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An established criminal defense attorney recently took to Facebook Live to allege that a former criminal court judge assigned courtappointed attorneys to law firms owned by the judge’s personal friends. The lawyers, according to Tarrant County’s website, are supposed to be assigned randomly through a computerized system commonly referred to as The Wheel. Don Hase said judges playing favorites when assigning lawyers to indigent defendants, who couldn’t otherwise afford legal counsel, creates an “ethical dilemma.” Attorneys who do not have “a lot of clout,” he said, would not want to upset a presiding judge and would likely reason, “I’m going to go along to get along.”
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FunkyTown Fridge is growing. Even if their Instagram page with more than 7,000 followers was recently hacked and they had to switch to an alternate, their hunger for change is unabated. What started as a single free-food fridge on the Near Southside in 2020 and has since expanded to two other locations will soon plant its fourth community-supported fridge on May 15, this one on the East Side. And as they’ve expanded their number of fridges, they’ve also launched free back-to-school breakfast programs and Christmas toy drives. The folks at FunkyTown Fridge estimate they’ve fed thousands of families. Founder Kendra Richardson says all this activity is causing some growing pains. Which is why after operating out of the United Fort Worth community center for the past year and a half, FunkyTown Fridge is looking to secure a
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permanent distribution center in the neighborhood where Richardson grew up — Stop Six. “The goal is to get enough donors or to get the community to give enough money so that we can buy the center,” Richardson said. The proposed location isn’t just because Stop Six faces heightened food insecurity. For Richardson, it’s personal. “When my mother was a young mother, we lived in a project where there was a trail that you could take to the market,” Richardson said. “We would get all our groceries there because there weren’t any other grocery stores nearby.” Generations of her family shopped at this particular market in Stop Six, which is now called Morning Market, but when Richardson saw a for-sale sign in the window in early 2022, she realized that Stop Six might be losing an important pillar of the community. She inquired with a Realtor and figured out how much it would cost to outright buy the building. On March 8, FunkyTown Fridge put out a call to action on its post-hack Instagram page, FridgeTalkTV, detailing their ambitious goal to raise $500,000 to purchase the building and establish a distribution and community center that will allow them to expand their programs. “This building is located in the heart of Stop Six,” the post reads. “For the past few years, this beloved community has suffered the violence of gentrification like so many others we know. This building remains, and now it could be hours.” The historic Stop Six neighborhood,
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Following the ‘Plan’
When asked if he bypasses The Wheel when assigning indigent defense cases, DA candidate Phil Sorrells said he “follows the plan.”
After consulting the list of attorneys eligible for indigent defense assignments, he said, “you get the appointment, and then you go to the bottom and come back up,” Sorrells said. “It rotates through. Different lawyers are going to have appointments that are high in one year and low in one year. When [Loftin’s] name comes up on The Wheel, we’ll appoint him.” Hase — who lost in the recent primary to Loftin for Criminal Court No. 10 — alleges that the insider dealing between Sorrells and Loftin continued through 2021. Allegedly taking advantage of the indigent defense system isn’t the only accusation of misconduct currently levied at Loftin. Two whistleblowers provided me with documents that appear to show Loftin violated Texas’ Code of Judicial Conduct. In April after winning the Republican primary for Criminal Court No. 10, Loftin signed an open letter endorsing Sorrells’ bid for DA. State laws bar judicial candidates from authorizing the use of their name to endorse political candidates of any kind.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1963 that defendants have a constitutional right to legal counsel. In a criminal justice system that disproportionately targets poor and marginalized communities, that means that many defendants require public assistance to afford an attorney. Judges who abuse public funds to ingratiate personal friends undermine the credibility and quality of those legal assignments, so many states like Texas have passed laws that provide guidelines on how indigent defense cases should be assigned. Hase named Phil Sorrells, who is running against Republican Matt Krause for district attorney in this month’s primary runoff, and Trent Loftin, who recently won the Republican nomination for the County Criminal Court No. 9 bench, in his public interviews. Hase alleges that Sorrells skirted The Wheel to bypass qualified indigent defense attorneys in favor of giving the assignments to Loftin. Based on one 2006 state task force report, most indigent defense attorneys in County Criminal Court No. 10, where Sorrells presided at the time, were appointed by Sorrells and not The Wheel. That pattern, based on my review of the report, was common throughout the other nine courts that year. In 2007, our magazine singled out Sorrells for assigning a disproportionate number of indigent defense assignments to Loftin. Hase alleges that, in the years following, while Tarrant County’s other criminal judges increasingly relied on The Wheel as mandated by state law, Sorrells stuck to his way of doing things. Sorrells rejected allegations that he uses his court to pull favors for his friends who practice law. He told me in a phone interview that he strictly follows the county court’s plan to ensure that quality attorneys are appointed by county court administrators in a timely and fair manner.
While FunkyTown Fridge does receive regular donations from corporations like Pepsi, they’ve already had to turn down some offers due to lack of capacity.
named for the eponymous stop on the electric streetcar line that once ran between Fort Worth and Dallas, is going through changes. The demolition of public housing in the proud but impoverished community has continued to raise concerns of gentrification among community activists despite the explicit reassurances of “revitalization without gentrification” from developers and planners. “We want to see ‘FunkyTown Fridge’ on this building and continue to build the community and not see this building be taken away from us,” Richardson said.
