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Even with summer winding down, it’s still hot and dry, y’all. If you’re tired of your sad, sad yard with dead plants and brown grass, consider shifting to native plants. That way, you can showcase the great naturally occurring vegetation of our state and save on your water bill Texas plants are better equipped to handle the hellscape that is Texas drought season. Learn all about it at the Native Plant Propagation event hosted by the Native
Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT.org) at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (3220 Botanic Garden Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-463-4160) at 6:30pm. Host George Cates, a restoration specialist at Native American Seed who will join via Zoom, will discuss the when and why of establishing native plants and how to manage invasive species already in your yard. There is no cost to attend.
Friday 6 Blessings for a fee, miracles daily — TikTok televangelist Rev. Jay McPherson slides into FW Fringe Fest this weekend.
Today marks the beginning of opening weekend for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. At 7:30pm today and tomorrow and at 2pm Sun, the FWSO will perform Tchaikovsky’s Sixth and Sibelius’ Violin Concerto featuring violinist James Ehnes and conductor Robert Spano at Bass Performance Hall (555 Commerce St, Fort Worth, 817-2124280). Arrive early to catch Bachtales with Buddy. FWSO principal keyboardist Buddy Bray will relay the history of the works and offer fun concert-related facts one hour before every performance. Tickets start at $26 at FWSymphony.org.
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Co-produced by the Theatre Network of Texas Inc. and Arts Fort Worth, the annual Fort Worth International Fringe Festival (FW Fringe) is this weekend at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center and other area locations. Featuring a variety of acts ranging from dance and poetry to rarely produced theatre, storytelling, and more, FW Fringe is wild and engaging. And they’ve got jokes.
“Just back from his extended engagement at Graceview Psychiatric Hospital, TikTok’s favorite televangelist Rev. Jay McPherson splashes down in Fort Worth for the world premiere of his comedy-packed continued on page 7
Learn about native plant propagation at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden on Thursday.
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The best new way to giddy up between Downtown Fort Worth and the Stockyards is arriving September 15! Ride Trinity Metro’s new Orange Line right to all the fun, and you’ll leave driving and parking hassles in the dust! Learn more at RIDE TRINITYMETRO .org/ ORANGELINE .
live show.” Apparently, blessings are available for a nominal fee, and miracles are performed daily. The curtain goes up on this hot mess at Garber Hall (1300 Gendy St, Fort Worth, 817-731-2238) at 9pm Fri, 2pm today, or 2:30pm Sun. Some content may be inappropriate for children. Parental discretion is advised. Tickets are $12 at Buy.TicketstotheCity.com. Learn more at TexasTheatres.org/Fringe.
In other religious news, did you know there’s a group of Evangelical Christians publicly endorsing the Democratic presidential ticket? Well, now you do. Evangelicals for Harris say they’re “faithful, compassionate Evangelicals exercising our God-given citizenship by voting for someone who truly reflects Christian values.” To see what they’re up to, find them on Facebook or visit EvangelicalsforHarris.com.
North Texas native James Earl Clay (1935-1995) played flute and tenor saxophone with many jazz luminaries, including Don Cherry, Billy Higgins, Wynton Kelly, and more, and at 7pm at Arts Fifth Avenue (1628 5th Av, Fort Worth, 817-923-9500), he’ll be celebrated at the 16th annual Remembering James Clay tribute show. Roger Boykin, Johnny Case, Kelly Durbin, Duane Durrett, Jack Evans, Quamon Fowler, Clyde George, Lou Harlas, Sandra Kaye, Brad Leali, Drew Phelps, Fredrick Sanders, Steve Story, and others will perform. Tickets are $20 at ArtsFifthAvenue.org.
Carter Community Artists, an annual initiative dedicated to working with and supporting local artists, was launched in 2018 to help enhance the events at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-738-1933) and to connect the community with practicing local artists.
“Working as a Carter Community Artist has been an incredible experience,” says author/illustrator Stuart Hausmann, one of this year’s chosen artists, “allowing me to collaborate with dedicated and knowledgeable staff who have enriched my artistic journey. I encountered new teaching approaches working with the education team at the museum (which was super-fun), and the experience continues to influence me as an artist and teacher!”
He highly recommends anyone seeking connection and growth in their art practice to apply for 2025. But you need to act fast. Today is the deadline. Chosen artists can expect to work 20-40 hours throughout the year with the Carter’s Education Department. The artists’ work planning, facilitating, and teaching will be supported by a $100/hour honorarium, with the number of hours varying per project. To apply, visit CarterMuseum.org/CCA. Selected artists will be announced in late fall.
If you’ve enjoyed any of the events I’ve written about in Night & Day this year, or any local event for that matter, what was your favorite? As part of our readers’ choice ballot for Best Of 2024, we’ve included several event categories under Arts & Culture, including Arts & Crafts Event, Culinary Event, Cultural Event, Haunted Attraction, Museum Exhibit, and Theater Production. It’s limited to one ballot per person, so don’t feel like you’re late to the party. Submit your choices now thru midnight. For the full list of categories and a link to the ballot, visit bit.ly/AboutFWWBestOf2024.
By Jennifer Bovee
Author/illustrator Stuart Hausmann highly recommends that artists apply for the 2025 Carter Community Artists program (deadline Monday).
Fuzzy Math
After years of lackluster private school, the author’s children have hope public school will be better.
