Fort Worth Weekly // October 5-11, 2022

Congratulations, Kimbell

The Cultural District institution celebrates its 50th anniversary this month with a huge party Saturday.

BY JENNIFER BOVEE

INSIDE WEST 7TH

Police and bar owners still say safety is Priority No. 1 — can they prove it?

BY EDWARD BROWN

EATS & DRINKS

Serving inventive burgers and more by TCU, Jon’s Grille is “loud and lit.”

BY LAURIE JAMES

BUCK U

The Frogs hop into the national conversation after stomping on OU.

BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT

MUSIC

PI, bouncer, pharmacy employee, ex-martial artist, pop singersongwriter — Cavono does it all.

BY STEVE STEWARD

OCTOBER

$5 SHINER KEGGER

TEXAS COUNTRY REPORTER 50 TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 | 4-10PM

Enjoy an RFD TV sponsored lawn party at 4pm where you can watch broadcasts of the Bob Phillips episode of “The Rural Americans” hosted by Christina Loren as well as the 50th Anniversary episode of Texas Country Reporter.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY | 11AM-7PM

$5 Shiner Red River Ale drafts, stein hoist contests, prize giveaways and more as Shiner presents “Bocktober” with fun and games.

FEATURING

PBR RATTLER DAYS & MILITARY APPRECIATION DAY

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 | 11AM-7PM

Come celebrate Team Ariat with a great parade, bull rider meet & greets and more! Plus, roll out your red, white and blue spirit to honor the men and women who serve our great nation.

CHAMPIONSHIP RODEOS

& LIVE MUSIC

Cowtown Coliseum heats up nightly at 7:30pm with exciting Championship Rodeo action. Music stages throughout the Stockyards will feature the best live entertainment in Fort Worth. Plus, kids 12 and under are FREE on October 7th with every purchase of any regular price adult, Bronze Star seat!

The Davis Brothers Band Jade Flores

COLD BEER

INSIDE

Souper Salad Days

new superin

By Buck D. Elliott

Nifty 50

the Kimbell reaches a

a good time

museum’s

By Jennifer Bovee

Meet U at Jon’s

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West 7th

Public Safety Concerns

At the most recent West 7th business owners meeting, police touted increased patrols and stressed the need for bar proprietors to remain vigilant.

BY EDWARD BROWN

Public safety and a growing homeless pop ulation topped the agenda of the monthly West 7th Restaurant Bar and Retail Associa tion meeting earlier this week. Group presi dent Chas Taipale opened by introducing at tendees to three Fort Worth police officers, a Fort Worth firefighter, and one TABC staffer.

After discussing the rise in panhan dling and increased homeless presence, West Division Commander Buck Wheeler told the gathering of 15 bar owners about a possible means for controlling unwanted trespassers.

“It is challenging from a law enforce ment perspective,” Wheeler said. “If we trespass someone from one location, it is hard to enforce that right across the street. On West Magnolia Avenue, they essentially created a [memorandum of understanding] between businesses. The legal document said if you trespass here, you trespass every where. It allowed consistent enforcement.”

Wheeler said his West Division has stepped up patrols and allocations of offi cers, especially on weekends.

“West Division, in general, we are in a good position personnel-wise,” Wheeler said. “We can expand our patrols. We hope you guys can see that.”

One bar owner said the increased police presence was noticeable and appreciated.

“I have noticed a difference,” the bar owner said. “It has made all the difference in the world. We are very appreciative.”

Two months ago, several West 7th

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bar managers and owners privately shared concerns about a perceived shortage of ac tive-duty cops in a corridor that easily sees several thousand late-night revelers spill onto the streets at 2 a.m. on weekends. The June rape of a young woman near Texas Re public led one Weekly reader to ask our mag azine to investigate sexual assaults and pub lic safety in the bustling corridor (“Night stalker,” Aug. 11).

Even as West 7th business owners voice appreciation for the increased police pres ence, posts on the Facebook group Party on 7th reveal locals and bar staffers are still ap prehensive about spending extended time in the entertainment district on weekends.

“Things have gotten extremely bad in the past month,” one female bartender re cently posted. “I am scared to walk to my car. There have been several instances where female bartenders who work down here have been assaulted physically while on the clock and off. People can’t walk the streets without confrontation.”

Researching the types of crimes in the West 7th area is difficult, largely due to ef forts by the city attorney’s office to conceal records that could shed light on the type and frequency of criminal activity within the corridor. After initially agreeing to release police reports over the last six months and billing our magazine, a city attorney recent ly told me that releasing the information would compromise ongoing police investi gations.

Based on data from CrimeMapping. com, 182 police reports were filed in the West 7th corridor over the past six months. With 70 crimes reported, Sundays (includ ing midnight to 2 a.m. or later on Saturday nights) saw the most incidents, while around 45 alleged crimes occurred on Saturdays, meaning the vast majority of offenses hap pen on weekends. A total of 53 assaults were reported by police in the past six months, while 10 police reports were filed for drugor alcohol-related charges. Seven offenses dealt with use of a deadly weapon. The area we searched stretches from West 7th Street to the north, down to West Lancaster Av enue with University Drive and Woolery Street respectively bordering the west and east.

A Fort Worth police spokesperson said in an email that the West Division staffs around 21 officers on Saturday nights with roughly half that number working Fridays and Sundays.

“We also run a special detail on Friday and Saturday nights,” the spokesperson said. “If fully staffed, that gives us an addi tional six officers on Friday nights and an additional eight on Saturday nights.”

Those figures do not include off-duty officers hired directly by business owners, the spokesperson added.

Open container laws that allow possibly underage pedestrians to consume beer and liquor on the streets are a major public safety concern for bar owners, based on the associ ation’s recent conversations. One officer said the city’s legal team is looking at new zoning ordinances that could end the practice of al lowing consumption of alcohol outside bars. After the meeting, Taipale told me drinking on the streets and sidewalks is a major factor that leads to public intoxication.

“It’s still an issue,” he said. “Having an open bottle of beer and a vodka bottle to chug are two different things. Then they are drinking in their cars and not in the bars.”

The meeting ended with a discussion

about litter, something the police said has public safety implications. Citing the bro ken windows theory, Wheeler said visible signs of disorder encourage crime and dis order. Taipale said he plans to partner with Keep Fort Worth Beautiful, a citizen-driven initiative to promote beautification, recy cling, and environmentally sustainable prac tices throughout town, to organize monthly cleanup efforts. The bar owner said business is picking up and he is excited to see large public events return to nearby Dickies Are na and elsewhere. l

This story is part of Inside West 7th, an on going series of reports on the past, present, and future of the area. Have news tips or ideas for us?

Email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly.com.

More than a dozen West 7th bar owners gathered recently to discuss homelessness, litter, and crime as part of a regular meeting.

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Double Dipping

BY STATIC

The number of backlogged criminal cases in Tarrant Coun ty is staggering by any measurement. Republican district attorney candidate Phil Sorrells recently put the figure at 40,000. This number represents serious crimes, including 266 murder cases, but many of the pending cases are for nonviolent offenses, whether they be trespassing, failure to provide identification, or possessing recreational drugs.

In 2019, District Attorney Sharen Wilson filed 3,750 misdemeanor charges for marijuana possession, making it the county’s most common offense that year, based on re porting by the Dallas Observer. Under Wilson’s adminis tration, Tarrant County has remained one of the only large Texas counties to neither decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana nor offer a jail diversion program for recreational pot users.

Addressing that backlog has become a central topic of the district attorney’s race that pits Sorrells, a longtime county criminal court judge, against Democrat and for mer prosecutor Tiffany Burks in November’s midterms. In pitching his plan to reduce the backlog to local legal watch dog Larry O’Neal via a recent Facebook Live interview, Sor rells offered a solution that will only make things worse.

“We have to get visiting judges in here,” Sorrells said. “We have the staff in the DA’s office” to handle those cases.

By visiting judges, Sorrells is referring to retired judges who, based on our reporting, frequently fail to follow Article 16 of the Texas Constitution, which mandates that elected, appointed, and, yes, visiting retired officials take the Oath of Office before working cases. Our magazine has found that visiting retired judges are the only state officials who rou tinely dodge this constitutional requirement, likely because adhering to Article 16 would pause their cushy retirement checks (“No Authority,” June 22). And with judges, follow ing the money is always a good place to start when investi gating judicial malfeasance.