Loftin said in an email that he never authorized the use of his name for political endorsements. “I did not give anyone consent for anyone to use my name, and that is not my signature,” he said, referring to a copy of the letter in question that I forwarded to him. “I did not endorse anyone in any race.” Personal favors when assigning indigent defense counsel were supposed to end with the state legislature’s passage of the Fair Defense Act in 2001. The law requires criminal courts across the Lone Star State to adopt procedures for providing promptly appointed attorneys to indigent defendants. Among other provisions, the law was drafted to ensure that indigent cases are assigned in a way that is “fair, neutral, and non-discriminatory.” The Fair Defense Act has a caveat, though, that allows judges to write in indigent defense lawyers for “good cause” issues. One example would be a Spanish-speaking attorney being assigned to a defendant who speaks only Spanish. According to the social justice-minded nonprofit Texas Appleseed, “Prior to the Texas Fair Defense Act, low-income defendants in some parts of Texas were languishing in jail for weeks or months before getting a court-appointed attorney. In some cases, the appointed attorneys were grossly unqualified to handle the cases.” When reached for comment, Hase said everything he has to say is on Facebook. “The Fair Defense Act does not have real teeth, which is why Phil Sorrells gets away with what he does,” Hase said on the social network. “We don’t want situations where lawyers are beholden to the judge. The Wheel ought to be used 95% of the time.” The Texas Indigent Defense Commission (TIDC), the governmental group tasked continued on page 5
The need for food assistance is perhaps greater than ever. Before COVID-19, 13% of Texans faced food insecurity, and that number nearly doubled by mid-2021 to 21%, according to the Texas Research-to-Policy Collaboration Project. Organizations like FunkyTown Fridge, although dwarfed in comparison to the Tarrant Area Food Bank, still play a critical role by serving hyper-local communities that may lack access to the transportation needed to reach larger food pantries. By securing a distribution center and expanding their services, Richardson hopes FunkyTown Fridge could play an even greater role. She says that while they do receive regular donations from corporations like Pepsi, they’ve already had to turn down some offers due to lack of capacity. “We want to have storage for more food, be able to accept and distribute clothing, and eventually get a kitchen in there in order to have kids come in before and after school to help give them a sense of stability, because a lot of kids don’t have it,” Richardson said. So far, FunkyTown Fridge has raised only a few thousand dollars toward their goal. Still, Richardson is optimistic and persistent. And she has reason to be. Even though she lost her largest platform for fundraising back in February, she still has a volunteer list of 300 people, multiple fridges, and plenty of hungry mouths to feed. “This is me persisting,” Richardson said. Visit FunkytownFridge.org. l
an attorney have their constitutional rights protected,” Loftin said. In 2020, TIDC staffers performed a fiscal review of Tarrant County that included anonymous feedback by local attorneys. Most Tarrant County defense attorneys, based on the report, said judges cut pay for attorneys who requested legal experts for defendants. Several lawyers said they were kicked off The Wheel without explanation. “It appears to be done in secret,” one attorney wrote. “I know of many attorneys who have been removed from the felony court appointment list and have no idea why they were removed, and no one provides a reason or feedback.” Judges have limited control of other budgets, so they act as budget hawks on the only entity they can control — indigent defense, another lawyer wrote. “For this reason, most seasoned defense attorneys do less and less indigent defense,” the attorney continued. “It’s not worth it.” Last year, Tarrant County’s attorneys weighed in on Sorrells’ performance during his last year in office. Lawyers with the Tarrant County Bar Association ranked his County Criminal Court No. 10 last out of 10 in the category of “follows the law.” Sorrells said he has not seen the poll and so cannot comment on the vote. Tarrant County’s primary runoff is Tuesday, May 24. Sorrells said his campaign is focused on supporting the police, enforcing immigration laws, and putting the community first. “I have a 25-year record of being a tough and fair judge,” he said. l
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with overseeing and improving public defense throughout the state, maintains figures of indigent defense assignments. Based on my review of TIDC’s website, between 2014 and 2021, Loftin’s assignments from Sorrells’ court, Tarrant County Criminal Court No. 10, far exceeded Loftin’s indigent defense caseloads in the county’s nine other criminal courts. Loftin’s disproportionate number of assignments suggests that Sorrells was bypassing The Wheel to give assignments to his friend. If Sorrells evenly used The Wheel, Loftin’s appointments would track more closely with those of the nine other criminal courts. In 2014, which is the first year TIDC began tracking statewide data, Sorrells assigned 28 public defense cases to Loftin while the nine other county court judges assigned Loftin an average of seven. The following year, Sorrells gave Loftin 35 court-appointed cases while the majority of county criminal courts allotted two or three public defense cases to him. Sorrells’ County Court No. 10 assigned Loftin an average total of 1,200 indigent defense cases both years. Loftin represented 19 indigent defendants from No. 10 in 2016 and 35 in 2017. From there, Sorrells’ assignments to Loftin dwindled with the exception of one spike in 2020: two (2018), 10 (2019), 23 (2020), eight (2021). When I asked Sorrells if he has ever gone outside The Wheel to appoint his friend Loftin, the DA candidate dodged the question. “I follow the plan,” Sorrells said. “We set up a plan. I follow the plan.”
