Christina Berger, E.R. Bills, Jason Brimmer, Buck D. Elliott, Juan R. Govea, Patrick Higgins, Laurie James, Kristian Lin, Cody Neathery, Wyatt Newquist, Steve Steward, Teri Webster, Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue, Elaine Wilder, Cole Williams
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Laurie James, Anthony Mariani, Emmy Smith, Steve Steward
Silver Screens
Fort Worth Film Club and the Movie Mutant
— and some celebs — prove Fort Worth’s cinema community is maturing.
BY REESE PIERCE
There was a time when the Inwood, Angelika Film Center, and the Magnolia were your only choices if looking for a cinematic experience outside of the big Hollywood new releases. Of course, all those spots were in Dallas, but that was your lot if you wanted to explore arthouse. In Fort Worth, it was crickets.
Times change, and things change very slowly. Alamo Draft House landed in the 817 (though without a central Fort Worth location), offering something a little different for us cinephiles. Still, there was no love for Fort Worth proper until the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth started its Magnolia at the Modern series in 2008.
That little love continued in 2019, when the wife-and-husband team of Brooke and Jimmy Sweeney opened the Grand Berry Theater near Linwood.
Finally, an independent arthouse theater in Fort Worth. Too bad the plague was fated to descend. In what seemed like a matter of days, everything began to deteriorate. The movie experience declined almost overnight, and people stopped going to theaters en masse. Like many other great businesses in town, whether it was the pandemic, the location, or the audience’s general apathy to
getting out to the cinema, the Grand Berry eventually closed.
After the pandemic, theater wasn’t the only industry model to decline. Things look different everywhere now. In a lot of cases, nothing sprang up to take the places of the lost businesses, and the film industry has yet to reach pre-pandemic numbers. Box Office Mojo says that last year was still more than $1 billion short of 2019 numbers. The moviegoing experience seemed to be dying both domestically and here in Fort Worth with the closing of our lone arthouse theater.
Thankfully, the case of the Grand Berry proved to be different, and, as its message spread, a hit TV show has seemed to energize local cinephiles. Now that Yellowstone director Taylor Sheridan has been filming multiple TV series in and around town, Hollywood has been coming to yon Fort. Zoe Saldana dancing at the White Elephant, Ethan Hawke talking at the Modern, Billy
Bob Thornton, well, doing stuff everywhere — there’s a buzz about town we’ve never seen before. Instead of a cautionary tale, the Grand Berry’s closure is a sort of bellwether. In the vacuum left behind, a new scene has bloomed, one powered by locals who want to continue building community and see cinematic art survive in our city.
Though the Grand Berry Theater was in an arguably poor location for visibility, the space was quaint and inviting, if a bit minimalistic. The lobby was still big enough for a few people to sit around and talk, and this cultivated the community vibe beginning to take hold. One of the many great aspects of the Grand Berry, aside from its screenings, was its Film Club. For 50 bucks, you got two free tickets along with discounts, access to a members-only screening once a month, and a nifty little lapel pin. After each screening, Jimmy Sweeney moderated a discussion that was always lively and allowed for diverse interpretations of the films, and even though the Film Club crowd cycled, you could always count on seeing familiar faces. It was a true community film experience, and it was right here in Fort Worth.
It had a great run, but after an Oscars party on March 27, 2022, the Grand Berry Theater closed. It was at this time that two Film Club members, Craig Borders and Jason Wiseman, began talking about keeping the club alive in another form.
“It was sad to see the Grand Berry Theater close,” Borders said. “For the brief time it had, it was successfully fulfilling its goal in fostering a community through a shared love of cinema in Fort Worth. We didn’t want this to end.”
Meanwhile, across town on the North Side, the theater in the running for least creative name ever, Downtown Cowtown at the Isis, was beginning its own grassroots movement. The building, which reopened in 2021 after closing in 1988, boasted some
serious Fort Worth roots dating back to 1914. Sans the parking conundrum, it was an amazing, possibly too-large-for-its-owngood space. Before closing last year, the Isis offered live music and theater in addition to film. The Lone Star Film Festival also utilized the space one year. It was at the Isis that the Movie Mutant was born. The entity also known as human Greg TeGrantvoort became Isis’ director of marketing in December 2021, and that’s when he hatched Weird Wednesday. If you haven’t been to one of these screenings on the last Wednesday of every month now at Southside Preservation Hall, you are absolutely missing out. TeGrantvoort has a wide range of interests and projects. Housing all of them (Troma screenings and Time Warp in addition to Weird Wednesday) is the soon-to-be nonprofit Fort Worth Community Cinema, and TeGrantvoort has a flair for the carnivalesque. Weird Wednesday is part trippy flea market and part B-movie cult classic screening. The event has quite the following. As part of the Night Market, more than 40 “local artists, collectors … and vendors that specialize in oddities, mysticism, cryptids, and horror” regularly fill the hall’s large front room. Recent filmic selections include Cannibal, the Musical; American Astronaut; Hard Ticket; and Hell Comes to Frogtown. On top of curating his brand of B-movie cult favorites monthly, TeGrantvoort developed a relationship with Troma. If you are among the uninitiated, think of production/ distribution company Troma as Ground Zero for insane independent B-movies (The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke ’Em High, Surf Nazis Must Die). With nothing else like it in town, TeGrantvoort’s Troma Tuesdays now also have a solid following.
