said it best. We gotta get out of this place if it’s the last thing we ever do. After our recent five seconds of “winter,” I’m ready to make summer plans, and I’m not opposed to a trip in an RV. Those of you who are like-minded may want to check out the Tarrant County RV Show 11am-7pm today and tomorrow, 10am-8pm Sat, and 11am-5pm Sun at the Fort Worth Convention Center (1201 Houston St, 817392-2588). Tickets are $12 per day at TarrantCountyRVShow.com.

If you’re in #NewYearNewCareer mode and have been following the woes of the aviation industry of late, the US Aviation Academy (4850 Spartan Dr, Denton, 940-297-6419) invites you to attend the Skywest Flight Visit at 12:30pm. US Aviation has courses to put you on the

path to a career in aviation or a new hobby as a recreational pilot. New student classes start each month. This open-house event hosted by pilot Steve Kugler is a great place to start. “Skywest will be visiting with students, new and old, as well as prospective students to discover the pathway to flying for Skywest.”

Music Awards nominee Darrin Kobetich — who also goes by the moniker of DaKobe, it seems — is no stranger to the RV life. His personal, hand-painted bus takes him everywhere he wants to be. Today, that’s Waco. Catch the acoustic stylings of DaKobe at the Waco Downtown Farmers Market from 9am to noon in front of the County Courthouse (500 Washington Av, 254-307-1884). This market features only local artisans and producers within 150 miles of Waco. #KeepItLocal

From 5:45pm to 9pm, enjoy the final day of Lightscape at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (3220 Botanic Garden Blvd, 817-463-4160). In the 120-acre park set along a “beautifully illuminated” walking trail custom-designed for Fort Worth, Lightscape features “spectacular artistic installations that come to life after dark with color, imagination, and sound.” Tickets are $28 for adults and $18 for kids and include toasting marshmallows and drinking hot chocolate along with the singing trees and artistic installation you’ll experience. Entry times are available every 15 minutes. The average tour time from start to finish is 1.5 hours, although there is no time limit. For tickets or more info, visit FWBG.org.

After beating Michigan in the Fiesta Bowl, the Horned Frogs will play in the National Championship against the Georgia Bulldogs at 6:30pm. As the game is in Inglewood, California, you may want to find a watching party here at home. All the tickets allotted to the football program are accounted for, and second-seller tickets start at $600 (!) on Ticketmaster. But where can you watch it a lot closer to home and with a cold beer in hand? If only we had a column of food and booze events in our Eats & Drinks section on the next page ;)

Thru Tue, Feb 28, Granbury invites you to be a winter guest. As part of Visit Granbury’s annual Winter Guest Season, there are special accommodations, attractions, dining, and more deals. For example, take a ghost tour on the town square (119 E Bridge St, Granbury, 817-5590849) at 7pm Fri-Sat, or take a plunge into cold Lake Granbury at noon on Sat, Jan 14, at the annual Goosebump Jump. Each event costs only $10. See the latest offerings or to sign up for your official Winter Guest Passport, go to VisitGranbury.com/WinterGuest.

Speaking of the cold, the annual Polar Bear Winter Clays League at Defender Outdoors Clay Sports Ranch (8270 Aledo Rd, 817-935-8378) starts today. Show off your clay-breaking skills on your own schedule every Wed-Sun thru Sun, Feb 19, then attend the League Dinner Party & Awards on Wed, Feb 22. Individuals or teams of four to six people can participate. The price for the league is $195 and includes all six weeks of shooting plus the awards dinner. Visit Facebook. com/DefenderOutdoorsClaySportsRanch/ Events. Sign up by emailing Siera@DefenderOutdoors.com with your team members and team name.

By Jennifer Bovee

Wanna get away? Head South on Saturday and catch guitar virtuoso Darrin Kobetich at the Waco Farmers Market.

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The annual Polar Bear Winter Clays League at Defender starts on Wednesday.

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without snow, Lake Granbury

cold during the Goosebump Jump on Sat, Jan 14.

At 6:30pm Monday, your beloved Horned Frogs will take on the Georgia Bulldogs in the College Football National Championship in Inglewood, California. Where can you watch the game here? We have some (read: “eight”) ideas.

1.) Buffalo Bros will be at the game representing the food of our fair city like they did at the Fiesta Bowl. If you are lucky enough to attend the game in person, follow Facebook.com/BuffaloBrosFTW for updates on their gate location. If not, both local Buffalo Bros locations — Sundance Square (415 Throckmorton St, 817-887-9533) and TCU (3015 S University Dr, 817-386-9601) — will host watch parties.

