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CHOICE More than 100 people rallied downtown Saturday in support of Roe v. Wade. S T O R Y A N D P H O T O S B Y M A D I S O N S I M M O N S
METROPOLIS Creating policy based on conspiracy theories, Sheriff Bill Waybourn’s new “human trafficking” unit is limp. BY S TAT I C
EATS & DRINKS It’s touristy and a little chintzy, but Tim Love’s new Tex-Mex Stockyards spot is primed for summer. BY KRISTIAN LIN
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METROPOLIS Billy Honeypot
The sheriff department’s Human Trafficking Unit may be defrauding taxpayers while winning support from the religious right. S T A T I C
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The sheriff department’s Human Trafficking Unit says it wants to conduct “investigations that lead to the prosecution of human traffickers.” Missing from this website description is the religious right’s obsession with human trafficking. Christian Nationalists seek to tie that heinous crime to President Joe Biden, 2016 popular vote winner Hillary Clinton, and Hollywood elites even as Southern evangelicalism remains a hotbed of sexual abuse and pedophilia. The New York Times has found that nearly 400 Southern Baptist leaders have pleaded
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I have filed your recent articles about Mercy Culture Church. I want to be upfront and honest and tell you that I am a member there. I have been attending Mercy Culture since June 2020. Without getting into details of my life and my testimony, I will just say that Mercy Culture helped me believe in myself again. Yes, of course, God first has helped me believe in myself, but Mercy Culture taught me that I was loved by God. Pastor Landon and Pastor Heather are really good people. It will be two years on May 21 of 2022 that I have been clean. I moved to Fort Worth on June 15 of 2020 from Garland, Texas,
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Religious nuts like Bill Waybourn are obsessed with human trafficking and portraying Democrats as pedophiles.
guilty to or have been convicted of sex crimes since 1998. Locally, Mercy Culture Church, which seems to be the best/worst at mixing up church and state, cries “human
trafficking!” constantly. Pastor Landon Schott regularly invites right-wing nuts like county commissioner candidate Tim O’Hare and Sheriff Bill Waybourn to attend Mercy Culture services, and Way-
where I was living in a women’s domestic violence shelter. I moved into a woman’s group home called Center for Transforming Lives and lived there for six months while I got my life back. During that six months is when I began going to Mercy Culture Church. First and foremost, if it wasn’t for God in my life, I don’t know where I would be, actually. I probably would be dead or in prison. Attending Mercy Culture and being part of so many things offered there helped me become a self-sufficient woman again. I began walking with my head held high after walking for so long looking at the ground. Anyway, I just wanted to share with you and tell you that Mercy Culture has a lot of good things about it. I promise. I would love for the Fort Worth Weekly to be fair and get the other side or get
somebody’s story that has positive things about Mercy Culture. It just seems fair to do this. Anyway, I wish you the best. I just wanted to share this. That’s all. Have a great week! Respectfully yours, Erika Cristantielli Fort Worth
Remembering Peter Gorman Sunday, April 24, was a sad day when I learned about the passing of Peter Gorman. He loved meeting people, and I went to his house twice in 2015. During my second visit, James Michael McCoy was shooting a documentary about Peter called More Joy Less Pain. It’s a great way to learn about Peter’s passion for the
bourn’s frequent appearances at Mercy Culture events and his recent declaration that human trafficking is the “demonic battle of our lifetime” caught our attencontinued on page 5
rain forest and the medicines used by the indigenous people there. Peter Gorman truly lived life, and we are all much richer for his many contributions. Chris Baker, Austin
Correction In last week’s Metropolis story (“Following the ‘Plan,’ May 4), we incorrectly said that retired judge and current DA candidate Phil Sorrells assigned an average of 1,200 court-appointed cases to Trent Loftin in 2014 and 2015. Sorrells respectively assigned 28 and 35 cases to Loftin those years, and the 1,200 number should have been reported as the total average for 2014 and 2015. We regret the error.
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tion, given our understanding of rightwing paranoia over the crime, so we filed open records requests seeking data on how many human traffickers Waybourn has caught since the unit was formed in 2018. The answer? Next to none. Despite the resources of various federal grants, three investigators, and one supervisor, the unit has obtained only five human trafficking prosecutions from the district attorney’s office out of 546 investigations. The DA’s office has accepted 220 criminal cases out of 414 from the human trafficking unit since 2019. Among them are a handful of serious charges like aggravated promotion of prostitution and compelling prostitution by force. The vast majority of charges, though, are for prostitution offenses that may have resulted from entrapment. Waybourn appears to have padded his numbers by honeypotting horny dudes via professional decoys. In October 2021, the sheriff led a “human trafficking sting” that resulted in 115 men being charged with felonies, which has
Entrapping random dudes doesn’t make Tarrant County any safer either.
