Fort Worth Weekly // February 22-28, 2023

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Ain’t no private party like a private party in court chambers …

BY EDWARD BROWN

EATS & DRINKS

Anderson Distillery adds to Roanoke’s “unique” dining scene.

BY EDWARD BROWN

STUFF

No matter how much Luka and Kyrie score, the Mavs need to D up.

BY PATRICK HIGGINS

MUSIC

For his debut solo album, Dead Vinyl’s Hayden Miller took inspiration from grief.

BY STEVE STEWARD

Fashion Week

This mix of professional and student designers sashays into the Cultural District.

BY JENNIFER BOVEE

At Long Last (of Us)

This popular TV show does a lot of little things right.

By Kristian Lin

Fa-Fa-Fa-Fashion

The

designs by pros and students alike.

By Jennifer Bovee

Roanoke Routes

Delightful noshes abound at Anderson Distillery & Grill.

By Edward Brown

Piano Man

Singer-songwriter Hayden Miller spun the lockdown and death of a friend into the brilliant album Bartalk.

By Steve Steward

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

Clintastic, Brand Ambassador

CONTRIBUTORS

Christina Berger, E.R. Bills, Jason Brimmer, Buck D. Elliott, Juan R. Govea, Patrick Higgins, Laurie James, Kristian Lin, Vishal Malhotra, Cody Neathery, Wyatt Newquist, Madison Simmons, Teri Webster, Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue, Cole Williams

EDITORIAL BOARD

Anthony Mariani, Edward Brown, Emmy Smith

STUFF

Not Clicking Just Yet

BY PATRICK HIGGINS

Now that the NFL season has concluded in earnest, our best option for sports entertainment this past Sunday came in the form of the NBA All-Star Game. If you managed to fight through the eye-searing Day-Glo unis of Team Giannis and could actually force yourself to watch any of the loose approximation of NBA basketball transpiring on the court, you were able to see something you haven’t since all the way back in 2009. No, sadly, I’m not referring to a comment praising your choice of My Chemical Romance as your background music on your

MySpace profile. I mean an NBA All-Star Game with two — count ’em, two — Dallas Mavericks. To give you an idea of just how long ago that really was, one of the two was Dirk Nowitzki (duh). The other is now the team’s current head coach, Jason Kidd.

This year’s duo is the young Slovenian Superman, Luka Dončić (duh), as well as recently acquired Kyrie “Flat Earth” Irving. “Flat Earth-ving”? We’ll workshop it as we will casually ignore the fact that the latter was technically selected for his performance while playing for a different team, because, hey, when games resume this week coming out of the break, the two guys will both be wearing Dallas uniforms.

Though new to the team, Irving really needs no introduction to anyone with even a passing interest in the NBA. He’s universally accepted as an all-world talent, but the point guard’s many cringeworthy antics away from the game tend to make more headlines than his on-court heroics. If there

was an All-Star designation for negative press, Irving would be the top vote-earner every year by a mile. This, even in a league that has James Harden.

Irving is the closest thing the NBA has to Aaron Rodgers. Both men no doubt represent the top-most tier of their respective sports, but the Venn diagram of the two has plenty of other, less celebratory overlaps. There’s the general air of condescension that comes with both of them obviously believing they are inherently smarter than anyone else in the room. There’s also the mutual flirtation with — to downright ringing endorsements of — wild conspiracy theories, the stubborn and inexplicable distrust of vaccinations, and the growing cloud of locker room tensions left in each man’s wake.

It’s been two weeks since the blockbuster trade in which Dallas ironically sent two of their best character/locker room guys, guard Spencer Dinwiddie and wing Dorian Finney-Smith, to the Nets in exchange for

the controversial point guard. In that time, the Mavericks have played five games, not really a large enough sample size to ascertain how he and the boy king he was brought in to appease will play together. The short amount of time has been further complicated by both Dončić and Irving missing games due to injury. So, as of this writing, two games are all the pair have played together. And those two games, like this season’s Mavs in general, have been a mixed bag. Both players had great stat lines in each contest, averaging 30 points per game apiece, but despite leading the team to scoring more than 120 points in each game, both tilts were losses. There’s also an overly deferential vibe the two are playing with, as if neither is really comfortable with how they are supposed to play with the other. Indecision on who should take a potential game-tying final second shot against the Timberwolves resulted in an embarrassing pass around that let time expire before a shot could be put up by either of them.

This type of thing should resolve given time, but time isn’t necessarily on the team’s side. Dallas currently sits two games above .500 at 31-29, good for sixth in the Western Conference. That’s dangerously close to play-in status for the playoffs. The most troubling thing is that the recent run of high-scoring losses seems to illustrate that it’s no doubt a good thing the Mavs made a ballsy, all-in move before the deadline to try to improve a middling, going-nowhere team, but what they did doesn’t really seem to address the team’s biggest weakness: defense. You could argue they’ve compounded the problem by sending one of their better (let’s not say “good”) defensive players away. At this rate, the Mavs are going to have to score 120 every night just to be competitive. They should get a little help soon, maybe as early as this week, with the return of forward Maxi Kleber. He’s not Rudy Gobert, but he’s by far the best defender left on the team. It’s also convenient that coming out of the All-Star break sees a short stretch of games against some of the league’s bottom dwellers, such as the Spurs, Lakers, and Pacers. Hopefully over the next few potential gimme games, Dallas can find their footing with their new-look dual-threat backcourt. They’ll need it because the stretch afterward looks daunting with games against the 76ers, Suns, Pelicans, and a pair against the Grizzlies. l

The addition of a second superstar scorer is pushing the Mavs to new offensive heights, but their abysmal defense is keeping the team anchored to the mediocrity they’ve already been.

