Fort Worth Weekly // November 16-22, 2022

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They won their lawsuit against Texas Health Resources but have yet to see any money — what happens next?

BY MADISON SIMMONS

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Fox “News” has brainwashed a generation of fellow voters, and we’re stuck with them.

BY E.R. BILLS

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Voter Fraud Frenzy

BY EDWARD BROWN

Following the release of early voting tallies that showed Republican county judge candi date Tim O’Hare leading Deborah Peoples, the mood at the Tarrant County Democrat ic Party vote-watching get-together quickly turned to commiseration and frustration.

Held at Eastside restaurant Turkey Pen, the gathering of candidates and supporters followed the local midterm results in dis may. Several Black judges running for crim inal, family, and probate courts all lost. The only clear Democrat victor was Precinct 2 Commissioner-elect Alisa Simmons, who defeated Republican Andy Nguyen.

Democrat Tiffany Burks, who lost to Phil Sorrells in the race for district attor ney, was disappointed but mainly concerned about the future of the county prosecutor’s office, where she worked for more than two decades as a lead prosecutor.

“I’m going to take a long vacation to re cover from this race,” she said.

Had she been elected, she said her ad ministration would have overseen the re turn of experienced prosecutors and an end to the good ol’ boy system that will once again define work at the Tim Curry Justice Center.

Burks said she is done with politics.

“Maybe I’ll open a restaurant now,” she quipped.

Missing from the event was Peoples. Friends of the former Tarrant County Dem ocratic Party chair confided that early signs of losing to the former Tarrant County Re publican chair known for openly portraying Blacks and Mexicans as a danger to society was too much.

In a race in which less than half of reg istered voters turned out, O’Hare won 53% of 582,599 votes, largely from the deep red suburbs in northeast Tarrant County. Mur murs that Peoples committed voter fraud, largely peddled through private channels and an irreputable Dallas publication owned by a staunch O’Hare supporter, galvanized conservative voters in the weeks leading to November’s midterms.

The 2020 video shows a rambling felon, Charles Jackson, describing his work several years earlier for Democrats like Peoples who allegedly paid him $200 per falsified mailin ballot. In the bodycam footage, Jackson

confusingly tells Fort Worth police officer Jentry Cotten that Peoples paid him to fal sify ballots for months before elections even as mail-in ballots are distributed only a few weeks before any race in Texas.

In September, directors at True Tex as Project, a conservative advocacy group based in northeast Tarrant County, blasted DA Sharen Wilson for not investigating the alleged voter fraud scandal.

“We have clear video footage of a home less guy making big bucks to harvest votes illegally,” True Texas Project’s website reads. “And who was paying him? Deborah Peo ples. Folks, homeless men don’t just rattle

off the names of wannabe politicians. He clearly knows her and her goons well. So why is DA Sharen Wilson doing nothing?”

The reason, based on internal emails leaked to me by a confidential source, is that the DA’s office found the allegations base less.

The results of the DA’s investigation “convinced us that we should not attempt to go forward with the cases,” reads a February email from Tarrant County Criminal Divi sion Chief Larry Moore to Assistant State Attorney General Joseph O’Neill.

In the same email, titled “Tarrant Coun ty Election Fraud Cases,” Moore makes clear that the State Attorney General’s office has no authority to investigate local voter fraud cases. In September, the Court of Criminal Appeals upheld its previous ruling that the attorney general must receive permission from county prosecutors to pursue voter fraud cases. In a follow-up email, O’Neill asks Moore if he would consider deputizing the AG’s office to look into the bodycam case.

“I appreciate your office taking the steps to look through this case,” O’Neill wrote. “I know it is a daunting task. Are you also deciding to not deputize our office, thereby allowing our attorneys to prosecute this case? I just want to make sure that your office understands we are willing and ready to try this case if deputized.”

Moore refused to comply with the re quest.

“We would also not intend to deputize any of your attorneys in order to prosecute the case,” Moore responded.

The DA’s office did not respond to my requests for comment on the emails and at tempts by the AG’s office — led by indicted election denier Ken Paxton — to strongarm Tarrant County into prosecuting likely du bious voter fraud allegations. O’Hare’s cam paign ignored my questions about the au thenticity of the video.

Paxton has made voter fraud a top pri ority for his department even as evidence of elections meddling remains infinitesimally scant. Five years ago, his office opened an elections integrity unit that has increasingly relied on rarely prosecuted laws like inter fering with the movement of poll watchers to churn up prosecutions.

Based on reporting by the Texas Tri bune, Paxton’s task force looked into 390 cases of potential election crimes between January 2020 and late 2021 that resulted in a grand total of five convictions.

Paxton’s history of supporting fabri cated voter fraud allegations nearly led to

Bogus allegations that a Democrat candidate harvested mail-in ballots portend fabricated political attacks to come.

This photo of Fort Worth police officer Jentry Cotten, second from right, confirms that he knows Sheriff Bill Waybourn (second from left), a staunch supporter of Tim O’Hare.

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his disbarment after he falsely alleged vot er fraud was behind President Joe Biden’s landslide electoral win two years ago.

The video came to light recently after right-wing conspiracy theorists request ed its release. Two members of Citizens for Election Integrity filed 11 separate open requests with the police in mid-2021 that detailed specific information about the time and place the police cam footage was taken, suggesting that someone on the police force leaked details about the video to Citizens.

One confidential source who maintains connections with Fort Worth police alleges the cops tipped off members of the elections integrity group. A police spokesperson re jected that accusation.

Another source who asked to remain anonymous to protect his privacy provided a photo of Cotten, the officer who filmed the video, and Sheriff Bill Waybourn, who maintains close connections with anti-gov ernment militia groups (“Far-Right Local Sheriff Threatens Democracy,” July 20). The Tarrant County sheriff endorsed O’Hare and publicly stated his department would not in vestigate the video due to that endorsement. Waybourn never disclosed his friendship with Cotten, though, and a sheriff’s depart ment spokesperson declined to respond to my requests for comment.

The source who provided the photo al leges the push to paint Peoples as an elec tions rigger was a concerted effort by local Republican operatives and the AG’s office to fabricate criminal charges against a Demo

crat opponent using systems of government that are increasingly under local Republican control.

The source, who is a legal professional, said he is collecting evidence that could po tentially lead to criminal charges — namely abuse of office — against any government employee who misused their power to harm Peoples or members of her staff. The source fears abuse of the local criminal justice sys tem for political means will only increase under an O’Hare administration.

A top priority for the county judge-elect is the formation of an Election Integrity Of ficer, something O’Hare said he will do on his first day in office.

“This position would be selected by a committee including the sheriff, the county judge, and a designated county commission er,” O’Hare’s campaign website reads. “The Election Integrity Officer will seek to find and uncover election fraud. Any election fraud discovered by the Election Integrity Officer would be reported to the sheriff and the district attorney and prosecuted as the DA sees fit. I believe installing the position is critical in ensuring a true and fair vote for everyone in future elections.”

The results of the midterms mean O’Hare, Waybourn, and Fort Worth police union head Manny Ramirez could be the sole determiners of which voter fraud alle gations are sent to Republican DA Sorrells.

