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FEATURE The Innocence Project of Texas is helping exonerate the wrongfully convicted one step at a time.

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METROPOLIS Despite its nonprofit status, Mercy Culture Church has politicized the pulpit to great, troubling effect.

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Expanding Territory Mercy Culture Church seeks to take over Fort Worth, even as Americans grow queerer and less religious by the day.

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“We declare that Fort Worth is yours, Jesus,” Mercy Culture Church recently posted. “We declare your justice and righteousness resound in every part of our city. We declare no other spirit but the holy spirit is seated on the throne of Fort Worth.”

Mercy Culture is the newest edition to the Gateway Church Network, the massive North Texas-based evangelical movement led by Robert Morris, a former advisor to disgraced, twice-impeached former

Southlake Hilariously Named Nation’s Most CityLike Suburb

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Or maybe not so hilariously. It all depends on how you define the concept of “city.”

According to STORAGECafé, the nationwide self-storage search website that conducted the research, a city means: the housing affordability index, median household income, crime rate, public schools ranking, and number of restaurants and shopping “avenues.”

Fine. And considering these criteria, STORAGECafé says Southlake scored the highest of 1,000 sampled suburbs. The number one reason our fancy neighbor to the northeast came out on top is moolah. Southlake is “one of the most prosperous suburban com-

METROPOLIS president Donald Trump. Gateway boasts nine campuses throughout the country and tens of thousands of worshipers every week, but six of its largest churches are in North Texas.

Apparently, Landon Schott, Mercy Culture’s “spiritual father,” according to social media posts by Schott and his worship leaders, has the power to declare which spirits sit on certain cities.

A former Mercy member, Iris, who asked that we conceal her last name for her safety, said she isn’t surprised by Schott’s words and actions and those of Mercy Culture leadership. Along with allegedly controlling the behavior of staffers, the church openly endorses Republican candidates despite federal laws that prohibit tax-exempt churches like Mercy/Gateway from engaging in political actions that go beyond addressing general social issues.

Mercy Culture also remains the loudest local voice of bigotry against noncisgender and queer folks who are regularly targeted by religious institutions that maintain that some forms of love are OK while others are not (“Unholy Ground,” Mar. 9). Schott’s Instagram stories are a trove of hateful messages that call on his

followers to boycott same-sex weddings and denounce nonbinary gender pronouns.

Sheriff Bill Waybourn, county judge candidate Tim O’Hare, and Tarrant County district attorney candidate Matt Krause — all Republicans — enjoy staunch public support from Mercy Culture leadership.

To understand Mercy Culture, Iris said, you have to understand the church system that created it.

Gateway and Mercy Culture are part of a growing trend within evangelical circles, she continued. These so-called charismatic churches emphasize the gifting of supernatural powers from the holy spirit, Iris said, referring to supposed insights solely given to the faithful by their god.

When Iris moved to North Texas in 2014, she saw attending church as an easy way to make friends.

“I’m bad at making friends,” she said.

“I started going to Gateway after moving here. They are a big deal in charismatic Christian circles. I got into their music program.”

Gateway Church staff began grooming Iris through what’s called platform coaching. Any volunteer or staff member

munities in the country, with households earning about $240,200/year.”

Other explanations for Southlake’s top billing include “excellent schooling” (haha!), “low population density,” many local opportunities for jobs, twice as many retail stores per 1,000 locals as in the average suburb, 3.8 restaurants for every 1,000 residents, and “ample opportunity for outdoor entertainment.”

Having lived in some cities in my time, including in perhaps the citiest city in the history of mankind, New York, I’m thinking STORAGECafé is more interested in marketing than reality. I know. It strains belief that an American company would sideways argue for its own existence via “data.”

You have to realize. We will take any opportunity that comes our way to poke at Southlake. And here we are.

A city to me is a lot more than what STORAGECafé’s marketeers may think it is. Where are you going to see a rock show in Southlake? Where can

you see — and buy — locally made art in Southlake? Where can you travel easily on foot or by public transportation in Southlake? And I’m not talking about cruising from the fro-yo spot to Old Navy then the movie theater. That doesn’t count as a change in scenery.

And where can you play a pickup game of hoops with people who aren’t fortysomething dentists or go skateboarding in Southlake? Where can you take in a professional play or musical in Southlake? Where can you knock back a pint or three for less than it takes to buy a gently used liver on the black market in Southlake? And, lastly, has STORAGECafé ever seen a real city?

A real city is made up of adventurous or historic but always original architecture, not inoffensive, unoriginal cookie-cutter bullshit like in Southlake.

Says STORAGECafé, “Living [in Southlake] means you get plenty of space, safe streets, and good schools, plus an excellent mix of lifestyle-oriented amenities.”

was held to a higher standard because they were considered to be on the church’s platform, she said.

“These churches expect you to adhere to a certain standard,” she said. “That’s how they weed out the gays. If you want to volunteer at children’s ministry or elsewhere, you have to take a membership class and sign a waiver that you uphold a Biblical life.”

Iris said female church members were expected to abstain from premarital sex, drinking alcohol in public, and wearing revealing clothing. The rules were much more rigid for women than men, she said.

She left Gateway after the church hosted Trump in 2020 during his visit to Dallas.

“When Trump came to the Dallas Gateway campus, I thought, ‘Are you kidding,’ ” Iris recalled.

The meeting, which was held during the height of protests that followed George Floyd’s murder, devolved into a platform for Trump to voice support for law enforcement and to delegitimize the Black Lives Matter movement. Iris saw the choice of location as an acknowledgment that Gateway Church had endorsed a white supremacist. continued on page 5

Does that sound like a city to you?

In the cities where I lived and grew up, you had whatever the opposite of “plenty of space” is, the safety of the streets was up to you and your weaponry, and the schools were more like jails. Indeed, I know the website is working off the concept of the ideal city. I just think a little reality would have made for a much more interesting report.

The one thing I do like about STORAGECafé’s data is that while ruby-red Southlake may be the most citylike suburb in the country, most of the rest of the Top 20 are near blue metropolitan regions, because of course they are. — Anthony Mariani This column reflects the opinions of the editorial board and not the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly.com. Submissions will be edited for factuality and clarity.

