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Dream-Ink
An
anesthesia tattoo
will set you back a few thou, but one local tattooer thinks it will catch on here.
BY STEVE STEWARD
I started getting my first tattoo at the ripe old age of 28. I say “started” because it’s a full back piece, and here, 18 years later, it remains unfinished. What was intended to be pirate ship rendered in full color has remained mostly black and gray. There are multiple reasons why it’s incomplete –among them, I had a falling out with the artist over his cantankerous eccentricities – but above all, I just got tired of booking additional sessions to wrap up what turned out to be a bigger ordeal than either of us imagined. At one point, I asked if I could book two sessions in one day, to try to speed things along. The tattooer simply replied that he didn’t think I could handle the pain for that long.
At the time, I thought that was a presumptuous thing to say, but over the ensuing years and eight more tattoos, I have had to concede that he was probably right. It is a lot for most people to get tattooed for a couple hours, let alone six. My experience is that if a tattoo takes an hour or more, it is the last quarter of that duration that hurts the most. No doubt, part of this is psychological, and in response, I’ve dreamed up various scenarios in which I am able to endure the dig of the needle for the three to six hours it would probably take to bring my unfinished tattoo saga to a conclusion. In one of these, I’m maxed out on edibles. In another, I’ve learned to meditate through the pain. Perhaps I could handle six hours of tattooing if I had a massage before and after. I even imagined six hours of suffering in silence just to spite him. But never in all my flights of large tattoo fantasy did it occur to me that such an ordeal might be feasible with the application of general anesthetic.
Getting a big area of your body tattooed is already expensive, but getting inked while conked out in a doctor’s office is the sort of luxury expenditure that is so far beyond my reach that I can’t be bothered to countenance it. But if you possess the financial means of, say, an NFL quarterback or a Grammynominated rapper, getting tattooed this way is not only possible but probably soon to be
en vogue. At least, that’s what Fort Worth tattooer Scott Prather hopes.
Prather, along with fellow tattooer and business partner Eddy Herrera and a cadre of doctors in Dallas, has launched a new business. Dream Ink Services offers clients large, normally multi-session tattoos (or multiple tattoos done in multiple sessions) in the span of three to six hours while the recipient is blissfully unconscious thanks to the magic of anesthesia. While the practice has been around for a couple years, Prather and Herrera are the first to do it in Texas.
“I guess we’re pioneers, in that regard,” he joked.
Prather has been tattooing for a decade, and five of those years were spent working in shops, mostly at Sleepy Hollow Tattoos when it was in Burleson and after it moved to its current spot in the West 7th corridor. As it happens, I have two pieces from him — done at both locations — and when you spend an hour or two with a person who’s zapping your skin with steel and ink, you get a little bit of a feel for them. My read on Prather is someone who is ambitious to the point of restlessness, driven to chart his own course and forever pushing himself to improve his skills. His tattoo portfolio runs the gamut from neo-traditional to portraiture and just about every other style in between. By his own admission, there are plenty of better artists than him, but after 10 years of
tattooing, you know if you’re good at it or not. And Prather knows he’s good.
But also after 10 years, Prather knows he’s at a point in his career where he has to either make a bigger move in the industry — for most tattooers with this mindset, that means opening their own shop — or try something else. But after five years of an appointments-only business model run out of his studio in the Foundry District salon building, Prather didn’t really want to open a shop.
“I don’t think it’s really viable anymore, man,” he told me.
We were in his studio, and he was in the midst of adding reddish brown pigment to a ferret (inspired by fantasy author Brian Jacques’ Redwall novels) in a client’s leg sleeve.
“I mean,” he said, “there are five shops within spitting distance of this room, and working in shops for five years, I learned it’s not really the environment I want to be in.”
For one thing, he has been sober for nearly four years, and he believes that being in a tattoo shop is not conducive to that lifestyle choice. And then there are the finances inherent to running a shop. “When your income is dependent on the people who work for you, you hire people who are busy. You don’t hire people who are good, necessarily. And you can also hire someone who’s a good
Prather: “There’s a lot of controversy surrounding tattoos under anesthesia, from a lot of the old hats — that ‘you have to earn it’ type of deal, like having the pain is part of the experience. But it’s one of those things that’s, like, who cares? If you can do it [pain-free], then why not?”
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artist but a shit person, y’know? I think you’re gonna see more artists coming to this type of environment over the next 10 years.”