BY T.C. TAYLOR
In 1954, per Brown vs. the Board of Education, segregation in schools was outlawed in the United States. The hope was that Black children and other children of color would be able to get equal education and the right to go to school within their district of choice with better school resources.
Those hopes and dreams have kept BIPOC parents looking for ways to provide their kids with a better future. I took those same hopes and dreams with me after having my son over 10 years ago. Strapped with my own childhood trauma and disappointment from being in public school, we chose private school. Growing up in the 1980s, I went through severe microaggressions or just plain racist aggressions. I was in third grade the first time I was ever called the n-word. I was thrown in remedial classes instead of trying to figure out what was the best way for me to learn. I was overly disciplined and given detention several times for things that even my non-BIPOC classmates did but never got in trouble for. I was paddled/ spanked a few times, too. Yes, that used to be allowed. I was bullied and made fun of by my non-BIPOC classmates and teachers, but nothing was ever done.
So, I felt that my best chance for my son to have less trauma was private school. I knew my son had his struggles, which eventually led him to be diagnosed with autism in fourth grade. I felt that going to private school would give him a chance to grow out of some of his struggles and get a good foundation at his learning pace. I felt that private school would be less drama and trauma for the most part because I am paying for it. Whoa, was I wrong.
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student activities. The one requirement not met was not having a diverse teaching staff. Research has shown that a diverse teaching staff helps every child but especially BIPOC children with confidence and school performance. I still felt this was the best, least costly option.
The 2019-20 school year started out with a bang and not a good one. During the kindergarten meet-the-teacher day, I attempted to be discreet when telling her about my son’s speech therapy and other struggles. She began to talk so loudly that other parents began to stare. My son even backed away from her. He then sat down in the corner and started to play with some toys. Those same parents and their kids began to move away from him as though he was some diseased monster, when he was just a 5-year-old Black boy playing with blocks and trucks. My heart dropped. Then I thought to myself, Maybe she’s nervous because she’s new to the school like we are. Still, you need to have professionalism anywhere you go.
during online learning. She eventually ran off almost every BIPOC kid from enrolling in first grade. At least none of the other Black kids did.
We stayed, mostly because my daughter started at the preschool over the summer at this private school. The preschool had a more diverse teaching staff. I still love her Hispanic teacher to this day. I also felt that the first-grade teacher who had been there 20 years would be stable. Mentally. Also, for the most part, my son liked the rest of the other teachers there and the activities. Nope, wrong again.
(racial microaggressions from the teacher) and third grade, when we established an IEP (Individualized Education Plan) that was only sometimes followed by the better teacher. Mind you, this school has a small enrollment: at the most, 10 students per grade; at the least, five students in a class. So, in my mind, since I am paying for this, it is reasonable to ask for a little more academic assistance from time to time. The teachers don’t have that many kids to deal with.
The final straw was fourth grade. By this time, I was trying to continue to find ways and resources to help my son at this school. I kept holding out hope because third grade was not as bad as first and second. Unfortunately, fourth grade was bad again, with a pushy and clueless teacher who kept feeding him snacks and whatnot that were clearly on his food allergy and sensitivity list so he wouldn’t feel “left out.” She also kept giving him work beyond his comprehension, even with the new IEP on file for the school district along with his new diagnosis of autism. She did not want to be the partner in education that I was so desperately trying to get all the teachers to be. After all, I am paying for this! Clearly, at this point, my expectations of this school were not realistic. I could have gone elsewhere, but I thought, Stick with devil that you know.
I had several meetings with the private school director. I even filled out the yearly survey and requested to speak to the district rep for the private school company. No dice. Like most other surveys, theirs were also just for show because nothing ever changed.
In 2019, after doing various tours at private schools around my area, we settled on one private school that met most of my requirements. It was nonreligious with a diverse student population, fair tuition, and various
The rest of the year was worse. My son told me she was a “monster,” and I threatened to pull him out. The director, who is great, tried to calm everyone down as we were not the only BIPOC family having issues with her. The very issues I was trying to keep my son away from, I put him right into. My husband and I listened to the director and stayed to try to make the most of it. It also did not help that in 2020, the pandemic hit, and there was probably nowhere else to enroll him in. Stuck like chuck. This teacher continued to show her true colors
Since my son was the only boy of color in the class, he was bullied by some of the non-BIPOC kids. These issues were brought up several times, including after my son came home with defensive wounds on his forearms and reported incidents of being pushed in the head by those same boys in the restroom. This first-grade teacher turned a blind eye until my son got tired and defended himself toward the end of the school year. I then got a note that said he needed to keep “his hands to himself.” I sent the note right back and stated that “the other kids needed to have been keeping their hands to themselves all year.” Research shows that 37% of BIPOC children report having been bullied in public or private school. In my opinion and personal experience, I notice that teachers never see when a BIPOC kid is being hit or bullied but will see when they react to the bullying. The educators end up disciplining the victim instead of supporting them from the beginning.
And on we stayed through second grade
What people never tell you about private school is that they really don’t have any real resources. You are paying for every little thing and really getting nothing. There is no school psychologist, speech therapist, remedial aid, nothing. If you want any of those services or extracurricular activities, you have to go outside of the school and pay for them, especially the speech therapy, which I did pay for out of pocket for my son for almost three years. Given this knowledge and the new knowledge that I could turn to the public school system for testing and a new IEP, I reached out. Not in million years did I think I would be returning to public school for anything. My public-school trauma seemed too big to overcome.
