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As part of our monthlong celebration of Black History Month, we’ve got a few stories in this issue that may help us remember the Black community’s contributions to everyday life that we may overlook otherwise. On pg. 9 is some background on Fort Worth photographer Dontrius Williams’ latest solo exhibit in Sundance Square, and on pg.

13, we preview Fort Worth Opera’s dwb (Driving While Black) and Deion Sanders’ book signing in Fort Worth, while on pg. 4, Weekly contributor E.R. Bills dives into the past to ask why a certain small Texas town has forgotten about a major horrific event on its soil.

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t approximately 3 a.m. Sat., July 20, 1895, a terrifying explosion occurred two miles southeast of Mart, Texas, 20 miles east of Waco and barely across the Falls County line. The sound was heard from 10 miles away, and the people of Mart dressed quickly and went out into the night to determine the origin of the blast.

Emmett and Prince Elliott and J.C. Douglass saw smoke and flames in the distance. They were reportedly the first to arrive at the scene of the carnage and could scarcely believe their eyes. The debris radius was lit by human candles — human corpses on fire.

What had been a familiar house owned by a respected Black family was now a smoldering crater. A partially denuded Black woman was walking around with a baby cradled in her arms. A young Black male

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This is near where the old Phillips house once stood.

Fanny’s brother, Ben Harrison, was found several hundred feet away, blinded, maimed, half-naked, and “incoherently muttering.”

Fanny, Tom, Absalom Jr., William Phillips, and little Hannah Williams were “Blown to Eternity” by a significant quantity of dynamite, and their white neighbors in Mart were shocked.

hired-hand was leaning against the remains of a structure, bloody and inarticulate. The bodies of Mary “Fanny” Phillips, her three sons — Tom, Absalom Jr., and William — and Hannah Williams, her granddaughter, were scattered across the area wrapped in flames that emitted an unspeakably grotesque light. Fanny’s body was knotted up in her bedsprings, her knees touching her chin, her entire figure “baked and shrunken.”

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During a break in my writing schedule in 2017, I decided to pursue a story that had bothered me for a couple of years. It involved the abovementioned act of terror in Central Texas, but it was based on secondary and tertiary sources and seemed to have vanished from local histories. In my wheelhouse, for sure.

But just because you go looking doesn’t mean you’ll find anything. It was a fishing expedition, but I didn’t get a single bite. The

incident — or series of incidents — was so old and buried, it might as well have never happened.

Texas is funny like that.

In 2017, I tried unsuccessfully to pinpoint the exact location of the former Phillips place but had no luck. Then I stopped by the Nancy Nail Memorial Library in Mart and spoke with a white librarian and a white patron who had lived in the town for decades.

I explained to them what I was looking for, and they seemed surprised. They said they had never heard of the explosion. In fact, they wanted copies of what I had so they could start a folder on it in the library. I obliged them, and the librarian gave me the name of the oldest living Black citizen in the community and said I should contact her. I did, but she was also entirely unfamiliar with the incident. She’d never heard anyone — Black or white — ever mention it.

It was one thing to go into a community and remind them of something that had happened because they had denied it happened or covered it up. This was obviously different because Mart didn’t have a reputation like Palestine or Slocum or even the nearby McLennan County seat, Waco, where two Blacks had been burned at the stake, one in front of a cheering white crowd of thousands (while the mayor and police chief watched on) and chronicled in photographs that became popular lynching postcards.

Mart seemed like a nice town, and I was confronted with a small community that wasn’t actively engaged in conspicuous obfuscation. Would exposing a local atrocity improve race relations or make them worse?

They seemed fairly good already. Would writing about this incident foster a kumbaya moment or create racial resentment where there seemed very little to speak of?

I decided then, if nothing else, I would err on the side of the truth — so far as it could be known.

As it turned out, the origin of the July 20, 1895, blast stemmed from an incident three months prior, on April 17. Here is a published account dated April 18, 1895, in the “Budget of News from Waco” section appearing in the Fort Worth Daily Gazette the following day.

Further particulars and details of the tragedy near Mart yesterday evening have been received and show it to have been a most fatal one. Two men are dying and the third is fatally wounded.