Prather explored the “do something else” career path, and through his own hustle, he broke into the indie comic book scene. “I made a portfolio and started going to comic cons and meeting people. … I’ve cold emailed people, and I’ve gotten some opportunities through that. I’ve just kind of gotten out there on my own.”
He’s been working on a comic called Higraeth with local writer and artist Andrew Calvert that is about to launch a Kickstarter campaign. “Its title is a Welsh word that’s like a sense of nostalgia for a place you’ve never been.”
Prather has also done covers for a lot of indie comics, to the aim of getting his name out there. “When the time comes [for the Kickstarter], we’ll have a little bit more of a substantial following and promotion from the people I’ve worked with hopefully.”
For all his inroads into the realm of comics, however, Prather was still a tattooer in search of something else to do with his skill set. That’s when Post Malone posted a TikTok of himself getting a bunch of tattoos in what appeared to be a hospital bed. It turned out that the Grammy-nominated rapper and Grapevine native got six pieces done while under general anesthesia in Los Angeles. continued on page 6
Prather and Herrera (shown here)
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Prather said that is when that idea “kind of entered the mainstream.”
I forget exactly what I paid for my back piece, but that year (2006, I think), I’d gotten a Christmas bonus from the company I worked for at the time that was over a grand, and I used all of it on that tattoo. But if I’d spent double or triple on it, I still would have had to grimace and bear it fully conscious. For a person of my means, an anesthesia tattoo is prohibitively expensive.
“The people who do it in L.A., the main tattooers who do this, their price point is like $100,000 minimum,” Prather said, explaining that the fee includes the artists’ time and supplies as well as that of the doctor, his staff and facility, and the procedure itself. “It’ll be like six artists, and they’ll do, like, a whole back piece in six hours. And the clients will be musicians, rappers, professional athletes. They’re people who can afford the cost but can’t afford the time.”
Per his own research, Prather said Los Angeles is pretty much the only place people are getting tattooed this way. “You’ll see things pop up every once in a while, where someone at a dentist office is doing it, like someone’s getting their teeth done and also getting tattooed, but I think that’s kind of a one-off thing.”
The client “said it was worth paying double to not feel getting that amount of tattoo work done,” Prather recalled. “I think it was weirdest for us because we’d never been around someone waking up from anesthesia. He was a like a big, bald baby waking up, but he loves his tattoos, and that’s what matters.”
I asked Prather if he had an “a-ha, I can totally do this” moment.
“It was when I got contacted by a group of anesthesiologists,” he said
Post Malone’s video predictably went viral, which was how it got the attention of a Dallas-based anesthesiologist named Dr. Harris Khan. Prather said Khan saw a lot
potential revenue in such procedures. “For him, it’s like an additional source of income. If he can work not only with surgeons but
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with someone else who would require anesthesia, then that’s a win for him.”
As to why Khan and his associates contacted Prather, Prather said it was basically happenstance. “Dr. Khan just googled ‘best tattoo shop DFW,’ and he saw [my name], so it was complete luck, essentially, because there are thousands of tattooers in DFW now, y’know? And I’ll be the first to say that there are always gonna be people who are better than me. That’s totally true. But I’m good for my price point, for the style I do … but he asked me to go to dinner with him and some other anesthesiologists and a plastic surgeon named Dr. Robert Schwartz.”
To the dinner at Mercury Chophouse in Arlington, Prather brought along Herrera “because there’s no sense in me doing this by myself. You have to have at least one more person, and we will be subcontracting other artists in the future for large projects.”
Schwartz was important, Prather said, “because we basically had to find a surgeon who would allow tattooers into his surgery suite. Super rare. You’re not going to find a lot of doctors willing to do that. … Tattooers aren’t always known for being the best people — more reasons why I don’t want to be around them — and I can kind of separate myself from the negative connotations of tattooing. I can just be a dude who happens to do tattoos.”
With Khan administering the
Of
course, finding clients for these kinds of tattoo sessions is Prather’s biggest challenge.
anesthetic in Schwartz’s facility, Prather and Herrera did their first (and thus far only) general anesthesia tattoos on one of Prather’s longtime clients in May. Like any foray into new territory, the two tattooers ran into a significant learning curve.
“We had to learn that the six hours isn’t actually six hours, because anesthesia time starts before we get in there,” Prather recalled. “They have to set the client up, so it’s really five hours of tattoo time, including the bandaging part. [My client] is just a regular working guy, so he doesn’t have any crazy money. We told him that all he had to pay for was the medical part, so [Herrera] and I did the tattoo pro bono. We did five hours total time, three tattoos, both of his shoulders and his whole left rib panel.”