The process was so easy. It was a far cry from what I experienced in my time in public school and with requesting services, because it seems there are more laws now for kids with disabilities. It was so easy that I
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am now in the process of getting my daughter tested also.
Armed with a new IEP and diagnosis of autism, you would think that any school (public or private) would say, OK, let’s get to work and help this child. Not in private school. They don’t have to, because they have their own curriculum and rules. They don’t seem like they were equipped or knowledgeable enough to help with these issues. They claim to be on an accelerated track, meaning that every grade learns one grade ahead. This does not leave room for kids who need a slightly slower track. This left my son not even close to being at grade-level for math and reading. Research says that over 42% of BIPOC children are behind in math and reading. I put my child in private school to keep him from being too behind in any subject. My daughter was overly stimulated with all the day-to-day activities, which started to feel more like a circus than a place for learning. I knew another year at this private school would not be good for her. Plus, I did not want to have to deal with the same teacher over again. As of April 2024, I have registered my children with the local public elementary school, where there are IEPs and accommodations now on file for my son and soon for my daughter.
Five years and nearly $150,000 later, I have buyer’s remorse. I could have had my next dream car, an Audi S7 Sportback, paid for by now. I feel I have wasted five years of our kids’ lives on a private school we thought would be great, but instead we are left trying to scramble to help them catch up. Even if I were to have stayed there for free, I would not have, because I don’t want to deal with those teachers any longer. They are not as progressive as they think. Not everything with that school was negative. There were some good teachers, and summer camp was great, but, overall, that private school is no longer a good option for our family.
As a therapist, I am trying to do for my kids what I would for my clients, which is to advocate for what they need. I still have
hopes and dreams that with the support of their family and community, my kids will meet whatever goals they have for themselves. It is disheartening to know that I invested in a school so that they would invest in my kids, and I barely got a return. The very monster and trauma I was running from — the public school system — is the very thing I am running to now, mostly because I know now there are laws in place and I actually have more power without money to advocate for my child.
My, how things have changed from 30-plus years ago. I know everything may not have changed in public schools as far as teachers and their own beliefs — you can’t change everyone’s beliefs or not make them racist — but at least I am not paying for the racist microaggressions.
I don’t know what the 2024-25 public school year will hold for my kids. I am both excited and anxious. I am sure I will have to keep advocating for them. That will never stop. I set them up for tutoring this summer as well as continuing to tutor them myself at home. I am willing to pay for tutoring. But no longer will I be paying for private school. (Homeschooling is not an option for me.) It is still great that BIPOC and, in fact, everyone else have a choice as to what school they want their child or children to go. Just make sure you are truly making the right choice for you and your family. Don’t let all of your own trauma and fears hinder you from making clear decisions for your child or children. Whether it’s private school or public school, do your research. BIPOC community, the choice is still ours to keep fighting and advocating for our kids to have an equal and fair education. l
T.C. is a holistic Licensed Professional Counselor with over 17 years of experience in the mental/behavioral health field. She lives in Arlington with her happy family.
This column reflects the opinions and fact-gathering of the author(s) and only the author(s) 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. Metro continued from page 8
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ART
Fall Gallery Night
Exhibition
spaces open their doors Saturday for an evening of adult sips and good timin’. Oh, and art.
BY ANTHONY MARIANI
Before the lockdown, Fall and Spring Gallery Nights raged. Local exhibition spaces invited the community into their art-filled embrace, and we responded by getting philosophical with our fellow gallerygoers, taking lots of pics, and tippling on sometimes free beverages, adult and otherwise. For me, this Fall Gallery Night will be my first in a while. My wife and I have a sitter, for once, and I’ve just cashed my not-so-fat biweekly paycheck (in case all that wonderful gratis booze and Coke Zero have gone the way of everyone’s savings, patience, and appetite). Adding to
all this unbridled excitement (can’t you just feel it?), there’s some splendid work on tap. One show I definitely don’t want to miss is at Fort Works Art (2100 Montgomery St, Fort Worth, 817-759-9475). Seriously?! gathers more than 20 local, regional, and national artists to “explore the potent role of humor and satire in contemporary art,” itself a lost art. Achieving the right balance — between funny and cringe (or worse) — requires just the right imagery, and it’s almost always representational. Anyone ever seen a humorous or satirical Ab-Ex piece? References for their own sake won’t work, and silliness can come off as juvenile. Fort Works Art sees humor and satire as important segues into meatier topics, opening the door to “reflection and conversation, breaking down barriers and reducing stigma.”
The opening reception for Seriously?! is 6-9pm Sat, and the show will be up through Sep 21.
With the most important presidential election in our lifetimes in a couple months, maybe a little lightness now is what we all need. I’m not saying that Fragmented Serenity is humorous or satirical, but John Fraser’s one-person show at William Campbell Gallery (4935 Byers Av, Fort Worth, 817-737-9566) is definitely soothing. In his built two-dimensional objects — maybe they’re paintings, maybe they’re sculptures — the veteran artist employs a lot of beiges and browns and always geometrical shapes on unbusy, unfussy backgrounds to suggest a cleanliness or order that evades our lived everyday existences. The opening reception is noon-9pm Sat, and the show runs through Oct 19.
At the other William Campbell Gallery (217 Foch St, Fort Worth, 682-224-6131), former football player Desmond Mason tackles Black life via street imagery filtered through a fine-art lens. The reception for Blurred Lines is noon-9pm Sat, and the exhibit will be up until Oct 12.