Luka and Kyrie may now sit on the same bench, but they have yet to get on the same page on the court.

Courtesy NBA.com

Darker Possibilities

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for the fundraiser, the ticketed class likely would not have caught our attention.

The watchdogs were furious that public officials would use government resources to help the private business Brighter Possibilities raise funds. Based on the event’s flyer, owner Michael Flores provided “tactical training” for professional counselors about the “ins and outs of testifying in family court.”

Photos indicate that the course at 223rd District Court was well attended by attorneys and counselors, who all paid $189 per ticket if they didn’t register early at the $139 rate.

We asked the county for documents or copies of policies that allow outside, private, for-profit groups to book government facilities and were told none existed and to contact the 223rd directly. The clerk there has yet to respond to our query through a type of request known as Rule 12.

BY EDWARD BROWN

The lingering effects of the lockdown and local judges’ refusal to work more than fouror five-hour days have left Tarrant County’s courts heavily backlogged.

The plight of criminal defendants languishing under costly bond conditions is fairly well known, but multiple watchdogs recently told us that one January fundraiser demonstrates that family courts can be just as unsympathetic to folks waiting to settle child custody agreements.

At issue is an event presented by District Court Judge Kenneth Newell and Associate Judge Kate Stone dubbed “Navigating Family Court Masterclass.” Had the judges not closed their downtown courtroom for a full day during government business hours

The clerk did state via email that Newell denies any wrongdoing related to the January event.

During a brief interview with Flores that, somewhat awkwardly, took place in front of patients in his waiting room, he questioned our media credentials and was generally combative. Flores said Newell scheduled the event and that we should direct questions to the judge.

Newell had already replied, we told Flores, adding that we had specific questions for him. Brighter Possibilities, he said, is one of several counseling services Tarrant County judges can choose from and does not hold undue influence over them. He said all funds from the event were used to pay for his time, and no judges or government officials were paid.

Flores said neither he nor any of his relatives of current employees have ever donat-

ed to a Tarrant County judge, but campaign finance disclosures show otherwise.

Michael’s father, Rene Flores, donated $500 to former family court Associate Judge Lori DeAngelis in late 2021. Rene gave $1,000 to current District Judge Beth Poulos’ campaign around the same time. Michael did not respond to follow-up questions about why he falsely said that his relatives do not donate to judges.

Several parents privately confided in us that the service Brighter Possibilities provides to family courts — psychological evaluations — is often misused to sway child custody battles in favor of parents who can pay $1,500 or more to have their ex-spouse undergo the test. The psych evals are often court-ordered, and insurance is generally not accepted.

One Tarrant County father currently seeking reunification with his son in the 325th District Court said the optics of the January event look “terrible.” The influence that Michael has over Tarrant County’s fam-

ily courts isn’t surprising, said the dad who asked to remain anonymous. “They use [Michael Flores] because Tarrant County is this incestuous threesome among certain judges, lawyers, and Brighter Possibilities, who are all in bed together.”

The father, who does not have access to his 14-year-old son, worries that many parents remain unaware of the influence Brighter Possibilities holds over local judges. The company, he said, is “not a neutral actor. They are for-profit. They are a private entity acting as a quasi-government authority because they are appointed by judges. What they say pretty much goes. People didn’t elect Brighter Possibilities, but that group has been granted all of this authority by judges.”

This story is part of City in Crisis, an ongoing series of reports on unethical behavior and worse by local public leaders, featuring original reporting.

Despite backedup dockets, two Tarrant County judges recently cleared their courtrooms to raise funds for an influential for-profit counseling group.

Michael Flores (shown addressing the room) said he kept the earnings from the event on government property.

Based on the flyer, the Navigating Family Court Masterclass featured several high-profile judges and attorneys.

Aborting Common Sense

A Republican-sponsored bill would require Texas dads to pay child support for fetuses.

BY STATIC

Whom exactly Sen. Bryan Hughes was trying to help when he authored SB 590 is unclear. The bill that would require Texas dads to pay nine months of child support for fetuses — retroactively, if needed — appears driven by pro-lifers emboldened by the overturning of Roe v. Wade

Fetuses — unlike, say, children — generally do not attend pricey day care or require endless tranches of Pirate’s Booty cheese puffs. Mothers need prenatal care, but those expenses can be awarded when establishing custody or child support after birth. The bill certainly does nothing for fathers who potentially face nine months of retroactive child support on top of already financially crushing monthly payments.

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And that’s to say nothing of the papas who may not even know their one-night fling ended in conception until the attorney general shows up with a $9,000 bill.