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around 80 million young people (ages 1 to 19), that makes for an exceedingly small percentage.

Iris said Mercy Culture’s focus on human trafficking should turn toward victims within evangelical church congregations. Sexual assault and harassment tend to occur in places where the offender knows the victim and where there is a power structure that makes assaults easier to hide, Iris said. According to The New York Times, nearly 400 Southern Baptist leaders have pleaded guilty or have been convicted of sex crimes since 1998.

The feedback Iris hears from several friends who left Gateway for Mercy is that Schott is allegedly mean-spirited and thinskinned. He allegedly calls out congregation members who do not enthusiastically clap and hoot during his sermons, Iris said. Her experience at Gateway Church and the emergence of Mercy Culture have turned her off from organized religion for the time being.

Schott and his supporters truly believe they will take over Fort Worth and control the city’s elected officials and broader culture, Iris continued. That worldview leaves no room for non-Christians who do not conform to Schott’s warped perspective.

“My friends and I have discussed what makes the current form of Christianity so toxic,” Iris said at the end of our chat.

“The whole push for evangelicalism didn’t start until the 1980s. The church leadership has been Gen X and older. They were not born into it. These older Millennials and Gen Z — people like me — were born into it. This is all we know.” l

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In 2020, the Washington Post said that Trump’s rise to power can largely be attributed to support from charismatic church leaders who saw the credibly accused rapist as a prophesied leader who will curtail LGBTQ+ and women’s rights while restoring the United States to what evangelicals perceive to be its Christian founding, even as many of the founding fathers were nonreligious Deists who were adamant about keeping the church out of government business.

The Post wrote, “Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White and many more lesserknown but influential religious leaders prophesied that Trump would win the 2020 election and helped organize nationwide prayer rallies in the days before the Jan. 6 insurrection, speaking of an imminent ‘heavenly strike’ and ‘a Christian populist uprising,’ leading many who stormed the Capitol to believe they were taking back the country for God.” Evangelical churches continue to see growth in membership even as mainstream church attendance continues to decline. Based on data by the Pew Research Center, self-identified Christians made up 63% of the U.S. population in 2021, down from 75% a decade ago. The very group that Schott regularly singles out for living “sinful” lives, LGBTQ+ folks, is growing as a proportion of this country’s population. Around 20% of Gen Z — older teens and younger twentysomethings — identify as LGBTQ+, according to a recent Gallup poll.

Mercy Culture’s most recent project, The Justice Reform, is a residence that will house “up to 100 girls for long-term restoration — one to three years — depending on their need for physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing,” according to the project’s website.

The venture’s Instagram page states that there are 29.1 million victims of human trafficking every year in the United States, meaning that, according to Mercy Culture, roughly one in 10 Americans is kidnapped and forced to perform sex acts at any given time. Department of Justice figures put that number at around 200,000.

Child sex trafficking is a central focus of many charismatic churches, and many of the misconceptions about the extent of the problem have been spread by QAnon conspiracy theories that seek to tie the sexual mistreatment of youths to Democrats and the Deep State, whatever that could be.

Child abductions by strangers grab headlines, but those criminal acts are exceedingly low. FBI figures put the number of under-21 kidnappings by strangers at around 300 per year. In a country that has

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for dealing with a wrongful conviction.

Other than the very general right of habeas corpus, there is nothing specifically in the Constitution that says someone who has been wrongfully convicted has a right to be exonerated. The Supreme Court has had many opportunities to say that it is a violation of due process for an innocent person to be convicted, incarcerated, and even executed, but they are yet to recognize that as a due process violation.

Texas does recognize that actual innocence is a cognizable claim for relief in the Texas courts. We hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will catch up on the national and federal levels.

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he legal hurdles are staggering.

Even with new DNA results or other forms of compelling, exonerating evidence, Texas’ wrongfully convicted are at the mercy of district attorney offices and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals when filing claims of actual innocence. Denials are common, and only a handful of prisoners are exonerated each year in the Lone Star State.

Since 2006, the Innocence Project of Texas (IPTX) has worked to exonerate or free 25 innocent people who collectively served 341 years behind bars. IPTX executive director Mike Ware said his team sifts through around a thousand credible letters every year from incarcerated Texans seeking to overturn their convictions, either because they were wrongfully identified as the suspect or no crime occurred. An arson conviction for a fire not started by any person is a common example of a situation that results in bogus criminal charges.

The National Registry of Exonerations, which is considered the most accurate depository of such information, reports 3,035 exonerations since 1989. With 400 cases since 1989, Texas leads the nation in wrongful conviction exonerations.

Reporting by the Washington Post found that 54% of defendants were the victims of misconduct, either by police or prosecutors.

Last May, IPTX reversed the conviction of Lydell Grant, a Black man convicted of murdering a 28-yearold man in Houston in 2010. The day after the crime, a witness saw Grant and thought he resembled the knife-wielding murderer. The witness turned Grant’s vehicle information over to police, who subsequently arrested Grant. He was given a life sentence for first-degree murder in 2012 following a case that largely relied on shaky eyewitness testimony.

In 2015, Grant filed a motion seeking DNA testing of the evidence, and, three years later, IPTX took up the case. DNA

Has the general public become more sympathetic to the plight of innocent prisoners?

Shaky eyewitness testimony led to the wrongful conviction of Lydell Grant in 2012.

testing found that Grant’s DNA was not present in DNA found at the crime scene.

The new findings allowed Grant to be released on bond in late 2019. Soon after, police interrogated a man who confessed to committing the 2010 murder.

IPTX’s most recent effort to exonerate a wrongfully convicted Texan is being fought in Fort Worth. In December, a Tarrant County judge released Willie Thomas on bond — 10 years after he was sentenced to life in prison for murder.

