Fort Worth Weekly // May 17-23, 2023

METROPOLIS

Local man plans a civil suit against Fort Worth police for wrongful arrest.

BY EDWARD BROWN

EATS

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DRINKS

Quince is a seafood lover’s wet dream.

BY CODY NEATHERY

STUFF

Esports are blowing up, and Texas Wesleyan’s national championship team is growing.

BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT

The Fort Worth singer-songwriter’s new EP may be his catchiest yet, and that’s saying something.

BY STEVE STEWARD

Anthony Mariani, Editor

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Edward Brown, Staff Writer

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METROPOLIS

Lost Years

A Fort Worth father alleges local police falsely charged him with domestic violence when he was the one who called 911 for help.

EDWARD BROWN

After more than four years living under felony charges for domestic abuse, Nick Maddox recently received good news.

“They dismissed my case,” Maddox texted me.

Maddox has hired an attorney for the civil suit that he plans on bringing against Fort Worth police for wrongfully arresting him in June 2019.

During a follow-up phone call, the 25-year-old single father of one was in high spirits. He said that now, without any looming criminal charges, he has better job opportunities than in the recent past. Maddox’s ordeal began when his former girlfriend and the mother of their child allegedly punched him in the face while he was driving in mid-2019. When he called 911 to report the alleged battery, he told me, Fort Worth police assumed he was the abuser and arrested him.

The young father shared a screenshot of his mugshot at Tarrant County Jail.

“Look, you can see my black eye,” he said, referring to the dark welt on the right side of his face.

Maddox, who had no criminal record before the incident, lost his job and savings from the now-dropped charges.

Maddox said he spent $117,000 the first year in court costs alone. “I had to give up everything.”

He worked in wealth management until the allegations against him led to his felony indictment and his firing. He was facing two to 10 years in state prison.

The Tarrant County District Attorney’s office offered Maddox three years deferred adjudication, meaning he could plead guilty and have the charges removed from his record if he met certain guidelines over three years. The DA’s office often places bond conditions that require defendants to check

in monthly with a bond supervision officer. Until just a couple weeks ago, Maddox was restricted from consuming alcohol, owning or possessing a firearm, or traveling outside the country.

“I had to skip out” on socializing with friends due to the bond restrictions, he said. “I missed out on much of my 20s.”

Further complicating his ordeal was an argument he had with his brother during that time that led to what Maddox described as a minor outdoor tussle, which prompted neighbors to call the police. When the officers arrived, they pinned a Class B misdemeanor charge on Maddox, he alleges, because the domestic violence charge made him appear like an aggressor. Maddox recently pleaded guilty to the charge that required no fine or jail time and six months’ probation.

A spokesperson for the DA said in an email that their office dropped the domestic violence charges as part of an agreement that Maddox plead guilty to assaulting his brother — something Maddox isn’t buying. The dropped felony and light probation for the fight allowed county prosecutors to drop a meritless case that had lingered for more than five years, he said.

Maddox plans to make his grievances public. Already, he said, dozens of his friends are calling the DA’s office, demanding prosecutors treat Maddox as the victim of alleged assault by his former girlfriend. Maddox said his former defense attorney was recently called by DA Phil Sorrells, who had inquired about the dismissed charges.

Maddox believes Sorrells’ call was an attempt to intimidate the former defendant into not going public about possible malicious prosecution. The DA’s spokesperson did not reply to follow-up questions about Sorrells’ phone call.

Based on data published by the DA’s office last year, assault charges (including family violence) were the third most prosecuted crime in Tarrant County in 2022 with 2,040 charges filed out of around 45,000 total criminal cases. Homicides related to intimate partner violence dropped from 16 in 2016 to seven in 2021, based on DA data. Former DA Sharen Wilson started a social media campaign #NotinMyCounty in 2017 to raise awareness about intimate partner violence, which continues under the current administration.

Men are far less likely to report physical abuse from female partners, said Alyson Huntley. Speaking to Reuters Health in 2019, the University of Bristol professor said cultural stereotypes are the main factor in that disparity.

“The issue of masculinity is a societal one,” she said. “Men are not expected to be the weak ones. It is a hard stereotype to work against.”

Maddox believes gender stereotypes played a role in Fort Worth police’s decision to arrest him when they met him and his then-girlfriend at a gas station in 2019.

It makes sense. Based on government data, around 75% of suspects arrested for domestic violence are male. Maddox’s ordeal and that of Jen Roundtree, the Fort Worth mother whose daughter was allegedly driven to suicide due to her boyfriend’s physical abuse, show how local law enforcement fail to properly charge or not charge individuals with domestic violence.

In several reports, police describe the alleged physical abuse suffered by Jen Roundtree’s 25-year-old daughter, Sierra Roundtree (“Unanswered Cries,” Nov. 10).

Law enforcement in Dallas, Parker, and Tarrant counties were called many times to reports of screaming and domestic disturbances but failed to arrest the boyfriend.

“The victim, my daughter, is now dead,” Jen emailed one law enforcement agency after Sierra’s death. “The police had been out to her house several times and still no one arrested this monster. He sat in the apartment for TEN MINUTES while neighbors, police, and EMTs were beating on the door. Do you know where my beautiful daughter was? Hanging by her neck from the back porch.”

