Catrina
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BY PATRICK HIGGINS
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Not Joker-ing
The musical format is not the only problem with this sequel.
By Kristian Lin
Undercooked
Tia’s on the Bluff looks great but needs more time for the food to catch up.
By Christina Berger
Wild Western Festival
CONTRIBUTORS
Christina Berger, E.R. Bills, Jason Brimmer, Buck D. Elliott, Juan R. Govea, Patrick Higgins, Laurie James, Kristian Lin, Cody Neathery, Wyatt Newquist, Steve Steward, Teri Webster, Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue, Elaine Wilder, Cole Williams
EDITORIAL BOARD
Laurie James, Anthony Mariani, Emmy Smith, Steve Steward
By Steve Steward
To celebrate the release of his most soulful work to date, the Grammy winner returns to play to his largest hometown crowd yet.
BY PATRICK HIGGINS
Nostalgia has been a steady part of Leon Bridges’ appeal since his incredible rise began nearly 10 years ago. The Fort Worth native broke into the national consciousness with his sleek vintage fashions and the Sam Cooke-era doowop of Coming Home in 2015. On that debut album, he leaned heavily into ’50s-style soda shop sing-alongs, even adopting some of the slightly overdriven ribbon mic sound of the time for the album’s recording, which helped illustrate an image of a young man bearing a very old sold.
Though he quickly departed from those initial post-war Bakelite-pressed sonics, spreading out comfortably into his own blend of modern R&B, pop, and jazz-tinged soul, Bridges has retained an undefinable worn-in and timeless quality to his music that has always seemed essential to his oeuvre. On his latest studio album, that thread of nostalgia which has always pervaded his aesthetic — via vintage high-fashion threads, rolled-off guitar and keyboard tones, warm production, and his honey-smooth vocals — has been drawn from his life instead of some specific bygone time period.
On Leon, Bridges offers a sentimental and self-reflective collection of vibey, laidback soul tracks which functions both as a memoir of sorts as well as a love letter to his hometown. In a recent post, Bridges described his fourth studio album as a “journey through my childhood memories and
all the things I hold dear in this life — my roots, my upbringing, family, simple times and hard times, and everything about Texas that makes home so special to me.”
A listen confirms Bridges’ heartfelt inspiration and how successfully he manages to do it justice. Across the 13 tracks, from the slow keyboard swell of opener “When a Man Cries” to the cascading orchestral peak of closer “God Loves Everyone,” Bridges takes the listener through a series of tender vignettes and emotional set pieces that paint a vivid picture of a man and the myriad pieces he’s composed of more effectively than any work he’s done prior.
To date, Bridges’ image, with his enviably cool retro flash, has seemingly carried equal weight to the man as an artist. Leon removes the artifice and leaves bare an earnest and honest portrayal of the real person residing behind the visage. We follow along with him as he recounts summer days in Trinity Park and the innocence of playing video games as a child on “Panther City,” his first and his most timeless loves on “Ain’t Got Nothing on You,” and a yearning for the uncomplicated life of youth on “Simplify.”
Whereas 2018’s Good Thing was about musical exploration after a potentially pigeon-holing first effort and 2021’s GoldDiggers Sound served up an aurum-tinged sexual strut, Leon — musically — stands as maturely as the perspective of its subject matter. There’s a stripped-down sense to the production of Ian Fitchuk (Kacey Musgraves, Maggie Rogers) and Daniel Tashian (Tenille Townes, Rainbow Kitten Surprise), with a focus on simple analog instruments like piano, acoustic guitar, and plaintive pedal steel, supported by lush Motown string beds. It seems likely that the location of El Desierto Studios just outside of Mexico, where tracking was done, found its way into some of the songs as both “Laredo” and Peaceful Place,” each released as singles to tease the record last month, contain some Latin-esque rhythmic stylings.
Though containing no so-called “bangers” (the tone of the record is almost exclusively relaxed), the record makes up for a lack of danceable beats with an ocean of emotional weight that the sparse (by comparison) instrumentation bears with the stability of a Florentine buttress, holding high Bridges’ earnest vocal delivery. Never one to strut with his understated singing style, always avoiding unnecessary flourish, there’s a directness with which he sings on this record that adds to its sincerity. Leon is
an achievement of an album that harks to the precocious and venerable timelessness that has always been the underlying bedrock of Bridges’ music. It belies a wisdom that usually comes from looking back on a decades-long career, not one that hasn’t even crossed the 10-year threshold. It is his best work yet.
To celebrate the release of the album, Bridges has been touring smaller, handpicked listening rooms to highlight the intimacy of Leon. However, a comfy,
Leon is an achievement of an album that harks to the precocious and venerable timelessness that has always been the underlying bedrock of Bridges’ music.
varnished-brass theater would not hold his highly anticipated homecoming that will conclude on November 15. The finale of his tour will be at Dickies Arena and will promise the largest crowd he’s ever played to in the town he still calls home. (At least half of the year. The other half is spent in L.A.) Support for the show will be provided by the enthralling desert-soundtrack guitar instrumentation of Hermanos Gutiérrez and a fellow Texas native, classic country revivalist Charlie Crockett. l
The fourth, self-titled album from the Grammy-winning artist is about the innocence and simplicity of youth and a love for home.
