Fort Worth Weekly // March 22-28, 2023

Spring gallery night

It’s that time of year again to fire up the ridesharing app or bus pass and hop around town checking out some art.

BY JENNIFER BOVEE

HEARSAY

Folk singer-songwriter Jake Paleschic returns with the longawaited new album Wrongdoer.

BY JUAN R. GOVEA

EATS & DRINK

Downtown gets a little more finely Italian with Osteria 61.

BY LAURIE JAMES

BUCK U

The always-improving Frogs seem to be one big man away from cracking the Sweet 16.

BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT

MUSIC

A little bit Zep, a little bit soul — it’s Dead Vinyl.

BY STEVE STEWARD

General

Learning from their mistakes or a blind squirrel and a nut? Cowboys made some surprising free agency moves.

By Patrick Higgins

Art Lovin’

Spring Gallery Night Saturday features new work at Artspace 111, Fort Works Art, William Campbell Gallery, and many more spots.

By Jennifer Bovee

Magnifico

Osteria 61 takes fine Italian dining to new heights.

By Laurie James

By Juan R. Govea

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

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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

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STUFF

52 Pickup

Lack of a cohesive teambuilding strategy or finally learning from past mistakes — the Cowboys’ surprising free agency moves give us pause.

BY PATRICK HIGGINS

I’m not breaking any news here. We’re all aware of it. Even the most casual Cowboys fan could probably recite the glaring fact that Dallas — a once peerless and storied franchise — has not made it to even an NFC Championship game, much less a Super Bowl, in nearly three decades. A person born in the same year that a Lombardi Trophy was last hoisted in these parts would now likely have graduated college, earned a coveted car insurance discount, and be looking to purchase their first home. Just kidding. No one currently under the age of 50 will ever own a home in America again.

In the true Jerry Jones Era — in other words, these 30-some-odd years A.J. (see: After Jimmy) — the term “mediocrity” has become synonymous with Cowboy football. They’re normally a pretty good team. That is, good not great. They’ll usually win more games than they’ll lose and make the playoffs every other year or so, but we all know what happens once they get there.

The club’s tenuous success, or the lack thereof, in the last quarter century is a testament to their team-building strategy. Or again, the potential lack thereof. That is to

say, there seems to be no consistent or cohesive strategy at all. I will couch the previous statement a bit by unconditionally praising the way the team has approached the draft for the last 10 years or so. The credit for that, however, belongs mainly to GM-in-all-butname Will McClay, the Cowboys’ director of player personnel. He’s the one scouting football talent while the team’s actual general manager, Mr. Jerral Wayne Jones, is doing more important things like closing marketing deals with cryptocurrency startups and doling out hush money to previously undisclosed fun babies. Overall, the Cowboys draft pretty dang well. It’s in free agency where they can’t seem to find an identity.

In this regard, it’s the nature of the Cowboys’ front office to appear directionless and reactionary. Here, there simply seems to be no compass. No North Star. No guiding principle. The best predictor of how the Joneses will approach a free agency period in one offseason is to look at the prior one not because they will repeat the strategy previously employed, like consistent-yearto-year franchises such as Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and New England do, but because

they will unfailingly do the complete opposite thing they did the year before.

It could be argued that if there is a consistent approach, it is that they want to retain their own guys, draft, and re-sign — such as they have done this offseason with safety Donovan Wilson and linebacker Leighton Vander Esch. McClay is also fairly adept at bargain shopping in free agency and occasionally landing budget players on one-year deals, if only to plug obvious holes, allowing the team more freedom on draft day. The signing this week of running back Ronald Jones is one such example. But bigname free agents? Forget about it. The ghost of Brandon Carr haunts this front office to this day. But how effectively do they manage re-signing their homegrown talent? In a word, horrendously.

One year will see them shower undeserving players with limitless piles of cash (e.g., the Ezekiel Elliott and Jaylon Smith contracts) only to see them try to play hardball with the players they actually probably should lock up because Jurrah et al. are suddenly frugal because the foolish deals have forced them up against the cap. But then, be -

cause they’ll panic at the thought of losing them, the front office will ultimately fold once the negotiating player, who has all the leverage, mind you, has successfully driven the price up. Such as when a potential $25M/ year Dak Prescott became a $40M/year QB or when a $12M Demarcus Lawrence suddenly became $20M D-Law after the Joneses “stuck to their guns” for a season or two. Ridiculous. Don’t want to pay Amari Cooper $20M, but somehow a one-legged Michael Gallup is worth $14M?

This year, they finally got wise and cut bait with the aforementioned Elliott, who despite reportedly being an irreplaceable leader, a great locker room guy, and a face of the franchise, has underperformed that mega contract since signing it three years ago. You just can’t pay a running back $12M a year. Right? Well, in the same breath they willfully placed the franchise tag on Tony Pollard — who, though he led the league in yards per touch this past year, is also recovering from his own major injury — with a staggering sticker price of $10M to boot. Sounds like the Gallup signing all over again.

It’s this rigid stick with our own “philosophy” that makes the moves the Cowboys have made over the last two weeks all the more incredible. While not necessarily dropping serious cash on outside players, Jerral and the ’Boys have managed to snag a few known commodities. And some with tread still left on the tires. The fifth- and sixth-round picks flipped for former Defensive Player of the Year, cornerback Stephon Gillmore, and six-time 1,000-yard receiver Brandin Cooks fill major needs without handcuffing the franchise salary cap-wise. Considering the organization’s trade record — giving a first-round pick for Amari Cooper only to flip him for a fifth just three years later — that’s some uncharacteristically savvy horsetrading.

Does it point to Jerry finally learning from the mistakes he’s been making for the entirety of the 21st century? That remains to be seen. Give him credit, though. The team is significantly better now than it was two weeks ago. And the draft is just a month away, which will allow them to use their aforementioned draft acumen to improve even more. That is, until next year after they again fail to make an NFC Championship game and they blow the whole thing up and do something completely different again. l

Going all-in? Brandin Cooks, the surprising new addition to the Cowboys’ wide receiver room, inks his deal with the Silver and Blue.

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BUCK U

Mile(s) High and Low

TCU survives the first round of the NCAA tournament only to fall to yet another prolific big man.

BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT

Higher standards hurt. There was a time, not long ago, when TCU men’s basketball achieving a sixth-seed selection and advancing to the round of 32 was unfathomable. Now, under Coach Jamie Dixon, TCU has danced into Round Two in consecutive years. Sadly, the Sweet 16 seems a bitter glass backboard the Frogs can’t quite break. This year more than ever, following Frog sports in general is increasingly a young person’s game. The quantity of adrenaline residue from football season still persists in trace amounts. Last Friday night filled glands to the brim when TCU faced 11th-seed Arizona State, who manhandled the Nevada Wolfpack during their play-in game the previous Wednesday. Dixon’s dribblers tipped and scored early, building a satisfying lead in the opening minutes before the Sun Devils seemingly switched on easymode and every shot from the floor just fell effortlessly.

ASU, defensively, was committed to overwhelming the paint and invited perimeter shots while the Frogs struggled mightily. In response, Mike Miles drove straight into contested territory, drawing foul after foul and delivering the Devils into early bonus trouble. The purple people took advantage by scoring consistently from the stripe and keeping pace with the red-hot demons despite repeated deficiencies from the field. State, despite their early 11-point deficit, flipped the game and carried a seven-point lead to halftime. Even more worrisome, Miles exploded for a posterizing fast-break dunk late in the half but landed awkwardly and seemed to hyperextend his knee before limping from the floor and collapsing in the tunnel walkway. He hobbled himself to the locker room with the team, but after he fell to the ground, I professed out loud, “This game is over.”