Last November, the client hated “every single moment” of the chest piece Prather gave him. The client “said it was worth paying double to not feel getting that amount of tattoo work done. I think it was weirdest for us because we’d never been around someone waking up from anesthesia. He was a like a big, bald baby waking up, but he loves his tattoos, and that’s what matters. He didn’t have any residual pain from the procedure, so that was super-encouraging.”
Prather and Herrera are aware of the difference between L.A. prices and DFW prices and have set their fees accordingly. While still out of the reach of most people, their rates are more affordable than the people who tattooed Post Malone.
Prather’s prices are broken down into different cuts. If Prather and Herrera are working together, it’s $4,000 an hour for six hours minimum.
“We can do quite a bit in six hours, just the two of us,” Prather said, “and if we have to bring in other artists, the price per hour goes up. We’re both working for six hours, which makes it a 12-hour tattoo.”
Prather also knows it might take a while for $24,000 tattoos to catch on, but he is confident they will — despite the salt tossed at the procedure by more tradition-minded artists.
“Tattoos aren’t for everyone, and that’s totally fine. Just like this procedure isn’t for everyone. Also, totally fine. But there’s a lot of controversy surrounding tattoos under anesthesia, from a lot of the old hats — that ‘you have to earn it’ type of deal, like having
the pain is part of the experience. But it’s one of those things that’s, like, who cares? If you can do it [pain-free], then why not?
“It’s like the artists who say you can only be tattooed by coil machines, not the fancy ‘light sabers’ that we have now,” Prather continued. “It’s part of the evolution of the industry that’s happened over the past 10 years. I think some of that [criticism] stems from a bit of jealousy, that those [previous generations of tattooers] didn’t have this kind of opportunity, but I don’t care what those guys think. If I do six of these over the next year, I’m out of debt. If I do 16 of these in the next three years, my house is paid off. So, who wouldn’t want the opportunity to do this? But then, it’s finding those clients. That’s why it’s important for us to start getting this out there. I mean, I’ve had one client, who could pay half-price. No one else that I know would pay that.”
Of course, finding clients for these kinds of tattoo sessions is Prather’s biggest challenge. He said it would be helpful if he knew someone like a physical therapist who worked with pro athletes who could recommend his services (“I’d be happy to throw them a headhunters fee”), but he is well-aware of the amount of wealth in DFW and is confident those clients will come knocking. But even if his calendar fills up with anesthesia tattoo appointments, he will still continue installing subdermal art the old-fashioned way.
“I’ll always do it. Unless I’m doing, like, three anesthesia tattoos a month, I’ll always be doing this.” l
STUFF
‘No Urgency’
The Cowboys’ run-up to the regular season continues to underwhelm.
BY PATRICK HIGGINS
Though it took place in Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium, the Dallas Cowboys played their first of three preseason games in front of what was essentially a home crowd Sunday. The stands were no better than three-quarters full, and judging from the broadcast audio, it sounded like three-quarters of those in attendance were for the silver and blue. Despite the allegiances of the crowd, the painfully unwatchable affair ended with a last-second touchdown pass from second-year Rams QB Stetson Bennett to secure the win for the (technical) home team by a score of 13-12. The incredibly pedestrian final underscores just what a yawner it was.
Ignoring the outcome of the meaningless game, it was another milestone in this year’s heretofore underwhelming journey toward the regular season. With All-Pro wide receiver CeeDee Lamb a training camp holdout, a starting QB — along with an entire coaching staff — entering 2024 on lame-duck deals, an aging and unproven running back corps, and the team’s forgettable free agency “haul,” there’s been precious little to get hyped about. Even more so than the average fake football game, there was very little intrigue heading into the Week 1 preseason headliner. Save one thing: the debut of a former first-round QB for Dallas. For those deluded enough to believe Trey Lance could be the savior that jaded
fans have been dreaming of that helps the franchise get out from under an extremely expensive and perennial “playoff-choking” QB in Dak Prescott, you might want to keep your foot hovering over the brake pedal. Statistically, Lance’s outing wasn’t all that bad. He finished 25 of 41 for 188 yards and no picks and mixed in 44 yards on the ground across the three and a half quarters in which he played. And though the defense gave him several extra possessions via four Bennett interceptions, Lance was unable to find the end zone, and the number of times he overthrew or put the ball behind open receivers was … uninspiring, to say the least.
