Fort Worth Weekly // August 28 - September 3, 2024 by Fort Worth Weekly

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“Gotcha”?

Hidden-camera

Swifties for Kamala

Tay-Tay

By Emmy Smith

Have Yourself a Pour

Self-serve bar Hoppin’ opens its doors in the Foundry District.

By Christina Berger

STAFF

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Quiet Resistance

A new “gotcha” video shows North Texas teachers pushing back against the state’s absurd education bans.

BY ANTHONY MARIANI

Just when your average rational person couldn’t respect and admire public school teachers any more, there’s a new alleged “gotcha” video that only reveals them as critical thinkers and fact lovers, just the kind of people we non-crazies want teaching our children.

In the video that shall go unnamed to keep it from generating any more views, some C-team right-wing personality — let’s call him “Gotcha Gary” — shows hidden-camera footage of North Texas public school educators admitting to, in Gotcha Gary’s words, “possibly breaking the law.”

The law is Texas’ ridiculous ban on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), Critical Race Theory or CRT (whatever that is; just another right-wing bogeyman), and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in public schools.

In Gotcha Gary’s new video, a Coppell school district administrator is revealed explaining the way in which he and his team teach a certain equity-minded science standard without triggering Gov. Greg Abbott’s goon squad. Our new favorite person, Coppell ISD’s Evan Whitfield, says, “We kind of dance, tap dance, around calling it anything, because if I were to say, ‘Coppell is teaching [Next Generation Science Standards],’ if I were to publish that on our website, that’s when we would get a call” from the TEA (Texas Education Agency). “Yeah, but are we still teaching NGSS-ish? Absolutely.”

NGSS says that “students from all backgrounds should have a fair opportunity to participate in scientific learning experiences that are authentic, relevant, and engaging.”

How that’s terrible, only ask a terrible person like Gotcha Gary or Greg Abbott.

And it’s not just teachers Gary’s accosting. Roaming outside schools with his microphone on camera, he also corners parents. He peppers them not with questions or context but with leading statements. In

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front of a Coppell elementary school in the new video, Gotcha Gary jumps on a mom walking her kid out of the building and, without any context, merely says to Mom rapid fire-like, “A Coppell school district administrator was captured on hidden camera bragging about deceiving parents,” before jamming his mic in her face.

The woman stops, looks at him, then simply says, “That’s awful, yeah.”

Groundbreaking stuff, Gary.

His whole point is to drum up support for vouchers or “Education Savings Accounts (ESAs),” as Abbott misleadingly calls them, no doubt because “private-school welfare” would not go over well. On Gotcha Gary’s YouTube page (17.4K subscribers), his group says, “Passing legislation for universal school choice” or ESAs “is the best way to empower parents to choose schools where they can be confident their children aren’t being taught controversial ideologies like Critical Race Theory.”

SEL, CRT, and DEI, Gary says in the new video, “bring racism. They bring

antisemitism. They divide us.”

Amid the incessant whining from far-right snowflakes that fact-based history makes white students feel bad because their ancestors killed impoverished Blacks and Hispanics and that equity-focused hiring discriminates against Whitey, many teachers — lots even in North Texas, apparently soldier on in the name of equality, equity, and fact-based instruction.

At Keller ISD, teachers are plowing forward with SEL principles but under a different name. At Edgewood ISD, an ELAR content coordinator tells Gotcha Gary that she and her team are ignoring the CRT ban because they “do not follow much of what Abbott is trying to get us to do,” and in Plano, Gotcha Gary nabs an administrator being rational by saying diversity trainings are still being conducted there.

ESAs, or vouchers, will be Topic No. 1 in January, when the Texas Legislature reconvenes. Last week at the Capitol, the Texas House Committee on Public Education held a two-day discussion on ESAs/vouchers

with speakers from both sides of the debate. One member of the Texas Democratic Rural Caucus told KUT News in Austin that “public education in Texas is on a path toward complete disarray, and this is by design. The Abbott crowd is deliberately going beyond just dismantling our public schools [and is] actually hell-bent on sabotaging the actual existence of public education itself.”

In Texas now, 14- to 15-year-olds can work up to 48 hours per week, almost like adults. The endgame for conservatives — mostly white, mostly wealthy, often Christian — is to segregate poor (often Black or brown) students from whites to allow the whites to further their education while Black/brown students spend their precious youth and the rest of their miserable lives clocking in at blue-collar jobs. The ESA/ voucher train will also barrel right over poor, rural whites, which is why rural Texas Republicans have joined minority Dems in quashing ESAs/vouchers in the state year after year. There’s now a difference maker. Big-money donors have foisted ESA/ voucher-loving Republicans into rural seats formerly occupied by pragmatic, anti-ESA/ voucher Republicans, meaning this time around in the lege, ESAs/vouchers will cruise to approval.