Basketball, as a sport, tends to be streaky. The Sun Devils must have exhausted their automatic shooting too early and stalled long enough for TCU to crawl themselves back into contention, mostly thanks to Miles returning to the floor — seemingly 100% healthy — and to proficiency from the foul line. It took almost the entire second half for the Frogs to overcome their midgame slump, and a straight-ahead three by purple guard Damion Baugh knotted the score at 67 with less than two minutes remaining. Dixon’s teams have not won many games when they’ve failed to eclipse 75 points this season. They also arrived in Denver as the most proficient fast-break roster in the nation, but there were few to speak of on Friday. TCU proved stubborn, if nothing else, as they prevented the Devils from scoring while they inched ahead via free throws. ASU bullseyed a late triple to knot the game with 13 seconds left.

Coming out of the timeout, Miles attacked the paint only to meet a double team before dishing the ball to forward Jakobe Coles on the perimeter, who drove and floated a field goal with only enough time remaining for a full-court prayer that sailed over the Frogs’ backboard. The Sun Devils had given the Frogs a tough test, but Dixon had exorcized the sixth-seed demons — or Devils in this case — from the Syracuse game during his first tournament berth as his alma mater’s coach.

Third-seed Gonzaga proved a tougher out, a more experienced test, to say the least. The Bulldogs had won this round of their tournament bracket for seven consecutive seasons, and their forward Drew Timme, a Richardson native, was going to be the focal man per usual. Despite a questionable mustache, Timme (pronounced like the wheelchair-bound kid on South Park) handsomely damaged the Frogs in the paint, which was made more disappointing considering Eddie Lampkin’s recent separation — he was previously the roster member with the size and skill set meant to counter such an opponent.

Despite lacking a true middle man, TCU used their speed and athleticism to build an early lead that grew to as many as seven points. Sadly, Gonzaga proved to be elimination by a thousand cuts or, more specifically, fouls. The Frogs out-fouled the Zags 24-17, primarily occurring in the first half against Timme working through the lane.

Optically, Arizona State seemed like a more athletic and imposing team than Gonzaga. Baugh regularly rebounded or received inbound passes and sprinted the floor while the Bulldogs flowed slowly back to their positions. The Zags also seemed satisfied with spreading four to the perimeter on defense and allowing Timme to patrol the paint alone, allowing repeated pass and layup opportunities. Retrospectively, Gonzaga was never flustered, which became evident when they patiently stacked their shooting opportunities and buckets started falling during the second frame.

Four minutes into the latter half, the Zags had erased TCU’s lead, and a backand-forth affair ensued in which scoring by either team was seldom. An extended Frog slump left Dixon and company trailing by seven with barely a minute remaining. Despite a brief reprieve of hope from a Koles

three[-]pointer, TCU couldn’t conjure clutch buckets to erase the hole. Gonzaga, thanks to timely free-throw shooting near the end, left the clock to expire with a comfortable six-point lead, leading to an uncontested roll, grab, and swish by Baugh which covered the spread for TCU and left a slightly more palatable 81-84 final score.

Despite another round-of-32 elimination, both games were exceptionally exciting, and TCU acquitted themselves as a competitive squad against what has become a college-basketball namesake. The Frogs did not leap as close to the Sweet 16 as their overtime loss against first-seed Arizona, but carrying a lead the majority of the game or within a possession until the last several minutes is not a disaster. Still, it wasn’t a win, and it is still therefore a massive disappointment from what might be the best hardwood roster Fort Worth has seen in the modern era.

Admittedly, other than foul shooting and taking care of the ball, TCU didn’t play well on Friday against Arizona State, and their offense found swagger only in the first and last five minutes of the game. Despite the foul trouble, and falling prey to Gonzaga’s perimeter-trap defense, Dixon’s game plan was sound, and the players balled near their highest level against an opponent who was just better and more comfortable with the circumstances. Neither team shot fouls well on Sunday, but the Zags made them near the buzzer when they counted most.

The Frogs weren’t the only Big 12 squad that stumbled short of projections or, in some cases, minimum expectations. Iowa State — whom the Frogs never beat this season — fell completely flat in their opening game against Dixon’s former team, Pitt, losing by 18. West Virginia dropped their opener by two versus Maryland. Kansas — who was the top-seed in TCU’s region and the defending national champions — lost to eighth-seed Arkansas by one point on Satur-

day. Baylor washed out in the second round also, losing by nine to the sixth-seed Creighton Blue Jays earlier in the day on Sunday.

Of the seven conference teams that started dancing, only Kansas State and Texas remain. The Wildcats will fight the Michigan State Spartans during the opening game on Thursday, and the Longhorns tip with third-seed Xavier during the late and last game on Friday. In step with the Big 12, the state of Texas — which started out with seven selected teams in the tourney — is down to only two representatives, as well as one-seed Houston, who plays in the second of four matchups against fifth-seed Miami on Friday.

Inevitably, it’s a gripe and deficiency that I’ve maligned TCU basketball for in past years and has been a consistent roster problem since the departure of Vladimir Brodzionsky: The Frogs don’t roster a versatile big man. Timme was the star of this contest, as he’s been of his team and conference for several years. The last time TCU had a shot at the Sweet 16, center Christian Koloko from Arizona double-doubled with 12 rebounds and 28 points. Timme was close to that with eight rebounds and 28 points but didn’t have the luxury of an overtime period to pad his stats, or he surely would have eclipsed 30. The hypothetical question of Lampkin’s presence will be forever an unanswered “what if?” for this year’s Frogs and Dixon, especially since Miles is likely heading to the league, leaving hardwood fanatics wondering who their flashpoint to ignite the offense will be.

Lampkin and Timme are different players, but he was the Frog who would have had the best chance to slow him down. Until Dixon can lock down a prospect or transfer who can neutralize, significantly impede, or match what a talented big man can do, the Frogs will continue to play seasons with flavor but will fall short of being sweet. l

TCU’s Mike Miles proved the difference during an opening-round win over Arizona State when the Frog offense — as a collective — sputtered.

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‘He Has a Battle Rifle’

In previously unreleased interviews, police who responded to the Robb Elementary shooting told investigators they were cowed by the shooter’s military-style weapon, which delayed their response for more than an hour.

BY ZACH DESPART, THE TEXAS TRIBUNE

Editor’s note: This story includes graphic descriptions of injuries, and one graphic image taken from inside a classroom. We are not publishing images of injured or deceased victims.

Once they saw a torrent of bullets tear through a classroom wall and metal door, the first police officers in the hallway of Robb Elementary School concluded they were outgunned. And that they could die.

The gunman had an AR-15, a rifle design used by U.S. soldiers in every conflict since Vietnam. Its bullets flew toward the officers at three times the speed of sound and could have pierced their body armor like a hole punch through paper. They grazed two officers in the head, and the group retreated.

Uvalde Police Department Sgt. Daniel Coronado stepped outside, breathing heavily, and got on his radio to warn the others.

“I have a male subject with an AR,” Coronado said.

The dispatch crackled on the radio of another officer on the opposite side of the building.

“Fuck,” that officer said.

“AR,” another exclaimed, alerting others nearby.

Almost a year after Texas’ deadliest school shooting killed 19 children and two teachers, there is still confusion among investigators, law enforcement leaders, and politicians over how nearly 400 law enforcement officers could have performed so poorly. People have blamed cowardice or poor leadership or a lack of sufficient training for why police waited more than an hour to breach the classroom and subdue an amateur 18-year-old adversary.

But in their own words, during and after their botched response, the officers

pointed to another reason: They were unwilling to confront the rifle on the other side of the door.

A Texas Tribune investigation, based on police body cameras, emergency communications, and interviews with investigators that have not been made public, found officers had concluded that immediately confronting the gunman would be too dangerous. Even though some officers were armed with the same rifle, they opted to wait for the arrival of a Border Patrol SWAT team, with more protective body armor, stronger shields, and more tactical training — even though the unit was based more than 60 miles away.