The DA’s Victim Services Unit can be reached at 817-884-2740 during normal business hours. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24 hours a day at 800-799-7233. l

Nick Maddox alleges Fort Worth police falsely arrested him in 2019 due to assumptions that men can’t be victims of domestic violence.

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Nick Maddox: “Look, you can see my black eye.”

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Static

Family Court Cartel?

When Rebekah Montgomery read a court order stating she appeared before 231st District Judge Jesse Nevarez last month, she was unsettled but not surprised.

Montgomery said she had not been in Texas since the end of March, though Tarrant County remains her place of residence.

“I’ve seen a lot of [suspicious] things play out in my case,” she continued. “The fact is I was not there. For them to put that I was present doesn’t sit right. It’s not ethical.”

Montgomery has not seen her teenage son since December. That’s when Nevarez granted her ex-husband a temporary restraining order against her on the allegation that she didn’t stock adequate food at her Fort Worth home. Her ex-husband allegedly used the order to pick up their son from her house while she was at work.

Several parents currently or recently litigating in the 231st allege similar procedural irregularities by Nevarez and his alleged inability to follow the law consistently. Early into a divorce or child custody suit, we’re told, one party gains favor with the 231st (allegedly through personal connections) and enjoys lopsided rulings regardless of evidence. Nevarez, based on his public social media posts, does not hide his allegiance to certain lawyers. In 2017, he praised two prominent local family law attorneys with the firm KoonsFuller on social media.

“Listening to my good friends Heather King and Jessica Hall Janicek do their presentations after lunch,” the judge posted.

Weekly staff writer Edward Brown recently witnessed Nevarez’ undue favoritism when the judge attempted to relinquish jurisdiction over Brown’s son one day before a scheduled evidentiary hearing (“Courting Fatherhood,” April 26), possibly to avoid the presentation of evidence on the matter. Nevarez’ order falsely says that Brown’s son has no relatives in Texas even as the teenager maintains nearly a dozen family members throughout North Texas. Our staff writer recently filed several motions to overturn the fraudulent order to sever his son’s case from Tarrant County — a judicial act that impedes Brown’s ability to see his only son.

Like many 231st parents, Montgomery wrote a negative review of the 231st on Google last year. Associate Judge Kevin Schmid subsequently placed a gag order on her that quashes her First Amendment rights to publicly express her beliefs and criticize government misconduct.

The family court cartel often seeks to silence critics. Brooks McKenzie remains in hiding after a Tarrant County judge (unnamed in court documents) recently issued a warrant for his arrest for alleged contempt of court. McKenzie, who holds a Ph.D. in child development, is an outspoken critic of 233rd Judge Ken Newell and Associate Judge Kate Stone, both of whom allegedly stripped him of his parental rights to his son based on false allegations. Newell and Stone consistently ruled against McKenzie

based on allegations that were never substantiated, according to court documents the father shared with us (“Corrupt Courts Destroying Families,” Oct 2022). McKenzie believes his Christian faith made him a target. Indeed, Stone court-ordered the father to not pray with his son.

Two days after McKenzie spoke at a conservative grassroots group meeting where he called out Newell and Stone for alleged judicial misconduct, a judge tied to the 233rd scheduled a contempt of court hearing, alleging that McKenzie, an unemployed public speaker, failed to pay child support. The day before the April 18 hearing, McKenzie, based on court documents, moved his child custody case from Tarrant County to the United States District Court’s Northern District of Texas. Such federal removals are legally permissible if a plaintiff can argue that the state courts are violating his or her constitutional rights.

Judge Newell declined to comment on our reporting, a 233rd spokesperson told us, because the April 18 hearing was not presided over by Newell or Stone. The spokesperson declined to tell us which judge enforced the 233rd’s order.

Montgomery recently filed a motion to recuse Nevarez, based on his alleged failure to follow due process and Texas Family Code.

Nevarez “aided and abetted” Montgomery’s ex-husband on Dec 16, the recusal motion reads, when the judge allowed the father to violate the mother’s court-ordered visitation time with her son based on allegations that were “unreasonable, biased, and groundless.”

Like an increasing number of parents in the 231st, Montgomery recently went pro se, meaning she ditched her attorney in favor of self-representation. Filing motions on her own, the single mother has found, adds an extra layer of protection from willfully misguided family attorney recommendations and potentially unlawful maneuverings by Nevarez and the family court cartel.

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. He will gently edit it for clarity and concision.

Rebekah Montgomery is one of a growing number of Tarrant County parents who allege Judge Jesse Nevarez routinely puts his attorney friends over the best interests of children.

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NIGHT & DAY

Enjoy some family time at WataugaFest 2023 5pm10pm Thu-Fri, 10am-10pm Sat, and noon-6pm Sun. This free event will be at Capp Smith Park (5800 Robin Dr, Watauga, 817-514-5828) and will feature carnival rides, food trucks, live entertainment, vendors, and more.

