Fort Worth Weekly // February 8-14, 2023

FEATURE

In custody battles, the losers are the parents. The winners? Lawyers, judges, and the system that keeps them comfortable.

BY EDWARD BROWN

NIGHT & DAY Mardi Gras and margaritas are on the way.

BY JENNIFER BOVEE

One of only a few first-wave hardcore punks around puts out an album — finally.

BY JUAN R. GOVEA

EATS & DRINKS

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BY LAURIE JAMES

STUFF

For Cowboys fans, the Super Bowl choice is clear: any team but the Eagles.

BY PATRICK HIGGINS

Fathers’ Rights Right?

By Edward Brown

Happy Valentine’s/

By Laurie James

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METROPOLIS

No Country for Old Racists

BY TYTUS BERRY

Today, a mixed bag. Good news and bad news.

Remember the main coin flip scene in No Country for Old Men, which is set in Texas? It now resonates in a whole new way.

For the uninitiated, stoic assassin Anton Chigurh walks into a backcountry West Texas convenience store, and, after what he clearly perceives to be an absurd encounter with the rustic, elderly store proprietor, decides the universe might be better off without said proprietor. Chigurh is a nihilistic figure who claims no proprietary leanings in in terms of judging good or bad or right or wrong, necessarily — he just considers the elderly man’s tired, down-home witticism and sedimentary resignation an affront to the living. I guess it’s good he isn’t God.

Chigurh does, however, entertain sporting chances.

“What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?” he asks the man.

“I don’t know,” the proprietor says. “I couldn’t say.”

Chigurh flips a quarter, catches it, and places it on the wooden checkout counter surface, covering it with three fingers.

“Call it,” he says.

The proprietor eyes him unsurely. “Call it?”

“Yes.”

“For what?” the proprietor says.

“Just call it.”

There is a long pause, the elderly man’s mind slowly sifting through the possible implications of this strange wager. “Well, we need to know what we’re calling it for, here.”

Chigurh is mildly vexed. “You need to call it. I can’t call it for you. It wouldn’t be fair.”

The proprietor thinks for a moment. “I didn’t put nothing up.”

Chigurh face flashes almost reptilian. “Yes, you did. You’ve been putting it up your whole life. … You just didn’t know it.”

The elderly man flails, motionlessly and nonverbally.

“Do you know what date is on this coin?” Chigurh says.

“No.”

“Nineteen-fifty-eight. It’s been traveling for 22 years to get here. Now, it’s here, and it’s either heads or tails, and you have to say or call it.”

“Well, look, I need to know what I stand to win.”

“Everything,” Chigurh replies chillingly.

“How’s that?”

Chigurh is annoyed but never out of control.

“You stand to win everything,” he pronounces.

There is another pause.

“Alright,” the proprietor says. “Heads, then.”

Chigurh slowly reveals the coin under his fingers. It’s heads.

“Well done,” he says.

The attendant begins to scoop up the coin and put it in his pocket, but Chigurh takes exception.

“Don’t put it in your pocket,” he says, his visage almost friendly.

“Sir?” the proprietor musters.

“Don’t put it in your pocket. It’s your lucky quarter.”

“Where do you want me to put it?” the proprietor says.

“Anywhere,” Chigurh advises, “but not in your pocket, where it will get mixed in with the others and become just a coin,” Chigurh acknowledging the irony, “which it is.”

And he leaves.

It’s a Kafkaesque scene with sprinkles of Vonnegut and David Lynch, but it gets worse or better — or at least more interesting — today.

A 1958 quarter featured George Washington’s profile (facing left) on the front, and, on the back, a bald eagle with 13 arrows and an olive branch in its talons. George Washington, our first head of state, obviously signified heads. The bald eagle, our national bird, was tails.

Now, however, George’s profile can be facing right or left on one side, and the back no longer features a bald eagle. It can be a state or a national park. It can be another important American historical figure and usually a historically underrepresented figure. I think it’s exciting news, a coinage version of a 1980s box of Crackerjacks or Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates in the 1990s.

You really don’t know what you’re going to get, and this amuses me (and perhaps you).

But it won’t amuse some.

This is, after all, Black History Month, and I hate to vex Lone Star conservatives, but the quarters you pocket today often feature two heads and, arguably, no real tails. Why, a new shiny quarter I examined the other day had Frederick Douglass on it. A Black man on our legal tender?! Another new quarter I unknowingly pocketed to join my Critical Race Theory-applied coinage featured Maya Angelou opposite George Washington. Two heads! One featuring an old white guy who, yes, was our first president but owned slaves (an institution the descendants of the beneficiaries of now discuss with their tails between their legs), the other featuring a towering Black female poet and civil rights activist whose voice and vision were commanding.

So which side now signifies tails?