Data from other states has proven that ESAs/vouchers are only wealthy welfare. Parents who can afford private schools have been whining forever about paying tuition at St. John’s Wort or Our Lady of Hail Mary Passes while also funding public school students through taxation, never realizing that an educated populace is a healthy populace. Or maybe that’s the plan. When you’re poor and uneducated, you’ll believe anything, even that wealth trickles down. The gap between the haves and have-nots has never been wider, and approving ESAs/ vouchers now will only turn that gap into an untraversable chasm.

Public school teachers are our only hope to staunch the changing tide. For them, going on strike would be a challenge — too much to lose in a souring labor market. Quiet resistance may be the only option. As Gotcha Gary has proven, Coppell, Plano, Keller school districts and others are leading that charge. You can help by supporting them via social media and by helping pay for classroom supplies.

And by writing letters and/or fiery columns in local magazines. 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. He will gently edit it for clarity and concision.

A C-team right-wing media personality with a bunch of followers catches North Texas educators skirting a state ban, and all he does is make us love them even more.

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For the Hope of It All

Taylor Swift fans get ready to “paint the town blue.”

STORY AND PHOTOS BY EMMY SMITH

With the recent conclusion of Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour in Europe — and with it, the Instagram livestreams that brightened the afternoons of thousands of American fans like me tuning in to see what surprises she had in store — a wave of displaced Swiftie energy has shifted to ushering in the era of the first woman president.

On Tuesday, over 13,000 people, including former presidential candidate and beloved Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and even legendary singer-songwriter Carole King (whom Swift inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), along with “little old me,” signed on to the kickoff call of Swifties for Kamala (S4K), a new coalition of Taylor Swift fans determined to save democracy by electing Vice President Kamala Harris as the 47th U.S. president along with other progressive candidates in local and national elections.

S4K began the day President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, when 22-year old

S4K co-founder and “mastermind” Emerald Medrano, who is from Texas, posted, “I feel like us US [sic] Swifties should mass organize and help campaign for Kamala Harris and spread how horrendous Project 2025 would be to help get people’s butts down to the polls in November.”

Within three weeks, Swifties for Kamala had amassed more than 180,000 followers across its social media platforms. During the kickoff call, Medrano, who described himself as a Latinx transgender queer person, gave an emotional introduction laced with numerous Swift references.

“This started for me in a moment of anxiety,” Medrano said, “a moment when I needed to become a ‘cheer captain’ and not just ‘on the bleachers.’ I knew I had to speak now, so I sent out a tweet urging our community to create a blue wave of heart hands and friendship bracelets.”

Then Warren, in her trademark Oklahoma twang, came onscreen to announce her favorite Swift song (“Karma”) and offer words of encouragement in the 70 days ahead. “What I love best about Swifties: You know how to take on bullies, and you know how to be your most authentic and most joyful selves. You come together hand in hand, friendship bracelets on your wrists, and you overcome everything life throws at you. That’s what the Harris campaign is all about.”

Clearly the coalition is about more than just S4K friendship bracelets, though those definitely have a place. S4K co-founder Irene Kim introduced an incentive in the form of a raffle to one of Swift’s November concerts, with one’s chance to win directly tied to how many friends they help vote. Given the immense popularity of Swift’s tour, the savvy move will no doubt keep volunteers motivated over the next 10 weeks, with the winner being announced shortly after the election.

During the Swifties for Kamala kickoff meeting, music legend Carole King (bottom left) offered solid door-knocking advice.

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Other speaker highlights included “original cat lady” King offering door-knocking tips (“Know your opening line”) before singing a snippet of “Shake It Off,” and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey rattling off a litany of lyrical references while stressing the importance of battling climate change. You really had to be there.

The call doubled as a campaign organizing 101 course, likely to the benefit of thousands of young and first-time voters wondering how to get involved. In between the stump speeches, co-founders Medrano and Kim kept the focus on recruiting volunteers to not just attend fundraising and getout-the-vote events but to actually organize their own events in their communities using S4K’s toolbox and guidance.

S4K will be using communication app Discord to help organize its now-mobilized army of Swift fans. Already it has been using an active social media presence to energize people to not just vote but actively support their local candidates using text and phone banks and postcard-writing events (all named for Swift lyrics, of course), then encouraging members to share their volunteer experiences on the “S4K Wins” account to spread the word.

As for Swift herself, certainly, some Democrats out there are fantasizing about her and current partner Travis Kelce making a joint announcement at the end of some future Kansas City Chiefs game, as

Republicans seemed to think would happen at the end of the Super Bowl. More than likely, she’ll post a short statement to her social channels voicing her support and encouraging her fans young and old to exercise their civic duty.