And for more calmness, local legend Dennis Blagg has been depositing Big Bend directly into our cerebellums for decades. For Fall Gallery Night, Artspace111 (111 Hampton St, Fort Worth, 817-692-3228) offers Journey of the Lost Lobo, a series of paintings Blagg created last year after the deaths of his best friend Vernon Fisher and older brother Woodrow Blagg. In the background of most of the pieces is Alsate, or Pulliams Peak, a feature resembling the “brave Apache warrior lying in a deathlike repose.” Lit by the
full moon, the West Texas terrain becomes a “stage for a play about death as the final act.” Among the cast of crows, buzzards, horses, and mules is the Lost Lobo. Casting “no shadow” like a ghost, he represents “those in the grip of death and the spirits of those we have lost.” Woodrow and Fisher both died of cancer, and for such inspirational, intimidating figures in Blagg’s life, they “deserved a better option than chemotherapy.” Journey of the Lost Lobo is dedicated to their memory. The opening reception is noon-9pm, and the show will be up until right before the world ends, Nov 2.
Artspace111 will probably be our last stop. It’s on the way home, and the show seems moody and more apt for nighttime viewing, when the ghosts come out and the lost lobos wander. 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. You’ll never think of museums in the same way again.
THURSDAY SEPT 12 | 5–8 P.M.
At Fort Works Art, Seriously?! gathers more than 20 local, regional, and national artists to explore humor and satire.
Fort Works Art
Maybe a little lightness like at William Campbell Art is what we all need right now.
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1. Amon Carter Museum of American Art
2. Art on the Boulevard
3. Artes de la Rosa
4. Arts Fort Worth
5. Artspace111
6. Bee Street Gallery
7. Carter Bowden Antiques & Fine Art
8. Fort Works Art
9. Gallery 440
10. Gallery at UTA University of Texas at Arlington
11. Kimbell Art Museum
12. McAnthony’s Multicultural Studio and Gallery
13. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
14. Rebecca Low Sculpture Gallery, Inc.
15. Sid Richardson Museum
16. SiNaCa Studios
17. TCC - Trinity River Campus East Fork Gallery
18. Art Galleries at TCU: Fort Worth Contemporary Arts
19. Art Galleries at TCU: Moudy Gallery
20. The Upstairs Gallery
21. William Campbell Gallery (Byers Ave. location)
22. William Campbell Gallery (Foch St. location)
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23. 400h Gallery
24. Caravan of Dreams
25. Fort Worth Botanic Garden
26. House of NeVille Gallery & Gatherings
27. Illuminate Art Space
28. J. Peeler Howell Fine Art
29. Marty & Pat’s Frame Shoppe
30. Support Fort Worth Art (@ The Pool Near Southside Arts Space)
31. Women’s of the Arts Fort Worth Art Studio and Gallery
32. Wedgewood Arts, presented by St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church
33. Zona 7 Gallery
42. Giant Runt
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(detail), 1913, oil on canvas. Lent by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, The John R. Van Derlip Fund.
Artists Rights Society
Counterattack
French Cavalry Led
King Francis I
1528–31, wool, silk, gold, and silver thread. Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples
EATS & drinks
Cooking for Kamala
Fifty celebrity chefs across America gathered on Zoom to raise money and support for the Democratic presidential candidate.
BY ELAINE WILDER
Two chefs with Texas connections, Dallas’ Tiffany Derry and Kristen Kish (Austin’s Arlo Grey), recently joined 48 other famous kitchen queens and kings in a fundraising Zoom call for the Harris-Walz campaign. Congressman Eric Swalwell’s discovery of a deal on surplus aprons inspired Cooking for Kamala. With a kitchen whisk instead of a thermometer as the barometer, the initial goal was $45,000. More than $222,000 was raised.
Cooking for Kamala was hosted by comedian Joel McHale, who, incidentally, was a stellar guest star on The Bear. He performed his duty from inside his car, per his usual shtick, with co-host/chef Padma Lakshmi in her own vehicle. Kamala Harris, as an avid home cook herself, cares about food issues, Lakshmi said, which is why so many chefs rallied for this call. As McHale put it, the event featured “so many Michelin chefs, we could open a tire shop.”
Throughout the evening, there were chats with many of the chefs, plus cooking demonstrations, giveaways, and more. Chef
Jose Andrés said that since everyone can cook, everyone needs to invite others to the table to support Harris, who, he said, can crack an egg with one hand (very important). Andrés donated two signed cookbooks to the cause. At this point, the donation barometer had already eclipsed $80,000.
As the government controls food policy, legendary food critic Ruth Reichl, who recently won a James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award and was the final editor at Gourmet magazine, spoke about how important it will be to have a cook in the White House, someone who understands how food impacts people’s lives. Reichl also confirmed that bacon is indeed a spice as Harris once famously said. (They’re right!) By this point, the barometer was up to $115,950.
Famous pizza guy Chris Bianco insisted on positive change. Along with talking about why he supports the VP and how service industry people tend to show up wherever needed, the chef offered tips on better pizza dough: Identify what you like in terms of crust style, then choose your ingredients from there. The most important thing is not to rush it. By the end of his segment, the donations had climbed to $133,888.