For various reasons, Weird Wednesday didn’t last at its now-defunct original location, but the Isis is where Borders and Wiseman met TeGrantvoort and arranged a space at the Isis for the Fort Worth Film
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As the avid crowds prove, the carnivalesque Weird Wednesdays at Southside Preservation Hall are a hit.
Greg TeGrantvoort
Part of the Film Club’s contribution to the cultural richness of Fort Worth is their post-film panel discussions with partners such as the She Dares Collective.
Club to carry on after the closing of the Grand Berry.
On April 27, 2022, the Fort Worth Film Club began in earnest. With its new location at the Isis, and from the remnants of the Grand Berry Film Club, Borders and Wiseman started to build momentum. Before their first screening, which was Juzo Itami’s Tampopo, there was a group dinner at Hanabi Ramen in West 7th. Since this first meeting, these themed pre-show dinners have become a staple of the Film Club’s signature screenings. If you haven’t seen Tampopo, you need to fix this immediately. It’s often referred to as a Ramen Western, but that isn’t doing Japanese cinema any justice. It’s common knowledge that many Spaghetti Westerns were influenced by the likes of Kurosawa. This hilarious and absurd comedy is pure Japanese. However, as the Fort Worth Film Club and Weird Wednesday were garnering fame in our community and beginning to build their respective crowds and followings, another roadblock arose: Both the Fort Worth Film Club and Weird Wednesday left their current theaters in search of a new home.
There has been enough said about the demise of Downtown Cowtown at the Isis, and, no, I don’t think that name had anything to do with it, but you never know. Either way, at around the same time, both
Weird Wednesday and Film Club decided to leave the Isis.
The Film Club is now part of a nonprofit.
In 2015, Wiseman created The Reel House Foundation to help fund worthy causes.
It started with mystery movies at Texas Theater. Proceeds from the first three years went to Child’s Play, a nonprofit to place video games in children’s hospitals.
In 2018, Executive Director Wiseman said, Reel House looked locally “ with the aim of fostering a love of cinema in local at-risk and underserved youth.” The annual Reel House
Mini-Movie-Thon fundraiser is now hosted at Stage West, the Near Southside theater that’s now also home to the Fort Worth Film Club.
Stage West, Wiseman said, has the “perfect setup with a bar in front and lobby, which is conducive to conversation and
Juzo Itami’s Ramen Western Tampopo served up the laughs for the Fort Worth Film Club’s first official screening.
chatting, and the theater space has a feel of being in a unique space.”
Wiseman added that finding Stage West was when the Film Club really began to take off. Though Stage West was an ideal move, for the first time in the Film Club’s history, the use of the space was not free. Subscriptions have helped. Since the club needed to generate funds for screenings, the Film Club’s Patreon page solved this problem by offering various monthly membership tiers ranging from $5 to $25.
One popular feature is the membership’s very lively Discord server, where members plan meetups, debate films, share happenings around Fort Worth, and support one another’s projects. With the new location, the club increased its social media presence, and, full disclosure, I created a Substack for reviews and edited them for a time on a volunteer basis.
“It’s always about the conversation afterwards,” Wiseman said about the formula or thinking regarding monthly selections.
“Whether it’s the filmmakers, group representation, or the genre, there is always a conversation to be had. What is going to elicit an emotional response or open your eyes to something you have never seen before? The films need to be accessible to a certain extent but also drive a conversation allowing the audience to think critically
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The exhibition is organized by the Kimbell Art Museum and The Phillips Collection. It is supported in part by Frost, the Texas Commission on the Arts, the Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District, and by an indemnity from the
The Fort Worth Film Club’s recent collaboration with the She Dares Collective yielded great results, like a screening of the raunchy comedy Bottoms
about elements of the film.”
To ensure a respectful atmosphere and to stimulate discussion, the post-screening talks are moderated by club members and hosts of the podcast Why Does the Wilhelm Scream? An “unofficial extension of the Film Club,” the podcast cohosted by Wiseman and Brock Kingsley talks about and brings attention to filmmakers they feel “do not get the attention they deserve.”
The Fort Worth Film Club also reserves certain months for collaboration with local nonprofits to program the monthly signature screening.
“The more that we can partner with other local organizations,” said club board member Amber Yourman, “the more we can amplify our impact to create shared community experiences.”