allowed him to mislead the public by confusing related but distinctly different acts. Women who engage in sex work likely have their own heartwrenching stories, but that doesn’t mean they were trafficked across the U.S.-Mexico border and kept in decrepit makeshift prisons. Entrapping random dudes doesn’t make Tarrant County any safer either. It defies belief that Waybourn set up his human trafficking, er, prostitution sting in Tanglewood or Westover Hills, two places where he might have had the misfortune of arresting a powerful attorney or business leader who could publicly call him out for running a scam with
taxpayer dollars. Based on news reports from the time, Waybourn refused to disclose details about the tactics employed during the October operations or where the stings were held. (Note: They were not in Tanglewood or Westover Hills. Bank on it.) The same Republicans who maintain mass delusions about the “stolen election” (ha!) are now focused on tying anyone on the left to sexual deviancy and pedophilia in some perverse act of projection. We saw the same crap with the Critical Race Theory nonsense that led racist white parents in Southlake and other upscale suburbs across the country
to go on tirades at public meetings and in the press, daring to quote Martin Luther King Jr. and saying that liberals are the real racists. For now, the religious right remains fixated on human trafficking, a serious crime that requires serious detective work and support from qualified nonprofits and shelters. Any effort to address human trafficking by Christian Nationalists like Waybourn and Schott should be scrutinized. For now, the Weekly is the only media outlet in Tarrant County willing to question the motives of rightwing grifters and liars. Waybourn’s team should consider renaming the human trafficking unit if their investigations and arrests are not going to result in human traffickingrelated prosecutions. Doing otherwise misleads a public that is too-frequently misled by right-wing conspiracy nuts looking to score political points off the religious right’s newest obsession. l This column reflects the opinions of the editorial board and not the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@ FWWeekly.com. Submissions will be edited for factuality and clarity.
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More than 100 people rallied downtown Saturday in support of Roe v. Wade.
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A crowd holds signs voicing support for Roe v. Wade. The rally on Saturday consisted of chanting and of listening to testimonies. “We believe there’s a lot of power in unity,” said Jasmin Flores, member of the local chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
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More than 100 people from across North Texas gathered at the steps of the Tarrant County Courthouse on Saturday to demonstrate support for the constitutional right to an abortion. The local branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation organized the rally in the wake of a leaked opinion by conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito describing
plans to overturn Roe v. Wade later this year. PSL DFW member Jasmin Flores led the crowd in call and response chants like, “My body, my choice! Their body, their choice!” and “Come on, come on and join the fight! Abortion is a human right!” Between chants, Flores invited rallygoers to take the megaphone and share testimonies. Several women spoke of their personal experiences with abortion. Texans have faced limited access to abortion since September 2021 when SB 8 took effect. The state law bans abortion after fetal cardiac activity can be detected. This usually happens at around six weeks, long before most women realize they are pregnant. Though Fort Worth clinics Planned Parenthood and Whole Woman’s Health have stayed open since the passing
of the law, SB 8 has limited their ability to provide abortions. Vanessa Castillo experienced this first-hand in February. She took the megaphone Saturday evening to share her story. The Grand Prairie resident realized she was pregnant after the cutoff, sending her scrambling to find a way to obtain an abortion. Local clinics referred her to out-ofstate facilities. Referral after referral told her they had no availability. Nationwide clinics are struggling to keep up with demand created by state restrictions. The fifth referral worked out, and Castillo arranged to go to New Mexico for her procedure. She came to the rally to share her experience and support others. “This affects me personally, and this affects so many people I know personally,”
she said. Glynis DeMone, of Saginaw, also shared her experience. In March, unbeknownst to her, she had an ectopic pregnancy. This caused internal bleeding, and DeMone nearly died. Removing the ectopic pregnancy is technically an abortive procedure. In the future, women may not have access to that type of health care and may die along with the collection of cells that the new law may be trying to protect. DeMone said she had always been pro-choice, but her own experience had brought a “sharpness” to her opinions. “It’s bullshit that my abortion is somehow more acceptable than others,” she said. “No one’s body should be forced to keep someone else’s alive. … I just got to the point where I think it’s no one’s fucking business.” l
Siblings Destiny and Taylor Clayton react in kind to a man who stopped his truck in the middle of Weatherford Street to flip off the group of people gathered at the steps of the Tarrant County Courthouse to show support for the constitutional right to an abortion. Shae Choate testifies to the crowd at the Tarrant County Courthouse Saturday. Choate sought an abortion after becoming pregnant in an abusive relationship. “You made the right choice,” someone from the crowd said. “I know I did!” she replied. Choate had driven an hour from Paradise to attend the rally.
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Jessica Smith and her daughter Sarah, 9, participate in call and response chants at a rally in support of the constitutional right to abortion. Smith, a single mother of five, brought four of her daughters to the rally on Saturday evening. “I’ve had a hysterectomy, so this is going to affect them more than me,” she said. “Motherhood is hard. They know that, and that decision shouldn’t be made for them.”