But it’s not a given. Swift stayed out of politics completely until 2018 for fear of alienating large swaths of fans she gained as a teen country star. Then in 2020, she waited until early October to endorse the Biden/ Harris ticket, so we know “All Too Well” who she’ll be voting for this time around anyway.

The only hitch in the call was a missed connection with U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Dallas, who gave a viral speech at last week’s Democratic National Convention and surely would have fired up the North Texas Swifties even more.

Near the end of the kickoff, S4K organizers announced they had raised over $122,000 for the Harris campaign during the event, largely through Swift-coded donation amounts like $13 (Tay-Tay’s favorite number) and $19.89. Given the crazy amount of momentum the group is clearly already sending Harris’ way, it’s hard to imagine Swift not acknowledging the movement or making a statement herself. But endorsement or not, Swifties, a powerful force in their own right, are mobilized and “living for the hope of it all” on Nov. 5.

“This movement started with one post,” Medrano said. “One tweet. Your voice matters.”

For more information or to get involved, visit linktr.ee/swiftiesforkamala. l

Clearly Swifties for Kamala is about more than just friendship bracelets, though those definitely have a place.

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BUCK U

Frogs Take Flight

TCU’s season-opener against the historically poor Stanford Cardinal is

vitally important.

BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT

Michael Scott said it best: “I’m ready to get hurt again.” Though compared to last season’s experience that combined the cautionary fables of Icarus’ wings melting before being crushed by Sisyphus’ stone, Purple Nation should approach this year with mostly cautious optimism. Tenth-ranked Florida State couldn’t even make it to Week 1 without their hopes drowning in a keg of Guinness, and new Power 5’er SMU needed a 16-point fourth quarter to survive Nevada. Save for maybe three or four teams in this every-season-transfer era, no one knows a damn thing about who is good and who isn’t. If you’re not the type of fan who peruses message boards in the offseason and obsesses over three-deep lineups, transfer rumors, and who is already signed to the class of 2032, let me catch you up on the things that matter most for the conference, because the neighborhood has changed a lot. The conference — which desperately needs a different name — is no longer 10 teams who play in a round robin but 16 who’ll compete in a semicircle. Oklahoma and Texas packed up their money bags and absconded for the SEC. The Big 12 added Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah, all from the effectively deceased PAC 12. There are no divisions yet, and each member is supposed to play all conference opponents twice in a four-year period. There

are four projected rivalries, or teams who will play each other every year. TCU and Baylor and Kansas State and Kansas are the familiar pairings. The others are Arizona State against Arizona and BYU keepin’ it holy against Utah.

There is an expanded 12-team playoff starting this season which includes all Power 5 champions receiving an automatic bid, along with Seeds 6 through 12. The top four teams (who used to be the only participants) will have a bye while the rest play in a bracket format (5 v. 12, 6 v. 11, and so on). The playoffs begin before Christmas, the quarterfinals around the New Year, and the semifinals in the second week of January, when the old championship game took place. The new championship will be later that month. Gone are the days of bellyaching if your squad is dropped from the top four, but the new format involves many fanbases in the mix as 2-loss Power 5 teams and 0- or 1-loss Group of Five squads will make their case to crack the dirty dozen and gain their shot at the first expanded playoff.

For TCU specifically, Joe Gillespie (now head coach of Waco Midway High School) is out as defensive coordinator, and Andy Avalos (former head coach of Boise State and coordinator at Oregon) is in. Josh Hoover, who was the starting Frog quarterback the majority of last year after Chandler Morris succumbed to injury again, has earned the starting job and is sitting at the head of a quarterback room of all Texas products as the only returner from last season. The offensive line is a veteran group of almost completely new faces. Wait, that doesn’t make sense … Senior Mike Nichols is the only returning lineman among a group of transfer juniors and seniors. The trenches were a weak point last season despite the talent and production of Emani Bailey (now with the Kansas City Chiefs).

Offensive coordinator Kendal Briles, who is in a make-or-break season, will be looking for more balance in the attack to take pressure off Hoover, who displayed tremendous upside but is not yet ready to toss the rock 50-plus times per game with success. Supporting the backfield is a committee of familiar faces, headlined by Cam Cook, a sophomore who suffered an injury early in his debut season but still saw limited action in nine games last year. Behind him are senior Trey Sanders, who transferred in with Briles from Arkansas last season, and Junior Trent Battle. Entering his fourth season at the same school

a rarity in today’s game — he’s listed as third but is a multi-tool threat, recruited as a quarterback but having spent time at special teams, receiver, and running back. Look for Cook to be fed most frequently and Sanders to be featured in short-yardage situations, while Battle can threaten as a change of pace through mid-game.