Several other appearances later, the whisk hit $156,733 after the two Texans got
on camera. Chef Derry is the restaurateur behind Roots Chicken Shak in Legacy Hall (7800 Windrose Av, Plano, 469-546-5961), Roots Southern Table (13050 Bee St, Ste 160, Farmers Branch, 214-345-4441), and the new concept Radici Wood Fired Grill (opening soon). The Texas native and James Beard finalist made the Top 4 of Top Chef in
2010 and also has guested on several other Food Network shows and Paramount’s Bar Rescue Chef Kish, winner of Top Chef Season 10, runs the high-end Arlo Grey (The LINE Hotel, 111 E Cesar Chavez St, Austin, 512-478-2991) and is a cookbook author. She’s also working on a few TV projects, including Dish with Kish on Peacock and hosting Season 21 Top Chef
“I am so excited,” Derry said, “and I have such energy when I think about where our country is going. Kamala is putting food policy to the forefront.”
On the recipe front, Derry said to start with high-quality chicken and, like voting this election, spice it “like your life depends on it.” She thinks Harris will be a great president because great cooks know how to help people.
Kish’s segment included a question about programming the buttons in the Oval Office that hail the White House kitchen staff to bring the president their favorite food. Her pick was chicken fingers and fries with extra ranch and extra mayo. Food writer Gail Simmons appeared with Kish and thought the White House needed spicy chicken wings, too, with both selections on one deluxe platter, “making all your continued on page 17
Two chefs with Texas ties, Tiffany Derry (left) and Kristen Kish, joined dozens of other culinary luminaries on the Cooking for Kamala Zoom meeting last week that raised more than $222,000 for the Democratic presidential candidate.
During the Cooking for Kamala call, Chef Suzanne Goin demonstrated how to cook Kamala Harris’ now-famous herb-roasted chicken.
dreams come true” with a campaign slogan of “Chicken fingers for all!” At this point, the barometer read $209,610.
The call lasted about two and a half hours, and by the end, Cooking for Kamala had raised $222,570.
The five recipes were: goat cheese bacon appetizers by Chef Stuart O’Keeffe, the Kamala Spark cocktail by Mixologist Tiffanie Barriere, Kamala’s Herb-Roasted Chicken cooked by many using a recipe from Harris herself, and White Dude Tacos and Straight from the Coconut Tree cookies by Susan Feniger. If you make this now-famous chicken recipe, let us know how it turns out!
Kamala Harris’ Herb-Roasted Chicken from Newsweek
Ingredients
Whole organic chicken (about 5 lbs)
Garlic (6 cloves minced, plus 3 cloves peeled)
Rosemary and thyme (3 whole sprigs, plus 2 tbs minced)
Sage (3 sprigs)
Lemon (1 zested, then cut into quarters)
Pepper (fresh ground)
Salt (kosher, ground)
White wine (any quality, room temperature)
If Chef Kristen Kish and food writer Gail Simmons ran for office, their slogan would be “Chicken fingers for all!”
Prep Instructions
The day before you cook the dish, do the following. 1.) Mix the minced garlic, rosemary, thyme, lemon zest, salt, and pepper in a small bowl. 2.) Rub this mixture under the skin of breast, thighs, and legs, being sure to spread evenly under the skin. 3.) Liberally season the outside of the skin with salt and pepper and the inside of the cavity. 4.) Stuff the whole rosemary, sage, and thyme sprigs with two quarters of the lemon and three peeled garlic cloves into the cavity. And 5.)
truss up the chicken with butcher’s twine and place in the refrigerator loosely covered (or uncovered) overnight.
Cooking Directions
About an hour before cooking, take the chicken out of the refrigerator and let it rest on the counter. Preheat the oven to 350° F (or 325° F if using a convection oven). Place the chicken in a roasting pan and cook for 30 minutes, uncovered. Remove the chicken from the oven and add up to one cup of the
If you make this now-famous chicken recipe, let us know how it turns out!
white wine to the pan. Return it to the oven and baste it every 15 minutes. As you’re basting, check the internal temperature. Once it reaches 168° F, it’s done. The chicken should rest for at least 30 minutes before serving. Carve the chicken as close to your serving time as possible.
Optional Gravy
If you’d like to serve gravy with your chicken, use the skimmed pan drippings as a base. Heat the dripping on low on the stovetop, sift 1 tbs of flour into the liquid, add chicken stock as needed for the desired consistency and volume, and then finish it off with a sprinkle of ground pepper. l
ATE DAY8 a Week
Drinking Games
BY JENNIFER BOVEE
This week’s featured food and booze events include a fundraising event for a nonprofit launching its new therapeutic gaming app at a coffee shop, two pickle fests, and multiple Oktoberfests. From beer to joe to pickle juice and assuredly some lemonade, there’s something for everyone to drink this week.
Thu, Sep 5
CHAMP (Community Healing and Mental Health Project), a nonprofit helping local youth and families through mental health and wellness initiatives, has a new mobile app. Along with traditional community counseling, group therapy, and educational/ economic support, CHAMP offers a virtual-reality gaming experience as an innovative means for kids to develop coping skills. Learn all about it at the CHAMP Goes
Mobile launch party/fundraiser at Hustle Blendz Coffee (120 St. Louis Av, Ste 101, Fort Worth, 817-875-6663) 4:30pm-6:30pm.
Sat, Sep 7
Today is for pickle lovers. Live music, food trucks, kids’ games, a pickleball tournament, and assorted pickle vendors will liven up downtown Grand Prairie (120 W Main St) from 8am to 1pm as part of the town’s inaugural Pickle Fest. There is no cost to attend.