Jack Bool
Leon Bridges 7pm Fri, Nov 15, w/Hermanos Gutiérrez and Charlie Crockett at Dickies Arena, 1911 Montgomery St, FW. $46.50+. 817-402-9000.
Reset
If
Mayor Mattie Parker went after Abbott and his voucher lovers instead of FWISD’s super, maybe the district would finally thrive.
BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD
It was almost two years ago exactly that we announced the arrival of Dr. Angelica Ramsey, who was the lone finalist in Fort Worth ISD’s search for a new superintendent. In what feels like the blink of an eye, the board and Ramsey have agreed to part ways. Ramsey’s buyout is just shy of $1 million as she was signed for a five-year contract the board is paying her not to fulfill.
METROPOLIS
Academic data paints our local district as lagging behind other comparably large urban districts like Dallas’ and Houston’s, though any seasoned educator knows you can interpret data to paint any tale that you’d like it to. Ramsey’s departure is not a surprise.
In late August, Mayor Mattie Parker posted an open letter challenging the district and school board to improve. Through a bulleted list that included audits, goal-setting, the “strategic allocation” of existing bond funds, and other partially actionable jargon that teachers themselves are familiar with because it’s garden-variety b.s., Parker cc’d a list of local and civic leaders who pledged their resources and support to make Fort Worth the best urban district in the nation.
We all want to believe Parker has good intentions, and while she didn’t directly call for Ramsey’s dismissal, the public disappointment of the district caused the board to kick the scapegoating of the then-current super into overdrive to prove they were doing something. Congratulations. Y’all spent a million bucks to stop someone from working. The board just named an
Almost any school district could improve with fewer restrictions on teachers, better funding, and more community support.
interim, former Deputy Superintendent Karen Molinar, by unanimous vote, so now the formal search process has begun, and there’ll be a new official boss by the next school year to blame for failures of our state and community.
Parker telling the district to make improvements is a bit like someone who owns a Tesla calling Elon Musk and demanding the product and stock prices improve. Oh, in this scenario, the superior to whom the awkward man-child EV enthusiast answers is the governor of Texas, who won’t help build any infrastructure for electric cars or give you any tax breaks, but you can’t threaten to quit because you wouldn’t be able to pay for
your own house and keep your livelihood. It would seem a little disingenuous, right?
Gov. Greg Abbott, who endorsed Parker, hasn’t been shy about holding increases in educational funding at gunpoint. (See what we did there?) Because Republican legislators will sue to let you carry a firearm at the State Fair but won’t allocate a massive budget surplus to public education, Texas public schools have been hamstrung. Abbott continually fails to pass his educational voucher agenda while prostituting himself to out-of-state donors to funnel public funds to Texas’ private and religious sectors. Parker, if acting in good continued on page 7
faith, should be pressuring the governor to release those funds to districts for better teacher pay, materials, and facilities, as well as requisite security enhancements to campuses, but we understand why she doesn’t, because if the mayor publicly called out the governor for continuing the well-documented Republican agenda of dismantling public education, she’d be Ramsey’d and looking for a new job herself.
Many rural GOP lawmakers who held the line with Democrats against Abbott’s vouchers were subject to fierce attacks by the governor in their midterms as retribution for thinking about their constituents instead of his theocratic priorities of lining his personal campaign checkbook for Jay-zus. Forgive us if the mayor’s ultimatum to the district feels hollow, but it’s akin to walking into your house at the end of the day to find a ransacked living room and your spouse crying on the floor. It would probably just be best to hug them and start picking things up rather than explaining in cold legalese the state of the house and posting on Facebook the problem you’re going to help with rather than just doing it.
In a recent interview, Parker said she’d talked with master teachers in the district who were frustrated with the administration and bureaucracy surrounding their
instruction. Guess what? Administrators jump through the traps and red tape set by the politicians, who pay millions to evaluate our public educators based on testing and
performance data. Parker also pointed to schools that are under-enrolled and may require consolidation, and that it is on the board, as well as city leaders, to figure
out how to utilize facilities to the greatest benefit of specific neighborhoods. This is all politician-talk, but truthfully, if Fort Worth ISD is failing, it’s symptomatic of a failing city whose residents have spent too long judging from afar, insulating themselves from certain neighborhoods, and blaming those who are actually doing the hard and thankless but most important work.
Almost any school district could improve with fewer restrictions on teachers, better funding, and more community support. Parker and those who challenged the district to improve can help with all of those but primarily by exercising their political influence with those they share rooms with that others are not privy to. It’s only marginally important who the next superintendent of Fort Worth is, because they’ll inherit all of the same problems that Ramsey — and everyone else — cannot solve. Parker, as well as our state representatives, will have a chance to really support the students, families, and communities they represent in Austin starting in January. Will they? Probably not, but there’s a distinct chance they’ll vote next legislative session for wealthy parents patronizing our local private schools to receive a tax-break handout they don’t really need.