Wiseman said each collaborative selection is intended to challenge the audience and spark meaningful conversation. In the past, Anime Frontier screened Cowboy Bebop and Perfect Blue, the She Dares Collective did 9 to 5 and Bottoms, MPact DFW and the Asian Film Festival of Dallas offered Funeral Parade of Roses, TCU professors Frederick “Dr. G” W. Gooding Jr. and Marcellis Perkins served up Watermelon Man, and Spacey Microcinema presented News from Home, to name a few. After every screening, group members took part in the conversations afterward with filmgoers
Along with pairing with other nonprofits and organizations, the Fort Worth Film Club showcases local and regional short films. Filmmakers from Fort Worth, Dallas, Denton, and Austin have screened their work for the Fort Worth Film Club.
“We want to provide emerging and established artists a platform, a place they can show and talk about their work,” Kingsley said. “Hopefully, we can create a symbiotic relationship between cinema lover and filmmaker.”
With a strong following and over a year of successful monthly screenings, the Fort Worth Film Club plans to partner with Spacy Microcinema in October to show a Toshio Matsumoto series, and an Elaine May series might happen later in the year. The club will also show its first first-run feature in August. Wiseman said The People’s Joker is “this amazing story of one person’s trans journey told utilizing the Batman universe.”
Though there is no arthouse theater to take the place of the Grand Berry, there are
options all around us for cinematic experiences outside of the multiplexes. There are groups in this town right now doing their best to build a community that wants to see cinema thrive, and regardless of how the box office is doing, there is an experience for those who want to seek it out. Whether you want a B-movie cult classic or an arthouse film, there is no longer a void for you in Fort Worth.
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A One-day-only Exhibition in the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s Parking Lot Friday, August 16, 10 am–midnight Grab your friends and family and come experience TAILGATE, an interactive parking lot exhibition event.
ADMISSION IS FREE Food, beverages, and merchandise are available for purchase. Join us for TAILGATE, a one-day-only exhibition presented in the Modern’s parking lot featuring interactive work from sculpture and new media faculty from across Texas.
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS:
• The special exhibition Rebecca Manson: Barbecue and the Museum galleries are open and FREE to the public from 10 am to 8 pm with tours at noon, 2 pm, 4 pm, and 6 pm.
• From 5 to 9 pm, enjoy a BBQ food truck and beverage coolers featuring your favorite TAILGATE-worthy canned beverages with a special koozie for the first 100 guests.
• Custom TAILGATE t-shirts and collegiate swag available for purchase.
• Parking is available in the Kimbell Art Museum’s Darnell St. lot and Casa Manana.
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH
3200 Darnell Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76107 | themodern.org
The Fort Worth Film Club’s screening of Watermelon Man was followed by a panel discussion with two TCU professors, highlighting the Black experience through film.
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Sick Tucker
The former Fox host’s September Dickies show comes during his independent peak.
BY ANTHONY MARIANI
Fox News banished him, and now a year and three months later, his independent podcast recently became the most listened to on Spotify.
As Fox News crushed last year’s July ratings to once again dominate the TV market, former Fox host Tucker Carlson has his own big wave he’s riding. Covering politics with a warped, far-right, anti-mainstream-media (and anti-Fox) slant not only put him ahead of erstwhile Spotify champion Joe Rogan for July but also made Carlson the belle of the recent Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
The appetite for right-wing rage and self-reinforcing opinions partly explains why resale front-row tickets to Carlson’s September show at Fort Worth’s largest, most popular venue, Dickies Arena, are closing in on $900 per.
One fact remains: Hate sells, especially if it’s couched in faux-intellectualism (see: Carlson, Rogan, O’Reilly, the entire National Review).
Carlson has been spewing bile and inciteful falsehoods for 20-plus years. One of the worst things to plop out of his mouth came in 2018, when on his Fox News show, he said immigrants are making America “poorer and dirtier and more divided.”
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At least 20 companies pulled their ads as a result. Fox stood by him, and the right-wing propaganda network still neglected to can him in light of some of his other hot takes: that LGBTQ people are a “cancer on the country,” that white supremacy is a “hoax,” that the COVID-19 vaccine was “the single deadliest mass vaccination event in modern history” (data says the vax saved 14.4 million lives), that “dead people” had voted for President Joe Biden (well, I’m dead on the inside — does that count?), and that the J6 insurrectionists were merely “sightseers.”
The last few recent times hate speech like Carlson’s took root, sound-minded Fort Worthians roundly, publicly rejected it. In June, a couple dozen locals marched outside a community meeting space where LUCA (Latinos United for Conservative Action) and other right-wing extremists were lying about the LGBTQ community (“State Sanctioned,” June 5), and last month, dozens more Fort Worthians protested outside the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, another public space where conservatives were welcomed, this time for a
couple far-right nuts to peddle conspiracies and belch racist, sexist b.s. (“Crowd Counters Right-Wingers,” July 13). Pushback against hate speech is to be expected in the county Biden won in 2020 after it was carried by the former guy by nine points in the previous presidential election in 2016.