“You knew that it was definitely an AR,” Uvalde Police Department Sgt. Donald Page said in an interview with investigators after the school shooting. “There was no way of going in. … We had no choice but to wait and try to get something that had better coverage where we could actually stand up to him.”

Uvalde Police Department Detective Louis Landry, in a separate investigative interview, said his team was not “equipped to make entry into that room without several casualties. … Once we found out it was a rifle he was using, it was a different gameplan we would have had to come up with. It wasn’t just going in guns blazing, the Old West style, and take him out.”

Uvalde school district Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who was fired in August after state officials cast him as the incident commander and blamed him for the delay in confronting the gunman, told investigators the day after the shooting that he chose to focus on evacuating the school over breaching the classroom because of the type of firearm the gunman used.

“We’re gonna get scrutinized [for] why we didn’t go in there,” Arredondo said. “I know the firepower he had, based on what shells I saw, the holes in the wall in the room next to his. … The preservation of life, everything around [the gunman], was a priority.”

None of the officers quoted in this story agreed to be interviewed by the Tribune.

That hesitation to confront the gun allowed the gunman to terrorize students and teachers in two classrooms for more than an hour without interference from police. It delayed medical care for more than two dozen gunshot victims, including three who were still alive when the Border Patrol team finally ended the shooting but who later died.

Mass shooting protocols adopted by law enforcement nationwide call on officers to stop the attacker as soon as possible, but police in other mass shootings — including at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida — also hesitated to confront gunmen armed with AR-15-style rifles.

Even if the law enforcement response had been flawless and police had immediately stopped the gunman, the death toll in Uvalde still would have been significant. Investigators concluded most victims were killed in the minutes before police arrived, but in the aftermath of the shooting, there has been little grappling with the role the gun played. Texas Republicans, who control every lever of state government, have talked about school safety, mental health, and police training — but not gun control.

A comprehensive and scathing report of law enforcement’s response to the shooting, released by a Texas House investigative committee chaired by Republican Rep. Dustin Burrows in July, made no mention of the comments by law enforcement officers in interviews that illustrated trepidation about the AR-15.

Other lawmakers have taken the position that the kind of weapon used in the attack made no difference.

“This man had enough time to do it with his hands or a baseball bat,” said Sen. Bob Hall (R-Edgewood) in a hearing a month after the shooting, “and so it’s not the gun. It’s the person.”

Republican state and legislative leaders, who are in the midst of the first legislative session since the shooting, are resisting calls for gun restrictions, like raising the age to purchase semi-automatic rifles like the AR15. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has sug-

gested such a law would be unconstitutional, while House Speaker Dade Phelan said he doubts his chamber would support it.

Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and four Republican members of the Legislature — Burrows, Hall, Phelan, and Rep. Ryan Guillen, chair of the House committee that will hear all gun-related proposals — declined to discuss the findings of this story or did not respond. Two gun advocacy groups, Texas Gun Rights and the Texas State Rifle Association, also did not respond.

Limiting access to these kinds of rifles may not decrease the frequency of mass shootings, which plagued the country before the AR-15 became popular among gun owners. During the decade that the federal assault weapons ban was in place, beginning in 1994, the number of mass shootings was roughly the same as in the decade prior, according to a mass shooting database maintained by Mother Jones. Limiting access also would not address the root causes that motivate mass shooters, merely limit the lethality of the tools at their disposal.

Relatives of Uvalde victims, like Jesse Rizo, whose 9-year-old niece Jackie Cazares was killed in the shooting, say the comments by police who responded in Uvalde are undeniable proof that rifles like the AR-15 should be strictly regulated.

Police “knew the monster behind the door was not the kid. It’s the rifle the kid is holding,” said Rizo, referring to the 18-yearold gunman. “It’s the freaking AR that they’re afraid of. … Their training doesn’t say sit back and wait.”

A Weapon of War

Officers arriving at Robb Elementary on May 24 had similar reactions as they realized that the gunman had an AR-15.

“You know what kind of gun?” state Trooper Richard Bogdanski asked in a conversation captured on his body-camera footage outside of the school.

“AR,” a voice responded. “He has a battle rifle.”

“Does he really?” another asked.

“What’s the safest way to do this?” Bogdanski said. “I’m not trying to get clapped out.”

They had good reason to worry: The AR-15 was designed to efficiently kill humans.

ArmaLite, a small gunmaker in California, designed the AR-15 in the late 1950s as a next-generation military rifle. Compared with the U.S. Army’s infantry rifle at the time, the AR-15 was less heavy, had a shorter barrel, and used lighter ammunition, allowing soldiers to carry more on the battlefield. It also fired a smaller-caliber bullet but compensated for it by increasing the speed at which it is propelled from the barrel.

A declassified 1962 Department of Defense report from the Vietnam War found the AR-15 would be ideal for use by South Vietnamese soldiers, who were smaller in stature and had less training than their American counterparts, for five reasons: its easy maintenance, accuracy, rapid rate of fire, light weight, and “excellent killing or stopping power.”

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A rifle cartridge identical to the ammunition used in the Robb Elementary shooting.

Photo illustration by Evan L’Roy/The Texas Tribune

The “lethality” of the AR-15 and its “reliability record,” the authors said, were “particularly impressive.”

Its bullets could also penetrate the body armor worn by the initial responding officers to Robb Elementary, an added level of danger they were aware of. While most departments, including the city of Uvalde’s, have rifle-rated body armor, it is not typically worn by officers on patrol because of its added weight.

“Had anybody gone through that door, he would have killed whoever it was,” Uvalde Police Department Lt. Javier Martinez told investigators the day after the shooting. You can “only carry so many ballistic vests on you. That .223 [caliber] round would have gone right through you.”

Coronado echoed the concern in his own interviews with investigators about the moment he realized the gunman had a battle rifle. “I knew too it wasn’t a pistol. ... I was like, ‘Shit, it’s a rifle.’ … The way he was shooting, he was probably going to take all of us out.”

The AR-15 is less powerful than many rifles, such as those used to hunt deer or other large game, but it has significantly more power than handguns, firing a bullet that has nearly three times the energy of the larger round common in police pistols.

The AR-15 also causes more damage to the human body. Handgun bullets typi-

cally travel through the body in a straight line, according to a 2016 study published by The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery High-energy bullets become unstable as they decelerate in flesh, twisting and turning as they damage a wider swath of tissue. This creates “not only a permanent cavity the size of the caliber of the bullet but also a … second cavity often many times larger than the bullet itself.”

The defense department report detailed this effect in plainer language, describing the AR-15’s performance in a firefight with Viet Cong at a range of 50 meters: “One man was shot in the head; it looked like it exploded. A second man was hit in the chest; his back was one big hole.”

The defense department placed its first mass order for the rifle in 1963, calling its version the M16, and based each of its ser

vice rifles until 2022 on this design. The only significant difference between the military and civilian versions of the AR-15 is that the military rifle can fire automatically, meaning the user can depress the trigger to shoot multiple rounds. The civilian AR-15 is semi-automatic, requiring a trigger pull for each round.

In the context of mass shootings, it is a distinction without a meaningful difference: Both rates of fire can kill a roomful of people in seconds.

That’s what happened in Uvalde.

In two and a half minutes, before any police officer set foot inside the school, the gunman fired more than 100 rounds at students and teachers from point-blank range. Several victims lost large portions of their heads, as shown in photos taken by investigators. Bullets tore gashes in flesh as long as a foot. They shattered a child’s shin, nearly severed another’s arm at the elbow, ripped open another’s neck, blasted a hole the size of a baseball in another’s hip. Other rounds penetrated the wall of Room 111, passed through the empty Room 110, punctured another wall, and wounded a student and teacher in Room 109 who survived.