Phil, George and Ned Arnold, brothers, are young farmers living at and near the tragedy. It seems that Ned Arnold recently brought to the neighborhood several young negroes from Arkansas for farm work. At present he had no work for them and he had told his brother Phil that he might secure the negroes to work for him. One young negro of the party had become a friend of Abe Phillips, a negro farmer of the community, and the latter sought to prevent the lad from going to work for Phil Arnold. After several ineffectual attempts to secure his continued on page 5

friends. He reached Reisel last night and was turned over to the sheriff of Falls County and jailed at Marlin.

The community in the neighborhood of the tragedy is greatly excited and deplores the affair.

The Arnolds are said to be highly respected and peaceable young men, while the negro Phillips, who was killed, has always been considered a troublesome character.

Virgil Gillespie, a young farmer and neighbor of the Arnolds, arrived in [Waco] this morning to purchase burial clothes for the body of Arnold and told the story of the tragedy to the reporter.

It was the longest report I could find on the incident. The Galveston Daily News account, also from April 19, provided one more salient detail: “The trouble resulted from a bound boy who ran away from Arnold.”

Almost three months to the day after the altercation is when someone detonated explosives under Abe Phillips’ widow’s house.

It disturbed the Mart community. continued on page 6

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The victims of the bombing supposedly lie in the Goshen Cemetery.

“Bound boy.”

Not a term I was familiar with, so I looked it up.

Obviously archaic, “bound boy” referred to someone who was often sent or taken from an orphanage to become an “indentured servant.” This would primarily refer to a white child, not a Black slave or, arguably, even a recent descendant of slaves so soon after Reconstruction in Arkansas, Texas, or any other area in the former pro-slavery South. Slavery-like conditions still existed. Did Phil Arnold bring “bound” Black boys (or men) from Arkansas to work for him? Did Abe Phillips unintentionally or intentionally attempt to nullify this illicit and possible criminal agreement? Or did one of the Blacks Arnold brought down from Arkansas simply decide he no longer wanted to work for him? Texas wasn’t a “right to work” state back then, any more than it is now, but it was much worse for Blacks. That’s why so many migrated north.

Whatever transpired to deliver three “bound” young Black men to the Mart area, Abe Phillips apparently intentionally or unintentionally complicated the agreed-upon — or forced-upon — terms. And the resulting confrontation was deadly.

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services, Phil and George Arnold and Watts Vaughn at noon yesterday went to Phillips’ house to induce the negro to work.

They were unsuccessful and as they were leaving, Phillips followed them.

When about 600 yards from his house he was heard to say: ‘G—D yes, and I’ll shoot you.’ He immediately opened fire on Phil Arnold with a revolver and had fired two shots without effect when Arnold brought his revolver into play and fired four times, putting as many bullets in the negro’s body, one through the stomach and three in the head.

When Phillips opened fire, Richard Bragg, a negro, in front of whose house the shooting occurred, began firing at Ned Arnold. The latter returned the fire and Bragg was shot in the wrist and through the bowels. His wound is fatal.

A few moments after Phil Arnold had shot Phillips, the latter’s son, Wes Phillips, a boy of 17 or 18 years of age, [quietly] walked up and emptied the contents of a double-barreled shotgun into Phil Arnold’s back, killing him almost instantly.

The negro lad made his escape and he immediately sought the officers of [Falls County] to give himself up, fearing lynching at the hands of Arnold’s

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Commenting on the local produce, a Black woman said that “things don’t taste right ’round here” anymore, and the more superstitious elements of the African-American community believed a “supernatural agency was involved.” They claimed ghosts wandered among the elms and shrieked through the night in the rows of cotton.

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Before the sun rose, hundreds of people on the ground gazing with awe at the horrible scene in which a household had been annihilated with dynamite in an explosion so terrific that doves, scissor tails and mocking birds roosting in the elms had not only been killed but picked clean of feathers, and a six-room cottage had been effaced and no fragment of it left too large to go into an average heating stove. Wherever one goes in the precinct, whatever group he joins, he finds the explosion under discussion. In the fertile valleys, the crops are laid by and the affluent farmers have organized protracted meetings where eloquent ministers are administering spiritual pabulum to large congregations, but in the intervals, the congregation scatter under the shade trees, turn their faces toward the SmithStrange farm [where the Phillips family resided], and talk about dynamite.