“There are visiting retired judges who are willing to come to get some extra money,” Sorrells said on the show, referring to the roughly $500 a day they would make doing work that elected judges should do but refuse to for some reason — probably afternoon tee times.

On any given day, Tarrant County’s criminal courts downtown in the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center empty out by around 1 p.m. With court proceedings beginning at 9 a.m., that means a four-hour workday for elected county and district judges who earn between $140,000 and $200,000 a year. For Sorrells to suggest that taxpayers should pony up millions in new funds for active judges to hire their retired

golfing buddies to sit in on court trials shows how brazenly corrupt and lazy most Tarrant County judges are.

Here’s a thought: Why don’t Sorrells’ black-robed friends work until 5 p.m. like the average taxpayer or put in the occasional weekend shift to catch up on cases that may be wrecking the lives of thousands of nonviolent de fendants? There are people languishing under monthly payments for ankle monitors, supervision fees, and other financial burdens that profit only corporate overlords who fund judges’ reelection campaigns. (We probably answered our own question right there.)

Democrat DA candidate Burks has stated publicly that county prosecutors should undertake a systematic review of backlogged cases to evaluate which ones need to be prior

itized and which can be disposed of through dismissal or plea bargain. After every case has been analyzed, and after a short pause of court cases to allow prosecutors the time and resources to evaluate the backlog, the DA’s office will have a more accurate assessment of their workload, and judges and prosecutors can address the remaining cases.

Beyond being constitutionally and often statutorily unqualified, visiting retired judges have a reputation for presiding over unethical or politically motivated cases that active, elected judges do not want to touch for fear of jeopar dizing their careers or getting disbarred.

Unlike elected judges, visiting retired judges in North Texas are hand-selected by David Evans. The presiding judge of the Eighth Administrative Region that includes Tarrant County falsely assigned one non-senior judge as a senior judge to more than 100 criminal cases (including a handful of felonies) between 2015 and 2022 (“ Who’s Watch ing the Judges?,” May 12). The false assignments should be retried, but Evans refuses to acknowledge the problem and we have seen no evidence that the defendants even know this judge was assigned under a false title.

Evans’ office also has nothing to say about Judge Jim Hogan. After retiring from Wichita County’s misdemean or Court at Law No. 1 in 2010, Hogan has been listed as a non-senior retired judge on Evans’ public list of retired judges eligible for assignment. A review of 56 recent Order of Assignment forms, all signed by Evans, reveals that over the past two years alone Hogan has been assigned to civil, criminal, and family court cases 23 times as a senior judge, despite the fact that he is publicly listed as non-senior. A spokesperson for Evans’ office has ignored multiple requests for an explanation of the alternating judicial titles that ap pear to allow Hogan to rule on district-level (felony) cases outside of Wichita County.

Hand-selecting judges may allow Evans or the DA’s of fice to pick judicial officers willing to deprive defendants of their constitutional rights when it serves the interests of the powerful. It’s an ugly system and one that Texans are begin ning to rise up against. Several parents who have founded nonprofits and lobby legislators regularly have told our re porters that systemic changes are coming to Texas’ courts. Among the proposals are bills that would make it easier to impeach judges and DAs, changes to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, and the addition of cameras to every courtroom in Texas.

The unethical behavior of many judges here and across Texas may well be condoned by the Supreme Court of Texas. The highest court in the state recently issued a memo say ing that visiting retired judges can disregard Chapter 75 of the state government code that governs how visiting retired judges qualify to continue service as a type of judicial officer known as a senior judge.

In the July memo, the Office of Court Administration, the state agency that provides resources and information to the state’s judicial branch, directed judges to “notify the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that you elect to contin ue serving as a judicial officer [...] prior to your retirement or not later than 90 days after your retirement.”

The directive contradicts the statute on senior judges which clearly states that deciding to become a senior judge can occur only after retirement. More than any elected or appointed official in Texas, judges are held to the highest

The state is now trying to cover up for greedy retired judges trying to work cases while earning retirement benefits at the same time.

A

memo released by the Office of Court Administration

likely approved by Texas Chief Justice Nathan Hecht

attempt

clean up judicial messes left by

visiting retired judges.

standards when it comes to fulfilling statu tory and constitutional requirements. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled in 1992 that “the judicial acts of a retired judge who has not met the statutory requirements to be an assigned judge at the time he pur ports to act are absolutely void.”

Any visiting retired judge who fails to complete the steps outlined in Chapter 74 or 75 of state government code could be seen as failing to be statutorily qualified to preside over any case.

The authority of a memo does not su persede a government statute, and the Office of Court Administration may be trying to cover for judges who failed to follow the law.

Indeed, documents we obtained from Texas Chief Justice Nathan Hecht reveal sev eral Tarrant County judges erroneously re quested senior judge status while still active ly serving in office. In 2010, Judge Vincent Sprinkle, who oversaw misdemeanor cases, formally asked to serve as a senior judge three weeks before he retired, thus failing to fulfill the steps listed in the statute and possibly voiding his authority as a senior judge. Texas laws forbid public officials from holding two governmental positions of prof it simultaneously — the type of conflict that faced Sprinkle due to the Supreme Court’s failure to follow the rules set out by Chapter 75. If Sprinkle presided over any case during that period, a defendant could reasonably argue that the judge held two incompatible positions and therefore was not qualified to preside over any case. Documents from the Supreme Court of Texas reveal that neither Sprinkle nor the chief justice at the time acknowledged or took steps to correct the error that possibly undermines Sprinkle’s judicial authority to this day.

Tarrant County judicial records reveal that several county judges who oversee mis demeanor cases notified Evans that they had elected to serve as senior judges by inform ing the chief justice of their decision, but a spokesperson for the Texas Supreme Court told us that only district and appellate judg es are required to notify the chief justice’s office about retirement. The spokesperson’s comment possibly conflicts with an opin ion from the 1975 Texas Attorney General which quotes relevant state statutes. No re tired judge can preside over cases until that that judge accepts an assignment by the chief justice, the letter reads.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals can and has overturned rulings by visiting retired judges who failed to properly fulfill the requirements listed under Chapter 75 of state government code.

The Supreme Court may be attempting to clean up botched or missing paperwork and erroneous assignments that could un dermine past judicial rulings. While retired district-level judges consistently seek senior judge status, not every retired county judge in Tarrant County has, and some of them have presided over felony cases after retire ment.

The assignment of former misdemeanor judges to district-level (felony) cases in Tar

rant County appears to violate Chapter 75’s mandate that visiting retired judges preside over cases “of the same dignity or lesser as that from which” the judge retired, meaning longtime DWI judges are understandably

barred from hearing capital murder cases, for example.

We reached out to a Texas Supreme Court spokesperson for clarity on whether criminal county court judges who wish to

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continue service as visiting retired judges are required to notify Justice Hecht’s office upon retirement and were told that answer ing that question would require giving le gal advice — the official reason the highest court in the state dodged us. l

This story is part of City in Crisis, an ongo ing series of reports on unethical behavior and worse by local public leaders, featuring original reporting.

This column reflects the opinions of the ed itorial board and not the Fort Worth Weekly.

To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly. com. Submissions will be gently edited for factuality, concision, and clarity.

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Soup Du Jour

After seven years, the Fort Worth school district has named a new superintendent, but is she worth the hefty price tag?

BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT

Education is a curious industry. Almost every person capable of reading and di gesting a publication has some level of experience with formalized education. Even if they attended school at home or privately, there was vertical organization of some manner. For this reason, almost everyone considers themselves at least a “Facebook-certified expert” in educa tional policy and therefore qualified to bombard anyone and everyone with pol icy and pay criticism irrelevant of their actual field of expertise, assuming one exists. As someone with a master’s degree in educational policy, a principal certifi cation, and more than 10 years of class room experience, I’m (sometimes regret tably) more qualified than most to make a value judgment on education. Hop on board.

When former Fort Worth ISD super intendent Dr. Kent Scribner announced his “intention” to retire — along with a gaggle of his peers in North Texas — the search for his successor drew attention. The new “soup” is Dr. Angelica Ramsey, who is moving east from the head posi tion in Midland ISD. The capital of the Permian Basin represents a much smaller stakeholder pool than Cowtown, but the socioeconomic challenges are not dissim ilar, though we have a larger percentage of poor kids. Ramsey was the lone finalist in the search, and she was once a student who needed economic assistance herself.