defendants who meet set income guidelines — the defendant’s annual income must be at or 25% above federal poverty guidelines for misdemeanor cases and, for felonies, at or below living wage guidelines set by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. TIDC executive director Geoffrey Burkhart told me that, overall, Texas’ criminal judges have increased compliance with the Fair Defense Act over the past two decades, although there is more work to be done. “One of the goals [of the law] was to remove impropriety and even the appearance of impropriety,” he continued. “You can achieve that through an indigent defense coordinator, managed assigned counsel, public defender’s office, or through a wheel — if the wheel is fairly used.” Tarrant County’s criminal courts rely on the wheel system, but many counties across the state have begun handling indigent defense cases using public defender offices or managed assigned counsel systems that assign attorneys, provide them with access to investigators and other resources, and ensure that clients are adequately defended. Loftin, who is running unopposed ahead of the November midterms, said Tarrant County’s misdemeanor judges are considering setting a flat fee for indigent cases instead of an hourly rate. “It will be interesting to see if this new process works,” he said. Loftin noted that Tarrant County lacks the types of public defender’s offices that serve Dallas, Harris, and other large Texas counties. “In the end of the day, the most important aspect is to make sure the individuals needing
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I followed that question by asking if “the plan” allows judges to bypass The Wheel. “It’s not as simple as you’re putting it there,” he replied. “The county system is put together to ensure that qualified attorneys are appointed.” Loftin said that he is fully qualified and eligible to serve on The Wheel across multiple court systems: misdemeanor, felony, juvenile, and capital murder cases. Loftin did not directly address his disproportionally high number of assignments from Sorrells, but he maintains that his overall appointments are relatively low compared to other Tarrant County lawyers. Based on my review of TIDC’s website, his assertion is correct. On the upper end, several local attorneys were given 200 to 300 cases annually in recent years while others received zero, meaning perhaps Sorrells isn’t the only judge allegedly playing favorites. Loftin’s numbers rank him in the lower half of indigent defense assignments on average. Tarrant County staffers reimburse indigent defense lawyers $50-300 per hour for misdemeanor cases and $600 per trial day for felony cases plus initial appointment fees that range from $200 to $300. For legal counsel who can handle near-daily caseloads, those annual earnings can easily exceed six figures per year. Tarrant County spent $15,951,307.71 on indigent defense cases in 2021, based on TIDC data. Tarrant County funds indigent cases on par with other large Texas counties, but the Lone Star State regularly falls within the bottom 10% of states when it comes to public spending on indigent defense. Tarrant County’s website details county policies and procedures for assigning indigent
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Here’s the thing — with all due respect for my hometown. If my brain had lips, they left the Fort Worth area in 1985 quite parched and on the verge of cracking. I was ready to move on to a new libation, something different, something more diverse. I was born in Fort Worth and grew up in Aledo when it was little more than a farm town. An uninspiring “Jack and Diane” ditty from John Cougar Mellencamp. I went to college at Texas State University and thoroughly enjoyed the college scene in San Marcos and frequent visits to Austin. Upon graduation and a year of graduate school, I fled to Austin and pursued curriculum-less, uncredited graduate studies. It was a great time to be young and a great city to be young in. I whetted my brain and my eardrums on a revolving catalog of music, quasiBohemian freedoms, and copious amounts of inebriating tonics. Austin in the early ’90s
Back in the day, Austin couldn’t hold an incense candle to Darth Vato.
something new (to me, at least), the Fort Worth Weekly. And what I got wind of mildly shocked me. A Bob Marley Festival?! In Cowtown?! I’d never been to one of those, even in Austin. I’d seen the Killer Bees in San Marcos, yes, and had always been something of a Bob Marley fan. But a Bob Marley Festival in Fort Worth?! I was intrigued and excited. This was heretofore undiscovered territory for me in the FW. I was stoked but suspicious. I remember pondering the distinct possibility that we might encounter only six other people there. What I discovered instead at the old Trinity Park, at the southeast corner of West 7th and Museum Way, was a full-blown funky
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reggae party, with three stages and hundreds if not thousands of attendees. My wife and I took our young twins, basked in the laidback vibes, and enjoyed a restorative lapse into Rastafarian grace. And shockingly — almost unbelievably — one of the best bands at the event was an all-white Fort Worth group called Root 420. The lead singer was a Rio Grande Valley dude named Joe Vano. Vano had attended college at TCU and was a fixture at local poetry nights, but after seeing Leroy Shakespeare and the Ship of Vibes, he decided to try to channel his creative energies into reggae. After Root 420, Vano with bassist Marcus Lawyer, keyboardist Justin Pate, guitarist Steffin Ratliff, and drummer Damien Stewart came together to form Pablo & The Hemphill 7. And the band singlehandedly made reggae a living thing in Fort Worth. In fact, they even opened for Bob Marley’s former band, The Wailers, at the Ridglea Theatre on one occasion. I saw them at a couple more Bob Marley Festivals in Cowtown, including the last one — before the event ended here — and then Pablo began playing the festivals in Dallas. I got on with raising kids, coaching my kids’ little league sports teams, and more,
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was a mecca for slackers, budding hackers, wayward misfits, sexual free-for-alls, and a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious music scene. Not much of it was corporatized yet, and you never knew what you would find or who or what was behind the music that was emanating from the next bar, dance club, or live venue you stumbled by. And sometimes you followed those sounds and were blown away. It was a reckless, wonderful ride that Austin no longer really offers. I left town in mid-1994 and spent months backpacking through Europe. I returned with shoulder-length dreadlocks, and Cowtown reentry was something of a culture shock. In fact, one of my mother’s friends actually broke down in tears when she beheld my white-bread natty dreads. It was an inauspicious re-beginning, but my reassimilation was made easier by a beautiful woman who became the love of my life. A laidback West Indies girl who joined me in late-onset marriage, kiddos, a morgue-age, and a begrudging lapse into conventional maturity. (It happens.) The dreads long gone, my wife and I were still known to drop our squids off at the grandparents and sneak off to Austin for reprieves now and again. But they became fewer and fewer. But after a few more orbits around the sun, something wonderful and unexpected happened. I had dropped out of grad school (again) and was working full time, but I still occasionally perused the entertainment sections of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and