And though Carlson tries to come off as some kind of above-the-fray objective observer, he’s simply just a gold medal-caliber contortionist twisting his rhetoric into funny noodle shapes to keep from admitting he hates people of color and anyone else not white, rich, male, straight, and Christian. Basically, whoever’s unlike him deserves scorn — or worse.
Carlson’s past is his present and future: as a professional liar, divisive weirdo, and serial propagandist. In a 2020 slander lawsuit, Fox lawyers “defended” him in court by saying exaggeration was part of his m.o.
In the judge’s opinion informed by the Fox lawyers’ arguments, she wrote, “The ‘general tenor’ of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not ‘stating
actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary.’ ”
And the excuse worked. Carlson got off. His vile campaign of mendacity continued on Fox until 2023, when the network finally fired him for reportedly “alienating large parts” of the company. More likely, the news giant sacrificed him as part of settling a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems. Carlson had spent months trashing the voting-machine maker over nonexistent voter fraud in the 2020 election. Fox ended up paying Dominion $787 million for the pleasure.
Carlson now peddles his “non-literal commentary” and hate on his podcast on his own network. He’s recently interviewed war criminal Vladimir Putin and bigoted white supremacist Elon Musk in addition to the disgraced, twice-impeached, adjudicated rapist who once occupied the White House (after losing the popular vote by 3 million).
At Dickies, Carlson will be joined by another perennial victim, Roseanne Barr, whose record of racist, bigoted statements is almost as deep and sordid as her comrade’s. With every spiteful utterance, Carlson and Barr put people of color, the LGBTQ community, women, and other minorities at risk of violence. Hate speech can lead to hate actions. The mass murderers in El Paso, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Atlanta, Charleston, Jacksonville, the list goes on — all of their evil deeds were inspired by the kind of abhorrent, demonizing rhetoric that Tucker Carlson specializes in.
This soft-handed dandy does not represent free speech. His verbal gymnastics are hate speech, and hate speech has sometimes violent consequences. l
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On the secondary market, you’ll pay nearly $900 for front-row seats at Dickies Arena to see the guy who said that immigrants are making America “dirtier” and that the LGBTQ community is “a cancer on the country.”
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Real Meaning of Anti-Woke
Translation: “Respect our bigotry.”
BY KEN WHEATCROFT-PARDUE
Republicans have been successfully bashing gays for as long as I can remember. Back in Reagan’s time, religious conservatives preached gays deserved to die of AIDS that it was God’s just punishment on the sinful. At the 1992 Republican convention in Houston, while Pat Buchanan delivered the speech Molly Ivins famously joked sounded better in the original German, conventioneers waved signs like “Family Rights Forever, ‘Gay’ Rights Never.” And
as late as 2004, George W. Bush whipped up anti-gay hysteria by proposing a constitutional amendment that would make gay marriage illegal.
But in the years leading up to the 2015 Obergefell decision that legalized gay marriage, the political saliency of gay-bashing began to lose its potency. Surveys at the time showed even conservatives largely accepted gay marriage.
This was not to last for a couple of reasons: 1.) because many religious people will never accept gays, no matter how much the rest of society has moved on, and because 2.) sex and gender being primal markers of identity, they are very powerful and personal things. Any number of times, I’ve seen otherwise mild-mannered people become totally incensed about these topics.
So, here was a still-effective, not-Impossible-but-red-meat option to motivate conservatives against the libs, but the traditional ways of doing it — religious censure and the clenched-jawed fear of gays — were no longer working. There was still plenty of steam left in the long American tradition of othering, fearmongering, and bashing those who are now called LGBTQ+ folks. It just needed to be reframed.
The weak link proved to be trans people. In Texas, we began to see that in 2017, when which bathroom high school students used became a major issue, strangely mirroring the ERA bathroom fearmongering by Phyllis Schlafly back in the ’70s. Then the next big anti-trans issue became trans
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To rekindle gay-bashing from decades ago, cons are using the trans community as a cudgel.
athletes in high school. And despite all the hoopla, we were never talking about a huge number of trans athletes invading high school sports. When Utah passed a ban on trans athletes competing in sports in 2022, there were only four trans high school student-athletes in the entire state.
But once that hyperventilating moral panic about high school trans students began, it combined with the somewhat dormant anti-gay feelings on the right to help produce the hateful anti-woke movement we’ve endured the past few years. We see it in the hundreds of transphobic laws that have been introduced throughout the country and the disgusting innuendos about gays (and gay teachers) grooming young people. We also see it in the number of companies that once recognized Pride Month but are now cutting back after rightwing pushback.
“I’m a religious nut and no longer in the majority, but you must conform to my narrow-minded, bigoted view.”
All the above are part of the anti-woke movement. Now, anti-woke is not easy to define, which is one reason why it’s become such an effective stand-in for conservatives’ racist, bigoted, and homophobic views. Anti-woke serves as a convenient cloak to hide what is really being discussed, serving the same function as the old racist code words from the past like “neighborhood schools” or “law and order.”
