Fort Worth Weekly // March 8-14, 2023

FEATURE

Happy anniversary to the Symphony League of Fort Worth.

BY EDWARD BROWN

EATS & DRINKS

Boozie’s may be new, but Chef David Hollister’s

sandwiches

still rule.

BY EDWARD BROWN

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Casa Mañana hosts Elena Ricardo reprising her role as the legendary singer-songwriter after a turn on Broadway.

BY JENNIFER BOVEE

SCREEN

Our film critic makes his Oscar predictions.

BY KRISTIAN LIN

MUSIC

Don’t be fooled, Annafell Lights’ Laser Disco Wash provides more dirges than party-rock anthems.

BY PATRICK HIGGINS

It’s

By Edward Brown

Handicapping the Oscars

With

By Kristian Lin

By Patrick Higgins

STAFF

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Bob Niehoff, General Manager

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By Jennifer Bovee

For the Musicians

Members of the Symphony League of Fort Worth celebrate 65 years of supporting our resident orchestra.

BY EDWARD BROWN

Reflecting on his 28-year career as music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (FWSO), John Giordano mentioned how small the program was when he started in 1972.

“The budget for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra was $80,000 a year,” he said. “We did four or five concerts a year. There was nobody making a living playing” for the FWSO at that time.

Though the city’s resident symphony orchestra did not have any full-time musicians, it did have one of the largest and most active volunteer support networks in the country: the Symphony League of Fort Worth.

With hundreds of members who organized fundraisers like Oktoberfests and ticketed cooking classes, the league was more than a support group. It was the lifeline that allowed the FWSO to survive those lean years while slowly hiring full-time musicians.

“There would not be a Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra without the Symphony League,” Giordano said. “It was our main source of money.”

Willa Dunleavy said one of the first things she did when she moved with her family to Fort Worth in the early 1970s was to seek out the local symphony league. Dunleavy, retired general director of the Fort Worth Youth Orchestra, said Fort Worth’s network of volunteers offered her the opportunity to connect with fellow music lovers.

Dotty Hall, the league’s current president, said the fundraising group’s responsibilities grew as Giordano slowly expanded the orchestra’s programs through the 1970s and ’80s.

“Once the orchestra started expanding, there was a greater need for money,” she said. “The league took care of the office. They answered phones and sold tickets at Monnig’s Department Store. They held cooking classes, fashion shows, and garage

sales” to raise money for the orchestra.

From an all-time high in membership of around 500 in the 1980s to its current number of around 85, the league has remained a close partner of the FWSO. Hall said her group organizes four events per year to raise funds for and support the orchestra. Hospitality remains a major component of the group’s volunteer efforts.

“We go down to Bass Hall and offer the musicians coffee and pastries,” she said. “We try to show them how much we appreciate them. We have orchestra members from the finest music schools in the world. I think it is important to let them know how much we appreciate what they have done.”

FWSO music director Miguel Harth-Bedoya, who stepped down from that role in 2020, said league members were

among the first Fort Worthians to greet him and wife Maritza Caceres when they moved to Fort Worth from South America more than 20 years ago.

“My first impression [of the Symphony League] was their affinity for the musicians,” he said. “They loved being around musicians, and they knew the musicians by name and their family members and interests. Connecting with people is what music is about. Music lives through people, musicians, composers, and conductors. The value of what they do is priceless because you cannot buy peoples’ love and time.”

The Symphony League’s founding in 1957 occurred the same year Robert Hull became music director of the FWSO and Robert Alexander was hired as the orchestra’s general director.

Alexander “immediately realized that a supporting organization of women volunteers was essential to the success of the orchestra,” reads one chapter of Connections and Serendipity, a 1986 book that documents the history of the FWSO. “From the beginning, the league’s major interest and finan-

cial support have been to bring music education to young people of ages 3 through high school, so they will grow to understand and appreciate good music.”

The volunteers used a wide range of methods to raise funds: garage sales, cooking schools, coloring books, and other moneymaking initiatives.

The group’s fundraising prowess grew with the formation of an annual Oktoberfest. The first German-themed festival took place at T&P Station, the downtown rail stop that is home to a craft beer tavern. For the inaugural festival in 1970, the building manager offered the space for $1. The Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and Ben E. Keith, a food and beverage distributor, were early supporters of the ticketed event that featured performances by the Texas Boys Choir and polka groups, food, beer, and vendors. Around 7,000 people attended the event, helping raise $6,700.

Soon after moving to Fort Worth, Dunleavy became a lead organizer for the annual festival. By the mid- to late-1970s, the charitable event — which moved to the Will Rogers Memorial Center, then to its final home at the Fort Worth Convention Center continued on page 5

Symphony League member Willa Dunleavy jokingly said Oktoberfest grew into a “zoo.”

FWSO concertmaster Michael Shih said he was deeply touched when Symphony League members gifted his family a toddler chair two years ago.