When medics finally reached the victims, there was nothing they could do for most, they said in interviews with investigators. Eighteen of the 21 were pronounced dead at the school. Police assigned each a letter of the alphabet and took DNA sam-

USDA CHOICE, BLACK ANGUS BEEF BONE-IN RIB-EYE

Family members of the Robb Elementary shooting victims and their supporters wait to meet with an aide of a state senator to ask the lawmaker to consider supporting gun reform legislation.

Evan L’Roy/The Texas Tribune

Rifle Popularity Surges

Ruben Torres, who saw what the rifle can do in combat while serving as a Marine infantryman in Iraq and Afghanistan, never imagined someone would use it to try and kill his daughter, Khloie, who was wounded by bullet fragments at Robb Elementary.

The Corps spends so much time drilling firearm safety into Marines that Torres can recite the rules from memory. Even now, he has no objection to civilians owning AR15s, but he thinks they should be required to complete training like soldiers because too many who buy one treat it like a toy.

“You get people that never served in the military or law enforcement, and yet they’re

used in any mass shootings until 2007, according to the mass shooting database maintained by Mother Jones, which includes indiscriminate killings of at least three people in public places, excluding crimes that stem from robbery, gang activity, or other conventionally explained motives.

Gunmen used the rifle in 5% of attacks that decade and 27% in the 2010s. 2022 cemented the AR-15 as the weapon of choice for mass shooters. They wielded the rifle in 67% of the 12 massacres that year, including a parade in Illinois where seven were slain and a supermarket shooting in New York that killed 10.

The death toll in Uvalde exceeded them both.

The Gunman’s Purchase Little is known about what motivated the shooter in Uvalde or why he targeted the

The gunman’s AR-15 style rifle lays in a supply closet of Room 111 at Robb Elementary School.

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iel Defense, a gunmaker that has pioneered marketing firearms via social media.

Its sleek Instagram videos often feature young men rapidly firing the company’s rifles, wearing outfits that resemble combat uniforms. Other posts feature members of the U.S. military. A lawsuit filed by Uvalde victims’ families against Daniel Defense alleges the gunmaker’s marketing intentionally targets vulnerable young men driven by military fantasies.

The company rejected these claims and cast the lawsuit as an attempt to bankrupt the gun industry.

“To imply that images portraying the heroic work of our soldiers risking their lives in combat inspires young men back home to shoot children is inexcusable,” then-CEO Marty Daniel said last year.

The case is ongoing.

Federal law requires weapons purchased online to be picked up at a licensed dealer, which also performs a background check. The Uvalde gunman had no criminal history and had never been arrested, ensuring he would pass. He had the Daniel Defense rifle shipped to Oasis Outback, a gun store in town.

The gunman visited the store alone three times between May 17 and May 20. First, he purchased a Smith & Wesson AR-15-style rifle, then returned to buy 375

rounds of ammunition, then came back again to pick up the Daniel Defense rifle. Surveillance footage from the shop shows an employee placing the case on the counter and opening it. The gunman picked up the rifle, peered down the barrel and placed his finger on the trigger — a breach of a cardinal rule of gun safety, to never do so until you are ready to fire.

The gun store’s owner told investigators he was an average customer with no “red

flags,” though patrons told FBI agents he was “very nervous looking” and “appeared odd and looked like one of those school shooters.”

An online order he had placed for 1,740 rifle cartridges arrived at 6:09 p.m. on May 23. In the eight days after he became eligible to purchase firearms, he bought two AR-15style rifles and 2,115 rounds of ammunition.

He had broken no laws. He had aroused no suspicion with authorities. And, like

many mass shooters, he had given no public warning about his plan.

May 24, the day of the Uvalde shooting, was most likely the first time he had ever fired a gun, investigators concluded.

To do so with an AR-15 is simple: Insert a loaded magazine, cock the rifle to force a cartridge into the firing chamber, slide the safety switch off, and pull the trigger. Still, he initially struggled to attach the magazine correctly in the previous days, a relative recalled to investigators, and it kept falling to the floor.

He figured it out by the time he pointed one of the rifles at his grandmother and shot her amid a dispute about his cellphone plan. The bullet tore a gash in the right side of her face — she required a lengthy hospitalization but survived. He took only the Daniel Defense rifle to the school, leaving the Smith & Wesson at his grandmother’s truck that he had stolen, driven three blocks, and crashed on the west edge of the elementary campus.

When Other Officers Hesitated

The 77-minute delay in breaching the fourth-grade classroom was an “abject failure” that set the law enforcement profession back a decade, the Texas state police director said in June. Police had failed to follow protocol developed after the 1999 Columbine school shooting that states the first priority is to confront shooters and stop the killing. Yet even beyond Uvalde, the performance

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Jesse Rizo, the uncle of Robb Elementary victim Jackie Cazares, 9, said that the police “knew the monster behind the door was not the kid. It’s the rifle the kid is holding.”

Evan L’Roy/The Texas Tribune

of police against active shooters with AR15-style rifles — which were rarely used in mass shootings when the standards were developed — is inconsistent.

When a gunman began firing an AR-15style rifle in 2016 at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, an officer providing security waited six minutes for backup before pursuing the suspect into the club. He later said his handgun was “no match” for the shooter’s rifle.

Two years later, a sheriff’s deputy at Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida did not confront the AR-15-wielding shooter there, either. Investigators said he instead retreated for four and a half minutes, during which the gunman shot 10 students and teachers, six fatally.

In some instances, police have confronted the rifle without hesitation. Officers killed a gunman who had fatally shot seven people in a 2019 shooting spree in Midland and Odessa. During the 2021 supermarket shooting in Boulder, Colorado, one of the 10 victims the gunman killed with his AR-15 was one of the first responding officers.

The extreme stress the body experiences in a gunfight slows critical thinking and motor skills, said Massad Ayoob, a police firearms trainer since the 1970s. Officers can overcome this with repeated training that is as realistic as possible, he said. Without it, they are more likely to freeze or retreat.

“Have you ever been in a firefight? Have you ever been in a situation where you were about to die?” said Kevin Lawrence, a law enforcement officer for 40 years and the executive director of the Texas Municipal Police Association. “None of us knows how we’re going to react to that circumstance until we’re in it.”

Improved training that reinforces the expectation that police immediately confront active shooters would improve the likelihood that they do so, said Jimmy Perdue, president of the Texas Police Chiefs Association, but because they attack at random locations and times, he said it is unrealistic to expect that all 800,000 law enforcement officers in the United States would be prepared. That rifles like the AR-15 are especially lethal, he acknowledged, adds an additional mental obstacle for officers.

“All we can do is play the averages … and hope that the training will take place and they’ll be able to understand the gravity of the situation and respond accordingly,” Perdue said, “but there is no guarantee that the one officer that happens to be on duty when this next shooting occurs is going to respond correctly.”

In many cases, whether officers follow active-shooter training is irrelevant. Most mass shootings end in less than five minutes, research from the FBI concluded, often before officers arrive.

This was the case in Newtown, Connecticut, where a gunman killed 26 people at an elementary school in 2012, and in Aurora, Colorado, where another killed 12 people at a movie theater the same year. Both used AR-15-style rifles.

Resistance to Gun Control

Texas has a long, proud, and increasingly less-regulated history of gun ownership. It is rooted in a belief in personal responsibility, that average citizens can sensibly own guns to protect themselves and their families and intervene to stop armed criminals in the absence of police.

“Ultimately, as we all know, what stops armed bad guys is armed good guys,” said U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz at the National Rifle Association convention in Houston three days after the Uvalde shooting.

He cited two examples: the Border Patrol team that finally breached the classroom at Robb Elementary and the firearms instructor who shot the gunman who in 2017 attacked a church in Sutherland Springs with an AR-15-style rifle. Both actions potentially saved lives, but they failed to prevent the murders of 47 people.

This year, a group of Uvalde families has been regularly visiting the Capitol to push for stricter gun laws, including to raise the age someone can legally purchase AR15-style rifles to 21.

