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New allegations that a Tarrant Appraisal District staffer used county resources to intimidate a local Realtor raise questions about why top TAD leaders chose to ignore the problem.

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The days of humdrum board meetings may be over for the Tarrant Appraisal District (TAD). Setting aside the fact that the skyrocketing property taxes set by TAD are making Fort Worth increasingly unaffordable for even middle-class individuals and families, Tarrant County residents are learning that TAD dealings are too frequently done in secret and in the interest of protecting the vested powers at the appraisal district. The vast majority of accusations and documented instances of malfeasance are tied directly to TAD chief appraiser Jeff Law. Friday’s board meeting, which was livestreamed by local rabblerouser Manuel Manta, captured the latest scandal into which Law has dragged TAD leadership. Early into the meeting, Realtor Chandler Crouch got up to address the five-member board. Everyone knew why he was there, including the board, though its members feigned ignorance. Crouch was there to talk about a letter. Sent in May by Frank Hill, Crouch’s lawyer, it said that Crouch would not tolerate any more attacks by Randy Armstrong, TAD’s director of residential appraisal. It seems that Armstrong and, by extension, TAD aren’t big fans of Crouch. And for good reason. The Realtor spends most of his free time volunteering to help locals protest their sky-high property taxes. Attorney Hill, who has built a career successfully suing government groups for large sums of money (most recently, Tarrant County College), warned TAD that his firm would de-

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fend Realtor Crouch’s First Amendment rights by any means necessary. “I saw that there is an item on the agenda addressing the letter that my attorney sent to the board,” Crouch said during the meeting. “Up to this point, there hasn’t been a lot of details about what is going on. In October 2021, somebody started several complaints against my license as a property tax consultant. To make it clear, what is in the complaint is baseless. When I first got the complaint, I thought it was bogus. The reason this matters to you is because of who filed the complaint and how much Jeff Law supports this complaint.” Crouch added that an investigator with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) allegedly stated that the complaints were filed by TAD, not an individual who happens to work for the appraisal district. Armstrong’s use of TAD letterhead and the intimate knowledge disclosed in his complaints suggests that he is using TAD resources for his alleged attacks. Although the matter was only discussed and not voted on, the board members agreed that Law should look into it even though he has known about the complaints since at least November and has taken no action to stop the acts of alleged misconduct by Armstrong. Law, who frequently handles personnel matters, supported the idea of handling the investigation. Former TAD board member Gary Losada told us in a phone interview that Law should not be trusted to investigate his own actions. “That is a conflict of interest,” Losada said. Law seems to have a history of hiding embarrassing information from the board, Losada alleges, an allegation that we’ve fielded before in the form of a whistleblower complaint. One year ago, we published details from a series of anonymous letters that appeared to have been drafted by one or more TAD employees (“Shining a Light on TAD,” June 2021). “Employees are terrified of Jeff Law,” the whistleblower alleges in one 13-page complaint we reviewed that was also sent to TDLR. “The culture at TAD is to not say anything bad, even if it is the truth. TAD has NO third-party reporting system for ethics complaints, employee suggestions, or safety concerns. TAD is the posterchild for how not to run an appraisal district.” The whistleblower took direct aim at Law, alleging that the chief appraiser used his position to hide defects in the appraisal district’s software that led to inaccurate property tax es-

timates over the past several years. Losada shared copies of handwritten notes he took on June 4, 2020, six months after assuming office. Losada said he was on a conference call with Law and former TAD board member Michael O’Donnell when Law and O’Donnell, assuming Losada had left the call, began discussing a letter sent to TAD’s board by Texas Sen. Jane Nelson. In her letter, Nelson described her concern over the high number of protests filed by Tarrant County property owners. Between 2015 and 2019, the number of formal protests in Tarrant County rose by 170%, according to TAD data, and local protest rates were far higher in Tarrant County than in other large Texas counties. Even though the letter was addressed to TAD’s board members, Losada alleges that Law told O’Donnell that the letter should not be shared. If board members do find out, Law allegedly said, either he or O’Donnell could say they didn’t know that Nelson intended the letter to be shared with board members. Losada said his conversation with one of Nelson’s staffers around that time made it clear that Law knew that the senator intended copies of the letter to be sent to all five board members. Losada didn’t mention the hot mic incident during a subsequent board meeting, but he did insist that board members be made aware of the senator’s letter. “Jeff Law knew these letters were out there and never sent it to the board or mentioned it to the board,” Losada told us recently. “They were trying to figure out how to spin it when it came to light. They were hoping to keep it from the board.” TAD’s board has repeatedly refused to hold Law accountable for failing to handle serious allegations like the one presented by Crouch. Law’s approach to investigating internal matters, based on our past reporting, involves hiding the problem while covering for personal friends. By allowing Law to investigate his own possible involvement in complaints against one of his employees, TAD’s leadership could be setting the appraisal district on a path that may finally force the board of directors to decide if keeping Law as chief appraiser is worth the financial liability. 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, clarity, and concision.