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— became a popular three-day fundraiser that eventually began generating $150,000 per year.

Randy Landy, the longtime supporter of the FWSO and Fort Worth Youth Orchestra, “always ordered the big cheddar cheese wheel from Wisconsin,” Dunleavy recalled. “He would cut and sell it by the slice. [Former medical examiner] Feliks Gwozdz with his lederhosen and accordion would entertain with German folk music.”

It was a zoo, Dunleavy said with a laugh.

Gail Granek served as the league’s president when the group decided to cut Oktoberfest around 1999.

“The event almost became too huge,” Granek said.

Volunteers were “getting older,” she continued, “and the event required we haul everything, set up vendors, and organize performances.”

Granek said Oktoberfest was one of the only fundraisers for nonprofits when it started, but by the turn of the century, the city had dozens of similar opportunities competing for donors. By the time the league held its last German-themed fundraiser, the FWSO had cultivated a much more diverse group of donors and foundations for support.

During the early years of the Oktoberfests and with the financial cushion brought by Symphony League volunteers, Giordano set upon an ambitious plan to transform the FWSO into a professional ensemble on

par with major orchestras across the United States.

“You cannot build a first-class symphony orchestra without [core members] rehearsing every day,” Giordano said. “The

pay scale for the musician’s union was very low.”

Giordano approached the symphony’s board members and laid out a plan for increasing the number of concerts performed each year and hiring a core group of fulltime musicians. Although the board offered no direct help, they approved the idea if Giordano could come up with the funding. Initially, he considered raising money for a 12-member chamber orchestra that could be augmented with union performers as needed. It was only after discussing his plans with famed concert pianist Rudolf Serkin that Giordano realized that he needed a larger team of full-time musicians to program the repertoire of the great classical and early Romantic-era composers.

“We hired two string quartets, one quintet, a brass ensemble, a woodwind ensemble,” and a percussionist, he said. “They played at almost every elementary school. The Symphony League was the one that went with them, introduced them, and was the moving force in helping. We didn’t have any staff.”

To fund the new ensembles, Giordano organized a retreat in Weatherford with the help of friend Martha Hyder, who served as chairperson of the board of the Van Cliburn Foundation. Rather than pitching the idea of underwriting much of the costs of the new FWSO hires, Giordano played to philanthropists’ desire to elevate the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition that launched just over a decade earlier in 1962. continued on page 6

The Symphony League hosts dinners where FWSO musicians and doting fans can mingle and raise funds for Fort Worth’s resident orchestra.

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“The Cliburn Foundation didn’t have much funding then either,” Giordano recalled. “We discussed what needed to be done to make the Cliburn a world-class organization” with several powerful people, including the Basses, Charles Tandy, and the Moncriefs. “They were [Hyder’s] friends.”

If the Cliburn was going to grow in prominence and attract the best pianists in the world, as Giordano and Hyder told the group, Fort Worth needed a world-class orchestra to perform piano concertos during the final rounds. The donors came through with commitments to fund the city’s resident orchestra, Giordano said, and the support from the wealthy benefactors led other established families to contribute to the FWSO’s annual budget.

In the decades since and as the two nonprofits began competing with each other for public funding, many supporters of the arts have forgotten that the Cliburn’s and FWSO’s current success was only possible through the generous help of financial backers who understood that Fort Worth needed both a thriving international piano competition and symphony orchestra, Giordano said.

Michael Shih said Symphony League volunteers are often the first people prospective FWSO musicians meet during auditions.

“Members of the Symphony League provide snacks and drinks during audition day,” the FWSO concertmaster said. “It is a tremendous act of generosity that they provide. Not many orchestras have that. Auditions are long and stressful days.”

Beyond hosting hospitality luncheons, the volunteers often personalize gifts for special occasions.

“When our baby was born, I [performed at] an event for them this past year,” he said. “After I played, [Hall] got up and said, ‘Wait, don’t go anywhere.’ She brought out a baby gift for our baby. Every member of the league means so much to me and the orchestra.”

Shih said the orchestra musicians view themselves as a family and the audience as an extended family. The Symphony League reminds the performers that FWSO sup -

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The Symphony League’s annual Oktoberfest featured live music, food, and entertainment as a means of raising funds for the FWSO and area nonprofits.

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Shown in an archival photo from the 1980s, former FWSO music director John Giordano said Fort Worth would not have an orchestra were it not for the efforts of Symphony League volunteers.

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porters care about the musicians as much as the concerts.

“I run into Symphony League members when I’m going about in town,” he said. “I’m so happy when we get a chance to chat. It gives me a chance to say thank you.”

Beyond providing financial support and the occasional luncheon, Symphony League members are active volunteers at FWSO educational outreach programs.

“So many serve as volunteers at our children’s concerts,” he added. “They are there as ushers to make sure children are in the right section of the hall. They do that not only for us but for the youth orchestra concerts.”