With each successive series, it became a little clearer why the 49ers were so willing to let him go just two years after giving up three first round picks to move up to No. 3 overall to draft him.
I get it. The kid hasn’t really played. Despite entering his fourth season, he’s essentially still a rookie, playing in just eight games so far as a pro. Not to mention that
he didn’t really play a ton in college either. He had just 17 starts while at North Dakota State. But it’s still hard to imagine that he gets much better at this point. San Francisco seems to think they’d seen enough. I just might hold off on anointing him the heir apparent. There’s no question Dak is gonna get his $60M (or more) per year somewhere, but Lance shouldn’t be the reason No. 4 doesn’t get paid here.
Speaking of not paying, Jerry Jones said last week when questioned about it that he has “no urgency” to get a deal done with Lamb, a Top 3 wide receiver in the league. This type of hubristic nonchalance has come to epitomize this Cowboys offseason, and as a result, I see no urgency in fostering any of my typical enthusiasm. Normally, by this time, I am bouncing off the walls in anticipation of the oncoming season. Now, Dallas Cowboys football to me is — as bewildering as it is to me to recognize — a complete afterthought.
I’m certainly not alone. I cannot recall
a preseason with so little buzz surrounding the silver and blue in more than two decades. There have been numerous reports that the usually standing room only training camp practices have, this year, been as poorly attended as Sunday’s preseason game. Perhaps the last 10 months of giddily watching each of the area’s other three major sports teams progressing to their respective sports’ conference finals (and beyond), coupled with the front office’s laughable and petulant “nah’ll-in” strategy, has hampered the usual excitement. Perhaps it’s nearly three decades of the same ol’ shit that’s finally catching up to the Joneses. I just can’t bring myself to care right now, and Sunday’s snoozer did little to change that. If anything, it threw another shovelful of dirt on my give-a-fuck. I have no doubt that when the new kickoff rules (how wild are those?) begin real-life meaningful games, I’ll be back with my full glass of Kool-Aid in hand. ’Til then, I’m preoccupied with one thing: When does Mavs season start? l
Former first-round QB Trey Lance had a forgettable debut, in a forgettable game, at the start of an even more forgettable preseason.
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STUFF
Belly, Achin’
Near
Sundance Square, Big Laugh packs ’em in for touring comedy shows — and open-mics.
STORY AND PHOTO BY STEVE STEWARD
About 15 years ago, I dabbled in standup comedy. Across three or four open-mic nights at two different bars (The Moon on Berry and Best Friends on Lancaster, neither of which exist anymore), I tripped and stumbled through what might generously be called “pothead observational comedy,” because in the late 2000s, marijuana had only recently been invented and I thought the sort of people who attend open-mic comedy events would find it hilarious if a guy in his early 30s got stoned in an alley behind the bar and then told people about it into a microphone for five minutes.
A “tight 5,” my “set” was not, and even calling it “loose” would extend far more grace than I deserved. But extending grace to unfunny comedians is tacitly parceled into the very concept of an open-mic night, a reality I was reminded of on a recent Monday evening when I checked out the weekly open-mic at Big Laugh Comedy Club downtown (604 Main St, Ste 100, 512-817-9535).
For one thing, the host, a guy named Jason, made a point to remind the audience that merely taking the stage at an open-mic
requires a good amount of courage, and to be kind — or at least not actively prickish. He also instructed us to laugh at anything we thought was funny and not to laugh if a joke wasn’t “because these assholes will just keep telling them over and over again.”
I thought that was useful advice, and I made a point to apply it. And you know what? Treating my laughs like a thing to be earned felt nice. If you’re a pathological people-pleaser and are trying to practice setting boundaries, a situation that actively discourages courtesy affirmations (i.e., offering a polite chuckle when you really would rather press your lips into a thin line) is right up your alley. Big Laugh’s open-mic participants offered plenty of hacky jokes — “I’m a
Mexican who doesn’t know Spanish, which is like a white guy with bad credit” was one of them — to be silent about. But some of these people — most of whom appeared later in the lineup — brought some genuinely funny material. What’s actually cool about enduring a steady drizzle of not-funny jokes is that when one of these fledgling comics lands one, it hits like tennis ball-sized hailstone bouncing off the pavement and nailing somebody in the crotch.