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The Patriot Front Among Us I’ve probably walked past a few of these assholes at Kroger. Eight of the 31 white supremacists arrested Saturday at a Pride event in Idaho are from North Texas, some of them from my part of town, North Fort Worth. I wonder what they’ve thought about my mixed family and me as we browsed the aisles. I’ve also probably seen these Patriot Front dolts at Flip’s, maybe, or 54th Street. Maybe even Uncle Julio’s. (Definitely not Uncle Julio’s. That Uncle Jewl-io is probably hiring only Messicans.) Though I don’t recognize any of their faces from the mugshots (seen one white douchebucket, you’ve seen them all), I bet I’ve come across Josiah Buster and Connor Moran (both from Watauga) and Kieran Morris, Steven Tucker, and Graham Whitsom (Haslet) while out doing my day-to-day bullshit. Had I been in line behind them in traffic, I’m sure a “thin blue line” Punisher sticker would have given them away. And here’s where I’d like to deposit another friendly reminder that if you’re voting for the political party that the KKK and these Patriot Front clowns are also voting for, you’re definitely voting wrong. Up until twice-impeached loser/rapist/racist Donnie Dumps-a-lot was elected in 2016, thanks to the mainstream media’s obsession with HeR EmAiLs that amounted to absolutely nothing, life in America was pretty chill. Don’t be annoyingly super-woke and suggest that I’m not saying police weren’t murdering innocent Black people or that the climate was in that much better condition. My point is that, back continued on page 5

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then, neighbors could approach one another without fear of being offended or offending. Back then, things were looking up. (Thanks, Obama. No, seriously. Thanks, brah. *pound*) Put aside Donnie’s attempt to overthrow the U.S. government, a treasonous crime for which he should be hanged from the Washington Monument but won’t because the Jan. 6 committee includes way too many career politicians afraid of losing their “jobs”/livelihoods/preferred seating at Japanese-Brazilian steakhouses in the Beltway. And even forget about all of his affronts to decency and his utter contempt for the office of the presidency. And his sexual assaults (26-plus and counting). Forget about them. And his grift (that $250 million lifted from his idiot followers, and that’s just counting his attempt to prove the 2020 election was fraudulent — who knows how much he’s really stolen from them over the years). Put all that aside, too. Donald Trump should be thrown in a Soviet-style prison with only his own fecal matter for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for tearing this country right down the middle. Maybe it was a good thing, the way Dump split us into racists and anti-racists, sexists and anti-sexists, marks and anti-marks. Because of him, we are seeing our family, friends, and neighbors as they really are: sorry, but no other word for them except “assholes.” If they’re ones you recognize, act accordingly: give them very little of your time and attention, ignore them completely if possible — never thought social media

would ever pump my ’nads, but unfriending Trumpanzees I grew up with and still bump into when I’m back in my hometown up north is downright orgasmic. (Do they get an email telling them I’ve unfriended them? They should get an email telling them I’ve unfriended them.) For all the rest, good luck making them out. With only a few rare exceptions, conservatives, based on my recent experience, don’t parade around in Trumpy gear anymore. You might even find yourself being waited on by one or sharing a bar counter with another without even knowing it. And even if you’re wearing a T-shirt with Black Lives Matter or rainbows on it, as my family and I do regularly, you might never know it. The neo-Nazis/ Trumpies will wait until they can be painlessly anonymous before they crowd into a U-Haul and pile out to get arrested just for existing. While covering their faces with cloth. #masktyranny! I admit I feel a little jolt seeing a Trumpy bumper sticker on a pickup truck or jeep. It means my anger can find an outlet. It means I’m feeling something other than this ennui attending to everyday life during this pandemic. Even if it’s impotently gripping my steering wheel a little tighter or gritting my teeth, it’s something. Kind of like what we could say of the Patriot Front in Idaho. They took a knee. — Anthony Mariani l

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The Business of Art

Yet another female arts leader in town, Ariel Davis covers a lot of territory — including her new downtown gallery. 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

Ariel Davis ran around Sundance Square before there was a Sundance Square. She and her friends would go to Starbucks (then on Houston Street) and, fueled by caffeine and sugar, walk the streets.