Thomas was falsely accused of murdering a local club owner in 2009, and IPTX’s investigation had found that Thomas’ DNA was not present on the murder weapon. Thomas’ trial partly relied on plea-bargain testimony from two men involved in the robbery. Though released, Thomas has not been exonerated, and his best hope for freedom will likely be a retrial that takes the new evidence into account.

Ware said that, for every person who is released or exonerated, there are easily

10 incarcerated people equally deserving of having their convictions overturned.

The long-time criminal defense attorney founded Texas’ first conviction integrity unit when he served as the Special Fields Bureau Chief for the Dallas County District Attorney’s office between 2007 and 2011.

I recently sat down with Ware at IPTX’s central office in downtown Fort Worth to discuss the work his nonprofit does and his views on Texas’ criminal justice system.

Is the process of overturning convictions difficult by design?

The system was supposed to prevent wrongful convictions in the first place, but it hasn’t always worked out that way.

There is not much in our history and tradition on what the process should be

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In a state obsessed with incarceration, a Fort Worth-based nonprofit works to overturn wrongful convictions.

Staffers at IPTX’s Fort Worth office field more than a thousand requests for help each year.

I think so. There has also been a backlash.

There is an element of judges and DAs that lash out and push back on what they perceive as bleeding heart liberals telling them what to do. That’s not how we see ourselves. We see ourselves as pursuers of justice. Our efforts often find the true perpetrator. Through DNA and our investigation, we found the actual murderer in the Lydell Grant case, who confessed and is now under indictment largely because of our efforts. That’s good, and part of our work that judges and prosecutors do not normally associate with our organization. Those truly concerned with public safety will support what we do rather than attempt to undermine and discredit it.

What are the top reasons people are wrongfully convicted?

I think the reasons are common throughout the country. You can make that question as simple or complicated as you want.

Poverty, racism, inequity are certainly the reasons. Another is that we convict so many people. That’s our solution to everything — criminalize it and convict them. If you convict a large number of people, a proportionally large number of them are going to be innocent.

A reason most people will point to because it’s easy to wrap your mind around is mistaken eyewitness identification, and there is some truth to that. Many wrongful convictions involved an eyewitness who inaccurately pointed to a defense table and said, ‘That’s the person who did it.’ That’s very unreliable testimony, but it is very convincing testimony to a jury. A major cause of inaccurate eyewitness testimony, aside from the infirmities of human perception and memory, is the fact that it’s continued on page 7

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run at the county level. That way they are not beholden to county politics. I think there are excellent attorneys in Tarrant County who take court appointments. I think the whole trope that court-appointed attorneys are bad is just bullshit. I think some of the best attorneys I’ve known were court-appointed, and some of the worst were hired. There are good attorneys and bad attorneys. No matter how much you pay a bad attorney, it’s not going to turn him or her into a good attorney.

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coached. The police and the prosecutors know what they need that person to say to get a conviction, so they tell them what to say, and most witnesses will adhere to what the “authorities” tell them to do, even if they believe it to be wrong.

What role does police and prosecutor misconduct play in wrongful convictions?

What role do jailhouse informants play in false convictions?

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It’s hard to say because, by its very nature, police and prosecutorial misconduct occurs in the dark and is not necessarily well documented when it occurs. There are so many things that are police and prosecutor misconduct but are disguised as something else. Mistaken eyewitness identification is one of those things. These mistakes are usually the result of coaching, the product of the police telling the witness who to pick in a photo spread as opposed to that witness making an honest mistake. It is misconduct with plausible deniability. When it turns out that the wrong person was convicted, the police blame the witness or victim.

Under Supreme Court-sanctioned law, police are allowed to lie, and they will shamelessly lie during interrogations. This can produce false confessions which law

Mike Ware: “The system was supposed to prevent wrongful convictions in the first place, but it hasn’t always worked out that way.”

enforcement will latch onto as legitimate confessions. They will tell them that their wife said they are guilty when she didn’t.

They’ll say, ‘If you will just confess and tell us what happened, we’ll make sure the DA will go easy on you. Otherwise, you will get the death sentence.’ That’s a complete lie, but it doesn’t matter. The jury generally doesn’t care that that’s what precipitated a confession. Once the false confession is out, [defendants] are often coerced into

taking a plea deal in spite of knowing their own innocence. DNA exonerations alone show that false confessions are a common cause of wrongful convictions.

Does Tarrant county need a public defender’s office?

Every public defender’s office that I’ve seen has been good at what they do. I think the best ones are statewide as opposed to being

This phenomenon of ‘jailhouse informants,’ more accurately characterized as ‘misinformants,’ is an institution that has been going on since at least the 1700s. That’s where somebody in the same jail as the defendant says, ‘While the defendant and I were up in the jail, he said he committed the crime.’ The jailhouse informant will often contact the police or the DA’s office and say, ‘Will you drop my case if I help you get this guy.’

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sentence of the misinformant, or they may even dismiss that misinformant’s case outright. They can even pay the misinformant money to come into court to testify. Any idiot can come down from jail and be incentivized to lie, and studies show that juries tend to believe them.

They think it’s valid testimony if the judge allows it, but chances are the conversation never even happened and the testimony proffered by the prosecution and believed by the jury is a total lie. After rigorous and concerted efforts by The Innocence Project of Texas and the Tim Cole Commission, the state legislature has passed laws in 2017 regulating requiring county and district attorney offices to maintain a database of jailhouse informants and allowing attorneys to tell juries about their criminal history.

Are prosecutors incentivized to have a high percentage of convictions?

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That expectation was much more formal when I first started practicing law. I think so much has been made of wrongful convictions and the damage they cause that, although there is certainly pressure and incentive to get convictions, it’s not stated publicly anymore that that’s what is required to advance a prosecutor’s career. Prosecuting cases is a competitive endeavor, and there are winners and losers.

If a prosecutor is perceived as a loser, he or she is not going to go anywhere in that office. The only real quantifier for winners and losers is who wins. With prosecutors, it’s, ‘Did you get a conviction? How harsh of a sentence did you get?’

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Innocent defendants often rely on alibi witness testimony. Is that effective?