Ramsey has been working in Texas only one year and previously headed a small school system in California, where she grew up, for five years. She checks all the boxes to counter most bigots. She is a

woman but also an Army veteran. She sits on an ivory throne of education and pos sesses an educational doctorate but spent six years finishing her undergraduate de gree because she was working and caring for her terminally ill mother at the time. The remaining bogeywoman is her re search — her dissertation is fairly heavy on Latina Critical Race Theory. *spooky booooo sound* Really?! OK, Boomers. Worrying about CRT is so 2021.

One of the real eye poppers for social media tax accountability consultants is Ramsey’s $330,000 annual salary. Most couldn’t fathom how a public servant could make that kind of dough, especial ly with weekends, holidays, and summers off. I’ll go ahead and say it. That’s a bar gain for a great superintendent, which I hope Ramsey ends up being.

This was the same salary Scribner was making, and the school board voted to buy him into retirement to the tune of $573K. If you want to act pissy about someone who knows how to work their assess off making a good salary, be irate about someone being paid the same to leave the job two years early. To be fair to our wonderful school board, they’ve really reduced their “please stop working here” expenditures compared to Walter Dansby, who was paid almost $900K in 2014 to move on.

Fort Worth and Dallas both hired new superintendents this year, both of them women, at similar salaries, though Big D’s Stephanie Elizalde is making a little less than her predecessor. Compar atively, Duncanville ISD superintendent Dr. Marc Smith is paid more than $400K per year in a district that enrolls a sixth of Fort Worth’s student population. Dr. Lane Ledbetter of Carroll ISD in South lake is another small district superinten dent making more — t hough, to be fair, a job requiring the juggling of parent law suits while ensuring PTA meetings don’t conflict with Klan rallies deserves special consideration for its difficulty. Based on ’21-’22 school year data, FWISD was the 30th best-paying superintendent job in Texas, despite being the sixth largest via student enrollment.

While it might be easy to miscon strue, I’m not suggesting that any of the aforementioned professional education leaders are overpaid. I’m arguing the op posite. Superintendent is not a job any non-masochist would want. There are no holidays for these leaders, who are equal parts teacher, administrator, and elected official. Most of us are able to leave our

professions behind, if only for a moment, when we go about our civilian lives. Su perintendents have nowhere to hide be cause they are essentially accountable to every person who lives within the bound aries of their districts and don’t take extended vacations. Most campus-level administrators (principals, counselors, others) do more work when school is out of session because that’s when the real planning can occur. The same is true for district-level leaders.

The superintendent is also account able to the school trustees, who are actu ally elected and can be as wackadoodle as the cycle and electorate that christen them. No one is named honcho of a major school district by accident, and educators can work their entire careers with the ambition of becoming an assistant prin cipal and never quite get there, so don’t be so naive as to think search committees just decided on someone who applied via LinkedIn.

I don’t know definitively that Ram sey will be the right fit for Fort Worth, but everyone should delay judgment and embrace her to aid success for students. There’s no telling what the education al-accountability metrics will say after this year — and their validity is another discussion entirely — but she has a record of earning her salary. Midland was ready to increase her pay of $40K to $310K based on one year’s improvements in the district. There will be plenty to talk about over the coming years as it relates to the evolution or possible lack thereof in our local school district, but the super intendent being paid too much definitely shouldn’t be one of them. l

This column reflects the opinions of the au thor and not the Fort Worth Weekly. To sub mit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly.com. Col umns will be gently edited for factuality, clarity, and concision.

One of the real eye poppers for social media tax accountability consultants is Ramsey’s $330,000 annual salary.

Sweep the Leg, Sonny

TCU breaks into the national rankings thanks to their 55-24 stomping of Oklahoma in Fort Worth.

BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT

I expect to hear about lots of thank you cards mailed by OU faithful to Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees, and ESPN for at least a brief reprieve from watching the Frogs frol ick unabated up and down the field in their first win against the Sooners in nine attempts.

TCU seemed more like Cobra Kai than the underdog-personified Miyagi-Do on Sat urday. The Horned Frogs struck first, struck fast, and showed no mercy. Maybe Oklahoma was confused and thought sweeping the leg might be a superior style of tackling as the hometown boys racked up an almost unfath omable 668 yards of offense.

The Saturday morning kickoff was out of hand before noon. Head coach Sonny Dykes’ offense exploded for 27 first-quarter points and then two touchdowns in the second and third quarters, respectively. A sobering situa tion regarding a potential head and neck in jury to Oklahoma’s Damond Harmon (#17) ground the game to a half-hour delay midway

through the fourth quarter. After Harmon was carted off the field, both coaches seemed content to run the football — and therefore the clock — and move on from a game that had been disastrous in multiple facets for the visiting Sooners. Harmon was cleared of po tential catastrophic injury and released from the hospital to travel back to Norman.

The knock on the Frogs leading to this game — and rightfully so — was that no one knew their identity from playing admitted ly meager competition with the exception of SMU. We know more now, but the Sooners seemed to have put in their scout-team defense on Saturday. Still, it’s hard to deny that behind senior QB Max Duggan (#15), the Frogs seem mature and focused, with playmakers to spare. The Sooner secondary, in addition to surren dering multiple touchdowns on completely blown coverages, struggled to cover purple receivers even when running stride for stride with them or slow Frog rushers in top gear.

Quentin Johnston (#1) amassed only four catches but collected two pass interference calls when he was literally tackled by his defender. The referees grew fearful of Dykes near the end of the half after they missed a bang-bang pass interference that killed a potential scor ing drive before stymying Frog punt returner Derius Davis (#11), who clearly didn’t make a fair catch call but was stopped via whistle as he started to blast off against an out-of-position crimson-and-cream coverage team. Running back Kendre Miller (#33) topped 100 yards for the second consecutive week, and Duggan joined him by rushing for more than a cen tury himself. Six different Frogs appeared in Oklahoma’s endzone with the ball while OU dropped their second consecutive conference game for only the second time in almost 20 years.

The hype train has arrived, and it’s riff-ramming into Fort Worth much sooner than anticipated. Dykes could call a mulligan this year — he didn’t necessarily have to win yet. Every school, even higher-profile pro grams like Notre Dame or Texas, will tolerate a down year while transitioning staff. Dykes hasn’t needed administrative mercy, so far, and he’s received his first national ranking as TCU’s head coach at 17th in the AP.

Which brings us to something I never thought I’d see: College Gameday is going to Lawrence, Kansas, next week for TCU-KU, and it’s not an elaborate troll. Kansas, under second-year head coach Lance Leipold, is undefeated and ranked 19th in the land. The Jayhawks started their season with an over time conference win against West Virginia before beating the Houston Cougars, but they’re fresh off a clunker of a game hosting Iowa State in which they escaped with an unscathed record thanks to three missed Cy clone field goals.

Classically, even good Frog squads have struggled against Kansas, but it seems we need to dismantle our old assumptions about what a purple-clad offensive unit can be. KU, with the exception of last week, has been scoring boatloads of points primarily on the dynamism of quarterback Jalon Daniels (#6), whom ignorant fans can think of as an un der-the-radar Trevone Boykin thanks to his ability to evade pressure and punish defenses that break contain. Daniels also possesses a

pop-gun arm and has had 300-plus-yard per formances through the air. The Jayhawks will go as their leader does, so if Daniels is hav ing an off day — like he did through the air against ISU — they’re supremely beatable.

Despite how wrong I was about TCU’s likelihood of running roughshod over the Sooners — no one really saw that coming; don’t lie, it’s unattractive — I’m secure in as serting that the Frogs are a much more com plete team than Kansas. Daniels could very well be the best player on the field Saturday morning, or at least the most essential to his team’s success, but TCU have shown them selves capable of winning on multiple fronts and feature difference makers in all three phases of the game. Should one facet of Frog fury fall quiet, there are others whom Dykes and company can rely upon for production. The defense will want to keep Daniels in front of them the entire game, and the end result should be the prompt squashing of college football’s feel-good story of the year as Kansas falls at home to your Horned Frogs. l

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Max Duggan was named Walter Camp National Player of the Week after accounting for 418 total yards in TCU’s dismantling of Oklahoma on Saturday.

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Calm the Eff Down, Y’all

No, Cooper Rush is not going to do to Dak Prescott what Dak Prescott did to Tony Romo.