The group that stands to benefit most from this asinine proposal is Big Government. Through the federal Title IV D program, established by the Social Security Act of 1975, state governments rake in 66 cents for every dollar the state spends enforcing child support. The original intent of the law was to lower the financial burden of government welfare programs, but states have found devious ways to monetize child custody.

Based on open records from the AG’s office, Tarrant County family courts earn a cool $3 million a year from the program that disproportionately penalizes fathers who dare to seek access to their children through legal means.

Fathers and mothers face enough hurdles when seeking access to their children through Texas’ family courts. It’s a system keenly designed to bleed parents dry of every last penny of their life’s savings — to say nothing of loans taken out — so attorneys and judges can send their children to top-tier private schools and colleges.

In 2018, Kentucky became the first state to adopt presumed 50-50 custody between parents. The assumption is rebuttable, meaning provable instances of abuse or neglect can sway judges to award custody accordingly. Sounds like the same commonwealth that gifted the world bourbon just hit on another ingenious idea.

Recent reporting by the Washington Post found that mothers gain primary custody of children 80% of the time in family courts. By avoiding 50-50 custody agreements, family courts create winners and losers between parents, which allows Texas to maximize Title IV D income from the feds. Texas Fam-

ily Code Section 201.107 plainly states the self-serving aims of judges. “The presiding judges and the Title IV D agency shall act and are authorized to take any action necessary to maximize the amount of federal funds available under the Title IV D program.”

Common sense dictates that only in the rare circumstances where the former spouses earn vastly different sums of money should child support be considered, and there shouldn’t be a cap that protects the wealthy as there currently is. Texas’ family courts assume fathers are deadbeats who only deserve to write a check and see their children every other weekend at best. In reality, dads continue to prove their commitment by draining their finances in courts and suffering through the trauma of convincing a judge that they should have meaningful access to their own kids.

Family courts are a multibillion-dollar business that floats the lavish lifestyles of judges, attorneys, and government officials who profiteer enough from the pain and suffering of parents. It’s time to defund family courts as a means of ending financial incentives that unnecessarily prolong litigation. Fighting Sen. Hughes’ bill is a great place to start. l

This column reflects the opinions of the editorial board 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 concision and clarity.

Sen. Bryan Hughes’ proposed bill would help fill state coffers with federal funds while perpetuating the bogus stereotypes that portray single dads as deadbeats.

Courtesy Texas Senate Media Services

State of the State

Gov. Greg Abbott’s biennial speech was a weird, alarming infomercial.

BY GUS BOVA

Gov. Greg Abbott recently used his fifth State of the State speech to cut an ad for a large television conglomerate and a corporation that manufactures “rare earth magnets.” The three-term governor, fresh off an easy reelection, also took the chance to snub the Capitol press corps and unveil a list of policy priorities that, while soundly regressive, was perhaps a touch less vicious than it might have been.

Abbott chose not to give the address, a biennial event mandated by the Texas Constitution, in Austin’s state House chamber during a joint legislative session with media present. Instead, he spoke for a tight 20-odd minutes at the facility of Noveon Magnetics in San Marcos with lawmakers invited but no press besides Nexstar Media, which carried the speech. At one point, attendees had even been told to sign a nondisclosure agreement.

“I’m speaking to you from the manufacturing floor of Noveon,” Abbott pointed out near the top of his remarks, as the televised broadcast cut to b-roll of Abbott getting a tour of the company’s quite unremarkable facility. The governor continued to wax rhapsodic about the specific company: “With the help of businesses like Noveon, Texas is number one in the United States for the most new jobs.”

An Abbott speech is never an exhilarating event. The governor’s rhetorical style is plain when it’s not affected. And he’s long made a habit of dodging questions at press conferences (and don’t even get me, or any Texas media member, started on his office’s responsiveness to inquiries). Still, Thursday’s padlocked event represented a new affront to transparency in Texas, which comes as the state Senate is also exiling reporters from the chamber floor. As John C. Moritz wrote recently for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, “When it’s

“I’m speaking to you from the manufacturing floor of Noveon,” announced Texas’ fearless leader to a limited audience before laying out yet another right-wing agenda.

Courtesy the Governor’s Office

left to the politicians to decide the terms of how the public is informed, that whole experiment in self-government thing can unravel in a hurry.”

Two years ago, Abbott first moved the State of the State away from Texas’ iconic pink granite Capitol to take place at the vaunted property of Visionary Fiber Tech-

nologies in Lockhart — but that was ostensibly due to COVID precautions. That certainly was not the motivation this time: During his address, Abbott pledged “to end COVID restrictions forever.”

In an interview with KSAT, longtime lege reporter Scott Braddock assessed Abbott’s motivations: “I think Gov. Abbott became very comfortable in sort of the COVID cocoon. … This governor thrives best in environments that are very controlled.”

Abbott, who’s on track to be Texas’ second-longest-serving governor, has not ruled out a presidential run next year.

As for policies, Abbott used the speech, as he has in the past, to unveil his “emergency items” for the ongoing legislative session. These items are not necessarily true emergencies but rather things that represent the governor’s priorities and, per the process laid out by the state constitution, determine what bills the legislature can act on in the first 60 days of the session. It’s one of the governor’s major powers, along with the veto pen and the ability to call additional special legislative sessions.