I keep these lucky quarters, which also feature Wilma Mankiller (first woman elected principal chief of the Cherokee Nation), Anna May Wong (first Chinese American film star in Hollywood), Dr. Sally Ride (physicist, astronaut, educator, and first American woman in space), and Nina Otero-Warren (a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement and the first female superintendent of Santa Fe public schools), plus this year two native Texans — Jovita Idar (Mexican-American journalist, activist, teacher, and suffragist) and Bessie Coleman (first African American and first Native American woman pilot) — will appear. As I giddily revel in these small steps in American evolution, I would argue that these small steps are just as important today as our original revolution was. l

Texas native Tytus Berry shuttles back and forth between his hometown of Fort Worth and his cabin off the grid in West Texas. A former journalist, he now writes fiction and the occasional editorial piece.

This column reflects the opinions of the author and not the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly.com. He will gently edit it for clarity and concision.

We count ourselves very lucky to own some of these new, certainly controversial quarters.

They’re shiny, they’re new, and they’re potentially controversial — meet America’s new quarters.

Tytus Berry

Fatherhood Under Attack?

on child support,” he said. “Overwhelmingly, it is the father who has to pay but not always. What [family court judges] are doing [by not awarding 50-50 custody] is creating conflict and generating money for the state. We have learned to monetize the destruction of children. The courts have to make children fatherless to justify ordering child support. This is coming from your Social Security funds.”

Not once, he continued, has he seen a judge save a marriage.

BY EDWARD BROWN

Just minutes into Brooks McKenzie’s hour-long presentation, two attendees of a grassroots political group’s monthly meeting stormed out of House of Grace Church in North Richland Hills. The lecture that took aim at the state attorney general’s child support division and family courts apparently miffed an AG staffer and a Keller family law attorney in attendance.

If McKenzie noticed the abrupt exits as he spoke to the crowd of a few dozen, it didn’t show. The reform-minded public speaker from Fort Worth who holds a Ph.D. from TCU in developmental psychology described what he believes to be the main causes of fatherlessness in Texas.

“The greatest promoter of fatherlessness in Texas,” he said, “is our family court system … our judges … family law attorneys,” and no-fault divorce, which allows either spouse to file for divorce without cause.

For every dollar AG staffers spend collecting child support, the federal government gives the state 66 cents, McKenzie said, referring to the Social Security program (Title IV D) that incentivizes courts to not award equal custody. Based on AG records, Tarrant County family courts received roughly $3 million in Title IV D funds in 2020. Federal legislators created Title IV D through the 1975 Social Security Act as a means of increasing the monies mothers receive in child support. The idea was to find an alternative stream of revenue to keep mothers off welfare. Critics of the program say those initial good intentions have been abused by state leaders who profiteer off federal funding.

“The state of Texas receives over $500 million dollars a year for putting parents

“Family court [Associate Judge] Kate Stone is not elected, so you didn’t vote for her,” he said, referring to the Tarrant County judge. “She was appointed by [elected District Judge] Kenneth Newell. Stone has denigrated parents in the courtroom. She has openly admitted to violating their civil rights and [telling a father], ‘What are you going to do about it?’ Newell has never once reversed an order of hers, cleaned it up, or disciplined her.”

McKenzie’s outspoken support of 5050 shared custody and criticism of presumed primary custody for mothers have made him a local advocate for the fathers’ rights movement, a loosely organized group of factions whose adherents believe moms and dads should be viewed equally in the eyes of the law when it comes to custodial rights.

Although McKenzie did not go into his own story that evening, we recently wrote about alleged judicial abuse by Stone and Newell that resulted in McKenzie losing custody of the son he has not seen in years (“Corrupt Courts Destroying Families,” Oct. 2022 ). The child development specialist alleges that Stone used false allegations from his then-wife to strip his parental rights. After losing

access to his son, McKenzie said he went into a protracted, debilitating depression that left him on the verge of suicide.

While estimates vary state by state, mothers receive primary custody of children following a divorce upwards of 90% of the time, meaning fathers in those situations often see their children only every other weekend at best. Based on U.S. Census data, the number of children living without a father has doubled since 1960, from 7.6 million in 1968 to 15.3 million in 2020.

Fatherless children are more likely to have developmental problems and run-ins with police, based on numerous governmental studies, and the ramifications for fathers who lose access to their children are also stark. Fort Worth-based advocacy group Fathers for Equal Rights found a divorced male is three times more likely to commit suicide than a married man.

A study from the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health compared suicide rates between divorced men and women and found that the men were “nearly 9.7 times more likely to kill themselves than comparable divorced women. Put another way, for every divorced woman that committed suicide, more than nine divorced men killed themselves. While social, psychological, and even personal problems facing women are readily denounced, societal institutions tend to ignore or minimize male problems [that are] evident in suicide statistics. For instance, in many jurisdictions in the U.S., there seems to be an implicit assumption that the bond between a woman and her children is stronger than that between a man and his children. Consequently, in divorce settlements, primary child custody is more likely to be given to the wife. In the end, the father loses not only his marriage but his children.”

Calls for family court reforms are not limited to the Lone Star State or the United States. Through YouTube shows like Dad Talk Today and the social media outlet Pissed Off Parent, parents here and abroad describe a system that profits off broken families.