It’s also time for the annual Wildflower Arts & Music Festival at Galatyn Park Urban Center (2351 Performance Dr, Richardson, 972-744-4580). Many artists are playing this weekend, including local favorites Flickerstick on Friday. On Saturday, Fort Worth’s Squeezebox Bandits are on the bill with the likes of Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, the Little River Band, The Romantics, and more. If you head back on Sunday, you can hear Jimmy Vaughn, Joshua Ray Walker, and others. Three-day passes are $75, but you can also purchase individual tickets for Friday and Saturday ($35 each) or Sunday ($20). For more information or tickets, visit WildFlowerFestival.com.

Saturday

Sunday

It’s time for the Rock N Roll Rummage Sale (@ LolasRocknRollRummageSale) from noon to 6pm at Lola’s (2000 W Berry St, Fort Worth). Every third Sunday of the month, more than 40 local vendors set up shop selling antiques, art, books, collectibles, jewelry, oddities, retro items, vintage finds, and more. Food is available for purchase. Admission is free.

Wee-Beasties frontman Richard Haskins will perform solo at 7pm at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio (411 E Sycamore St, Denton, 940-594-2207) and be followed by the documentary Free continued on page 9

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Along with Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, see local favorites Flickerstick and Squeezbox Bandits at Wildflower this weekend.

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The May installment of Rock N Roll Rummage Sale is Sunday at Lola’s.

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WataugaFest is happening all weekend at Capp Smith Park.

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Richard Haskins. “I’m gonna do a rad hourlong solo set of my music following a screening of a pretty awesome documentary made by Make Something Beautiful,” Haskins said. “It’s got all kinds of crazy interviews from me in jail, and a lot of cool people are in it. I hope you dig it.” Will it explain why he performs in only a Speedo? Let’s hope so. Tickets are $10 on Prekindle.com.

Tuesday

American education reform advocate and author Airick Journey Crabill will discuss and sign copies of his new book Great on Their Behalf: How School Boards Fail, How Yours Can Become Effective 5:30pm-7pm, Mon-Tue at The Dock Bookshop (6637 Meadowbrook Dr, Fort Worth, 817-457-5700). As the Texas Education Agency’s current deputy commissioner for governance, Crabill is uniquely qualified to share his thoughts on the subject. Great on Their Behalf is “your practical guide to igniting the transformation of your school board and enabling it to create the conditions for improving what students know and are able to do.” There is no cost to attend, but RSVP is requested on Eventbrite.com. The book will be for sale at the Dock but is also available at GreatonTheirBehalf.com starting at $17.91.

The latest offering from National Theatre Live, the National Theatre of Great Britain’s initiative to broadcast live performances from the National’s stages to cinemas worldwide, is Othello. Knowing what a tragedy it is that you’re stuck stateside — see what I did there? — the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St, Fort Worth, 817-738-9215) is hosting a screening of the Shakespeare piece at 2pm today and Sat, May 27, in partnership with Amphibian Stage. Tickets start at $10 at AmphibianStage.com/Shows/Othello.

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Thursday

From 6pm to 8pm at Refinery 714 at the Kimpton Harper Hotel (714 Main St, Fort Worth, 917-332-7200), the Champagne Showers Bring May Flowers Pop-Up features the launch of the new seasonal floral fragrance Nabati by French perfume brand Diptyque. In celebration, guests are invited to “embark on a journey of the senses through a custom discovery experience with Diptyque’s experts.” The team will help you identify your ideal fragrance while you shop and enjoy Champagne, floral-themed cocktails, and light bites. RSVP is requested at TinyURL.com/kpr6mr9z.

By Jennifer Bovee

See a live simulcast of Othello at the Modern on Wed, May 24 and Sat, May 27.

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See more Richard Haskins than usual at Rubber Gloves on Monday.

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STUFF

Victory Click

Esports are here to stay, and one Fort Worth university is trailblazing how gaming is approached on campus.

BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT

My wife doesn’t understand video games. Granted, she was a preteen in the 1990s and a cheerleader. Now an academic, she wasn’t the target market for console or PC games as they were coming of age. That was mostly teenage boys and arguably still is. Myself, as an educator and father, I witness every day that video games are more popular than ever and have transcended gender, socioeconomics, and platforms. Consumers from every walk of life play them everywhere thanks to smartphones and mobile devices like the Nintendo Switch. Also, for the first time in human history, there are retirement-eligible people who have played video games of some kind their entire lives.

One Fort Worth university, and not the one you’re probably thinking of, is leveraging the cultural assimilation of video games and esports into their curriculum to stand out among other North Texas universities. Eugene Frier, director of esports and gaming at Texas Wesleyan University, grew up, like many of us, playing games of all kinds. A UNT graduate, Frier made his first foray into competitive gaming on the campus local area network (LAN) against other Mean Green students.

“I was good enough to know that I wasn’t,” Frier recalled.

One of the first teams to win real money at a Halo tournament hosted by XBOX was anchored by two North Texans, one of whom was another UNT student. Frier, who stayed at UNT to complete his master’s in higher education, was hired at Texas Wesleyan as an assistant dean of student life in 2015 and is a lifelong gamer. He sought avenues to help the small private school shine among a competitive academic landscape.

“I was raised on a military base in England,” Frier said. “I met recruiters from TCU and SMU while on base. Texas Wesleyan doesn’t have that.”