Entering this session, the GOP’s grip on all levers of Texas government is as

strong as ever, and the state is faced with abundance: a historic $33 billion budget surplus. Fittingly, Abbott unveiled more emergency items than he has in years prior. His seven priorities were: property tax relief, banning COVID restrictions, socalled “education freedom,” school safety, limiting incarcerated Texans’ access to bail, tightening border security, and addressing fentanyl overdoses.

Mercifully, some possible red-meat issues were absent, such as depriving trans youth of health care or expanding prosecution related to abortion — but the package will still rightfully alarm Texas liberals. Property tax relief, for example, may benefit some, but both legislative chambers are presently proposing that about half the state’s budget surplus go to property tax relief rather than to fixing broken governmental services and safety-net programs. And “education freedom,” for Abbott, refers to a hodgepodge of measures that includes “education savings accounts,” the current rebrand of “school vouchers,” which amount to redirecting public funds to private schools.

“Border security,” meanwhile, equates to an ever-growing taxpayer tab for the governor’s problem-plagued Operation Lone Star, and “school safety” is a byword for pumping money into security and surveillance rather than passing gun control policies as a response to school shootings. The word “Uvalde” did not pass the governor’s lips Thursday — perhaps in part because Uvalde parents have persistently called for gun control in the wake of last year’s massacre at Robb Elementary.

After the speech, the television broadcast carried a response from Texas Democrats, a somewhat awkward video mash-up. In it, a mother of a transgender son decried a state investigation of her family, while still-bereaved Uvaldeans — along with Democratic state Sen. Roland Gutierrez — asked the governor to support policies like raising the age to purchase assault rifles to 21.

“Please, listen to these voices,” Gutierrez said, addressing Abbott. “It’s too late for these families, but maybe if you show some political courage, you can save the next family from having to endure this kind of heartache.”

Anyway, it was a good evening for Noveon Magnetics. l

A version of this story originally appeared in the Texas Observer

This column reflects the opinions of the editorial board 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.

SCREEN

Mushroom Cloud

There’s a fungus among us in the brilliant zombie series

The Last of Us.

BY KRISTIAN LIN

Most of the video games I play are related to sports, but when I upgraded to a PlayStation 3 a decade ago, I asked a clerk at On Video in Arlington about renting a game to try out my system, and that’s how I ended up playing The Last of Us. I was struck by the attention to story and character in this third-person shooter that had more on its mind than just blasting everything that moved on the screen. I kept hearing about possible movie adaptations in the years since, but now HBO Max has turned it into a TV series, and as I write this after watching five of the first season’s nine episodes, I can say that it does deserve the buzz that it has been drawing.

It begins on Day 1 of the zombie apocalypse in September 2003, when Austin building subcontractor Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal) tries to get his family to safety only to see his teenage daughter (Nico Parker) killed not by the undead but by an American soldier who’s evidently been ordered to exterminate all human life. Twenty years later, what’s left of humanity is gathered in quarantine zones in large cities, and Joel is a sanitation worker and smuggler in Boston. With the federal government ruling the QZs with dictatorial power, a rebel group contacts Joel and his partner Tess (Anna Torv) and contracts

them to transport a 14-year-old girl named Ellie (Bella Ramsey) to a safehouse outside the city. En route, they find out that Ellie was bitten by a zombie weeks before but has mysteriously remained uninfected.

The crucial part of a video game is the interactive element: You’re the one who’s fighting the dragon, taking out Nazis, or throwing the winning touchdown pass in the Super Bowl. TV and film haven’t found a meaningful way to replace that, so showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann lean hard on the game’s other strengths. In the game, Joel meets Bill, a gay contact who shows him the corpse of his boyfriend, lynched by bandits. In the show, this becomes a piercing episode that traces the sixyear arc of their relationship, as Bill (Nick Offerman) is a survivalist who first raids Home Depot and then his local wine shop after everyone else evacuates — that’s the guy you need to be with when the zombie apocalypse comes. He captures Frank (Murray Bartlett) in one of his man-traps but then

falls in love with him and later nurses him when he becomes terminally ill. In a note left for Joel, Bill writes, “I used to hate the world, and I was happy when everyone died, but then I found someone worth saving.”

The episode is entitled “Long, Long Time,” and the Linda Ronstadt song that gives the episode its name has never sounded sadder than when serving as the testament of the love these two men found against all odds.

Just as in the game, the pathogen that turns humans into zombies is spores of the Cordyceps fungus, so the revenants look newly terrifying for viewers unfamiliar with the game, with mushrooms bursting through their skin and sometimes covering every part of their heads except for their mouths. (The mushroom angle was also neatly picked up on in Saturday Night Live’s parody, with Pascal starring in HBO’s gritty, dystopian adaptation of Mario Kart.) The zombies make a spectacular entrance at the climax of a shattering Episode 5 set in Kansas City, where mob rule has driven

out the government after the latter appeared to eradicate the undead. It should surprise no one that the pandemic has not caused people to band together, and Joel and Ellie are more often threatened by uninfected humans than by the zombies.

In the tradition of Game of Thrones and Westworld, this HBO fantasy series has a great computer-generated opening credit sequence with fungi overgrowing a city and the countryside. Ramsey brings some much-needed humor to the show as someone who’s very much a girl underneath her jaded exterior, and her fellow Game of Thrones alum Pascal makes a far more convincing Texan than you’d expect from a Chilean actor.