This column reflects the opinions of the editorial board and not the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly. com. He will gently edit it for clarity and concision.
In a recent interview, Mayor Mattie Parker spoke politically, while, in plainspeak, she along with other civic leaders and the entire community are why Fort Worth schools are failing.
A Time of Loss
Grief
can be messy, and Frog fans are working through the various stages while reconciling
with this year’s team.
BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT
It’s time for a therapy session. College football followers at large are mentally unwell, but Horned Frog fans, specifically, are fragile right now. Full disclosure: I wrote an entire piece on the failures of the players, coaches, mindset, scheme, and execution regarding Friday night’s loss to the not-sohapless Houston Cougars, but something about publishing it didn’t feel right, because it’s nothing that hasn’t been recently written by me, other local pundits, or even the national media about TCU’s meteoric rise and subsequent plummet since their national title appearance two seasons ago.
I’m no doctor, but I’m married to one, so I deem myself qualified to walk followers of the Frog through the process of loss — not an on-field L, mind you, but the loss of hope, identity, and pride. It began with the loss to Georgia in the national title game of 2022. During a season in which lightning continued to strike, stars aligned, and Hypnotoad seemed to be fulfilling a destiny paid for by numerous seasons of solid performances and being little-brothered by
the national conversation, the historic shellacking at the jaws of the Bulldogs was akin to turning on the house lights and drawing back the curtain at a magician’s showcase: Exposed were every trapdoor, fishing wire, and sleight of hand, and it was embarrassing. Sonny Dykes’ psyche doesn’t seem to have recovered.
Fast-forward through one losing season as a letdown and onto the next that seems that it may go the same, and fanatics have to admit where we are in the progression of grief. If you’re an elder or regular millennial, then you’ve always been rooting for an underdog, hungry to be taken seriously. Ever since TCU’s relegation to the mid-majors when the Southwest Conference disbanded, purple students, players, and university stakeholders have been eager to prove the powers that be that they made a monumental mistake. Gary Patterson along with some special seasons did that, and now the Frogs aren’t an underdog anymore, and the role hasn’t meshed with the team thus far. In fact, the Frogs had been one of the most consistently winning programs in the state, and now we might be the worst one in a major conference.
To add insult to misery, two of TCU’s most disliked rivals — UT and SMU — are
having special seasons in new-to-them conferences thus far. The Longhorns are sitting as the Associated Press top team, and the Mustangs cleared a major hurdle this weekend by beating ranked Louisville. Now they’re in the national rankings and control their own destiny toward reaching the ACC title game and a possible automatic bid to the newly expanded playoff.
Even as the Frogs are passed over, local pride could abound. When TCU and Baylor meet in this year’s Revivalry at the end of the season, it’ll essentially be to decide the worst and second-worst major football programs in the Lone Star State, two squads who enjoyed tremendous recent success under their current coaches. Maybe a swap is in order. Crazier things have happened.
Fans booed their Frogs — or just the coaches, but probably both — on Friday night. Not an action I condone, but supporters are demonstrably frustrated. Last week, I firmly believed that Dykes would still be the coach next season no matter what, but I’m questioning that as well now. Kendal Briles is gone — not officially — but you can take that prop bet to Vegas with confidence. Coaches, unless you’re at a majorly dysfunctional school with unrealistic boosters, are usually guaranteed three years to show improvement.
Dykes’ situation is bizarre for two reasons: His first season was historic, and it’s already a different football era from the national championship run just two years ago. Teams were formerly cyclical. They would recruit young talent and develop them, and sometimes — even if they knew what they were doing — there’d be a bumpy year but signs pointing to coming maturity and experience as the reward for patience. That progression is history. Schools must reload to be competitive, because if they’re not, their best players aren’t going to wait around. They’ll just go somewhere offering more money and hopefully exposure through winning. Coaches must win to be relevant, and stay that way, and TCU isn’t. When Dykes was hired, it was thought that his players-first mentality and a softer hand than Coach Patterson would be a better fit for the shifting meta of college football, but his greatest success came with a roster primarily of what are now hardened dinosaurs. Dykes and Garrett Riley didn’t even choose Max Duggan to start in that magical season. It manifested as an advantageous accident. If Chandler Morris hadn’t fallen injured, it could have been seven or eight wins and a lot of “This new coach is pretty good” from everyone.
Perhaps the most troubling issue is that it doesn’t seem the team, and definitely not us supporters, know what the Horned Frog identity is anymore, other than a squad who can beat only other bad teams, sometimes. The aforementioned is a tragedy, and damning to the staff, because there’s a tremendous quantity of currently squandered talent on the roster.
I don’t know that Sonny Dykes will be fired this season and am not confident that I want him to be. But this team has to recover and recreate a sense of identity to invite fans back to their corner and be able to go toeto-toe with better teams, and I’m not really sure Dykes can create that. Sadly, I don’t know if he does, either.
TCU football has two weeks to complete their own soul-searching and decide who they can and want to be. They’ll travel to face now 16th-ranked Utah in a clash of old Mountain West rivals in a game Utes Coach Kyle Whittingham is no doubt relieved to be missing Patterson sweating profusely on the opposite sideline. Dykes will need to leave a lasting impression in Utah to start rewriting the narrative of a coach who has lost the team as well as the support of the community. l
Not even the mighty Jack Bech could help TCU overcome four turnovers during their loss against Houston on Friday night.