And yet the parental rights movement remains fragmented between the fathers’ rights movement and groups that maintain women are the ones most discriminated against in courts and society. Many

Parental rights advocates say the leading cause of fatherlessness in this county is the nation’s lucrative family court system.

“The greatest promoter of fatherlessness in Texas is our family court system … our judges … family law attorneys,” and no-fault divorce.

The fatal shooting of John Mast, shown with his two children, has galvanized many supporters of the fathers’ rights movement to spotlight the dangers dads face during child exchanges.

Courtesy John Mast Foundation

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family law attorneys and parental rights advocates privately conveyed mistrust of the fathers’ rights movement.

One Tarrant County mother who asked to go by Sara to protect her privacy finds fault with assertions by the fathers’ rights movement that family courts are inherently pro-mother.

Missing from that narrative, she said, are the rights of children.

“There is this stereotype that courts are pro-mom and have always been promom,” she said. “Without conflict, the courts wouldn’t be needed. The system is set up to fuel that fire and create conflict where none may have existed. Mothers are put into a box that says we are emotional and overly protective of children. It keeps women silent, especially if there is domestic violence.”

The levels of outrage levied at Texas’ family courts may seem unfathomable to folks who have not had to engage in that sys -

tem. Family court judges rule with impunity, and their decisions can leave parents torn from their children and with little recourse other than financially bleeding in courts where attorneys earn $200 to several hundred dollars an hour. Or more.

It’s a system that makes no distinction between political parties, but economic class does offer advantages. Based on a thorough review of campaign finance reports from Tarrant County family court judges, the judges predominantly rely on donations from family law firms to float elections and reelections. Increasingly, the influence of money in family court decisions has become the focus of public discourse due to reporting by us and Facebook Live chats hosted by local history buff Larry O’Neal.

Through those outlets and court-reform-minded podcasts, locals have learned about the tragic stories of fathers like Chad Read, who was fatally shot by his ex’s boyfriend, Kyle Carruth, during an exchange in Lubbock. Video footage from Read’s girlfriend shows he was unarmed when he sought his children during the court-ordered exchange. A grand jury convened by the state attorney general’s office declined to press charges against Read’s killer. Jury

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After losing custody of his son due to the ruling of Judge Kenneth Newell, Brooks McKenzie has dedicated his life to exposing what he calls “rampant corruption” in Texas’ family court system.

Courtesy YouTube

Divorced men are “nearly 9.7 times more likely to kill themselves than comparable divorced women.”

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members did not publicly state their reasons for not indicting him.

“The criminal justice system utterly failed Jennifer Read, the widow of Chad Read,” said Read’s family in a statement. “Chad Read was involved in a heated discussion with his ex-wife concerning custody of his son. The video shows that Kyle Carruth injected himself into that discussion. We believe there was no legitimate reason for Kyle Carruth to bring a deadly weapon to an argument that he wasn’t even a part of. Chad Read died unarmed, shot and killed while simply trying to determine the whereabouts of his son.”

Read’s death was hauntingly similar to another earlier child exchange shooting, this one of North Dakotan John Mast. After three years of fighting family courts to see his three children, Mast was granted weekend access in early 2021. Based on news reports, he arrived on time at the pick-up location only to be gunned down by his former father-in-law, who awaits trial for murder.

“For the past 3.5 years,” Mast’s family said in a statement following the fatal shooting, “John Mast faced many completely false and vile allegations of the worst sort. His children were taken from him due to these false allegations. He worked tirelessly to be back in his children’s lives and to clear himself and was ultimately exonerated and found completely free and clear of everything. He was finally granted weekend custody of his children and was set to pick them up at the meeting spot. Instead of meeting his beautiful children, he was met by his former father-in-law and shot multiple times. We believe in a God, that is bigger than this, and we believe that somehow good will come of this. Rest in peace, beloved brother.”

Another fatal child exchange recently occurred near Fort Worth. In December, several dozen friends and relatives of Tyrone Darling gathered at an Arlington park to hold an evening vigil in his memory. The father was fatally shot in mid-December by his son’s mother during a child exchange. Parental rights advocate Jeff Morgan took to social media to call out a state system he alleges perpetuates unequal visitation as a means of justifying litigation and animosity between parents.

“Texas family court judges create conflict through unjust and unsympathetic rulings” that create winners and losers, he wrote. “Texas family law attorneys also help create this conflict, which often favors mothers, not fathers. The Texas Family Law Foundation lobbies for legislation that creates this conflict. Why? Because it makes more money for divorce attorneys.”

The Texas Family Law Foundation, which advocates for family court lawyers, judges, legal assistants, and court coordinators, has openly fought reform efforts

while protecting the status quo. Foundation president Kathy Kinser has written, “The Foundation has worked tirelessly to defeat proposals to end no-fault divorce, extend the waiting period for divorce, impose a presumption in favor of unworkable 50-50 custody agreements, and so much more.”

Eric Carroll, the Georgia-based host of Dad Talk Today, said he started his YouTube show and social media outlets that reach around 18 million viewers monthly to give dads a voice that he said is too frequently drowned out.