The receiving corps is the most proven offensive element, and the onus is on Savion Williams to fulfill expectations of a dominating presence a la Quentin Johnston, Jalen Reagor, Josh Doctson, and Corey Rodgers. Williams possesses the physicality and dexterity to be elite, but the connection with Hoover will determine how far he goes. Opposite Williams will be transfer Eric McAlister, who followed Avalos home — the receiver grew up in Azle — and racked up nearly 1,000 receiving yards on the blue turf last season. Senior JP Richardson returns in the slot. Having led all wideouts in yards last season — Kansas City Chiefs tight end Jared Wiley was the overall leader in that category — he rounds out what has the potential to be a difference-making group of on the offensive side of the ball for the Frogs.

TCU starts their season unceremoniously on a Friday night in Palo Alto against the Stanford Cardinal — is it a tree, a bird, a color, a failed experiment? No one really knows, except that it’s definitively not plural. Stanford is best known for rejecting brilliant students academically and playing football poorly, last season being no exception. The Cardinal narrowly escaped dead last in a conference that went the way of the tech bubble, but they beat Colorado,

something the Frogs couldn’t do. Stanford also boasts homefield advantage but not in the traditional sense. The Farm, as their stadium is known, is one of the country’s most novel college football venues in that it’s basically an EV in a world of straight-pipe muscle cars. There will be hundreds of high school games happening simultaneously throughout Texas with more energy, passion, and volume from their crowds than what will emanate from NorCal on Friday. TCU will need to generate electricity, because the home crowd simply issues apathy. The expectation from the Frog faithful is that if this team is to meet minimum expectations (a bowl bid), then they’ll need to belch exhaust fumes all over the Stanford Volt if the purple even hopes to compete with the best of their conference foes.

This season’s resetting of expectations for Purple Nation should leave fanatics primed to consider a 7- or 8-win season a hopping success. Even with the expanded playoff, I wouldn’t expect even a third-place Big 12 squad to make the dozen. Most prognosticators are considering Kansas State and Utah to be the class of the conference, which is a sound prediction. TCU is kind of that “might be good second or third tier” along with Oklahoma State, Iowa State, Kansas, and UCF. The Frogs usually play a little better when they’re underestimated, but I think fulfilling their projected status of fourth or fifth in the newly expanded conference would be a great season for Dykes and company to build on, and no one on the current staff would need to be shopping for a new job for Christmas. l

Fulfilling their projected status of fourth or fifth in the newly expanded conference would be a great season for the Horned Frogs to build on.

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The Last Hurrah

Your final three-day weekend of the season has arrived. Spend it wisely.

BY ELAINE WILDER

With the kids quasi-settled into their back-to-school routine, why not throw a three-day weekend in the mix? As a #ChildlessCatLady, I’m on the hunt for either a final summer getaway or a staycation

singer-songwriters Melissa Carper, Brennen Leigh, and Kelly Willis as the power trio the Wonder Women of Country with opening act Sunny Sweeney. Room packages starting at $179 include the show. For on-site food and booze options, there’s Bob’s Steak & Chop House, Cast Iron Restaurant, Water Horse Pool Bar, Wine Thief, and Whiskey & Rye, plus a Starbucks in the lobby. For more info, visit OmniHotels.com/ CowtownUnplugged.

Getaway: Choctaw Festival

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma hosts an

From Sat thru Sun, Aug 31-Sep 1, Rodney Atkins, Casting Crowns, Mark Chestnutt, The Close, Jason Crabb, Gold City, and Joey Green will perform. There is no cost to attend unless you’d like to lease a spot to park an RV. Along with special food vendors, you will find a cafeteria, icehouse, and a snowcone stand on the grounds. For more info, visit LaborDay.ChoctawNation.com.

Getaway: Possum Kingdom Lake

Located on beautiful Possum Kingdom Lake on the peninsula halfway between the Dam and Hell’s Gate, Lush Resort offers lakefront one-bedroom suites, hotel rooms, bungalows, three pools, and a bar and grill. As of press time, there are still rooms available for Labor Day Weekend. For more info, visit PossumKingdomLushResort.com.

Getaway: Rocklahoma

Labor Day Weekend is also when rock and metal fans migrate to Oklahoma for the annual Rocklahoma festival at the Rockin Red Dirt Ranch (1421 W 450 Rd, Pryor, right outside Tulsa). Hosted by podcaster Eddie Trunk, this event features 43 bands, including Avenged Sevenfold with Evanescence and Halestorm on Friday, Disturbed with A Day to Remember and Skillet on

Getaway While Supporting Local Brother-sister restaurateurs Rex Benson of Ol’ South Pancake House (1509 S University Dr, Fort Worth, 817-336-0311 • 225 E Renfro St, Burleson, 817-989-9090) and the new Rex’s Grill (coming soon) and Pam Benson of Japanese Palace (8445 Camp Bowie West, Fort Worth, 817-244-0144) also own independent resort properties within road-trip distance of Fort Worth.