2.) Watch the championship on the “jumbotron” at Birdie’s Social Club (2736 W 6th St, BirdiesSocialClub.com). There will be drink specials during the game. Dogs are welcome, but they must be on a leash. There is free parking in the lot at the corner of 5th and Foch streets. Look for the windmill.

3.) Those who live south of the Fort should head to The Brickhouse in Joshua (107 N Main St, TheBrickhouseGrill.menu). Starting at 7pm, this bar and grill is offering 50% off appetizers, buckets of beer, and purple margaritas, plus if you are wearing TCU purple, you will receive a complimentary shot of Tito’s.

4.) Along with showing the big game on its six regular TVs, the folks at Fort Brewery (2737 Tillar St, 817-923-8000) will project TCU/Georgia on a 12-foot screen while offering a free pizza buffet and $4 pints of their signature craft beer Hypnotoad Haze. No matter who wins the game, smells like victory here.

5.) What’s happening at your place? If you don’t have ESPN, I suggest you get moving on that. (See our Classifieds section for several provider choices.) For interesting/ discounted snacks and beer, head to Town Talk Foods (121 N Beach St, 817-831-6136). Spend a little of that money you saved on snacks by ordering TCU cookies from Cottage House Cookies in Aledo (CottageHouseCookiesTX@gmail.com). Cookies are $66 per dozen, and pickup will be Sunday. To order, direct message Cottage House at Facebook.com/CottageHouseCookies.

6.) TCU football and Dutch’s Hamburgers (3009 S University Dr, 817-927-5522) go hand in hand like players in a huddle. This TCU-themed neighborhood joint is located in a historic building facing campus. The restaurant’s namesake, Leo “Dutch” Meyer, is a TCU grad who became the most success-

ful football coach in Horned Frogs history. Look for Dutch’s game day schedule soon at Facebook.com/DutchsHamburgers.

7.) Meanwhile in Switzerland (read: Denton), fans of both teams are welcome to join the fun at East Side (117 E Oak St, 940218-1401). Show who you’re rooting for by ordering a Horned Frog Margarita or a Georgia Bulldog. If neither sounds good, that’s alright. East Side offers nearly 100 beers on tap (60-ish from Texas alone) and more than 130 varieties of bourbon, scotch, and whiskey.

8.) Panther Island Brewing (501 N Main St, 817-882-8121) is opening its doors early on Monday to host its Purple Out Watch Party 5pm-10pm, with the national championship game on the big screen (with audio). Raffle prizes will be drawn each quarter, and those wearing purple TCU gear receive their first Tailgater craft beer for free. The Smokin’ Cactus food truck (PantherIslandBrewing. com/Smokin-Cactus) will be on hand, as usual, serving signature bowls, tacos, and desserts.

By Jennifer Bovee

Wow your party guests with some Horned Frog Cookies from Cottage House.

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For the purple clad, your first Tailgater is free on Monday at Panther Island Brewing.

Courtesy Panther Island Brewing

Go for the Gustos

The popular smash-burger trailer is unmooring from Hotel Dryce for a new, permanent Fort Worth location.

Location TBA. Follow Gustos on Instagram @__ gustos.

PHOTOS AND STORY

BY EDWARD BROWN

Hours before heading to Magnolia to cap off 2022, I pulled up to Hotel Dryce for an early dinner. From his food trailer behind the boutique hotel, Jonathan Arguello said that it was his last night at this location. He wasn’t ready to disclose his next Fort Worth base of operations, but he was looking forward to a more visible perch to sling his tasty creations.

Over the past year, the patty maker has expanded his menu while staying true to the formula that has made Gustos Burgers + Stuff popular with meat lovers. He uses high heat and heavy smashing to deliver super-flavorful delights.

The Double Gusto came with gobs of American cheese, oily and caramelized onions, and two rich, salted, and lightly

charred patties. Thick Best Maid pickles and a tangy secret sauce livened the lovely, savory mess.

The trailer offers a handful of sides, including the Gusto Style Tots and the Bacon ’n’ Cheese Tots. The Gusto variety came drizzled with a creamy Thousand Island-esque sauce, and the golden-fried nuggets commendably held their shape under the weighty blend of cheese and grilled onions. The bacon option was heavy on crumbles of smoky, grilled pork that — and I wasn’t complaining — overpowered the cheese. Both belt-busting appetizers could easily feed two.