The mass shootings since 2016 in Dallas, Sutherland Springs, Santa Fe, El Paso and Midland-Odessa — all but one committed with a semi-automatic rifle — did not persuade the Legislature to restrict access to guns. Instead, lawmakers relaxed regulations, including allowing the open carry of handguns without a license or training, and Democrats who have proposed a number of new restrictions this session admit that their bills face nearly insurmountable odds.

The AR-15s carried by state troopers at the Capitol give Sandra Torres flashbacks. Her daughter, 10-year-old Eliahna, a promising softball player, died at Robb Elementary. Sandra never got to tell her she had made the all-star team. Mack Segovia, Eliahna’s stepfather, didn’t grow up around guns, but he’s seen enough pictures of 200-pound wild hogs his friends tore up with AR-15s while hunting to understand what the rifle did to his daughter.

The couple has made the six-hour round trip to Austin five times already, squeezing with other families into tiny offices for meetings with lawmakers to ask for what they think are commonsense regulations. Most legislators are cordial, but sometimes the families can tell they are being rebuffed, Torres said. Her partner recalled how the House speaker drove 360 miles from his home in Beaumont to Uvalde to tell families he did not support new gun laws, which struck him as a hell of a long way for a man to travel to say: Sorry, I can’t help you.

The experience is frustrating. Torres and Segovia said they did not have a strong opinion about guns until their daughter was taken from them by a young man who bought one designed for combat, no questions asked. They said they feel compelled, if Eliahna’s death served any purpose, to make it harder for other people to do the same.

“Those were babies,” Segovia said. “I promise you, if it happened to those people in the Senate, or the governor, it would be different.” l

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

ART

Spring Gallery Night

BY JENNIFER BOVEE

Every spring and fall, Fort Worth’s galleries come together to showcase their best new work, and most of it comes from these parts. #locavores

For Saturday’s Spring Gallery Night, one local rising star is Matthew Miller, a.k.a. Sunflowerman. After relocating to Fort Worth from Grand Rapids (via London, Milan, Paris, and New York) about four years ago, the painter/photographer has been brightening Sundance Square.

One of the places downtown where his work hangs is 400H Gallery (400 Houston St, 817-222-1111). For Spring Gallery Night, the Sundance Square space will present An Exhibition of Fashion Art by Sunflowerman along with photos and other pieces from Fashion World, his exhibit in the windows of

the building at 3rd and Commerce streets. The opening reception is 6pm-9pm Sat. And Sundance Square won’t be the only hotspot on Saturday. Below are some other places with brand new art to celebrate Spring Gallery Night and art in general.

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It’s that time of year again to fire up the ridesharing app or bus pass and hop around town checking out some art.

The Ruins of Burg Worth by Fort Worth artist/curator Joshua Goode will be at Fort Works Art for Spring Gallery Night starting Saturday.

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

Artes de la Rosa (1442 N Main St, 817-6248333) is celebrating local Latino/a/x artists across different themes and disciplines. Las Colecciones: The Collections will highlight “the diversity of the Latino/a/x experiences and perspectives in the North Texas region and Mexico.” Galleria de la Rosa is open 11am-4pm Tue-Fri.

Artspace111 (111 Hampton St, 817-6923228) presents Western Modernity, a reflection of Western pop culture through the lens of Ed Blackburn (1940-2022) and Linda Blackburn (1941-2022). This pair advanced the history of contemporary Texas art in Fort Worth and were very important to the North Texas art community. There will be live music and food for purchase all evening. The gallery will be open noon-8pm Sat. Regular hours are 11am-5pm Tue-Fri and 11am2pm Sat.

Fort Works Art (2100 Montgomery St, 817759-9475) is presenting solo exhibitions from two North Texas artists noon-9pm Sat, then 11am-5pm Tue-Sat thru Sat, Apr 9.

The Ruins of Burg Worth by Fort Worth artist/curator Joshua Goode features “faux artifacts and remnants of an ancient past.” This interactive installation will also have performance-art elements.

The other artist, Tejuola offers a major retrospective. Lines of Descent is made from her chosen media, American gourds and African calabashes engraved with narratives of African/African-American experiences. Above all else, Tejuola considers herself a storyteller.

William Campbell Gallery (4935 Byers Av, 817-737-9566) presents an exhibit by Bernd Haussmann. Awe is a collection of oil paintings and works on paper. “The meaning of Awe is open, undefined, a moment,” he says.

Watercolors and photography from Fashion World by Sunflowerman will be showcased at 400H Gallery in Sundance Square as part of Spring Gallery Night starting Saturday.

“It can go in opposite directions, toward ‘awesome’ or ‘awful.’ ” William Campbell will be open noon-9pm Sat for Spring Gallery Night or 10am-5pm Tue-Fri during regular hours.

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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.

Tejuola’s major retrospective, Lines of Descent, will be at Fort Works Art for Spring Gallery Night starting Saturday.

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THIS SATURDAY!

1. Amon Carter Museum of American Art

2. Art Galleries at TCU: Fort Worth Contemporary Arts

3. Art Galleries at TCU: Moudy Gallery

4. Art on the Boulevard

5. Artes de la Rosa

6. Arts Fort Worth

7. Artspace111

8. Atrium Gallery at HSC 9. Bee Street Gallery 10. Fort Works Art 11. Gallery 440

12. Gallery at UTA University of Texas at Arlington

13. Kimbell Art Museum

14. McAnthony’s Multicultural Studio and Gallery

15. Rebecca Low Sculpture Gallery, Inc.

16. Sid Richardson Museum

17. SiNaCa Studios

18. TCC Trinity River Campus East Fork Gallery

19. The Upstairs Gallery

20. William Campbell Gallery (Byers Ave. location)

21. William Campbell Gallery (Foch St. location)

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free flights while supplies last. The first 100 guests to register will also receive one drink ticket good for beer or wine from Birdie’s. Must be 18 or older to play. Sign me up!

The Vandoliers are on tour, but they’re swinging through for a hometown show at Magnolia Motor Lounge (803 Southwest Blvd, 817-3323344) with The Band Laredo and Mason & The Gin Line. Doors open at 7pm, and the show is at 10pm. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door, plus you can also book a table for four for $160 or six for $240. Don’t miss “your favorite punk band’s favorite country band.” Reserve your spot at OuthouseTickets.com.

Wednesday

When is the last time you took dance lessons? On Wednesday evenings, when there’s not a concert or special event, Billy Bob’s Texas (2520 Rodeo Plz, 817-624-7117) offers free line dance lessons at 7pm. The cover is typically only $3-5 any given night, but on Wednesdays, it’s

ladies’ night with free admission for women. Then on Saturdays, there is a Lunch & Line Dance special at “high noon,” featuring free line dance lessons, and the on-site Honky Tonk Kitchen will knock off 20% from lunch for dancers. Both weekly events are subject to change based on the show calendar. For details, visit BillyBobsTexas.com.

Now that spring break is over, undoubtedly sooner than you wanted, it’s time to think about getting away this summer. Frontier Airlines has just the thing. Visit Birdie’s Social Club (2736 W 6th, 817-888-8914) 4pm-7pm for a chance to play Frontier-themed games and win

The inaugural Lake Granbury Tattoo Expo hosted by Golden Wave and the Ink Masters Tattoo Show is bringing 100 artists to the Lake Granbury Conference Center (621 E Pearl St, 682-936-1200) for a weekend of live tattooing 1pm-11pm Fri, 11am-11pm today, and 11am-9pm Sun. Styles represented include black-and-gray and color realism and traditional tattoos. Tickets are $20 per day or $35 for a three-day pass, purchased at the door only. Those arriving before 5pm Fri will receive a $5 discount on any pass. Each ticket purchase also includes a complimentary raffle ticket for those 18 and older. Every day, two winners will be continued on page 17

Learn to line dance on Wednesdays at Billy Bob’s.