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These renderings are of the Phillips cottage before the bombing.

On the evening after the Phillips house was destroyed, three Black men were fired upon when they attempted to retrieve a wagon, presumably to help clean up the destruction.

The people of Mart were indignant.

And the onlookers of the aftermath did more than gather souvenirs. They helped treat the wounded, assisted in burying the

dead, and held a public meeting to condemn the atrocity, even drafting a resolution.

Whereas, a … crime was committed in our community on the night of the 20th instant in the massacre of a family of negroes, some unoffending children being in their number, by the use of some explosive substance, causing the

instantaneous death of five persons and seriously wounding two others, and the following night some negroes proceeding upon the public highway were fired upon, as we believe, with intent to kill, and Whereas, such unlawful acts are calculated to tarnish the fair name of our community and thus deter good people from settling among us, be it Resolved, that we citizens of Mart community, in mass meeting assembled, desire to express our total disapproval and condemnation of such unlawful acts and deeply deplore their occurrence in our midst, and we invite and demand the fullest investigation of the affair by the proper authorities, and we promise continued on page 7

In the days that followed, it was discovered that a child had died in the Phillips house on the Thursday before the explosion, and while the Phillips family was at the child’s funeral in Harrison (eight miles both north of Mart and southeast of Waco), the Phillips family’s “watch dog” was poisoned. Then, after the explosion, which spread debris over 75 acres and blew the Phillips’ smokehouse to smithereens, local dogs who partook of the scattered Phillips bacon store got sick, and some died. One local doctor said the “atmosphere around the Phillips premises was pregnant with death.”

The perpetrators of the atrocity didn’t leave anything to chance. If there were any questions as to whether a white life mattered more than a Black one on July 20, 1895, the answer at the Phillips residence was resounding. And one local white man, again, described the ghastly carnage. “There they lay, scorched and burning, their eyes starting, grinning as if in horror, mutely detailing the story of an outrage which I hope will stand alone in the annals of Texas crime. I hope the man who did the deed saw his handiwork as I saw it, and I’ll warrant he will have it visit him in his dreams — that old mother roasting, coiled in red hot steel springs and beside her brood of children! I tell you it was worse than pen can portray it.”

The undertaker had problems getting the grotesquely contorted corpses into coffins. The funeral march to Harrison was haunting and somber. Then several black families fled the area. It was said that the “dreadful explosion” would “stand as a mark of happenings in the Mart region. ‘This thing happening before,’ and the other thing ‘after dynamite night’ will be fixed sayings with both white and black in that country.”

I couldn’t find any evidence of the old Phillips place or anyone, Black or white, who knew anything about it.

As I wandered through the somewhat overgrown old Goshen African-American Cemetery on the corner of a bend in FM 1860 in the old Harrison station area, looking for the graves of the atrocity’s victims and that of Abe Phillips, I kept thinking about a metaphor in Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Exposition Speech, two months (September 18, 1895) after the retaliatory attack on the Phillips family. Washington probably didn’t know about Mart area barbarity, but still.

A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast

Washington’s comments were optimistic about progress, hopeful and practical. And probably useful to many. I wish more Texan members of the “friendly” vessel had bought in.

All I discovered (and carefully avoided) in the Goshen Cemetery was snakes. Then I drove around and eventually spotted an elderly Black man opening his chain-link fence driveway gate. I asked about the local Black graveyards and particularly the one in Old Harrison. He confirmed that it was the Goshen Cemetery and said he tended it when he had the time. I asked him if he’d ever heard of the explosion south of Mart, and he said he hadn’t. I asked him if he had seen headstones for members of the Phillips family sharing the same date in 1895, and he said he wasn’t aware of any.

There was no fixed memory of the act of terror that befell the Phillips family in 1895 and no sign of their remains. The local judge and law enforcement officers at the time of the incident believed hostile neighbors blew up the remaining members of the Phillips family to avenge the death of Phil Arnold, but no one was ever arrested, charged, or prosecuted for the atrocity. West Phillips was apparently acquitted for shooting Phil Arnold, and Richard Bragg’s wounds were, in fact, not fatal. Bragg moved to Waco, but both reportedly spent the rest of their days dodging assassination attempts. In fact, an attack on Bragg’s new residence was reported in the August 16, 1895, edition of the Galveston Daily News. Bragg survived once more, and the culprits behind the ambush were never apprehended.