Fort Worth, 817-222-0177). Along with the brewery’s famous Best Maid Pickle Beer, four new varieties of pickle brew will be available. Admission is free, but if you’d like to drink, a $20 wristband purchased at the door includes a souvenir glass and four beer pours in any variety you choose. This family-/animal-friendly event will also feature live music from Ole G and Lazer Blazer, a pickle-eating contest, food trucks, and vendors.
Sep 19-29
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Addison Oktoberfest kicks off Thu, Sep 19, and runs thru Sun, Sep 22, at Addison Circle Park (4970 Addison Circle Dr, 972-450-6284), with tickets starting at $5 at AddisonOktoberfest.com.
Then Thu-Sat, Sep 26-28, Fort Worth Oktoberfest brings the party to Trinity Park (2300 W 7th St, 817-457-5700) with tickets starting at $10 at FortWorthOktoberfest.com. There’s also McKinney Oktoberfest FriSun, Sep 27-29, in downtown McKinney (111 N Tennessee St, 972-547-2660). Admission is free. For more info on activity tickets, visit McKinneyTexas.org/664/Oktoberfest.
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It’s all about the mighty pickle at Martin House Brewing and downtown
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For the fourth year in a row, Bedford Public Library (2424 Forest Ridge Dr, Bedford, 817-952-2350) is hosting Beer, Brats & More 3pm-9pm on the lawn. This outdoor party will feature live music by Mystic Moonlight Band with the Backbeats and Trinity River Ramblers, plus vendors selling bratwursts, sweets, and Texas craft beer. Admission is free, so just bring your spending money. A great nonprofit celebrates its new therapeutic gaming app at Hustle Blendz on Thursday.
The day’s other Pickle Fest starts and ends later (noon-5pm) at Martin House Brewing Co. (220 S Sylvania Av, Ste 209,
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Pass Fail
TCU took the remedial route to back into a win in Palo Alto.
BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT
I’m no spring chicken anymore. As an elder millennial, staying up until 1 a.m. to watch a horrible on-field performance like TCU’s against Stanford last Friday is an affront to both my pre-geriatric sleep schedule and my energy levels the following day. TCU won, but I wouldn’t label the result a payoff for suffering into the wee hours of Saturday morning.
Instead, it was a Charlie Brownian “good grief” exasperation of escaping California with the first win of the season (and the fourth consecutive over the Cardinal).
Aside from an opening drive in which Savion Williams announced his arrival onto the Big 12’s most dangerous receivers list, the entire first half was dreadful. TCU’s defense — which already looks undeniably improved over last season — kept Stanford in first downs by committing penalties with the brainiacs backed into third-and-forever situations.
The first quarter was a slog all around as the teams combined on nearly 14 minutes of possession for the corresponding quantity of points on the first two drives of the contest. Frog veteran receiver JP Richardson fumbled on the next drive. TCU turned the ball over on downs, knocked in a field goal, and then muffed the handoff exchange on the final drive of the half in the shadow of Stanford’s goal line for a whopping 10 points to the Cardinal’s 17.
Despite not gaining a lead until nearly the fourth quarter, accumulating 100 yards
in team penalties to their opponent’s 24, and needing to survive an onside-kick attempt, TCU won a game against another Power 5 team, which is more than most teams in the country attempted this weekend save for the marquee matchups.
The obvious concerns are ball security (three fumbles, two lost) and many poorly timed penalties. Those fixable problems overshadowed what was an overall excellent performance by both major phases of the game. Sophomore Josh Hoover tossed for 353 yards, looked confident, and made mature decisions, though he’s still locking onto receivers much too early in his progressions.
Williams looked dominating in the first half. He contracted a case of the yips to start the second with a pair of drops, but he finished as the go-to guy, requiring lots of defensive attention. Josh Bech emerged as the lightning rod, gaining 139 yards on six
never found consistency in the passing game and was picked off once. The QB was hurried in the pocket most of the night and sacked four times.
Head Coach Sonny Dykes was his typically reserved self, generally barking at officials over 50/50 personal foul calls rather than berating his own team. For the first three quarters, he stood the way I do in just about any public place when I’m with my three sons: arms crossed with a face saying, “I don’t know what the hell ya’ll are doing right now.”
Aside from the obvious concerns, offensively the Frogs look better between the 20s than in the red zone. Still, it was encouraging to see a pair of under-center snaps: one, a sneak by Hoover for a touchdown; the other, when freshman QB Hauss Hejny from Aledo entered the game for a series. Hejny handed the ball off to the fullback for a first down and also scrambled successfully, displaying his obvious athleticism and potential to be a wildcat-type who can contribute throughout the season. The strategy of involving newcomer Hejny is multifaceted. Not only does it give opponents another something to prepare for, but it says that highly recruited quarterbacks, which he was, are less likely than ever to just sit an entire season and can remain with the team despite ubiquitous transfer options.
receptions to finish as the most productive receiver ahead of Richardson, who hauled in six as well for 107. The trio of Williams, Bech, and Richardson combined for 331 yards and confirmed my suspicion that they would be the stalwarts of the offense this season.
Carrying 20 times for 81 yards, Cam Cook plays differently from the tall, dominating straight-line RBs Frog Nation has become accustomed to in recent years. Cook is a bursty scat-back adept at maneuvering in tight spaces within the tackle box. I’ve yet to see his open-field speed leave the secondary behind, but his burst and drive are going to gain yards in situations where he shouldn’t, and as his patience improves, so will the Frogs’ rushing production.