If you have been misidentified, most of the time you have an alibi defense. You can’t tell them anything about the crime because you weren’t there and you don’t know anything about it. In Lydell Grant’s case, he wasn’t at the scene when the murder he was convicted of occurred. He was somewhere else and didn’t even know that a murder had taken place. He did not know the victim or the murderer. He put on an alibi witness who was very credible, but the jury ignored it. The prosecutor treats [the alibi witness] like they are a liar. Even the judge often treats them like they are a liar, too, and juries pick up on that. Alibi witnesses are not professional witnesses, whereas cops are trained in how to testify. They are taught how to look like they are telling the truth even when they

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Willie Thomas’ case is far from resolved, but he is free on bond.

are lying. If someone is an alibi witness when their friend or family member is on trial, they tend to act very nervous in front of a jury. They are amateurs unfamiliar with the judicial process, and prosecutors often exploit this to their advantage.

How does the allocation of resources between prosecutors and attorneys affect criminal cases?

Resources are heavily weighted in favor of prosecutors. They have all of the institutions in their favor. An assistant DA has basically in-house cops who are part of the DA’s office. They can have people arrested, searched, and interrogated. They have entire investigative agencies like local police working with them. They have unlimited access to government-funded forensic labs. On the other hand, if I want something investigated, I can’t call up any police department or agency of any kind and say, ‘Can you arrest this guy and bring him to me?’ I can’t call up the Fort Worth Police Department forensic lab and tell them what tests to run or instruct them on what I need from them.

Why are ethnic minorities more likely to be convicted?

It’s not just limited to minority populations, although they do suffer the overwhelming brunt of this. Any marginalized citizen can be easily targeted by the criminal justice system. For one, there is pressure on police to make arrests. They are rewarded in their evaluations for the number of arrests they make. Prosecutors are, if not directly, indirectly rewarded for their convictions.

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Do DAs take adequate steps to review cases?

Every office is different. Some are shameful, and I could name several, but some are also very good. It just depends on the elected leadership and culture of a particular DA’s office.

Is it a conflict to expect DAs to overturn their own convictions?

It shouldn’t be, but, as a personal matter, it is. They have often mouthed off so much about a conviction and raked in so much political capital from it before it turns out that they were dead wrong and sent an innocent person to prison while the real perpetrator got off scot-free, but whatever face they may want to save, a prosecutor’s job description can be reduced to ‘seeking justice,’ so the conflict is far greater in not overturning their own wrongful convictions. I can tell you that as we speak, a committee of the Texas State Bar is considering amending the State Bar ethical rules to require prosecutors who discover a wrongful conviction to take some modicum of action to correct it. The Texas District and County Attorneys Association is vocally opposing the proposed reforms.

What motivates you to continue doing this work?

The successes. It’s not like we have one every day, but when we do have one, it is wonderful for everybody. That keeps me going. When exonerated prisoners are released, so many of them are overwhelmed and mostly in a good way. Fortunately, Mr. Thomas has a strong family. Some people are released, and they don’t have that kind of support. There’s always an aspect of them wanting to enjoy some simple pleasure, like eating a steak or hamburger

New proposals currently before the State Bar of Texas’ Committee on Disciplinary Rules and Referenda, the nine-member panel that proposes disciplinary rules for attorneys, if adopted, would compel prosecutors to disclose evidence that proves a person was wrongfully convicted.

The amendment to the Special Responsibilities of a Prosecutor of the state bar association would require prosecutors to forward evidence of a wrongful conviction to an appropriate county and the defendant. The new rule would compel prosecutors to take reasonable steps to investigate the wrongful conviction.

Ware recently wrote an op-ed for the Houston Chronicle that listed the reasons why he supported the measures.

“Mistakes in the criminal justice system happen,” he writes. “Advances in the science of forensic DNA testing alone have proven that these mistakes have imprisoned thousands of innocent people.

Since 1989, 2,933 innocent people have been exonerated. Prosecutors should be part of the solution. Instead, they are effectively denying the existence of an undeniable problem. Prosecutors are by far the most powerful officials in the American criminal justice system. Prosecutors have at their disposal entire investigative agencies with the power to search and arrest. They have absolute discretion on whether to charge a citizen with a criminal offense, who to charge, and what level of offense to charge.

Their charging power, combined with their plea-bargaining power, often predetermines the outcome of criminal cases. This broad discretion in their everyday decisions has profound effects on the lives of the literally hundreds of thousands of people who, sometimes through no fault of their own, become involved with the criminal justice system.”

The guidelines, Ware told me, have been model rules at the American Bar Association since 2012.

“When I started the first-ever conviction integrity unit in Texas, we were following those rules,” he said. “We exonerated 25 men in the four years I was there. They were not the rules we were required to follow, but it fell under the umbrella of seeking justice. I think we would see more [wrongful convictions overturned] if these rules were made part of the rules for prosecutors.” l

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If someone is going to arrest that person, they’d better be damn sure that they are guilty. On the other hand, there are usually no ramifications for targeting minorities or the otherwise marginalized. When they lack the resources to fight the full force of law enforcement throughout the grueling judicial process, they are often intimidated into taking deals even if they are innocent.

or learning how to use a cell phone. What really stands out in my experience has been noticing their serene appreciation of the freedom most of us take for granted.

It’s profound in its simplicity, yet it is overarchingly important.

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are made.” Showtime is 10:30am. This screening — and all of them — are free to attend, but registration is recommended at ThinLine.us.

Thu-Sun at various times thru Sun, Apr 10, the curtain will go up on Witch, Thursday a play by Jen Silverman, at Stage West (821 W Vickery Blvd, 817-7849378): “Mischief lurks in the sleepy village of Edmonton as a slick young devil arrives in search of a few fresh souls. As the townsfolk reveal their deepest secrets and desires, bargains are struck, tables are turned, and an outcast woman living at the edge of the village proves to be much more than she seems.” Tickets are $40 at StageWest.org.