Last year, Tarrant County’s attorneys weighed in on Sorrells’ performance during his last year in office. Based on their votes, lawyers with the Tarrant County Bar Associ ation said former county judge Sorrells was the least likely of his black-robed peers to follow the law. l

Still Waiting

BY MADISON SIMMONS

John Davis describes his wife as “quite a pistol.” Angela Davis grew up a cowgirl and worked for many years as a state probation officer who treated her clients with a spe cial blend of no-nonsense care and warmth, John said.

But life changed drastically for the Fort Worth couple in 2014. An elective hip replacement left the once indepen dent Angela quadriplegic and unable to care for herself. The Davises have been caught in a legal battle with Texas

Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth ever since and have not received any payouts from the hos pital.

“They don’t want this case to ever end until Ms. Da vis dies,” said Mark Sudderth, the Davises’ attorney. “No body’s been paid, and she hasn’t received any money just to make her life a little bit better.”

A spokesperson for Texas Health Resources said, “We acknowledged at trial that Ms. Davis has suffered a signifi cant and devastating injury and our deep regret for her and her family’s suffering. Our contention is that the errors that led to her injury were not the result of the hospital’s actions, and we believe we had proper safety policies and governance in place. Although we understand the jury’s decision, we have filed motions to address the legal rulings which we believe led to an incorrect verdict.”

Sudderth has worked with the Davises since 2014. He said medical malpractice cases commonly take a long time to reach a conclusion, but this case has gone on even longer than usual.

In April, a jury determined the Davises were owed $8.3 million in damages. Thanks to a series of motions and a re quest for a retrial, the hospital has not made any payments, and the court has not yet issued a judgment on the case.

At a hearing in December, Judge Brooke Allen of Probate Court 2 will determine whether to honor the jury’s verdict or issue a retrial.

In 2014, the Davises had few concerns about Angela’s hip replacement. Though a major surgery, a hip replace ment is pretty routine and straightforward, Sudderth said. Angela’s hip had caused increasing problems over the years, and the pain limited her mobility.

John recalls arriving at the hospital early on May 14, 2014. Around 10:30 a.m. after surgery, he was told every thing went well and that he could go home to wait until his wife was more alert. Shortly after he returned home, he re ceived a call that there had been a complication and that he

should return to the hospital. Upon his arrival, he recalls seeing Angela on a gurney flailing her arms.

“I said, ‘Hmm, sure seems like there’s a problem,’ ” John recalled, sitting in their home in West Fort Worth.

A medical error had left Angela fighting for her life. During the anesthesia process, a nurse anesthetist allegedly administered tranexamic acid into Angela’s spinal column. This medication promotes clotting and prevents bleeding but is not administered via the spinal column. Staff had allegedly mixed up the syringe with the appropriate med ication, local anesthetic bupivacaine. This medical error wreaked havoc on Angela’s body, causing seizures and or gan failure. She was sent to the Intensive Care Unit, where she stayed for eight months until she stabilized.

“To their credit, the nurses and doctors in the ICU did a wonderful job, even though administration, on the other hand, was trying to throw us out,” John said.

The Davises have carried on with their lives as best as they can. John provides all of his wife’s care. Though An gela cannot speak, has cognitive impairments, and cannot move her arms and legs, he focuses on the parts of life they still can enjoy together.

“She can understand everything, see everything,” he said. “When her friends come over, she lights up, so … we’re managing.”

But John is 10 years older than his wife, and he has concerns for her future care. Since Angela cannot speak, he fears how she would fare in a nursing home. Money from the lawsuit would go to her future care, John said.

For now, the Davises spend their time at home watch ing television, eating together, and enjoying each other’s company.

“When you’ve been married over 30 years,” John said, “you’re almost telepathic.” l

Though a woman won her lawsuit against a local hospital, she and her husband have yet to see any money.

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Fox Muzak

happened in the recent Lone Star election cycle. And the last several, in fact.

A couple of weeks ago, I was passing through East Texas doing research. It was late, and I stopped at the first Tex-Mex place I saw in Lufkin. It was a great little spot with four TV screens. Two were tuned to the As tros (yay!). Two were set on Fox News. The baseball game was silent, and the Fox News broadcast was a low drone.

I was suddenly certain that Republicans would remain in power in Texas come Nov. 8, because I had the sinking suspicion that the scene in this Tex-Mex eatery was being ceaselessly replicated in small-town restau rants across the state leading up to Election Day. Conservatives have been busy and me ticulous. Many of these areas often don’t have easy access to NPR, much less MSN BC, but they’ve always got Fox News. It’s a staple of their existence.

That’s the genius of it. Though inane and existentially perverse, Fox News is Mu zak for the apocalypse. And the idea for it originated a half-century ago.

BY E.R. BILLS

Sometimes you find hope where there is none.

It rarely comes from the truth or even people you admire, respect, or love. The truth these days is unpleasant. And our circle of intimates and quasi-intimates is constantly impressed upon by advertising, psychologists, and self-help gurus to make us or keep us happy.

I wasn’t looking for truth last Saturday. It was just a tune, a song, and not even a protest song. It was more like a giant, brave “Fuck you” to me, my generation, and gen erations of the recent past. Rolling Stone de scribes the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Spitting Off the Edge of the World” as “a smoldering cut” that “builds to a massive peak filled with crashing drums and keening guitar riffs,” but it’s more than that. And it addresses us — me and you — in the first line: “Cowards, here’s the sun / So bow your heads.”

And it doesn’t let up:

In the absence of bombs

Draw your breath

Dark, dark places shall be none She’s melting houses of gold And the kids cry out We’re spitting off the edge of the world

Ouch!

We may not be paying attention, but someone is. And though all the blame or fault for the current state of things may not be ours to shoulder alone, I understand why so many of us remain oblivious to what’s happening. It has an interesting history.

By the early 1970s, our war in Vietnam was wildly unpopular. The nationwide protests of the late 1960s and early ’70s had been in credibly successful, and the public’s opinion of President Richard Nixon and the conflict had begun to fluctuate in ways that made the administration uncomfortable. Simply put, the problem was that Nixon wasn’t doing what he promised (i.e., getting the United States out of Vietnam), and his charade was complicated by the Kent State shootings and other harrowing, ugly optics. But a new media advisor helped Nixon weather the storm and win reelection in 1972.

His name was Roger Ailes.

For the former Fox News founder and the Nixon administration, the problem was never what Nixon was doing wrong or the promises he refused to deliver on. It was how what he was doing was being report ed by the American media. And during the course of the summer of 1970, a memo titled “A Plan for Putting the GOP on the News” was circulated. The memo was discovered by John Cook at Gawker in 2011. Here is a telling excerpt from this 50-year-old Repub lican manifesto:

Today, television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather from any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit — watch — listen. The thinking is done for you.

were doing their job and the coverage of the Nixon Administration’s general failings and contemptible strategies was unfavorable, particularly where the unpopular war was concerned. White House staffers like Ailes (and Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld) considered Nixon’s unscrupulous tactics ir relevant. They were simply concerned with the American public’s perception of them.