Big Laugh itself is kind of funny, because its stage is found deep within what used to be a restaurant downtown. You walk through the bar and past the kitchen to get to the room with the stage, and the decor has that kind of bare-bones, thrown-together
aesthetic I would expect from a comedy club opening in a turnkey space a couple blocks south of Sundance Square. The bar is serviceable, but the comedy lounge feels like you’re at a club where people try to make you laugh on purpose — the room is dark, and the stage is not, lit by the spectral glow of green LEDs — which is really what matters.
Comedy is this place’s reason for being, after all, and while its open-mic night sets the bar pretty low, its other regular programming is pretty solid. Wednesday nights are a “crowd work” show called “What’s the Worst that Can Happen?” and on Thu, Aug 15, Dressed to Kill encourages the audience to wear nice clothes for “Fort Worth’s Classiest Comedy Show.” Big Laugh also hosts local and touring performers who have managed to emerge from open-mic purgatory with material that actually gets them booked.
On Friday and Saturday, up-and-comer Alfred Kainga (he’s been on Comedy Central, in other words) headlines four shows, and he’s pretty funny, and Friday night features viral sensation That 1 Mailman, a.k.a. Sean Fogelson. Then there’s Wes Barker, the Stunt Magician, who’s playing Big Laugh on Saturday. All of these guys’ followings number in the tens of thousands, and they will likely pack the house, which brings me to the one thing I thought was annoying — and not in “oh, another thirtysomething dude telling a joke about jerking off” sort of way. I get that people buy tickets to shows and that shows sell out. I also get that a $2 cover is absolutely reasonable to pay to see an openmic. But if you have a door open onto a street at 7:30pm on a Monday to entice passersby to come to said open-mic, must you make me go through the hassle of giving my email and phone number to the door guy taking my money? Can he not just have a bucket to drop a couple singles in and forgo the halting capture of audience information? Because not only was that experience an aggravating speedbump on the way to a subsequent experience that may also prove to be an asswhip, but when that door guy took the stage, I felt bad that he had to endure people like me rattling him before he went on. But whatever. That’s part of the game. It’s people like me with our stone(ed)face miens that sharpen the open-mic’ers into weekend headliners. Drop by Big Laugh Comedy Club and do your part. l
What’s actually cool about enduring a steady drizzle of not-funny jokes is that when one of these fledgling comics lands one, it hits like tennis ball-sized hailstone bouncing off the pavement and nailing somebody in the crotch.
Best Of 2024: Voting Begins Now!
When we say “now,” we mean Thursday.
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With its magazine-style glossy cover, great photographs, and insightful opinions on the BEST of everything this area has to offer, Best Of 2024 is the issue you don’t want to miss. Our critics will make their choices, and those winners will be announced in the Best Of 2024 special edition on Wed, Sep 25, but they aren’t the only ones who will be participating.. Our readers get a say in all of this as well. (Yes, you!)
Now thru Sun, Sep 15 at midnight, make your voice be heard by participating in our online-only, write-in ballot to determine the Readers’ Choice winners for the Getting & Spending, People & Places, Arts & Culture, Good Grub, and On The Town sections. Plus, help us decide which local bands will make the cut for our upcoming Music Awards season by also making choices in the Music Awards Nominations section. Below are the categories for each. But first, a quick refresher on the rules. All nominees should be local. No national people, places, performances, or products. To nominate a person, please provide the name of their business or organization. To be counted, a ballot must contain votes in at least 10 categories and must include the voter’s full name and email address. One ballot per reader, please. A business may not offer customers incentives to vote, fill in any portion of a ballot for someone else, or require employees to vote. Any ballots considered fraudulent by the Fort Worth Weekly will be eliminated. All ballots must be received no later than midnight Sun, Sep 15. No exceptions.
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About the Music Awards
Admittedly, the post-pandemic process for our annual Music Awards has been a little clunky. We’d like to rectify that this year. While there will be no Best Of winners in the music categories, we still want the readers’ input for the upcoming music awards season. We invite you all to nominate your favorite musicians and music places while we have your attention during the Best Of voting.
But first, a quick reminder about the rules for this section. All nominees should be local. Votes for national artists will not be counted. The top selections from the music categories below will be included in our Music Awards ballot for 2024, which will go live online sometime in the late fall. (Translation: This is just phase #1; those who make the cut will move on to phase #2.)
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NIGHT&DAY
Welcome … Back to School!