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Magnolia at the Modern — an ongoing series featuring critically acclaimed films Friday in the auditorium of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St, 817-738-9215) — is screening Compartment No. 6 this weekend: “A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the Arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger-than-life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.” The movie is 108 minutes long and is in Russian with English subtitles. Showtimes are 4pm, 6pm, and 8pm today; 5pm Sat; and noon, 2pm, and 4pm Sun. Tickets are $10. Sunday noon tickets are always half price.

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As part of the free Thin Line Festival Wed-Sun featuring 50-plus movies Saturday and 50-plus bands, Movie Tavern Denton (916 W University Dr, 940483-1483) is screening a documentary about a local animal celebrity. Honk is the story of a domestic goose abandoned in a Dallas park during the pandemic and his rescuer Cheryl: “Dumped and alone at a city park, Honk spends his days dodging cars, begging for food, and looking for friends. When Cheryl and Honk’s paths cross unexpectedly, what follows is a story in which fairy tales

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Bug out in a big way 8am6pm Mon-Sun thru Sun, Apr 10, at David Rogers’ Monday Big Bugs sculpture exhibit at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (3220 Botanic Garden Blvd, 817-463-4160). The oversized pieces are made from forest materials such as dry branches, freshly cut saplings, and whole trees. Viewings of Big Bugs are complimentary with your $6-12 garden admission ticket at FWBG.org.

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In honor of Women’s History Month, Artes de la Rosa Cultural Center for Tuesday the Arts at Rose Marine Theater (1440 N Main St, 817-624-8333) presents Mujeres on the Move, a group exhibition featuring the works of Latina artists from North Texas. Featured artists include Sheryl Anaya, Sarah Ayala, Brenda Ciardiello, Michelle Cortez Gonzales, Faz, Karla Garcia, Marian Ichaso Lefeld, Paulina Lopez, Tina Medina, Tejana Mix, and Diane Pereira. As these women come from different disciplines, each will showcase a different perspective through works across various media. This event is free to attend, but donations are appreciated at ArtesdelaRosa.org. RSVP is also appreciated.

For registration info, see the event page at Facebook.com/viveADLR/events.

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When your dog is constantly misbehaving, outings are Wednesday no walk in the park. Pet resort business PetSuites Chisholm Trail (5501 Columbus Trail, 682615-0011) wants to help. In celebration of National Take-a-Walk-in-the-Park Day, bring your pup to meet PetSuites trainers at 5:30pm at Candleridge Park (4116 Willow Way Rd) to work on loose-leash walking, distractions, recalls, socialization, and more.

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Theatre Arlington (305 W Main St, 817-2757661) presents Sister Act: Sunday “When disco diva Deloris Van Cartier witnesses a murder, she is put in protective custody in the one place the cops are sure she won’t be found: a convent!

Disguised as a nun, she finds herself at odds with both the rigid lifestyle and uptight Mother Superior. Using her unique disco moves and singing talent to inspire the choir, Deloris breathes new life into the church and community but, in doing so, blows her cover.” If you haven’t seen the movie of the same name, find out what happens next any Thu-Sun at various times thru Sat, Apr 16.

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STUFF Go, Forbidden West In a glut of open-world games, this sequel is definitely a welcome addition to the genre.

Five years is damn near forever in video game time. Since 2017’s fantastic Horizon Zero Dawn, there’s been The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Red Dead Redemption 2, and three Assassin’s Creed games adding their own spins to the open world. Now comes the eagerly anticipated sequel, Horizon Forbidden West, but can Guerrilla Games’ latest meet expectations and thrive in an industry glutted with open-world weariness?

Returning to the postapocalyptic world of overgrown ruins and animallike machines, it’s been six months since the end of the first game, and Forbidden West quickly throws warrior protagonist Aloy back into another end-of-the-world scenario. This time, nature itself seems to be upending. Violent storms ravage the skies, and blight like the red vines out

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Not only is Forbidden West gorgeous, but you get to ride a robot Velociraptor, so what more could you want.

of War of the Worlds devastate plant and rebel camps to clear out to ancient ruins animal life. With the ecosystem on the to raid — mean players won’t be hit with brink of collapse, Aloy searches for answers the same thing every 30 feet. That’s not to in the Forbidden West, the lands between mention the storyline sidequests, which present-day Nevada and California ruled range from solving murder mysteries to by the vicious and territorial Tenakth recovering old-world relics, plus finding tribe. There, she’ll have to uncover more lost sisters, old friends, and grandchildren secrets of the past and learn what truly set for people. (Aloy could seriously open a off the threat of the first game to prevent missing persons agency.)

And the overall story and the disaster once again.

So, while on such an incredibly world it inhabits continues to be the important mission, Aloy painfully can’t game’s standout feature. Forbidden West be delayed by friends or loved ones, but is a gorgeous game full of enormous she can be delayed by things like helping mountains, vast deserts, and thick cooks find ingredients or playing the new jungles, along with the dilapidated ruins Machine Strike board game, which may be of our own forgotten world with a story the best mini-game since The Witcher 3’s that mixes postapocalyptic sci-fi with Gwent. That is to say, there’s a truckload an adventurous tale of warring tribes, all of activities to enjoy while saving the told with some of the most realistic and best-designed characters, world. And while the human and machine, in game does partake a little Horizon Forbidden West Directed by Mathijs de Jonge, a game. And if anything, in the checklist-style produced by Joel Eschler, written the visuals have somehow deluge of sidequests that

by Ben McCaw. Voice Acted by gotten more stunning. can plague open-world Ashly Burch, Lance Reddick, and Angela Bassett. Available for PS4 The lighting of the vistas games, the variety and and PS5. Rated T for Teen. is even more striking, quality of them — from

and the facial animations, which were noticeably stiff in the original, are now expressively emotive.

Game mechanics also get improvements. While Aloy has to start at the bottom again with another BS video game explanation of how she “damaged a lot of her gear” on her way west, the expanded skill trees offer new abilities for weapons, stealth, and interacting with machines.

She’s also picked up on some of Link’s tricks from Breath of the Wild, being able to climb more surfaces and even picking up a glider, though those mechanics aren’t as well fleshed out as Zelda’s. Even melee combat has been improved with combos and the ability to damage enemy armor and optional combat arenas. That said, it’s still fairly simple compared to the weapon-based combat, which is how you’ll primarily be fighting enemies.