The Vietnam War was considered the first “TV war,” and LBJ and Nixon both claimed that TV coverage hurt the Ameri can military effort. The images of the dead and wounded soldiers and body bags during the LBJ and Nixon administrations were disturbing and demoralizing. And the foot age of the antiwar protests and the assault and murder of antiwar protesters during the Nixon administration were unequivocally damning, in the same way the images of the beating of Civil Rights protesters had been in years previous.

Ailes essentially proposed a “GOP TV” strategy, and though it took twentysomething years and the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine to accomplish, once Ailes and Rupert Mur doch pulled it off, America changed.

The undeniable genius of Roger Ailes was that he knew then what we’re finding out now: If Fox News had been around in the early 1970s, the war in Vietnam would not have ended. It might have gone on and on like the war in Afghanistan. And the Nix on presidency would not have been mortally wounded by Watergate, and Nixon himself wouldn’t have been forced to resign in dis grace.

Locally, Fox News would help goober gubernatorial candidate George W. Bush and his hatchet man Karl Rove underhand edly torpedo wildly popular incumbent Tex as Gov. Ann Richards, and the leadership of the Lone Star State since then has been little more than the oafish natterings of an arrogant Republican sausage factory, most ly benefiting all things straight, white, and male and obligatorily prostrate before pe troleum profiteers and shameless right-wing billionaires.

The once legendary, mythic Texas free for all — independent, mysterious, unpre dictable, and high-flying — is now a monu ment to cowardly conservative obviousness, sinking instead of rising and certainly more diminutive in spirit and stature than the late 20th century. Texas is a national and interna tional embarrassment. We have wonderful institutes of higher education that most of us — including college graduates — manage to emerge from without being educated and flatly ignore except on gameday. We have a wealth of cultural diversity, but this diver sity is ignored by our leadership and under mined by unconstitutional gerrymandering regimes, voter suppression and intimida tion, false accusations of voter fraud, and good, old-fashioned economic exclusivity.

It’s a sorry, pathetic state of affairs, but that’s the way the seeming majority of our voting populous prefers it, so the only things really bigger in Texas these days are igno rance, xenophobia, historical amnesia, and white fragility. And they’re colossal, mythic totems of a toxic social hellscape.

Why do we stand for it?

That’s easy. Fox News Muzak.

Elevator music, more commonly referred to as Muzak, became in vogue a century ago this year. The original purpose of Muzak was to calm passengers who were fearful of riding in elevators. The mechanical lurch of the strange, artificial ascent. The startling, obverse sensation of falling or rising in slow motion. It was all new at the time.

The increasing use of elevator Muzak is a near-perfect metaphor to explain what just

Ailes’ handwritten notes are all over the memo, and it outlines a plan hatched be tween the Nixon White House and Ailes to coordinate the dissemination of pro-Repub lican “news” to television networks around the country.

Long before Ailes became the nefarious progenitor of Fox News and Fox Television Stations, his acknowledged difficulty with the American media was not that it was too liberal or couldn’t be trusted or was even “lamestream.” It was simply that journalists

If broad swathes of the provincial U.S. citizenry didn’t like what responsible jour nalists were reporting, they had a friend they could turn to, a “news” source that would filter out unwanted criticism, pro mote conventional perspectives, encourage tacit consent (and conformity), and limit and censor authentic reporting that chal lenged complacency and established mores. Witch hunts could be perpetrated and nev er seriously condemned. Wars predicated on outright prevarications could be waged. Journalism hazardous to staid principles and prescribed dogma could be mitigated. TV that portrayed war efforts in unflattering lights could be mitigated. And a viewership that knew why or knew better could also be mitigated. And Ailes’ successful incarna tion of GOP TV changed everything, even eventually wooing many aging ’60s antiwar protesters — who had previously despised almost everything about Nixon’s machina tions — into the fold.

Texans are suffering. Texans are being murdered en masse by Fox News devotees. And Fox News viewers from other states — some who have gotten away with murdering American protesters — are moving to Texas to feel more at home. Texans also made up a large part of the contingent that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

But you get only superficial treatment of these stories from Fox Muzak outlets. Even as Texas descends into gross asinini ty and willful delusion, Fox Muzak viewers never tremble at the unexpected lurches to ward hate and bigotry or feel their stomachs drop during freefalls regarding standards of decency and conscience — i.e., if brown children are held in cages at our border, they deserve to be … if young women can’t keep their legs together, they don’t deserve sov ereignty over their own bodies or complete access to reproductive choices … and if des perate immigrants show up in our proud, unrepentantly conservative backwater, we’ll ship them up north to Yankee states!

Fox Muzak consumers get soothing, reassuring conservative elevator prattle on a 24/7 loop. It’s calming background noise,

“Fair and balanced,” America’s news station continues promulgating propaganda that soothes the brains in their little red bubble.

and its consumers absorb the same ceaseless, prescribed codifiers.

Honor. Liberty. Forefathers. United. Freedom. God. Hard Work. Duty. Patriot.

Fox Muzak personalities do occasionally lapse into sets of hostile jargon, but it almost invariably serves to affirm their prescribed positive codifiers.

Science. Academics. Abortion. Rapers. Murderers. Sex ring. Socialist. Liberal. Traitor.

It may barely register at first, but repeating is believing.

It’s the cadence of denial and resig nation, passed along as practical faith and prudent judgment. It’s the language of su perficiality and hatred, but spoonfed like Gerber baby food to generations of feckless Boomers, Gen-X rubes, and Millennial waifs so they don’t have to rage, rage against the dying of the light or even be alarmed by the accelerating descent of our nation’s formerly celebrated place in the world.

Ever since Fox Muzak landed in Texas, it’s owned Texas and governed Texas. And the Democrats here and across America have no real answer for it.

But how could they?

Ailes’ GOP TV has half the American population no longer even pretending to believe in American ideals. And the tough questions and honest answers about this stupefying development involve complexity and require nuanced conversations, neither of which the largest percentage of American voters find entertaining or will entertain, much less consider.

And not to be redundant, but how could they?

With the middle class gutted and most working Americans laboring furiously just to stay afloat, who has time for nuance or complexity? Certainly not our employers or our mortgage companies.

Who has time to contemplate the nov elty and wisdom of America’s great exper iment or what’s written at the base of the Statue of Liberty?

How many Americans still wonder at the incredible audacity of the New World concept of due process (and how it’s still not universally observed) or the courage of a clear mandate of separation of church and state (and how it’s now flagrantly ignored)?

From elevators, Muzak tunes spread to grocery stores, shopping centers, airports, cruise ships, corporate offices, and bingo parlors. And psychological studies have shown that Muzak makes listeners more comfortable with being consumers, with buying more, and arguably even buying into things more, in general.

Repetitive, tonal simplicity.

Uplifting, uncomplicated melody.

Honor. Liberty. Forefathers. United. Freedom. God.

Hard Work. Duty. Patriot.

Not so coincidentally, Muzak is also great for insane asylums, but many folks aren’t susceptible to it.