Courtesy TCU Athletics
SCREEN
Put on a Happy Face
I hate the sequel less than I hated the original Joker.
BY KRISTIAN LIN
I didn’t weigh in on 2019’s Joker when it came out because I didn’t see it until the end of that year for awards consideration. When I did, I read the review that ran in our pages and agreed with pretty much everything we wrote about Todd Phillips’ supervillain movie. This week, the sequel Joker: Folie à Deux replaces the original’s action sequences with musical numbers and demonstrates some isolated glints of awareness as to why the original is so hated. They’re only glints, though. A more intellectually disciplined filmmaker than Phillips would have made this more of a corrective to the first movie, but then, if he’d been more disciplined, the original film wouldn’t have needed correcting in the first place. The sequel does earn itself a half-measure of redemption for the original but only a half-measure.
The sequel mostly takes place at Arkham State Hospital, where Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) awaits trial for the murders he committed in the first movie. Since he has been a model prisoner, the guards let him take a music class with the inmates in the minimum-security wing, which includes psychotic patient Lee Quinzel (Lady Gaga). She has been in love with Arthur ever since she watched him kill Maury Franklin on live TV, and she declares her love first by
singing “Get Happy” to him and then by setting Arkham’s music room on fire. Once Lee somehow secures her release from the asylum, she starts interfering with his attorney (Catherine Keener), who’s attempting to mount an insanity defense for him.
The songs here are Broadway and jazz standards, and they do help somewhat to make this sequel less depressing than the original. However, Phillips doesn’t do enough to distinguish between the numbers that are taking place in the characters’ minds (Arthur bursting into “For Once in My Life” while his fellow inmates taunt him about the possibility of execution) and the ones in their reality (Lee visiting Arthur in prison and singing “(They Long to Be) Close to You” through the bars). The vocal performances by Phoenix and Gaga are good but only rarely carry the emotions of the story, as when Arthur tries to woo Lee back by singing “If You Go Away” into her answering machine. That number shows the difference between a great singing actor and
a great singer, as Lady Gaga is secure in the songs, but her attempt to make Lee a figure of pathos keeps her from showing the blazing presence from her previous two films.
Nor does Phillips do much to illustrate how these numbers are springing from the two main characters’ disintegrating minds. It’s possible to make a successful musical out of an unremittingly bleak story — think Pennies from Heaven or Dancer in the Dark, with their numbers lighting up the general gloom — but it helps when the numbers soar cinematically. Phillips stages them competently but never reaches those heights, and his best use of musical tropes is near the end at the staircase where Joker first danced onto the scene, as Arthur runs up toward Lee and the streetlamps flick on as he runs by. Our knowledge that their bad romance is already through undercuts the magic of the visual.
The movie could have used some of the cynical
glee of Chicago, but it tries to grow a conscience instead. This would be admirable, but Phillips doesn’t have the ability to see it through. The closest it comes is when Gary Puddles (Leigh Gill) reappears and breaks down on the witness stand while describing how his life was wrecked by seeing his best friend turn into a killer before his eyes. It’s grimly satisfying, too, when Arthur realizes what a monster he’s created only when it’s too late for him. To get there, though, you have to sit through more misery piled on top of misery, as the Arkham guards take revenge for Arthur calling them stupid at trial by (it’s implied) raping him and then (it’s not implied) straight-up murdering a young inmate (Jacob Lofland) who idolizes the Joker. A good movie could have been made out of the elements in Joker: Folie à Deux, including the musical numbers. Unfortunately, Todd Phillips was never the guy to direct it.l
Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga’s romance is theatrically lit in Joker: Folie à Deux
Photo by Niko Tavernise
Joker: Folie à Deux
Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga. Directed by Todd Phillips. Written by Scott Silver and Todd Phillips. Rated R.
ATE DAY8 of Winning Grub
Like last week’s Big Ticket, when we showcased some readers’ choice winners from the Arts & Culture section of Best Of 2024, here are some succulent choices from Good Grub. Welcome to the Best Of ATE DAY8!
This year, the readers who voted were all about Cafecito (1229 8th Av, Fort Worth, 682-376-9749). Along with winning best Mexican food, they were also our readers’ favorite for Breakfast and Burrito. This joint is the one with the beet-infused pink tortillas. As one of our food writers mentioned last year, most of the tacos stay within the parameters of breakfast, coming with eggs, chorizo, or both, plus several optional ingredients, including Mexican potatoes, frijoles, chopped barbacoa or brisket, or ham with the pink corn or flour tortillas of your choice. Read more about this winner in “Think: Pink” at FWWeekly.com.
This is Cowtown. We do steak, and we do it well. This category is simply called “Steak” and not “Steak House” because of gems like Ashim’s Hibachi Grill (424 Taylor St, Fort Worth, 817-290-3091). Along with winning best steak from readers, Ashim’s was also catapulted to the top by our readers for Latenight Food, Margarita, and Sushi. Sounds like y’all just picked my next post-concert #DateNight.