Rex owns River Top Cabins (962 Red Fox Road, Broken Bow, Oklahoma, 580-3063370) with four Lower Mountain Fork River

The Wonder Women of Country bring their superpowers to the Omni Hotel Sunday.

lakefront getaway, Possum Kingdom awaits.

DRINKING LOCAL

Official Tequila of the Horned Frogs

Promotional Feature

La Pulga Tequila, founded locally by three Fort Worth entrepreneurs, is now the first-ever “Official Tequila of the Horned Frogs,” under a new partnership with TCU Athletics.

To celebrate the new sponsorship, La Pulga has released a limited-edition Horned Frog Bottle of La Pulga Blanco Tequila, complete with a distinctive purple and white label proclaiming it as the “Official Tequila of Horned Frogs Nation.” In keeping with La Pulga’s style, it is adorned by an “alebrije” Mexican folk-art image celebrated for the powers they possess. For this special-edition label, La Pulga selected the TCU Athletics Horned Frog, symbolizing strength, luck, and goodwill. The 2024 limited-edition bottle will be available at spirits retailers across the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex for $44.99 suggested retail price (750ml), while quantities last.

“La Pulga tequilas and mezcal are distilled and bottled in Mexico, with the company based right here in Fort Worth, a city we’re privileged to call home,” says Andrew De La Torre, one of La Pulga’s founders and a proud TCU alum. “TCU is a longstanding source of pride in Fort Worth, and cheering on the Frogs at TCU sporting events is a way of life here – so this partnership is the perfect way to reinforce our camaraderie

and support for our shared Fort Worth community.”

La Pulga’s sponsorship of TCU Athletics will include a presence in the clubs and suites of Amon G. Carter Stadium during football season and the Stuart Family Courtside Club at Schollmaier Arena for basketball games. Additionally, La Pulga has curated signature cocktails for the gameday experience: the Riff Ram Rita and Riff Ram Ranch Water. These TCU themed cocktails can be found at the stadium and arena, as well as several TCU area bars and restaurants.

La Pulga Tequila is an artisanal, 100% Blue Weber Agave tequila with zero zero additives that takes its name from “La Pulga” outdoor market on University Drive that serves as a gateway to the Northside of Fort Worth, one of the oldest open-air flea markets in the U.S. The brand was founded by Andrew De La Torre, a club owner and the operator of the Pulga market; Sarah Castillo, a well-known and respected Fort Worth restauranteur (Taco Heads, Tinies Mexican Cuisine, Sidesaddle Saloon); and Stephen Slaughter, a local entrepreneur.

The new limited edition Horned Frog bottle joins La Pulga’s complete portfolio of Blanco, Reposado, and Añejo Tequilas, and La Pulga Mezcal.

Courtesy La Pulga

EATS & drinks

Hoppin’ to It

Self-serve beer and more are now on tap in the Foundry District.

Hoppin’ Fort Worth, 2608 Weisenberger St, FW. 682-207-3667. Noon-10pm Sun, 4-10pm Mon, 4-11pm Tue-Wed, 4pm-midnight Thu, 3pm-midnight Fri, noon-midnight Sat.

BY CHRISTINA BERGER

“Well, I’m not as good as these two, but I’m definitely better than you.”

My snark during a rather intense game of Connect 4 earned a round of shocked laughter from those playing and a much-deserved, “Oh, wow, eff you!” from my intended target.

I don’t normally consider myself competitive, but, when the occasion arises, I’m not above swapping a li’l smack talk with a

wink and a smirk. On one such occasion this past weekend, my friends and I were gathered around a table at the grand opening of Hoppin’ Fort Worth. The place was packed and loud — some might even say it was, a’hem, “hoppin’.” I know, I know. It makes perfect sense why the concept is so appealing. It’s as if the North Carolinabased drinkery took what froyo achieved about a decade ago and applied that same self-serve model to alcohol. With its row of 58 taps, connoisseurs and casual tipplers alike

can indulge in a wide range of booze at the converted warehouse in the Foundry District.

Juxtaposed with Blackland Distillery’s bold obsidian exterior next door, Hoppin’ shines starkly white. That theme continues within, the bright walls and natural light streaming in through the glass garage door accented with natural wood features and pops of vibrant green. There’s even a living wall (of sorts) consisting entirely of a dried mossy substance I assume is actual hops. And, boy, do they really drive the point

home. Every piece of artwork in (and outside) the place features either a rabbit or a depiction of hops — or both.