Capitalism was a great idea when the United States composed 7% of the world population but somehow consumed twothirds of the planet’s natural resources, but now unrestrained, unregulated capitalism is global, and resources are scarce and hu man beings are consuming 1.7 times more than the planet can produce. It’s become an unsustainable social cancer destroying our own habitat and extinguishing whole species wholesale. Our children will rarely consume foodstuffs pollenated by real bees. GMOs will fill the gaping holes in our food supply chain with unwholesome substitutes. Our children will not enjoy fair pensions or natural longevity. Social Darwinism, ar ranged in hierarchies determined by wealth, will reign triumphant and be enforced in dooming perpetuity. And our children and our children’s children — especially here in Texas — will never be taught what things were really like before. The truth. The truth about what happened. The truth about what’s happening. And why plenty of us are mad enough to spit.

We have been reckless and unwise. And the repercussions are already being felt.

Critical Human Race Theory is even more dangerous and undesirable than Criti cal Race Theory.

Because they hate us for our freedom. Because Big Oil. Because unrestrained, un regulated capitalism. Because uninformed, unconscionable American Empire.

Though occasionally tempered with the cau tionary prejudices of the meek, GOP TV of fers lie-affirming daydreams and the delud ed slumber of the pseudo-just. Challenging or even cluttering these lie-affirming day dreams or creating unrest is honest and noble but a losing proposition. Attempting or even talking about attempting to disentangle us from our existing and rapidly worsening ex istential nightmares is political suicide.

Progressive leadership is mostly guilty of telling us too much of what we don’t want to hear. It slaps our wrists for past and pres ent mistakes and asks that we atone for our existential indiscretions and social trans gressions before it’s too late.

Then Fox Muzak swoops in, feigns in dignance, and tells us exactly what we want to hear while it holds our hands and pats our heads.

Ailes was clear from the beginning. GOP TV doesn’t require you to think. GOP TV doesn’t want you to think.

But at least the right’s liftmen are man aging our plummet with comforting, profit able fortitude. l

Fort Worth native E.R. Bills is the author of The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Geno cide in East Texas

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Reservations and Revenge

TCU stays perfect while shutting down the Longhorns in Austin.

BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT

One of my favorite memories of my late father was accom panying him to the State Fair of Texas and watching him win me prizes from carnival games. Granted, these games weren’t designed for patrons to win, but my dad, having al ways said that great pool ability was the sign of a misspent youth, was awesome at winning the billiards contest. At this point, Sonny Dykes’ Frogs are carney callers encouraging the next schlub to step right up. Opponents look on think ing to themselves, “That doesn’t look so hard, we can win that” before leaving with fewer dollars and zero stuffed ani mals to show for their efforts.

Until now, it’s all been reservations regarding the Frogs on the national scene. TCU can play offense, but their de fense allows them to sink into early holes. They can come from behind, but can they dominate from wire to wire? TCU can win a boat race, but what if their offense struggles and they need to defer to their defense? What happens when Gary Patterson helps a team game plan against a squad he recruited? Virtually all those doubts were cast asunder in Austin when Dykes and company won their second appear ance on College Gameday this season while not allowing the Longhorns a single offensive touchdown.

The Hypnotoads never trailed on Saturday. Granted, no one scored any points until late in the second quarter. Texas never even tied the game. The entire contest felt like a mucky SEC trench battle where the first team to flinch was going to lose, and it became exactly that. Neither offense was particularly overbearing in the Weird City. The only impressive stat line belonged to Kendre Miller (#33), who ripped off a 75-yard touchdown run in the third quarter and finished with 138 yards on the ground. Miller’s partner in the backfield, Emari Demercado (#3), rushed for 65 yards and was instrumental in icing the game late in the fourth quarter. The only Frog misstep besides a missed field goal was from an uncharacteristic fumble between Miller and Max Duggan (#15) from their read exchange that led to a scoop-and-score for the Longhorns. TCU’s backfield — ob viously combined with their defense — balked at the pun ditry proclaiming Bijan Robinson (#5) as the best running back in the nation (something the Gameday staff said more than once). Robinson finished with 29 yards and a yardsper-carry average less than half of what both Miller and De mercado logged.

Dykes’ 10th consecutive victory brought a new reserva tion for the Frogs: Dec. 3 in the Big 12 championship game in Arlington. The Frogs are alone atop the conference and don’t need to play another down of football to compete for the conference title. Their opponent is to be determined, but Kansas State controls their destiny, with UT hoping the lesser-purple frontrunner stumbles during their final two games against West Virginia and Kansas.

TCU’s season doesn’t become more difficult this week per se, but with every step toward a perfect season and cor responding playoff berth, the potholes become deeper and tougher to spot. Waiting in Waco are the Baylor Bears, and this one should frighten everyone more than the Horns. Why should the all-powerful Frogs fear a trip down I-35 against a bunch of bear cubs who just lost 31-3 against Kan sas State? Revenge. In not such a distant universe — just more than a year ago, in fact — a bounce-back Baylor was working on a gem of a one-loss season that would eventual ly result in a conference championship, Sugar Bowl victory over Ole Miss, and fifth-place final ranking. The Frogs, with an interim head coach, spoiled their outside hopes of a play off appearance with a 30-28 victory in Fort Worth.

The pure beauty of college football is also what makes it so unbearable: chaos, unrest, and unbridled volatility. If you want advanced stats and metrics to be correct 99% of the time, pro sports are for you. If you want Texas A&M to pay their coach 95 million bones while bagging the top re cruiting class just to win three games, then feel the warm embrace of college pigskin surround you before it shanks you in the kidney with a rusty sliver of rebar.

Luckily, it doesn’t seem like Dykes is struggling to maintain focus in his locker room, and there’s nothing for these Frogs to look forward to at the moment. TCU needs to win every game for a chance to break into the playoffs, and they know it. Dave Aranda might be the best coach in the

conference — no offense to Dykes, but the sample size sim ply isn’t large enough — and his players have nothing left to play for except ruining TCU’s season, as the Toads essen tially did the same to them last year. Baylor is also the oldest rival to the Horned Frogs. The two have played 117 times, which is tied for the 25th most consistent rivalry in college football, just one game fewer than Texas-OU and the same as Michigan-Ohio State. Aranda, despite his many talents, is 0-2 against less potent Frog teams, and despite the Bears’ steady improvement during the midseason, it doesn’t seem like they’ll have the firepower to overcome TCU’s newly dominant defense if they play similarly to last Saturday.

It was clear from the outlandish 7-point-underdog spread against Texas that the wagering dollars were doubt ing TCU. The sentiment is swinging toward the Frogs as they are 3-point favorites at Baylor. The Revivalry — a cute little nod to each school’s religious affiliation — will host Fox Sports’ Big Noon Kickoff. This will be the Frogs’ fourth game this season to be featured on a major preview show, and Funkytown fans are, and should be, holding their col lective breath a bit. But it deserves to be acknowledged that the greatness of college football is the instability and un known. If you want your team to be able to lose and still be in consideration to win it all, do all of the happy masochists a favor and pack in your anxieties and wait for pitchers and catchers to report for spring training. l

Tight end Jared Wiley enjoyed his homecoming as the transfer helped the Frogs beat his former team 17-10 in front of a national audience while TCU stayed perfect on Saturday.