Fathers, he said, are often too beaten down by the system to fight back.

“If dads talk about the financial abuse of the system, then they are labeled a deadbeat dad,” Carroll told me, referring to the exorbitant legal fees and child support that can mandate more than one-third of income after taxes go to their ex following a breakup.

Under common practice, family courts routinely require child support payments, overwhelmingly from the father, even before those dads gain or regain access to their children.

“How much does it cost to have access to our family?” Carroll continued. “Our families are not a product. [Courts] should not be charging us to have the right to be a

Eric Carroll hosts daily YouTube shows (@ DadTalkToday) that recount stories of fathers alienated from their children and financially bled dry through family court proceedings.

Courtesy YouTube

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faced by mothers. “If a woman speaks out against abuse by a co-parent, they are viewed as crazy,” she said.

Because women are stereotyped as overly emotional, something potentially off-putting to judges, attorneys routinely advise mothers not to cry in court or mention breastfeeding, she continued.

dad. [The courts have] the perfect thing to dangle over your head because fathers will pay anything to be a dad. Men think they are the only ones going through it. Then they realize other dads have similar stories. The system is doing exactly what it was designed for. These men cannot show up to the Capitol [to call for reforms]. They have no money. They are paying somebody who has a new man in the house that moms are getting the kids to call ‘Daddy.’ The stepdads are seeing their kids more than” the biological fathers are.

Parental rights may be related to the suicide rates of veteran and active-duty military, he added.

A recent study by United Service Organizations, a nonprofit serving active-duty service members and their families, found that more than 30,000 members of the military have committed suicide since the September 11 attacks, around three times the number of dead due to combat during that period.

Though the effects of child custody disputes and divorces on servicemen and -women have not been studied, Carroll, who has hosted many veterans on his show, believes those traumatic events likely play a role in leading some former and current soldiers to end their lives.

“Unfortunately, they serve overseas and come home to find their house is empty,” he said. “If the dad fights to see his kids, PTSD or his service is used against him in court [to allege he is dangerous]. They serve us, and we could serve them better. These guys are dropping like flies.”

Sara said her own Tarrant County family court battle has informed her of the plight

“I could feel those [anti-mother] stereotypes in the courtroom because lawyers and the whole room would try to couch any evidence they wanted to” make women appear hysterical, she said. “Moms fight a much harder battle in court than men. There are kids who are now aged out of the system who can speak to when courts sent them back to an abusive father.”

Men are routinely given breaks for things like past-due child support and criminal convictions that would land mothers with restricted access to their children, Sara said.

Another stereotype foisted on women is that they are controlling, Sara said, which leaves women afraid to voice concern over domestic abuse or child abuse.

Judges will respond, “ ‘Oh, you’re this controlling mom. This is just a way of keeping your child to yourself,’ ” she added.

Sara said 50-50 custody, a top priority of fathers’ rights advocates, is often untenable and possibly damaging for children.

Some assume “50-50 is good for them,” she said. “If it is the standard, it will make life for women who come from abusive circumstances harder, and it is already hard. I wish the courts could separate between circumstances involving domestic violence and those that don’t. I question a lot of the fathers’ movement because a lot can hide behind it in the name of good. I think there are very few fathers that are genuinely lost in the system and truly trying to fight an uphill battle, but I think a lot of them have been told they were not given a fair cut, and now they are making it all about that [unfair shake] when that should not be where the focus is.”

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Texas Family Law Foundation head Katherine Kinser has publicly said that 50-50 custody is unrealistic.

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Children who split their time evenly between households don’t have a stable home base, she added.

“The courts don’t recognize that child outbursts are due to the constant backand-forth schedule,” she said. “Those kids never have a stable, centered home. They are living in a suitcase from one place to another. That’s not better for them.”

Sara shared several TikTok videos that critique the fathers’ rights movement.

“It is abusers who are focused on taking custody away from mothers,” said Lundy Bancroft, an author and domestic abuse consultant, on one video. “Joint custody is not a positive outcome when the father is abusive. [The fathers’ rights movement] is fond of saying 50-50 is best for the kids. That is total nonsense. Unfortunately, states are beginning to mandate 50-50 custody. Fifty-fifty custody isn’t about children. It sees the child as loaf of bread. It’s half for me, and half for you. Children do best with what was the prior care. If they were with the mother 90% of the time before the divorce, they should remain with the mother 90% of the time.”

The proliferation of fathers’ rights podcasts and media outlets is itself a critique of what is wrong with the movement’s assumptions, she said, because

mothers do not fixate on this or that team when it comes to parenting.

“We [mothers] don’t talk about children in the terms of ‘our’ rights,” she said. “I think there is so much focus on the rights of the parents that some aren’t giving the children a voice.”

While Carroll makes ample space for dads to tell their stories on his show, he pushes back when being labeled.