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Attendees of the rally for abortion rights held signs out to those driving down Weatherford Street on Saturday night.
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Khloe Clayton, 4, holds a sign at the rally for abortion rights at Tarrant County Courthouse. “I’ve had an abortion,” said Destiny Clayton, her mother, “and knowing if my daughter grows up and might not have that right — that pisses me off.” Clayton said she wants both her daughter and her son to have the same rights and to grow up knowing they can talk to her about difficult situations.
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Jasmin Flores leads call-and-response chants at Saturday’s rally for abortion rights. Flores is a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the group that organized the event.
More than 100 people from across North Texas gathered at the Tarrant County Courthouse to show support for the constitutional right to abortion. Last September, the state of Texas banned abortions after the detection of fetal cardiac activity. This month, a leaked draft showed the majority of Supreme Court members plan to overturn Roe v. Wade later this year.
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Glynis DeMone listens to testimonies during the rally Saturday evening. The Saginaw resident said she still suffers from panic attacks from a near death experience after complications from an ectopic pregnancy. She had the nonviable pregnancy surgically removed, which could be considered a criminal offense in the future.
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Fort Worth vs. France
The Kimbell Art Museum and the Louvre square off over a masterpiece. L I N
An international fight is brewing between our own Kimbell Art Museum and the world’s most famous art repository over Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s “Basket of Wild Strawberries.” The Kimbell ponied up $26.8 million for the oil painting at an auction in March, only for the French government to declare the work a national treasure, a move that gives the Louvre Museum 30 months to purchase the still life itself. Now, the art world waits to see whether the painting will be displayed in Paris or in Fort Worth. Chardin was a cabinetmaker’s son who spent his entire life in Paris in the 18th century. At a time when French painting was defined by the ultrarefined aristocratic scenes of Watteau and Fragonard (what was called “the grand manner” at the time), Chardin was renowned for his still lifes and scenes from the ordinary lives of housewives, kitchen maids, and children. A largely self-taught artist, he worked painstakingly, producing relatively few canvases of rough-hewn but exquisite craftsmanship. In his 20s, he gained admission into France’s Royal Academy, an extraordinary honor for someone from his background. His “Le panier de fraises des bois” measures about 15 by 17 inches. The painting was shown at the Salon exhibition
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Chardin’s “Basket of Wild Strawberries” may or may not be coming to the Kimbell Art Museum.
in 1761 (scholars assume it was painted around that time), where it received relatively little attention. It disappeared from history before resurfacing in the early 19th century, when it was bought by François Marcille, the wealthy and enthusiastic art collector who came to own more than 30 Chardins. The painting passed through the hands of his descendants, steadily gaining a reputation for its rigorous and eyecatching composition, with the pyramid of strawberries at the center set off by the glass of water on the left and the peach and cherries on the right. Chardin executed many still lifes of fruit, but this is his only painting that takes strawberries as its main subject. Frequently chosen as the image for covers of books about Chardin, the painting came up for auction this past spring at Paris’ Artcurial.
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A piece of art that was expected to go for $16 million became the subject of a bidding war between a small number of anonymous buyers, driving up the price. The winner of that auction was New York art dealer Adam Williams, and on May 4, he was revealed to be acting on the Kimbell’s behalf. The French government has long been a jealous guardian of the country’s artistic heritage, setting strict limits on French paintings leaving the nation’s borders for any reason. Its response means that it will be a while before the general public can see this masterwork. French taxpayers have had to make up for a steep shortfall in the Louvre’s attendance caused by the COVID pandemic, and the museum does not currently have the funds to buy the painting. Its corporate sponsor, TotalEnergies, may stump up the cash, though skeptics in France and elsewhere
are questioning why the money would be spent for a museum that already has more than 40 Chardin canvases or why an oil company is involved with an art museum in the first place. Kimbell director Eric Lee seemed sanguine about the prospects of obtaining the painting, telling The Art Newspaper France, “Even if we consider the Louvre may finally obtain it, it’s win-win in every sense as a major museum will acquire the work.” When I reached the Kimbell for comment, they replied, “We respect the French government’s decision. … Nevertheless, we hope eventually to be able to display this marvelous painting at the Kimbell, where it would be a wonderful ambassador of French culture.” Prepare for a high-level art dispute over the next couple of years that our city will eye with great interest. l
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TCU fandom hasn’t recently revolved around court sports. Fields tend to draw big crowds and the most recognition, at least in Panther City. Frog basketball took steps to change that perception this season with their NCAA tournament victory, which was preceded by men’s tennis capturing their first indoor national title. But a court filled with sand has become the newest launch pad for Horned Frog athletics hope.