BY PATRICK HIGGINS

Color me equally bewildered, but with Dak Prescott still trying to learn to grip a football with a broken thumb, a third straight game with backup quarterback Cooper Rush man ning the offense has led, improbably, to a third straight Dallas victory. The Cowboys now sit just behind the unbeaten Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC East standings. This past Sunday saw the piteous Washington Commanders (they should have stuck with Football Team™) as Super Cooper’s latest victim. With 235 passing yards and a pair of touchdown passes, and riding a truly elite-looking defense, Rush again managed to do just enough, felling lowly Washington 25-10.

Including his famous surprising Monday Night Football win in Minnesota last year — his first-ever start — the dub makes it four wins in a row to begin his career for the five-year veteran clipboard holder, a franchise record, the first of many records that will no doubt be wrested away from fellow legendary Cow

boys signal-callers like Troy Aikman and Rog er Staubach by Rush on his way to a bronze bust in Canton. Or so a particularly loud (and conspicuously uninformed) contingent of Cowboy fans would have you believe. These same folks have been trying to run No. 4 out of town since 2017. They were probably also the same ones who wanted to do the same to Tony Romo before that. I don’t know why no one hates a Dallas Cowboys quarterback more than a Dallas Cowboys fan.

Two wins against absolute dogs in the division in New York and Washington and another against a suddenly suspect Cincinnati Bengals team obviously suffering from a Su per Bowl runner-up hangover, and Cowboys Twitter is already calling for Rush to be ce mented as QB1 going forward. They’re doing cartwheels at the prospect of him supplanting Prescott in much the same way Prescott did Romo. Yet another sign that social media is chiefly meant for documenting the worst of humankind’s thoughts into a woefully perma nent digital record. I’m sorry (not really), but if, based on three games’ worth of very Jim my Garoppolo-like numbers against medio cre-to-very-bad teams, you want Rush to start over Dak once the latter is healthy, I’m of the opinion you know less about football than Jer ry Jones knows about his recently discovered daughter Alexandra Davis.

Look, I get it. Winning is intoxicating. The rush of victory (so to speak) is so exhil arating it clouds your faculties and can twist your otherwise better sense of judgment into completely unrecognizable shapes. It’s one of the reasons gambling is addictive and people buy NFTs. If you’re prone to imbecilic takes like Rush > Dak, you have no more business commenting on football than a Gambler’s Anonymous member has of setting foot on the martini-soaked floor of a casino or my grand ma does in perusing the latest Bored Ape offer ings. It’s just not for you.

I certainly don’t want to take anything away from Rush. The guy has managed to do what everyone hopes and prays a backup quar terback is capable of doing. And that’s tread water until the starter comes back. Yes, he’s won. But he hasn’t exactly looked like the sec ond coming of Kurt Warner while doing it —

22.6 points per game is far from the “Greatest Show on Turf.”

In fairness, he also hasn’t looked like what some “experts” named as the sixth-worst back up QB in the entire league heading into the season. Which was? You guessed it: Cooper Rush.

Have we all forgotten that just a month ago, no other team in the league wanted this guy? The Cowboys (and the majority of their fanbase) were practically begging Will Grier to take the backup job from Rush in the presea son. Rush was terrible in those games. Grier just happened to be worse, so when he couldn’t push Rush off the roster, they naturally cut him, but the Cowboys’ front office was also so confident in the lack of interest from any other team in Rush, they cut him, too, leav ing Prescott as the only QB on the roster for a time. Jerry and company knew Rush would clear waivers. The trickery bought them time to keep better coveted players like tackle Tyron Smith and wide receiver James Washington af ter final cuts long enough to put them on IR.

I can’t explain the difference between preseason Cooper Rush and in-season Cooper

Rush, but let’s keep reality in focus along with the larger context. Rush has played well. He’s had a lot more help than Prescott had in Week 1. The O-line is pass protecting, the receivers have found their hands, and the running game is setting up nice play-action plays that make it easy for whomever’s QB. Ultimately, Rush has done exactly three things. Here are the first two, with No. 3 to come later: 1.) Rush has given Prescott time to fully heal before forcing himself back to save a failing season, and 2.) he’s likely made himself life-changingly wealthy. No team is going to throw $30M-a-year starter money at him (because he isn’t an NFL start er), but he could be looking at a nice $5M-ayear extension to continue backing up Dak. That’s more money per year than he’s made in his entire career combined to this point.

And 3.) Rush has proven that due to a truly great defense, finally the quarterback of this team doesn’t have to do it all himself. Dak, without the pressure of playing hero-ball as he has since his sophomore year, will make this team even better when he returns. Sorry, haters. It’s a fact. If you don’t believe me, then I have a few NFTs to sell you. l

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Victory is causing a headrush for a certain sect of fans calling for backup QB Cooper Rush to supplant starter Dak Prescott even when the latter is healthy.

Kimbell for the Win

As the Kimbell Art Museum (3333 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-332-8451) celebrates its 50th anniversary this month, we’d like to point out several reasons the Cultural Dis trict institution is considered one of the best museums in not only North Texas but the entire Southwest. For starters, it’s because we said so.

By “we,” I mean the hive mind that is the Weekly ’s Best Of editorial team. Last week marked the publication of the 26th annual awards edition in which the museum won yet another award, this time for the 200-plus piece show The Language of Beauty in African Art . Sourced from private and public collections across the globe, “the array of sculptures, masks, and textiles was noteworthy for its vastness and for the respect paid to the culture that created them.”

Weekly self-promotion aside, the Kimbell also has ex cellent taste in acquisitions. And lawyers. The museum is battling the entire country of France over Jean-Bap tiste-Siméon Chardin’s “ Basket of Wild Strawberries .” Kimbell recently won the oil painting at auction for $26.8

million, then the French government swooped in, declar ing the work to be a national treasure, which afforded France’s famous Louvre Museum a chance to purchase the piece instead.

According to French law, the Louvre has 30 months to find a sponsor to match the winning bid. Like two po lite ladies who lunch, perhaps they will agree to share. “Who wants the last jalapeño popper? You take it. No, you take it. Let’s split it!” The piece will probably spend exhi bition time on two continents. At least, t hat’s the word on the street. Go to FWWeekly.com and search for our “ Fort Worth vs. France ” story to read more.

The third (and possibly the most important) reason the Kimbell is still the best after 50 years is its ability to connect with the community and reach new potential art patrons with exciting events. One of our recent favorites was Dog Day, when dozens of doggos and their parents gathered at the museum for the opening of “ Dog Guard ing a Basket of Grapes ” (1836) by Austria’s Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller which was recently acquired for the permanent collection. Local celebrities Tony Green and Nancy Lamb judged a dog costume contest, and it was as adorable as you could imagine.

Now for its 50th anniversary celebration, the Kim bell is hosting an exciting event this weekend. From 1pm to 5pm Sat , enjoy light refreshments and family-friendly activities, films, and performances, and at 4:30pm, Fort Worth’s now world-famous soul/hip-hop/blues artist Abraham Alexander and local electro-popsters Cotinga will perform on the main stage on the Kimbell lawn. This event is free to attend, but tickets are required. For more info and tickets, visit KimbellArt.org

By Jennifer Bovee

Fort Worth soul sensation Abraham Alexander is coming home for the Kimbell’s 50th anniversary celebration Saturday.

Courtesy Kimbell Art Museum

The critics have said their piece. From ap petizers to wings, Best Of 2022 is chock full of our opinions, recommendations, infor mation, and more on the best of everything imaginable in our Good Grub section. As the readers’ choice listings in Best Of don’t include writeups — because that would imply we knew the readers’ favorites in ad vance — we’ll see what these businesses are up to throughout October in this column, starting with a tie for best breakfast.

1.) Best Breakfast: Along with its winning breakfast, Ol’ South Pancake House (1509 S University Dr, 817-336-0311) also won for best late-night food. The Fort Worth loca tion is open 24/7, and Burleson (225 E Ren fro St, 817-989-9090) is open until 10pm, with the full menu available at all times. Try the German Pancake. Trust me. If you’re in Burleson this Saturday, check out the Ol’ South Classic Car Show in the parking lot 4pm-7pm. There is no cost to attend.

2.) Best Breakfast: Established in 1926, Par is Coffee Shop (704 W Magnolia Av, 817945-1702) is one of the oldest eating estab lishments in Fort Worth. Besides serving

classic breakfast and lunch favorites with a modern twist in a nostalgic atmosphere, Par is is now serving dinner and drinks Thu-Sat until 9pm.

