INSIDE
Fort Worth’s 78th Annual Fort Worth Community Christmas Tree traveled 1,236 miles from Cadillac, Michigan to Sundance Square. It’s a six-story tall (82 foot) Norway Spruce; and is the
Buck U
The last few games have only proven how good the Frogs could have been this season.
By Buck D. Elliott
Eats & Drinks
The Great British Baking Show represents comfort TV at its finest.
By Kristian Lin
Anthony Mariani, Editor
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EDITORIAL BOARD
The city’s annual Christmas Tree tradition was started by Fort Worth Star-Telegram publisher Amon Carter in 1947. Carter took great pride in Ft Worth’s tree being taller than the
National Christmas tree outside the White House. This bragging right continues today with Ft Worth’s 2024 tree being 52’ taller. In fact, Ft Worth’s 2024 Christmas tree is even 8’ taller than the tree in New York City’s Rockefeller Center. Sundance Square has managed the city’s annual Christmas Tree project for the past 20 years.
The tree lighting ceremony is Tuesday, December 3rd from 6-7 pm with the lighting countdown at 7pm. THE TREE IS HERE!
Music
New sonic terrain defines indierockers Spring Palace’s debut LP.
By Patrick Higgins
Laurie James, Anthony Mariani, Emmy Smith, Steve Steward
Cover photo courtesy Sundance Square
2024 Turkey Awards
From racist football fans and a lazy school board to a greedy governor and new, even greedier Mavs owners,
there’s a lot of burnt bird to go around.
BY WEEKLY WRITERS
Welcome to our annual get-together, with sane people on one side of the table and complete nutjobs on the other, separated only by the hot air between us. Every year around this time, we Weekly scribes feel compelled to gather ’round the deep fryer to draw attention to all the wrongdoing and evilness in our backyard every day. Pointing it out throughout the year doesn’t impact policy or procedure much, so we always use the end of November as a time to reiterate just how unhinged some of our family members, friends, neighbors, business leaders, public servants, and elected officials have been. The point: Maybe if enough of us shout/ march loudly in response, the power structure can begin to crumble from the bottom up, because all those fat (white) cats at the top can’t insulate themselves to only their bootlickers. Basically, the country’s getting browner, more feminine, and gayer every day, and there’s nothing haters can do to stop it. Except maybe win a few elections on the way to the grave, the very plots, I’m delighted to say, upon which we will gyrate, howl, and smear sheep’s blood all over our exposed bellies one day soon. — Anthony Mariani, Editor
Talkin’ Turkey
This summer, the City of Fort Worth swung open its taxpayer-funded doors to Nazis and bigots. White supremacists were permitted to speak at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (a public place of calm, contemplation, and reflection!), and gay-bashing peeping Toms were allowed to spread their particular brand of bathroom-prowling hate at a community center on the Near Southside (“Peace Police,” Jun 13). The city argued that it’s always rented to anyone, regardless of affiliation (some b.s. about the First Amendment), but then we (“State Sanctioned,” Jun 5) and a couple other rags pointed out the actual policy: “Use of community centers shall not be permitted to groups which practice, profess, or have as their policy (official or unofficial) discrimination against persons on the basis of
sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, color, or national origin.” The city said it would stop renting to just anyone with cash in their hand. That’s the thing about the First Amendment. Free speech does not protect hate speech, and you’d have to be a complete dupe or a Republican — like nearly every member of Fort Worth leadership — to not see that. As if we weren’t aware already, the hoods are off downtown.
Butterballin’
As we’re only five months removed from the Dallas Mavericks’ first NBA Finals appearance in 13 years, it is easy to forget that in the middle of that magical season, owner Mark Cuban sold off roughly three quarters of his stake in the team. For more than two decades, Cuban has been the de facto mascot for the organization. His wild courtside antics have calmed in recent years, but as a fixture on the entrepreneur cosplay TV show Shark Tank, he’s been the most visible owner in the league. Not only did the move seem random and unexpected, but the buyer deserves a hefty amount of scrutiny. Las Vegas Sands, the casino conglomerate of the Adelson family, is now the carpetbagging majority owner of our hometown team.
It’s the casino angle that apparently prompted the sale. With the Adelsons now in town, lobbying for legalized gambling in Texas is about to shift into hyperdrive. Cuban has been a vocal supporter of legalizing sports betting, and visions of Mavs-linked sports books and casinos swirling around his head were too big a temptation to resist. For those eager to lay down bets, the smart money is on a new Mavs arena with a built-in casino soon breaking ground at the former site of Cowboys Stadium in Irving (land that Las Vegas Sands has already purchased) as soon as the Adelsons money-whip the Texas legislature into legalization. And money-whipping politicians is precisely what they do.