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but in 2007 or so, a couple of old college buddies came to town at the last minute on New Year’s Eve, and we went to see Pablo at Lola’s Saloon. Years had passed, but Pablo was still great. Their opening act, however, reduced me to a gurgling, gaping primate. They were a punk-ska-reggae band that called themselves Darth Vato, and their stuff was as tight and original as anything I’d ever heard emanating from a pub, club, or live venue in Austin. Anything. And, as it turns out, I probably spilled beer on them at the last Bob Marley Festival in Cowtown. Lead vocalist/guitarist Kerry Dean and bassist/lyricist Steve Steward were there as well, and they decided to form Darth Vato after seeing Pablo. Steward reached out to drummer Eric Dodson, and in 2002 Darth was born. By around 2007, DV was mind-blowing genius. Razor-knife clever and concrete strawberry real. And real funny. It was like The Pixies and Bad Brains had a baby in Texas, and then the little shit grew up here with a D’reetos chip on his shoulder and a penchant for pensive unruliness. Legend has it that as a toddler, Darth demolished the animatronic animal band at Chuck E. Cheese and started belting out “Hocus Pocus” by Focus. And the future frat kids cried in their watereddown apple sauce, and the Tanglewood mothers clutched their pearls. I can’t lie, I’ve been huffing their stuff ever since. The one thing I didn’t miss about Austin was the constant swell of pretentiousness. And the one thing I always dug about my hometown was the lack thereof. For me, Pablo and DV represented Fort Worth in a way that nobody repped Austin while I was there. And they still inspire and impress me today. They’re Fort Worth institutions now. And not like a lame Chip and Joanna Gaines pledge of middling, geriatric conformity in Waco or even a nod to pandering obviousness like Kelly Clarkson of Burleson. There’s always less than meets the eye to those institutions, but they make a lot of money keeping the
mediocre comfortable with mediocrity. Pablo and DV never sold out, and they kept on keeping on and keeping true when so many others cowered and cowed down. Talk about balls — Pablo & The Hemphill 7 never even made an album. And Darth Vato made a few and should have made it big, but they were probably too talented and too clever for their own good. (It happens.) Pablo and DV have excited and inspired me in ways I can hardly express. And they still excite me. Fort Worth originals, through and through, that can still sling righteous vibes and good times 21 and 20 years in, respectively. Their tunes can change your whole mood, make you laugh, or make you plumb unexpected depths. And you wouldn’t be able pick them out from any other Cowtowner eating fried chicken at Drew’s Place or walking through the Fort Worth Zoo. Where they would fit right in if they didn’t have mad rhythms and wicked prefrontal lobes. All this, of course, to say they’ll be playing Lola’s Saturday, the indispensable venue’s last weekend before a move to Berry Street. And it will also be Dodson’s final DV gig before a move to Florida (bastard!). My brain’s lips are whetted with anticipation. I’ve already purchased 16 tickets. I’ll be there with my “Greenlight Girl” and “a ferret named Thor.” I’ll be beer-soaked and possibly unsteady (trying to balance my longboard on the dancefloor), but I’ll be “Smilin’ Today” like tomorrow’s the farthest thing away. Who says you can never go back? I get to every time I see Pablo & The Hemphill 7 and Darth Vato. It’s something I’ve never really admitted to anyone, but I’m an addict. I have a severe aural fixation, and when Lola’s moves and Dodson leaves, I’m afraid it may be Thumbzilla for longer and longer spells! Then I’ll have only Pablo to stave off Northside Bocephuses and Chuck E. Cheese. Oh, my brothers and sisters, let’s get irie. Let’s Lola Pablo and Darth together one last time! l Fort Worth native E.R. Bills is the author of Texas Obscurities: Stories of the Peculiar, Exceptional and Nefarious and Fear and Loathing in the Lone Star State.
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Our crack draft analysts slap a letter grade on how well the Cowboys managed to plug holes in the roster. As it was the NFL and it was in Las Vegas, this year’s annual player selection extravaganza was as wild and over-the-top an affair as could have been reasonably expected. The estimated 40,000 in the stands certainly got their money’s worth (especially because attendance was free). Along with nine trades in the first round, including two player trades, an event nearly as rare as analysts accurately predicting the picks, there was a bevy of random and disparate celebrity appearances — uninspiring thirdtier comedians, the names of which no one can recall, the ghastly drum-tight visage of an 87% botulinum toxin-composed Wayne Newton, and even a Locs and Raiders jersey-sporting Ice Cube plucked from the audience in a completely organic, definitely not pre-planned way. It was big, it was loud, it was the NFL. With the number of starter vacancies on their roster, and picking late in each round, the Cowboys had a tough task ahead of them in trying to improve their squad amid the NFL-branded three-ring circus. In the days since, evaluations of how well the Cowboys managed the chaos (both the NFL’s and their own) from all across the football media commentariat vary wildly, with most, admittedly, leaning sharply toward the “D is for ‘diploma’ — that’s good enough for me” end of the spectrum. However, no East Coast sport-jacketed talking head’s opinion matters more than those of our own fearless and whiskey-fueled reporters. Let’s see how they grade the Cowboys’ 2022 draft haul.
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tables with a sizable stack of chips to play with. The problem is, most of that stack consisted of single dollar tokens in the form of Day 3 picks instead of all the juicy black $100 chips able to be tossed around by their NFC East rivals. Dallas’ meager bankroll was also compounded by the fact they entered the game with some pretty obvious tells. Because free agency was little more than an afterthought to the front office as they focused instead on sponsorship deals and coverups, Jerry Jones and Co. were forced to enter the war room with a shopping list of specific positions they needed to address, anathema to the much-venerated draft mantra of “best player available.” As a result, the Cowboys were forced to go all-in on some fairly questionable hands. Their Day 1 pick of Tulsa tackle Tyler Smith read like a panic move after more coveted O-linemen were taken well ahead of the Cowboys’ pick at 24. The kid is raw, with some frustrating technique issues that often lead to holding penalties (an apparent Cowboys prerequisite for left guard, where Smith will likely start next year). Yet given his size and the mean, mauling edge he plays with, along with an infectious, jovial, Joe Loony-type personality, if he can manage to develop and keep the penalties under control, it’s easy to see him quickly becoming a fan favorite, overcoming the current lack of enthusiasm surrounding his selection. On Day 2, Jerry and the Joneses did what they traditionally do with their secondround pick, which is to use it on a player with undeniable talent but some major concerns. This year’s version was “troubled” defensive end Sam — née “De” — Williams. Just the phrase “alleged sexual battery” is a grotesque sequence of words that I hate even having to type, much less attribute to a member of a team I actively root for. In fairness, the charges against Williams while at Ole Miss were eventually dropped, but I’m all for taking a guilty-until-proveninnocent approach with this kid, personally. The talent is definitely there. We’ll just have to wait and see if he can live down his prior reputation as did Micah Parsons last year or live up to it as Greg Hardy once did. Round 3 landed the Cowboys their first pick of legitimately good value. Jalen Tolbert was the Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the year. His skillset is more identical to Michael Gallup’s and CeeDee Lamb’s than complementary to them, but with the wide receiver room as thin as it was heading into next year, Tolbert should be able to contribute right away, taking over much of the void left by the departure of Cedrick Wilson. Round 4 saw another panic move as the tight ends on Dallas’ wishlist went off the board one after the other. I would like to have seen them move up and take Washington’s Cade Otton by packaging one or two of their four fifth-round selections. One of them was the meager compensation for Amari Cooper from the Browns that looks all-the-more shameful after two comparable receivers
Likely selecting more players than can possibly make the team, the Cowboys threw numbers at trying to round out their roster.