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The sand volleyball courts are nestled between Milton Daniel Hall and the campus recreation center. Previously, they were just where most millennial undergrads went to sweat Cuervo-andcola leftovers from overzealous Thursday nights. In 2015, a new intercollegiate squad was birthed on campus. The team yielded logical success for an upstart fringe sport on a campus more than 300 miles from the nearest beach: They won zero games and didn’t play any home matches. The 2016 season was a stark contrast as the team played 25 matches, winning 18 of them, and concluded their season with a close win over 10th-ranked LSU. Since then, the burgeoning players have logged mostly winning seasons and have spiked themselves into the premier tier of this sandy sport. The game itself is anything but young, but the standing with the NCAA is. TCU organized the team in response to the sponsorship of an official championship tournament, the first of which occurred in 2016. If you’re only familiar with indoor volleyball, beach is different. Each match consists of five 2-on-2 contests that occur simultaneously. The first team with three set-winning pairs wins the match. The strategy and makeup of the athletes also diverge from indoor volleyball. Beach players tend to be smaller and less specialized as they’re asked to cover half a court by themselves and be able to bump, set, and spike from everywhere. continued on page 12
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The sophomore Spanish pair (left) of Daniela Alvarez (#1) and Tania Moreno (#22) were honored as the CCSA pair of the year. Luc Fomba (right) is ITA’s 12th-ranked singles player and half of the top-ranked doubles team. 11
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to a current professional. Previously an assistant with Florida State, Gutierrez continued from page 11 guided the Frogs through 28 consecutive wins this season, including two against You’d probably be able to pick out three top-ranked UCLA, before their first or four indoor players walking together loss against USC in Los Angeles. Their around Target, where your average beach only other regular-season loss was at the generalist might only be 5-foot-9 but a hands of fourth-ranked Florida State in more adaptable overall athlete as they’re Tallahassee. TCU’s 36-2 record garnered them the asked to be very good at many things, top seed in the Coastal Collegiate Sports rather than excellent at only one or two. TCU’s team has known only two Association conference tournament. The coaches, and their current leader, Hector Frogs dispatched Tulane before avenging Gutierrez, has led the Frogs since 2017. their earlier loss by beating the Seminoles. Gutierrez lives and breathes volleyball. Sadly, FSU fought their way through the Originally from Spain and a retired semifinals to rendezvous with the Beach SRF2022-FWWkly-Ad7-7_46x8_41-0506-PRESS.pdf 1 5/2/22 2:11 PM professional player, he’s also married Frogs in the finals, where the Sunshine
Staters won their sixth-consecutive conference championship. TCU received a program record seven postseason awards from their conference, including coach of the year for Gutierrez. Their dominating win-loss record also earned them the second-overall seed in the NCAA tournament. Despite their stellar regular season, the Frogs were upset 3-2 by 10-seed Georgia State in their second match and relegated to the losers’ bracket, where they were upset again, 3-2 by sixth-seed LSU. Florida State and USC, who combined for three of the Frogs’ five total losses this season, met for the championship which top-seed USC won 3-1, to repeat as national champions. The Trojans have won four of
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the six total NCAA beach volleyball titles, and UCLA has won the other two. TCU’s squad, which is primarily a trifecta of Texas, California, and Spanish talent, will have high expectations volleying forward. The young program is certainly one to watch as they attempt to cement themselves as a fixture in a sport that is new enough to root themselves as a legacy program, even though we’re lacking the natural geographic associations most would make when thinking about a prominent beach volleyball program, you know, like a nearby beach. While most of us were busy trying to figure out how to avoid disappointing our wives and mothers this weekend, men’s tennis were making their mamas proud, per usual. The NCAA men’s tournament is in full swing, and the top-seeded Frogs get to hang around Fort Worth for the majority of it. Last week’s regional was reassuring, if uneventful, as David Roditi’s racketeers hammer-spanked Drake and Utah without dropping a match. This is the seventhconsecutive season the purple men have advanced to their Sweet Sixteen. Roditi has led his squad to the round of eight teams during the last two tournaments but is striving for a special season as they’ve not reached the semifinals since 2015. These court kings have already won one national championship this season, but the road ahead is uncharted. Roditi and company secured the Big 12 regular-season crown but lost a 2-4 match against Baylor during the conference tournament finals and are 1-2 against the Bears during the outdoor season. Outdoor struggles aside, it would take a near-miracle upset to knock the Frogs out of their own super regional this coming weekend. Saturday’s opponent — NC State — is unseeded and scraped a 4-3 victory past 16-seed Middle Tennessee State. TCU’s quarterfinals opponent on Sunday will be the winner of Kentucky versus Wake Forest, the eight- and nine-seed, respectively. This squad is more than capable of meeting the tremendous expectations they’ve built and should be poised to advance to Roditi’s second final-four appearance (likely against Baylor, but possibly Tennessee) by the end of the weekend. These national champions have only lost versus three opponents this season, all of whom are ranked in the topsix seeds and spread across two of the other three super regionals. Regardless of the team results, the NCAA tournament won’t be the end of the Frogs’ tennis season. The individual and doubles championships will immediately follow the team tournament in Florida, and TCU will send several seeded representatives, including the doubles pair of Luc Fomba and Jake Fearnley, who have recently received the ITA’s top ranking. Baseball and football certainly have their work ahead of them if they want to remain the most talked about programs on campus in the face of all the court successes of their fellow lettermen this year. l
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Beyond the bulls, the PBR is bringing a slew of concerts with them in the Friday next two weeks. Opening the festivities is North Texas’ own neoC&W crooner Charley Crockett playing Will Rogers Memorial Center (3401 W Lancaster Av, 817-392-7469) at 8:30pm. Tickets start at $36 at Ticketmaster.com. (For info on more PRB concerts, see this week’s Crosstown Sounds at FWWeekly. com.) Also, the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo is 7pm Fri, and 1:30pm or 7pm Sat, at Cowtown Coliseum (121 E Exchange Av, 817-625-1025). Tickets are $25-55 at JimAustinLive.com, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum (2029 N Main St, 817-922-9999).