Ah, back-to-school time. In Arlington, this means Saint Maria Goretti Catholic School Day. As it’s the institution’s 70th anniversary, Arlington Mayor Jim Ross has issued a proclamation. For updates on celebrations, follow Facebook. com/StMariaGorettiArlington. Their next big thing is GorettiFest. From 11am to 8pm Sat, Oct 5, and 8am to 3pm Sun, Oct 6, at Saint Maria Goretti Catholic School (1200 S Davis Dr, Arlington, 817-275-5081), the Trinity River Ramblers with Box Brains and
Bubble Gum Riot will perform, along with food, games, a petting zoo, a rummage sale, and a used book sale. Admission is free, but bring spending money for food and game tickets with proceeds benefitting the school. For more info, visit GorettiFest.com.
And so it begins. Voting is now open for the Readers’ Choice portion of our 26th or 27th annual Best Of issue. There are many exciting categories in Getting & Spending, People & Places, Arts & Culture, Good Grub, and On the Town. For the full rundown, see this week’s center-spread marketing feature. With school back in session, it’s worth noting that Best Teacher is one of the categories in People & Places. You know what to do!
From 10am to midnight, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St, Fort Worth, 817-7389215) hosts Tailgate at the Modern. This free event in the parking lot is a lot like a college game-day experience with a barbecue food truck, beverages, and a special free koozie for the first 100 guests. Oh, and art. There will be art, too, in particular Rebecca Manson’s fall-tastic “Barbecue” installation inside. For more info, visit TheModern.org/ program/tailgate.
For an after-party experience, there’ll be art and comedy (but not comedic art) at Pouring Glory (1001 Bryan Av, Fort Worth, 682-707-5441) with Dave Cave, Court Hoang, and comedian Tim Davies 8pm10pm. Cover is $10.
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-738-1933) will soon draw the curtain on Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood Up now only thru Aug 25, this multimedia retrospective of the groundbreaking titular
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The Arlington institution Saint Maria Goretti Catholic School is celebrating its 70th year.
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Rise Above the Rest
Some local restaurateurs are going above and beyond during this 28th annual Restaurant Week.
BY LAURIE JAMES
DFW Restaurant Week is a 28-year tradition in which many of our best and most beloved spots offer three-course prix fixe dinners ($49 or $59) and some $29 prix fixe brunch offerings. In Tarrant County, at least $10 from every meal goes to Lena Pope, a family-serving nonprofit providing mental health counseling for children, parent training, child care, juvenile justice programs,
essentially a tiny piece of chicken smothered in inexpensive potatoes and green beans or a salad. Goldfinch gave extra stars to those restaurateurs willing to add more expensive dishes to the charity eat-a-thon.
My spouse’s birthday falls just before Restaurant Week begins. If he chooses (accidentally, because he’s not paying that much attention) to visit a restaurant offering an RW deal, I love it. This was the case when he picked B&B Butchers (5212 Marathon Av, Fort Worth, 817-737-5212) for his celebratory meal. In a glorious collision of worlds, it also happened to be the first weekend of Restaurant Week. Four of my table of five indulged in B&B’s too-good-to-be-true RW menu. The fifth diner had her heart set on the Crab Louis, a generous $36 pile of jumbo lump crab, capers, hard-boiled eggs, and asparagus which wasn’t on the RW menu.
Goldfinch would have been impressed by B&B’s take. I had the lemony chicken shank –– it’s my favorite, and not even the promise of pan-seared salmon or the perfectly cooked 8-oz. filet could tempt me away.
and more in the Fort. Diners leave full, happy, and secure in the knowledge that their choices supported local restaurants and benefitted a local charity doing hard work and heavy lifting in Fort Worth.
My mentor and former Weekly colleague Christy Goldfinch unabashedly judged the restaurants by whether the entrées were
Birthday Boy enjoyed the giant serving of barbecue-kissed Snake River pork chops, while my kid with expensive taste tucked into some surf and turf (two filet medallions with crab-stuffed shrimp, a small serving of mashed potatoes, and, for an $8 upcharge, a lobster bisque sauce). Other upcharged menu items include a 22-oz. bone-in ribeye and all the glorious toppings that might accompany a steak (truffle butter, foie gras, Oscar-style). The classic wedge salad and the giant BLT salad — served vertically, not horizontally,
Thirsty Lion’s Restaurant Week menu features a Wagyu beef-and-prosciutto burger that’s not stingy.
and really a meal in itself — round out the appetizers. B&B will donate $12 per plate to Lena Pope, and if your head’s turned by a cocktail or a larger portion of steak, so much the better.