After the FWSO musician’s union went on strike in 2017 to prevent wage cuts — which ended following a $700,000 donation from an anonymous donor — Shih said the organization is stronger than ever.

“The board, staff, league, and musicians are working in concert with our incredible

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Worth. The Symphony League, and similar volunteer groups, need to be more than a fundraising tool.

“When the musicians see us, they know we are the community,” Dunleavy said. “We are not staff. We are not paid. I watch them look up and wave to us. It means a lot to them. They know there are people in the community who appreciate them.”

During Harth-Bedoya’s 20-year career as conductor of the FWSO, he saw firsthand how Symphony League volunteers could boost the morale of orchestra members. As they did for Shih, the Symphony League held a baby shower for Harth-Bedoya and his wife before the birth of their oldest daughter, Elena. The maestro said performing arts organizations have a duty to cultivate donors, but they should also find ways to show appreciation for volunteer groups who donate their time.

The Symphony League “should be treasured,” he said. “No money can buy a person who is a passionate advocate for great music.”

Giordano said the Symphony League has long been the bridge between the orchestra musicians and the audience, and it will likely continue to serve that role for the

Miguel and Maritza (shown seated) open gifts during a baby shower organized by the Symphony League.

Courtesy Symphony League

What’s Going on at TCC?

In fall 2021, Elva LeBlanc, who was recently appointed chancellor of Tarrant County College (TCC), delivered a rousing presentation to the same TCC trustees who remain in office. The presentation boiled down to plans to place race — in this case, Hispanics — above qualifications when hiring new college faculty. Studies, LeBlanc argued, show that adults taught by those who look like them causes the students to have a higher educational experience in all areas. LeBlanc, who was TCC’s executive vice president at the time, said the percentage ratio of Hispanic faculty to students [was not on par with the student population]. LeBlanc’s conclusion that Hispanic student retention would improve only if TCC hired more Latino and Latina teachers negated the possibility that non-Hispanic teachers could also inspire those young minds.

Outside of suggesting racially discriminatory and potentially illegal laws being instituted at each campus, LeBlanc suggested the college should implement race-based hiring practices to better serve the makeup

of the college students, which would mean ignoring applicants who demonstrate equal character, qualifications, and communication skills.

All things being equal, TCC’s HR department is now poised to enact the whims and desires of now-Chancellor LeBlanc. The ethnicity of the faculty will mirror the students. Right now, Black TCC students make up 17% of the student body while Black teachers make up 15% of the faculty. In other words, for every 100 faculty positions, only 15 are filled by Black professors. This means, under LeBlanc’s stated plan, only two Black professors may be hired until there is an increase in the number of Black students. What happens if Black enrollment should decrease?

TCC hiring based upon national origin or appearance instead of the best qualified is in violation of its own antidiscrimination policy, which prohibits such antics as does federal law. During the 2021 presentation, TCC trustees sat mostly silent as this malevolently conceived presentation filtered down. Trustees Bill Greenhill and Gwen Morrison were absent. This policy is

moving forward with the full support of all but two trustees. In November 2022, thenvice chancellor and provost LeBlanc was made chancellor by a 5-2 vote. The motion to accomplish this was made at this past Nov. 5 TCC trustee meeting by District 6 Trustee Morrison and seconded by District 4 Trustee Greenhill, thus putting forward their full blessing on this policy of discrimination. This places all taxpayers in harm’s way for more lawsuits settled at taxpayers’ expense and leaving qualified educators in its wake.

What in Greenhill is this governing body doing?

Signed, A Concerned Tarrant County Taxpayer

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

TCC Chancellor Elva LeBlanc is prioritizing race over quality when it comes to hiring faculty, according to one concerned taxpayer.

SADDLE UP MARCH 9-19

YUENGLING PARTY ON THE LAWN

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NIGHT & DAY

Ladies, you are beautiful inside and out, not to mention resilient, resourceful, and smart. Actually, let’s do mention that and way more often. Below are some upcoming events inspired or orchestrated by North Texas women. And to my Weekly co-workers Emmy, Julie, Laurie, Madison, Stacey, Teri, and Jessica, I bid you a Happy International Women’s Day and a kick-ass National Women’s History Month!

Kicking off the celebration is Mia Moss. The owner of Black Coffee (1417 Vaughn Blvd, 817-782-9867) is hosting Watching Women Work 11am-3pm. “Join us for great coffee, delicious eats, and melodic tunes as we shop, engage, and give back to the women in our community.” The vendor list that she and Katrina Carpenter of Carpenter’s Cafe have pulled together makes me want to take the day off and head here. (Do I not deserve an extra day off. Rhetorical question.) Carpenter’s Cafe Mobile Bistro, Creatively Beaut Goods, Hao’s Grocery Cafe, Funkytown Fridge, and Printed Threads are just some of the 17 participating. There is no cost to attend, but I suggest you bring some spending money as these ladies have it going on.