If you’re looking for a State Fair-style fried on-a-stick sort of hot dog experience, try the Korean craze that is K-Town Hot Dogs (4940 Overton Ridge Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-386-5371), our critic’s choice for Hot Dog. Go with our readers’ pick for a chef’d up version of a traditional dog. You can find
the Big Dawgs Hot Dog Co. mobile kitchen in the parking lot of the Rusty Nickel (2836 Stanley Av, Fort Worth, 817-528-1682, @ Big_Dawgs_Hot_Dogs) on the weekends.
Expect excellent customer service when you head to brunch at Brewed (801 W Magnolia Av, Fort Worth, 817-803-4753), as our readers awarded them for both this year (Brunch and Customer Service, that is). With 33 options on the daily brunch menu alone, you might need some of that friendly help in making decisions. As for me, I love shrimp and grits, so my decision is already made. When I visit, I’ll order the Low Country Shrimp + Grits ($18) with Gulf shrimp, Serrano cheese grits, Tasso ham, red bell pepper, red onion, and a Cajun butter cream sauce.
If you were dismayed to hear that the Chuy’s chain was scooped up by the holding company of Olive Garden, the place where Italian hopes and dreams go to die, you’ll be glad to
know that Chuy’s West 7th location (2401 W 7th St, Ste 110, Fort Worth, 817-332-2489) is independently owned and, according to our loyal readers, has the best salsa in town.
#KeepItLocal
While I do love the Fudgy Cookies and M&M Bars at Swiss Pastry Shop (936 W Vickery Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-732-5661), our critic’s choice for best bakery, the readers aren’t wrong about Eduardo’s Pastry Kitchen (5950 River Oaks Blvd, Fort Worth, 214-531-4830). On a recent visit, I picked up a dozen chocolate chip pecan cookies and ate them daily for breakfast until they were all gone, leaving none for the husband. What?
Tamales! Who doesn’t love them? From fancy ones at Central Market to the local cook
who brings them to the bar at closing time, it’s all good. While our critic’s choice, Hot Damn Tamales!, no longer has a storefront, only an online option at HotDamnTamales. com (we apologize for any confusion), our readers’ choice for best tamales is ideal for a sit-down experience. Tommy Tamale Market & Cafe (750 W Bonds Ranch Rd, Ste 700, Fort Worth, 817-318-7040) does these Mexican bad boys traditionally, creatively, and well. For more info, visit TommyTamale.com.
As you probably already know, our annual Best Of awards are curated and written by fallible human beings, so we sometimes miss something or get something wrong. We included a Wildcard entry field for you readers to add to the fun. You did not disappoint. Wildcard winners include 360 Catering & Events (7455 S Hulen St, Ste 120, Fort Worth, 817-714-8996) for best catering; Sweetie’s Cheesecakes (13033 Harmon Rd, Ste 203, Fort Worth, 817-7858585) for best, well, cheesecakes; Pantry on Magnolia (713 W Magnolia Av, Fort Worth, 682-224-2381) for best dumplings; and Sam-Won Garden (5201 McCart Av, Fort Worth, 817-926-1515) for best Korean food. As for “whatever makes sense” under Donuts, that’s a joke, folks. If you get it, you get it. (Please vote.) l
By Elaine Wilder
The pink beet-infused tortillas at Cafecito are adorable and tasty.
Big Dawgs is serving up stuffed-pork glizzies like this Poppa Dawg with cheddar cheese, bacon bits, and jalapenos with a Texas Whiskey glaze and a drizzle of ranch dressing.
Courtesy Big Dawgs/Facebook
We opened up a Wildcard category on the Best Of ballot for readers to clue us in on some categories we may have missed. You did not disappoint!
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EATS & drinks
Rocky Island
A family-owned Tex-Mex cantina, Tia’s on the Bluff recently reopened after a year-long hiatus and is still working some things out.
Tia’s on the Bluff, 1301 E Bluff St, FW. 817-420-9000. 11am-9pm Sun, 5pm-11pm Thu-Fri, 11am-10pm Sat.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY CHRISTINA
BERGER
As I approached the wrought-iron gates surrounding Tia’s on the Bluff, I held my breath that maybe this time the knob would fully (finally, blessedly) turn. Rolling my eyes at my mental run-through of the entire number
“Maybe This Time” from Cabaret, I grasped the knob and … an unyielding clank followed. On my third attempt in three days to eat here, I threw my head back in exasperation. Time to find yet another nearby alternative to stay the rumbles in my tum.
For a not-quite-fully-reformed people-pleaser like me, telling the unadulterated truth (especially when it sucks) can be difficult. Will people disagree? Probably. Will they be angry? Assuredly. Will it cripple my ego? Temporarily. Should I tell the truth, knowing I might get dragged online?
Well, shit, here goes nothin’.
The truth is I wanted to like Tia’s. I’m rooting for this family-owned and -operated Tex-Mex restaurant. After all, authentic cuisine can be found in even the most unusual places: food trucks, holes in the wall, ghost kitchens … your mom’s house. *smirk emoji* If what I’ve seen online is true, the local community is rooting for Tia’s, too. With that, however, is some confusion and frustration around the hours of operation.