Frier wasn’t thinking about video games as that value proposition for his school but saw the success that schools such as Illinois and the University of California-Irvine had, as well as their facilities. Frier pitched the program, now in its fifth year, as an addition to varsity athletics.

The athletic department deferred but offered their support for the program within the university. Esports and Gaming is not under the umbrella of varsity sports but is a standalone department. That’s when the independent program was born, and Frier’s job changed.

“Quickly, I realized how many students we were ignoring by starting with a narrow focus just on competition,” he said. “Even now, we’re not positioned to compete with even other local schools. When I was at UNT, they had almost 400 students in their organization. That’s as many as we have living in the dorms.”

Though Wesleyan won the EA Sports FIFA national championship in 2021, the school enrolls barely 2,600 students while, for comparison’s sake, more than 40,000 study at UNT, whose athletics department rosters varsity and sub-varsity programs and numerous levels of club teams.

“In some games,” Frier said, “our varsity wasn’t even going to be as good as their second- or third-club team.”

In almost any activity, competitions are conceived and will inevitably grow from anything but especially something designed with a scoring system or based on success or loss. Competitive gaming is not really new. The first documented gaming competition was hosted at Stanford University in 1972, but different from the amateur contests of yore, there are real professional gamers now. Their world is only expanding as video games are no longer a hobbyist time-waster but a real bastion of the modern zeitgeist.

for mouse and controller athletes has increased twentyfold. It wasn’t so long ago (the ’50s and ’60s) that professional football players had to work off-season jobs at steel mills or elsewhere to provide everything their families needed, and many in the Greatest Generation probably scoffed at the Boomers’ aspirations to be professional in athletics of any kind.

Frier — aside from the competitive side of esports — uses the program to build community and career readiness for the East Fort Worth campus and employs his students as de facto interns or account executives of the gaming world. Social media, event production, and management at large are a few areas where program participants work, in addition to training to become masters of their games. Their practices sound like that of any high school or college athlete: A physical warmup, stretching, and mindfulness with visualization occur before game scenarios and match play on a variety of platforms. Participants wear jerseys to compete and work to keep their heart rates under control while their bodies move furiously and efficiently with absolute focus, albeit in a different plane of activity than most think of when they imagine athletes.

Collegiate esports, as of now, are not governed by the NCAA but organized through the National Association of College Esports (NACE). Frier, who sits on NACE’s board, said which games are played varies and can be somewhat complicated because the companies who own them vary in their involvement. Some companies are intimately involved and want to host competitions and retain control, while others are happy to allow the gamers and organizations to facilitate tournaments independently. Esports is currently being lobbied to the Olympic committee, though it’s unlikely to be included anytime soon.

Competitive teams are broadcast on ESPN affiliates, YouTube, and Twitch streams. Several years ago, I listened to an interview on local sports radio with a gentleman who won a national NBA 2K tournament and was drafted to the Dallas Mavericks’ esports affiliate (Mavs Gaming) to the tune of an $80,000 signing bonus. First-round signees earn a minimum salary of $35K per year with the potential for tournament payouts and bonuses for individual awards. Sadly, the Mavs 2K team’s trajectory is mirroring their dribbling counterparts and are outside the playoff picture for the 5-man team, and the 3-man team didn’t qualify for their tournament. Independent players of other games have the potential to make even more. A list of the Top 100 esports gamers by earnings shows the Danish Johan Sundstein boasting career tournament earnings of more than $7.2 million. Even the 100th player on the list has earned more than $1.5 million in their career. In 2021 alone, esports as an industry paid out more than $240 million.

Compared to more established sports, even those impressive numbers seem nominal, but in only 10 years, the payouts

The coach and director of one of the few holistic esports programs in the nation — most schools simply have recreational or club teams — is hoping to expand the mass communication class catalog available to his students currently to craft a certificate or minor in esports. Like in most endeavors, the possibility of his athletes becoming professionals is slim, but he is confident the connection to the school — and to others in the program — is keeping them working toward their degree in another field while outfitting them with job skills applicable in an increasingly technology-driven world.

Frier has recently consulted with different independent school districts to bring esports programs to their elementary schools, not necessarily to inspire our kids to play more games but to provide a touchstone and community on campus. In a recent bond election that passed in Denton ISD, esports areas were included among the litany of other improvements to facilities and technology, and they are hardly the first major district to do so.

You can guarantee that esports as a concept and entity is not declining but quite the opposite. Time in the market is one of the essential recipes to success any investor can tell you that — and video games’ time is still relatively brief. The top chess players in the world all have a net worth greater than $30 million in a game that involves moving pieces around a board and whose spectacle is marginal in comparison. Competitive gaming covers a wide variety of genres, and the entertainment value and connected nature of playing online make the potential earnings for gamers of the future as unlimited as any other professional athlete. l

While no field or ball is present, esports can still nail the pageantry that spectators have become accustomed to in intercollegiate athletics.

Courtesy Texas Wesleyan Esports

LIVING LOCAL

Kerry Crafton is Living the Dream

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As the Director of Studio Operations at the world-renowned MediaTech Institute (13300 Branchview Ln, Dallas, 972-8691122), Kerry Crafton embodies the school’s motto of “Do what you love, love what you do.” And always has.