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Another free PBR event is the National Barrel Horse Association’s Sunday Fort Worth Super Showcase at 9am at Cowtown Coliseum (121 E Exchange Av, 817-625-1025). “We’re honored to work alongside the PBR to produce this featured barrel racing event as part of the PBR World Finals in Fort Worth, Texas,” said NBHA director Bailey Nahrgang. “Fort Worth is home to the NBHA office, so it’s a very special opportunity to do what we love in our home state.”
Meet rodeo clown Flint Rasmussen at PBR’s Outside the Barrel thru Sun, May 22.
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If you’ve been meaning to check out the National Cowgirl Museum and Thursday Hall of Fame (1720 Gendry St, 817-336-4475), you might want to sneak in before the PBR world descends upon us. The museum is open 10am-5pm today (and every Tue-Sat) and noon-5pm Sun. The women honored in the Hall of Fame — 243 in all — include actress/icon Dale Evans, writer Laura Ingalls Wilder, Nacona Boot Company founder Enid Justin, sharpshooter Annie Oakley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Conner, painter
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Georgia O’Keeffe, and Lewis and Clark’s principal guide Sacagawea, to name a few. Tickets are $12 at Cowgirl.net.
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While it’s definitely not our first rodeo, it is our first PBR. Fort Worth is hosting the world finals for the Professional Bull Riders association for the first time in history Friday thru Sun, May 23. (Suck it, Vegas!) This fact means that there are tons of bull-oriented events this week and next, including the ones below.
Kicking off each weekend is the PBR Parade of Champions at 11:35am Saturday today (and next Saturday) in the Stockyards (131 E Exchange Av, 800-433-5747). Along with its other programming, the PBR is launching its newly created family-friendly Cowboy Experience and Expo. This showcase of the sport’s history and the Western way of life via interactive exhibits is happening 10am-6pm Mon-Sat and 10am-1pm Sun thru Sun, May 22, at the Simmons Bank Pavilion outside Dickies Arena (1911 Montgomery St, 817-4029000). The parade, experience, and expo, as well as the Tractor Supply pre-shows, are all free to attend.
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Described by the PBR as the “richest women’s rodeo event,” the 2022 Monday Women’s Rodeo World Championship at 4pm today and 7:30pm Tue-Wed features women in four disciplines vying for a $750,000 purse paid out across the three days. Attendee tickets are $20-40 at eTix.com. To learn about the competitors, visit PBR.com/ news.
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If you are taking a lot of photos at the PBR this week, you might enjoy Tuesday learning about the lost art of developing your own film. As part of the 2022 Fort Worth Foto Fest going on Friday thru Sat, May 21, you can take the Developing Film class taught by D. Anson Brody at Fort Worth Camera (6483 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-335-3456) 11am-12:30pm today. Tickets are $25 at EventBrite.com. Then at 7pm, head to Downtown Cowtown at the Isis Theater (2401 N Main St, 817-808-6390) for the Fort Worth Foto Fest Texas Short Film Showcase. Tickets are $10 at EventBrite.com.