As we’ve seen, there’s nothing quite like a global pandemic to strain our institutions to the breaking point, and The Last of Us shows us what that means on a human level as individuals find their best and worst selves while making their way through a ruined landscape. l

Bella Ramsey is interrogated by Anna Torv in The Last of Us.

Liane Hentscher

Fort Worth Fashion Week Is Here

Fashion designer Phillip Maximilian presents the second annual Spring/Summer Fort Worth Fashion Week. With a theme of “The Future,” this season is dedicated to students via collaborations with two Fort Worth high schools, several Texas universities, and two of Fort Worth’s most prominent museums. The two not-to-miss events are Monday and next Friday.

The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History (1600 Gendy St, 817-255-9300) is the location of the Fort Worth school district’s Next Gen Fashion Runway Show on Mon, Feb 27. Students from Fort Worth ISD’s Fashion Design Program will showcase their spring/summer ’23 collections from 6pm to 8pm. Then from 7pm to 9pm, meet the designers at the post-event reception.

“The collections convey inspiring messages of self-confidence and empowerment through brilliant colors of spring and summer,” Maximilian said. “Watch as designs from young creative minds come to life on the runway!”

Students from Diamond Hills-Jarvis and Trimble Tech high schools will present collections.

All proceeds and donations benefit the Fort Worth school district programs that nurture young fashion designers. Donations help fund equipment, fabrics, and sewing tools that enable students to experience a first-hand introduction to the world of creating fashion illustrations, constructing patterns, and more.

Complimentary champagne, beverages, and hors d’oeuvres will be served. All ages are welcome. Tickets are $21 at FWFashionWeek.com.

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St, 817-738-9215) will host The Future Fashion Runway Show 5pm9pm Fri, Mar 3, hosted by NBC-5 anchor Evan Anderson. The runway will see models in the new Autumn/Winter ’23 Couture Collection from Mener Grand Train Co., the Fort Worth-based designer known for couture and bespoke tailoring and handmade creations.

Along with TCU, other presenting colleges include the Art Institute of Dallas, Baylor, SMU, Texas Tech, and Texas Woman’s University.

The event will dovetail with the Modern’s First Friday, featuring live music and the new exhibit I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen. First Friday is free to attend. Light bites and specialty drinks are available for purchase.

All ages are welcome. Tickets are $26 at FWFashionWeek.com.

By Jennifer Bovee

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Fort Worth Fashion Week

NIGHT&DAY

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Thursday

Four gentlemen who put the “Western” in “Country-Western music” while cracking jokes perform at Arlington Music Hall (224 N Center St, Arlington, 817-226-4400) at 7:30pm. Founded in 1977, the Riders in the Sky have won two Grammys and earned several Western Music Association accolades. “What began as a celebration of classic Western Music and an evening of hilarity has become a legend, one which, 40 years on, shows no signs of stopping.” Tickets start at $20 at Eventbrite.com.

Erykah Badass (excuse me, Badu) says she’s a mother first, then an artist, activist, director, DJ, and producer. While I still enjoy her 1997 debut Baduizm and love hearing “Apple Tree” on KXT, I’m ashamed to say I’ve never seen her perform live. I intend to rectify that situation at 8:30pm when AEG presents Another Badu Birthday Bash at The Factory (2713 Canton St, Dallas, 214-749-5757). Tickets to see the “Queen of Neo Soul” start at $65 at TheFactoryinDeepEllum.com.

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Saturday

From 11am to 9pm, the City of Granbury hosts the Granbury Jazz Fest, a multi-venue event in the downtown area celebrating the many subgenres of jazz music and featuring food trucks and other vendors. The central hub of activity will be the Dora Lee Langdon Center (308 E Pearl St, 817-279-1164) on the campus of Tarleton State University. The lineup includes Brave Combo, Brasuka, Helbing Jazz Initiative, and Retrophonics, plus one of our amazing Best Of 2022 cover models, Tatiana Mayfield. Attendance is free, but you’ll need to download a ticket from Eventbrite.com. For more, visit GranburyJazzFest.com.

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Sunday

During morning worship service at 10:30am, New Harvest Missionary Baptist Church (5205 Carol Av, 817536-9667) presents excerpts from A Woman Called Moses in honor of Black History Month. Based on the Marcy Heidish novel of the same name, this play tells the story of escaped slave Harriet Tubman, who organized the Underground Railroad. While there is no cost to attend, a love offering would be appreciated. Services are also streamed online via Facebook.com/NewHarvestMBCFW and Zoom (919-637-0825).

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Monday

With orchids naturally in bloom in late winter and early spring, Central Market and the Fort Worth Orchid Society present World of Orchids at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (3220 Botanic Garden Blvd, 817-463-4160) 9am-5pm daily from Friday thru Sun, Apr 9. “Experience the stunning and exquisite beauty of all shapes, sizes, and colors of thousands of orchids arranged in breathtaking displays coming for the first time to the Garden’s beautiful Rainforest Conservatory.” Visitors can also learn about orchid habitats and how to grow them at home. If you attend by early March, you will have the added pleasure of enjoying the daffodils that are blooming right now in the garden’s East Vista. Tickets start at $10 at FWBG.com/Events/World-of-Orchids.