Other returning mechanics get new twists, too. Tallnecks, the massive brachiosaur-meets-radar-dish robots that provide map markers for Aloy, each now have a unique twist to how you climb or even find them, and the quests to override and control machines have a few kinks thrown in as well.

But it’s not all gorgeous vistas and enchanting animations. Some technical issues do mar the PS4 edition, such as occasional slow loading of textures and pop-in of objects. There were also minor glitches such as a dead enemy here or there running in place or, hilariously, a corpse spinning in the air. And, of course, PS5 users will have access to 60 FPS or Resolution-enhanced 30 FPS modes. Still, even on the 4, the game remains gorgeous.

While Forbidden West may not revolutionize the open world genre, it does add to and refine a more than worthy sequel to what was one of my favorite games of the last generation. And even with its infrequent bugs and texture issues on the PS4, it remains a beautiful and dangerous world to get lost in. Also, you can ride robot Velociraptors, and I can’t think of what more you could want than that. l

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Trista Morris’ sprawling Wizard of Oz-inspired mural is one of only a few painted walls in the small Westside town. City leaders approved it to give River Oaks a little pop of vibrancy. The new mural will be the first in the area since they forced the metaphysical shop Maven’s Moon to cover theirs back in February 2020. The repeating numbers and patterns surrounding a woman with large eyes were considered as signage.

The city has a policy that only 20% of a mural can have letters or numbers.

Morris’ mural got its start in the summer of 2020, but Morris started painting only in early February, not long after she began work as an event manager at Boulevard Brew. Owner Kris Franks mentioned to his new hire that he wanted a mural in his part of town.

Located in a strip mall at 5406 River Oaks Blvd. on the wall of Josefina’s Mexican Café, the mural is a space over from Boulevard Brew.

Franks, Morris recalled, “just walks in one day and says, ‘We need a mural’ and asks me if I know any mural artists.”

Apparently, Franks had no idea Morris had completed five murals before.

Along with the perhaps not-soCowardly Lion (paying tribute to Castleberry High School’s mascot), the Tin Man has a purple heart.

“There are parallels between The Wizard of Oz themes and the themes of River Oaks,” Morris said. “It was the working class and the military community that built the area and of course the contribution of the railroad, which I haven’t figured out yet but I’m thinking might be the yellow brick road situation.”

City officials were “gung-ho” about Morris’ idea, she said.

The artist is currently adding touches to her artwork. Characters like the Lion, Scarecrow, and Dorothy are outlined to be filled in soon and detailed, along with a skyline of Downtown Fort Worth.

Morris, Franks said, “has been instrumental in helping Boulevard Brew to realize and grow into its mission as a chic coffee shop which promotes local art and culture. It’s a masterpiece inspiring the American spirit of resilience, creativity, and diversity. Big plans are currently underway at Boulevard Brew.”

Franks added that the coffee shop collectively brought the Wizard of Oz idea

to the city. Boulevard Brew is currently undergoing a remodel to incorporate some of the mural’s themes, including a working kitchen and an artist space with a stage for performances, musical and theatrical.

“Sometimes when I take on creative projects, there is something that pulls me along saying, ‘I’m doing this for a reason,’ ” Morris said. “What I hope the mural does is help bring eyes to the city of River Oaks and perhaps draw the area into the modern age.” l

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hood spot, which reopened last month.

We couldn’t have picked a more gorgeous evening. A few wispy cirrus clouds reached across the sky like long strands of windblown hair as we inspected the renovated entrance and front patio, and I was pleased to see the Cousins logo hadn’t been altered drastically.

The interior was a different story.

Immediately, I noticed that the wall once completely covered in family photos of the owners, the Paynes, and signed celebrity headshots was no more. In place of the iconic “Wall of Fame” hung a large mural

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and a stunned-looking stag. Later, I was told the photos were boxed up in storage.

While Cousins’ “low-and-slow” smoked fare remains the same the atmosphere certainly hasn’t. It now leans toward modern Western industrial with strands of Edison bulbs dangling just below the untreated wood rafters and dark ceiling. Steel joists stretch down the white walls accented with shiplap and a smattering of large taxidermy. The only hint of the former decor is the red-and-white patcontinued on page 21

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Like Queen Elizabeth II, the joint has aged gracefully since opening in 1983 and retained its loyal subjects — in Cowtown, anyway. I can’t speak to what passes for barbecue across the pond.

The local family-owned chain has been slowly remodeling its restaurants, including the location on Bryant Irvin Road.

The Crowley location received a similar treatment last year, and there are plans to eventually do the same at the original smokehouse on McCart Avenue.

Native Fort Worthians, my friend and I were eager to revisit a favorite child-

A few wispy cirrus clouds reached across the sky as we inspected the renovated entrance and front patio.

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We “saddled” up to the bar and ordered some specialty drinks: Whisket lemonade and smoked berry lemonade.

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tern of the booth cushions, just like the old tablecloths. Even the buffet-style counter where workers would slice the meat right in front of you is gone, enclosed farther back to make room for additional seating.

This also made way for a bar, so you won’t hear me complaining too much.

Feeling nostalgic, I opted for German sausage, broccoli rice casserole, and fried okra. It’s exactly what I devoured as a young buckaroo, and I wasn’t about to deviate. With the revamp also came new menu items, like prime ribeye, brisket poppers, “Crazy Pig” pork sandwiches, and charred serrano queso and chips, which my friend and I decided to share.

While she scoped out the airy patio, I moseyed up to the cowhide-wrapped bar and surveyed a series of sepia photos of cowboys and longhorns as the bartendress poured our Shiner Bock and Rahr Iron Thistle into frosty schooners. There’s just something about drinking out of a big-ass icy glass that feels classy.

Speaking of class, even the food presentation got an upgrade. Say what you will about the contemporary shift, but ditching those plastic cafeteria trays for

silver platters was a long-overdue change.