were traded by other teams for first-round selections on Thursday. Alas, the Cowboys went with quantity over quality this year, and Wisconsin’s Jake Ferguson will have to do. After the kneejerk pick of Ferguson, and a bit of a reach with the following pick, their first in the fifth round, which they spent on developmental offensive tackle prospect Matt Waletzko, I actually really like the rest of the Cowboys’ choices. The other fifth rounders saw DC Dan Quinn net another lengthy corner in Daron Bland; a potential future All-Pro (if he can fully recover from recent spinal fusion surgery — yikes!) in LSU linebacker Damone Clark; and a big space-eating D-tackle in Razorback John Ridgeway. With Clark more than likely set to redshirt his rookie year, in the sixth round, Dallas bolstered their linebacker depth with Oklahoma State’s Devin Harper. I suppose the Cowboys achieved what they set out to do, which was snag enough bodies at the right spots to be able to field a complete team come September. Many of the guys taken (or supplemented from the massive haul of undrafted free agents Dallas signed over the weekend) have a chance to develop into decent to good (or better) players. The issue is in having to wait on them to do so. It’s a weird approach for a team that’s supposedly in “win-now” mode. Dak Prescott isn’t getting any younger. Overall grade: B-
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The Cowboys’ 2022 draft was as predictable as it was disappointing. Unlike the past couple of years, the front office used the NFL’s annual pick-’em to fill holes in their increasingly leaky boat. They panic-drafted need after need as better players remained on the board. Owner/GM/baby-daddy Jerry Jones said the team’s first-round pick, Tulsa offensive tackle Tyler Smith, was the 16th-ranked player on his big board. Nabbing him at 24, the newly minted father of an illegitimate daughter said, was a great bargain. Yet the scouting reports on Smith all point to an underdeveloped, sloppy physical competitor
who lacks technique and is penalty prone. Jerry took replacing erstwhile guard Conner Williams a little too literally. With Pick 56 in the second round, the team drafted physical freak Sam Williams, an edge player out of Ole Miss. On the field, he looks every bit the part at 6-foot-4 and 261 pounds, with production to match. His 12.5 sacks and 15.5 tackles for a loss earned him second-team All-American honors. He was also accused of sexual battery, continuing the Cowboys’ run of gambling on idiots and ne’er-do-wells in the second round — aside from Trevon Diggs, who is the only Round 2 pick on the roster who wasn’t present during a murder (Kelvin Joseph) or suspended from both his college and pro teams for being a knucklehead (Trysten Hill). Jalen Tolbert, a wideout from the University of South Alabama, might redeem the front office’s second day. He’s a legit deep threat who tracks the ball at an elite level. He’s a Michael Gallup starter kit in Ceedee Lamb’s body. Fourth-rounder Jake Ferguson, tightend out of Wisconsin, might develop into a nice player, but he turned in average production with so-so athleticism to match. He looks like the ultimate JAG (Just a Guy), who could hang around and play backup for a few years before moving on to sell used Chryslers. The rest of the Boys’ haul was a mix of “Who?” and “Wow!” I’m a huge fan of fifth-rounder Matt Waletzko, OT from North Dakota. He’s a developmental guy who looks plucked out of Central Casting for an offensive tackle. His fellow Round-5er, Damone Clark, LB from LSU, would have likely gone two or three rounds prior if not for his recent spinal fusion surgery. If he can make it back to his previous level, this could be the steal of the draft. Arkansas DT John Ridgeway, the team’s final pick of the fifth, is the runstopping mauler this front has needed for half a decade. I’ve never heard of Daron Bland or Devin Harper, which probably means they’ll blossom into stars. The Cowboys reached for guys, but those guys might be good enough to keep the team from swirling the drain — and right into mediocrity’s warm embrace. Overall grade: C+ Below is what the team should have done. 24 Jermaine Johnson — DE, Florida State 56 Bernhard Raihmann — OT, Central Michigan 88 Jalen Tolbert — WR, Southern Alabama 129 Darian Kinnard — G/OT, Kentucky 155 Kyle Phillips — WR, UCLA 167 Damone Clark — LB, LSU 176 John Ridgeway — DT, Arkansas 178 Kingsley Enagbare — DE, South Carolina 193 Jamaree Salyer — OG, Georgia l
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Ester Hernandez’ “Sun Mad” is one of dozens of Chicanx works on exhibit now as part of Printing the Revolution.
Not only is Printing the Revolution the first to showcase historic civil rights-era prints along with the works of contemporary printmakers, but it is also the first exhibit to consider how Chicanx mentors, print centers, and networks nurtured other artists, including several who drew inspiration from the example of Chicanx printmaking. While Chicanx artists seem to prefer screen-printing, several featured works go beyond paper as a medium and were made using other techniques and presentation styles. There are instillation-art pieces, augmented reality displays, and even shareable digital graphics. Experience Printing the Revolution inperson 10am-5pm Wed, 10am-8pm Thu, 10am-5pm Fri-Sat, or noon-5pm Sun or take a virtual tour at CarterMuseum.org. Admission is free.
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For its 50th anniversary, Mayfest (Trinity Park, 2401 University Dr, Thursday 817-332-1055) welcomes patrons to attend for free today 3:30pm9pm. Then 3:30pm-10pm Fri, 10am10pm Sat, and 11am-7pm Sun, tickets are $7-12 at Mayfest.org. Entertainment includes an art and gift market, attractions like Twiggy the WaterSkiing Squirrel, a beer and wine garden, a children’s area, food and beverage booths, an expanded carnival midway, and live music on three community stages, plus the annual fun run. For artist and performer info and other updates, follow Facebook.com/Mayfest.