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Tuesday

With temperatures back around the 70-degree mark, those winter coats you drug out last week are an unnecessary addition to the recliner in your living room. Before you pack them away (again), consider donating the ones you don’t need. Every Tuesday thru Feb 28, the Fort Worth branch of Refugee Services of Texas (4200 S Fwy, Ste 320, 817-4133772) accepts coat donations 8:30am-4:30pm at its inaugural Give the Gift of Warmth Winter Coat Drive. New or gently used (but freshly laundered) items for adults, children, and teens of all ages and sizes, including blankets, coats, gloves, scarves, socks, and sweaters, are appreciated. RSTX is a nonprofit that supports newcomers to Texas who are asylees, refugees, survivors of human trafficking, or any other kinds of displaced people by helping them integrate and thrive in their new communities. For more information, visit RSTX.org.

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Wednesday

If the events of the past few years have left you at a loss as to what to tell the kids, you’re not alone. At 6:30pm, Southside Church of Christ (2101 Hemphill St, 817-923-8276) hosts a lecture called Difficult Conversations: How to Talk to Children

About Mass Violence, featuring guest speaker Ashley Jesse. As the program manager of grief education at the Children’s Bereavement Center of South Texas in San Antonio, Jesse is a consultant to therapists working at the center’s satellite office in Uvalde. She specializes in working with kids who are experiencing anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma.

By Jennifer Bovee

Riders in the Sky bring their side-splitting wisecracks and tasteful Western Music to Arlington Music Hall Thursday.

I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR ART AND THE DIGITAL SCREEN

February 12–April 30

Examining the screen’s vast impact on art from 1969 to the present, this exhibition includes the work of fifty artists in a broad range of media including paintings, sculpture, video games, digital art, augmented reality, and video. These artists demonstrate the screen as a powerful and valuable artistic and social tool.

EATS & drinks

High Spirits Newcomer Anderson

Anderson Distillery & Grill, 400 S Oak St, Ste 100, Roanoke. 817-203-0623. Sun 10am-8pm, Tue-Thu 11am-10pm, 11am-midnight Fri, 10am-midnight Sat.

BY EDWARD BROWN

Roanoke is likely a familiar name to most Fort Worthians, even if the population of the quaint town just northeast of Fort Worth city limits is just under 10,000. The fame comes down to restaurants.

The city’s marketing efforts include billboards along I-35 that describe Roanoke

as the “Unique Dining Capital of Texas,” and a glance at Visit Roanoke’s website reveals a surprisingly wide range of mom-andpop dining options for a city its size.

Anderson Distillery & Grill is the newest addition to the area’s culinary landscape.

Co-headed by Corey Anderson, the restaurant/distillery opened several months ago near Roanoke City Hall and is laid out simply, with one large table-seating area, a sin-

gle longish bar, and a distilling space visible to diners through glass walls.

In tours, Anderson, a former public school teacher, describes the steps of distilling, from the initial breakdown of grain in a large cylindrical tub to the filtering process and final distilling that supplies the business with vodka then made into whiskey, gin, and other craft spirits.

Liquor infusions are popular, and the

back of the bar boasts dozens of jars of vodka blended with fruits, herbs, and other sources of flavoring. My first orders were two shots: jalapeño and apple pie. The chile shot was easy on the heat and heavy on the peppery flavor, like a liquified, boozy bell pepper. The dessert-themed shooter provided cinnamon and ample apple notes, just like the popular baked dish.

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Distillery & Grill is the newest addition to the “Unique Dining Capital of Texas.”

The Porky Fries could be their own entree.

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My first food order up, the Delux Mac was a hefty bowl of elbow pasta, buttery Gouda, and soft white American cheese. Small bits of pancetta added bursts of salty flavor while sauteed onions and spinach lightened the savory appetizer.

Save room for the Porky Fries. Built on a bed of lightly seasoned cottage fries, the

hefty appetizer featured a mound of soft, smoky pulled pork, cheddar cheese, green onions, and generous drizzles of barbecue sauce, ranch dressing, queso, and sour cream. The overall effect was a lovely blend of sweet, savory, and salty.

From around a dozen slider options, I ordered the prime rib, based on the waiter’s recommendation. The thinly cut slices were buttery smooth, and the accompanying grilled onions, Swiss cheese, and garlic aioli enhanced the melange without distracting from the meaty centerpiece.

The Akaushi burger’s juicy, rich patty

lived up to the hype of the rarefied Japanese beef. The standard toppings — cheddar cheese, tomato, lettuce, and red onion — were all fresh and pristinely presented.

The Salmon Kro-Ket was a seafood-heavy delight. The fish patty was juicy and soft with a crispy fried coating. The single slice of tomato and slathering of mayo kept the overall experience from being too dry.

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from Fort Worth. The customer service was exceptional, and the quality of the food was on par with what one would expect from Texas’ unique dining capital. l

Located near Roanoke City Hall, Anderson Distillery & Grill offers a unique dining and drinking experience in a city already known for great restaurants.