All I wanna do is have some fun. This is what I told my fiance when I suggested we see Sheryl Crow at the American Rodeo at Globe Life Field (734 Stadium Dr, 817-533-1972) Friday night. (While I’m sure you see what I did there, he was having none of it. Girls’ night, it is!) Darius Rucker will also perform, but, first, hometown favorite Maren Morris hits the stage tonight. Doors are at 5:15. Both nights are part of the new rodeo event The American Performance Horsemen, which celebrates “the elegance and excellence of Western equine performance sports and the athletes who ride these powerful quarter horses,” featuring five top professional horsemen from different disciplines facing off in a competition with a purse worth $1 million. Tickets start at $50 at AmericanRodeo.com/Tickets.

After appearing in the Broadway production, Elena Ricardo reprises the lead role in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at Casa Manana at 7:30pm Wed-Thu, 8pm Fri-Sat, and 2pm Sun. Before she was the trailblazing Grammy and Tony award-winning artist we know from Tapestry — and from belting out “Where You Lead, I Will Follow” at the beginning of every episode of Gilmore Girls (she guest-starred in a few episodes as a music teacher, too) — King was Carole Klein, “a spunky young songwriter from Brooklyn with a unique voice.” Beautiful features songs she wrote for others and performed herself, including “Natural Woman,” “So Far Away,” “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling,” and many more. Tickets start at $49 at CasaManana.org.

At Enchiladas Olé (2418 Forest Park Blvd, 817-984-1360), Ram Herrera & The Outlaw Band with Xtreme Tejano will perform 7pm-10pm as part of a free Birthday Bash for Mary Patino Vasquez, Enchiladas Olé’s owner. Bring lawn chairs but no outside food or drinks. There will be food specials and a cash bar outside. Happy Birthday, Mary!

Don’t forget that one of our favorite women in the Fort, Shannon Osbakken, is hosting a great event at her place on the Near Southside 11am Sat. The Bearded Lady Annual Crawfish Boil at 300 S Main St (817-349-9832) features specials on crawfish dishes like Cajun loaded fries, Cajun pasta salad, cornbread, gumbo, and mac ’n’ cheese, plus burgers and grilled cheese for the non-mudbuggers. What’s not to love? For updates, check out Facebook.com/TheBeardedLadyFortWorth.

With Jane Lai on keyboards and Tricia Marshall on bass/ backing vocals, power-popsters Teenage Halloween play the SXSW Spill Over Fest at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio (411 E Sycamore St, Denton, 940-594-2207). Doors are at 6pm, and the full lineup includes Blvck Hippie, Bosco Mujo, CDSM, Dana, Future Crib, Godcaster, Homewrecker & The Bedwetters, Tomato Flower, TVOD, and Venus Twins. Tickets are $10 at the door, which is less than $1 per band. Come ahn, dew it!

It’s spring break, y’all! In case you didn’t know. At 6:30pm, Big Rob’s (13930 Trinity Blvd, Euless, 817-355-1234) hosts The Spring Break Up Tour with FlipCup and Familiar with Failure, along with Rabbit Hole, Southstate, and Worst Case Scenario. While you’re there, introduce yourself to Melissa Curry, the co-owner of and director of venue operations at this pool hall turned metal bar turned music venue. Along with partner Terry Johnson, she is making a lot of positive changes. Plus, she adds a feminine touch to the place. By that, I mean toilet paper. Tickets are $10 presale or $15 day of show on Eventbrite.com.

By Jennifer Bovee

Meet Katrina Carpenter and fellow female entrepreneur Mia Moss at Black Coffee for Watching Women Work Wednesday.

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Oscar’s Gold

Our critic breaks down the Academy Awards.

BY KRISTIAN LIN

My editor asked me to do something different this year and analyze all the major categories at the Academy Awards instead of just the mid-majors, so here we go with your major category-featuring pre-Oscar story before the event Sunday night. If you’re reading this in print, visit our website for my exhaustive rundown of all the categories. As always, any wrong predictions, and I’ll refund you the newsstand price of this paper.

Picture

It all seems to be stacking up for Everything Everywhere All at Once, which has taken home numerous best film awards in the run-up to the Oscars. (Take this to the bank: Somebody who wins for this movie is going to compare the Oscar statuette to the butt-plug trophies used so hilariously in the film.) Since I ranked this as the second-best movie of this past year, I have no problem with this. Look up my “Top 10 Movies of ’22” article from last Dec. 28 to see how I rate the other nominees and what was overlooked, in my estimation.

Actor

Both Colin Farrell and Brendan Fraser have enjoyed long careers in Hollywood blockbusters and roles that showcase emotional depth and skills at interpretation. Both men are funny, too. Do we give Farrell the slight edge because The Banshees of Inisherin has been better received than The Whale? Or does his American colleague have the advantage because he was away long enough for people to ask what happened to him? The guild awards seem to favor Fraser. All the nominees in this field are first-timers, which hasn’t happened since 1935. I posted the best lead performances of 2022, so you can see which actors I thought did the best work.