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Online shopping hub Support HerStory (Linktr. ee/SupportHerStory) was Friday started mid-pandemic to help women-led businesses through the rough patch by connecting them directly with new customers for their products. Since its launch, it now supports more than 100 female-founded companies. Shops at Clearfork (5188 Monahans Av, 817-985-3773) is the local location for one of its Mother’s Day Pop-Ups 11am-6pm today and Sat and 10:30am-3:30pm Sun. Along with being able to #ShopSmall with curated brands like Malibu Apothecary, you will hear live music and enjoy a photobooth with a balloon garland for
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“Instagram-able moments.” Women-led small businesses in Ukraine will receive 10% of the proceeds from your purchases. There is no cost to attend, but RSVP is requested at SCFMothersDayPopUp. SplashHat.com. (For more Mother’s Day ideas, see ATE DAY8 A WEEK in the Eats & Drinks section of this issue.)
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If your kids are into bike-racing video games or watching BMX on Saturday television, maybe it’s time to introduce them to some IRL fun at Village Creek Motocross (4840 Shelby Rd, Everman, 817-572-7713). For information on classes — costing $20-
The Fairmount Neighborhood Association (@HistoricFairmount) is Sunday hosting its 40th Annual Fairmount Tour of Historic Homes noon5pm Sat and noon-4pm today, with the proceeds benefiting the neighborhood’s arts programs and improvements to the infrastructure, including parks and schools. “Our neighborhood is ready to see you all in person, in the houses, and offer you an awesome experience in 2022. Bring your mom, your dad, your friends — we want to see you all come celebrate this amazing historic district and the great houses and people in it.” The meet-up point for the tour is SiNaCa Studios (1013 W Magnolia Av, 817-899-0024). Tickets are $15 for adults and children 12 and older at HistoricFairmount.com/Home-Tour.
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With live music most nights, you can preparty at Tulips FTW Monday with incredible happy hour prices 4pm-7pm Mon-Fri. Offers include $7 house cocktails, $4 domestics (16 oz), $4 wells, and $2 off draft beers. For upcoming event information, musical and otherwise, keep an eye on Facebook. com/TulipsFTW/events.
joint performances called Texas Cellos Cellobrations. At 7:30pm in the Moody Performance Hall (2520 Flora St, Dallas, 214-671-1450), local cellists will perform music by The Beatles, Faure, Durufle, Kuipers, Mancini, Mendelssohn, and Rachmaninov. Tickets are $24-44 at TicketDFW.com. There will also be a free concert 6pm Sun at the Van Cliburn Hall (TCU Music Center, 2900 W Lowden St, 817-257-7000).
May 27, on Netflix — woo-hoo!), treat yourself to some vintage game-play at RetroBution Games (6251 Granbury Rd, 682-499-6662). Every Wednesday 5:30pm9pm, it’s Dungeons & Dragons Night. This weekly event is beginner-friendly, and if you need a starter set, you’ll receive 15% off. There is no entry fee to play.
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1.) For $35 per person, support area femmeled coffee and tea houses at the third annual C.A.T. (Coffee and Tea) Crawl and enjoy five signature drinks available only to “crawlers” Fri-Sat. Times vary, so check the hours for each business before heading there. At Arcadia Coffee (326 Bryan Av, @ Arcadia.Coffee), with Carrie Collins at the helm, receive the Don’t Be a Prick sparkling lemonade made with prickly pears or the Hazy Daze Latte made with Bergamot vanilla syrup and oat milk. Then at Mia Moss’ shop Black Coffee (1417 Vaughn Blvd, 817-782-9867), have a Give Her Flowers, a cherry blossom whipped cream-topped Sakura matcha latte, or a Give Her a Break watermelon spritzer. At Cherry Coffee Shop (1121 W Magnolia Av, 817-330-4301) by owner Katherine Morris, try the Nala’s Cub made with tamarind ginger syrup, Cascara tea concentrate, milk, and mint leaves or a Blue Ivy lime Jarritos with blueberry syrup,
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Thanks to the early 20th-century efforts of Anna Jarvis, who organized the first such celebration at a church in West Virginia, we celebrate Mother’s Day in America on the second Sunday of May. Faith-based events still lead the way in honoring Mom, like Oasis Church (801 S Collins St, Arlington, 817-274-1962) with its $15 Mother’s Day Brunch 10:30am-12:30pm Sat, but the service industry is hosting its fair share of happenings too. Here are eight fantastic Mother’s Day choices ranging from coffee and tea to arts and crafts, plus brunch ideas both sexy and kid-friendly.
2.) If your mom is like mine, she would love to do some arts and crafts with you at Kendall Davis Clay (305 W Daggett St, Ste 105, 214-394-1653) and keep some new kitchen decor as a reminder of your time together. Workshops start at $85 per person, and registration would make a lovely gift. All supplies are provided for the projects. “Feel free to bring in inspiration photos and sketches but not necessary.” You can also schedule a private class for your family/ gang/posse for $85 per person with a sixperson minimum. Your pieces will be fired and glazed after class and returned in three weeks. Wine is available for purchase from The Holly next door for sipping during class. Sign up at KendallDavisClay.com. 3.) If your sexy mom is a lot cooler than mine, take her to El Chingon (2800 Bledsoe St, Ste 100, 817-870-9997). “Say ‘te amo’ to Mom this Mother’s Day. Your badass mamma deserves a badass meal. El Chingon will celebrate mothers with special brunch offerings, a dinner show, and signature cocktails and mimosas available exclusively 11am-3pm Sun and on Mexican Mother’s Day [Tue] 8pm10pm.” The Sunday menu includes a paleta tower and two brunch items for $125 or a mimosa tower and two brunch items for $75. On Tuesday, offerings include a paleta tower and two taco flights for $125 and frozen Rum to Mamma drinks (made with coconut rum and a Tajin rim) for $11.
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at 10am Sun serving its full lunch menu, but it will also serve brunch items for the first time for Mother’s Day. Every day this week, The Fitzgerald will reveal a new brunch item. For example, in the first brunch-dish reveal recently, the new Westside eatery/lounge presented its shrimp and grits breakfast with two eggs and green chile cheddar grits topped with chorizo cream sauce. I’m in! See more reveals on Facebook.com/EatatFitz or EatatFitz.com.