The defense at large settled in after the first half, committing fewer bonehead penalties and eventually cutting off the scrambling ability of Ashton Daniels, who
TCU’s offense and defense connected the dots when they mattered most this week, in the fourth quarter. If you’ll recall, the opener against Colorado last season was similar, when the Frogs had opportunities to notch a win in the final quarter but just couldn’t. Granted, the Buffaloes rostered some individually talented athletes, which complicated the process, but this revamped 5-7 squad seems to know what it takes to win despite a litany of mistakes.
Next week’s Saturday night showcase should be a much tamer affair as the Long Island Sharks of the Northeast Conference swim their way down to the Fort for their paid shellacking. The Sharks lost their opener at Albany and should be an easy victory at the Carter. FCS opponents rarely upset their hosts, but Texas Tech was reminded just how quickly arrogance conflated into confidence can deliver humility, as Abilene Christian pushed the Red Raiders to overtime in Lubbock. There is no logical reason the Sharks should compete with Dykes’ Frogs. Famous last words. l
Injured most of last season, senior Jack Bech punished the Cardinal with six catches for 139 yards.
HearSay
Not Fade Away
If you don’t know anything about Sublime with Rome, it is a guy named Rome Ramirez performing Sublime songs backed by a band that, from 2009 to 2011, included the Long Beach punks’ original rhythm section, drummer Bud Gaugh and bassist Eric Wilson. Then it was only Wilson joined by a succession of hired drummers that started with Josh Freese (Foo Fighters, A Perfect Circle, Guns ’N Roses, Nine Inch Nails, Devo, and hundreds of studio sessions). Sublime with Rome will play Billy Bob’s Texas (2520 Rodeo Plz, Fort Worth, 817-624-7117) on Thursday as part of the last leg of a farewell tour, and now with Wilson gone, Sublime with Rome is effectively a full-on tribute act
The end of Sublime with Rome was heralded by the return of a Gaugh- and Wilson-crewed Sublime. They reformed with deceased frontman Bradley Nowell’s son, Jakob Nowell, who looks and sounds a lot more like his father than Ramirez, who, to his credit, at least sounds passably like the guy he replaced. What’s notable about all this is that when the elder Nowell died in 1996 from a heroin overdose, one of the band’s managers said that “the surviving members of Sublime had no interest in continuing to perform and record under the ‘Sublime’ name.” Yet 13 years later, there they were, in Sparks, Nevada, playing a reunion show as Sublime with Ramirez filling in for Nowell.
Bradley Nowell’s estate threatened to sue this second iteration, which is why they have played as “Sublime with Rome” for the past 15 years, but on December 11, 2023, Jakob joined Gaugh and Wilson to play as Sublime at a Los Angeles benefit for Bad Brains frontman H.R. (who suffers from a rare brain disorder that causes extreme headaches). And less than a month later, the Jakob/Gaugh/Wilson version of Sublime was added to the 2024 Coachella lineup Wilson officially left SwR in February 2024, and in March, Sublime with Rome announced their farewell tour.
I watched SwR about a year ago when they co-headlined a show at Toyota Music Factory in Irving with Slightly Stoopid Wilson (who inspired me to pick up the bass guitar) was still in the band, and his performance was solid if eccentric — at one point, Wilson’s tech led him out near his bass keyboard, draped a bass guitar on him, and then Wilson just stood there until the tech removed it, after which he turned to the synth, puffed on an enormous joint, and played the bass parts of whatever song it was one-handed. But the band sounded weird to me. Not because Ramirez is a bad singer or guitarist — he’s probably better at the latter than the man he replaced — but because he and the rest of the band, all hired guns, were too good.
“This guy is 53 years old. He seems fried, but what the fuck else is he supposed to do?”
Nowell’s death happened the night before a show in San Francisco, which I, then 17, so had tickets for. It was to be my first time seeing my then-favorite band, so I never got to see them play live, but I understood, even back then, what really made Sublime captivating: the alchemy created by three fat, drunk fools who had been friends since childhood and who, despite wandering tempos, forgotten lyrics, and mushy guitar playing, still electrified a crowd. The evidence of their crowd-electrification capacity was plain on the dozen or so live Sublime bootlegs I acquired in the years between his death and my graduation from college four years later. By comparison, Sublime with Rome in 2023 was fine But even with Wilson’s participation, SwR just felt like a pretty good cover band Sublime’s appeal comes from the songs and the marketing of their white-trash Long Beach mystique. But Sublime’s magic, the part that got to me, requires its three core members
Before I finished writing this column but after I’d tossed a draft comparing Sublime with Rome to first-century Greek historian Plutarch’s well-known thought experiment “The Ship of Theseus” — I read a Rolling Stone interview with Phish frontman Trey Anastasio, who recently turned 60. They asked him, “If somebody quits Phish, is it over?” He said that “there is no way this band could exist without any of the four members. And the reason that all these bands kind of keep going on with one or two members … is just because there’s so much money to be made. It’s nostalgia, and money, and oldies.”
But as I watched Wilson — a hulking, silent cypher in a bowling shirt, hidden behind huge, round sunglasses — take the stage last July, I wrote this note in my phone: “This guy is 53 years old. He seems fried, but what the fuck else is he supposed to do?”