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drawn for one free tattoo each, and over the weekend, a total of $1,200 worth of tattoos will be won.

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Sunday

Saturday and today, enjoy music from 50 artists at the Weatherford Music Festival at Heritage Park (317

Santa Fe Dr, 817-694-7881). Headlining the Main Stage on Saturday are Sunshine Emery at 6:30pm and 180 West at 8pm, then today, it’s Two Far Gone at 5:30pm and Blaze of Glory at 6pm. As for the Acoustic Stage, Saturday headliners are Kaity Roberts & Vince Herdman at 8pm and Medicine Song at 9pm, then today, hear Cooper Holzheuser at 6pm and Randy Hawking & The Two Dollar Tour at 7pm. For the full list of artists, visit WeatherfordMusicFestival.com. There will also be a kids’ zone, food vendors, and tons of shopping to do. General tickets are $10-75 on Eventbrite.com along with VIP two-day passes for $150 that include parking/shuttles, seating, meet-and-greet opportunities, and more, plus access to a hospitality tent with food and drinks provided.

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Monday

Need a laugh? It’s probably been a long Monday, after all, so head to The Mad Hatter (706 Carroll St, 682-703-2148) at 9pm for Stand-Up Comedy Open Mic Mondays hosted by Jordan Mack. There is no cover, and domestics and wells are only $2.

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Tuesday

Tuesdays have been Two Bit Swing Band Nights this month at The Post at River East (2925 Race St, 817-945-8890). Stop by one last time from 8pm to 11pm tonight and enjoy free live Western swing music and $2 Montucky Cold Snacks. All ages are welcome at this all-ages indoor show. Seating is on a firstcome, first-served basis.

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The Vandoliers have been quite busy while on tour. See them at a hometown show Saturday.

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It’s time for the inaugural Lake Granbury Tattoo Expo this Fri-Sun.

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1.) Unless you live in Ohio or North Dakota, there is no longer a local Bennigan’s in your neighborhood. For those of us craving a Monte Cristo — the famous batter-dipped, deep-fried sandwich loaded with ham, turkey, and cheese, coated in powdered sugar, and served with raspberry preserves — there are three great choices in Tarrant County. You can order one on Uber Eats or Door Dash from the new Bennigan’s on the Fly. The ghost kitchen is located at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Grapevine DFW Airport North (2401 Bass Pro Dr, 972-7242600), so you can also pick up to-go orders at the hotel’s food hall, or, as a guest of the hotel, you can order from room service. Then, there’s my favorite option: Just have one at Ol’ South (1509 S University Dr, 817-3360311). Theirs is damn good!

2.) Eddie V’s (3100 W 7th St, 817-336-8000) invites you to experience “romantic and indulgent decadence” as part of its Cocktails with Attitude menu, along with “balanced and spirit-forward fortitude” and “worldly and modern idealism.” For example, in the decadence category, we have the Hope Diamond ($14) made with Grey Goose Vodka, grapefruit liqueur, Butterfly Pea Flower Tea, and a diamond-shaped ice cube. Other hand-shaken cocktails, like the Dapper Martini, spicy margarita, Bulleit Sour, and Cosmopolitan, are $9 during happy hour, a.k.a. Eddie’s Hours (4pm-6:30pm Sun-Thu).

3.) It keeps being chilly outside, so I keep wanting hot coffee! Don’t forget that Hearth Wisdom Store (2899 W Pioneer Pkwy, Arlington, 682-323-5085) samples a different flavor of coffee from the shop’s patron java vendor, Woke Witch Coffee, on Woke

Witch Wednesdays 11am-2pm. While you’re there, ask the ladies about Turkish coffee readings or learn about it at WokeWitchCoffee.com/Blogs.

4.) When I was in high school, our church did a baked potato bar in the fellowship hall before Wednesday night services because that’s church in the south. This is not that. The Loaded Potato Club, with two locations in Arlington (1030 W Arkansas Ln, 817-617-2498, and 22808 N Collins St, 682-323-4027), features deep-fried baked potatoes that are crispy on the outside and soft inside. You can build your own with a variety of proteins, sauces, and add-ons or select featured combinations already on the menu. Prices range from a classic with bacon and cheese for $9.99 to specialty com-

bos for $19.99. Add-ons are available from $1 to $8. The bestseller is the Garlic Butter “Real” Crab & Shrimp with cheddar cheese for $19.99. See for yourself at TheLoadedPotatoClub.com.

5.) Red Goose Saloon (306 Houston St, 817332-4343) hosts the next Cowtown Cabaret, winner of the Weekly’s Best Of 2022 award for burlesque show, at 7pm Sat, Apr 15. Inspired by “Hell’s Half Acre and the debaucherous past of downtown Fort Worth,” The Best Little Saloon Show in Texas is an immersive adult dinner theater show hosted by Delilah DuBois. Tickets start at $20 on Eventbrite.com. Dinner is available but not included in the ticket price.

6.) The inaugural Texas Street Food Festival is coming to Texas Live (1650 East Randol Mill Rd, Arlington, 817-852-6688) 2pm-8pm Fri-Sat, Apr 14-15. Try food from 25 or more food trucks and restaurants, all for $5 or less. Admission tickets start at $7.99 on Eventbrite.com and include access to axe throwing, bull riding, a cheese fry fountain, eating challenges, a kids’ fun zone, food demonstrations, live music, and a vendor market. Plus, your first drink is complimentary.

7.) This year’s An Evening with Planned Parenthood fundraiser will be at Bass Performance Hall (525 Commerce St, 817-2124280) 7:30pm Sat, Apr 15, with keynote speaker journalist Soledad O’Brien. Tickets are $100 at PPGT.org and include hors d’oeuvres, a signature cocktail, and some “mission-focused inspiration.” Sponsorships are also available at a variety of price points, with top sponsors receiving admission to a VIP reception 6pm-7pm. Proceeds benefit the mission of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas. For questions, email Events@PPGT.org or call 214-302-8382.

8.) Sat, Apr 15, is also the day of the 31st Annual New Vintage Wine & Gallery Trail at Peace Plaza at Grapevine Main Station (815 S Main St, GrapevineTexasUSA.com). Start your day at 10:30am at the Blessing of the Vines, a European tradition where a priest blesses this year’s harvest and the new year’s wines are unveiled. Then, spend the afternoon enjoying wine tastings and an art show along Main Street. Tickets are $55 at Tickets.GrapevineTicketLine.com/Events and include a souvenir wine glass, plus three 1-ounce tastings and one food item in each tasting room.

By Jennifer Bovee

The Hope Diamond and other beautiful cocktails are on the Cocktails with Attitude menu at Eddie V’s.

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Sample the varieties of Woke Witch Coffee at Hearth Wisdom on Wednesdays.

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Restaurants and food trucks will bring their A game to the inaugural Texas Street Food Festival in April at Texas Live.

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Italy at First on Seventh

Restaurateur Adam Jones and chef Blaine Staniford bring a (refined) taste of the Old Country to downtown with 61 Osteria.

STORY AND PHOTOS

BY LAURIE JAMES

For Adam Jones (Grace, Little Red Wasp in that order), the significance of the year 1961 forms a little trinity: It’s the year he was born, the year that the building that houses his new restaurant was completed, and also the year that an Italian vintner was moved to challenge the French dominance in the sparkling wine market. Although Guido Berlucchi used French grapes grown in Italy to do it, his gift was Franciacorta, a blend of chardonnay, pinot noir, and pinot blanc grapes that make a perfectly balanced

sparkling brut. Your server will pour you a nice-sized flute of the bubbly at the newest restaurant to hold down the bottom floor at First on Seventh (formerly known as the Bank of America Building) while you peruse 61 Osteria’s menu. Don’t like dry sparkling wine? Not to worry, the drinks menu is 24 pages long –– outpacing the actual food menu by about 21 pages –– with cocktails, a small beer list, and lots of other wine options. Jones and Staniford are known for their wine lists, but the fact that there are 10 different vodkas on the cocktail menu produced a little giggle. How many choices does one really need for a vodka martini?