3.) Best Brunch: Along with bingo, bur lesque, and fantasy drag shows, the Dragwith-Me Brunch at The Sleeping Panther (1000 Houston St, 817-946-2295) is hosted every Sat-Sun at 11am and noon. All ages are welcome at brunch shows. Tickets are $30 at MyOhMytheShow.com and include your seat and brunch. Drinks are purchased separately at the full bar.

4.) Best Cajun Food: Known for its Cajun/ Creole menu, Boo-Ray’s of New Orleans (5728 Boat Club Rd, 817-236-6149) is also a football-watching destination. Join them Sunday all day and Monday at night during pigskin season for select half-price appetiz ers, $15 beer buckets, and $1 off beer, liquor, and wine.

5.) Best Chicken-Fried Steak: The special ingredient in the batter of the chicken-fried steak is an openly discussed secret at Tom’s Burgers & Grill (1530 N Cooper St, Arling

ton, 817-459-9000). A certain potato-based snack item ruffles everyone’s feathers (hint, hint). While the chicken-fried steak is avail able for breakfast with eggs and hashbrowns and lunch/dinner with mashed potatoes and corn on the cob, I’d go with breakfast.

6.) Best Chinese Food: With 150 items to choose from, the daily lunch specials at

Szechuan Chinese Restaurant (5712 Locke Av, 817-738-7300) will help you work your way through them all. The house specialties include shrimp and scallops in a hot garlic sauce, pan-fried noodles with chicken and vegetables, and the Mongolian barbecue combination platter. One thrilled Facebook reviewer says, “I have had Chinese food at some of the best restaurants in Hawaii and San Francisco. I will choose Szechuan right here in Fort Worth every time.”

7.) Best Coffeeshop: Forget the coffee. (Well, not literally. It is, after all, the best.) The new fall pastries and desserts at Buon Giorno Coffee (500 W 7th, Ste 140, 817-3784505) include banana espresso muffins, car amel apple scones, pumpkin mousse tarts, and raspberry biscoff crumble muffins. Plus, there is a caprese twist made with pesto, ba con, mozzarella, and tomatoes. I’m in!

8.) Best Deli: On your way to the new loca tion of Lola’s Fort Worth, winner of multi ple Best Of awards, including Top 5 for best music venue, grab a sandwich at this Fort Worth staple situated across the intersec tion. The Kosher-style Carshon’s Delica tessen (3133 Cleburne Rd, 817-923-1907) has been family-run since 1928. Stop by for dine-in, outdoor seating, curbside pickup, or call for your next catering need.

Read about more Best Of winners at FW Weekly.com and in this column next week.

By Jennifer Bovee

Loud and Lit

Jon’s Grille is proof that the fertile partnership between chefs Jon Bonnell and Ed McOwen perpetuates fastcasual magic in the Fort.

Jon’s Grille, 2905 W Berry St, FW. 817-349-8722. 11am-2am daily.

STORY AND PHOTOS

BY LAURIE JAMES

Jon Bonnell’s Fine Texas Cuisine and Waters are definitely white-tablecloth, special-event joints, but with the chef’s 2008 partnership with New York native Ed McOwen, Buffalo Bros, Bonnell proved he could scale back to fast casual. When Fine Texas Cuisine cele brated 20 years last year, we started hearing about another fast-casual offering to play

to the farm-to-table ethos for which Bon nell and company are known, with a burg ers-and-brisket price point.

Jon’s Grille is a burger’s throw from TCU, and it’s loud and lit, to use my daugh ter’s vernacular. Granted, my party of three arrived at the end of the Texas Tech game. In the land of purple people, Tech has a strong following, and many were gathered in the new place, where everywhere you look, you’ll see a college game or three on a Saturday.

From the “Snacks” section, the burnt ends in a molasses-y ’cue sauce were a sol id choice. The appetizer portion is a quar ter-pound of the formerly overlooked brisket byproduct, and that was just enough of the chewy, well-marbled, savory bits to satisfy without overpowering us with smoke flavor.

The elote fritters are an absolute must-or der. Jon’s cute play on charred corn, cotija cheese, and a tartly tangy hot sauce married with a good Southern corn fritter batter and a little spicy aioli proved to be irresistible.

But don’t fill up on the appetizers. Bon nell and his brother Dr. Ric Bonnell are raising an Akaushi-Angus bovine crossbreed that’s meant to produce meat with a higher level continued on

The Panther City Burger came loaded with sautéed onions, bacon, and gorgonzola cheese. Sweet potato fries are optional but well worth the upcharge.

of oleic acid (one of those good fats found in products like olive oil) and conjugated linoleic acid (which, perhaps ironically, may make the beef heart-healthy) than regular beef. The rest of the menu falls fully into omnivore territory, and the only entrees without meat or dairy in them are a single salad, a baked potato, and fries. If your party includes a veggie eater, you may want to perhaps tranquilize them with the excellent Southside Paloma. The blend of blanco tequila, agave nectar, lime bitters, and tajin-rimmed glass was enough to put a smile on even the most cynical face.

Burgers are meant to come out medium, and it’s a credit to the hybrid beef that the well-done patty that actually arrived was still juicy and tasty in the Panther City Burger, which was vetted by our adorable server as the most popular on the menu. The jammy, cara melized onions with a touch of tart from the balsamic vinegar played well with the pungent gorgonzola cheese, and a couple of pieces of Wright brand bacon on the gorgeous brioche bun augmented the fulsome burger experi ence. A garlic aioli meant to add to the mix was actually MIA. However, add the excellent savory sweet potato fries (burgers don’t come with a side), and you’ll be happy for days.

The Big Frog Dog is a huge Akaushi beef dog topped with a pleasantly assertive, spicy whole grain dark mustard and more caramelized onions. The snap of the dog’s casing provided an intensely satisfying bite. Warning: The Best Maid pickle relish was

sweet and not dill as advertised. Sub the huge crispy onion rings for an extra treat. It’s not often that thick-cut onion rings come out perfectly done with the peppery crust cling ing like a life jacket to the veg, but this kitch en does make a little happy magic.

Finally, the Gobble Gobble was a great way to test out the rest of the barbecue. A smoked, sliced turkey breast came mound ed with sharp cheddar, some more bacon,

and perfect slices of avocado on hearty wheat bread. The club also came with handpunched fries — thicker than shoestring po tatoes but thinner than the traditional and delicious with or without ketchup.

In the unlikely event you’re not abso lutely full, the custard pie with its delicious shortbread crust and sweet vanilla cream fill ing is a reminder that Bonnell’s kitchens turn out excellent pastry.

The Big Frog Dog in all its glory arrives with grilled onions and thick whole-grain mustard. Add the peppery onion rights for an extra treat.

Service on the busy evening we visited was exceptional, considering the place had been open for three weeks at the time. And dare I say courtly: The host pulled out chairs for us as we sat. That’s definitely not some thing you see in the fast-casual world. The meal isn’t cheap, but if you consider that you’re getting some world-class farm-to-table produce from one of the area’s best restaura teurs, it’s a good deal.l

Steppin’

Time

Toward the end there, Rangers games became almost unwatchable, and the shiny new stadium didn’t really help.

STORY AND PHOTO

BY JOHN ANDREW WILLIS

Texas Rangers games are impossible to watch. I don’t mean trying to find whatever Bally Sports is on my Roku. I was just set tling into remembering how to get to Fox Sports Southwest, so that ain’t happening. I recently tried to attend an affair between the Rangers and the Athletics of Oakland, an “in-person” event as it’s known in the 2020s, and it was tough.

Globe Life Park is a bit like Nebraska Furniture Mart. It’s a huge, air-conditioned building, a relief from three-digit Texas heat, but by the time you lean into one of their seating areas, you question if the jour ney was worth the destination.

Due to aforementioned heat and hav ing a 5-month-old, my wife and I have be grudgingly become Tarrant County’s first and only millennial mall walkers. We need ed a new venue to get some stroller steps in without overheating and thusly endeavored to take in some climate-controlled baseball.

I really wanted this to work. I have fond childhood memories of sprinting up and down the concrete ramps at the Ballpark. We ran around the nosebleed sections unattend ed while my dad drank Coors Originals. At the very top of those 400 sections, you could almost always catch an evening breeze — no

roof required. Those were the days. Were the Rangers any good? Doubtful. Did we have a good time at the ballpark? Yes.

As dumb as it was on the surface to abandon the now “old” ballpark for Globe Life Field, I was willing to go along with the concept. People will pay more to be in an air-conditioned stadium when it’s hot ter than the devil’s sauna outside. I could see myself as one of them. Conceptually, I very much want to enjoy a trip to Arlington.