The anti-woke argue they’re not homophobes. They just don’t like woke. They are morally offended by anything that might help people different from them. Mind you, they’re not personally narrow-minded
but against those who want to shove their liberal opinions down their throat — those radicals who want to change pronouns, change books, and change anything, really. In short, the anti-woke movement is as a loud tantrum-like scream of “stop!” to the march of time. “We don’t need any of your damn change!” the anti-woke cry. Coming from the other side, I have to say, “Well-played, conservatives. Gaybashing was losing its efficacy, but you went after trans people and then remarkably came up with a vocabulary that was one part meaningless — ‘anti-woke’ could mean anything really — and one part a
stealth term loaded and ready to fire the most bigoted views on the Other but without accepting any moral responsibility for your hate-filled, bigoted, amoral views.”
If only an app could be designed that would instantaneously translate the anti-woke’s ravings to reveal what they’re really saying, it might go something like this: “I’m a religious nut and no longer in the majority, but you must conform to my narrow-minded, bigoted view of gender and sex because God says so, and all this talk about gays and trans people makes me feel kinda funny and a little confused.” Or, in plain English, “anti-woke” is “pro-bigotry.” l
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Thrift for Back-to-School!
Director Ashley White is tackling a play by “that one guy” (Molière, the father of modern French comedy) for Circle Theatre (230 W 4th St, Fort Worth, 817-877-3040) thru Sat, Aug 24. In this punk-rock remake of the classic farce Imposter! Hypocrite! Tartuffe!, a cunning guy tries to charm his way into a household and is thwarted by some ladies who beat him at his own game. While tonight is opening night, if you decide to go Friday, arrive at 7pm to enjoy the pre-show Tarot & Tini Treats event. As Circle says, “Arrive early to see your future!” Tickets start at $37 at CircleTheatre.com/Tartuffe.
When we mentioned Hip Pocket Theatre’s water-themed Raft Project in our annual Summer Issue, the play still needed a place to, um, land. As we approach the end of summer, we now know that it has docked at Southside Preservation Hall (1519 Lipscomb St, Fort Worth, 817-926-2800). No late seatings are allowed for opening night at 8:15pm sharp (or, actually, now thru Sun, Aug 25). Live music, physically emotive storytelling, and puppetry will go with the H2O. Tickets are $20 at HipPocket.org.
This year’s back-to-school Sales Tax Holiday is FriSun, and items include most clothing, footwear, school supplies, and backpacks (less than $100). For all the details, visit Comptroller.Texas. gov and search by “Sales Tax Holiday.” If you find yourself on the East Side during your tax-free quest, Grand Prairie Premium Outlets offers an incentive program. Anyone who spends a combined total of $500 at participating stores will receive a $50 American
Express Simon Gift Card. For more info, visit PremiumOutlets.com/outlet/grand-prairie. In collaboration with the local FWISD Teaching & Learning Center, Potter’s House Church (1270 Woodhaven Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-288-9970) is hosting its annual Back2-School Festival. Starting at 9am, they will give away backpacks, school supplies, uniforms, and more. This event is open to the general public, and attending is free. Check out our Big Ticket column in next week’s paper for more back-to-school information.
Enjoy two glorious mornings hanging out with your pup in the beauty of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (3220 Botanic Garden Blvd, Fort Worth, 817463-4160) 8am-11am Sat-Sun. Admission to Dog Days is $12, plus $5 per pup at FWBG. org. Hydration stations for our four-legged friends will be provided by the Garden across campus. Then, starting in September, the festivities return to two full days rather than only mornings (protecting those paws!): SatSun, Sep 14-15 and Oct 5-6.
Along with its ongoing Magnolia at the Modern series, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St, 817-738-9215) hosts various film festivals throughout the year. This weekend, it’s Masterpieces from Studio Ghibli. Showcasing six films from animation masters Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, the festival features The Boy and the Heron, this year’s Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature Film. Every film will be introduced by Dr. Marc Hairston, a research scientist from the University of Texas who is also a professional space physicist, an anime author, a part-time anime scholar, and a Fort Worth native who has hosted many animation festivals at the Modern. The screenings will be in the museum’s auditorium. Tickets are $10.
No movie night for us this evening. Today is the day that I finally get to see Darnell perform with Journey as they open for Def Leppard at Globe Life Field (734 Stadium Dr, Arlington, 817-533-1972), along with the Steve Miller Band. Knowing that Def Leppard is my favorite old-school guilty pleasure, my husband, who hates them, bought me tickets for Christmas, thinking I’d take a friend. He was wrong. I’m dragging him with me. Total wife move, right? Tickets are mostly sold out, but there are still some at SeatMom.com/performers/journey, and you can use the promo code 2023 for a discount.
The classic farce Imposter! Hypocrite! Tartuffe! runs thru Aug 24 at Circle Theater.
This weekend, several anime films, including the Oscar-winning The Boy and the Heron, will screen at the Modern.
Fitness Worth
For the CrossFit Games this week, here’s what to know and where to go — or avoid.
BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT
Consider yourself warned. Thousands of arguably the most fanatical — and, to some, most irritating — fitness enthusiasts are currently rucking, lunging, and handstand-walking their way into Funkytown for the 18th annual CrossFit Games this week mostly inside Dickies Arena.
There will be individual and team divisions with the first event held off-site at 7am Thu at Marine Creek Lake, where competitors will run four miles before swimming an unreleased distance. The first arena session for individuals begins at 11am, and the official opening ceremony — a parade of all competitors and the countries they represent — starts at 4pm.
Open to the public for free inside Will Rogers Memorial Center, the CrossFit Experience will house fitness equipment and apparel companies of every type, plus a livestream of the arena and events as well as workout opportunities for patrons during all four days of competition.
Three event blocks are scheduled for Friday, two at Dickies and the final workout for individuals and teams at Farrington Field from 8 to 10pm, for which attendance will be open and free to the public. At 7am Sat, Farrington will also host a community workout, where locals can complete the CrossFit Hero workout “Chad,” 1,000
step-ups for time, with or without a weighted ruck pack. Three events inside Dickies on Saturday and two more on Sunday total 11 individual tests of fitness, though Games Director Dave Castro is known to throw athletes a dual or surprise event. ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN+ will air two hours of coverage per day with highlights.
If you prefer a more traditional party atmosphere, major sponsor GORUCK is hosting a watch party at Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall in the Stockyards. Almost all ticket levels include a complimentary limited bar if you’d just prefer to raise your blood alcohol while watching others raise
barbells. The final event is 3-5pm Sun at Dickies, with an award ceremony to follow. The official CrossFit Games afterparty will appropriately be at Billy Bob’s at 9pm Sun, and tickets are available if you’re into sweats paired with cowboy boots, and, honestly, who isn’t? l
Come break the rules and say “yes!” to new art experiences at the Carter’s Second Thursdays! Every Second Thursday is different than the last — mingle with fellow art lovers, make art, and meet visiting artists, sometimes with live music and always with themed cocktails inspired by the Carter’s collection. You’ll never think of museums in the same way again.
SECOND THURSDAYS ARE
THURSDAY AUG 8 | 5–8 P.M. BOTANY
Explore the delicate world of botanical illustrations and hone your skills in capturing petals on paper in a night themed around nature in art.
CrossFit Games
Thu thru Sun at various locations but mostly Dickies Arena, 1911 Montgomery St, FW. 817-402-9000. Games.CrossFit.com.
EATS & drinks
Say Yes to Si Tapas
In the old Fireside Pies space, this Spanish outpost brings Eurostyle to West 7th.
After 15 years serving a broad menu of traditional Spanish tapas and Spanish cocktails and wines in the idyllic State-Thomas neighborhood in Uptown Dallas, owner and Spanish native ldefonso Jimenez recently expanded Si Tapas westward.
With warm wood tones and a sleek modern design, the location formerly occupied by Fireside Pies in Artisan Circle (formerly Crockett Row, formerly West 7th) drew in Jimenez. Along with longtime Executive Chef Jose Luis Lopez and General Manager Will Arriaga, the owner/operator softly opened Si Tapas’ second location in March.
and the Asiatico, which is like a carajillo but includes Spanish brandy with the Licor 43 and espresso. Or you can keep it simple and just go with the house sangria. Every beverage is a qualified suitor for dinner accompaniment.
Para picar, or “to start,” begins your journey on what seems like an overwhelming menu, one that features items not found in Dallas due to the Fort Worth location’s pizza oven, but what this accomplishes is the ability to offer choices to satisfy every palate and for diners to brush up on Spanish 101. Potatoes are a recurring ingredient as a show of popularity in Spain, and the sautéed patatas con chorizo or juevos rotos with fried egg and Ibérico ham tasted like a glorious Madrid breakfast on a Sunday morning.
Though Spanish in origin, the cocktails here seem mostly familiar. Combining Coke with house red creates the refreshing kalimotxo, a concoction from the 1920s that gained popularity in the ’50s when the first Coca-Cola factory opened in Spain. Si Tapas also serves a house-barrel Spanish negroni, a Jerez (Spanish sherry and orange liqueur),
On our second visit, we opted for the shrimp in garlic sauce and the lightly breaded fried calamari to avoid feeling too weighted too early in our culinary campaign. The shrimp was robust amid the delicately balanced oil and garlic, while the calamari was peppery, with a lemon sprinkle providing adequate amplification along with dips into the accompanying creamy aioli of garlic, herbs, and lemon. Very little of the sauce was needed, allowing the notes of the seafood to stay afloat. continued on page 17
The execution of the sirloin in Dijon sauce was precise, retaining tenderness with internal juices flowing from the pressure of knife and fork.