Actress

After the blow-up over Andrea Riseborough’s nomination for To Leslie, I went and saw that movie about an alcoholic who spirals after she wins the lottery. Yeah, it’s worse than you’ve heard. It’s like a Texan version of Hillbilly Elegy. A great performance can overcome that, and Riseborough

does well as someone who’s trying to scrape her life together, but no way she should be a nominee instead of Danielle Deadwyler for Till. (I will say Riseborough herself has handled the controversy better than her supporters. All those white people probably didn’t get together just to deny the Black actresses, but it sure looks that way.) Anyway, this likely comes down to Michelle Yeoh or Cate Blanchett, and much as I would hate to see Tár walk away from Oscar night empty-handed, a win for Yeoh would mean more for a number of reasons.

Supporting Actor

Ke Huy Quan is a mortal lock to win this award. This will make him the first Asian man to win an acting Oscar and give the industry a feel-good story after he largely walked away from acting because there weren’t enough roles for Asian-American men. It’s too bad for Brian Tyree Henry, who was phenomenal in Causeway and would be on track to win this if not for Quan. He’ll have to be satisfied with his first-ever nomination. Consult my blog post on 2022’s best supporting actors to see who else merits a place in this discussion.

Supporting Actress

This is the toughest one to handicap. Jamie Lee Curtis won the SAG Award in this category for Everything Everywhere All at Once, but here she’s up against Stephanie Hsu from the same movie, so the EEAAO constituency might be split. Does this create an opening for Angela Bassett for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, or does a bias against Marvel movies come into play here? Either Bassett or Curtis has a decent shot at winning this as a de facto lifetime achievement award. I wonder if Kerry Condon has

a chance, since her character has a greater effect on the story of The Banshees of Inisherin than the others do on their films.

Director

The Daniels won the Directors’ Guild Award, which is a pretty reliable indicator of Oscar victors. The duo certainly did the most directing in Everything Everywhere All at Once, though there’s a push for Steven Spielberg (who hasn’t won this award since Saving Private Ryan) to win for his most personal film, The Fabelmans. I think he had a stronger case last year. Park Chan-wook once again missed out on Oscar glory that he deserved for Decision to Leave, and Beth de Araújo’s single-take white supremacist drama Soft & Quiet was a tour de force from the first-time director.

Original Screenplay

The Daniels’ script for Everything Everywhere All at Once is so well put together, but it’s actually an underdog in this category because Martin McDonagh’s work for The Banshees of Inisherin is so funny and so Irish that it might as well be wearing a flat cap and drinking a Guinness. The nomination that went to Triangle of Sadness would have been better served going to Brian & Charles, the uproarious Bros, or the literate and witty Benediction.

Adapted Screenplay

As of this year, the new rule is that movie sequels are now placed in this category, which explains the nominations for Glass Onion and Top Gun: Maverick. I do like the writing for Glass Onion, but here is where Kogonada’s meticulous writing for After Yang (adapted from Alexander Weinstein’s short story) really got screwed. David Kajganich’s

film version of Bones and All (from Camille DeAngelis’ novel) would have been a better pick than four of the nominees, and so would Lena Dunham’s script for Catherine Called Birdy. The one nominee here that I think is deserving of its place is Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’ Women Talking, and the writers are more likely to vote for it than for Top Gun

Cinematography

Mandy Walker won the guild award for her work on Elvis, which makes her the frontrunner here. If she wins, she’ll be the first woman ever to take home this particular Oscar. Were I choosing from these nominees, I’d plump for Florian Hoffmeister’s glossy visuals for Tár. That aside, this field is crap, to be perfectly honest. I can’t blame the Academy for failing to nominate Renato Berta for the Italian drama Il Buco or Bárbara Alvarez for Utama, both of which were ineligible (and the best photographed movies of 2022). The same can’t be said for Larkin Seiple’s work on Everything Everywhere All at Once, which involved myriad changes of frame and stock, or Hoyte van Hoytema’s virtuoso performance in Nope. Matias Boucard’s photography of Athena is less about visual beauty and more about camera movement over long distances through chaotic scenes. Matthew Chuang’s mountain landscapes for You Won’t Be Alone deserved a nod, too.

Foreign-language International Film

One more object lesson why the “one country, one film” rule is stupid: Iran submitted neither No Bears (by the then-imprisoned director Jafar Panahi) nor Hit the Road (by Panahi’s son), so those splendid films were ineligible for this award. France submitted Saint Omer instead of Happening, and we can argue which of those movies was better, but the former didn’t make the nominees list. Of course, everyone is rightly up in arms over Decision to Leave (South Korea) failing to make the cut. All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany) probably wins this, as it’s the only nominee that also scored a Best Picture nod, but I think fellow nominees The Quiet Girl (Ireland) and Argentina 1985 (duh, Argentina) are better movies. Out of the films submitted to the Oscars by their countries, I would have picked the gorgeous Utama (Bolivia) and the raunchy Girl Picture (Finland) as part of this field.