Courtesy TCU Athletics

SCREEN

Kids’ Menu

BY KRISTIAN LIN

When I was little, I hated mushrooms and coconut. It was less about the taste than the texture for me. Now I’m OK with the for mer and a fan of the latter, but I wonder if I might have come around to them sooner if I’d had something like Waffles + Mochi I encountered the Netflix food TV show in the spring of last year, and it was a joy, a program simple enough for small children and deep enough to teach me, a quasi-pro fessional food person, things I didn’t know. I yearned for a new season, more than the one-off Christmas special could give me. A six-episode spinoff called Waffles + Mochi’s Restaurant dropped on Netflix a few weeks ago, and the pandemic has adversely affected the show’s ambitions.

Waffles is a half-frozen waffle/half-yeti puppet creature (voiced by Michelle Zamo ra in the first season and Sarah Berman in the second) who comes from a land of frozen food along with his gibberish-speaking best friend Mochi (voiced by Russ Walko and David Bizzaro). They travel to a supermar ket run by Michelle Obama (who portrays herself) and learn all about the world of food.

Each episode takes a basic foodstuff as its theme. At its best, the show veers off into unexpected directions from there. An early episode about salt walks us through the process of making miso and shows how salt is often used to make non-salty foods taste more like themselves, while an episode about potatoes spotlights heirloom varieties

and has a NASA scientist making a battery out of one. Waffles and Mochi’s early adven tures are intercut with interviews with kids from around the world about food, sidebars on food history, and animated musical num bers, the first one of which has Sia voicing a tomato wearing Sia’s trademark blackand-white wig and singing “I’m a Fruit.” Michelle Obama and her husband are ex ecutive producers, and their star power ex plains how actors such as Jack Black, Rashi da Jones, Common, and Zach Galifianakis make cameo appearances. Some of them are heavy with Netflix synergy (Gaten Mataraz zo from Stranger Things from Orange Is the New Black en’t distracting, and the contributions by celebrity chefs such as José Andrés, Marcus Samuelsson, and Preeti Mistry boost the show’s credibility.

and loud where Zamora was better at con veying the character’s confusion at how people interact with their food.

Even so, show creators Erika Thor mahlen and Jeremy Konner ensure that it never wags its finger at us and tells us to eat our vegetables. It also doesn’t shy away from topics that are gross (how bees make honey) or potentially uncomfortable (the role of slavery in the cultivation of rice and bananas), and a song by Nerf Herder’s Par ry Gripp called “Banana Rainbow” refers to the importance of crop biodiversity to a bouncy beat that will appeal to little kids. When Waffles and Mochi are free to trav el the world again, I hope to see them in different locations tackling different foods with their panache of old. For now,

Seconds of this Netflix food show are less tasty, but we’ll still have them.

Waffles and Mochi (left) see an assortment of aged cheeses with cheesemaker Josh Windsor and Chef Samin Nosrat on Waffles + Mochi’s Restaurant.

Jojo Whilden

Double Feature

Two stalwarts of North Texas art just opened shows at William Campbell’s two galleries.

The one on Foch Street hosts a retro spective of works by Benito Huerta. The prolific artist whose varied media output touches on themes ranging from political satire to social issues and economics has ex hibited extensively across the Americas and overseas during his 50-year career. In many of his pieces, he blends Mexican iconogra phy with pop-culture references in unique and often irreverent ways.

More or Less: Una Retrospectiva is the first of a two-part series. The second exhi bition, Más O Menos: A Retrospective, opens in January at the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas.

The show, based on Huerta’s artist’s state ment, is a “visual gumbo” that he hopes will intrigue, if not provoke, the viewer’s senses and lure them in for a closer look at the work.

Running concurrently at William Campbell’s original space in Arlington Heights is Placemarks, featuring works by Billy Hassell. The artist known locally and regionally for his bright still-life paintings of birds and nature said he chose the title because the exhibit is about “places or de tails of places that have personal signifi cance to me.”

Each work began as a sketch or wa tercolor made on-site. Hassell’s intention, based on his artist’s statement, was to cap ture the experience of being in nature. The show touches on themes of travel and bear ing witness to the beauty of natural areas and state parks. Hassell, an ardent environ mentalist, has partnered in the past with conservation-related organizations, includ ing the Texas Nature Conservancy, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Friends of Fort Worth Nature Center, and the Big Bend Conser vancy. — Edward Brown

“The Eyes of Benjamin Franklin” is one of many works at the Benito Huerta retrospective at William Campbell Gallery.

Courtesy William Campbell Galley

More or Less: Una Retrospectiva runs thru Nov at William Campbell Gallery, 217 Foch St, FW. Free. 817-737-9566. • Placemarks runs thru Nov at William Campbell Gallery, 4935 Byers Av, FW. Free. 817-737-9566. WilliamCampbellContemporaryArt.com.

Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon syncs perfect ly with the Wizard of Oz That’s a fact (says me). Nay sayers will tell you that it’s all just a bizarre coincidence, that you can match up almost any album and movie for the same result, es pecially if you are high enough. But duuuude I’ve heard it with my own ears, and I don’t even smoke. (It makes me more neurotic than usual, but that’s a story for another time.) If you don’t believe me, try it yourself. The trick is to wait for the third roar of the MGM lion at the beginning of the film be fore you start the music. If you’re already a believer, you might enjoy a live band version of this listening experience at 8pm at Dan’s Silverleaf (103 Industrial St, Denton, 940808-0008). “At Dan’s, we take it a step fur ther. Local guitar luminary Pete Weise puts together a live rock chamber orchestra that takes the place of the Pink Floyd recording. If you haven’t seen this, it’s a must.” Tickets are $10 in advance at Prekindle.com or $12 at the door.

“Those aren’t pillows!”

That line makes me giggle every time. Planes, Trains & Automobiles, the classic film featuring Steve Martin and the late John Candy trying to make it home for Tur key Day, is a movie I watch every Thanks giving, and I’m not the only one. Gather with fellow fans 6pm-9pm for an outdoor screening at TX Whiskey Movie Night at Whiskey Ranch (4250 Mitchell Blvd, 817-840-9140). Dress warm and bring your chairs and blankets. Food trucks will be sell ing on-site, and the retail area will be open for shopping. Tickets are $10 at FRDistill ing.com and include your first cocktail. You must be 21+ to attend.

A new visiting exhibit opens today at the River Legacy Nature Center (703 NW Green Oaks Blvd, Ar lington, 817-860-6752). Here Be Dragons: From Lizards to Legends runs 9am-5pm Mon-Sat thru Sat, Feb 11. Explore three dragon realms — Asian, Medieval, and Pa leontology — each with different, intricate ly designed set pieces, like a fire-breathing dragon and a full-sized Chinese dragon costume display. Encounter living legends as you interact with live lizards, including an albino green iguana, a club tail iguana, a European legless lizard, an Egyptian uro mastyx, a frilled dragon, and a white-throat ed monitor lizard. Learn about dragon myth and lore in European literature and the cul tural history of dragons. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for children at the door. For more info, visit RiverLegacy.org.