Chrome faucet taps line the back wall (with 10 additional ones on the outdoor side patio), and on either side stand built-in shelves with wine and pint glasses. While the majority contain beer, that’s not all you can tap. We’re talkin’ wine, sangria, ciders, mixed drinks, sours, and even alcohol-free options like root beer and kombucha. If you’re not into serving thyself, Hoppin’ does have a full-service bar.

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Hops to it for a wide selection of self-serve beer on tap.

Christina Berger

Maple Branch is partnering up to deliver their fare to the Hoppin’ masses.

Christina Berger

underneath a spigot and drown in my favorite brewski? Before you start planning your Flashdance chair routine in the middle of Hoppin’, you should know they charge by the ounce — and you could get locked out of the system, depending on how committed you are to the bit.

First and foremost, you need your magic wristband. Once the staff connects your credit card to your account, with the band, the tap-wall becomes your metaphorical oyster. Placing the wristband on the sensor above the faucet unlocks the tap to whichever brew you’ve selected. The system keeps track of what and how much you pour. An employee or two strategically hovers about, helping those like me who struggle with their beer-to-foam ratio and offering both free refills and demonstrations on how to master the pour.

Since you’re paying by the ounce, you can fill your pint glass as much or as little as you’d like. Fashioning my own flight, I tapped a few ounces of at least seven or so brews at about two bucks a pop. The beer ranges anywhere from $0.35/ounce and up, and the handful of wines available cost between $1.50 and $2.25 per ounce.

I zigzagged my way through the color spectrum, first with my go-to smooth, dark (512) Pecan Porter out of Austin followed by a crisp blonde Hefeweizen from Altstadt Brewery in Fredericksburg and a few sips

the day was easily Devil’s Backbone from Real Ale — a golden tripel that’s both hearty and spicy.

(OK, gulps) of my friend’s delectably chocolate-rich nitro. I was pleasantly surprised by how many Texas and local breweries were represented, including Maple Branch, Martin House, and Denton County Brewing Co., among others. My tasters of the Living in Denton sweet red ale and robust Alaskan amber refreshingly tickled the buds, while Martin House’s Patient Zero gave ’em a swift kick of sour and fruit. However, the top pick of

While Hoppin’ doesn’t serve its own food, they’ve partnered with Maple Branch to deliver. My crew gorged on a couple of Maple Branch’s scrumptious wood-fired pizzas with our Hoppin’ beers while we continued to compete and practice our trash talk.

Be warned: Once you’ve hit a certain volume of pours, the tap locks, and a pop-up message encourages you to see a bartender. (Gladly! Are any single?) All it takes is a onceover to ensure you’re not overserving

yourself, then the lock’s lifted. Then, when you’re done hoppin’ and toppin’ up, closing out means simply droppin’ the wristband into the marked box by the front door and takin’ off. A 20% gratuity, or “good vibes service,” is automatically charged. Choose your own adventure and tap away. In the immortal words of Regina George, “Get in, loser. We’re going Hoppin’.” l

Practice your smack talk and get your game on.

Choose your own adventure with 58 different booze options.

Pop a squat under the overhang or play a few lawn games on the patio.

Hoppin’

RIDGLEA THEATER

MUSIC

Haltom City Vice For

RIDGLEA ROOM

the Quaker City Night Hawks’ Friday show, some new, novel sounds will join the fan favorites.

BY STEVE STEWARD

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On Friday, Fort Worth-repping rock ’n’ roll band Quaker City Night Hawks are playing a homecoming show at Tulips FTW. It’ll be the band’s first Fort Worth outing since October 2022, when they played a mid-week gig at Fort Brewery during a short break between two halves of a fall tour. In the time between then and now, Quaker City’s approach to being in a band has evolved, and while they’re certain to knock the dust off a lot of fan favorites at Tulips, they’ll debut some new material they’ve never played live, songs that will appear on the upcoming, as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2019’s QCNH LP.

A homecoming concert by one of Fort Worth’s biggest groups — along with Delta Spirit frontman Matthew Logan Vasquez and local favorite Matthew McNeal both opening — is certainly noteworthy, but the way the new songs came about is a part of the band’s reassessment of themselves as both a business and creative partnership, a shift that had been in the making since the pandemic shut the world down in 2020.

For the Quaker City Night Hawks, that calamity caused the cancellations of two tours in the works, first of Europe, then of Australia. And in the intervening years, the band has parted ways with its music industry intermediaries. Major talent agency William Morris dropped them. Their contract with Lightning Rod records ran out, and they chose not to renew it. They’d been managed by Space Colonel Management’s Adam Barnes, whose clients include Americana heavies like Shooter Jennings and Jason Boland, and they ended that agreement, too. The industry players whom QCNH had worked so hard to court and sign with were gone, and for a lot of bands, those sort of departures are enough to make them call it a day.