“At the time,” she said, gesturing out the floor-to-ceiling windows nearby, “none of this was built. It was just parking lot.” Davis was talking to me from her new downtown gallery, Love Texas Art. Like its sister location, the beloved Artspace 111, the new space at 501 Houston St. is a collaboration with Margery Gossett. For Davis, Love Texas Art marks a transition from gallery manager, a role she has held in some way or another for all of her adult life, to gallery co-owner. Davis now joins a pantheon of women who lead the Fort Worth art scene. Perhaps two of the most visible posts are Andrea Karnes as the new chief curator of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Karen Wiley as president and CEO of the Arts Council of Fort Worth. You could say Fort

Worth’s fem-power was explicitly felt just a couple of weeks ago, when Sasha Bass helmed the inaugural Fort Worth Art Fair, an extravaganza that prioritized local, mostly women-made art. Davis believes Love Texas Art will carve out a space specifically for rising artists. “That’s been really fun,” Gossett said, “because that’s the world [Davis] lives in as well.” Davis represents a rarity in the art world: She has business and management savvy while being an accomplished artist herself. Just recently, Dickies Arena commissioned her to create a gift for Sir Paul McCartney who was in town to perform. Davis painted the Beatle standing in front of the arena and continued on page 7

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Many of Davis’ pieces celebrate the women in her life.

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part of the Fort Worth skyline, wearing and surrounded by pale clouds on a brilliant blue background, a nod to a previous commission she had undertaken for the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. Davis created the painting in the storefront window of Love Texas Art, a nod to the man who shaped her early career. Davis met artist/gymnast/all-around character Rome Milan during one of her teen meanderings through downtown. He would sit in the window of his Milan Gallery for hours painting. At his urging, she took one of his classes and worked with oil paints for the first time. After college, she returned there to work. “To be honest, I was looking for any job that would keep me in the art field,” she said. It stuck. She loved the glamour of working downtown and the sudden access to artists and patrons. She liked connecting people who wanted art with people who made art. And as an artist with analytical tendencies and a bent for organization, she found herself well-suited to the demands of the job. Since that first position, Davis has grown from a kid learning from the big

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names in the art scene into one of the big names herself. When it comes to bona fides, Davis has them. She managed Milan Gallery and has either worked for or sat on the board for basically every art institution in the city. “Through her talents,” said former city councilmember Ann Zadeh, “she just gives back so much. She’s creative, talented, and works to bring artists opportunities.” Davis painted Zadeh as part of her Women Solo series. Despite successfully managing galleries, Davis has never neglected her own work, something Gossett commented on during our phone conversation. “She just makes time for everything,” Gossett said. Mostly, Davis paints people. Sure, she could paint other things, but she has always been drawn to exploring relationships and connections through painting the human figure. “A lot of my smaller paintings or studio works are based on experiences kind of like what you and I are having,” she told me, sitting in Love Texas Art. “It’s a conversation or just a visit to do a photoshoot or other in-the-moment-type work that’s kind of deconstructed or reimagined in a way. They’re about a shared experience.” During college, a professor asked her, “What are you going to do, paint portraits

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for the rest of your life?” after reviewing her latest work, all figure drawings of her friends. That felt like a turning point, Davis said. She could have shifted to abstract or more thematic work, the sort of stuff earning some of her peers more praise. Instead, she worked at becoming better at portraiture. “I never stopped painting people,” she said. “That’s what I love to do.” In 2019, Davis left working in galleries for more time to pursue her own art. That plan was cut short by an email from Gossett inviting her to take over as gallery manager at Artspace 111. “It validated all of the hard work I put in to make this a serious career path for me,” Davis said. She took the job. Looking forward, Davis said she has “so many” ideas of what she wants to accomplish. Those ideas begin with bringing people together. After two years of pandemic-imposed disruption, she said, artists are hungry to come together, to spend time together, and share ideas. To that end, the gallery features two stylishly outfitted seating areas in the back and sells beer and wine out of a retro vending machine. Davis wants people to come in and stay a while, to make themselves at home. Studio spaces lie on the other side of the gallery. Warm filtered light floods in from the windows. There, Davis and a few other artists will work. The artists working and featured in the gallery will remain independent, she said. This marks a departure from the traditional contract-based gallery-artist relationship. Davis said she sees more artists moving toward wanting to remain independent. The front of the gallery features a shop with smaller works or prints from local artists. What can people expect to see on the walls at Love Texas Art? The space opened with Austin-based Sari Shryack’s Saccharine Millenia, a dazzling collection of large-scale paintings reflecting nostalgia from the 1990s and early 2000s in dizzying hues, and Davis intends to erect a “deconstructed ranch water” display sometime within the year. As she envisions it, the art would feature citrus, tequila, and/or Topo Chico, the ingredients of the hot-weather libation. “I really see being able to take some risks in this space,” she said, “to show some things that are fun.” As to her own work, Davis looks forward to returning to the studio and to the practice that put her on this path in the first place: putting brush to canvas. l

Love Texas Art features rising Texas artists. Along with co-owner Margery Gossett, Davis hopes to provide a warm, inviting space for people to enjoy artwork and to support new artists.

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At Love Texas Art, Davis will paint in the storefront window, a nod to an early mentor, Rome Milan of Milan Gallery.