I confess, my palate isn’t as discerning as maybe it should be at my age. Still, I’ve tasted bad barbecue, and it was never from Cousins. The German sausage was precisely how I remembered it: juicy and a little peppery with a satisfyingly crisp casing. The broccoli casserole still features the yellowest rice I’ve ever seen, and the fried okra was perfectly crispy on the outside and chewy within. It’s nice to know some things never change. As to the chips and queso, the spiciness of the serrano pepper-seasoned cheese complemented the succulent brisket, and the sweetness of the place’s signature barbecue sauce cut the heat beautifully.

After our meal, the manager dropped by to chat and offered us dessert — on the house, to boot. We sampled the frosted banana cake laced with walnuts and a classic Texas Sheet Cake. Both were moist and flavorful, a delicious way to top off our meal.

To compound the high note our evening was ending on, we “saddled” up to the bar and ordered some specialty drinks. The Whisket lemonade (named for its brisketinfused whiskey), garnished with a big ol’ hunk of the fatty meat, tasted strongly of lemonade with a hint of saltiness, and the berry lemonade with vodka and all manner of smoked fruit was sugary and tangy with a thick, pulpy consistency. Of all the changes, the bar is the best one … bar none.

Even post-makeover, Cousins Bar-BQ still feels homey to me. Maybe it’s the familiar smoky aroma or the mouthwatering barbecue that locals like me have savored for decades, or maybe it’s the friendly staff who make you feel like family, but the joint has the same heart — and the same famously scrumptious ’cue. l

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1.) Dallas’ original beer festival is back. The Big Texas Beer Fest is 3pm-7pm Sat at the Fair Park Automobile Building (1010 1st Av, Dallas, 214-670-8400), featuring more than 450 beer, cider, and hard-seltzer selections from 110-plus breweries. Tickets are $4275 at BigTexasBeerFest.com. (Note: As this event traditionally sells out in advance, there will be no tickets at the door.)

2.) The inaugural Cowtown Burger Showdown is noon-5pm Sat at River Ranch Stockyards (500 NE 23rd St, 817624-1111), with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Brotherhood for the Fallen, a Texas-based nonprofit that helps the families of officers killed in the line of duty. Your tickets provide access to the chefs and all events and vendors, Wagyu burgers, endless fries, a whiskey tasting, and the Messina Hoff wine tent. Tickets are $10-49 on EventBrite.com.

3.) Head to Leaves Book and Tea Shop at 7pm Tue for the In(tea)grate: Tea Tasting & Sound Bath community event. Leaves owner Tina Howard will kick things off with a tasting of three teas. Then, intuitive sound healer Sara Southerland will be using her voice and crystal singing bowls to “help you relax, unwind, and connect with your own essence in a deeper way.” Bring

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4pm-7pm. There is no cost to attend, and no tickets/reservations are needed.

The crawfish boils will be available at the current market cost TBD on the event day.

See An Empty Plate in the Café Du Grand Boeuf at Circle Theatre thru Sat.

something to sit on, like a blanket, cushion, or yoga mat. The cost is $25 per person at Leaves-Book-and-Tea-Shop.square.site.

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Pink Cactus Studio (@ PinkCactusStudioTX) hosts Paint & Sip at The Rabbit Hole Pub (3237 White Settlement Rd, 817-744-7160) 6pm-8pm Tue. The cost of $50 at the door includes all the painting supplies you’ll need, plus two drinks. Drink specials include $5 Texas drafts/liquor and $4 Texas cans.

Space is limited, so RSVP to Hello@ RabbitHoleFWTX.com as soon as possible.

5.) As part of the Fort Worth Food & Wine Festival (@ Fo r t Wo r t h Fo o d a n d Wi n e Fe s t i v a l ) ,

Burgers, Brews & Blues is happening at Heart of the Ranch (5000 Clearfork Main St, @HeartoftheRanch1848) 6pm-9pm Sat, Apr 2. Chefs will grill sliders, celebrity judges will choose a winner, and guests will select a fan favorite. Your $80 ticket at FWFWF.TicketSauce.com includes all-you-can-eat burgers, drinks, and live music by blues bands. No one under 21 years of age is permitted to attend. #DrinkResponsibly 6.) The annual BENDT Crawfish Boil is back at 3pm Sat, Apr 9, at BENDT Distilling Co. (225 S Charles St, Lewisville, 214-814-0545). The distillery is open from noon-10pm, with the first boil from Chef Couillon served at 3pm and live music

7.) On various days/times thru Sat, Apr 2, see the Circle Theatre (230 W 4th St, 817-877-3040) production of An Empty Plate in the Café Du Grand Boeuf by Michael Hollinger. “No menu is necessary at the world’s greatest restaurant in Paris. On a hot July night in 1961, we await the imminent arrival of Victor, the café’s owner and sole patron, but when “monsieur” returns from the bullfights in Madrid, disheveled and morose, his wish is simple: to die of starvation at his own table. To thwart his attempt, his loyal staff prepares a sumptuous seven-course meal served on empty plates. Will they succeed in ultimately feeding his soul?

Join us to find out!” Tickets are $27-40 at CircleTheatre.com.

8.) After six years hosting at different bars and clubs around town, My Oh My! Drag Shows now has its own home at The Sleeping Panther Bar & Entertainment Venue (1000 Houston St, 817-946-2295).

Along with bingo, burlesque, and fantasy drag shows, the Drag-With-Me Drag Brunch is every Sat-Sun at 11am and noon.

All ages are welcome at brunch shows.

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MUSIC Space Is the Place

In support of their recent “space blues” concept album, the trippy Kubes release a new live album.

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Having grown up exclusively during the current millennium, it could be guessed that the seminal influences of rock musicians just entering their 20s might be bands like Kings of Leon or The Black Keys. Perhaps something like Parquet Courts if these folks were able to find the underground. Yet upon hearing The Kubes, it’s obvious their musical passions come from a generation (or two) before the music that’s been dominating rock radio formats for the last two decades. A brand-new live album

captures just what this trio is all about.