Texas is funny like that: long and tall on every myth and stray scrap of charming rustic lore but short on remembering (much less owning up to) obvious mistakes and monstrosities.

The Lone Star State is parched in more ways than one. l Fort Worth native E.R. Bills is the award-winning, bestselling author of The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas and Tell-Tale Texas: Investigations in Infamous History.

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any assistance that may be within our power to enable the officers to bring the criminals to justice.

Resolved, that a petition to the governor of the state, signed by the members of this meeting, be forwarded asking that a sufficient reward be offered to induce a first-class detective to penetrate the mystery that seems to surround this affair.

of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal: ‘Water, water; we die of thirst!’

The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back: ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’ A second time the signal, ‘Water, water; send us water!’ ran up from the distressed vessel and was answered: ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’ And a third and fourth signal for water was answered: ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’ The captain of the distressed vessel, at last heeding the injunction, cast down his bucket, and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River.

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land, or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next door neighbor, I would say: ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’ Cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.

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Photographer Dontrius Williams felt like he had to pick a lane about 10 years ago, so he “went straight to film. To me, digital images lie flat, but it’s the look with film. It’s the grain and contrast I like, and that’s when I started photographing with purpose.”

Some recent results of his “purpose” are on display now through February 29 at Zona 7 in Sundance Square. Williams’ third solo show, Details collects more than 30 of his candids and portraits. While some document different parts of the country, a majority revolve around Sundance Square, where he is an artist in residence. Search the Instagram hashtag #details or visit @willid420 for more. Whether on a tiny screen or irl, Details is powerful yet also welcoming.

Every photo is in black and white and has been shot with Kodak or Ilford 35mm film on a medium-format camera. For his street work, Williams goes for his Leica M2, and for the studio, he picks up his Mamiya 7 II. The prices on his Details pieces range from a few hundred dollars to the thousands.

Originally from North Carolina, Williams lived in Katy and Corpus Christi before making Fort Worth his home in 2011.

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Williams said “Cowboys of Color” was particularly important to him. “This was my first time attending the rodeo, and being able to see a performance by the Black cowboy crew, Circle L Five, was a highlight on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.”

Williams: “I pay attention to small details while out on the street taking photos.”

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Some of Williams’ favorite pieces come from his work in urban street culture with a focus on Black beauty. “Key” is a portrait of one of his friends, a powerful Black woman with an Afro.

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Williams loves details, hence the name of his show. At the Brooklyn Artists Ball at the Brooklyn Museum last year, one attendee jumped out at him. “I spotted this woman holding a handbag with ‘Sisterhood Is Powerful’ on it in neon blue lighting. I couldn’t have dreamt of seeing this scene, and, really, that’s what I love about street photography. I quickly shot from the hip and was blessed by the photo gods with the framing of her being surrounded by all the women and their high heels. The small details are what I enjoy the most about this image.”

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At Zona 7 gallery downtown, photographer Dontrius Williams proves little things matter.

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Early in Episode 2 of True Detective: Night Country, tough cop Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) drops in on Fiona Shaw (Rose Aguineau), a local who recently found a group of missing scientists with the help of the ghost of her dead boyfriend. Aguineau’s character sets up the entire show for viewers by telling Navarro all the reasons ghosts might appear. You know, things like they miss you, they need you, or they want you to be a ghost, too, but it all might be nothing because she also warns, “Don’t confuse the spirit world with mental health issues.”

These confounding rules for what becomes commonplace in True Detective Season 4 establish the tone for what follows: a lack of commitment to originality and good storytelling and also a departure from the realism of previous seasons. Night Country aspires for new ground but reminds viewers from the outset it’s playing tennis without a net.