Having graduated from the University of Texas in 1980 with a degree in radio/ television/film, he wanted to become a recording engineer. Crafton has composed tracks for music libraries and has worked in every music genre doing sound mixing for around 40 movies and countless TV

and radio commercials. He even has a Gold Record for a song — Six Gun by Decadent Dub Team — featured on the soundtrack for the 1988 movie Colors, starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall.

But he still thought that he might eventually teach.

“At the richest university in the world, the only equipment I had to work with for mixing was a small 8-channel mixer, a 4-track tape recorder, and a 2-track,” says Crafton. But even with the equipment limitations, he still got the bug. “I wanted to be a recording engineer! When I graduated, it was my dream to come back and teach when I got “old” someday.”

Little did he know that one of his UT classmates — Russell Whitaker — would have a hand in both dreams. Years later, Whitaker moved to North Texas and opened the Dallas Sound Lab studios in Las Colinas, where Crafton often worked as a freelance producer and engineer. When the demand for big studios waned, Whitaker had the idea to start a recording school.

And so began MediaTech Institute. As the years went by, the school grew, became fully accredited, expanded its curriculum, and branched out to include a second campus in Houston.

MediaTech Institute has an amazing array of equipment and facilities that are available for student use, including three SSL recording studios with a full lineup of outboard gear, dozens of mics, and a large live performance area/stage so students can

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have a hands-on experience. Crafton and Whitaker’s old college selves would have done anything to have a school like this with such professional equipment and stellar programs back in ‘77. “There’s nothing like actually learning hands-on!”

Along with its Recording Art program, MediaTech Institute now offers Associate Degrees and Diplomas in Acting, Animation Graphics, Film, Mobile Apps, and Television. ABC, CBS, Disney, NFL Films, Paramount, and Universal Studios are among the major production companies that have done work on campus. Those studying Film and Television can access state-of-the-art cameras and software, a

large green screen, and a soundstage to help get their dreams on the screen.

Over the years, many nationally-known artists from Texas have graced the halls and studios of DSL and MediaTech. DSL Studios was home to heavy hitters such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Destiny’s Child, Kirk Franklin, Pantera, Rigor Mortis, and many others. Most recently, Crafton and producer Sterling Winfield (who both worked with Pantera) joined forces to help Creeper, a longstanding local metal band, produce its long-awaited first album at the studios of MediaTech.

Given his history, MediaTech found a gem in Crafton when he came on board as an instructor. He has been the producer and/or engineer for the Butthole Surfers, New Bohemians, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, The Nixons, Rigor Mortis, Jessica Simpson, and many more. Along the way, he has worked with labels like Capitol, Columbia, Elektra, Island, and Metal Blade. Seventy years gives you a lot of life experience to share.

Yes. Kerry Crafton is about to turn 70.

As there seems to be no stopping this guy, 70 must be the new 20. In celebration of his upcoming landmark birthday, join Crafton at The Rail Club DFW (3101 Joyce Dr, Fort Worth, 817-386-4309) on Sun, May 28 at 8pm for his Birthday Show. Creeper is headlining, with support from Coilback, King Honey Bee, and Lotus Throat.

Between sets — you know, when it’s quiet(er) — he’ll gladly chat with you about all of the above.

With another successful MediaTech Live on the books, Crafton looks stoked. He should be.

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1.) Your. Dallas. Stars! Yes, they are headed to the Western Conference Finals to puck around with the Vegas Golden Knights at 7:30pm Friday. Having watched the homeboys’ victory over the Seattle Kraken at Boston’s Restaurant & Sports Bar (2501 E Lamar Blvd, Arlington, 817-633-7773), I can tell you that it’s the perfect place for a rabid sports fan or casual observer such as myself to catch all the excitement. There are several TV screens in every direction inside the bar with the volume set at a reasonable level so it’s not too obnoxious. As for the food, I’m obsessed with the Pizza Burger, which is exactly what you think it is. The glorious-

ly messy delight is also available at the Fort Worth and Irving locations. Do it!

2.) One of North Texas’ most celebrated spots for Lebanese food, Byblo’s Mediterranean Restaurant (1406 N Main St, Fort Worth, 817-625-9667) has cocktails and hookah Mon-Sat, belly dancing shows 8pm Fri-Sat, and half-price bottles of wine every Wednesday. Plus, on weekdays, the lunch buffet is back.

3.) Are you considering attending Fort Worth Symphony’s Concerts in the Garden Fri-Sat, May 26 thru Jun 11? You can

pre-order picnic baskets from Central Market (4651 W Fwy, Fort Worth, 817-9894700) that will be delivered to you fresh on the night of your concert. CM just needs 48 hours’ advance notice. To order, call 817377-9307. See the full menu at CentralMarket.com/Catering.

4.) Stop by Division Brewing (506 E Main St, Arlington, 682-276-1276) 11am-7pm Sun, May 26, for craft beer and an authentic taste of Maine lobster from the Cousins Maine Lobster food truck. Delicacies include lobster rolls, tacos, tots, and quesadillas. You had me at lobstah!

5.) At 6:30pm on Thu, Jun 1, Ellerbe Fine Foods (1501 Magnolia Av, Fort Worth, 817926-3663) is hosting its latest Ellerbe Wine Dinner, featuring Oregon wines from Martin Woods Winery. For reservations, call or visit EllerbeFineFoods.com.