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The event that is central to everything above is, of course, the actual 2022 Professional Bull Riders Association World Finals. With a theme of “Unleash the Beast,” this year’s finals
will take place at Dickies Arena (1911 Montgomery St, 817-402-9000) 7:45pm Fri-Sat and 1:45pm Sun, then 7:45pm Thu-Sat, May 19-21, and 8:45am Sun, May 22. For the “toughest eight seconds in sports,” the PBR pits the most rugged riders against the baddest bulls. “Each two-day stop kicks off with pyrotechnics. The riders themselves quickly outdo the explosions and flames — 35 matchups divided into three rounds of dirt-flinging, arm-flailing, and fierce performances by all of the athletes in the arena, human and animal alike. Unleash the Beast brings 750 tons of dirt, 65 tons of steer, and 25 tons of steel. Each rider faces all of that weight as he competes to qualify for the PBR World Finals, where the winner will walk away with $1 million and the coveted gold belt buckle.” Between rounds, see well-known rodeo clown Flint Rasmussen cut through the tension with his unique brand of humor. If you’d like to meet Rasmussen, stop by Flint Rasmussen’s Outside the Barrel Fri-Sat, then ThuFri, May 19-20, at the Simmons Bank Pavilion at Dickies Arena. PBR Finals tickets are $46-287 per day. There are also VIP options starting at $476.
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Thus far in my irregular career reviewing restaurants for the Fort Worth Weekly, I’ve never encountered Tim Love. I did stop a few times for burgers at his Love Shack
when it was on the way from the office to my home, but I never dealt personally with the man. Thus, I didn’t have the chance to dive deep into one of the polarizing local chef ’s restaurants until recently, when he opened Paloma Suerte, his first-ever Tex-Mex venture, which is located in the Stockyards. Recognizing that the place is pitched at the tourists in that area rather than at anyone seeking authentic cuisine (whatever that means), I still got an inevitable sense of a talented chef seeking social-media clickbait more than culinary excellence. The restaurant is located in Mule Alley, so be prepared to cough up for parking and/or do some walking from your car to the door. Not a great deal of thought has gone into the decor of the place, and I wound up taking my meals at the polished concrete bar while watching basketball and soccer on the TVs above. The bar area opens up onto a patio, so it’s possible to take some fresh air there while still sitting under a roof. If you look at the photographs accompanying this review, you’ll notice that the plates were clearly obtained from the same supplier as Don Artemio’s, which I reviewed (“No. 1 or Bust,” April 20, 2022). Both times I went, I had tortilla chips that were straight out of the fryer. Southwesterner that I am, I respond to warm
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totopos the way other people respond to freshly baked bread — the smell is ambrosia to me. On my second visit, I ordered the specialty queso with the chips, and aside from being too full of bits of tomato, chile, brisket, and other extraneous stuff, it was fine. The bigger issue was that after I’d eaten my way through a basket of chips,
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The bacon-wrapped stuffed jalapeños and crab-stuffed Gulf shrimp suffered from a little overkill.
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only cream cheese but also brisket, and the latter wound up being overpowered by the bacon, which was charred to within an inch of its life. The cheese at least offered a textural contrast. The brisket contributed nothing, as did the bean dip that was one of two served alongside the chiles. The tangy, creamy dressing dip was a better match. One of the kitchen’s specialties is the crab-stuffed Gulf shrimp, and it suffered from the same overkill. These came sizzling on a plancha like fajitas, and the
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big crustaceans had decadent piles of crab meat filled out with buttery breadcrumbs. So what purpose was the side of buttery sauce supposed to serve? The entree was already plenty filling enough without piling more fat on top of the fat. The kitchen showed off better with something simpler, like the birria tacos. I ordered duck meat for mine, and the tacos came with a broth for dipping that gave the rich meat a crisp and lightly spicy contrast. Even here, the diced onions sprinkled on one side were an unnecessary touch, though the shells had just the right amount of cheese and crunch. All this heavy food places equally heavy pressure on the bar to provide drinks that can cut through the fat. There are dessert options that aren’t listed on the menu, though they’re limited to Mexican staples like flan and sopapillas. Instead, I welcomed the taste of my signature house cocktail, a frozen concoction filled to the lip of the glass and thick enough not to spill out, with the sour-and-sweet flavors of mango, watermelon, blueberry, and prickly pear cleansing my palate. (The bartender offered me the option of salt on the rim, which I declined.) I can imagine this drink working even better on one of those hot summer days. The bar may be the best part of Paloma Suerte, where cleverness is all over the menu, whether it works or not. The Stockyards may or may not be a tourist trap, but the new restaurant there definitely is one. l Paloma Suerte Queso de la casa ................................... $14 Brisket and cheese stuffed bacon-wrapped jalapeños (3) ............... $12 Birria tacos (2) ...................................... $16-18 Crab-stuffed Gulf shrimp ...................... $32 Signature house cocktail ..................... $12