Night Country is set in Ennis, Alaska, a fictional small town north of the Arctic

Circle. Like real locations in that part of the globe, Ennis can go as long as 65 days in complete darkness, which makes for an appropriately creepy setting. The show follows two very sullen and hard-to-like cops as they struggle with an unsolved murder, a mining company opposed by the native population, and a new mystery stemming from the disappearance of the scientists. Like earlier seasons, the detectives must deal with their demons (which take precedence over everything else here) and come together to solve the mystery, this time in the heart of “Night Country.”

Isa Lopez’s vision as showrunner and writer for this new take on True Detective seems, at first, hopeful. Clearly interested in subverting norms to update the series, she makes some interesting and enjoyable decisions early on. By ditching the gothic-tinged opening songs prominent in past seasons from artists like The Handsome Family and Leonard Cohen in favor of Billie Eilish, Lopez declares that women will dominate.

Though Eilish might seem an odd fit for a series like this, her droning lyrics over the frenetic intro credits effectively create a mood.

The most noticeable departure from past seasons is that stark lack of testosterone. Scoring Jodie Foster as Liz Danvers was a big win. The Oscar winner turns out a great performance as a police chief exiled

to the hinterlands. Though like most of the other characters, she is downright unlikable, and instead of being balanced out by a partner with a different disposition, we get another grumpy and likewise unlikable lead, Navarro. The rest of the cast is made up of virtual unknowns aside from John Hawks (Deadwood) as previous police chief Hank Prior and Christopher Eccleston (The Leftovers) as Danvers’ boss and sometimes lover Ted Connelly. Both actors add much-needed depth as morally questionable lawmen. Conversely, rookie cop Peter Prior (Finn Bennett) does a great job contrasting the corrupt older men and proves to be one of the only likable characters onscreen. He also ends up driving much of the detective work. Though the acting is strong, the cast members have little to do with a bad script and endless scenes of empty promises.

Night Country has a lot of basic problems. First, the show lacks originality. The storyline seems to have been taken straight from Season 1 of AMC’s Dark Winds: an investigation involving native tribes, killers loose in the sprawling back country (the desert in lieu of the frozen tundra), supernatural elements arising from tribal superstitions, and an evil mining company.

There are also echoes of Twin Peaks with its weird mythos, The Thing with the scientific lab possibly uncovering something supernatural, and a flawed female detective

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Supernatural or something less? True Detective’s fourth season may only hint at a big, dramatic payoff.

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working with a younger, greener detective in Mare of Easttown.

Yet none of this is as troublesome as Lopez’s attempts to retcon one of the more contentious parts of the True Detective anthology. The final episode of Season 1 left many viewers and critics wanting more when in the end there were no supernatural elements. It turned out it was just some crazy cult, but the heightened intensity of that final episode lay in the possibilities.

The audience didn’t know what to expect.

Lopez deflates all chances of this type of ambiguity and nuance by ditching this trope.

Instead of providing the sophistication of the supernatural mixed with the unfolding murder investigation, Night Country dives headlong into the supernatural in the first episode. Now the show must either deliver on this supernatural promise or find some alternative explanation for the voices everyone in town is hearing. Either way, it’s not a murder mystery. It’s The Thing.

And this is to say nothing about the show’s pacing problems and narrative issues.

The first episode works well, but very little happens in the ensuing four. The story meanders, with Lopez preferring to focus more on the issues of the native population and the internal lives of the detectives than on creating an interesting mystery. Of course, the native population deserves the focus and character development is important, but Lopez opts to tell instead of show through a series of exposition dumps that slow the pace to a dead stop.

Doing most of the real detective work, Danvers’ protégé Peter functions like Inspector Gadget’s niece. The only truly competent person, he is the FBI and Lisbeth Salander all rolled into one, and the only device pushing the investigation forward is everything he discovers.

With one episode left, there is much to tie up. What is the supernatural force at work in Ennis? What is hiding in the ice caves? The only real hope is for Lopez to go fully supernatural and have Danvers, Navarro, and company march into the caves and fight a swirly snake monster (this is what the previews seem to be hinting at), but something tells me this is all a hallucination brought on by the evil mining company’s drilling, and the only thing they are going to find in those tunnels is a disappointment similar to what it is like watching this great series melt down. l

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The first national celebration that focused on the history of Black Americans was Negro History Week in 1925, a bookend timeframe in February between the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

It was so well-embraced that according to BlackHistoryMonth.gov, President Ford expanded it to a month in 1976, encouraging Americans to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”

Beyond learning history, there are culturally relevant, noteworthy events to check out this week and beyond. Here are a few ideas.