6.) There are about two weeks left to try and win free pizza for a year from iFratelli Pizza How? Tag @ifratellipizza in your “original, public, pizza-lover video content on TikTok, Instagram, or Facebook” and use #ifratellipizzavideo. The best creator will receive one pizza a week for a year via a $1,000 gift card. Your post must appear on social media by 11:59pm Wed, May 31, to be entered. For

the full contest rules, visit iFratelliPizza. com/2023/03/Win-Free-Pizza-for-a-Year.

7.) Don’t forget that Hearth Wisdom Store (2899 W Pioneer Pkwy, Arlington, 682-3235085) samples a different flavor of coffee from the shop’s patron java vendor, Woke Witch Coffee, on Woke Witch Wednesdays from 11am to 2pm. While you’re there, ask the ladies about Turkish coffee readings or learn about it at WokeWitchCoffee.com/Blogs.

8.) Every Sunday thru the end of October, Texas Republic Bar & Kitchen (945 Foch St, 817-887-9797) hosts Sunday Service: Rooftop Buffet & Party from noon to 4pm. Enjoy DJ music, a mimosa, and the brunch buffet with 30 items for $20 per person (gratuity not included). Add a Bloody Mary or michelada for $5 more or bottomless mimosas for $12.

Speaking of the Stars, North Texas’ biggest fan — the late Vinnie Paul — knew how to throw a great watch party. Do you? We’re on the hunt for upcoming watch parties Bar owners, you know what to do. Oh, you don’t? Please email your event details to Marketing@FWWeekly.com for our consideration.

By Jennifer Bovee

Boston’s Pizza Burger does not disappoint.

North Texas’ biggest Stars fan knew how to throw a watch party. Do you?

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Travels Well

A Mexico staple establishes its second outpost, in Fort Worth, with stunning results.

Quince, 1701 River Run, Ste 181, FW. 11am-9pm Sun, 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat.

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BY CODY NEATHERY

Far removed from the rolling hills of San Miguel de Allende — frequently named the “best city in the world” by publications such as Travel + Leisure and Condé Nast Traveler renowned restaurant Quince migrated north of the border to open a second location in flat Fort Worth, where New Orleans native and owner Brian Sneed has lived since graduating from TCU in 1990. Since its San Miguel debut within eyesight of La Parroquia, the parish church that dates back to the 17th century, Quince was named the best rooftop restaurant destination in the world in 2018 and 2022.

Taking over the vacated BarTaco location along the Clear Fork branch of the Trinity River at WestBend, Quince has brought a slice of the Central Mexican highlands to our backyard. Don’t expect the authentic

flavors of Central Mexico. Think global cuisine, here inspired by trips taken by Sneed and San Miguel chef Gonzalo Martinez.

On our recent visit, an overcast and light breeze held off any humidity, which made an early evening dining experience extremely agreeable. Other than an exchange of patio furniture, not much is different from the days of BarTaco, but having another outdoor option along the river is a welcome addition to the local dining scene. And with an occupancy limit of 150, the patio should be a year-round attraction.

A brief glimpse at the menu might cause some confusion as it reads like an upscale Applebee’s — all over the culinary map with hints of Japanese, Peruvian, Cajun, and, of

course, Mexican. And while this typically goes against my anti-convolution mantra that restaurants maintain a focused menu and execute it well, I admit to being pleasantly surprised by Quince’s ability to capsize this.

The entrees — a lamb ragout, braised short ribs over hummus, truffle risotto, and a couple of fish options — tended to be less adventurous. Myriad steak cuts are listed along with a chicken sandwich and a hamburger because we’re still in Texas, but why play it safe when you can sample the creations birthed from the owner’s inspirational travels.

The starters — lamb barbacoa dumplings in a pool of cilantro sauce and aguachile de picaña (sliced roast beef and avocado ha-

banero mousse) –– were more intriguing. Reminiscent of ceviche minus fish, the duck confit salpicon provided a well-balanced flavor. Tangy Thai chile sauce with hints of lime and cilantro complemented the slightly game-flavored bird served with fresh tortilla chips.

Three ceviches are offered under their own section, which leads to a robust selection of sushi, sashimi, and maki rolls. As we progressed, the divided options began to form a natural bridge with one another. Seafood began to take hold as the dominant ingredient among a majority of dishes.

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ite. Pillowy chunks of fresh shrimp and sea bass shared space with toasted avocado, all cohesively swimming in cilantro cream and a “leche de tigre,” traditionally a Peruvian marinade of fresh citrus juice, ginger, and turmeric. Other instances of Peruvian influence found their way onto Quince’s sushi menu. This relationship between the cultures started as Japanese immigrants found

their way into Peru and the descendants became the mixed-race people commonly known as Nikkei, which saw flavors from both cultures collide. Shrimp marinated in harissa (a hot Arabic chile paste) also land a spot on the menu’s map.

Maintaining continuity with seafood, we ordered the panko-crusted sea bass, which was perfectly cooked and lightly flaky. The bomba rice of ginger and lemongrass provided the base, with ancho pepper cream to soak it up.