“I make sure I tell people, ‘Don’t call me ‘fathers’ rights,’ ” he said. “I’m Dad Talk Today. Yes, I talk about fathers’ rights, but I will fight for a mother just as much as I would a father. At the same time, when dads speak up, they are told they are hating women. The [other side] says not to talk about dads and to keep it about the children. Excuse me, a dad fighting for his parental rights is a dad fighting for his children. Then they will say not to

make it about the money when the courts are the ones who made it about the money. Money is the reason this whole system goes around.”

Carroll hopes that family courts in Texas and around the country one day make 50-50 custody the default for split or divorced parents. He said he worries that rushing into that setup could have unintended consequences without reforms that address false allegations in family court.

“Attorneys will always figure out how to rig the system,” he said, referring to incentives to prolong litigation to maximize billable hours. Fifty-fifty custody “doesn’t make the game go away,” he continued. “It changes how it is played. [Many] restraining orders are unfounded. I’m 100% behind 50-50, but there could be consequences.”

The popular YouTuber sees hope in convincing legislators to sharpen penalties for perjury in family court because politicians are themselves frequent targets of

character assassination.

“I think they could sympathize with” people who have also been the target of false allegations, Carroll said.

Rather than focus on the plight of this or that group in court, Sara said she would like judges, attorneys, and all involved parties to focus on evidence, past research, and the well-being of children.

Stereotypes against moms and dads can be dispelled through data, she said.

“That involves exposing the courts,” she said. The moms that fathers’ rights supporters “need to be working with are the ones they are pushing against. It is sad. There are a lot of great dads being lost in the system. It is confusing to moms who are experiencing the other side who have children being sent back to not-so-great men.”

Carroll said his work will be done when there’s no longer a need for Dad Talk Today and other outlets for fathers fighting to see their children. Continually hearing stories of fathers being shot at child exchanges has traumatized him, he said.

“We need to be loud and proud to be a dad,” he said. “Can these horror stories happen to moms? Yes. We should be on the same team. The majority of supporters of my podcast are women. It’s grandmas, moms, and stepmoms who have seen this system. People forget it is not just the dad who gets alienated. There is a whole side of the family that” loses access to children when dads lose parental rights. l

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“Moms fight a much harder battle in court than men.”

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday (School)!

I’ve seen many of your Instagram pages, and all I can say is some of y’all need Jesus. Feel targeted? Visit one of our local places of worship, where the belief is that #GameDayStartsatChurch.

Connect Church (401 Southwest Plz, Ste 103, Arlington, 817-583-8600) is gathering at 5pm for food, fellowship, and fun, including games, prizes, the Super Bowl on multiple screens around the facility, and a “wing challenge.” You can sign up to bring (store-bought) snacks and join the challenge at CNNCT.ch/SB23.

Encounter Church (10180 Rolling Hills Dr, Benbrook, 817-885-8506) celebrates Super Soul Sunday with a service at 10am and then a game-watching party at 5:30pm. The party is a fundraiser for the church’s programs, so admission is $15 for adults and free for kids under 10. The entry fee includes popcorn and soft drinks, but other types of food will also be available for purchase.

The youth ministry of Hallmark Church (4201 W Risinger Rd, 817-370-0123) is hosting a Super Bowl Party for students in the church gym 5pm-10pm. Along with watching the Eagles/Chiefs on a big screen, games like basketball, volleyball, and others will be

going on. There is no cost to attend. Middle schoolers are asked to bring desserts, while high school students bring the apps. For more info, visit HallmarkChurch.com.

Meanwhile, in Roanoke, St. Peter Church (15701 Cleveland Gibbs St, 817-491-2010) hosts the Three Nails Super Bowl Party & Chili Cookoff. There is a barn on the property where the game will be broadcast, and prizes will be awarded for first, second, and third place in the chili contest. Bring your favorite dish to share if you’re not bringing chili for the competition.

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Cry, Eagles, Cry!

way right here at the jump. Even though my blood pumps silver and “bad luck blue,” I recognize that (allow me a brief moment to choke down the bile rising in my throat as I type these words) the Eagles, and quarterback Jalen Hurts in particular, have had a stellar season. The jump that Hurts has made in his second full season starting under center and that the team as a whole has made under the tutelage of Head Coach Nick Siriani, is truly remarkable. It is also pretty obvious that if Dallas had been able to muster even an average offensive performance against the 49ers in the Divisional Round a few weeks ago and had therefore had to face these Eagles in the NFC Championship Game, Philly would have absolutely resurfaced the proverbial Astroturf with the Cowboys.

Anyway, motherfuck the Eagles! To quote one of my favorite lines from The Big Lebowski, “Look, man. I’ve had a rough day, and I hate the fucking Eagles, man!” There’s perhaps no sequence of words in all of recorded history that I relate to more. It is my own personal “I think, therefore I am.” It should be the name of my autobiography. Or carved on my headstone.