Along with the works of Dontrius Williams featured in this week’s Arts story, Thursday Arts Fort Worth offers another exhibit by a Black artist that you should see now before it comes down soon.

Barron Wortham’s Lingering in the liminal, lord have mercy and lift the veil is up now thru Saturday at the Frost Bank Gallery at Arts Fort Worth (1300 Gendy St, Fort Worth, 817-738-1938).

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Fort Worth Opera presents the regional premiere of the modern American one-act Friday opera dwb (Driving While Black). As a Black mother’s child grows up and learns to drive, she has visions of everything that could go wrong for her “beautiful brown boy” facing a world (still) full of inequality and racism. Each performance will be followed by a discussion with composer Susan Kander and librettist Roberta Grumbel, moderated by TCU faculty members Dr. Stacie McCormick and Dr. Brandon Manning. Performances are 7:30pm Fri-Sat at Van Cliburn Concert Hall (TCU campus, 2900 W Lowden St, Fort Worth, 817-2577000) and 2pm Sat, Feb 24, at the Kimbell Art Museum (3333 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-332-8451). Tickets start at $20 at FWOpera.org.

Did you know Fort Worth is home to the National Western Wednesday Multicultural Heritage Museum?

Located at 2029 N Main St (817-534-8801), the museum welcomes visitors 11am-4pm Wed-Sat. Learn about the history of the minority cowboys, buffalo soldiers, and frontier people of the past, present, and future. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors/students, and free for children ages 5 and younger.

Formerly local songstress Tatiana “LadyMay” Mayfield is now a world traveler. Tonight, she is Sunday back in North Texas to help the McKinney Philharmonic Orchestra pay tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz, to celebrate both Black History Month and Women’s History Month in March.

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This week at TCU or Sat, Feb 24, at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth Opera presents the regional premiere of dwb (Driving While Black).

The Cowtown Coliseum (121 E Exchange Av, Fort Worth, 817-625-1025) in the Saturday Stockyards hosts the annual Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo 1:30pm and 7:30pm. Named after the first Black cowboy movie star/rodeo performer, this event celebrates and honors Black cowboys and cowgirls and their contributions to building the West. The invitational also serves as a cultural event and opportunity for families to enjoy and embrace cowboy culture via reenactments, history highlights, and Western adventure. Tickets start at $15 at BillPickettRodeo.com.

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Head to the Stockyards for the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo at the Cowtown Coliseum Saturday.

Accompanied by the MPO’s big band and strings, Mayfield will perform the classics, including “Tisket a Tasket,” “Soon,” and “Someone to Watch Over Me.” This performance will be at the McKinney Boyd High School Auditorium (600 Lake Forest Dr, McKinney, 469-302-3400) at 7pm. Tickets are $20 at McKinneyPhilharmonic.org.

Deion “Prime Time” Sanders has a new book out called Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win. Cool. What Saturday makes it even cooler is that the NFL Hall of Famer from the Dallas team that plays in Arlington has chosen Fort Worth as his North Texas stop on his book tour. The Dock Bookshop (6637 Meadowbrook Dr, 817-457-5700) will host Coach Prime at 5pm. As is customary with most book signings, you must purchase a copy of the title to enter. TheDockBookshop. com/Event makes that easy.

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I have a passion for cinema but a pocketbook that keeps me surfing for free streaming ideas. Budgeting is the very reason I love my Roku TV. There are many apps to choose from, and you can search for films or topics on the home screen, which also has some non-disruptive ad banners. One ad I was served recently was for #TubiBlack. Clever, right? Tubi has hundreds of free titles across every genre and for certain times of the year, including Black History Month. If you want to get your history on, go there and watch the likes of Lean on Me starring God (i.e., Morgan Freeman), The Rosa Parks Story with Angela Bassett (who does not age, #BlackDontCrack), or Deacons for Defense with Forest Whitaker.

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Lingering in the liminal, lord have mercy and lift the veil is up now thru Saturday at the Frost Bank Gallery at Arts Fort Worth.