This didn’t happen for the Quaker City Night Hawks. In fact, ditching the handlers and booking agents and business strangers crowding the panes of endless zoom calls proved to be highly inspirational.

“We’re free and clear of all of that now, so we’re kinda free agents at this point,” said singer-guitarist and co-founder Sam Anderson. He and

drummer/producer Jordan Richardson were having drinks in my backyard with me on a recent night, and I could tell this new lease on live shows had juiced their collective creativity.

“It kinda started with us wanting to do it on our own,” Anderson said, “where we’re all gonna be equal partners in this record.”

At present, the album’s recording process is ongoing, and the band isn’t really in a hurry for it to reach a conclusion, in contrast to their previous albums, which were all written with release-date deadlines in mind. “It helps not having a timeline,” Anderson said. “It’s been better on the creative process, because we’re kind of writing as we go, rather than having to get everything polished before we go in because we’re going to be on a clock.”

“It’s more of an ‘exploring’ record,” Richardson said. “We were sort of talking about doing it this way after that last tour in 2022.”

In the midst of that tour, while traveling through the Vail Pass during a snowstorm, the band’s trailer started skidding. In a rather hairy maneuver, they had to pull into the emergency turnoff, and as the snow fell and piled, they had to make a decision.

“We were on the Continental Divide,” Anderson recalled. “We were like, ‘We can stop here, or we can keep on going and see what happens.’ ”

Prior to that moment, Richardson said, their shows had been “on fire.” What they’d planned to do was hit the studio as soon as they got home and track some new stuff live to capture the energy they’d been burning on Midwestern stages the previous two weeks. Yet there they were on the side of the road overlooking the side of a mountain plunging beneath them, contemplating whether or not to give into the weather and head home early. They would have had to cancel almost a dozen shows that lay on the other side, a move that would surely have blunted the momentum they’d been riding into the West. So, they pressed on. The shows turned out to be great, but in Richardson’s words, “Different stuff happened,” and the recording sessions lost their urgency. “But the fact that everything about the timeline ended up stretched … [is] reflected in the songs. They feel weirder and cooler because we’ve been able to experiment with them.”

Along with an open-ended timeline, the band’s writing habits have expanded. In the past, Quaker City’s songs came from Anderson and singer-guitarist/co-founder David Matsler, a friend he made 20 years ago in Lubbock during a brief stint at Texas Tech. These days, Anderson said, “it’s been a lot more equally collaborative process than before. … At least for me, it takes a lot of pressure off knowing that [bassist Max Smith] has a good idea for a part or [Richardson] has something cool for this other part. Not having to worry about who gets what [credit] also relieves a lot of stress. It’s just four-part equal songwriters.”

As to what these new songs sound like, the band hasn’t exactly abandoned their Southern rock roots. Since Day 1, Quaker City’s sound has been routinely described as “Texas boogie,” and excising that would be possible only if the band could

travel back in time. But they’ve been heading for the cosmos of psychedelic rock since their 2016 album El Astronauta. I’ve heard a rough mix of a song tentatively called “Kingdom,” and it sounds like if Thee OH Sees came from Whataburger Country instead of the Land of In-N-Out. It’s pretty far removed from the bluesy roots-rock that gained QCNH a solid foothold in the Texas country scene of the late 2000s and 2010s. Playing songs that sound like they have a krautrock influence might alienate some of their oldest fans, but Anderson doesn’t think his band’s shifts in musical direction have ever come out of nowhere.

“I feel like we’ve always cast a pretty wide net, in terms of influences and our sound,” he said. “It’s just that the team we had always had to put a ‘package’ together. They were most familiar with Americana and the [associated] scene, trying to shoehorn us in there because we had hats on. And there’s never really been a genre we’ve felt comfortable in, scene-wise. We got put with a lot of Texas Country and Red Dirt when we first started. Then we played a lot with Americana bands.”

“Meanwhile,” Richardson said, “every time [we go] to the Pacific Northwest, all of those people from that, like, more stoner-y side of things were all over us. It’s almost like a geographical thing.”

Two new songs “in the can,” Anderson said — “Kingdom” and the mid-tempo chill-out jam “Haltom City Vice” — are “vastly different, but they’re not outside of what we’ve normally done. They’re just both ends of the spectrum of what we’ve done. The thing I’ve always loved about this band is if the song’s good, we put it out, regardless of whatever genre people think it falls in. … Does the song sound like something you’d roll the windows down and smoke a joint to? Or does it sound like something you listen to while you’re getting ready to work out? It might be both. I don’t know.”