The Adelson name might not necessarily be a household one unless you’re referring to the houses of Congress. Led by the late Sheldon Adelson and now his widow, Miriam Adelson, they have been the top financial contributors to Republican political campaigns in three out of the last five election cycles, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on GOP causes. Even if that dough is being spent to further your own particular political ideology, surely we can all agree that billionaires buying political influence is not only gross but unhealthy for democracy.
The idea that cheering on Luka Dončić et al. now directly supports political quid
pro quo is heartbreaking. Cuban has been an outspoken critic of many of the candidates the Adelsons have bankrolled, yet when it comes down to it, he’s still a billionaire in the billionaire club and he can look past it even if we fans have a hard time doing the same.
Board’s Head
Everyone has that one family member who’ll show up to Thanksgiving dinner and vow they’ll be making changes this year. They’ll stop chugging PBR before 10am every day, they say, and dating strippers (sorry, “entertainers”). They’re not going to eat every deviled egg and pass out on the couch before Grandma takes the pumpkin pies out of the oven. They’ll stop blaming immigrants for the fact that they’ve been “laid off” … for the third time this year. But we all know they won’t. Sadly, for Fort Worthians, our local school district is that family member who swigs holiday brandy and makes the same empty self-improvement promises time and time again.
It all began with Mayor Mattie Parker calling for greater accountability from the board for feeling less-than larger districts like Dallas and Houston, which have touted their improvements over recent years. Ironically, those two blue-bubble cities are improving, as was Fort Worth, but Parker scrapes her knees before the Christian right, who are gunning to gut public education at large, so of course she was going to spew, as Taylor Swift would call it, “covert narcissism” disguised “as altruism.” Parker vowed to help the district in any way she could in what was actually a not-so-veiled threat. The board responded expectedly: by throwing three-year superintendent Dr. Angelica Ramsey on the sacrificial sword and reinstalling Dr. Karen Molinar (again) as the interim big cheese while the search and hamster wheel begin anew.
But the only people suffering amid this grandstanding back-and-forth are the students and residents. Living in a district in constant flux, they’re continually trying to prove to conservative leadership that they’ll jump through the performative pre-meal prayer when they actually shouldn’t give two piles of canned cranberry sauce what the folks at the heads of the table think. All students and residents can do is hang on, because that unwelcome family member doesn’t really want to improve themselves anyway.
Pass the Gravy … to the Rich Folks
Continuing the trend of lawmaking priorities that in no way benefit the majority of Texans — which has been his laser focus since taking office nearly 10 years ago — Gov. Greg Abbott is promising to add private school vouchers to his list of legislative “accomplishments.” He has made his career on an agenda that panders almost exclusively to the white Christian right. His resume boasts: gutting the state’s tax revenue, constructing a wasteful and impractical border wall, and claiming to be a “champion of personal liberty” by doing things like banning pornography and women’s bodily autonomy.
While Abbott’s attorney general, documented fraudster Ken Paxton, wastes
millions of tax dollars on lawsuits against cities whose citizens willfully pass relaxed cannabis policies, the governor is working to make sure those same tax monies go to line the pockets of the Christian education industry. Not only is his administration in the process of shoving Jay-zus and anti-historical propaganda into Texas public school curricula, but he’s intent on diverting funds meant to support all public education toward religious (let’s be honest, really just Christian) institutions, so that lily-white suburbanites don’t have to learn about the existence of dinosaurs or civil rights leaders or deal with the discomfort of sending their brood to school with brown kids. The only thing this is likely to accomplish is exacerbating the already untenable public-school teacher exodus and moving Texas even lower from its current rank of 29th in state education quality to the obvious eventual goal of 49th. (No one will ever out-ignorant West Virginia.)
Jonesing for Some Bird
Despite a surprise win against the Commanders last Sunday, there’s no way to see this Cowboys season as anything but a complete and total failure. The front office, led by the crazed ego of owner/“GM” Jerry Jones, chose to address the personnel deficiencies highlighted by the meltdown against Green Bay in the playoffs last year by essentially doing nothing. After declaring an “all-in” strategy for the offseason, the Jones boys apparently decided that addition by subtraction would be their tactic.