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At the time of purchase, my weather app informed me it was an unforgiving 101 — with a less favorable heat index of 106. Not the ideal Fahrenheit level to be eating cuisine built around curry and spice, especially when indoor dining doesn’t exist as the result of a to-go only business adaptation to COVID. Alas, here I was standing at the ordering window inside (which is air-conditioned) of a Caribbean restaurant resembling a beach shack minus clear waters and white sandy shores. Pastel colors and hand-painted signs cover the exterior wood siding of the bun-

Considered an island delicacy, the goat retained its muskiness, as intended, while being complemented by the zesty curry gravy.

galow that now houses Jamaican Summers Eatery, an unlikely dining option in its sixth year in the heart of old downtown Burleson. Chef/owner Richard Williams came to New Jersey from Jamaica before making his way to Texas and flipping a coffee shop into his own slice of home. On my recent visit, the upstroke of reggae guitar with the rhythmic rumble of bass from dancehall underlined the “One Love” vibe affectionately associated with the island. Signs with praises to the lord share space with buyable souvenirs toting ganja and a small cooler filled with Red Stripe, ginger beer, and various Jamaican sodas.

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Jamaican Summers won’t help you beat the heat but will satisfy your cravings for island cuisine.

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The menu is small but focused on traditional items and, to be fair, the extent of my experience with Caribbean food. Other than paying a couple of visits to The Island Spot in Carrolton a decade ago, my limited exposure is held to jerk chicken-flavored wings from fast-food joints. This being my first visit, I allowed the order taker to guide my appetite. We skipped the sweet fried plantains and coco bread and went with the beef patty, a tasty cousin to the empanada with minced meat filling and a flaky golden crust. Keeping with the recommendations, I opted for the small jerk chicken and the curry goat. I was fully expecting to eat my dinner outside on the back patio in the shade since there was a mellow breeze holding down the mercury, but when I heard my name called, my order was already bagged up. Living less than 20 minutes away, I knew my dinner’s shelf life might be short, so I booked it north and recognized an opportunity that presented itself back home, where I

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keep my, a’hem, organic remedies. Knowing taste buds are extra alert in an elevated state, I ate enough soberly to recognize the greatness before me. Then I inhaled. Admittedly, I’m not a fan of the actual flavor of jerk chicken, but when I gnawed a chunk of tender meat off the bone, it was a revelation. Now, finally, I could say I tasted the flavors of the Caribbean as they were meant to be. The spicy-sweet tang and smoky kick only swelled with each additional bite, and I was unabashedly hooked. With taste buds fully engaged, I swapped bites back and forth between the jerk chicken and curried goat, an island delicacy that offered an entirely different flavor profile. The zesty curry gravy offset the goaty-ness of the meat that still retained a slightly sweet muskiness as intended. Served attached to the knuckles, the meat easily pulled away, and I even found myself eyeing the glistening fat clinging to one of the knuckles, so I owned it like a lollipop. Take the dish into another direction by ordering the buttery roti flatbread, then add lumps of the goat meat and cabbage into the fold and treat it like a gyro. Not too often do I leave a restaurant immediately feeling inspired. I’m desperate to get back. First on my list is the spicy, creamy penne pasta with jerk shrimp, and, while I might not be vacationing at the birthplace of Bob Marley anytime soon, I now have a place where I can bathe in the sunny influence of the island. It just happens to be in old-town Burleson. Is this love? l

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The oily black yawn of a superheated frying pan. The alchemical mixing of mysterious ingredients. The chef whispering mellifluous secrets, scoring the butchering of an over-plump chicken a la Lisa Bonet in Angel Heart — all these images flooded my

mind the moment I sank my cuspids into bb.q Chicken TCU’s original fried chicken. It’s plain fried chicken that simply may be the best I’ve had anywhere in town. Of course, neither an incanting chef nor Lisa Bonet was actually present in the

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opening, the place was quiet. In the efficiently appointed, too-dark L-shape of the bar-plus-high-tops-and-dining-room space, there wasn’t a single nearby conversation on which to eavesdrop. My grandmother used to say a cook’s favorite sound is silence. I think there’s something to that. We settled in at one of the high-tops near the bar and took care of the most important business first: one bottle of Lychee Soju, two glasses. After taking a moment to wash the heat off our tongues with the refreshingly sweet and viscous Korean sipping vodka (a lunch-appropriate 12.5% ABV), I asked the manager to bring us a sampling of appetizers, entrees, and sides. He explained only an abbreviated menu is available during the soft opening, so we asked to be surprised by two appetizers and three entrees — owner’s choice. The complex aroma of the rosé ddedok bokki hit the table before the dish did. We wide-eyed golden cream sauce, chewy rice cylinders, cabbage, and cross sections of fish cake so thin I’m certain Paul Sorvino sliced them prison-side with a razor blade. We inhaled the spice-laden steam, thick with dashima, chile, onion, and soy. We took a bite. As is the case with any artform, despite the best intentions of the artist, a work can sometimes be so (overly) complex as to render it one-note. This was the case here, much creamier and cheesier than the ddedok bokki of traditional Korean cuisine. The umami, though — the savory mouthfeel of the concoction — left us eager for the final appetizer. continued on page 21