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2.) The second WSF fundraiser, Corks for Cowboys, is happening 1pm-3pm Fri, May 20, at B&B Butchers & Restaurant (5212 Marathon Av, 817-737-5212). This “cowboy classy” wine tasting includes two wine flights paired with hand-crafted appetizers and “the charcuterie board of all boards.” (A sommelier will present the description and background of each wine.) Shuttle service from the PBR Finals (Dickies Arena, 1911 Montgomery St, 817-402-9000) will be provided. Tickets are $300 at e.GiveSmart.com. 3.) If you’re looking for something more on the cheaper side, Saturday is Dollar
4.) One of Fort Worth’s newest hangouts for “coffee aficionados looking for a better experience,” Boulevard Brew (5406 River Oaks Blvd, 682-250-2544) has just opened a new lounge inside the shop. Featuring craft beer, drafts, domestic and imported beers, wine, and a chef-created food menu, The Purple Lounge seeks to transport you back to the “elegance of the swinging ’60s with a cozy twist.” Check out this intimate dining room and lounge during happy hour (4pm-6pm Mon-Fri) and enjoy various specials, including $4 house wine and $3 draft beer. For hours and the full menu, visit BlvdBrew.com. 5.) LOOK Dine-In Cinemas has taken over the space of the shuttered Movie Tavern in Arlington (5727 W I-20 at Green Oaks Blvd, 682-816-0113) and is offering a “technology-first luxury cinema experience.” The newly remodeled theater — the Dallas-based company’s 10th location — is full-service and has seven screens. Along with beer, craft cocktails, and wine, a gourmet food menu offers snacks, shareables, salads, main
tropical berry infused option with our fermented rum. If you want to add a little creaminess, it pairs perfectly with our piña colada!” #GoFrogs 7.) On Saturday, grab your yoga mat and head to the beer garden at Wild Acre Brewing Company (1734 E El Paso St, Ste 190, 817-882-9453) for the return of Beer Yoga 6:30pm-7:30pm with instructor Alli Carpenter. This beginner-friendly class is open to all ages. Tickets are $15 for the yoga class only, or $25 for yoga plus two beers, at Prekindle.com. Check-in starts at 5pm. Afterward, the beer garden and taproom will remain open for participants thru 8pm.
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1.) While the PBR is in town — see more about this city-spanning event in this issue’s Night & Day — the Western Sports Foundation (WSF.org) is hosting two fundraising events. (WSF “supports total athlete wellness for those competing in Western lifestyle sports by providing resources for life.”) First, head to Top Golf (2201 E 4th St, 817-349-4002) 1:30pm3:30pm Sat for a barbecue lunch. Tickets are $500 at e.GiveSmart.com and include entry, unlimited golf, a golf shirt, a goodie bag, food, and drinks. Plus, you’ll get to meet some of the PBR’s top bull riders in person.
Day at Lone Star Park (1000 Lone Star Pkwy, Grand Prairie, 972-263-7223). General admission and Lone Star Today programs, plus concessions including beer, hot dogs, Pepsi, and popcorn, are all $1 each on Levels 1 and 2. Also, enjoy free live music by the Downtown Fever Band on the Courtyard of the Champions Stage. Gates open at noon, and the first horse race is at 1:35pm.
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8.) Finally, there was an error in last week’s column that I’d like to correct. In the Mother’s Day listing for The Sleeping Panther, we cited Patrick Mikyles’ website by mistake. Tickets for shows at The Sleeping Panther (1000 Houston St, 817946-2295) can be purchased by calling the venue or going to SleepingPanther.live. (For Miklyes’ shows, PatrickMikylesPresents. com/About-5 is the right site.) Along with bingo, burlesque, and fantasy drag shows, the Drag-with-Me Drag Brunch is hosted every Sat-Sun at noon at The Sleeping Panther. All ages are welcome at brunch shows. Drinks are purchased separately at the full bar. Admission is $30 per person and includes your seat and brunch. In celebration of the seventh anniversary, you can call for special brunch pricing — and bingo is free — for the rest of May.
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With some help from fellow Fort Worth singersongwriter Eric Osbourne, Cameron Smith’s latest solo album builds “sonic galleries” for listeners to occupy. B Y
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The album artwork for Shine is by Smith’s recently departed friend and creative lodestar this time around, Jeremy Joel.
S.A.M. (Support a Motherfucker) Gallery, Joel’s small, underground, outsider arthouse. Smith was more than happy to oblige. Tragically, Joel would be reported missing just days later, ultimately being discovered to have died at just 37 years old. Though, as it stands, no such film is now likely to be made, Smith nevertheless continued writing with that unfulfilled project in mind. Two years later, the fruits of that inspiration have become Smith’s sophomore solo album, Shine.