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If you order the Gusto Burger, try the double.

Fans of the classic-style hamburger may enjoy the Backyard Burger.

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substitutes on the veggie side of the grill and away from the meat to make the option as vegan-friendly as possible. The patty was less dense than beef but still crispy on the outside with a mild, roasted potato flavor. With the ensemble of sauce, pickles, vegan cheese, and special sauce, it was as close to the real thing as, well, possible.

The biggest sammy of the day was the Backyard Burger, which mimics the classic American burger with thick cuts of smoky bacon plus lettuce, pickles, ketchup, and

mayo. Far from a fast-food knockoff, the Backyard Burger — with its dense and flavorful patty, soft buttered buns, and crisp veggies — reminded me of the chargrilled burgers my dad used to cook in the backyard during sweltering summers of my youth.

Rounding out my second dinner of the night was the Fancy Grilled Cheese, a simple pressed sandwich with pickles and a side of special sauce — the perfect option for picky kiddos or the occasional Gustos patron trying to shed holiday pounds without giving up Arguello’s addictive creations. l

The Bacon ’n’ Cheese Tots come with a small mountain of crumbled bits of smoked pork.

Gustos’ plant-based patty is a close imitation of the real thing.

The Buffalo Bros team will head to Inglewood, California, site of the National Championship game between TCU and Georgia on Monday, Jan. 9, to feed fans some of Fort Worth’s finest bar noshes. For the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, this past weekend, sponsor Vrbo selected Buffalo Bros (two Fort Worth locations) to represent Funkytown, and Chef/Co-owner Jon Bonnell and company were a huge hit, with their wonderful takes on pizza, wings, and more. Go Buffalo Bros. Go Frogs!

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MUSIC

Breaking All the Strings

Cosmic country singersongwriter Broke String Burnett’s 12-track debut is set for February.

BY JUAN R GOVEA

Brandon “Broke String” Burnett hasn’t broken a guitar string onstage in a good while. His nickname has stood the test of time for a reason — he plays hard.

He also works hard. After years of plying local stages and writing new material, he’s set to release his debut album in February.

Recorded in an improvised home studio with old friend Calan Rawl, Doppelgänger is 12 tracks of moody, dark, old-school country in the vein of Orville Peck and Sturgill Simpson, with psychedelic, Radiohead-esque flourishes. Think of it as “cosmic country.”

Along with Burnett on vocals and rhythm guitar and producer Rawl on keys, Jacob Martinez handles bass and vocals, John Paul Thomas drums, and Robbie Saunders steel and lead guitar.

Burnett and Rawl have been wanting to get into the studio for a while now. Rawl, Burnett said, “really gets me and my songwriting. I feel like he captured that wide open, kind of cinematic feel of my songs, which is something we had always talked about concerning making something one day.”

After taking a brief hiatus from gigging to form his backing band and track the album, Burnett said he is more than happy with the recordings and plans on breaking all the strings this year.

“Rawl did a lot regarding the time signatures and flow of the album,” Burnett said about the production. “There’s a lot of thought put into the reflection and an inclination of duality on the album. There are hopeful songs and others we call ‘hell songs,’ and there are songs in between I call ‘gray songs.’ ”

The production came easy and happened in a very organic way, Burnett said.

(From left to right) drummer John Paul Thomas, frontman Brandon “Broke String” Burnett, and bassist Jacob Martinez want to take you on a little trip.

Songs like “She Turned into a Shadow” and “Ghost Town” were both kind of typical, slow-country strummed songs at first, Burnett said.

Rawl, however, “suggested doing down strokes for those tracks,” Burnett continued. “It flowed better in sequence and even made them more haunting. I feel like we just had fun, really, and once we decided on the title, Doppelgänger, everything fit perfectly.”

For Rawl’s first effort as a producer, he drew from his experience scoring student films. “The ambience of the record worked well with the shared themes after mixing

and mastering the album’s imagery,” he said, which helped the concepts on the album.

“We spent a lot of time thinking about it and how we wanted to represent the record’s Twilight Zone-like mood.”

Burnett and Rawl plan to put out more music next year as a production company.

“I don’t have a name,” Rawl said, “but I am interested in the idea of working with a label or other musician.”

Burnett teased the album by releasing the single “Got It Bad” last month via BrokeStringBurnett.com and all streaming platforms. Two more teaser singles are on the way.

“The goal when we started was to make something epic and to build a band in the process,” Burnett said. “I hope to get this album in front of as many ears as possible, and we just want to put on good shows.” l

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