Eats & Drinks
The menu is divided into seafood, vegetables, and meat, though the seafood casts an adventurous range. Vinegar-soaked white Spanish anchovies and cooked baby eel swimming in garlic sauce mingle with cazón en adobo (a marinated baby shark) and seared tuna with cracked black pepper; flaky baked empanadas stuffed with tuna and tomato; fresh scallops in cava gratin sauce; or clams in a pool of white wine sauce.
The vegetable section offers the most selections among the three, and the flavors here shouldn’t be overlooked when compared to the meats. We found some of our most memorable bites here without surf and turf to add flavor, proving what a thoughtfully created vegetable dish can offer.
Bright, earthy-red beets bathing in extra-virgin olive oil and goat cheese sprinkles provided a fresh and tasty reprieve from our previous meat-dominated plates. Cauliflower gratin with Manchego cheese and almond sauce came as a welcome change of direction as well. There are several options that still include carnivorous habits, but we suggest giving pause to the protein here and enjoying the fare from the garden, or de la huerta.
The meat section serves up the most familiar options, with grilled quail and sautéed chicken in beer sauce (not a joke), but still feeling enterprising, we opted for
the morcilla de arroz frita, or fried blood-rice sausage. The spicy herbaceous flavors were pronounced while the texture of the batter rendered a satisfying crunch. The flavor can become redundant, so we started mopping slices in sauces from other plates, which lifted the flavor profile.
Winding down our adventure, we chose chuletas de cordero a la parrilla, or grilled baby lambchops, and the sirloin in Dijon sauce.
Albeit widely known, the execution of both was precise, retaining tenderness with internal juices flowing from the pressure of knife and fork. Saving stomach room, we made mental notes of the fried pork belly in chocolate sauce and grilled pork tenderloins smothered in caramelized onions and Spanish blue cheese to be on our return agenda. And the amount of food to try warrants several visits, where each dining
experience can be as different or similar as the next.
Either visiting for a date night or with friends, Si Tapas accommodates any occasion where the European dining norm of lots of conversation and a slower pace are welcome. And if you’re wondering about Spain’s most famous dish, yes, there is an abundance of paella to choose from, but we know not to spoil ourselves in one sitting. l
Meats and cheeses kicked off a memorable trip to Spain minus the passport.
With warm wood tones and a sleek modern design, Si Tapas is traditionally Eurostyle, leaving space — and time for conversation.
ATE DAY8 a Week
From DFW Restaurant Week to value combos (say
what?!), foodie and boozy events fill August and beyond.
BY ELAINE WILDER
Here are eight great food and booze happenings in North Texas this month and next. Get out there and taste the Metromess.
Now thru Sep 1
Several local spots are participating in DFW Restaurant Week (now thru Sun, Sep 1) to help raise funds for the Fort Worth children’s nonprofit Lena Pope (3200 Sanguinet St, Fort Worth, 817-2552500). They will offer three-course prix fixe dinners for $49 or $59, with some offering two-course lunch or brunch menus for $29. For more info, visit DFWRestaurantWeek. com. Our resident canine correspondent has some thoughts on this. Find his suggestions at FWWeekly.com under Calendar. Look for “Doggo-Friendly Dining.”
Starting Now
Popular Asian chain P.F. Chang’s is offering Back-to-School Bundles, three-course meals starting at under $20 per person. And because teachers don’t need yet another coffee mug, P.F. Chang’s also has back-to-school designs for their popular e-gift cards, which are great first-day-of-school gifts. More info at Order.PFChangs.com.
Starting Now
Velvet Taco has launched a new combo box called Say What?! at all North Texas locations, with the rest of the national rollout planned for October. The combo includes any two tacos (excluding some of the WTF choices), a side, and a fountain beverage for $14.50. Side options include elote, guacamole, rice, salsa, and queso. If you’d like a drink upgrade, consider a Kiss-Ass Margarita for an extra $6 or a large boozy libation for an additional $9.
Starting Now
Just in time for #TacoTuesday, Wild Salsa (300 Throckmorton St, Fort Worth, 682316-3230) started serving lunch yesterday. The menu features fajitas, tacos, tortas, and more. I’d go with the Wild Taco plate (three different taqueria-style bad boys) for just $15. Choices include al pastor, beef barbacoa, carne asada, chicken tinga, chipotle shrimp, or grilled mahi mahi. See more at WildSalsaRestaurant.com.
Lili’s Bistro and several other local spots are participating in the month-long DFW Restaurant Week throughout August.
Fri, Aug 9
Summer is the busiest time of year for Taste Project and its Community Restaurant (1200 S Main St, Fort Worth, 682-233-1255), the local nonprofit devoted to feeding the less fortunate. Due to an uptick in needy customers, Taste is hosting a series of fundraising events. For the next Celebrity Chef Dinner, 6pm-8pm, award-winning Chef David Pacheco of Sanford House’s Restaurant506 will prepare a multicourse meal. Tickets start at $150 on Eventbrite.com. This event is BYOB. For additional celebrity chef dinners and other fundraisers, visit TasteProject.org/ Events. You can also read about Taste in Eats & Drinks at FWWeekly.com.