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It was the kimchi fried rice. Gorgeous liver-colored kimchi entrenched between mounds of fragrant rice stared back at us through the single yellow eye of a perfectly fried egg. Again, however, the disparate notes of season and spice never quite coalesced into an inspiring wall of taste. Yet the precision and perfection of each and every fried ingredient across both appetizers were guiding me toward a theory, a theory I was excited to test further as the fried chicken entrees — one honey-garlic (bb.q’s bestseller), one secret sauce (Korea’s bestseller), and one original — made their way out. My theory posited that bb.q was at its best when the bullseye was high-quality simple ingredients simply fried. Into the chicken entrees, Stephanie and I synchronized our first bites, and my theory proved true. At first, neither she nor I chewed. Instead, we rolled the victuals between tongue and soft palate, savoring the pleasure, pleasure that came ultimately not from the painted-on sauces — garlic, secret, or otherwise — but from the canvas: the chicken itself. The crispy, latently piquant and batter-fried skin seemed to want to protect the

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superbly succulent meat within. Somehow — whether bitten or pulled, dark meat or light — dermis and flesh came off bone together in a perfectly proportioned way. In contrasting texture, distribution, and sensation, the experience of the chicken was not unlike that of an exquisite crème brûlée. Herein lies bb.q’s only problem, if it is a problem at all. I understand the fun of hot chicken. I get the event that Korean hot chicken manifests into place. But most hot chicken, around here anyway, is all paint and no canvas — the fowl plays second chair to the jus. When Sarah Chang agrees to bow the violin for you, you don’t surround her with accompaniment. You don’t ask her to string against a karaoke track. You just let her play. Solo. Put another way, when the to-go boxes arrived and the check was paid, although Stephanie and I gladly took a little of everything home with us so our families could share in the fun, it was the plain, original fried chicken over which we fought. l

2.) National troupe Keith & Margo presents Murder in Sundance Square, an immersive mystery dinner theatre experience at Aloft Hotel (334 W 3rd St, 817-885-7999) twice monthly, including 7pm-10pm Fri. “Enjoy an evening of delicious cuisine and despicable crime as you help solve a triple homicide, but don’t be surprised if you find yourself at the business end of a comically snarky third-degree interrogation by our hilarious Homicide Detective, ostensibly from the Fort Worth Police Department.” Tickets are $62.95 per person and include an hors d’oeuvre reception, a three-course dinner with your entree of choice, soft drinks (cash bar available), gratuities, and the live-action show happening all around you. For details and tickets, visit MurderMysteryTexas.com.

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3.) Although Arlington is its very own (large) city and is located in Tarrant County, as part of Dallas (not DFW) Tiki Week, you can attend the Headhunter Party at 4 Kahunas

Tiki Lounge (506 E Division St, 682-2766097) at 8pm Fri, featuring specials on drinks made with Deadhead Rum. “Wear your biggest, loudest, or prettiest hair accessories, headdresses, hats, clips, and head decorations to win BIG prizes.” There is no cost to attend. 4.) In celebration of Juneteenth, check out Soul of Sycamore: Art in the Park at 2525 Rosedale St (@SoulofSycamore) 1pm-9pm Sun. This second annual event is designed to “educate, excite, and inform” the community about the newly minted national Juneteenth holiday. Beyond the curated art on exhibit, other attractions include a battle of the bands, a barbecue cookoff, a kids’ zone, paint-and-sip activities, and shopping opportunities. Chef DJ Catering will serve “Mutha Plkn Chckn Salad,” Snow Shack will sling snow cones, and more. This event is free to attend. 5.) Executive Chef David Pacheco aims to help you “take your summer grilling up a notch” at the Grillin & Chillin Chef Demo & Tasting at Restaurant506 at The Sanford House (506 N Center St, Arlington, 817-8015541) 6:30pm-8:30pm Thu, Jun 23. Menu items include grilled Korean tacos, hanger steak, mashed potatoes, and a grilled vegetable stack. For dessert, sample grilled peaches and cream. Tickets are $50 per person on EventBrite.com. 6.) Cowtown Farmers Market (3821 Southwest Blvd, @CowtownFarmersMKT) is “ushering in the dog days of summer” with

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1.) If you didn’t make it to London for the queen’s recent Platinum Jubilee celebration and need a dose of Britannica, make your way to the British Emporium (140 N Main St, Grapevine, 817-421-2311), where it’s Jubilee Month thru Thu, Jun 30. The store is stocked with ingredients for a Jubilee-inspired meal, including coronation chicken, clotted cream, English scones, preserves, and sausage rolls. Plus, if you don’t already have Paddington Bear and some marmalade on hand, are you really living the royal life?