Fortified by bubbles (my Franciacorta and my dining companion’s Italian soda), we launched into an appetizer of the housemade 61 Mozzarella. There are two distinct preparations of the soft cow’s milk cheese here: a sweet mozzarella dabbed with lemon zest, fennel pollen, and Texas olive oil and a savory burrata with balsamic-like saba and chives. The gooey mozzarella could have benefited from a little more of the flavors. The savory, soft burrata was dreamy, with

a drizzle of the double-press vinegar and a sprinkle of zesty chives. The plate came with grilled local Icon sourdough that was unfortunately more charred than gently warmed. It was a sad use of the goodness of the local artisan bread.

Brunch was a great time to visit because diners have access to both lunch fare and most of the regular menu as well. The semolina Dutch Baby came served in an adorable tiny skillet, and although the lemony sweetness was spot on, the semolina flour rendered the meal more like a dense cake than a fluffy pancake. The consistency is probably authentic, and we’ve just been spoiled by Ol’ South’s softer, squishier version. Texture aside, the slight nutmeg flavor combining with the citrus was delicious, and the potently floral Luxardo cherries and just a dribble of their syrup are the stuff foodie fantasies are made of.

The Pacific swordfish came out medium rare, although I was grateful that the outside wasn’t charred like the bread. If you want yours cooked differently, speak up as this isn’t disclaimed on the menu. The fish

was fine, but the stars of the plate were the gloriously smoky eggplant puree bed and the olive-heavy spicy puttanesca sauce on the side. I prefer a red sauce with less chunks of tomato and more chunks of olives and capers, and this is one of the best versions of the pantry-staple sugo this side of Naples. Ironically, if Chef Staniford would just sell me a plateful of that eggplant and the puttanesca with some lightly grilled Icon bread, I think I’d be in heaven.

A shared side of the Hen of the Wood mushrooms combined with cauliflower was a delight. The frilly, feathery fungi lost none of their charming appearance in the lightly cooked dish. I enjoyed the slightly-softerthan-al dente cauliflower, but the woodsy, earthy mushrooms shone brighter bathed in the plate with a delightfully robust garlic aioli. If you don’t prefer cauliflower, the veg is pretty much buried under the beautiful mushrooms, so you won’t notice.

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during the day, with soaring ceilings and a whole wall of windows. The tan, cream, and green furnishings provide an elegant, peaceful vibe. About a third of the front space is bar area, and there’s more seating on the patio outside, so, similar to the setup at Grace, you’ll be able to enjoy your Franciacorta and mozzarella snacks al fresco at street level if this March weather will go out like a lamb.

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The mozzarella with burrata appetizer was splendid, although the Icon sourdough bread could have used a

time on the grill.

The Dutch Baby was more cakelike courtesy of the semolina flour but was still a treat.

MUSIC

Working the Day Shift

Channeling Zeppelin and ’60s R&B? That’s Dead Vinyl, whose new album drops next Friday.

BY STEVE STEWARD

I don’t mean this in a bad way, but Dead Vinyl’s existing catalog is a time capsule of sorts. Sonically speaking from a pair of EPs 2016’s Dead Vinyl and 2017’s Gold Mine

— you can tell that they put their influences on display as if they were patches on a denim jacket or stickers on a van. This is not to say they don’t have any original ideas, but influences are influences, and Dead Vinyl’s musical DNA has a pretty noticeable phenotype. For over a decade, the five-piece rock band (occasionally a sextet when joined by multi-instrumentalist Nolan Robertson) has been firing off turbocharged, hard-rock riffage inspired by the golden-est gods from across the Album Oriented Rock canon. To me, a lot of Dead Vinyl songs remind me of the first couple of Zeppelin albums, while others (in particular “Ride or Die” off their self-titled EP) seem to weld a Stone Temple Pilots frame onto a chassis based on Too Fast for Love-era Mötley Crüe. Their music is loud and ballsy, and all of that rock ’n’ roll comes packaged in overdriven guitar grime applied in layers of varying thickness. The riffs and the volume are part of what makes them fun, as is the fact that their sound is a Rorschach test of the listener’s favorite classic rock bands.

That Dead Vinyl, at least as far as their recordings are concerned, exists in discernible temporal stasis is also due to the reality of being a band post-2020, a year that saw many bands essentially frozen in time, though for them, it was not for lack of effort. When that year began, Dead Vinyl — crewed by singer Hayden Miller, guitarist Tyler Vela, drummer Parker Anderson, bassist Jordan Tucker, and guitarist Aaron Haskin — were powered by an influx of new songwriting ideas, in particular, how

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to work their love of Motown into a sound that was closer to “Detroit Rock City.” Miller said Dead Vinyl was fired up about new directions prior to the pandemic.

“What happened in 2017, we had this momentum after Gold Mine, and we went right into the studio with this new batch of songs,” he said at a local hangout with Vela. “We had a lot of plans.”

“We were working on these new songs,” Vela said, “and me and [Miller], we thought, ‘You know what? There’s a lot more soul in these.’ They had a lot less guitar leads. We sat down to write actual songs.”

At the time, the band had been listening a lot to rock ’n’ soul act J. Roddy Walston & The Business, as well as pretty much anything James Jamerson ever played on.

Miller said he and his bandmates have always been into ’60s and ’70s R&B, and “we wanted to get that feeling into our own style.”

Unfortunately, the lockdown arrested the band’s trajectory, cutting their first West Coast tour short and sending them home, but before they departed for their shows in California, they had been hard at work recording new material, recording six songs by the early part of 2019 with Taylor Tatsch (Maren Morris, Cut Throat Finches, Shadows of Jets) at his Audiostyles studio near Austin. On Friday, March 31, Dead Vinyl will release them as the EP Day Shift, celebrating the drop with a show that night at Lola’s. I asked Miller and Vela what stopped them from releasing the material in 2019.

“We wanted to do a full album,” Vela said. “We had this first batch, thought about doing an EP, and then got the idea of doing a full-length, 12 tracks or so, and put it out on vinyl, too.”

But before they started on the second half of the nascent album’s songs, they hit the road.

“It was going well,” Vela said. “Two runs to Colorado, one to the Midwest, then that one to the West Coast …”

“Which was ill-fated,” Miller added.

As well as Dead Vinyl’s larger, full-time rock band ambitions, the pandemic put their stylistic shift on pause until summer 2022, when they were able to begin work on

the second batch of songs with engineer Joel Raif at Niles City Sound (Leon Bridges). They have since revived their full-album aspirations.

Day Shift, Vela said, is “going to be the first EP, and then we have the new stuff we’ve recorded at Niles City Sound with [Raif], which will be the next EP, and both EPs will go on a vinyl record later.”

Dead Vinyl has released four of these songs as singles already, but Vela cited the two unreleased ones as indications of where the band’s sonic evolution is heading. “ ‘Tracks on Fire’ is just fun rock ’n’ roll. Nolan Robertson helped us with the arrangements, and it’s really Big Star-sounding. The other one is a soul song called ‘Following You.’ It has a three-part horn arranged and directed by Preston Lewis [the Chris Watson Band] and his crew of horn players. And there’s no guitar solo. It was one of those songs where I was like, I don’t want this to sound like [Dead Vinyl]. I play a lot of R&B [at home], but I didn’t so much with Dead Vinyl at the time we were working on these songs, and so I was like, I’ll squeeze this [R&B chord] progression in, and we jammed on it, and it ended up being a really solid soul song.”

So, with their upcoming releases, the band is un-sticking itself from where it was in March 2020, but since the songs on Day Shift are four years in the rearview already, Vela and Miller are already looking ahead while reflecting on where their band is now.