Every third Sunday of the month, head to ReBirth of Food (404 S Oakland Blvd, 682-230-8774) for Vegan Paint & Brunch noon-3pm. Admission to the paint portion of the event is $35 pre sale or $45 at the door and includes all your paint supplies and a complimentary mi mosa. Brunch is sold separately. To see the brunch menu or to purchase tickets, go to Eventbrite.com.

Hosted by Open Worship (@OpenDTX) and Mosaic Worship (@MosaicFUMC), the November installment of the fall Pub Theology series at The Bearded Monk (122 E McKinney St, Den ton, 940-999-7238) begins at 8pm. On the third Monday of the month thru Mon, Dec 19, drink beer and contemplate theological quandaries with masters-in-divinity schol ar Jenny Bates and Pastor Laura Byrd, who both like “asking the hard questions with no Sunday school answers.”

As most of the members of the popular a cappella group Pen tatonix hail from North Tex as, we are usually treated to a special holiday performance sometime during the season. That day is today. At 7pm, see Pentatonix: A Christmas Spectacular at Dickies Arena (1911 Montgomery St, 817-402-9000). The group is touring in support of a new album, Holidays Around the World, that’s in stores now. Tickets start at $45 at Ticketmaster.com.

Starting at 2pm the day be fore each Dallas Cowboys home game, you can attend a free event at Texas Lottery Plaza outside Toyota Music Factory (316 W Las Colinas Blvd, Irving, 972-810-1499), where you can meet current and former Cow boys, enjoy music by DJSC Brandon Wil liams, and win prizes. At each remaining date this season — today and Sat, Dec 3 — there will be a celebrity MC and a special mystery guest. RSVP at Prekindle.com.

By Jennifer Bovee

See a live-band Dark Side of the Moon/ Wizard of Oz sync-up at Dan’s Thursday.

Courtesy Facebook

Holidays Around the World brings Pentatonix home for the season. See them at Dickies Tue, Nov 22.

1.) For a taste of Thanksgiving without all the cooking, I have a sandwich for you to check out at a family-owned deli specializing in panini. The Tin Cup (1025 W Abram St, Arlington, 817-303-5518) serves up the Thanksgiving Day Sandwich with turkey, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, mozzarella cheese, and mayo on grilled light rye and served with potato sticks, a chocolate chip cookie, and a side of jalapeño-cranberry relish. This seasonal $12.50 specialty is available only thru Tue, Nov 22. No substitutions allowed and no halves, only whole sandwiches. The Tin Cup makes only a certain number per day, so call to reserve one now.

2.) If you do intend to cook this Thanksgiving, start with fresh veggies from the new Cowtown Farmers Market location at Veterans Park (8901 Clifford St, White Settlement) 8am-noon Sat. The usual artisan food, meat, and produce vendors will be on hand, along with special vendors like Busy B’s Bakery, selling staple items and seasonal gifts. (Cowtown is open ev ery Saturday, but the next Holiday Market will be on Sat, Dec 17.)

3.) Inspired by Charlie Brown, who said, “I can’t cook Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal, maybe toast,” Fort Worth Cookie Gal (@FortWorthCookieGal, 281-725-2441) has created the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Box. Each full box for $65 includes six Not Lit tle Debbie oatmeal cream pies, six maple pecan

bars, two apple crumble Thick Gal cookies, six mini cranberry buttermilk pies from Sweet Lucy’s, and your choice of a Biscoff chocolate fudge brownie or a pumpkin s’mores brownie. Half-sized boxes are $34. For item descriptions or to order, visit FortWorthCookieGal.com.

4.) Hotel Revel and 603 Vodka present the Turkey Sauced Bar Crawl on Sat, featuring drinks, food, and a scavenger hunt. Entry and parking are free, and there are prizes for the winners. The starting point is Grandma’s (715 W Magnolia Av, @GrandmasNSFW) at 6pm. Then you’ll crawl to the Boiled Owl (@The BoiledOwlTavern), Lazy Moose (@TheLazy MooseFW), The Usual (@TheUsualBar), The Radler (@RadlerFW), and Paco’s (@Pacos FTW) before the final stop, Sugarman’s at Ho

tel Revel (1165 8th Av, Ste 137, 817-928-3688). The first person to complete the scavenger hunt wins a grand prize. (I’ve also heard that Sugarman’s is hosting the Push N Pull Friends Giving event featuring a pozole verde by craft food trailer Funky Cavalera Fri. For details, keep an eye on Facebook.com/FunkyCalavera.)

5.) If the turkey shortage has you on the hunt for a different kind of Thanksgiving meal this year, Little Germany (6737 Camp Bowie Blvd, 682-224-2601) may have the answer. For $40, receive a Little Germany Como Pack that includes four schnitzels, four bratwurst sausag es, spaetzle, sauerkraut, red cabbage, and panfried potatoes. Individual sides are available in a variety of sizes, from 8 ounces up to large pans for $3.99 to $60. Pans of apple strudel can be purchased for $30 or $60 for small pans or large. Order now thru Wed, Nov 23, for pickup 10:30am-2pm Thu, Nov 24.

6.) For the parade- or football-watching por tion of Thanksgiving Day, some churros would make for a great snack. Leo’s Chur ro Bar, the food truck at 105 S Main St (@ LeosChurroBar), wants to sweeten up your Thanksgiving with Churro Boxes. For $25, receive 10 10-inch churros with five toppings on the side, including caramel sauce, Leo’s signature glaze, Nutella drizzle, peanuts, and strawberry crunch. Pre-order your box via direct message at Facebook.com/LeosChur roBar. Payments are accepted through Venmo or Zelle. Boxes will be ready for pickup 10am4pm on Thu, Nov 24. Any boxes not picked up by 4pm will be donated.

7.) Ol’ South Pancake House in Fort Worth (1509 S University Dr, 817-336-0311) and Burleson (225 E Renfro St, 817-989-9090) is offering a Thanksgiving Day Feast 11am8pm Thu, Nov 24, for $16.99 per person and $14.99 for senior plates. Along with turkey and dressing and coffee or tea, you receive your choice of two sides, including baked beans, candied yams, carrots, corn, green beans, mac ’n’ cheese, or mashed potatoes, plus housemade rolls and cranberry sauce. This also includes a slice of apple, pecan, or pumpkin pie. For large family meals and event to-go orders, call as soon as possible.

8.) For those seeking a more formal setting, Omni Hotel Fort Worth hosts its annual Thanksgiving Brunch on the second level, featuring chef-prepared items from the team at Omni’s in-house restaurant Cast Iron. Seating is available every half hour 11am-3pm Thu, Nov 24. The carved proteins include a juni per-brined boneless roast turkey breast with traditional stuffing, ale giblet gravy, and cran berry sauce; a pineapple and clove-studded ham with sweet potato casserole and a warm spiced apricot relish; a cherry-smoked brisket with roasted garlic cheddar mashed potatoes, chipotle barbecue sauce, and tobacco onion; and a banana leaf-wrapped fish with lemon grass coconut marinade, roasted vegetables, and coconut curry. To check out the salads, bread, desserts, and other offerings on the buf fet, visit OmniHotels.com/Hotels/Fort-Worth/ Dining. For reservations, find Cast Iron on OpenTable.com.