They sat idle and watched as a large contingent of their depth left to join Dan Quinn in Washington and willfully ignored replacements during free agency, looking to the draft instead. There, they found little help. Though the last decade has seen the Cowboys hit on twice as many picks as they’ve missed on, the troubling trend of selections who can’t make it onto the field which began last season (Mazi Smith, anyone?) continued this year. Offensive tackle Tyler Guyton, a first-rounder, has been benched twice so far for excessive penalties and poor performance, and a second-round edge rusher, Marshawn Kneeland, has missed the last seven weeks with a torn meniscus.
Gov. Greg Abbott claims his voucher program is about “school choice,” but it’s really about taking your tax dollars away and giving them to the (white, wealthy, Christian) schools he wants to choose.
Mark Cuban sold his soul along with a majority stake when he offloaded controlling interest in the Dallas Mavericks to the largest GOP donor in American history.
Jerry’s big excuse for not signing FA’s currently playing at All-Pro levels on team-friendly deals across the league was that the salary cap was forcing his frugality. Had Jones and company been more proactive, they might not have been in that position. Yet they played chicken in contract negotiations with their two best players, dragging the process through the entirety of training camp only to then sign wide receiver CeeDee Lamb and quarterback Dak Prescott to the exact deals the two players were bargaining for in the spring, the latter making Prescott the highest paid player in the history of the NFL.
Sending a patchwork roster onto the field led by a lame-duck coaching staff with antiquated philosophies has torpedoed the season with the team hovering around a Top-10 pick in next year’s draft. Let’s hope they hit on that one, because that’s all they apparently have right now.
Turkey in 4K
There’s surveillance video. There are actual moving pictures of the cop grabbing the woman by the arm and whipping her face-first to the ground (“More Pain for Cop Watcher,” Aug 21). It’s indisputable. A Fort Worth police officer manhandled 60-year-old cop watcher Carolyn Rodriguez and gave her a disjointed shoulder, assorted lacerations, and a concussion and while she was booked on suspicion of interfering
with public duties, resisting arrest, and evading arrest, the officer was reassigned out of patrol pending the outcome of an internal investigation. Well, he’s back on the streets, and Rodriguez’s trial is on Dec 9.
Local legacy media’s coverage has been almost as bad (“Takedown, Blue,” Jun 28) as the assault itself. With the exception of the Star-Telegram (and us), pretty much every other local station, newspaper, and magazine soft-played what actually happened and what anyone with two functioning eyeballs can clearly see. The reason? Access. Lousy access. If WFAA, the Morning News, NBC 5, and all the others wrote the ugly truth — that a Fort Worth cop slammed the living shit out of an elderly woman — it might
have pissed off the cops, and then when Mr. Local Legacy Media Gumshoe goes calling Fort Worth police for information on some totally unrelated cases, FWPD conveniently forgets to call him back. And if this sounds a lot like national legacy media’s kid-gloved treatment of that orange rap/cist who’ll be stinking up the White House in a couple months, that’s because it’s exactly what it is, and local legacy media should be ashamed. But we know they aren’t.
Put on Your Bibs
The city was all abuzz over the Michelin Star coming to town earlier this month. No Tarrant County restaurants won anything, but three were bestowed with Bib Gourmand Awards. The Michelin people say that’s their distinction for “great value” that “highlights simple yet skillful cooking at an affordable price.”
While absolutely not taking anything away from the accomplishments of Bib Gourmand winners Birrieria y Taqueria Cortez, Goldee’s, Panther City BBQ, and Arlington’s Smoke ’N’ Ash BBQ, it seems the Michelin reviewers stopped at the casual end of our culinary spectrum and never ventured further.
Some of the area’s food writers and hospitality professionals chalked this up to the local culinary scene’s apparent lack of the elements that, say, the scenes in Houston or Austin possess. We’re not a port city, they say. We rely heavily on beef, they say. We don’t support new restaurants, they say. Well, shame on them for not having a little more pride in what makes our town’s food scene vibrant.
Criteria for a Michelin Star include “using high-quality products and ingredients, mastering culinary techniques, showcasing the chef’s personality in the cuisine, and providing value for money.” At least two of the five kitchens that Jon Bonnell owns (Bonnell’s Fine Texas Cuisine, Waters, Jon’s Grill, Buffalo Bros) tick off most of those boxes. So do Ellerbe Fine Foods and the venerable Paris 7th Restaurant as well. Osteria 61 is expensive, but dining there is exquisite, as it is at their sister restaurant Grace. Nona Tata or Lonesome Dove seem to also meet three of the four criteria. And Don Artemio, anyone? Anyone?