“What’s funny, these songs are pretty old,” Vela said. “Sometimes I forget about them a little, and I’ve changed as a guitar player since then. I play a lot more bass, and piano is my main [songwriting] instrument now. That’s changed my guitar playing completely. I don’t sound like I do on [Day Shift], and Miller’s been doing his own thing, and he has a new songwriting style. … I guess on Gold Mine, we thought we had to flex a lot, do a lot of vamping, and I was like, ‘Man, I’m tired of that.’ ”

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With Wrongdoer, folk singer-songwriter Jake Paleschic puts his past behind him.

BY JUAN R. GOVEA

To Jake Paleschic, the wait was worth it.

Coming out Friday, the folk singer-songwriter’s new album has been “ finished for about three years, sitting in the tube,” he said, “with the recording production that started five years ago with a song that was written 10 years ago. I think we had our first show with the band about five or six years ago playing this material.”

The record he’s talking about is Wrongdoer. Recorded at Niles City Sound (Leon Bridges, White Denim, Nicole Atkins) on the South Side and released on the studio’s

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new label, Niles City Records, the eighttrack long-player features catchy hooks and fuzzy stoner jams melded with soulful Americana which Paleschic said would be good for road trips or campfires. The video for the track “Some Days” just came out on his YouTube channel.

“Some of the wait was trying to find a good home for the album instead of self-releasing,” he said, “then the pandemic hit, and I took a break from performing live. Now, Niles City Records has launched and placed [Wrongdoer] as the second album on their roster. I’m glad I took the time for development personally as a writer and performer.”

Paleschic said he’s excited, and since most of the material is personal, it’s timeless. “It’s been really cool to kind of get a fresh perspective on it and realize that even if I’ve heard this for years now … it’s a lot of people’s first time to hear any of it, so I’m able to enjoy it like it’s new right now, which is kind of nice.”

Paleschic has been writing and playing since he was 15 all across North Texas. His first album, Again, at Last, was released eight years ago, and his self-titled follow-up came out in 2015. Now 32, he doesn’t plan on touring to promote the album. Instead, he’d rather play one-offs to generate the money to record more music to fund a bigger tour hopefully later.

“It can be hard to release a record and sell your hard work and being able to pay

PR and things like merch you can sell,” he said.

Wrongdoer was mastered by Jordan Richardson (Son of Stan, Ben Harper, Quaker City Night Hawks) and produced and engineered (and drummed on partially) by Josh Block of Leon Bridges fame.

“The way that I make music and the way that I want to make music is making songs and albums that people feel enriched

by and feel good to listen to,” Paleschic said. “I may not be a party band, but hopefully it’s adding something of value into people’s lives.”

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Paleschic: “Hopefully, it’s adding something of value into people’s lives.”

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Texas Commission on environmenTal QualiTy

Consolidated Notice of Receipt of Application and Intent to Obtain Permit and Notice of Application and Preliminary Decision

Air Quality Standard Permit for Concrete Batch Plants Proposed Registration No. 167388L002

Application. Big Town Concrete LLC, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for an Air Quality Standard Permit, Registration No. 167388L002, which would authorize construction of a temporary concrete batch plant located at 4107 North Beach Street, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas 76137. This application is being processed in an expedited manner, as allowed by the commission’s rules in 30 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 101, Subchapter J. AVISO DE IDIOMA ALTERNATIVO

El aviso de idioma alternativo en espanol está disponible en https://www.tceq.texas.gov/permitting/air/newsourcereview/airpermitspendingpermit-apps. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility's general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to application. http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/hb610/index.

html?lat=32.816388&lng=-97.291944&zoom=13&type=r. The proposed facility will emit the following air contaminants: particulate matter including (but not limited to) aggregate, cement, road dust, and particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less.

This application was submitted to the TCEQ on February 9, 2023. The executive director has completed the administrative and technical reviews of the application and determined that the application meets all of the requirements of a standard permit authorized by 30 TAC § 116.611, which would establish the conditions under which the plant must operate. The executive director has made a preliminary decision to issue the registration because it meets all applicable rules. The application, executive director’s preliminary decision, and standard permit will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and at the Haltom City Public Library, 4809 Haltom Road, Haltom City, Tarrant County, Texas 76117, beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review at the TCEQ Dallas/ Fort Worth Regional Office, 2309 Gravel Dr, Fort Worth, Texas. Visit www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cbp to review the standard permit.

Public Comment/Public Meeting. You may submit public comments or request a public meeting. See Contacts section. The TCEQ will consider all public comments in developing a final decision on the application. The deadline to submit public comments or meeting requests is 30 days after newspaper notice is published. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the TCEQ’s jurisdiction to consider in the permit process.

The purpose of a public meeting is to provide the opportunity to submit comments or ask questions about the application. A public meeting about the application will be held if the executive director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not a contested case hearing. If a public meeting is held, the deadline to submit public comments is extended to the end of the public meeting.

Contested Case Hearing. You may request a contested case hearing. A contested case hearing is a legal proceeding similar to a civil trial in state district court. Unless a written request for a contested case hearing is filed within 30 days from this notice, the executive director may approve the application.

A person who may be affected by emissions of air contaminants from the facility is entitled to request a hearing. To request a hearing, a person must actually reside in a permanent residence within 440 yards of the proposed plant. If requesting a contested case hearing, you must submit the following: (1) your name (or for a group or association, an official representative), mailing address, daytime phone number; (2) applicant’s name and registration number; (3) the statement “[I/we] request a contested case hearing;” (4) a specific description of how you would be adversely affected by the application and air emissions from the facility in a way not common to the general public; (5) the location and distance of your property relative to the facility; (6) a description of how you use the property which may be impacted by the facility; and (7) a list of all disputed issues of fact that you submit during the comment period. If the request is made by a group or association, one or more members who have standing to request a hearing must be identified by name and physical address. The interests which the group or association seeks to protect must be identified. You may submit your proposed adjustments to the application which would satisfy your concerns. See Contacts section.

TCEQ Action. After the deadline for public comments, the executive director will consider the comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material, or significant public comments. The executive director’s decision on the application, and any response to comments, will be mailed to all persons on the mailing list. If no timely contested case hearing requests are received, or if all hearing requests are withdrawn, the executive director may issue final approval of the application. If all timely hearing requests are not withdrawn, the executive director will not issue final approval of the permit and will forward the application and requests to the Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled commission meeting. The Commission may only grant a request for a contested case hearing on issues the requestor submitted in their timely comments that were not subsequently withdrawn. If a hearing is granted, the subject of a hearing will be limited to disputed issues of fact or mixed questions of fact and law relating to relevant and material air quality concerns submitted during the comment period. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the Commission’s jurisdiction to address in this proceeding. Mailing List. You may ask to be placed on a mailing list to receive additional information on this specific application. See Contacts section.

Information Available Online. For details about the status of the application, visit the Commissioners’ Integrated Database (CID) at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cid. Once you have access to the CID using the link, enter the registration number at the top of this notice. Contacts. Public comments and requests must be submitted either electronically at www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/, or in writing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 787113087. Please be aware that any contact information you provide, including your name, phone number, email address and physical address will become part of the agency’s public record. For more information about this application or the permitting process, please call the TCEQ Public Education Program toll free at 1-800-687-4040 or visit their website at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/pep. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040.

Further information may also be obtained from Big Town Concrete LLC, 1425 Greenway Drive Suite 350, Irving, Texas 75038-2553 or by calling Ms. Beatrice Arce, Eikon Consulting Group, Environmental Scientist at (940) 387-0805.

Notice Issuance Date: March 17, 2023

EMPLOYMENT

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Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Doris Faye Henderson issued on March 15, 2023, in cause 2023PR00119-1, in Probate Court Number One of Tarrant County, Texas, to Marla Henderson-Porter. All persons having claims against the estate are required to submit them within the time and manner prescribed by law addressed as follows:

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