By Jennifer Bovee

Enjoy Thanksgiving in sandwich form at The Tin Cup thru Tue, Nov 22.

Courtesy The Tin Cup

Local Treasure

One of the best holes in the wall in town, El Meson Chapin is a Guatemalan home away from home.

Restaurante el Meson Chapin, 1560 N Sylvania Av, FW. 682-385-9246. 8:30am-6pm Sun, 8:30am8pm Mon, 8:30am-8pm Wed-Sat.

STORY AND PHOTOS BY KEN WHEATCROFT-PARDUE

In 2016, a year after my wife died, I end ed each day with a long sigh — somehow, I’d made it through another day. Thus, the

endless hole-in-the-wall tour was born. An old college buddy and fellow teacher retiree agreed to join me. Every month, we go to a hole-in-the-wall restaurant, usually fami ly-owned ethnic diners, which luckily are in abundance around here, so for me, holes in the wall have been, in part, my salvation.

One of our favorites is a little Guatema lan cafe in Sylvan Heights West on Sylvania Avenue, Restaurante el Meson Chapin. Like the best of the holes in the wall, it has great

food, reasonable prices, and service that comes from the heart.

This last visit, our waitress was friendly but didn’t speak English. No problema. On this tour, you have to be open to adventure. For me, it’s all good. I’m always happy to practice my rusty college Spanish. And I did all right. At least I think I did. I had to ask her to slow only down once, but if you don’t speak Spanish, the owner, a very congenial host, speaks English, and, of course, you can

always go back to the old reliable method of pointing at your menu item.

And what a menu, replete with all kinds of Guatemalan delectables, from tamal ap petizers and entrees that include plenty of caldos (ingredient-rich soups with huge chunks of meat and vegetables) to breakfast all day and interesting drinks. As my part ner in crime remarked as we chowed down on our feast, “This makes going to a regular

restaurant kind of silly.” Indeed.

Having gone a few times before, I can vouch for their all-day breakfast. My favor ite is the Desayuno Chapin Deluxe (6-ounce grilled steak, eggs, beans, homemade cheese, and tortillas) that is truly sublime in its combination of simplicity and tastiness.

On this day, we started with some appe tizers. I enjoyed my chuchito, a Guatemalan

tamal with chicken sauce that had just the right amount of spice to make it a beginning of a great meal. My buddy had the tascala, a corn omelet with cheese which was surpris ingly sweet, and la crema on the side made it that much better. You can also order tascala with beans, which I’ll try next time.

My entree was the carne adobada de cer do, which are marinated pork chops or ribs. I chose the former, and it did not disappoint. Tender and tasty, it was accompanied by re fried black beans, wonderfully fluffy rice,

and a super-interesting Guatemalan-style potato salad. Muy sabroso

My buddy opted for the pepian, a chick en stew with rice. According to the menu, it’s a meaty concoction made from a blend of tomatoes, green beans, seeds (sesame and pumpkin), and peppers. The broth was rich and aromatic, and the chicken was dropoff-the-bone juicy. Both entrees were served with two homemade Guatemalan flour torti llas, which are smaller but thicker than the Mexican variety.

After we ate, we topped it off with an atol de elote, a traditional Guatemalan sweet corn hot beverage. It was sweet and tasty, with a hint of cinnamon. It put in my mind all the pumpkin spice drinks that pop up ev ery fall, but this comforting drink you can get anytime.

The restaurant is brightly decorated with colorful Guatemalan knick-knacks, while pennants for the coming World Cup in Qatar flutter in the steady air-conditioned breeze. While we ate, a couple of regulars came in greeting the owner and exchanging handshakes. Then I noticed the channel of one TV changed to some futbol game. Yep, this a neighborhood joint that, I imagine, is a home away from home for Guatemalans and other Central Americans, whose cui sines are pretty similar.

Meson Chapin advertises itself as a restaurant and bakery, but it’s more. It’s a neighborhood hangout that sells shirts, cookies, snacks, and just about anything you can think of from “back home.” Even the name, Meson Chapin, roughly translates as “Guatemalan Cafe.” Don’t expect chips and hot sauce when you sit down, and while or dering may be an adventure, don’t let that put you off. You’ll enjoy some tasty food at good prices from people who care about giv ing you first-rate service. l

El Meson Chapin is a neighborhood joint that is a home away from home for Guatemalans and other Central Americans, whose cuisines are pretty similar.

MUSIC

Lankyfest

this third edition of Lanky’s party, and in terms of “what’ll we do next year?,” it has certainly raised the bar.

“At the first one,” Lanky said, “we did a pig roast in my backyard in Philadel phia. We had, like, 10 different people play throughout the day. It was really fun, and then [my wife and I] moved down here, and I thought it would be fun to do another one, so Jace did crawfish and cooked for every body. It was Memorial Day last year. His buddy Pug Johnson came up from the Beau mont area, and he played, I played, and some other people played in my backyard here in Fort Worth.”

The second Lankyfest nearly filled up the country songwriter’s backyard, so they needed a new spot. Lanky also wanted to top the previous years’ fixins, so he and Savoie started brainstorming.

BY STEVE STEWARD

On Sunday, McFly’s Pub hosts an all-day cookout/concert of country and Americana songwriters. Lankyfest features Cowtownby-way-of-Baltimore-County troubadour Mark Lanky, plus a bevy of other local per formers, plus a trio of alligators.

While the music will be live, the alliga tors will be dead, seasoned, and smoked on a big-ass grill. I recently met up with Lanky, his co-worker Jace Savoie, and local music enthusiast/show promoter Brighton Grisel at Lil’ Red’s Longhorn Saloon to talk about

“I talked to Jace about it,” Lanky said. “What’re we gonna do this year? We’ve al ready done pigs and crawfish, and he said, ‘Well, how about alligators?’ ”

“Jace is from Louisiana,” Grisel said.

Savoie laughed. Alligator, he said, is “not new to me. Mark said that, and I was like, ‘I’ve got an alligator guy! They’ll ship ’em up here,’ as far as the alligators them selves. All the other food is gonna feed most of the people, but the spectacle … it’s still gonna have the head and the feet on it, so it’s like a whole alligator on the pit, and so you can prop its mouth open with whatever sponsor you want to put in there. I’m gonna set it up in a way where one [of the gators’

It’ll be a chompin’ good time at McFly’s this Sunday for the country/Americana cookout/concert.

Mark Lanky headlines a cookout at McFly’s that will bring together some country/Americana purveyors with lots of grilled alligator.

mouths], I can kinda open and close, and people can take pictures like that.”

I had alligator at Razzoo’s a long time ago. I just remember it tasted like batter and what things taste like when you’ve had a few margaritas. Savoie set me straight.