Then, there’s the Michelin Green Star, “an annual award which highlights restaurants at the forefront of the industry when it comes to their sustainable practices. [Restaurants] hold themselves accountable for both their ethical and environmental standards and work with sustainable producers and suppliers to avoid waste and reduce or even remove plastic and other nonrecyclable materials from their supply chain.”
Perhaps the Michelin folks missed James Provisions in Hurst, where owner Deborah Williamson doesn’t use seed oils, selects the menu seasonally with as much locally sourced produce as she can find, and offers a plant-forward menu. Bonnell’s Fine Texas Cuisine pretty much started the farmto-table market here in Fort Worth, and Ellerbe and Righteous Foods also deserve a nod for their sustainability practices.
We could go on, but then we’d become tiresome. Take yourself to Goldee’s or Panther City, order the injera brisket nachos at Smoke
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We all saw the video, yet cowardly local legacy media downplayed a Fort Worth cop slamming the ever-loving shit out of an elderly woman.
’N’ Ash, or get gloriously birria-soggy at Cortez and be happy that Michelin’s master tastemakers noticed a few good restaurants here — even if they missed a whole lot more.
White Meat Only
What’s really sad about political discourse today is that one side is totally OK palling around with Nazis. Didn’t we fight a war to get rid of them at one point? And isn’t it totally fine to punch one in the stupid face whenever possible? Don’t tell that to the Arlington Heights High School fans in the crowd at a football game against the mostly Hispanic North Side High School. Whenever the North Side cheerleaders went over to shake the hands of the Heights squad, they were verbally assaulted from the stands, called racial slurs and told to go back to Mexico (“Follow the Leader,” Sep 19). And there was at least one Heights fan waving a flag for Donald Trump, the U.S. president-elect who’s described Mexicans and other immigrants from south of the border as “murderers,” “rapists,” “vermin,” and “animals” “poisoning the blood of our country.”
Can a handful of knuckleheads give everyone else a bad name? Yes, but since no one was held accountable due to “conflicting reports,” Heights said, we can guess the school is just A-OK with a status quo in which deferring to the worst scenario would piss off Whitey. And, lordy, we can’t have that. They might tweet mean things about us!
Stuffed
Even though the neighbors don’t want it and 300 others signed a petition against it, Fort Worth City Council will vote on allowing it on Dec 10, once again underlining the fact that our elected officials rarely work for us and instead slave for ideologues, overlords, and their biggest donors.
In no universe, should Mercy Culture Church’s shelter for human-trafficking victims even get past the Starbucksconversation stage when the address would be made public — for victims in recovery, privacy is paramount for obvious reasons. Now, even though the city’s zoning commission decided against the Justice Residences, City Council is going to make the ultimate decision, and the head lawyer representing the church/cult has been claiming he has the votes to move forward with the facility. This is wrong on so many levels, but welcome to Christian Nationalist Nation, y’all.
Due to shoehorning in a 43,000-squarefoot building with 100 beds, traffic will explode. The already backed-up area near I-35W and Oakhurst Scenic Drive will choke, sending a lot of the residents of this old, beautiful neighborhood elsewhere and driving down property values for those who can’t afford to relocate or simply don’t want to, all because a cult cosplaying as a church wants to impose Jesus on vulnerable souls.
Not Thicker than Oil
Texas is no longer for sale. It has now been completely purchased by a wrecking crew of wealthy, rapacious rednecks and religious nuts for only a small fraction of their wealth.
No worries. I’m sure they won’t want anything in return, right?
As inane MSM commentators opine that Democrats are too elitist because they believe in facts, Republicans have inexplicably been christened as populists — even though they had two wealthy people who graduated from Ivy League schools as their standard bearers alongside new Texan Elon Musk, the richest person in the world. Never mind that the Biden-Harris administration, with more than two years of full employment, actually helped working-class people more than Donald Trump did in his first term and more than he’s ever likely to do in his second — and, we hope like hell, last — stint.