Maybe that’s par for the course with a small, family-run business — especially
one that’s off the beaten path and has just reopened after a year-long hiatus. With the restaurant labor shortage in North Texas, it’s understandable.
Even so, I dropped by on four separate occasions during their posted open hours before I caught it open. I discovered later that my third attempt was foiled due to a shortage of available staff. The first two closures were due to an incorrect posting on their Instagram account with expanded lunch hours.
As it turns out, the fourth time is actually the charm. I nearly kissed the ground at the sight of the wide-open gate when my continued on page 17
The family-owned Tia’s on the Bluff serves homestyle Tex-Mex out of the century-old home of the Sotelos.
The simple façade is accented by the illustrated logo, water feature, and bright umbrellas and chairs on the patio.
friends and I arrived one sunny afternoon. If not for its bright blue and red chairs and umbrellas dotting the patio that enwraps the place, the beige brick-and-stone building would blend into the scenery. Those pops of color, along with the illustration of the logo on the fence, bring a vibrance to the earthtoned exterior.
The intriguing history of the place and its owners alone drew me in and sent me on a journey of the wild interwebs. The Sotelos’ century-old family home is situated in the once-vibrant Rock Island neighborhood. Now fractured by freeways and freight lines, it’s where the family’s roots run deep in a twisty and complicated past. In the mid-2010s, the spot was transformed into the restaurant and cantina it is today. Mary Sotelo and her loved ones, blood and otherwise, have been serving homestyle Mexican fare there ever since — until last summer when they shut their doors for renovations.
It’s clear Tia’s is struggling, perhaps still working out some kinks post-reopening. Even our sweet waitress apologetically explained that she was filling in for someone else as she handed us two different versions of the menu and said the bar wasn’t full-service that day. Despite these hiccups, the service was good, and the waitress was attentive and kind.
Our group started with Modelos and chips with creamy queso blanco and spicy
salsa. (This gringa says be a little skeptical of the spice level.) Given the hot October afternoon, I opted for a refreshing, overly sweet house marg on the rocks and something light under “Tia’s Favorites.” The grilled fish tacos on corn tortillas topped with cilantro, diced tomatoes, and cheese with a side of guac mostly did the trick. The seasoning was hit or miss, but the fish was fresh with a lightly crispy outside.
There’s nothing like the sizzle of a castiron skillet filled with fajita meat and veggies emerging from the kitchen. My friend’s order of the beef version featured tender meat
that was well-cooked if a little bland, atop grilled onions and peppers. Another who ordered the beef enchiladas said that, while flavorful, the savory red sauce smothering them was heavy and greasy. The 2-year-old at our table might have been the only one whose meal warranted no notes. His chicken enchiladas were crunchy and golden on the outside and cheesy within.
I’m not here to yuck anyone’s yum. For my crew, Tia’s was neither terrible nor great. Our lunch that day was a thoroughly average dining experience with a few highlights and a few moments of “meh.” As someone who’s
eaten Mexican food in Rome (not a brag), trust me when I say it could have been much worse. With staff shortages and unannounced closures, Tia’s has a few things to hash out, and I suspect their grand opening came a bit prematurely. In time, I hope Tia’s makes a real comeback and proves me wrong. l
Tia’s beef enchiladas come smothered in a savory if slightly greasy red sauce.
Opt for the large outdoor patio as the weather cools.
The nicely done fish tacos are a featured “Tia’s Favorite.”
3rd Annual Sundance Catrina Fest Celebration of
Hispanic Heritage
Promotional Feature
Join us on Sunday, October 20th (Noon to 8 pm) for the most colorful celebration in Texas at the 3rd Annual Sundance Square Catrina Fest (including $5,000 in prizes for best Catrina costume).
Enjoy live music & entertainment from Noon to 8 pm, including a special performance by a Selena tribute band (Selena Forever), mariachi music, folklorico dancers, a local market, and food trucks. Families are welcome and there is no admission cost.
Immerse yourself in the rich cultures, colorful costumes, and festive atmosphere as we honor meaningful Mexican traditions that welcomes people from all backgrounds. Additionally, this year’s Catrina celebration will also include 10’ giant Catrina Statues made by artisans from the Feria del Alfenique in Toluca, Mexico (an international Sister City of Fort Worth).
Sundance Square Catrina Fest 2024 is presented by Sundance Square with community support by Visit Fort Worth.
Those with little ones are quite familiar with Thomas the Tank Engine, are they not? You’ll be excited (or possibly have a feeling of dread) that Grapevine Vintage Railroad is hosting a Day Out with Thomas Fri-Sun, Oct 11-13 and 18-20, at the Cotton Belt Railroad Historic District (705 S Main St, Grapevine, 817-410-3185). Take a ride with the classic storybook engine and experience “trains, games, and miles of smiles!” The rides are at various times throughout each day, and many time slots are already sold out. Purchase your tickets for $25 now at GVRR.com.