“It’s like a really flavorful smoked tur key,” he said, “but a little bit more of a sea food texture, but we’re gonna do it in a cou ple different ways. Basically, it’s a lot like doing pulled pork, so we’ll do tortillas for ta cos, sandwiches. We’re doing three different gators. We sold the gators to the sponsors, so their business is going to be represented in the preparation of the gators. … We have Trauma Hogs BBQ, which is a competitive barbecue company out of Arkansas that has their own rubs. Community Coffee [from Louisiana] bought another, so we’re gonna have cayenne and coffee, and where [Lanky and I] work at, the Best Hat Store, our boss bought one, so that’ll be my own personal one. You filet open the tails and stuff them with whatever you want to. … I’m gonna make a Cajun-chicken one. … Everybody’s gone to Pappadeaux and had fried alligator bites, but most people haven’t seen it done this way. It’s a spectacle.”

With Savoie’s expertise covering the grub and the sponsors, Grisel took on the booking, having befriended Lanky after catching his set while working as Vincent

Neil Emerson’s tour manag er in 2021.

Lanky, Grisel said, “did this cover of this one Fred Eaglesmith song, and I was jamming it all the time, and I made a whole tour vid eo edit of our road trip set to [Lanky’s cover]. And I didn’t ask his permission, so I hit him up after I’d already posted it, and I said, ‘Hey, I used your song. … Maybe I should have asked you first,’ and he’s like, ‘No, I like it,’ so I said, ‘Well, if you’re ever in Fort Worth, let’s do something,’ and he goes, ‘I live in Fort Worth!’ ”

Grisel started to frequent the Best Hat Store and got to know Lanky and Savoie and some of their friends. Grisel had planned a benefit at Near Southside bar Finn MacCool’s for his brother Range ly Grisel’s kidney treatments and booked Lanky. A few weeks later, Grisel put togeth er a Lanky-headlined show at another Near Southside bar, the Boiled Owl Tavern.

I was at both shows as well as Lanky’s performance last Friday at Lola’s Fort Worth. At all three, everyone in the room stopped their conversations to tune into Lanky’s melancholy baritone and plaintive ballads, what I mentally noted at the Owl as being like Marty Robbins by way of True Detective. Lanky, who released his fourth LP last week, appropriately titled No. 4, is clearly influenced by Waylon Jennings and Townes Van Zandt (per his own admission), but he sounds like he is aiming for songwrit ing traditions that are even older than those

legends’. He’s tall, with tat toos down his arms and up his neck, and he favors long sleeves and black ties, suit jackets, and cowboy hats.

He is reticent but unfail ingly polite, and his songs reflect those qualities — they’re not so much unfussy as they are economical, but they hit with the gravitas of a Southern gothic epic.

Regarding his music, he seems most in terested in writing and performing it for its own sake. He’s toured, but he’s happiest at home. As a kid growing up in rural Mary land, his parents exposed him to the pan theon of rock ’n’ roll, and then he worked at a record store in high school. “I just got exposed to really good music … Waylon, Townes, stuff like that. Plus, my parents, they listened to pretty good music.”

Three years ago, when his then-girl friend/now-wife landed a job in North Tex as, he moved with her. He bartended in the Stockyards, got a gig at the Best Hat Store, and kept playing his guitar. Grisel has prob ably been his biggest champion, and he couldn’t wait to put together a showcase for him.

“I am just stoked that [Lanky] believed in me to book the show,” Grisel said, “and having this guy [Savoie] along to add the fla vor. We’re just gonna throw a really fun par ty. Summer Dean jumped on the bill. South Texas Tweek, who I met when I was work ing for [Emerson], he’s playing. We’ve got Tommy Luke — I think he’s bringing Gary Grammer with him — and Pug Johnson’s

playing again. Simon Flory’s playing, too.”

A friend of Lanky’s, a California-based NASCAR photographer named Chris An derson, is also in the lineup.

“He’s super-talented,” Lanky said, “used to sing in a band in the ’90s, and I’ve been pushin’ him to get back into it, so he’ll be playin’ first.”

For his part, Savoie can’t wait to show off his gator-smoking talents. “My family’s comin’ up from the swampland area, so I’ll have critics there who’ll know if I fuck up. We’re parlaying it into our family’s Thanks giving.”

Along with the bands, the entry ticket includes food.

“There’ll be other things there besides gator, too,” Savoie said. “It’s the star, but it has a supporting cast. There’ll be red beans and rice, coleslaw, ribs, maybe another pork butt … . Another one of our sponsors is a guy who builds custom cookers — AJ’s Cus tom Cookers in Saginaw — so he’s lettin’ me use one of his competition rigs … so I’m ex cited to use that, and I’m gonna fill it up.”

The event’s merch is by Printed Threads, and Dreamy Life will be doing a record-sale popup. Given what a small town this city can be, it has the makings of a fairly memorable hangout, a laid-back, locally in vested get together, the kind of thing Grisel thinks Fort Worth’s culture needs.

“This is the kind of thing they’d do at the Sagebrush or the White Horse” in Austin, he said. “I think it’s just something that needs to be happening in Fort Worth, y’know? I want to bring that Austin [coun try music party] vibe up here.” l

Lankyfest 12pm Sun w/Mark Lanky, Summer Dean, South Texas Tweek, Tommy Luke, Pug Johnson, Simon Flory, and Chris Anderson at McFly’s Pub, 6104 LTJG Barnett Rd, FW. $25-30. 817-744-8272.

HearSay

Cory Cross Would Say Country singer-songwriter Cory Cross has a new single out, and it’s everything you would expect and want from a slow-burn ing ballad. “I Would Say” also features Dal las singer-songwriter Jenna Clark.

“I played a show with Jenna at The Post a little while ago,” Cross recalled, “and I was just really impressed with her voice. … I’m really happy with how [the single] turned out.

Recorded at Cloudland Recording Studio in August with Joe Tacke (Mean Motor Scooter, Uncle Toasty, Itchy Richie & The Burnin’ Sensations), who also mixed and mastered it, “I Would Say” also features tasty steel guitar playing by Fort Worth’s Burton Lee. The single represents Cross’ second time working at Cloudland. His first effort was the three-song live EP Cloudland Sin gle Mic Sessions earlier in May.

Cross says he’s always been a songfirst guy. From playing coffee shops around town to sharing stages with Leon Bridges and Vincent Neil Emerson, Cross has nev er really wavered from his core song-first inspirations.

“When I first started writing music, it was Ryan Adams and Conor Oberst,” Cross said. “Those are the guys that I really lis tened to.”

Cross put out his first record, the foursong EP Holy Spirit, in 2020 and since then has released two singles, two live sessions, and another single, “Do You Ever?”

Like Cory Cross Live in Louisiana, the single was recorded at Steel Records in Shreveport, where Cross splits time with Fort Worth for work.

The new single was written “decades ago,” Cross said. “I wrote it when I lived in Austin when I was 21 or 22. It’s a spe cific type of song. It’s not just a duet but a conversational duet, but I wanted to get a foundation and traction of my work before I released it. I was also waiting for someone to fit the song, and … [Jenna] fit perfectly.”

For 2023, Cross said he’s working on music with a “honkytonk garage-rock”type feel which will also be recorded with Tacke at Cloudland. Cross also hopes to put out another live-in-studio record at some point early next year.

“To be honest, if people are listening to my music, that’s my goal,” Cross said. “I want to play my music in front of as many people that I can and get my music out to as many people as I can.” — Juan R. Govea

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Cory Cross: “I want to play my music in front of as many people that I can.”

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