At noon, Elite Experiences Events hosts a Black History Month Food Sunday Fest at Lofty Spaces (816 Montgomery St, Dallas, 214-457-0789), showcasing Black-owned businesses from North Texas and beyond. The Melanin Market will have barbecue, candied yams, fish, fried chicken, funnel cakes, greens, oxtails, pork chops, tacos, turkey legs, and some vegan options. Vendors will also sell accessories, clothing, jewelry, bath/body products, and more. Tickets are $10 at TexasFoodFest.com.

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Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. And that’s a little Zen gem from Zain Shafi, the pitmaster behind Sabar BBQ. Named after the Pakistani word for “patience,” the trailer in South Main Village might also be the region’s only spot for Pakistan-influenced Texas ’cue.

Shafi is an alumnus of Goldee’s BBQ, the famed Kennedale joint named the best in the state by Texas Monthly in 2021.

For Shafi, barbecue is borderline nostalgic. Inspired by family cookouts when he was younger, he started out at Goldee’s in 2020 by bugging the owners to be able to help, but “it wasn’t very consistent.”

His family owned a retail furniture store that “had priority, so I’d go [to Goldee’s] for a week before skipping a couple of weeks.

As I became more serious, I’d spend more time at Goldee’s. Then, in 2022, we sold the furniture business, and that’s when I really got into barbecue full-time at Goldee’s.”

The draw of cooking with live fire for the masses was Shafi’s turning point.

As is custom with Texas barbecue trucks and trailers, Sabar’s menu is announced on brown butcher paper taped next to the serving window, and this is where comparisons to traditional Texas barbecue end. Painted

in a rich, seaworthy blue, the Sabar trailer pays homage to Pakistan’s truck art in which large commercial vehicles are often hand-painted with floral patterns that come to life with vibrant colors, making each truck unique.

Like the truck art of Pakistan, Sabar’s menu is distinctly tethered to Zhafi’s culinary upbringing and personal flare. The menu overflows with Pakistani and other Asian-influenced flavors such as tandoori turkey and Sichuan lamb ribs, and homemade naan takes the place of white bread.

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Sides include fruit chaat, a spicy, seasoned salad; kachumber salad (cucumber, onion, tomato); and daal chawal (curry lentils and basmati rice). While they may seem eccentric, they will make you wonder where they’ve been your whole life when you combine them with the standout ’cue.

Sabar seems poised for Texas barbecue glory — almost literally. Shafi bought his pit from Dylan Taylor, a Goldee’s co-owner who built it around 2015 with John Lewis, former famous Texas pitmaster and now Charleston expat. The pit was the first offset

Turkey tandoori, Texas brisket, lamb ribs, and beef kebab share space with fruit chaat and lentils with basmati rice.

smoker Shafi was able to cook on in 2019, so it was a fitting purchase. The Sabar trailer came from pitmaster Tom Micklethwait of Micklethwait Craft Meats in Austin via Lane Milne, another Goldee’s co-owner.

With that amount of history behind Sabar BBQ, it’s clear that it’s set up for success.

“We have Pakistanis coming to eat,” Shafi said, “and [they] compliment our dishes while trying Texas barbecue for the first time and enjoying it. And the same thing

with Texans eating Pakistani food for the first time and are mind-blown. We recently made a spicy cumin sausage that we have not made before, which was well-received.

Plus, we don’t want to add items just to be different. I’d be doing a disservice to myself and customers. I just want to showcase being a Pakistani Texan and respect both cultures. It would be disrespectful if I didn’t try to offer the best of both worlds.” l

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for the excess grease and juice under the traditional, exceptionally smoked Central Texas-style brisket that was on par with Goldee’s version. The meat and/or meat with naan sang when dunked in raita, a traditional, yogurt-based Southwestern Asian condiment embracing flavors of coriander, cumin, mint, cayenne, and chaat masala, among other ingredients.

“I don’t think we [at Sabar] really ran into challenges with the flavors,” he said. “We use the same flavors that are in Pakistani barbecue to mesh with Texas barbecue if they make sense, and we didn’t want to just force an idea. Like, the sausage is our version of the traditional seekh kebab.