I get excited at the potential of digging the Loews hotel bar and Texas Live along with a Rangers game. I’m doing my best to be a team player here. I will gladly regurgitate convention and visitor bureau propaganda if

I have a good time.

Because a 7:05 start doesn’t jibe with an infant’s bedtime, my wife and I would pick an afternoon game to attend. We settled on the A’s on a Thursday, and off we went. By that, I mean, at the 1:05 first pitch, the baby was fast asleep in her crib, and we weren’t gonna mess with naptime to hurry to the stadium.

It was the middle of the 5th by the time we parked and walked to the stadium, on the north side near Texas Live. We hadn’t yet bought tickets, and I asked my wife if she’d rather just track our steps in the entertain ment area outside the stadium instead. I was sternly and understandably informed we’d come this far — we’re gonna go to the damn game.

I asked a security guy running the north entrance if we still needed tickets at this point in the game, and an affirmative grunt was returned. I asked if we should purchase them from the box office in front of us, but of course not. Why make it that easy? Only the southeast box office was still selling tickets.

Not loving the idea of walking around half the perimeter of Death Star Lite in the heat that we came here to escape, I checked StubHub for the $6 tickets I’d seen earlier. They’d ceased selling them online. OK, fine. Whatever.

We headed east for the still open box office. As we rounded the corner, we met a steep hill with four sets of stairs. As fun as carrying an occupied stroller up flights of stairs is, I was hoping for a ramp. No such luck.

Eventually, we made it to a box office with a few open windows. After walking up to one and promptly being redirected to an other, we found someone willing to take our money and get us into the game. In the era

The new stadium, as shown here during this TCU game, is enormous — and good for surmounting your daily 10,000 steps — but still kind of hard to get into once play has already started, which is absurd.

of contactless payment and cryptocurrency, I’ve grown unaccustomed to pleading to pay for things. The volume setting on these tick et kiosks is between Pantera and DEFCON 3. This is especially quaint when someone next to you is also conversing about specifi cally which seats they also are going to buy and never sit in.

$18.48 later, and we had our golden tickets. Unfortunately, it wasn’t Willy Won ka working the east entrance. In what would be best described as an Abbott and Costello bit, two security personnel were telling my wife and me precisely opposite things as we attempted to navigate ourselves and stroller with baby into the game. Once the employ ees were finished arguing with each other in front of us, the security lady kindly in formed my wife she wasn’t feeding our baby enough. Fortunately, no charge for the unso licited parenting advice.

By this point, it was probably the 7th in ning, but it was hard to care after the hoops we jumped though to enter. We tried to settle into the Karbach Sky Porch after buying a $14 beer, but the PA announcer and walk–up music were so loud from a speaker behind us that — to maintain our sanity and our baby’s hearing — we had to move sections. Evidently, the speakers had been adjusted to the roar of a crowd that never materialized.

When owner Ray Davis fired Jon Dan

iels and Chris Woodward in mid-August, he admitted the team wasn’t very good. He predicted they would get in better with fans chiefly by winning more games. I think my daughter will be finishing med school when that happens. At the time of this writing, the Rangers were playing their last game of the season, against the Yankees, and the crowd was decent — not because the Rang ers are worth watching randomly but be cause Yankee outfielder Aaron Judge was chasing homerun history and his legit MLB ball club was headed into the playoffs. The Rangers would finish second to last in the AL West. Take that, Oakland. #lastplaceA’s This off-season, Davis should invest in making attending games not suck. The stadium is admittedly shiny and new, but it feels more like a convention center than a ballpark. The ownership probably can’t lob by for another new stadium for at least, like, eight years, but Davis and company should invest in hospitable employees. Knocking a few bucks off beers and hot dogs wouldn’t hurt, either.

Tarrant County has a number of wel coming entertainment venues. The Bass brothers hired Disney to help with the cus tomer experience at Sundance Square, and for years, it was awesome. TCU hired the same company a few years back to make at tending football games great again, and it shows. You may have watched Gary Patter son’s defense constantly blow coverages in recent years, but at least you were greeted and sent away with a smile. TCU and Son ny Dykes are earning substantial favor with fans by winning all their games this year, and Coach Dykes played baseball at Texas Tech. Maybe he could teach the Rangers a thing or two about winning and packing a house.

The Rangers did find the win column against Oakland, and we got our 10,000 steps in. The new stadium is all about dollars and a little light on the sense. Were it simply a matter of a professional baseball facility, it wouldn’t have been built. They already had a great one. Davis and the Rangers are gon na have to step up their game if they want any more of this family’s money.

This column reflects the opinions of the au thor and not the Fort Worth Weekly. To sub mit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly.com. Col umns will be gently edited for factuality, clarity, and concision.

MUSIC

London Calling

With tons of streams overseas (especially the U.K.), Cavono — the local pop singer-songwriter, PI, and martial artist (!) — has a lot to say.

BY STEVE STEWARD

I don’t know how else to put this, but when you glance at Cavono’s Instagram bio, he al most sounds like the protagonist in an ’80s anime series.

“Songwriter, Singer, Ex-Martial Artist,” it reads, and when you see him in person, that perception is difficult to shake. He is tall,

lithe, and handsome, with a ponytail, mus tache, and goatee that suggest he might have stepped out of a hypothetical remake of Ice Pirates or a futuristic Song of Ice and Fire show about the Velaryons and set in the 2060s.

He is fascinating and mysterious, schooled in self-defense since the age of 7, and is em ployed by a private investigation firm.

Well, that and a pharmacy. And a bar. As extraordinary as a pop-singing martial artist who may or may not follow suspicious char acters for work sounds, Cavono is the nom de guerre (and middle name) of London Morris, who, in addition to the PI work and a parttime gig at a chain drugstore, moonlights at the Boiled Owl Tavern (where I also work) as security. Even his side-job sounds kind of ex citing, so if all of that together stretches your threshold of believability, I will attest to hav ing seen him casually kick the air almost a foot higher than his head, and I’ve also heard him sing, and I was amazed in both instances. And while I wasn’t there, he showed some of the Boiled Owl staff how to make throwing darts out of paper clips. The video I saw of it proved they were surprisingly effective.

I should also note that when he per formed at the Owl a couple weeks ago — his third show ever — he packed the house, yet long before Cavono took to the mic that night, there was just London, a sub urban kid born in the mid-’80s about an hour southwest of Chicago, growing up in a village called Robbins, whose early 2000s population hovered around 6,660. Wanting more out of life than the inevitable stereo typing one gets from such a place, he moved to Hyde Park, on the Windy City’s South

Cavono: “I think my voice is like if John Legend and Billie Eilish had a baby.”

Side, when he was 19. The move to the city ended up being exactly what he’d hoped for.

“I met friends, and I helped them get places,” he said, “and they were like, ‘You should stay here,’ and that was the begin ning of me being an adult.”

You might say that the road from Lon don Morris to Cavono started with this

move, and, yeah, I know that “small town kid who took taekwondo for two years be fore branching into ninjitsu for almost 20 years moves to the big city and eventually becomes a pop singer/private investigator” is basically a heroic journey trope, and if it were an anime, I would kind of expect the

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music that plays over the credits to sound a lot like the music Cavono makes. Would I watch this movie? Fuck, yeah, I would. Especially for that hypothetical jam played during the hypothetical credits.

Eventually, in 2013, Morris’ family moved to Texas, so he joined them. He got jobs here, met new people, made new friends. The years passed, he started dating a concert pianist named Jose, and the two got a house. And during all of this, he discovered karaoke. That Cavono’s musical origins are root ed in karaoke also seems like a detail from an anime series, but still, that’s where his career as a singer began.

“I met Will Roth, who was running ka raoke at Urban Cowboy,” Cavono said. “I’d never done it before.”

This was in 2015, and after some initial hesitation, he steeled himself and belted out Elvis’ “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” He was

instantly hooked.

“The butterflies went away instantly,” he said. “It was the weirdest thing. I was so scared, and then I wasn’t. I went up there every week, and I spent my time at home learning all these random songs.”

He sang karaoke for years, and all the while Roth and other friends encouraged him to write his own material. Finally, in 2021, he gave it a shot, releasing an album that August.

“I knew I didn’t want a band, because my time is very limited, and I didn’t want to have to wait on someone to get a babysitter or whatever,” he said.