BY PATRICK HIGGINS

It’s time, kids, for the year’s biggest day in television. This Sunday in Glendale, Arizona, the Philadelphia Eagles will take on the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII. That’s “57” for those of us who never learned Roman numerals larger than 10, uh, I mean “X.” With these two evenly matched teams — along with the billion-some-odd dollars’ worth of cinema-quality advertising and a surefire banger of a halftime show by the Caribbean Queen, Ms. RiRi, She Whose Money You’d Better Have, the lovely Rihanna — the evening’s viewing has all the makings of your usual Super Bowl spectacle. I, along with around 100 million other folks, will be tuned squarely in.

So I don’t completely come off as Mr. Bitter Cowboy Fan, let me go ahead and get some begrudging acknowledgment out of the

Though the film’s hangover-addled protagonist is referring to the bloated country-rock band of the same name (and I sincerely hate them, too), I do absolutely hate the Philadelphia Eagles. From their hideous Division-III-technical-school uniforms to the grating, make-you-want-to-commit-adouble-Van Gogh “fight song,” their Yuengling- and bravado-fueled street-bro fanbase, and all the way up to their infinitely punchable head coach (is there a more smug sonofabitch to wear a headset in the history of the league?), literally everything about the organization is obnoxious. The only thing worse than the Cowboys not winning their sixth Super Bowl (again) is the possibility of the Iggles getting a second.

Again, I admit the Hurts story this year is pretty amazing. To go from a bubble starting QB to the leader in the MVP clubhouse in one year is commendable. He also seems like a genuinely nice dude and a good role model, and his teammates seem to genuinely love playing behind him. If he wore literally

any other uniform, it would be pretty easy to root for him. Alas, the sides of his helmet are tainted with the white wings of wickedness, and he must therefore suffer the agony of defeat in front of 100 million people.

As if my hatred for Philadelphia weren’t enough to juice my rooting interests, the guy on the other side of the field is easy to root for, too. The thankfully recently retired Tom Brady is the inarguable GOAT (and I will forever relish that he lost to the Cowboys in his last ever NFL game), but if he’s ever to be dethroned, Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes is the most likely to do it. Already appearing in the third Super Bowl of his young career, a second win could put him in legit future Hall of Fame status. Mahomes is already on a better Super Bowl pace than TB12. He’s only played in five seasons, and in each of those years the Chiefs have done no worse than making the conference finals. For those keeping count, that’s five more conference championship appearances than the six

first-string QBs the Cowboys have had since Troy Aikman combined. Mahomes can also play at least 10 more years. Maybe 15. How many more trips to The Big Game™ will he have in that span? Brady’s legacy right now seems untouchable, but before his time in the league is done, the former Texas Tech Red Raider could make it interesting. On top of his wildly entertaining freewheeling style, and despite his Muppet voice and Bible-thumping bullshit, the young superstar seems as likable as any player in the league.

Whether to cheer Mahomes on to further his legacy or to witness Rihanna and two Black quarterbacks make your conservative uncle red-faced angry — or to simply have corporations spend 25 mill a pop to worm their way into your eyeballs — there’s plenty of reasons to tune in. None more so than to pray for a chasm to open on the sideline and swallow the entire Philadelphia Eagles roster into the depths of Hades where they, each and every one, belong. l

Jalen Hurts’ MVP-worthy season is certainly a compelling story, and he honestly seems like a good guy, but there’s just no way to root for the Eagles.

There’s probably plenty of reasons to root for either of these quarterbacks. However, there’s infinitely more reason to root against one of them.

Courtesy NFL.com

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In last week’s ATE DAY8 column and this week in Eats & Drinks, you’ll find lots of dining options for Valentine’s/Galentine’s Day. All week long, there’s plenty to do for the non-foodies too. Here are the best things I’ve found so far.

When I first saw the event post about Shakey Graves Day XII, I had to do some research. The folks at Garden & Gun wrote a piece called “Graves-y Train” explaining that every February since 2012, Austin singer-songwriter Alejandro “Shakey Graves” Rose-Garcia opens up his song catalog for fans to download at whatever price they choose for 72 hours. That year, the mayor of Austin proclaimed Feb 9 to be Shakey Graves Day, so now you know. There is typically a concert in Austin. This year, Fort Worth is where it’s at. At 7pm, Shakey Graves plays Tulips FTW (112 St. Louis Av, 817-367-9798) with Rattlesnake Milk and Texino. Tickets are $39.50 on Prekindle.com.

Have you ever done glass blowing? Me neither! Vetro Glass Blowing (701 S Main St, Ste 103, Grapevine, 817251-1668) will help you make a handmade flower from the hot molten glass at various times Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue, and future dates. Known as Help Create Events, these sessions come with bleacher-style seating available afterward so you can stay and watch more glassblowing before you leave. The gallery also has gift items for sale. Tickets are $55 per person at VetroArtGlass.TickeSpice.com/2023-flowers-help-create.

TexasShoppersMarket. com was started during the pandemic to give small businesses and crafters an online platform to reach holiday shoppers. In our post-pandemic world, the concept has also grown to include seasonal in-person events. From 10am to 4pm Sat-Sun, join Texas Shoppers in the parking lot next to Olive Garden at Tanger Outlets Fort Worth

(15853 N Fwy, 817-464-5400). This market will feature handmade accessories, desserts and snacks, home accents, jewelry, and more from North Texas vendors. For more information, visit TexasShoppersMarket.com/ DallasVDayMarket.