In most parts of the world, sausages are used as a form of preservation and waste prevention, so why not do a kebab but in an all-beef sausage form.”

The lamb ribs were robust in flavor from the Sichuan influence of China rather than the traditional herb-heavy taste most associated with Southwest Asia. Shafi said Sabar’s ribs pay homage to the Muslims in Xian, who grill lamb over fire on skewers with pieces of fat in between the meat.

Sabar’s versions — seasoned, then smoked before another dusting of seasoning for added depth — are rich, fatty, and tasty. A spicy, vinegar-based barbecue sauce complemented all the meats when used for light dipping, though the lamb ribs, kebab sausage, and brisket held their own.

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For Diogenes “DJ” Negron-Forsythe, his love for performing goes back to Lola’s Saloon.

The beloved, defunct venue was where the now 18-year-old sang Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” as part of a School of Rock show when he was 13.

Lola’s, he said, was where he “started to develop stage performance.”

And DJ carries it through to this day with his positivist thrash outfit Toxic Madness. Before the relatively recent release of their new EP Face to Face (which includes an insane cover of Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer”), the band put out a few singles and the seven-song album Live, Laugh, Love. DJ, along with bassist Aidan Reed and drummer Eddie Rubalcaba, are working on new material now (with a new guitarist) and plan to put out another EP or LP soon.

As with previous releases, the guys hope to hit the road afterward. This time, it’ll be the East Coast in July.

“This isn’t just a hobby for us,” DJ said.

“This isn’t something like, ‘We’re gonna sing a few songs that we have no connection to, make a couple bucks, and leave.’ To us, this is a way of life and something we want to do until we die.”

Though they’ve been together only a couple of years, the Toxic Madness guys have already been seemingly everywhere.

They’ve played Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip, Rubber Gloves in Denton, and Three Links and Reno’s Chop Shop in Dallas, among other spots, and last month, the band rocked Tulips FTW. The guys have been able to tour so much with the financial support of family, friends, and merch sales.

“I like hardcore punk because it really speaks from the mind but also the heart and soul, like calling someone out with the truth,” Reed said. “We try and have fun and make it fun at shows.”

Like true punks, the guys say they don’t want to be perfect. They just want to be themselves.

DJ said, “Punk, for me, going a thousand miles an hour and going as heavy as possible is a healthy form of expression.” l

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Johnson Brothers Corporation, a Southland Company, in Grapevine, Texas, seeks Senior Project Engineer – Facilities to be responsible for preconstruction engrng & mgmnt of various water & wastewater treatment plants, pipeline, & pump stations prjcts. Must be willing & able to travel up to 20%. Apply online at southlandholdings.com.

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Operations Research Analyst, Fort Worth, TX: OBS the CURR SYS in OPER & further identify OPL PROBs. PREP STAT MDLs for RESO of OPL PROBs. PRES OPER analysis RPTs to the SR MGMT & ensure IMP of the OPL PROB SOLNs. Min. Reqs: BA’s deg. in OR, info sys / a closely rltd fld. 2-yr OR analysis / data analysis rltd exp. as an OR analyst, DB ADMR / a rltd occup. 2-yr exp. w/ data visualization & data modeling as an OR analyst, DB ADMR / a rltd occup. Send resumes: Christy Hyett, REMIS America LLC, hr2@remisamerica.com.

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Ingram Micro Texas L.P. seeks Professionals, Engineering in Fort Worth, TX (and various and unanticipated locations throughout the U.S.).

Responsible for developing & maintaining supply chain and logistics processes for a variety of warehousing & distribution center operations. Conduct special projects to achieve improved methods, optimize process flow to facilitate efficient put-away, order fulfillment, shipping, & space utilization. Plan, coordinate & assist with execution of redesign & redevelopment of optimal distribution center practices. Telecommuting/work from home is permissible. Position requires up to 10% of domestic travel. $70,512/yr. CONTACT: Search by title and apply online at https://www.ingrammicro.com/ en-us/careers/work-for-us

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Wabtec US Rail, Inc. seeks a ServiceNow Developer in Fort Worth, TX, to Act as the ServiceNow platform SME. Telecommuting position can be performed anywhere in the US. Apply at www.jobpostingtoday.com/ Ref# 78354.

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