Sun, Aug 11
Twenty soul food vendors from North Texas, Austin, and Houston will participate in the Fort Worth Soul Food Festival at Eventos Licon (8629 Camp Bowie West, Ste 8629, Fort Worth, 817-944-4606) from noon to 4pm, presented by Chow.Tyme Bakery (@ Chow.TymeBakery). The menu stars fried chicken, oxtails, pork chops, tacos, turkey legs, fish, funnel cake, greens, candied yams, and vegan options. The vendor market sells accessories, bath and body items, health products, jewelry, menswear, and more. Tickets are $49.99 on Eventbrite.com.
Today is also the day for the Fort Worth Community Market, which happens every second Sunday of the month. This one falls during back-to-school time, so come stock up on fruits and veggies at the South Main MicroPark (105 S Main St, Fort Worth, @ HoneySuckleRoseEvents) from 11am to 4pm. Along with 50 booths of handmade/ homegrown items from area artisans, this family-/pet-friendly event also has a pop-up bar serving cocktails, plus food trucks, live music, and face painting. There is no cost to attend. Free street parking and paid parking in several lots are available. Carpooling is always recommended.
Sun, Aug 15
Now thru Thu, Sep 12, Restaurant506 at the Sanford House (506 N Center St, Arlington, 817-861-2129) is hosting a series of cocktail classes called Pick Your Poison. My pick is today’s Mojito Class from 6pm to 7pm, as that sounds the most refreshing to me. Experienced bartenders will guide guests through making the perfect mojito. Along with the newly learned tips and tricks, sample drinks, and light snacks, you will receive a recipe to take home. Tickets are $35 at TSH-Events.com.
MUSIC
Flying High
From prison to the studio, Hermez the God is blowing up.
BY JUAN R. GOVEA
It’s been two years since Hermez the God was released from prison after serving a seven-year sentence for gang activity, and he’s already built a sizable following for his brand of Latino street culture-influenced rap. Working from his studio on Hemphill Street on the South Side, the 34-year-old Diamond Hill native pumps out songs/collaborations and music videos with fury. Though he has only 325 YouTube subscribers, his YT vids for “Hated by Most” and “Just Watch” have been viewed 16K and 8.8K times, respectively, and they’re just a snapshot of his total visual output. And overall reach. With 10.2K Instagram followers, Hermez is more than just a street icon.
“Hermez the God is your average man coming up from poverty doing music,” he said. “That’s always been a dream. … As an artist, I have a passion for music, and that’s where I’m at right now in the industry. To be honest, I rap about things I’ve witnessed and the things that the culture and others can relate to in everyday life scenarios. The lifestyle I was living involved shootings and gangbanging. I’m not so big on trying to glorify my past negativities and criminal activities. I’m not ashamed of it, but it helped me grow, and at the same time, I’m not proud of it, but it made me the man I am today.”
Hermez the God said he was recently arrested for “being in the wrong place with someone else at the wrong time after we hosted a back-to-school event handing out backpacks and school supplies to the homeless. … I’m out here trying to pursue a
“As a city, we are more into banging in crews and life beefs that end up in violence.”
dream. It sucks that they’re not recognizing those things, and they didn’t come raid the back-to-school event. It’s like they set you up for failure.”
Hermez said his personal growth actually started while behind bars. “I took certain trades and classes that teach you how to speak and think while fundamentally carrying yourself. You can’t talk to the same people in an industry or in a higher-class neighborhood or lower-class neighborhood the same way or say things in certain neighborhoods.”
On his new, seven-track trap-style album FORSAKEN, Hermez the God brings Latino street culture directly into your earphones through detailed descriptions and storytelling. From the spirited flow of “Laundry Freestyle” to the forceful staccato lines in tracks like “Standing on Bidness” and “Run It,” Hermez stresses the people, places, and things that make his world spin despite — or because of — his criminal past. Each song features a different collaborator. Fort Worth icons Go Yayo, Twisted Black, and Denero, plus Dallas’
BigXthaPlug, Atlanta’s Kap G, Houston’s DeeBaby, and more make appearances on FORSAKEN
From his Hemphill studio, Hermez also runs ATMM Studios, a full-service production company with credits on records by Twisted Black, Solo Lucci, and Tajaee, among others.
“We record music, do video shoots and photography out of the studio,” Hermez said. “I’m all-around, you know, a real entrepreneur.”
As his popularity booms, Hermez the God tries to keep a low profile.
“As a city, we are more into banging in crews and life beefs that end up in violence,” he said. “That’s rap in general for Latinos, and at this moment, we are known by that, but that’s our crutch when we could become a bigger thing for the city.” l
Hermez the God: “I’m not so big on trying to glorify my past negativities and criminal activities … but it made me the man I am today.”
Hermez the God 9pm Sat, Aug 31, w/Peso Peso and Gt Garza at The Hideout, 8236 Bedford-Euless Rd, NRH. $30. 817-630-5393.
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