The Restaurant Week menu at Mac’s on Main (909 S Main St, Grapevine, continued on page 19
Don Artemio understood the Restaurant Week assignment, with their tacos filete con papa.
817-251-6227) is also stellar. I am an unabashed fan of Executive Chef/Owner Rena Frost, and until the advent of the new B&B property Soy Cowboy, Mac’s sister Arlington location was the nicest restaurant in town ––and as an Arlingtonian, I reserve judgment on this. The Grapevine location offers a $49 three-course meal with nary a chicken in sight. The divine 12-oz. prime rib, a Steak Oscar, steak frites, a striped bass, and lamb chops complete the entrée menu. One of the reasons I love Mac’s is that all entrées come with an appropriate side –– in the case of the excellent prime rib, it’s asparagus and a baked potato.
Don Artemio (3268 W 7th, Fort Worth, 817-470-1439) is a restaurant relatively new to the RW game, but I tip my sombrero to the creativity of their 2024 menu. Sure, you can have a generous two-course brunch or three-course dinner option that includes beef, veg, and pork choices, but for $99, with a $20 donation to charity, you get four courses, including a signature cocktail and a veg, beef, or fish option. (Again, nary a chicken thigh in sight.)
The $49 options at local stalwart Cat City Grill (1208 W Magnolia Av, Fort Worth, 817-916-5333) include a meatball appetizer and fish, chicken, or beef entrées accompanied by both mashed potatoes and a summer succotash. (It’s possible that Chef/
brunch, and the Wagyu beef-and-prosciutto burger featured on Thirsty Lion’s RW menu looks to be the same size as the one on the regular menu, with the same toppings.
Owner Martin Thompson might convince me that I like lima beans.)
As with the Dallas-facing restaurants, the North Texas Food Bank is the beneficiary of the meals at Thirsty Lion Gastropub (1220 Chisholm Trail Pkwy, Ste 100, Euless, 817283-9000). I won’t quibble about their fried cauliflower starter and three different menus showcasing beef, fish, and Eggs Benedict for
Restaurant Week has contributed more than $12 million toward Lena Pope’s good work in our community. Is this virtue signaling, or actual virtue? I liken RW to purchasing Girl Scout Cookies or buying anything that your kid’s school or sport is selling for fundraising: Yes, you could just donate directly to the organization, but in the case of Restaurant Week, you can also call on an old favorite place for a little nostalgia or maybe try something new. If you have the means, splurge on the wine pairings or the
upgrades. If you don’t, you still enjoyed a good meal at a great restaurant.
At one point, Restaurant Week was just an experience during the first full week of August. Some places still honor the literal week –– Chef Jon Bonnell’s Waters and his Fine Texas Cuisine had lovely non-chicken offerings last week only. For other restaurateurs, the event now sprawls through Sep 1. Check your favorite place’s website to be sure, and be kind: Make a reservation, and tip your servers generously.
For a complete list of Tarrant County options for Restaurant Week, visit LenaPope.org/dfwrestaurantweek. l
The BLT Salad appetizer on the Restaurant Week menu at B&B Butchers is a meal in itself — literally, it’s on their regular menu.
One of the starters on B&B Butchers’ Restaurant Week menu, the lighter-than-air meatballs were just like Nonna used to make.
MUSIC
Free Jazz Zemire
The new
singer-song-
writer’s debut single serves as a tribute to the late friend who helped write it.
BY PATRICK HIGGINS
As a child, Jazz Zemire was fascinated by The Phantom of the Opera. From the moment she saw her first performance, the grandeur of the score and the emotion in the songs spoke deeply to her. As a member of the Texas Girl’s Choir and a self-described “band nerd” throughout high school and while marching at TCU, the Fort Worth native quietly held a dream to one day write a Broadway-style musical. From her first tenuous attempts at songwriting to the occasional open-mic, her efforts were small and fraught with self-doubt, yet it was a drive, though latent, which remained for decades.
Beginning two years ago, a little help from a friend finally gave her the courage and, more importantly, the commitment to take her first proper step toward that end.
While not exactly the first sing-along number in a forthcoming theatrical stage show, Zemire has released her first song. It’s a huge milestone for the aspiring composer that just might give her the courage she needs to begin the process toward working on that musical in earnest. “Your Love Is Dangerous (Jeanne’s Song)” came out on July 27. The artist credits her late and dear friend in the title, Jeanne Arnold, for giving her not only the encouragement to pursue her own music but also the lyrical foundation on which to begin it.