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uncut cold brew, and activated basil. Tina Howard of Leaves Book & Tea Shop (120 St. Louis Av, Ste 101, 682-233-4832) is serving a strawberry matcha latte with Sencha iced tea, matcha, strawberry compote, and milk, and Taste of Summer, a sparkling mint tea with lemonade, mango simple syrup, and a rim of Halo del Santo spicy salt. And, finally, see Janice Dottie Townsend at Roots Coffeehouse (400 Bryan Av, 817-349-8059) and try a baklava cream top cold brew with pistachio/honey-infused cream and a garnish of pistachio brittle or a Rosie Cat tea latte featuring roobios tea, house-made rose/ almond syrup, and milk. Once you purchase your ticket at RootsCoffeeShop.com, a map and further instructions will be emailed.
Quality time with (and gifts for) Mom can be found at Kendall Davis Clay.
There will also be a three-course Taste of Guadalajara dinner for two for $119 with (or $85 without) a bottle of wine. For more info, visit ElChingonFW.com. For tickets, go to GBOD.TicketSauce.com. 4.) You could also take the aforementioned cool mom to Hooters. With 19 area locations, including Downtown Fort Worth (150 Throckmorton St, Ste 132, 817-8109414) and Arlington (1511 N Collins St, 817265-3861), the original American wing joint invites all guests to celebrate Mom with 10 free boneless wings with the purchase of any 10 wings on Sunday in honor of Mother’s Day. The offer is dine-in only, so “it’s the perfect time to give back to all special moms in your life with a visit to Hooters.” After all, what mom doesn’t want to go to Hooters? 5.) With eight locations in North Texas, including Flower Mound (2628 Long Prairie Rd, Ste 100, 972-899-1630), Mansfield (581 W Debbie Ln, 817-2252094), and Southlake (2750 E Southlake Blvd, Ste 130, 817-748-0456), Fish City Grill will celebrate moms Sunday with a fish special and a discounted specialty drink. The featured items include Kalamata-crusted Alaskan halibut for $28.99 and watermelon margaritas for $9. 6.) Not only will The Fitzgerald (6115 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-349-9245) be open
7.) Pan-Latin flavors are complemented by drinks on the Bebidas menu at the Dia de las Madres Bottomless Brunch at Toro Toro Steakhouse (200 Main St, Ste B, 817-975-9895) 10am-3pm Sun. Selections include traditional mimosas, mango mimosas, Mimosa Misterioso, Mayo Mimosa, michelada, Bloody Mary, and a Bloody Maria. “Treat the mom in your life to a colorful spread of vibrant hues and bold flavors with brunch stations throughout the restaurant.” For $69 per guest, enjoy a ceviche station featuring Hamachi Tiradito, Ahi Amarillo Ceviche, and Shrimp Cocktail Aguachile; a grilled station offering Wagyu medallions, duck confit tacos, grilled salmon, and prawns; a custom omelet station; and a dessert station with chocolate cake, macarons, and a three-corn cake created by Chef Richard Sandoval and his grandmother. “Made with a hibiscus-mezcal reduction and topped with almonds and a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream, this dessert has a special meaning to Toro Toro this Mother’s Day.” For reservations, call the restaurant or visit OpenTable.com. 8.) Finally, how about brunch and a drag show for Mom? Along with bingo, burlesque, and fantasy drag shows, the Drag-With-Me Drag Brunch is hosted every Sat-Sun at 11am and noon at The Sleeping Panther Bar & Entertainment Venue (1000 Houston St, 817-946-2295). All ages are welcome at brunch shows. Tickets are $30 at PatrickMikylesPresents. com/tickets and include your seat and brunch. Drinks are purchased separately at the full bar. l
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tional, the volley between cocktail and bite of the barbecue shrimp offered favorable complexity. Barbecue shrimp is a regional dish associated with New Orleans from an Italian-Creole origin and is far removed from the style of barbecue we know in Texas. The jumbo shrimp are marinated, then cooked before swimming in a Worcestershire- or soy-based sauce enhanced with seasoning, unlike barbecue sauce here. The Fitzgerald’s slightly smoky sauce gave way to a hint of Mexican mole, perhaps a nod to our state, with the result superb and respectful of its heritage. While paintings of oysters adorn the walls, noticeably missing is a raw bar.
Operations Manager Chris Lynch was quick to inform me that while one is in the works, raw oysters would soon be offered for service. In the meantime, we had to sate our oyster hankering with another New Orleans classic, Oysters Rockefeller. Along with a traditional preparation, The Fitzgerald also offers a spicy kimchi butter with umami and a cheesy bacon-jalapeno. The Rockefeller were well received to say the least. Another delectable starter was the silky grilled bone marrow topped with caramelized onions, rendered greens, and blue cheese served along with pita
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The name “Fitzgerald” often evokes imagery related to that of turbulent maritime themes. The ill-fated freight ship, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, has been forever etched into history due to its being the largest ship to have sunk in the Great Lakes and also perhaps to Gordon Lightfoot’s somber tune dedicated to the 29 lives lost that day. Another is that of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whose life was spent sailing off the shores of New England but who also met a tragic end. Lastly, and perhaps most famously, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the beautiful and the damned along
the coast. The last line to The Great Gatsby still rings true today. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Although Ben Merritt took inspiration for the title of his new restaurant from his favorite cocktail, The Fitzgerald (named after F. Scott), the interior design offers elements of an uplifting and positive coastal vibe. Light and airy with varying hues of blues and greens, the Westside restaurant feels less Fort Worth and more Gulf Coast, which was where the chef and owner drew inspiration for the cuisine. As I sipped on a Fitzgerald, a ginbased sour with the foamy egg white op-
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bread. Also, a lobster corndog, crawfish and shrimp dip (which we eschewed for the spicy crawfish mac), and crab cakes that were so delicately battered and lightly fried, they were as close to perfect as I have had from Louisiana to Florida. Well ensconced in my comfort zone enjoying the sweetness of a Vieux Carré, a rye whiskey cocktail akin to a Sazerac sans any bitter edge, and with buoyant jazz floating in the background, the direction of The Fitzgerald made sense. Their listed cocktail selection is short but well-imagined and the wine list extensive, and they simply offer three steaks with a thick pork Delmonico, a cut usually affiliated with beef. It’s The Fitzgerald’s seafood that really breathes on its own. The common catch of the day is the cobia. Glistening from honey-bourbon glaze with a tangy burst of pineapple salsa, it was an enjoyable, easy offering. The blackened redfish, which is found on the menus of nearly every seafood joint hugging the Gulf of Mexico, showcased a flair from south of the border with chorizo and was flanked by a medley of vegetables. Up the Mexican influence with a side of poblano cheese grits or creamy elote. Once the plates have cleared, a darkened lounge named Regal Room awaits in the rear, complete with couch and bar seating and several TVs. Although a more