The stunner of the meal was the ancho-hibiscus blackened tuna, a dish I would

typically pass over. In contrast with the sea bass, the dense tuna was cooked rare, and the crisped crust was a well-received difference in texture. The server drizzled the chipotle sauce around the dish, fortunately keeping the plate’s ingredients dry, which allowed us to dip when needed.

With prices mostly over $15 and settling in at $18, cocktails here are on the high side, and that was the only drawback we noted. Clearly, the price tags on the cocktails are geared toward the neighboring Colonial and TCU neighborhoods, but numbers like that can prevent customers with average incomes

from repeat visits no matter how good the food is. Still, the beverages were delicious, especially the frothy carajillo and el dutch margarita, and the diablo margarita was superb and not as hellacious as expected.

Fort Worth’s food and beverage scene is going through a boom similar to that of a decade ago, and this is a positive attribute to our city’s growth. Just as the team behind Don Artemio chose Fort Worth for a second location, we are pleased that Sneed chose Fort Worth to bring a restaurant of this caliber to town — even before Austin gets their own later this summer. l

MUSIC

Sing Along with Denver

Fort Worth singersongwriter Denver

BY STEVE STEWARD

The Sunday afternoon storm clouds spread across the sky like shreds of steel wool, rusted and bursting with their own rain and the setting sun. All the patio

furniture in the gravel area in front of the Woodshed’s stage was wet, yet a pair of millennial couples had dried off some chairs at the edge of this zone, and when Denver Williams took the stage after he finished talking to me, these four people were pretty enthused by what they heard. I couldn’t tell if they were already fans or just happened to be out for Sunday beers, but they and a handful of other patrons sitting around the TCU-area barbecue restaurant seemed to be caught by his hooky melodies and the syncopated verbosity of his lyrics, which skipped along to his breezy, acoustic guitar boogie like flying fish wave-jumping around a boat. Farther from him but nearer to me, four college gals gossiped and passed around a miniature schnauzer, all of them mostly oblivious to the guy with the guitar. Yet one of them nodded along with a song, tapping her boot heel in time. I thought that was a win, especially since the song Williams was playing was the first track from the EP he released a couple of days prior, proof that a good song can get to people even when they don’t even know it. Williams’ songs are nothing if not infectious, and whether you’re paying attention or not, they can get into your brain. It’s no wonder, given that Williams has been making the songwriter rounds for well over a decade, first in Austin, then here in Fort Worth, and over all that time, he’s developed a sound that leans outside a host of songwriter-y conventions. I don’t want to make him out to be “Fort Worth’s next big thing,” because he’s been here for

years, but he is certainly a talent who is not as appreciated as he should be. Hopefully, all that constant gigging has helped his visibility a little — at least enough to perpetuate more paying gigs.

He was on a break between sets at the Woodshed when I talked to him about the current state of his musical endeavors.

“Well,” he said, chuckling as he looked at the people dining beneath the restaurant’s covered, open-air seating. “I turned it into a job.”

We talked about the challenges intrinsic to making a living as a songwriter, but for him, playing at a restaurant still beats working at one.

“Three or four years ago, I quit everything else,” he said. “I was working at Outback Steakhouse, and that was the last [day-job] thing I did.”

When it comes to booking shows, he said he’s “open to whatever — I like having the opportunity to play and make money, but I do want to be able to narrow [my performances] down, for the gigs to be what I want them to be. I’m thankful to be doing it, though.”

A paying gig is a paying gig, after all, and Williams plays like he’s thankful, too. There might have been a dozen people listening to him that day at Woodshed, but he played as if he were entertaining a hundred times as many. Perhaps the songs on his new release will open those doors for him to reach bigger crowds. They’re certainly good enough, and they’re easily the most accessible, ear candy-ish tracks in his catalog.

Sing Along collects five songs that he and a cadre of area musicians (Dylan Ewen on synths, Gary Grammer on harmonica, Samantha Knight on vocals, Burton Lee on pedal steel, BK Lovell on bass, Zach Mayo on guitar, and Peter Wierenga on drums) recorded at the Cove Studios in Arlington between December 2021 and January 2022, with Wierenga (Siberian Traps, Sur Duda) engineering. In all, they finished 17 songs. By the time the tracks were mixed and mastered (by Wierenga and Adam Thein, respectively), Williams realized he had two separate song collections on his hands. A dozen worked together as a currently untitled country album he hopes to release at the end of the year, but then there were the other five, which seemed to fit together as a unit on their own.

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Williams’ new EP may be his catchiest yet, and that’s saying something.

Neal McAlister

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These became Sing Along . Fans got a preview of the new EP’s sound in February when Williams released the lead track, a snappy-tempo’d, Lemonheads-ish blast of sunny power pop called “Key Lime Pie.” A similarly bouncy single, “Radio Is On,” followed in March. Both songs shine with breezy, major keys and sparkly guitar tones that are more or less the binding agent between all of the five songs, but with its third track, the EP downshifts into a loping, 6/8 walk about beating addiction called “Kick This Heavenly Feeling.” It’s a pleasant ditty with a balmy chorus, with a subject matter that makes you feel like you’re looking up at a gorgeous summer sky while lying amid the weeds and needles of a vacant lot. When

the song swells into a solo section that seems to drift into the clouds, you’re reminded of how Williams is an incredibly versatile songwriter, one who dabbles in a wide variety of stylistic hallmarks

— Pavement-y guitar crunch with one project (his old band Chillamundo) and low-fi folk with another (his 2021 album Blooming Eye ) — as well as being a laterally thinking guitarist, whose leads often poke out of the scale in purposeful, jazzy directions.