On Friday night at Tulips, the Quaker City Night Hawks will pose that question for their fans when they play the new stuff live. Maybe some of those folks will peel off in favor of their favorite QCNH songs from a decade ago, but for those who’ve grown up listening to these guys, their latest sonic ideas will keep those fans coming back for more. l

(From left to right) David Matsler, Sam Anderson, Jordan Richardson, and Max Smith are enjoying their freedom.

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R.I.P., Daron Beck

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haunting and humble Pinkish Black frontman has died. He was 48.

BY PATRICK HIGGINS

The North Texas music community was still reeling from the loss of one unique and creative force within their number with the death of Dooms UK frontman John Freeman last week when word began to spread on Friday of the untimely passing of another beloved figure in the scene. In a Facebook post generated by his partner, Dallas DJ Lisa Adrienne, it was announced that Pinkish Black’s Daron Beck died Thursday afternoon. The extraordinary metal singer-songwriter was 48.

No cause of death has been made public. A post from Pinkish Black’s label, Relapse Records, mentioned his passing as being caused by a “medical illness,” and in her post, Adrienne described it as “sudden and unexpected” while alluding to a return of medical issues he’d previously suffered yet had seemingly recovered from. Beck survived a pair of heart attacks in 2018, and he mentioned at the time that heart disease runs in his family. The scare forced a significant lifestyle change for him. He gave up alcohol and smoking, and in recent years it appeared that his health had improved.

Ultimately, the cause is irrelevant. No matter why, it’s a tragedy that it’s happened, and there is now a large and empty blank in the giant space he had occupied in the Fort Worth music community for the last two decades.

Whether fronting goth-wavers Pointy Shoe Factory, the nightmare circus soundtrack that was The Great Tyrant, the skull-crushing synth-doom of Pinkish Black, or, ultimately, the smooth-knob-turned-allthe-way-up homage to ’70s chart-toppers, Zombi and Friends, there is no argument that Beck both possessed, and was, a singular voice. His resonant baritone was every bit as elegant as it was chilling, lending a haunting beauty to all of the numerous projects he contributed to. The musical oeuvre he pioneered — part buzzsaw industrial crash, part Italian horror movie score, and part foreboding sludge-metal, all topped with a sensuous Scott Walker croon — was as unique a sound as he was a person.

I first became personally aware of Beck in the early 2000s. I had a little postrock band at the time that had the misfortune to practice next door to The Great Tyrant at the old EMP Rehearsal Studios off Berry Street. Tyrant was the initial incarnation in Beck’s musical lineage that led to Pinkish Black after the suicide of bassist Tommy Atkins in 2010. I say “misfortune” only because our quiet little chiming and reverb-drenched Godspeed You! Black Emperor cosplay was no match for the

Though his music was consistently dark and brooding, metal singer-songwriter Daron Beck was anything but.

thunderous torment coming at us through the walls when the Tyrant was playing. If they were practicing, it was pretty much time to wrap it up for the night. We heard countless deafening hours of Atkins’ and drummer John Teague’s Zeus-ian rhythm section pounding away beneath Beck’s haunted calliope synth lines and canonical droning voice. It seemed as if a disembodied druid was calling to us from the other side of the sheetrock to follow him to some ancient and dark séance. The Great Tyrant, like Pinkish Black after, was terrifying, super-weird, and super-awesome.

We would occasionally see them in the hallways, or outside the building smoking cigs, and though he’d smile and give a nod, to us, Beck just seemed too otherworldly and cool to speak to. If I’d known then, what I know now — which is that despite the steady brooding through-point of his music, he was an infinitely approachable and nice guy (as well as genuinely hilarious) — I would have made a point to try to become his friend. I would be grateful to have been able to add those years to the last few, when I feel like I could just maybe say that I was.

I wrote a piece about several of his current musical ventures, including the breathtaking solid-gold covers sendup Zombi and Friends in 2021, and I was instantly charmed by his wit and self-deprecating sense of humor. Perhaps nothing encapsulates this more than Beck’s unwitting appearance on Season 4 of American Idol. As it so happened, another contribution mentioned in the article was the vocal performance he contributed to “Miles and Miles,” a track on my band O. Deletron’s swansong record. It stands as my favorite among the dozen or so guest vocal appearances we were able to rally for that album. Over the course of our conversation, I’d like to think we hit it off over a mutual obsession with Michael McDonald and Christopher Cross. Most of the music he made might be fairly described as dark and spooky, but make no mistake: Beck’s true musical heart — and mine — lies with the soft rock of the 1970s and ’80s. He had just gone to the Barry Manilow concert at Dickies Arena two weeks ago. Since the tragic announcement, my social media feed has been flooded with posts expressing all the love and appreciation for the artist and the person that he was that this community has for him. Dark as you could say his music (and perhaps his sense of humor) was, there is no denying how brightly he shined as a person. Rest in peace, Daron. l

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