Celebrate summer with Cowtown Farmers Market next Saturday.

its Summer Festival 8am-noon Sat, Jun 25. There will be family-friendly activities, cooking demos, gardening information, music, and a few special surprises, along with the fan-favorite usual weekly vendors. This event will also celebrate the doggos, who are always welcome at the market, by showcasing doggie-themed goods and services. For a complete list of vendors, visit Facebook. com/CowtownFarmersMkt. 7.) I imagine the first step to making a wood-fired pizza would be to own a woodfire oven, but I’m glad to be proven wrong. Find the truth 5:30pm-7:30pm Sun, Jun 26, at Make Your Own Wood-Fired Pizza: A Cooking Experience with Pizza Verde (5716 Locke Av, 817-348-9852), where you will learn creating/cooking techniques, sample complimentary bites, enjoy a glass of

prosecco, and go home with a Pizza Verde goodie bag that includes dough and sauce recipes, some house-made mozzarella, and swag. Additional beer and wine will be available for purchase. Tickets are $60 per person on EventBrite.com. 8.) The golden boys of far-east Tarrant County barbecue are bringing the ’cue to the heart of the Fort. Join Goldee’s BBQ (@ GoldeesBBQ) and Mill Scale Metalworks (@MillScaleMetalworks) at Nickel City (212 S Main St, @NickelCityFWTX) for a Live Fire Pop-Up at 2pm Sun, Jun 26. This event will feature a special food menu (while supplies last) and George Dickel Whiskey cocktails, with a portion of the drink sales going to the nonprofit No Kid Hungry.

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ing EP Attachment Issues due out July 8. With sparkling synths, deep 808 kick, and a healthy dose of Auto-tune, the track is a wild departure from the fuzzy minor-blues that’s made up Washed Up Rookie’s catalog to date. It’s difficult, however, to pinpoint just what the sound is. There’s an infectious fusion of hip-hop, chillwave, and pop. It’s also not quite any of these things. “As a style of music, I don’t know, man,” Cogdill deflected when asked to describe it. “I can’t get a solid read on it. I guess if we want to get niche, the closest thing I can come up with for Spotify playlists or whatever is ‘anti-pop.’ ” One might call it anti-pop, but Cogdill’s melodies are anything but anti-hooks. “Yogi Berra” is a smoke-friendly, laidback

jam coming at just the right time to cool some of the sweltering summer heat. Despite the seeming artistic left turn, the sound is actually a surprisingly natural feel for Cogdill, and he seems right at home in this new sonic element. “There’s pieces of me in all of it,” he said. “I’m just carrying over older parts of me and getting to know new parts. That’s life, baby.” Having historically written mostly from a guitar player’s perspective, Cogdill said the working relationship with Beatz has been a learning experience. It’s been illuminating finding out just all the different directions the collaboration can go. “With him and his background makcontinued on page 24

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For more than a decade, Washed Up Rookie has been a duo. Over the years, singer/guitarist Colton Cogdill and drummer Madison Cotton have released a string of EPs of their smoky, blues-infused indie rock. Though the two aren’t currently working together, Washed Up remains a de facto two-piece — albeit with an unlikely standin for Cotton. Deciding to take advantage of the opportunity to try something new, Cogdill set out to explore a far different sound than what he had been previously known for. In doing so, he sought to find a new person to collaborate with. That’s when he hooked up with producer Milky Beatz. “Towards the end of playing with [Cotton], I was just listening to my interests and where I was at that time,” Cogdill explained about working with a beatmaker instead of a drummer for the first time. “It had been on my mind. I was feeling that pull [to do something different]. I like hooks. I am a sucker for hooks. [Beatz and I] linked up and took off sprinting. So, [I said], ‘Let’s dive in. Let’s see what’s going on here.’ Have some fun with it, you know? It’s been interesting exploring different ways to create a song.” Last week, the duo released the single “Yogi Berra” with an accompanying video. The song is the first from the forthcom-

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ing beats,” Cogdill said, “and my background, which has been solely guitar based — riffing on parts and coming up with vocals — that’s always been the bones. I still do a little of that, but it’s opened up some doors for me as far as sitting back and listening and being able to obsess over melody as opposed to building this thing from the six-string.” Trading tracks and ideas back and forth, the working relationship has produced a number of surprises. The two have decided that no particular direction will be attempted or excluded. “I’ll bring him something that I had worked out on guitar and then I just let him use his ‘milk mind,’ ” Cogdill said with a laugh. “And it turns into something else. And I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah, man! That’s it! You just hit it!’ It’s fun for me. It’s new territory.” A second single, “Kombucha,” is set to come out on July 24. A sneak peek of the track reveals a continuation of the sound established with “Yogi Berra” but one that perhaps leans further into the aesthetics. With the EP reportedly boasting a couple actual rap features, Cogdill seems committed to pursuing this collaboration for all it’s worth. When asked if he’s worried the change could be alienating, he brushes it off. “Nah,” he said. “I’m too far in it. I guess if I allowed that, maybe, but it’s house money, man. If we’re going by what we feel and how it sounds and we’re in agreement, I trust my judgment, and I trust his. It’ll work out however it does. I’m just listening to my interests. This is where I’m at right now. Let’s rock with that [for a while], and then we’ll go from there.” l