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masculine setting, women of all ages outnumbered their male counterparts while conversing over beverages of choice on the day my guests and I visited. In contrast to Merritt’s other restaurant, Fixture, on the Near Southside, he and his team have built an experience where the results are certainly not calamitous but seaworthy. l
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Four years ago, accordionist Abel Casillas had an idea to reinvent his Tejano-style of music. Combining basic Tejano polka,
honkytonk, and zydeco with a little bit of blues from guitar, drums, and bass led to his current, popular project, the Squeezebox Bandits. “I had a vision, man,” he said. “There are a lot of great bands with an accordion involved. I heard a fiddle, and I heard a steel guitar, and we feed off each other. There’s four of us, and when the accordion takes over, it’s rocking, man.” The Squeezebox Bandits have gone from niche-y to big time. In 2020, they signed to Dallas’ State Fair Records, the home of Joshua Ray Walker, Ottoman Turks, and Paul Slavens, among others, that will release the Bandits’ new album, Check to Check, on Thursday, when they will also play Billy Bob’s Texas in the Stockyards. The Squeezebox Bandits’ sound is a mélange of various flavors, especially Tejano and old-school C&W. “We do it all,” Casillas said. “We do country but not like Brooks & Dunn. It goes deep with what I like, Hank Williams and Hank Williams Jr. We give it that spin and sometimes a Tejano spin.” Accordionist and vocalist Casillas, drummer Matthew Calderon, bassist Austin Gardea, and guitarist Geoff West have played plenty of big stages before, including in Nashville and the Texas Music Revolution in McKinney. As you
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might imagine, the crowd goes wild every time. “It’s always so cool running into new people who haven’t heard us and don’t know what to expect when they see Abel with the accordion,” Calderon said. “Once we get going, you see the look on their face, and that foot gets to tapping. It’s a cool reaction and vibe.” Singer-songwriter Matt Hillyer of the nigh-legendary Dallas country act Eleven Hundred Springs helped produce and record the new album. Check to Check follows two previous releases: Clear as Day (2018) and Sound of Texas (2019). “The [new] album is a broad Texas album,” West said, “and there’s a lot of Texas in there with the album personifying all aspects of Texas. The album hits on that.”
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Hillyer also co-wrote the title track, which was just released on Spotify and other digital platforms. The band is certainly happy with sharing a label with Joshua Ray Walker, a honkytonker from Dallas who is shooting up the country charts. Though the Bandits are open to touring, they have personal obligations at home, which may limit the scope of travel a little. “At some point soon,” Casillas said, “we’ll work it all out to when we can get on the road. If you’ve been to a show, we keep it fun, and there are at least five bangers on the album, and it’s a damn good album.” l
R.I.P., 3726 W 6th St I had a moment a couple weeks ago, standing on that deck in the northeast corner of Lola’s Trailer Park, when I concluded that Fort Worth is a lot less fun than it used to be. The Quaker City Night Hawks had just finished their show, and I was drunk and stoned and maudlin to the point that I resigned to
let my bad feels fly however they would. As I stood there gazing around, a drunk friend of mine was telling me about his impending move to San Francisco, and what I said in reply was, “Man, good for you. Get out of here. This city sucks now.” Looking back, I don’t totally mean continued on page 22
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that. But I sure did at the time. What had preceded that moment was me looking around idly at the expanse of the Trailer Park, at the roof that extended over its grounds from the stage to the bar, and at all the people still milling around having a good time. My mind wandered further back, into the Saloon, drifting like a ghost past the painting of Willie Nelson and the one of Rougie punching Jose Bautista, drifting across past the history and memories soaked into the building’s wood and tin and sheetrock, all the bands I’d seen and played in there, the smell of the stage, the ritual back-stretches before squat-lifting a bass cab into the
stage-right door, Lone Star bottles and plastic shot cups rolling around between the footlights and my pedalboard, and a thousand other memories that threatened to overwhelm my composure. I thought of all of that, and I just got bummed. “This place, this city,” I said a few minutes later to a different friend, having moved from the deck to be nearer to the main bar. “In any other city in America, this venue would be like a, like, a treasure. An institution. They wouldn’t have to move. This place shouldn’t have to become apartments or whatever the fuck.” At this point, the crowd had mostly moved out, and as the night drew to a close and I found myself inside the Saloon with a few friends, I repeated my epiphany a third time, and we all agreed that Lola’s
impending move to Berry Street is the end to an era, one that for us — and by “us,” I mean local musicians who got into the scene in the early-to-late 2000s — actually began on Berry, specifically at a few bars and clubs that also no longer exist. And when I thought about that, I notified the irrigation department in my brain, telling it to hold the tears, because we’ve been through this before. In fact, Lola’s owes its existence to the end of a previous era, as it opened in the wake of Brian Forella’s previous venue, the Wreck Room, crumbling beneath the iron inevitability of a developer’s wrecking ball. The two venues were similar in spirit but different in size, shape, and scope. What provided continuity between Lola’s and her
predecessor — as well as the eras they represent in the memories of the people who lived in them — were the music and the people who lived for it. And as Lola’s moves to the TCU area, I look forward to seeing those two elements link this city’s next era with the one that began 15 years ago, because what made this city fun for me over the past 20 years is the music and the people who live for it. Sure, it’s no longer cheap to live here, and, yeah, it’s pretty uninspiring to see yet another apartment complex going up, but local music is a huge part of Fort Worth’s culture. And as long as there are places for bands to play, this city will still have a soul. — Steve Steward Contact HearSay at Anthony@FWWeekly.com.
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