Animated Feature

For once, this category is stacked. I picked Marcel the Shell With Shoes On as the best film of 2022, and it was ruled eligible and nominated for this award, so I’m backing it. Nevertheless, Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio likely wins this, and Pixar’s entry Turning Red has a devoted fanbase as well. I think Netflix’s stop-motion The House and rotoscoped Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood would have made better nominees than the streamer’s The Sea Beast, but I’m more disappointed that the Japanese entries were shut out, especially after Inu-Oh and Pompo: The Cinéphile were so good. Phil Tippett’s insane horror film Mad God would have proved that this category isn’t just for kids, too. l

A certain movie about multiverses is the favorite in a bunch of Oscar categories.

March 12–July 9, 2023

THE UNFINISHED PROJECT OF LIBERATION

Seven Black contemporary artists explore ideas of emancipation from 160 years ago to today.

Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation is organized by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and Williams College Museum of Art. The exhibition is co-curated by Maggie Adler, Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper at the Carter, and Maurita Poole, Executive Director of Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University.

John Quincy Adams Ward (1830-1910), The Freedman (detail), 1863, bronze, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 2000.15

With spring break upon us, St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner. This week and next, we’ve got some solid suggestions for those wanting to do some reveling. Let the green beer flow!

1.) West 7th is always #GrandCentralStation for partygoers in Fort Worth, and now with the aid of Top Shelf Crawls, the folks at Junk

Punch, Pour Decisions, Reservoir, Whiskey Garden, and Your Mom’s House invite you to partake in the Finnegan’s St. Patrick’s Bar Crawl 4pm-midnight Sat for those 21 and up. The festivities begin with a registration party at Whiskey Garden (2800 Bledsoe St, Ste 150, 682-312-7708) 4pm-6pm. There will be an after-party as well. “Be safe and have a great time! Please don’t drink and drive. Call a cab, Lyft, or Uber or have someone who will be a designated driver.” Tickets start at $12.99 on Eventbrite.com and include cover at all five bars, food and drink specials, souvenir beads, and koozies for all crawlers.

2.) Fat Daddy’s (781 W Debbie Ln, 817453-0188) knows how to par-tay, and for the Mansfield spot’s big St. Patrick’s Day Party (5pm-11:30pm Fri, Mar 17), enjoy some country tunes from Aaron Copeland and Jamie Richards. As for food and drink specials, there’ll be $10 Irish Nachos, $8 Lucky Leprechaun Cocktails (Malibu, Captain Morgan, sour apple, and pineapple juice), $7 Irish drop shots (Jameson with Bailey’s dropped into Guinness), $5 Jameson, and $4 green beer or Guinness cans. Clearly, they’ve thought this through.

3.) With plates like their famous Irish Nachos, which have been featured on a variety of national food shows, J. Gilligan’s Bar & continued on page 17

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Spend St. Patrick’s Day with Aaron Copeland and Jamie Richards at Fat Daddy’s in Mansfield.

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4.) The doors of The Londoner Pub (5120 Hwy 121, Colleyville, 817-684-8810) fly open at 11am on Fri, Mar 17, so that you can maximize your St. Paddy’s celebrating — dig into some corned beef and hash and wash it down with green beer all day. A bagpiper will perform throughout the day, and then the JBC Band will play at 9pm. “Come eat, drink, and be Irish!” There is no cost to attend.

5.) Founded in Burleson, craft brewpub Old Texas Brewing Co. has chosen Fort Worth for its second location (6333 Camp Bowie Blvd, Ste 200, 817-386-0752). Check it out on Fri, Mar 17, and hear the Mojo Brothers playing their brand of blues/country/ rock 8pm-midnight. At the Burleson location (112 W Ellison St, 817-447-2337), dance band 3 Drunk Monkeys will play 8pm11:30pm. You must be 21 and up to attend. There is no cover at either location.

6.) If you’d rather get away from the city, there’s always Sammy’s on the Lake at Lakeview Marina on Eagle Mountain Lake (6680 Peden Rd, 682-841-1122). On Fri, Mar 17, there will be all-day food and drink specials, plus live music by Russell Barretto 7pm-10pm. (As I just finished watching Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal on Netflix, let me be the one to remind you not to drink and drive by land or by sea. Keep boat safety in mind and live to party another day! Everyone say, “Thanks, Aunt Jenn!”)