He knew he didn’t want to be another solo guy playing guitar, and he wasn’t interest ed in Americana or folk music anyway. “In my mind, I thought I could be a cover artist, but that sounded boring. And I have a lot to say.”

Cavono says his very first song, “Glass,” blew up in the U.K. and also Brazil, draw ing some surprising, respectable streaming numbers for a new artist with very little promotion other than organic social media shares. Cavono makes sense of it because

“Glass” is “dark and depressing,” ergo moody pop must go over well with people living beneath the melancholy gray of Brit ish skies. And over the past year and a half, he’s continued to work on new singles, layer ing his bass-baritone over mid-tempo EDM and synth-heavy ballads. He does cop to his lack of musical training, but Jose, a music professor at TCC, has helped him learn the basics of theory and composition.

Cavono also gets an assist from Roth (who himself is part of a synth-wave project called VYLIT), who runs Cavono’s sound at his live shows. Otherwise, Cavono writes all of his own material, using instrumental tracks from a producer’s library. He said his favorite music is early 2000s emo bands like New Found Glory and Panic! at the Disco,

which, if you change the clothes and make the drums and guitars sound a lot more electronically processed, is, essentially, pop music. And Cavono does have a lot to say. In a way, making music is the goal of the quest he began in Hyde Park.

“I think my voice is like if John Legend and Billie Eilish had a baby, very dark, sul try,” he said. “I write about past experiences. My song ‘Rewind’ is a very poppy, dance-y song, but it’s about domestic violence.”

His job as a door guy at a bar has turned him into a shrewd observer of human be havior. “It’s things I see at the bar, work ing the door. It’s like, y’know, that’s the 40th time I’ve heard that rumor. I should probably write about it. … I know there’s someone who can relate to what I’m singing about who would like someone to say it. … I want to be that light for someone who’s go ing through something.”

Judging by the way his performance resonated with the crowd at the Boiled Owl, Cavono is the pop hero a lot of people have been looking for. l

SCREEN

Goddamn Amsterdam

The first post-Jan. 6 movie is this scattered 1930s satire.

BY KRISTIAN LIN

For somewhat understandable reasons, the filmmakers and studio behind Amsterdam have buried the lede. This period satire is about a group of right-wing greedheads launching a plot to dupe America’s military veterans into overthrowing a properly elected president of the United States and installing a dictator. Depend ing on who you believe, it’s also what happened in real life in 1933 as well as 2021. That makes David O. Russell’s madcap adventure into the first post-Jan. 6 movie, and despite its moments, it could have been much more of our moment.

The film starts in New York, where Burt Berendsen (Christian Bale) is a cosmetic surgeon with one eye, a suspended medical license, a wor rying tendency to dip into his stash of pain med

ications, and a mission to fix up disfigured World War I veterans like himself. He’s summoned by Army buddy and Columbia-trained lawyer Har old Woodman (John David Washington) to per form an emergency autopsy on an Army general (Ed Begley Jr.), commissioned by the dead man’s daughter (Taylor Swift), who thinks he was poi soned on his recent trip to Europe. Their client is right, but she herself is murdered while Burt and Harold are telling her this, and her killer (Tim othy Olyphant) fingers them for the crime. The fugitives turn to Valerie Vose (Margot Robbie), the nurse with sidelights in art photography and foreign espionage who patched them up during the war and lived a bohemian life with them in the Dutch capital. The three friends investigate the double homicide and find out it’s only the tip of an international conspiracy.

At the center of the plot is a Marine general (Robert De Niro) based on Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, who testified to Congress that big-busi

ness CEOs had approached him to lead 500,000 veterans in a coup against President Roosevelt. The film takes more than 90 of its 134 minutes to reach its hook. Before that, Russell throws plot developments and revelations at our heroes that confuse us as much as them, and too often he leaves us wondering what he’s yammering on about instead of drawing us in. Even after the movie reveals its villains, the climactic se quence at a veterans’ reunion drags on forever, and a brawl between our heroes and American Nazis can’t save it.

As in his previous movies, Russell cuts the proceedings with comedy, which here translates to characters singing and falling down for no reason and one guy having a drink tossed in his face by a random passerby. The director’s an archic energy papers over some cracks, as does his deluxe cast (Mike Myers and Michael Shan non as an odd couple of British and American spy chiefs, Rami Malek and Anya Taylor-Joy as

Valerie’s controlling brother and sister-in-law, Chris Rock as Burt and Harold’s soldier friend), but in the context of a detective story, Russell’s lack of focus is just frustrating. Great acting was the distinguishing feature of Russell’s best movies Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle. The three leads here aren’t bad, but all of them have been better elsewhere. The in terracial romance between Harold and Valerie, which is illegal in America at the time the story takes place, doesn’t pull its weight, either.

Russell has so far escaped the wrath of #MeToo despite allegations of abusing his cast and crew on his movie’s sets and sexually abusing his niece, which is worse than yelling obscenities at Lily Tomlin. This has continued despite his assurances that his mental troubles are all in the past, and Valerie finding out that she’s being poisoned through her psychiatric meds makes me wonder if Russell has gone off his. I detect an off-putting note of self-pity in his identification with De Niro’s character as some misunderstood hero who’s smeared by the press. (The real-life Butler was treated this way because he presented no evidence of the fascist plot, though some of his testimony was later borne out.) The director wants us to root for its heroes to escape America to a place where love and creativity can flourish, and even if you don’t know about Russell’s past, this part of the movie doesn’t land. I do know about it, and I find it hard to take from a guy who I’d say has a 36% chance of going QAnon in the near future. I’m tempted to adopt conservative trolls’ tactics and tell you to see this movie just to own them. I’m better than them, though — I know, not a high bar to clear — so I’m compelled to admit that Amsterdam is done in by its flaws in concep tion and execution. l

Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Mike Myers, and Michael Shannon fight fascism in Amsterdam.

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND PRELIMINARY DECISION FOR AN AIR QUALITY PERMIT

PROPOSED PERMIT NUMBER: 168065

APPLICATION AND PRELIMINARY DECISION. PowerSecure, Inc., 4068 Stirrup Creek Dr, Durham, NC 27703-9000, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for issuance of Proposed Air Quality Permit Number 168065, which would authorize construction of two electric power generators located at 1600 W Arbrook Blvd, Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas 76015. This application was submitted to the TCEQ on February 25, 2022. The proposed facility will emit the following contaminants: carbon monoxide, hazardous air pollutants, nitrogen oxides, organic compounds, particulate matter including particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less, sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid mist.

The executive director has completed the technical review of the application and prepared a draft permit which, if approved, would establish the conditions under which the facility must operate. The executive director has made a preliminary decision to issue the permit because it meets all rules and regulations. The permit application, executive director’s preliminary decision, and draft permit will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and at Arlington Public Library Southwest Branch, 3311 South West Green Oaks Boulevard, Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas, beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review at the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Office, 2309 Gravel Dr, Fort Worth, Texas.

PUBLIC COMMENT/PUBLIC MEETING. You may submit public comments or request a public meeting about this application. The purpose of a public meeting is to provide the opportunity to submit comment or to ask questions about the application. The TCEQ will hold a public meeting if the executive director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not a contested case hearing. You may submit additional written public comments within 30 days of the date of newspaper publication of this notice in the manner set forth in the AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION paragraph below.

RESPONSE TO COMMENTS AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ACTION. After the deadline for public comments, the executive director will consider the comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material or significant public comments. Because no timely hearing requests have been received, after preparing the response to comments, the executive director may then issue final approval of the application. The response to comments, along with the executive director’s decision on the application will be mailed to everyone who submitted public comments or is on a mailing list for this application, and will be posted electronically to the Commissioners’ Integrated Database (CID).

INFORMATION AVAILABLE ONLINE. When they become available, the executive director’s response to comments and the final decision on this application will be accessible through the Commission’s Web site at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cid. Once you have access to the CID using the above link, enter the permit number for this application which is provided at the top of this notice. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility’s general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to application. http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/hb610/index.html?lat=32.683611&lng=97.136666&zoom=13&type=r.

MAILING LIST. You may ask to be placed on a mailing list to obtain additional information on this application by sending a request to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below.

AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION. Public comments and requests must be submitted either electronically at www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/, or in writing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087. Please be aware that any contact information you provide, including your name, phone number, email address and physical address will become part of the agency’s public record. For more information about this permit application or the permitting process, please call the Public Education Program toll free at 18006874040. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040.

Further information may also be obtained from PowerSecure, Inc. at the address stated above or by calling Ms. Rachel Henn, Consulting Engineer at (281) 201-1244.