“Before getting together, all three of us had played in other groups,” said Kubes singer/guitarist Travis Flippo.

“We had all been dissatisfied with the direction music was going. A lot of the groups around Fort Worth are sort of punk influenced. The punk kind of attitude didn’t really appeal to us. I suppose we’re much older souls than that.”

The name The Kubes is a subtle hint toward where Flippo, bassist Spencer Fortner, and drummer Landry Smith draw their inspiration. The moniker isn’t just a tricked-up spelling of the geometrical shape. It’s actually an homage to Stanley Kubrick. It’s the auteur’s general Technicolor milieu that informs the band’s cultural core.

Paisley-printed psych-rock makes up the marrow in the bones of their sound, especially, according to Flippo, the most quintessential of power trios.

“What really got me into playing guitar was hearing Eric Clapton playing on the Cream records,” he said. “I showed Cream to the other guys and said

Flippo (right): “We enjoy writing funky, far-out lyrics that are more wordplay-involved than maybe a heartfelt message.”

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we should really get a band going like this. They also only needed three guys.”

While a thicker, syrupy psychedelia a la the Jack Bruce-fronted jam band certainly does form the basis of much of The Kubes’ early music, with Discovery One, their second album, released in November, the trio seem to channel a different version of ’60s flower power: The Beach Boys. Discovery One is a pseudo concept album about an unnamed protagonist who, while exploring the cosmos, learns to play “space blues” over the course of the 11 songs. Tracks like “Moon Going Round” and “The Ninth Circle” leave behind the heavier sound from the band’s first album, With The Kubes, and give way to an airy Brian Wilson-esque pop. With lines like “The mountains are made of paint / My eyes are made of glass / I’m going to Hermit’s Pass / So come on a safari with me,” Flippo’s lyrics are rife with wit and whimsy as the tale of the galactic musical journey unfolds.

“Our sense of humor is what keeps the band going,” Flippo said. “It keeps our spirits up, so we like to infuse that into our music. We enjoy writing funky, far-out lyrics that are more wordplayinvolved than maybe a heartfelt message.”

Beefier versions of the above songs appear seamlessly alongside renditions of some of their earlier heavy material on

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Live at Dr. Jeckyll’s, the latest document of The Kubes’ jam-centric freakouts onstage. The performance was tracked in January at Pantego’s Dr. Jeckyll’s Beer Lab and showcases the trio’s penchant for hooky melody and drawn-out psychedelic improvisation.

“We wanted to do a little bit of everything,” Flippo said. “Some of our fans like the older stuff, and some of them like the newer stuff better, so we wanted to try and equally represent everything. We wanted to try and give a good representation of what The Kubes do onstage.”

In keeping with their signature playful sense of humor, to tease the release of Live at Dr. Jeckyll’s, the band staged a “leak” of the record on social media, a tongue-in-cheek attempt at promotional intrigue.

“I’ve been told by girlfriends and other fans of the band that we’re the least mysterious band out there,” Flippo said with a laugh. “People love to see and hear things they’re not supposed to, so this was our way of trying to add some interest around the album release.”

When asked if — to borrow the title of Robert Heinlein’s classic sci-fi opus — Flippo and the other Kubes feel like strangers in a strange land, offering their groovy brand of space blues in a world made mostly of post-punk and Red Dirt, he shrugged it off.

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Redneck Wrecking Ball Swings Welp, now I have “Redneck Wrecking Ball” stuck in my head. If you’re reading this at the date of publication, you probably haven’t heard this tune yet, certainly not if you aren’t into local country music. The newest single from Joshua’s Dana Deatherage makes its streaming service debut and drops to 800 radio stations across Texas and Oklahoma on Friday, a date on which you, too, may get it lodged in your head after a listen. It’s an endearing ditty about a woman who sounds like the human version of a tornado stopping by a trailer park, packaged in breezy Western Swing, sweetened by the guest vocals of Fort Worth’s Kendi Jean. I’ve heard it one single time, and in my brain, I will hear it for the rest of the damn day until, to borrow from the song’s hook, I am certified, bona fide insane.

That’s probably an exaggeration, but the song is irresistibly catchy, and I don’t even like Western Swing that much. The chorus has a line that goes “She wrecked my truck, dipped my snuff, drank all the alcohol” that made me chuckle each time I heard it, and when Kendi Jean’s verse comes in, she just doubles down on all that, slapping her cards on the table with a shit-eating grin and the line “When he’s drunk, he treats me so damn sweet.”

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It’s funny and charming in an “In Spite of Ourselves” kind of way, but of course, I had to think about these characters a little more — a side effect of a catchy song with some funny lines — and to me, the woman in this tune sounds like a nightmare, in love with the chaos wreaked upon her hapless, enabling partner. I’m fascinated with both of these characters, especially when they get to the part when she threatens to smash his shit and then sweetly suggests they give it one more try.

At the end of the song, he’s still all “What’re you doing later?,” and that’s nice, and her reply, which I won’t spoil because I want you to enjoy this song like I did, is a perfect coda, like the stinger in a Hee-Haw sketch. I know this song is funny and probably meant to be a goofy lark with a great hook, but think about if you knew this couple in real life. Such exquisite tea!

The love is real, and so are the couplefights, heard through an apartment wall or across an Olive Garden parking lot.

This is me reading too much into a fun tune, though — Deatherage is a serious, philosophical songwriter, but he also has a song called “420 Friendly” after all.

And from a sonic perspective, the song itself sounds like a hit. Behind the music, the track itself is played by some real ringers: Backing guitarist Deatherage in the studio were Miranda Lambert bassist Aden Bubeck, drummer Josh Rodgers, and on strings Milo Deering.

Greg White, who also gets a songwriting credit, produced and engineered the song at SG Studios in White Settlement.

Deatherage thinks of himself as a “songwriter who performs,” but even if he never took the stage, putting out tracks like this one showcases his deft turn of phrase and ear for an irresistible chorus. It’s been a couple hours since I heard it, and it’s still bouncing around my brain. — Steve Steward Contact HearSay at Anthony@FWWeekly.com.

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