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“We’re still a bummer band,” said Charlie Debolt, drummer of area punk band Upsetting. This was early into a brief Zoom call between me and him and his bandmates — guitarist/vocalist Caleb Lewis, bassist/vocalist Kevin Adkins, and lead guitarist Drew Kee — and he was talking about how their new album, Like Fire, Spreading Fast, is the more energetic counterpart to A Cold, Lonely Place, the album Upsetting released in August 2021. It was almost like he was preemptively apologizing for Upsetting’s knack for crafting hooky songs, but the point he was making had to do with the dichotomy of feelings and their physical manifestations. “You can be depressed but still be a vibrant person, and the new [album] has that theme, I think,” he said. Upsetting (originally named Teenage Sexx when Adkins, Debolt, and Lewis formed the band in 2013) has always been something of a confessional booth for its members, who inject gallons of simmering angst, frustration, self-loathing, and bleak humor into pop-punk packaging, like a can of Dr Pepper left on a patio table in the sun then shaken until it bursts. That dynamic, of bottled emotions finally agitated to the point of explosion, is on full display here, rendered in blasts of distortion, fuzz, and grumbling, overdriven bass, spraying the listener in sticky hooks and anthemic choruses.

Like Fire, recorded over a handful of sessions this year in Denton with Michael Briggs at Civil Audio, dropped last Friday on Spotify and Bandcamp, more or less out of the blue — if not for an Instagram story posted a few days before, I might not have heard about it at all. Most bands spend months hyping a new recording’s progress leading up to its release date, but Upsetting did not follow this breathless, spammy, contentfor-sake-of-content promotional strategy, largely because all of its members have lots of other shit going on, both musically and otherwise. And, in fact, the band won’t even have a proper album release until Aug 17, when all four members are available to play a show. For all the heat Upsetting packs into their songs, they’re still as low-key as ever. As an observer, I think that speaks to the band’s aesthetic anyway, one in which you write songs and stomp on Rat pedals because that’s cheaper and more enjoyable than therapy. And as a listener, hearing four dudes sing about sources of personal malaise such as feeling unseen or failing to communicate with people because of one’s own awkwardness is also cheaper and more enjoyable than therapy. So however far under the radar Upsetting might fly, I am lucky to catch them when they swoop within earshot. Upsetting excels in crystallizing that feeling like your fuse has smoldered almost to its end, and if that’s something you can relate to, Like Fire, Spreading Fast will make you feel good about burning out. — Steve Steward

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Dude, I was wigging out. A coveted (albeit flat) case of Tab cola, acquired in 2020 from the last batch ever produced, was chilling in the icebox. Unlike my beverage selection, my metabolism has changed a lot since the ’80s, so I resisted the temptation to Amazon Prime a five-pound grab-bag of Nerds, Pop-Rocks, and other assorted vintage candies. I did, however, break out my original-style Reebok Pumps — as my homies know, I’m an Adidas guy, so rocking the Reeboks says something. I was pumped to veg out in front of Season 4 of Netflix’s gnarly Stranger Things. Like, literally pumped. Don’t judge. Though only half a year has passed for our beloved characters in Hawkins, Indiana, it’s been three years since the conclusion of Season 3. I’ve used and thrown away six Trapper Keeper 12-month calendars since writer-director-show-running identical twins the Duffer Brothers (Matt and Ross) first delivered just the kind of super-sweet but somehow guilt-free pop-culture grub that my generation, and apparently most others, were craving with Season 1. I thumbed the play button on my VCR, er, Apple remote. The bright red titles, a flawless homage to opening sequence designer Richard Greenberg (Alien, Die Hard, The Goonies), bled onto the screen. The synth-y John Carpenter-esque theme rose, as did my mood and, admittedly, goosebumps.

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I was about 10 minutes into Episode 1 of the staggering 13-hour and 9-episode season when I realized something else hadn’t changed since the ’80s: Lazy, conceited TV still makes me deeply disappointed, even angry. Turns out, Season 4 has turned the Upside Down sideways and not in a good way. We open with our characters living in separate places for the first time. El (Millie Bobby Brown), along with the Byers clan and matriarch Joyce (Winona Ryder), have been relocated to California via witness protection. El, who has lost her powers, is the target of the bully contingent at her new high school. Joyce receives a cryptic ransom note, and we discover that Hopper (David Harbour) is still alive though barely, rotting in a Soviet prison camp. The rest of the teenage leads remain in Hawkins, where, of course, gruesome murders ensue. The supernatural perpetrator of these killings, Vecna (a languid nod to the Star Trek Borg queen ripped again from Dungeons and Dragon mythology), is the Mind Flayer’s four-star general, charged with opening gates to the Upside Down. Through some arcane psychic connection, with each teenage slaughter, Vecna succeeds in opening another gate. The cast (and the show’s watchable moments) become even more distant when Joyce and Murray (Brett Gilman) abscond from California to Siberia to free Hopper