Oddly, I have other train news. As one of America’s most iconic railroads, Union Pacific retains its historical equipment and honors its storied past. Case in point: the preservation of Big Boy No. 4014. In May 2019, after a 58-year retirement and three-year restoration project, Big Boy returned to service and regained its title as the world’s largest operating steam locomotive. Now, the mighty engine is back on the rails and is on display in the Fort today and tomorrow at the Trinity Railway Express’ T&P Station (275 W Lancaster Av, Fort Worth, 817-2158600). The TRE says Big Boy can run ahead or behind schedule based on conditions. You can view information along with an interactive map tracking No. 4014’s current location at Upsteam.com. Photogs, you may want to meet up with the folks at Fort Worth Camera at their on-site tent (825 E 9th St) for tips and chances to win goodies at their Hey, Big Boy meet-up event from noon to 3pm. For more info on that, visit Facebook.com/FWCamera.
Legendary country singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams is on tour supporting her new album Stories
from a Rock N Roll Heart and has a stop in Fort Worth as part of The Great Western Festival. The 71-year-old songstress suffered a stroke in 2020, so she no longer plays guitar as she’s done since the age of 12, but her vocals are still on point. She’ll perform with special guest Kelsey Waldon at Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall (122 E Exchange St, Ste 200, Fort Worth, 817-900-9300) at 8pm. Tickets start at $47.50 on Ticketmaster.com.
Today and next Saturday, college football is on in the Stockyards. RANCH20 Spirits Tailgate Days are today and the 19th on the lawn of the Fort Worth Stock Exchange (131 E Exchange Av, Ste 212, Fort Worth, 817-822-5219), where you can see the games on a really big screen all day long and enjoy $6 cocktails. Speaking of tailgating, Carter BloodCare has my attention with their Dallas Cowboys-themed “How ’Bout Them Donors!” promotion. Every volunteer donor will receive a Tailgate Trio thank-you gift pack featuring a T-shirt, football-styled drink koozie, and sticker, plus an entry in a contest to win a Weber tailgating grill. And now thru Thu, Oct 17, you are also entered into weekly drawings for four Dallas Cowboys tickets and parking passes to 2024 home games at AT&T Stadium, including the Cowboys vs. the Bengals, vs. the Buccaneers, and vs. the Commanders. For details and to find a nearby Carter BloodCare donor center or mobile blood drive, visit CarterBloodCare.org.
Several times a year, the Re/Framed exhibit gives visitors to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-738-1933) a way to look at select works from the museum’s collection through a different lens. The included pieces are located throughout the galleries and can be identified by the window icon on their labels. Since April, artists Nell Dorr, Laura Gilpin, Eadweard Muybridge, Valton Tyler, and more have captured performances from unique perspectives and encourage viewers to take a second look at Wild West theatrical routines to the movement of modern dance. The current phase of Re/Framed ends today. Amon Carter is open noon-5pm Sun, 10am5pm Tue-Wed, 10am-8pm Thu, and 10am5pm Fri-Sat. Admission is always free.
By Jennifer Bovee
The great Lucinda Williams performs Friday at Tannahill’s.
Photography hobbyists and train lovers will gather to take snaps of Big Boy Thursday.
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MUSIC
Great Western Time
Like the Wild West shows of old, this Dickies/Stockyards festival presents a vibrant tapestry of entertainment.
BY STEVE STEWARD
A Western-themed festival this weekend at Dickies Arena and the Stockyards features a diverse mix of established artists and up-and-coming talent spanning both age and backgrounds — it’s not just a bunch of white guys, in other words — that reflects country music’s widespread appeal as well as its future. On Saturday, New Mexicoborn, West Texas-bred, Grammy-winning C&W-influenced singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham will headline the Westside venue as part of The Great Western Festival, an allday, all-ages event billed as “a meticulously curated celebration of Western culture.”
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Backed by the Texas Gentlemen, Bingham anchors a lineup that also includes Red Dirt favorites Shane Smith & The Saints, country legend Tanya Tucker, genre-blending songwriter/producer Shaboozey, and soulful desperado Louie TheSinger. There’s also a daytime bill of Fort Worth’s Vincent Neil Emerson and Cleburne-born Angel White with support from Brennen Leigh, Scott Balew, and Latin-music powerhouse the Cayuga All-Stars, so for all these artists alone, you’re getting your money’s worth from the ticket.
Yet The Great Western Festival is more than just music. In the way that Bingham was a bull rider before he picked up the guitar — he rode in the rodeo circuit in his teens and in college — the Great Western will showcase iconic parts of the West’s cattle-driving history in the Bull Ring Pavilion.
Famed Mexican equestrian Tomas Garcilazo will perform the Pageantry of the Charro, Mexico’s iconic display of horsemanship, and the Indigenous Nations Dance Troupe will showcase a variety of inter-tribal dances. The pavilion promises to “come alive with a fusion of high-energy competition and age-old traditions,” so in addition to Garcilazo’s charrería, the indigenous dances, and a chuckwagon cookoff, there will be lots of bull-riding entertainment. Athletes from across the sport’s various associations will make an appearance “in an exhilarating Western showcase of skill and camaraderie.”