For more local vendor shopping opportunities, remember the Galentine’s Day festivities at The Bearded Lady (300 S Main St, 817-349-9832). Brunch is at 11am, and Wandering Roots Markets (@WanderingRootsMarkets) will be on hand to host a themed pop-up shop.

Ladies, if you and your gal-pals work from home, Union Worx (500 E Front St, Ste 160, Arlington, 817864-18148) invites you to co-work together for the day for free. Enjoy area restaurants for lunch — like my new favorite place, Amore Mio Italian Trattoria (101 E Abram St, Arlington, 817-538-5553) — and once you’re back at “the office,” Union Worx has Galentine’s Day treats for you.

Arlington has even more to offer come Tuesday. Then again, so does Denton. At 7:30pm, head to Create Ar-

lington Studios (306 W Main St, 682-2488424) for the Soul Vibrations Valentine’s Event: An Intimate Evening of Love & Romance, featuring art, food, music, poetry, and wine. Tickets are $17 per person or $30 per couple at the door. Across town, Lucky Lou’s (1207 W Hickory St, Denton, 940-484-5550) hosts Garbage Couple Paint Night with help from neighboring Painting with a Twist (208 W Oak St, Denton, 940484-5550). “Grab your favorite trash baby and come out for the perfect Denton date night.” (Note: This off-site painting experience is not BYOB, but you can purchase beverages from the bar.)

This week is truly magical, with Mardi Gras (Tue, Feb 21) and National Margarita Day (Wed, Feb 22) getting all cozy on the calendar. Being the go-getters that we are, the Fort Worth Weekly is doing a special Mardi Gras & Margaritas section in next week’s issue. Business owners, if you’re hosting gatherings, parties, shenanigans, and the like, we want to know about them ASAP. Please submit your event to Marketing@FWWeekly.com. And if you say “laissez les bons temps rouler” or any version thereof, you owe us a dollar.

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If I make it to Denton on Tuesday, this “Garbage Couple” will be on my walls soon!

Shakey Graves brings his soulful tuneage to Tulips FTW

EATS & drinks

Have a Heart

Celebrate the cobbledtogether traditions of Valentine’s Day (or Galentine’s, if you prefer), Fort Worth-style.

BY LAURIE JAMES

The history of Valentine’s Day is a little murky. There are three early Christians named Valentine or Valentius credited with love-y miracles –– the kind for which a regular person can be sainted by the Catholic church. But my money’s on the fine early Christian tradition of co-opting pagan festivals and relating these to the church or a saint. In this case, it’s allegedly Lupercalia, a pre-Jesus fertility festival commemorating Rome’s founders, Romulus and Remus. Lupercalia fell mid-February, and it’s not a stretch to think that the newly dominant Christians overrode the pagan holiday, combining it with stories about priests marry-

ing lovers in secret. The tradition of giving flowers is a 17th-century addition, while the delivery of chocolates was a shameless capitalist ploy courtesy of British confectioner Cadbury in the 1800s. Galentine’s Day is an even more modern nod to the power of female friendships.

Instead of going old school and sacrificing a goat for Valentine’s Day, consider drinks with beasts, a blingy Galentine’s tea, a supper club with one of our town’s best chefs, a loving fundraiser, a poetry slam, or an evening of adult beverages, pizza, and your favorite childhood arcade games.

On Thursday, you can have a wild time at the Galentine’s Party at the Fort Worth

Zoo (1989 Colonial Pkwy, 817-758-7555).

In addition to enjoying the zoo’s visiting animals, you’ll dine on passed appetizers, a heavy hors d’oeuvres buffet, macarons, mini-cheesecakes, and an open bar with a bespoke vodka-based cocktail called the Raspberry Kiss. The $85-per-person event benefits the zoo’s conservation efforts. We’re not saying you can run with the wolves like they did in Lupercalian times –– the red wolves in the Zoo’s habitat are close to extinct in the wild –– but this will get you close.

The Ruche Collective (1612 Park Place Av, 682-256-1381) offers a three-course afternoon Galentine’s Tea on Friday. For $45 per

person, celebrate with your besties and enjoy a proper tea, those dainty tea sandwiches, scones with clotted cream, desserts, and the chance to add a little bling to your life with some permanent jewelry (additional fee for the ornaments).

The folks at Magdalena’s Supper Club (502 Grand Av, 817-740-8085) have been creating lovely foodie memories for couples and friends since 2015. The Valentine’s menu that Chef Juan Rodriguez and staff have cooked up looks to be a luscious offering of surf (scallops, salmon) and turf (braised beef short ribs), along with a yuzu white chocolate ricotta cheesecake. The Satcontinued on page 18

You’ll drink and be merry with or without a Valentine at Cidercade’s Stoplight Party on Tue, Feb 14. Courtesy Instagram

You won’t run with the wolves at the Fort Worth Zoo’s Galentine’s event on Thursday, but you’ll help preserve the nearly endangered species.