before the “commies” feed him to the pet Demogorgon they’re readying to use as a secret military weapon. Meanwhile, Papa (Matthew Modine), with the help of Dr. Owens (Paul Riser), lure El back to their secret training lab, hoping to restore her lost powers. It’s as if the Duffer Brothers consciously cleaved the show’s romantic couples to explore youthful love — asinine, since teenage romance is historically what the show does worst. The subsequent action — just more communication between worlds through lights, more expository dialogue poorly masked as detective deduction, more recycled plot points the Duffer Brothers didn’t even bother to camouflage — all seems to be dovetailing with a reunion that the show fails to make urgent or even interesting. Like its actors, only a few of whom have matured in their craft, a lobotomized Season 4 suffocates under the pillow of an awkward artistic pubescence characterized, as most teenagers are, by utter self-absorption and absolute ambivalence. Harbour himself ironically (and accidentally) sums up the many problems with this season’s Stranger Things in an interview with The New York Times. He cites Aliens 3 as his muse this season, which is a little like a parent citing Jamie Spears as their child-rearing inspiration. Speaking of parents, a few gleeful elements of previous seasons remain, not

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Air Quality Standard Permit for Concrete Batch Plants Proposed Registration No. 166247L002 Application. Prime Batch Inc., has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for an Air Quality Standard Permit, Registration No. 166247L002, which would authorize construction of a temporary concrete batch plant located at 581 Winscott Road, Benbrook, Tarrant County, Texas 76126. This application is being processed in an expedited manner, as allowed by the commission’s rules in 30 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 101, Subchapter J. AVISO DE IDIOMA ALTERNATIVO. El aviso de idioma alternativo en espanol está disponible en https://www.tceq.texas.gov/permitting/ air/newsourcereview/airpermits-pendingpermit-apps. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility’s general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to application. http://www. tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/hb610/index.html?lat=32.685755&lng=-97.443043&zoom=13&type=r. The proposed facility will emit the following air contaminants: particulate matter including (but not limited to) aggregate, cement, road dust, and particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less.

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This application was submitted to the TCEQ on May 19, 2022. The executive director has completed the administrative and technical reviews of the application and determined that the application meets all of the requirements of a standard permit authorized by 30 TAC § 116.611, which would establish the conditions under which the plant must operate. The executive director has made a preliminary decision to issue the registration because it meets all applicable rules. The application, executive director’s preliminary decision, and standard permit will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and the Benbrook Public Library, 1065 Mercedes Street, Benbrook, Tarrant County, Texas, beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review at the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Office, 2309 Gravel Drive, Fort Worth, Texas. Visit www. tceq.texas.gov/goto/cbp to review the standard permit. Public Comment/Public Meeting. You may submit public comments or request a public meeting. See Contacts section. The TCEQ will consider all public comments in developing a final decision on the application. The deadline to submit public comments or meeting requests is 30 days after newspaper notice is published. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the TCEQ’s jurisdiction to consider in the permit process.

TCEQ Action. After the deadline for public comments, the executive director will consider the comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material, or significant public comments. The executive director’s decision on the application, and any response to comments, will be mailed to all persons on the mailing list. If no timely contested case hearing requests are received, or if all hearing requests are withdrawn, the executive director may issue final approval of the application. If all timely hearing requests are not withdrawn, the executive director will not issue final approval of the permit and will forward the application and requests to the Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled commission meeting. The Commission may only grant a request for a contested case hearing on issues the requestor submitted in their timely comments that were not subsequently withdrawn. If a hearing is granted, the subject of a hearing will be limited to disputed issues of fact or mixed questions of fact and law relating to relevant and material air quality concerns submitted during the comment period. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the Commission’s jurisdiction to address in this proceeding. Mailing List. You may ask to be placed on a mailing list to receive additional information on this specific application. See Contacts section. Information Available Online. For details about the status of the application, visit the Commissioners’ Integrated Database (CID) at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cid. Once you have access to the CID using the link, enter the registration number at the top of this notice. Contacts. Public comments and requests must be submitted either electronically at www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/, or in writing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087. Please be aware that any contact information you provide, including your name, phone number, email address and physical address will become part of the agency’s public record. For more information about this application or the permitting process, please call the TCEQ Public Education Program toll free at 1800687-4040 or visit their website at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/pep. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040. Further information may also be obtained from Prime Batch Inc, 545 East Church Street, Lewisville, Texas 75057-4009 or by calling Mr. Josh Butler, Principal Consultant, Elm Creek Environmental, LLC at (469) 946-8195. Notice Issuance Date: June 8, 2022

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

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