Texas Commission on environmenTal QualiTy

EXAMPLE A

NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND PRELIMINARY DECISION FOR AN AIR QUALITY PERMIT

PROPOSED PERMIT NUMBER: 168066

APPLICATION AND PRELIMINARY DECISION. PowerSecure, Inc., 4068 Stirrup Creek Dr, Durham, NC 27703-9000, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for issuance of Proposed Air Quality Permit Number 168066, which would authorize construction of two Electric Power Generators locat ed at 1401 W Glade Rd, Euless, Tarrant County, Texas 76039. This application was submitted to the TCEQ on February 25, 2022. The proposed facility will emit the following contaminants: carbon monoxide, hazardous air pollutants, nitrogen oxides, organic compounds, particulate matter including particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less, sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid mist.

The executive director has completed the technical review of the application and prepared a draft permit which, if approved, would establish the conditions under which the facility must operate. The executive director has made a preliminary decision to issue the permit because it meets all rules and regulations. The permit applica tion, executive director’s preliminary decision, and draft permit will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and at Fort Worth Public Library Riverside Branch, 2913 Yucca Avenue, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review at the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Office, 2309 Gravel Dr, Fort Worth, Texas.

PUBLIC COMMENT/PUBLIC MEETING. You may submit public comments or request a public meeting about this application. The purpose of a public meeting is to provide the opportunity to submit comment or to ask questions about the application. The TCEQ will hold a public meeting if the executive director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not a contested case hearing. You may submit additional written public comments within 30 days of the date of newspaper publication of this notice in the manner set forth in the AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION paragraph below.

RESPONSE TO COMMENTS AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ACTION. After the deadline for public com ments, the executive director will consider the comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material or significant public comments. Because no timely hearing requests have been received, after preparing the response to comments, the executive director may then issue final approval of the application. The response to comments, along with the executive director’s decision on the application will be mailed to everyone who submitted public comments or is on a mailing list for this application, and will be posted electronically to the Commissioners’ Integrated Database (CID).

INFORMATION AVAILABLE ONLINE. When they become available, the executive director’s response to comments and the final decision on this application will be accessible through the Commission’s Web site at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cid. Once you have access to the CID using the above link, enter the permit number for this application which is provided at the top of this notice. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility’s general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For ex act location, refer to application. http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/hb610/index.html?lat=32.880277&lng=-97.105&zoom=13&type=r.

MAILING LIST. You may ask to be placed on a mailing list to obtain additional information on this application by sending a request to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below.

AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION. Public comments and requests must be submitted either elec tronically at www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/, or in writing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087. Please be aware that any contact information you provide, including your name, phone number, email address and physical address will become part of the agency’s public record. For more information about this permit application or the per mitting process, please call the Public Education Program toll free at 18006874040. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040.

Further information may also be obtained from PowerSecure, Inc. at the address stated above or by calling Ms. Rachel Henn, Consulting Engineer at (281) 201-1244.

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Texas Commission on environmenTal QualiTy

EXAMPLE A

NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND PRELIMINARY DECISION FOR AN AIR QUALITY PERMIT

PROPOSED PERMIT NUMBER: 168096

APPLICATION AND PRELIMINARY DECISION. PowerSecure, Inc., 4068 Stirrup Creek Drive, Durham, NC 27703-9000, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for issuance of Proposed Air Quality Permit Number 168096, which would authorize construction of an Electric Power Generation unit at Target Store No 1514 located at 8532 Davis Boulevard, North Richland Hills, Tarrant County, Texas 76182. This applica tion was submitted to the TCEQ on February 25, 2022. The proposed facility will emit the following contaminants: carbon monoxide, hazardous air pollutants, nitrogen oxides, organic compounds, particulate matter including par ticulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less, sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid mist.

The executive director has completed the technical review of the application and prepared a draft permit which, if approved, would establish the conditions under which the facility must operate. The executive director has made a preliminary decision to issue the permit because it meets all rules and regulations. The permit applica tion, executive director’s preliminary decision, and draft permit will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and at the Fort Worth Public Library Riverside Branch, 2913 Yucca Avenue, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review at the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Office, 2309 Gravel Drive, Fort Worth, Texas.

PUBLIC COMMENT/PUBLIC MEETING. You may submit public comments or request a public meeting about this application. The purpose of a public meeting is to provide the opportunity to submit comment or to ask questions about the application. The TCEQ will hold a public meeting if the executive director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not a contested case hearing. You may submit additional written public comments within 30 days of the date of newspaper publication of this notice in the manner set forth in the AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION paragraph below.

RESPONSE TO COMMENTS AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ACTION. After the deadline for public com ments, the executive director will consider the comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material or significant public comments. Because no timely hearing requests have been received, after preparing the response to comments, the executive director may then issue final approval of the application. The response to comments, along with the executive director’s decision on the application will be mailed to everyone who submitted public comments or is on a mailing list for this application, and will be posted electronically to the Commissioners’ Integrated Database (CID).

INFORMATION AVAILABLE ONLINE. When they become available, the executive director’s response to comments and the final decision on this application will be accessible through the Commission’s Web site at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cid. Once you have access to the CID using the above link, enter the permit number for this application which is provided at the top of this notice. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility’s general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For ex act location, refer to application. http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/hb610/index.html?lat=32.908333&lng=-97.188055&zoom=13&type=r.

MAILING LIST. You may ask to be placed on a mailing list to obtain additional information on this application by sending a request to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below.

AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION. Public comments and requests must be submitted either elec tronically at www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/, or in writing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087. Please be aware that any contact information you provide, including your name, phone number, email address and physical address will become part of the agency’s public record. For more information about this permit application or the per mitting process, please call the Public Education Program toll free at 18006874040. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040.

Further information may also be obtained from PowerSecure, Inc. at the address stated above or by calling Mr. Frank Dougherty, Consulting Engineer at (610) 933-5246 x302.

Texas Commission on environmenTal QualiTy

EXAMPLE A

NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND PRELIMINARY DECISION FOR AN AIR QUALITY PERMIT

PROPOSED PERMIT NUMBER: 168068

APPLICATION AND PRELIMINARY DECISION. PowerSecure, Inc., 4068 Stirrup Creek Drive, Durham, NC 27703-9000, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for issuance of Proposed Air Quality Permit Number 168068, which would authorize construction of two Electric Power Generators lo cated at 1801 Highway 287 North, Mansfield, Tarrant County, Texas 76063. This application was submitted to the TCEQ on February 25, 2022. The proposed facility will emit the following contaminants: carbon monoxide, hazardous air pollutants, sulfuric acid, nitrogen oxides, organic compounds, particulate matter including partic ulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less and sulfur dioxide.

The executive director has completed the technical review of the application and prepared a draft permit which, if approved, would establish the conditions under which the facility must operate. The executive director has made a preliminary decision to issue the permit because it meets all rules and regulations. The permit applica tion, executive director’s preliminary decision, and draft permit will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and at the Fort Worth Public Library Riverside Branch, 2913 Yucca Avenue, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review at the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Office, 2309 Gravel Dr, Fort Worth, Texas.

PUBLIC COMMENT/PUBLIC MEETING. You may submit public comments or request a public meeting about this application. The purpose of a public meeting is to provide the opportunity to submit comment or to ask questions about the application. The TCEQ will hold a public meeting if the executive director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not a contested case hearing. You may submit additional written public comments within 30 days of the date of newspaper publication of this notice in the manner set forth in the AGENCY CON TACTS AND INFORMATION paragraph below.

RESPONSE TO COMMENTS AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ACTION. After the deadline for public com ments, the executive director will consider the comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material or significant public comments. Because no timely hearing requests have been received, after preparing the response to comments, the executive director may then issue final approval of the application. The response to comments, along with the executive director’s decision on the application will be mailed to everyone who submitted public comments or is on a mailing list for this application, and will be posted electron ically to the Commissioners’ Integrated Database (CID).

INFORMATION AVAILABLE ONLINE. When they become available, the executive director’s response to comments and the final decision on this application will be accessible through the Commission’s Web site at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cid. Once you have access to the CID using the above link, enter the permit number for this application which is provided at the top of this notice. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility’s general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to application. http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/hb610/index.html?lat=32.59&lng=-97.144444&zoom=13&type=r.

MAILING LIST. You may ask to be placed on a mailing list to obtain additional information on this application by sending a request to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address

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