The same might be said of Ramirez, who turned 36 this June. Will he dust off “Ruca” and “What I Got” 17 years from now? Everybody has to pay bills, after all. It’s no longer better to burn out than fade away, because fading away is hardly even an option anymore. — Steve Steward
MUSIC
Horus Hall
Punk shows in the Stockyards? Believe it.
STORY AND PHOTO BY STEVE STEWARD
I first saw the phrase “the New Stockyards” in Fort Worth Magazine in 2020. The article claimed there was a “tug of war between tradition and progress,” vis-a-vis the old guard and the surge of upcoming development. Why businesses such as a new Wrangler store, a new Lucchese retailer, and a biscuit-forward eatery might have bothered the boots-and-big-belt-buckle establishment was beyond me, but it seems like the crowds have gotten over any compunctions they might have had about new things coming to an old place. I think that’s why Horus Hall is flourishing. How else would you explain a DIY punk venue thriving a half mile from places like the Rhinestone Saloon, a John Wayne museum, and Billy Bob’s Texas, a.k.a. the World’s Largest Honky Tonk?
True, Horus Hall is not exclusively a punk venue but an event space housed in a former saloon a couple blocks west of North Main on 24th Street. Over the past year, Horus, which looks to me to be an 80-/100-person capacity room, has hosted quite a few punk shows and an indie-rock showcase, plus many other events.
“It’s really whatever people want it to be,” said Kellie Krevosky, who handles the space’s social media, marketing, and event coordination, as well as filling in as a bartender or whatever else is needed on a given night. “We’ve had wedding receptions. We’ve had burlesque shows. … It’s a chameleon of a space, for sure.”
Among these varied events is the monthly Movie Maker Meetup, in which local filmmakers and aficionados gather, network,
and talk about their craft. The next one is on Sep. 26, but prior to that, there’s a Military Networking Meetup on Thursday. Saturday is Horus’ next rock show. Then there’s a Latin dance party on Sep. 14, and from Sep. 28 through Oct. 1, the space will host Agtoberfest, an Aggie-centric take on the famous Bavarian-born beer festival. There’s even a cowboy church at Horus every Sunday.
I recently met with Krevosky and co-worker Wes Parish at Horus Hall along with a woman named Rae, who, under the moniker Solitary Witch, performed at a Denton Does DFW showcase at Horus in June. Eric English, an investor in the latest reboot of the 100-year-old Isis Theater before it shuttered again in 2023, has owned Horus since 2019, though he was unable to make the interview due to a family emergency.
Parish said he and Krevosky put on their first punk show on May 25, 2024, with Hotcake Hand Grenade, The Thyroids, and Die-a-Beat-Us. I asked if there was anything significant about that date.
“That date is when Marilyn Monroe was assassinated by the CIA,” Parish said.
“Allegedly!” Krevosky interjected
“So,” Parish went on, “I figured that was
an appropriate date to start the first one.”
Since then, Krevosky and Parish have partnered on two more punk shows, as well as a more “alternative” bill.
I asked them what it felt like to be part of “the New Stockyards.”
“It’s fun,” Krevosky said, “because whatever we’ve done, from the [punk] shows to the indie showcase we did with Solitary Witch, we’ve had so many people come up afterwards and say, ‘Are y’all going to do this again next month? Is this something y’all are going to continue doing?’ ”
Krevosky and Parish think Horus came along at the right time. Even pre-pandemic, Krevosky said, “I don’t think we would have had the traction that we have today. I feel like people would’ve accepted it, but we would have never gotten the crowd or the same reaction back then as we do now.”
Parish remarked that there were more places to go back then, but now, with the relatively recent closures of long-running venues like Lola’s, The Post, and even the nearby Basement Bar, places for non-country, non-cover bands to play are pretty limited, so shows at Horus stand out by comparison. But apart from that, the uptick
in visitors to the Stockyards of 2024 also drives foot traffic Horus’ way when the doors are open, which, outside of events, tends to be whenever staff are inside.
The previous Sunday, Krevosky dropped by Horus in the evening and found some daytrippers hanging out. “We had people who had just walked in, and they were sitting at the bar just having a drink with [English]. One of the guys who was here last Sunday, he was like, ‘We were walking by and saw the door open, and I have never seen your door open, so we had to go in.’ ”
Some of these folks drop into Horus because they’ve been to the venue’s previous incarnation.
“We get a lot of old people that come in and say, ‘I remember when this was Such ’n Such,’ ” Parish said.
Though the exterior looks like any other ancient wood-sided saloon lining Exchange Avenue, Horus Hall inside is dark and moodily lit enough to feel like a tomb, or at least a dungeon, or some other place that exists beneath the street. And perhaps that’s also part of the appeal — seeing outré artists in a deceptively subterranean-seeming environment is kind of thrilling in an in-the-know sort of way.
Rae said, “The cool thing about the Punk the Yards shows, from me as an observer, is how much they’ve grown with each iteration. Clearly, the community is there, and they just don’t know that the space exists here, but it’s slowly growing. Seems like each show, there are double the people who were at the last one. The scene is here. There just hasn’t been a home place for it.”
Until now, anyway. Though Krevosky and Parish took off August from booking shows (to better codify the business part of them for future bills), they are both excited for the word-of-mouth and potential turnout for the bill on Saturday with three rock outfits: America Inc., Charles Benson, and the Radio Static.
“It would be cool to become Fort Worth’s CBGB,” Parish said. l
At Horus Hall, Kellie Krevosky and Wes Parish have revived the ancient practice of booking and promoting DIY events.
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