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urday event is sold out, but at press time, the event on Friday still has seats available. The $95-per-person admission gets you valet parking and a complimentary themed cocktail starter before the main event at 7pm.

If your heart is interested in helping other people, Taste the Love is the annual fundraiser for the Taste Project (1200 S Main St, 817-759-9045), Fort Worth’s first pay-what-you-can restaurant. If you’ve ever dined there, you know Taste Project doesn’t skimp on the groceries: The evening’s menu includes scallop ceviche, ribeye mole, and chocolate flan. The fundraiser on Saturday benefits the restaurant’s mission to provide

food for anyone who’s hungry. Tickets are $300 per couple, with reservations available between 6-6:30pm, and it’s BYOB.

At The Dock Bookshop (6637 Meadowbrook Dr, 817-457-4700), Tuesdays are for spoken word in addition to the written word. The Black women-owned bookstore celebrates 15 years in 2023, and sisters Donna and Donya Craddock upped the game this year: The Tuesday Power of Love Valentine edition is a feast for the senses with poetry and a DJ along with a candlelight dinner. The event runs $30 per couple or $15 for an individual ticket.

Actively anti-Valentine’s Day? The Post at River East (2925 Race St, info@thepostfw. com) will serve up a little anti-Valentine sentiment on Tue, Feb 14. Cheating Songs with Raised Right Men is an evening of PBRs, snacks, and, well, exactly that kind of music for $10.

Finally, Cidercade (1813 W Bowie St, Ste 101, 817-264-2835) just finds the expensive flowers, fancy dinners, and traditional trappings of Valentine’s Day, in a word, gross. Their Fourth Annual Stoplight Party on Tue, Feb 14, is open to couples, Galentine’s, and anyone and everyone in between. Your $10 wristband (green for singles, red for couples, yellow for “it’s complicated”) offers entrances into the arcade for games, a dozen kinds of cider, and a definitively unusual time. Try

a cider flight, with five 5-ounce pours –– the M-M-My Paloma is a grapefruit-y treat with a delicate kick, and I really enjoyed the luscious Apricot Cream cider the last time I was there throwing my shoulder out on Skee-Ball. Whatever you choose –– wolves, bling and tea with the ladies, fine dining, or music –– give a wink and a nod to the mishmash of food, commercial, and festival traditions that bring us here — whether you celebrate or hate them. l

Courtesy Instagram

The Ruche Collective does Galentine’s up right with a Saturday tea.

Courtesy Instagram

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STORY AND PHOTOS

BY JUAN R. GOVEA

It’s finally here.

Throughout their four years together, Phorids have released two EPs and a handful of singles, but Feel the Pressure marks the first-wave hardcore group’s inaugural long-player. And, boy, is it killer.

Loud with abrasively shouted lyrics, screeching guitar, percolating bass, and constantly rolling snare, the sound is fierce and frenetic, a headlong train barreling off the tracks and landing right between your damn

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“There are songs that are personal in nature, too, by feeling under pressure or

seized by the forces around you,” said guitarist Shannon Greer, who’s joined on Feel the Pressure by his bandmates: vocalist Brad Barker, drummer Travis Brown, and bassist

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Christopher McGill.

The lyrical timbre is mostly serious, though there are some decidedly less serious moments. “Record Store Day” is about Brown’s love of vinyl, and Phorids also cover the Beastie Boys’ “Heart Attack Man,” a previously released single currently streaming on all platforms, including Spotify.

With that exception, Barker and Greer wrote the rest of the tracks. The album title is a kind of warped inside joke.

“We were feeling the pressure of getting this fucking thing out,” Greer said.

“I think these guys were probably

thinking they need to put out something,” said bassist McGill, who joined after the two EPs came out. “It was time for sure [for an LP]. Usually, a single is followed by a fulllength.”

Frontman Barker agrees, saying the process of writing, recording, and producing an album was a priority, a kind of challenge they all accepted.

“It’s a relief to have this album done, but we’re not stopping here,” he said. “We plan to start writing new material and working on the next release immediately. More than anything, it’s nice to see all of our hard work come to fruition.”

Recorded at Brown’s home studio in Fort Worth last summer, Feel the Pressure was mastered in Sacramento, California, by Andrew Byrom at Rarefaction (Heater, The Royal Veil, Nick Pes). Look for the album around St. Patrick’s Day.

Known for their riotous concerts, Phorids don’t have any shows booked yet, but they’re planning on playing a few once Feel the Pressure comes out. The band also hopes to go on tour. Potential stops include New York City and New Jersey, two spots where Phorids recently played “pretty successful” gigs not too long ago, McGill said. Locally, Tulips FTW on the Near Southside and Growl Records in Arlington will probably be on the itinerary.

“We’re hoping that this album gives people a better idea of what we’re about and what we’re capable of,” Barker said, “and we plan to use it as a tool to help us book shows on different, new-to-us stages and hopefully with larger, well-known national touring acts.” l

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