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Simple and carefully plated, the Akaushi burger featured a succulent, super-tender patty.

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1.) Last call for schnitzel! Having served authentic German food to generations of Fort Worthians, Edelweiss is closing its doors at its longstanding 3801 Southwest Blvd location (817-738-5934). While the recent announcement indicates that the search is on for a new home, daily thru Tue, Feb 28, will be your last chance to take in all the deliciousness and kitsch at the original location. Reservations can be made for dining Wed-Sun at EdelweissGermanRestaurant. com. As the place is usually closed Mon-Tue, you’ll need to call to make reservations instead of scheduling online for Mon, Feb 27, and Tue, Feb 28.

Statement from Edelweiss

“After over half a century (56 years) of serving authentic German food in our genuine German Gasthaus décor and ambience, it is with a heavy heart that we announce the

closing of our current location. We want to express our sincere appreciation and gratitude for your patronage and support throughout the years. We have enjoyed hosting thousands of family celebrations and romantic evenings with our delicious food and live music. We are actively working to secure a new location and will keep you informed here as soon as we have any updates to share. In the meantime, we want to invite you to join us for a final farewell every day for the rest of this month at our current location. Thank you again for your loyalty and love for our restaurant. We will always cherish the memories and hope to see you soon at our new location, which we will announce on social media. Auf wiedersehen, Edelweiss German Restaurant.”

2.) As one local business exits stage left, another has its grand opening. At 10:30am Sat, head to Pantry on Magnolia (713 W Mag-

nolia Av, 682-224-2381) for the ribbon-cutting festivities of “Fort Worth’s original dumpling house.” Retail products, specialty desserts, and dumpling flights are available for purchase, plus you will receive a complimentary artisan cookie.

3.) Before it gets too hot to care about chili except on a hot dog, grab a spoon and make your way to Grapevine. With some forethought, you can enjoy dinner and a show at Tolbert’s Restaurant & Chili Parlor (423 S Main St, 817-421-4888), as most evenings there is live music in the house. This week’s bands include the Coppertones, Jason Elmore Duo, Keegan McInroe, Pocketful of Change, Rush MORE, Tracy Wayen & The Texas Train, and Tone Def. For updates and set times, visit Facebook.com/TolbertsRestaurants.

4.) Pour Decisions (2800 Bledsoe St, Ste 200, 682-203-0726) is doing an all-day happy hour every Thursday from 5pm to midnight. Along with the usual happy hour (5pm-8pm Wed-Fri), the specials last until midnight Thursdays and include $4 domestic beers, $4 well drinks, 50% off pitchers, and $2 off baskets of chicken tenders (or sandwich). On Friday evenings, it’s a late-night party with a live DJ and $100 off bottle service starting at 10pm.

5.) The City of Carrollton is proud to announce the return of TEXFest, a beer festival honoring Texas Independence Day. In its eighth year, TEXFest is once again bringing local craft beer vendors, a food village, and live music to Historic Downtown Carrollton (1100 S Elm St, 972-466-3593) 3pm-9pm, Sat Mar 4. For more information, visit CityofCarrollton.com/TEXFest. The food and drink choices include heavy hitters like Fletcher’s Corny Dogs and Nothing Bundt Cakes alongside smaller, creatively named local businesses like Bougie Boozy Bears, Dat’s a N’ice Italian Ice, Holy Rollie Pastry Shop, Secret Agent BBQ, and more. A $25 tasting card in the beer garden will provide 12 2-oz samples from independent brewers around the state, including our own HopFusion Ale Works, Rahr & Sons, and Wild Acre. Several country acts will put the “Texas” in TEXFest, including headliner Prophets & Outlaws with the Chasing Texas Band, Tara Tinsley, and the Redwine Band performing throughout the evening. For more information, visit CityofCarrollton.com/TEXFest.

6.) The Statler Downtown Dallas Hotel & Residences (1914 Commerce St, 214459-3930) just announced some significant changes for summer. While Primo’s MX Kitchen & Lounge in Flower Mound (4120 River Walk Dr, 469-451-5019) remains unaffected, the location in the Statler is closed immediately to make way for a new concept. Pronounced “Fifty-Six,” LVI will bring a much-needed steakhouse option to downtown Big D. The popular hotel grill Scout Dallas has reopened on-site.

7.) It’s almost time for Lola’s Farmers Market. From 11am to 4pm Sat, Mar 12 (and the second Sunday of every month), you can purchase locally grown/produced food from more than 30 vendors while listening to live music in the backyard of Lola’s Fort Worth (2000 W Berry St, 817-759-9100). If you fancy a bite, food trucks and Lola’s kitchen got you covered. For updates, keep an eye on Facebook.com/LolasLocalFarmersMarket.

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Stop in at Edelweiss for a final plate of jager schnitzel thru Tue, Feb 28.

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Miller Time

Bartalk is the result of the lockdown and death of a friend on this pianistic rock singersongwriter.