7.) For a laid-back but delicious time in Keller, visit Texas’ only Irish brewing company, Shannon Brewing (818 N Main St, 817-337-9892), on Fri, Mar 17. Starting at 4pm, Shannon will host live music and offer special beer releases throughout the evening, plus the Cousins Maine Lobster food truck will make an appearance. Then on Sat, Mar 18, come back noon-9pm and get rowdy at a full-on St. Patrick’s Day Festival, where you can enjoy seasonal beer varieties (including green beer), bagpipe music, and more. For updates and a sneak peek at the festivities, visit Facebook.com/ShannonBrewing.

8.) Day drinkers, unite! Doors open at 3pm Fri, Mar 17, at Texas Live (1650 E Randol

Mill Rd, Arlington, 817-852-6688) for its annual Shamrocks & Shenanigans: DFW St. Patrick’s Day Party, featuring drink specials, live music, and an Irish dance-off. Tickets range from $10 to $15 at AXS.com and include different amounts of goodies in various shades of green. For example, the GA Plus Drink Package comes with three drink tokens to use for soft drinks or domestic beers and a St. Paddy’s Swag Bag filled with beads, sunglasses, and more. You don’t need a ticket to enter the venue, but one will guarantee you a spot if district capacity is reached.

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St. Paddy’s Day with some corned beef and hash at The Londoner in Colleyville.

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Camp Boozie

The former Wild Acre brewpub is home to a new, sandwich-heavy restaurant that also serves cocktails, wine, and craft brews.

Boozie’s Brewery & Gourmet Sandwiches, 6473 Camp Bowie Blvd, FW. 817-353-2074. 11ammidnight Sun-Thu, 11am-1am Fri-Sat.

BY EDWARD BROWN

When Dallas-based Bishop Cider bought Wild Acre Brewing last year, the purchase left Wild Acre Camp Bowie’s fate uncertain. Bishop Cider’s owners opted to sell off the Westside satellite location, and, along with two local investors, Chef David Hollister, who was already heading the Camp Bowie brewpub’s food and drink operations, purchased the space.

For the past several months, the former Wild Acre offshoot has been under renovation. Now open, the restaurant has much of the same layout and feel of the former

gastropub but with an enclosed patio and a completely revamped food and drink menu. Hollister gained local fame under the Wild Acre brand as a master sandwich-maker, and with his new menu, he builds on that prowess.

One of more than a dozen sammies on offer, the Hot Italian Beef is an imaginative variation on the Chicago favorite. In lieu of ciabatta or French bread, Boozie’s offering arrived pressed like a Cubano with a side of au jus. The fiery giardiniera, heavy on peppers and sans carrots and cauliflower, packed a spicy kick and left me alternating bites with gulps of water. The broth softened the crunchy bread and enhanced the beefy flavors of the scrumptious and filling sandwich.

Boozie’s boasts four burgers, and based on the menu descriptions, they are all whoppers. The largest is the Chef’s Burger, which comes topped with a sunny side-up egg. The belt-buster required two hands to negotiate. Mixing sweet and savory can be a delicate balancing act, but the onion jam added a pleasant contrast to the protein-heavy burger served with a thick and flavorful sesame patty, sharp cheddar, smoky bacon, and arugula.

The grand finale that afternoon, the corned Wagyu beef hash, was exceptional, although the diced potatoes were a little undercooked. Are al dente taters a thing? Even with that minor offense, the dish was damn delicious. The pile of oily slices of beef, soft slivers of red peppers, caramelized chopped onions, and the aforementioned spuds was

crowned by a sunny-side-up egg and drizzles of brown mustard. Every spoonful was a heavenly treat.

The first order up that afternoon, the Wagyu beef-stuffed chiles, were a creative take on Texas Rattlers. Three smallish, sweet red peppers swelled with juicy shredded beef, capsicums, and a bold pesto. Drizzled in reduced balsamic vinegar and a light cream sauce, the chiles were complex and lovely with sweet, savory, and salty alternatingly zinging my taste buds.

The yucca fries chimichurri — five large, golden stalks — were similar in texture to potato but denser and more fibrous. The fried root was livened by a side of zesty chimichurri sauce bursting with chile and garlic flavors. continued on page 20

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Boozie’s brewery isn’t churning out beers yet, so while I waited to order, I opted for an Old Fashioned. “Washed” in bacon fat, the orange libation had a silky mouthfeel and savory profile that was more complex than normal. Although I could smell smoked pork with my first whiff, the cocktail tasted like smooth bourbon with light citrus notes.

Hollister has gifted Fort Worth a culinary experience with unique spins on familiar dishes that are balanced and carefully

plated. The famed local chef told me that he and his business partners plan to open multiple Boozie’s locations across North Texas in the coming years.

Future patrons of this soon-to-be franchise can thank Fort Worth for originating the fun concept. l

Rather than going full-on greasy, Chef David Hollister has crafted a sweetish and nuanced version of Texas Rattlers.

The corned Wagyu beef hash is a lovely hot mess.