“I kept writing songs and working on them and hanging around my music friends and would show them [and say], ‘Hey, here’s a song I wrote’ and ‘Here’s a song I wrote,’ ” Zemire recalled. “And they were like, ‘OK? What are you going to do with them?’ I was always too scared to do much with them. I would just show them and then hope that for some reason someone famous would come along and pluck me from obscurity and make me a superstar somehow. I had no work or plans for how to actually make that happen.”
Once such friendly sounding board was Arnold. The two met through a mutual love of tennis and became close friends. Before Arnold’s death from cancer in 2022, she gave
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Zemire a handful of poems she had written and tasked Zemire to write a song around one of them. “She said, ‘Here, take these poems and turn them into one of your songs that’s going to make you famous,’ ” Zemire recalled. “I worked really, really hard to try to get the song as good as I could to honor her. She was just such a positive and upbeat lady, even though she had all these health problems. She had this idea like, ‘Every day is a bonus day, because I probably should have died.’ ”
Prior to her fatal cancer diagnosis, Arnold suffered from a life-threatening heart condition, yet the health challenges never seemed to dull her zeal and appreciation for life. It was this resilience and grace that became the motivation for Zemire.
“She really gave me the bravery more than anything else,” Zemire said. “I mean, she gave me these lyrics, and she was my really good friend, but [mostly] she gave me … the courage to do it.”
Zemire said the track is “difficult to classify,” as it deftly straddles the gap between the climatic works of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Menken and Zemire’s more contemporary influences like Regina Spektor and Adele, but “Your Love Is Dangerous” would sound equally at home on modern pop radio and in the middle of a Disney movie. Its melancholy beauty and symphonic accompaniment sound every bit as Broadway as it does Billboard.
“I really wanted the song to be a mix between Phantom of the Opera and one of the newer James Bond-movie ballads, like Adele or Sam Smith,” Zemire said. “A big ballad that has all the strings and a big orchestra arrangement — that’s what I was going for. It got close, I think.”
Working from Arnold’s text might have been a small challenge, but it was one that also presented an opportunity.
“The words were coming from the same sort of emotional place as something I would have written,” Zemire said. “It was the kind of ‘diary entry’ song that I was already writing and not showing anybody. With it, I could kind of hide and get brave behind her words and then hopefully have the courage to release my own next time.”
Zemire admits that writing “Your Love Is Dangerous” at her late friend’s request came with more than a bit of pressure, yet it was pressure Zemire welcomed because she said it helped her finally push herself outside her comfort zone. “I was working under the model of, ‘One day, Coldplay is going to come by my work and say, “Hey, do you want to come jam with us?” ’ That was my basic approach until this situation came about. It was a lot of pressure, but I put it on myself. I knew I really needed to switch my mentality around from ‘being rescued’ to really trying.”
As a testament to how seriously she took the work, Zemire reached high for help, enlisting A-list producer J Chris Griffin (Madonna, John Legend, Kanye West) to help her craft the song. The process took more than six grueling months, but the two landed on exactly the sound Zemire was hoping for, one reminiscent of Sondheim and Bernstein while at the same time capable of sitting alongside pop icons like Lady Gaga and St. Vincent.
“Your Love Is Dangerous” represents an important first step that — who knows just might lead toward realizing a childhood dream. Zemire and Griffin are set to begin work on two other songs soon, but for now, she’s just happy with this first step taken. “I’m just really trying to get this song out because this was [Arnold’s] gift to me. She was so nice and encouraging, and she believed in me.” l
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Zemire: “I would just show [my songs] and then hope that for some reason someone famous would come along and pluck me from obscurity and make me a superstar somehow.”
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It’s almost EduFest time at The Potter’s House Church. This free annual conference/expo is slated for 10am-4pm Sat, Oct 5, at TCC’s Trinity River Campus (300 Trinity Campus Cir, Fort Worth). There’ll be exhibits, panel discussions, breakout sessions, and workshops, all primarily focused on academics, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, health and wellness, and technology. For more info and updates, visit TPHFW.org/edufest.
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Along with DECO’s collection of apartment homes, it features an extensive amenity collection that encourages residents to enjoy an active and enriching lifestyle. The DECO community offers 302 pet-friendly apartments with a range of floor plans, including six penthouses, and rents starting at just over $2,000 per month.
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