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In March 2020, the Zep-inspired Dead Vinyl had just embarked upon a West Coast tour when the pandemic forced them to turn around and head back to the Fort. The

sudden influx of free time ended up being the catalyst that frontman Hayden Miller needed to get some music out of his head — as well as deal with something considerably heavier than the bluesy hard-rock riffage he and his bandmates were known for: the death of a dear friend. Topher Erickson had died at the end of 2018, and Miller was still reeling from it. As that interminable March of stay-at-home orders stretched into summer and fall, he processed his feelings the best way he knew how: by sitting down at the piano and writing. By the end of 2020, he had two albums’ worth of material. He will release the first single from the first of these on Friday, March 3.

Miller said he demoed the entire album himself, playing all the instruments, during lockdown. “Nobody was doing anything, and [Dead Vinyl] were all sitting around for a year. At the time, me and most of the other Dead Vinyl guys lived in a house together over in Meadowbrook on Tierney Road. … We were in a spot where we weren’t doing any shows, weren’t putting a lot of music together, but we still practiced twice a week then, but I wrote and recorded two whole albums during that time,” including one that he sent to Nolan Robertson, producer and guitarist/keyboardist for The Hendersons and Dead Vinyl. “I asked him, ‘Is this good? Should I even try to record this?’ ”

Miller knew his new tunes did not fit Dead Vinyl’s signature sound, which is generally powered by classic-rock riffage and Motown R&B, afraid that trying them with the band might filter them in a way he didn’t intend. Robertson, a multi-instrumentalist

like Miller, has a brilliant ear for composition and arrangements. Miller said, “I told Nolan, ‘If this is good and you like it, I want you to help me put it out.’ And he definitely liked it.”

Accompanied by Robertson, Miller took his demos to Taylor Tatsch (Maren Morris, Cut Throat Finches, Shadows of Jets), and, at the producer’s Audiostyles studio near Austin, the three of them worked on the songs over the next year, tracking on weekends, occasionally with Dead Vinyl guitarist Tyler Vela coming down to provide leads.

The songs, Miller said, were “really piano-heavy. … It was kind of a grabbag of who played what, because it was really just me, Nolan, and Taylor.”

With the exception of Vela’s solos, most of the guitar work was handled by Robertson and Tatsch while Miller played piano, drums, and some rhythm guitar and Robertson performed bass and keys. “It felt really organic and fun working with these guys, who are both proficient enough to pick up whatever instrument and be like, ‘I think I know how to play this.’ I was listening back through it, and a lot of the parts I don’t remember who played what, because we all just cycled through it.”

The pianistic nature of the tracks on Bartalk is part of what differentiates them from anything Dead Vinyl-esque, but the personal nature of Erickson’s death is what makes it a solo album.

“There’s a major theme throughout the album about recovering from grief,” Miller said. “Many of the songs are about him. I wrote some of them in 2019 and the rest in 2020, kind of like, just thinkin’ about your boy. It’s personal stuff. I don’t go to therapy, so my therapy is writing songs, kind of talking with Topher that way [even though he’s gone] has brought some closure.”

At times, recording these songs was difficult for him. “Some of them were really tough, especially writing the lyrics and recording the vocals. Trying to find the right words, like he’s a ghost standing there, and I wondered if he’d like the songs.”

Yet for all his sadness, Miller is a pretty fun dude, evidenced in the bounce and lilt of the lead-off track and first single. “Monaco Daydream” is a sunny, amusing jaunt about being broke. Miller will talk anyone’s ear off

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about movies, and he often sneaks references into his music. The first line of “Monaco Daydream” is “Well, I can’t move ahead / Tired of reaching down into my pockets and only feeling my leg,” a line from Rocky III.

“I wanted to start with ‘Monaco’ on this record,” Miller said, “because I didn’t want to lean into something so heavy as ‘Remember my dead friend?’ I’d rather ease into that.”

“Monaco” is indeed a breezy, sardonic ride, but Miller said, “The real heart of the record is about Topher. … [Grieving] takes a long time, especially when it’s one of your best friends you’ve known since you were kids. It takes a long time to even just process it and put it through your brain. And that was how I put it through my brain, by writing this record.”

One of Miller’s biggest influences while writing Bartalk is early Elton John, specifically Honky Château, “and that’s another reason why these songs didn’t feel like a

Dead Vinyl record. They sound like Elton John to me, whereas Dead Vinyl songs are more guitar-heavy.”

Miller has no plans to play the songs live, mostly because of the nature of the recording process. “I don’t really have a live band for this, and I don’t even remember who did what on the album in a lot of cases. Nolan plays piano on about 40% of the record, and he does things that only Nolan can do.”

But Miller is not opposed to performing Bartalk solo on piano and guitar. Anyway, making and putting out the album was more about finishing a project instead of sitting on it. The March 3 release of “Monaco Daydream” will be followed by a second single, “Hotel Jumpin’,” on June 2. Miller will release all nine Bartalk tracks to streaming services in the fall.

Miller said he will continue to work on music, both with Dead Vinyl and as part of an ongoing songwriting partnership with Robertson, as well as focus his new career as a voice actor. “I’ve been on a true crime podcast as an 18-year-old reading his diary, and I did a crypto ad, which was cool. Getting into [voice acting] has been a lot of fun, and it’s work-from-home, so, hopefully, it’s pandemic-proof, if that ever happens again.” l

Miller: Grieving “takes a long time, especially when it’s one of your best friends you’ve known since you were kids.”

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