“Skill and camaraderie,” to me, suggest that The Great Western Festival is a modern update of the popular, vaudevillian Wild West shows that traveled the country in the back part of the 19th century, minus the trick-shooting and George Custer-worship. If you’ve ever watched a bull-riding event live or on TV, you do see the athletes hanging out with one another before and after runs, and I assume there is a lot of celebration and commiseration among the guys given the nature of a sport that involves hanging onto a large, horned, aggravated animal that very much wants to launch you off his back and into the dirt beneath his hooves.
One of the various bull-riding associations repped at the Great Western is
a “freestyle bullfighting” league called Ultimate Bullfighters, and after watching a couple videos of that league’s athletes in action, I can say that the Bull Ring Pavilionportion of The Great Western Festival will be as big a draw as any of the bands. What these guys do, at least as far as I understand it, is basically enter a ring with the meanest bulls alive and then deftly avoid getting gored and/or stomped to death while putting on a show as near to the rampaging monsters as possible. These bullfighters dance, step, and flip around their beefy antagonists like ninjas clad in cowboy getups. Every move is nailbiter, and every misstep can lead to a brutal ending. The sport is heavy on showmanship, as the athletes are judged on flair and personality in addition to death-defying acrobatics across the backs of bulls bred for their size, rage, and capacity for violence. It kind of makes it sound like pro wrestling but with much higher stakes.
If watching some dude leap around a bull until it gets him is a little scary for you or your young ones, there’s mutton-busting kids riding and/or racing on the backs of sheep — and stick-horse racing, and like every festival, there’s a mercantile village. There are also pre- and after-festival concerts surrounding the event: On Friday, the great Lucinda Williams headlines Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall, with Kelsey Waldon opening, and on Sunday, the after-festival show at Tannahill’s features Hayes Carll and Band of Heathens. Whether your yen is for C&W or the working and athletic side of animal husbandry, The Great Western Festival has something for everyone. l
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The Ultimate Bullfighters dance, step, and flip around their beefy antagonists like ninjas clad in cowboy getups.
Backed by the Texas Gentlemen, the New Mexico-born, West Texas-bred Grammywinning C&W-influenced singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham headlines Dickies Saturday as part of The Great Western Festival.
The Great Western Festival Sat w/Ryan Bingham, Shane Smith & The Saints, Tanya Tucker, Shaboozey, Louie TheSinger, Vincent Neil Emerson, Angel White, Brennen Leigh, Scott Balew, Cayuga All-Stars at Dickies Arena, 1911 Montgomery St, Fort Worth. 817-402-9000. • Fri w/Lucinda Williams, Kelsey Waldon and Sun w/Hayes Carll, Band of Heathens at Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall, 122 E Exchange Av, Ste 200, Fort Worth. 817-900-9300. TheGreatWesternFestival.com.
Haunted?
Yes. Miss Molly’s Hotel is “one most active paranormal sites in Texas.”
By Living Local
Situated above Fort Worth’s Star Café in the Stockyards, visitors to Miss Molly’s Hotel (109 W Exchange Av, 817-626-1522)
climb a staircase to another era with period furnishings, furniture, and many stories about unexplained happenings provided with first-hand accounts by the owner. Miss Molly’s is considered one of the most haunted properties in Fort Worth and one of the most active paranormal sites in Texas.
Established as a boarding house in 1910 and called the Palace Rooms, it went through the prohibition period, being called The Oasis and later, in the 1940s, as a bordello, when it was called the Gayatte Hotel. Miss Molly’s is the oldest bed and breakfast in Fort Worth. Just old enough to have caught glimpses of the Wild West and America’s speak-easy and bordello days, the hotel’s long history as a boarding house has included many residents. Apparently, some have decided to extend their stay into the afterlife.
The eight themed rooms in the hotel share stories of paranormal activity, with the Cattlemen’s and Cowboy rooms having some of the more famous sightings of apparitions. Most of the sightings have involved former working girls from the hotel’s days as a bordello. According to a former owner, one housekeeper quit because she kept finding coins in rooms even though there had been no guests in that room. “She had just finished cleaning, only to return and find the coins where she had just cleaned.”
In the current owner’s private rooms (numbers 8 and 9), visitations have also occurred from a young girl who is considered a former hotel tenant. The phenomena at Miss Molly’s include full-bodied apparitions, unexplained scents, items disappearing and reappearing, lights turning on and off and toilets flushing on their own, cold spots, unlocked doors refusing to open, and a variety of unidentified but entertaining sounds.
Miss Molly’s has been visited by several paranormal investigation groups and is listed with Texas Christian University’s paranormal activity class, which regularly visits to record the phenomena. Copies of unusual photos, tape recordings, investigator statements, and results are kept prominently in the common living area. To make a reservation and check it out yourself, visit MissMollysHotel.com/ Our-Rooms/.
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All the Dollys on the staircase at Molly’s.
Courtesy Miss Molly’s Hotel
While they no longer serve a morning meal, Miss Molly’s is still considered the oldest bed and breakfast in Fort Worth.
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