As a songwriter, Williams likes to try new things. Blooming Eye , he said, was “an effort to blend electronic [sounds] and organic instruments and doing it all at home, and [ Sing Along ] was kind of a return to Chillamundo and [another former band] Chingalotus … not really trying to recreate them but just rocking again, because when the pandemic hit and Chillamundo disbanded, we made a record in a bedroom. We softened the sound up, but this EP brings back the rock a little bit. I

have this backlog of all sorts of songs, but when we recorded with [Wierenga], there were enough country-type songs to put that [album] together, too.”

Williams credits his willingness to travel across a map of variegated approaches to musical composition to a friend and former bandmate, multi-instrumentalist Charles Marchbanks (Chingalotus, Chillamundo, Henry the Archer).

“Me and Charles Marchbanks, we were playing together from the time we were 18 until, like, 28,” Williams said. “When I met him, I had one box of the pentatonic scale down, and I refused to learn anything else, and he’s one of the

best songwriters I’ve ever heard. … He opened me up to music theory, like if I’m ever using a diminished chord moved up, that’s something he taught me. We used to talk a lot about Buddhism and free associative lyrics. There is so much of what I do as a songwriter that I credit to him. Our relationship gave me a springboard into music theory.”

That might sound esoteric to non-musicians, but when you hear a chord in one of Williams’ songs that hits your heart in the best way, this is what he’s talking about, what Marchbanks and playing guitar for years and years have taught him. And while every diminished chord in the book might not be enough to unlock that fabled level of professional-musician financial stability, Williams knows where they sound really great, and that’s but one reason his music transcends the Sunday day-drinking crowd, even while it sneaks into their ears. l

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Within Chaos Reborn

Last year, just before departing on a tour through the East Coast, Danny Reid, longtime vocalist for Within Chaos, abruptly left the group. The band was able to find a fill-in to complete the tour, but once home, they set out to find a permanent replacement for Reid. Enter: Jason “JT” Taylor Taylor had just left the band he had fronted for six years, the guttural Kill for Mother, and was initially planning on just taking a break from music altogether. Frustration with creative differences, a lack of progress, and competing outside forces had all led to a feeling of burnout for him. Then, he got a call from Within Chaos guitarist Wolfgang Milez. Kill for Mother and an even earlier band of Taylor’s, Sweet Tooth, shared the stage with Within Chaos often, and Milez felt Taylor would be the perfect replacement for Reid. After some cajoling, Taylor agreed to go to a rehearsal.

“There was no way after that day that I was gonna be able to turn them down,” Taylor said. “We really gelled together. They’re really positive dudes. We have a lot of similar interests and a lot of different things in common. I really love their style.”

Fast-forward just five short months, and the new-look Within Chaos is set to release an EP. The six-track Resurrection will be released on Saturday night when the band headlines a big show at Lola’s Fort Worth.

Taylor said the maturity of the guys made the decision to join all the easier. There’s something to be said about still pursuing music as you approach middle age. Most players, wild oats sufficiently sown, have settled down a bit, which lends itself to a renewed focus on the music

“We’re not doing it for anything other than the fact that we love to hang out and be around each other and create together,” Taylor said.

Taylor sees the appropriately titled Resurrection as a sort of rebirth — not just for the band as they launch a new singer but for him as an individual as well.

“This is an opportunity for me to redefine myself,” Taylor said. “It’s my second chance. It felt like an opportunity to prove everybody wrong, that there was still something that I was passionate about with music. I didn’t really feel that way before I started working with these guys.”

That theme of rebirth extends into Taylor’s lyrical contributions as well. He’s exorcizing a lot of frustration in the songs. With his rabid bear growl, he channels grief over the loss of his mother, most everyone’s current economic struggles, the effects of the pandemic, and rage at unyielding cultural and political divisiveness.

“A lot of what I was writing about was about that frustration,” he said. “Will things ever be the same? Can the music scene survive? How much longer are we going to champion these politicians that are all full of shit and never do what they say they’re going to?”

Despite the aggressive way in which the subject matter is delivered, Taylor said it’s an error to take it as just some angry dude yelling at people.

“The songs are really, as dark as they may seem, about being compassionate, being forgiving, and being accepting,” he said. “They’re about not being afraid to speak about those values without being made to feel weak because of them.”

Lyrics are often an afterthought in metal, typically references to gore and horror masked behind indeterminable growls. Not so with Taylor. He takes great care to craft each word and phrasing so that his lines are clear and easily received by the listener. Words are important to him, and he hopes they’re important to the listener and that he or she identifies with where he’s coming from

He put it this way: “Nothing feels better than to have someone tell you that something you said speaks to them.” l

New Within Chaos frontman Jason “JT” Taylor (second from right): “We’re not doing it for anything other than the fact that we love to hang out and be around each other and create together.”

Courtesy Jason “JT” Taylor

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