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“Some of the songs had already been written when [Joel] hit me up about doing the music for this movie,” Smith recalled. “I had started by trying to flesh one of them out. I don’t remember which, but something for that idea. Then, when he passed away, I just started writing for what that movie would have been in my head, I guess.” The 10 tracks on Shine feel like the next step in a natural progression of Smith’s writing and cement a developing maturity that seems well-honed and confident as well as it does intimate and contemplative. Highlighting Smith’s lyrical acumen, the tracks are presented simply, unbothered by slick production or lush instrumentation, yet with a fullness achieved by other means. There’s a seeming ease to his verses, which weave stories of nostalgia, growth, loss, and a tranquil hominess to the sonic textures that wrap around the listener as comforting as a plump down blanket. A large part of these textures is owed to a newfound collaboration for Smith. As he was developing the songs that would become Shine, he sent demos to friend and fellow singer-songwriter Eric Osbourne for his opinion. During the depth of the COVID lockdown with
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unusually expendable time, eventually, Osbourne started sending the tracks back with additions he had made of little parts that he heard in his head and which he felt might work. Receiving them, Smith would employ some, change some, write on top of others, cut some, and send them back. Then the process would start again. This unintentional pseudo-partnership transpired back and forth for a bit before the two realized they were subconsciously actually working on a record together. “The songs would have, like, a robot drum beat on it, and I’d add a little lead part, or melodica, or saw, whatever kind of things,” Smith said, “and [Osbourne] would take it and augment that or add a vocal harmony or something new. Though they’re my songs, we really developed the atmosphere of them together.” Neither Smith nor Osbourne recalls the collaboration as intentional. At least, not initially. “I think it was just quarantine, and we were sort of becoming better friends and talking about lots of music,” Osbourne said. “I think it was kind of an accident really that we took it as far as we did. We just go into it. It’s like [Smith] sent me a bunch of skeletons, and I threw some meat on the bones or something.” Using the BandLab app, the two passed the tracks back and forth, with much of the recording devices simply being their iPhones, an unintentional means that adds to the record’s charm. “Eventually, I started to realize that this is becoming a thing, and I don’t want to take it and re-record it somewhere,” Smith said about the recordings he first assumed to be simply demos. “I like it the way it is. The character started to match this certain aesthetic, like [Joel’s] street art, sort of like painting over things. There’s an element of mixing mediums, and layering things, and erasing things, and building off that.” The lack of studio sheen lends Shine something different — an aesthetic of intimacy that a running clock in an expensive tracking room just couldn’t duplicate. “It’s really like creating this sonic room that you can step into and visit a place,” Smith said of the sound. “It’s like a sonic gallery. You’re building an actual space that you want people to feel invited into.” Osbourne agrees with these motivations. “It’s not, ‘How do you want the song to sound?,’ ” he explained, “It’s ‘How do
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Hearsay Happy Release Party to The Unlikely Candidates
The Unlikely Candidates are celebrating their debut album with a show that further illustrates how I totally forget how they are a pretty huge band until they do something like go on tour supporting an even huger band like 311, which they did in March and April. But I also forget that they have been a band for a really long time — their Wikipedia page pins the band’s genesis to 2008, when frontman Kyle Morris and guitarist Cole Male were still in high school — as well as the peculiarity that, in those 14 years, they had yet to drop a full-length album. I think I have a vague “They got boned by a major label” idea of why their discography and widespread fanbase
are built on a handful of EPs instead of that vaunted relic of a previous music industry era, the Debut LP. But rather than get the details wrong about the why, I’d rather just play it safe and announce that The Unlikely Candidates’ first fulllength is finally here. Or it will be next week, anyway, on Thu, May 19, at MASS (1002 S Main, 817-707-7774), when the band will headline a bill that also features openers Loyal Sally, The Infamists, and Bobby Dade. Called Panther Island, the 11-track album is almost a decade in the making, though much of it seems to have come together during 2020. I’m snatching a quote from SLRMagazine.com here, but in March, when the band released Panther Island’s first single, “Sunshine,” Morris said, “Thematically, it’s just as varied, shifting from songs about the chaos on the streets and loneliness behind the phone screens of America during the pandemic,
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Cool Jacket Hangs Nine
And since we’re on the topic of new albums, one of my favorite local bands, the Dallas-based trio Cool Jacket, is also releasing its first full-length, a ninetrack collection of jangly, hooky, postpunk bangers called Pipeline. Sonically, Cool Jacket fits in a Venn diagram about
bands like Bad Sports, the Buzzcocks, and Dinosaur Jr., and on Pipeline, I think that description is most apt on “Survivor Syndrome,” the record’s third song. Two tracks later, “Over It” gave me the impression that Cool Jacket might have been on a bill 20 years ago that was headlined by The Deathray Davies, and if that sounds appealing, you’ll really like “Happy Sad 2,” because that one makes me think this hypothetical concert from the year 2000 might have also included Chomsky. I don’t know if it’s intentional, but the band makes music that reminds me of end-of-the-millennium college rock, and I am here for it. Cool Jacket’s Pipeline release party is Friday, also at MASS, with Crooked Bones and Wayne Floyd & His Full Band opening the show. Paddle out, drop in! — S.S. Contact HearSay at Anthony@FWWeekly.com.
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