Edward Brown For a savory cocktail, try Boozie’s bacon fatwashed Old Fashioned.

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With his second album, oneperson darkwave project Annafell Lights references the spooky synth sounds of classic sci-fi/horror.

BY PATRICK HIGGINS

Don’t be confused by the sanguine, dance party-ish title of Laser Disco Wash, the second full-length by synthwave artist Annafell Lights. Despite recalling some long-forgotten coke-fueled, celebrity-stuffed event at Studio 54 in 1979, the eight-song collection likely won’t inspire you to get down, get down. Rather, the moody, dirging synthscapes created by Darren Miller, the analog mind behind the elec-

As Annafell Lights, Darren Miller — behind his monolithic synth-pire — performed last weekend at Growl for the release of Laser Disco Wash.

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tronic sounds, might have you brooding in a corner contemplating the fall of humanity. Which, for the generally anxious, nerve-severing times in which we live, might make for a better soundtrack for the era than anything you’ll find in the clubs. It’s that general sense of shared malaise — wars, pandemics, toxic politics — that no doubt influences Miller’s output.

“I’ve been trying to get this CD out forever,” he said. “I spent probably the last two years, on and off, working on it. After the pandemic, it took me a while to get back on track. In the early days [of the pandemic], I was really productive. I had been playing in all these projects, and then all of a sudden, all I had was this. I pumped out a lot of stuff really quickly, then I just sort of hit a wall. Once I gave myself a deadline, I was finally able to force myself to finish it and to exercise a lot of what I’d been feeling and thinking about.”

Released last Friday, both digitally and on CD, Laser Disco Wash — which likely owes its title to little more than the brightly colored cover art of the interior of a dystopian-futuristic car wash — borrows much more from the haunting synthesizer-based film scores of Vangelis and horror master John Carpenter than the lighthearted flare of Giorgio Moroder.

“It’s all veiled descriptions of stuff going on in my life,” Miller said of the darkness of the music and the content of his often barely discernible whispered lyrics.

“It’s like if you are like, ‘Ugh, I’m feeling whatever today.’ Let’s take that feeling and think about it and expand it and make it into something interesting.”

In addition to a perhaps subliminal influence on Annafell Lights’ synthy aesthetic — Miller claims ’90s trip-hop artists like Tricky and Massive Attack as his biggest sonic muses — Carpenter makes a direct impact on the opening track. Miller wrote “Outpost 31” in honor of his favorite sci-fi/horror movie, a Carpenter classic from 1981.

“The first song is about The Thing,” he said. “Then, [across the songs], the subject matter kind of goes from that to how humanity sucks, to humanity sucking, to me sucking. I’m definitely not ever writing about rainbows and unicorns … unless they’re on fire … or being hunted.”

The sum of the churning, minor-heavy synth pads and Miller’s spectral vocals creates a dark tension in the music that is never quite released, creating an ever-present grip on the listener’s chest as well as on their attention. Adding to the unsettling, never-wavering thrum, through the 30-some-odd minutes of the record, the pieces flow effortlessly from one to another with a cohesion that couldn’t contrast more severely with the single-song, hitmaker ethos of much of today’s electronic music. There’s an intention to the sequencing that

adds to the sense of transfixation.

“I like the concept of listening to an album from start to finish,” he explained. “Listening to something as the journey that the artist intended. I also want to make albums that are cohesive. The songs falling just where they need to.”

Traditionally a guitar player — his contributions ranging from the post-hardcore of Wreck Room fixtures Benway to the idiosyncratic indie of Tame … Tame and Quiet and his own heavy-metal outfit Ox Combine — Miller basks in the differences that electronic music offers to his standard instrument.

“It’s vastly different,” he said of the contrast between writing on guitar versus

with synths. “I’m pretty much recording as I go.”

As opposed to the typical songwriting process of essentially completing a whole song before there’s any thought of documenting it, “there’s a lot of programming involved, a lot of refinement, layering as I go, then trimming things off.”

Though the mediums are disparate, Miller’s musical inclinations remain consistent. “Some of my guitar playing informs it in that it’s the same kind of scales that I like and the same kind of chord patterns and tones, but it’s a whole different kind of songwriting, especially because [in bands] I’m used to playing in weird time signatures and stuff, so making music in standard 4/4 or 2/4 is not what I’m usually used to,” he added with a laugh.

When asked if he’s ever considered marrying the two differing expressions by adding some guitar to Annafell Lights or expanding the project into a proper band, he’s fairly definitive.

“It almost goes against the point of the project,” he explained. “The point of [Annafell Lights] is to do something I haven’t done before, in a way I haven’t done before, to push my skill set as far as I can, short of having to go through the trouble of learning [to play] drums or something.”

Plus, he enjoys being the sole person responsible for the results.

“It’s all on my shoulders,” he said. “Ultimately, if people like it — or they don’t like it — I can only blame myself.” l

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