In Texas, we’re used to oil tycoons giving our leaders their marching orders. Evidently, we like our air and water dirty. We’re proud of our high maternal death rate, forcing women to give birth and criminalizing helping them leave the state to get the medical care they need. We’re not concerned if workers die in our blazing summer heat because they no longer have mandated water breaks. We love our grid failing us both in the summer and winter. As Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick urged us during COVID times, we’re happy to sacrifice our very lives for the wealthy few. We love our leaders to speak like Trump, with just the right mixture of total ignorance and bullying bluster. And, soon, because the wealthy zealots have completely taken over, we’re going to have a public school system so underfunded we’ll have to sell it at bargain-basement rates.
And for all this greatness, we have to thank three billionaire oilmen from West
Texas: Tim Dunn and the Wilks brothers (Dan and Farris), who helped finance Abbott’s plan to unseat rural Republicans who bravely voted against his ridiculous voucher bill — a big wet kiss to the rich and a finger in the face to the rest of us.
It’s now certain that the legislature will vote to break with the Texas Constitution and underfund our public schools. This is what corrupt Republicans do: underfund a public institution until near-death, then sell it to cronies for half-price.
Dunn, Dan, and Farris do all this out of their “strong” Christian beliefs. They answered fellow billionaire Betsy DeVos’ call to champion vouchers to “advance God’s kingdom.” They put millions into Texans United for a Conservative Majority, a PAC whose logo depicts our state capitol topped with a crucifix. So, in Texas, it’s Christian Nationalism, here we come!
For professed Christians, we must say, this trio of billionaires harbors more than a few unchristian beliefs, like further militarizing our already militarized border, stopping gay marriage, and increasing the suicide rate among trans people in high school. Well, these fat cats would say they’re only against trans teens, but it comes out to the same thing.
Dunn and the Wilks brothers’ beliefs are curious to followers of Jesus, who was a first-century Palestinian rabbi who believed in the power of radical love and preached for the poor against the wealthy. Gays were well-known in Jesus’ time, yet he never condemned them. Likewise, as a Jew, Jesus continued on page 7
would have followed the Torah’s frequent admonitions to take care of the sojourners or, as we would call them, immigrants.
But, as we now know, facts are elitist. If, like our country, Texans want to be governed by obscenely rich ignoramuses, so be it, but let’s stop kidding ourselves. We’re no longer a democracy. Oligarchs rule. The people drool.
Empty Plates
Over the river and through the woods, wait at a stoplight for 20 minutes, then drive down a gravel road to grandmother’s house we go to vote against school-improvement bonds. Exurb voters are really frying their own turkeys this year, and when they call the fire department to put out the inevitable grease explosion, they’ll have to wait, because they live in the middle of freaking nowhere.
Third suburbs across North Texas, namely Justin (Northwest ISD), Argyle, and Rockwall voted down minute tax increases to help their local school districts balance their budgets or make other capital improvements. We get it. People don’t want to pay more taxes, but if you’re not willing to fork out an extra 20 bucks a month in property taxes to help local kids, why do you live in the middle of nowhere anyway? There’s nothing there, save for some chain restaurants and other seemingly rustic crap that only the whitest of white people enjoy. These are the kind of places you’re supposed to move to because they have good schools
and are full of other parents running from real life, back to an imaginary 1980s existence, when kids could be kids — as long as they’re the right color and have the requisite creature comforts. While it might be nice to save enough money every month to keep Netflix ad-free without concern, these folks are handicapping their own home values by degrading their local school districts and driving potential buyers to the next personality-less custom-builder farm.
Knives Are Out
The Pride event had a very clear purpose: LGBTQ+ children and their parents could visit early, and LGBTQ+ others could party into the night. But that clarity did not stop right-wing bloviators from conflating the two events into one and dragging the host through the worst of social media (“AntiRainbow Coalition,” Sep 27). As if Ivy Aranaught would have backed down. The
owner of Higher Purpose Emporium on the North Side has been through worse, much worse, since opening three years ago. At her first Pride event, a guy brandished a firearm at her. Aranaught did not back down then and isn’t backing down now. “The very first Pride fair that we did, we had protesters come from, like, three different churches,” Aranaught remembered. “This guy was calling me and this 12-year-old girl a bunch of slurs, accusing us of being pedophiles.” No, Aranaught will still be selling her metaphysical wares no matter how many turkeys hiding behind crosses try to put her out of business (“Reaching Higher,” Oct 30).
Undercooked Turkey
It’s been a couple of seasons from hell for the evangelical Christians in North Texas. Robert Morris, a co-founder of Southlake’s Gateway Church and former spiritual adviser to Donald Trump (heh), was forced to step down in July because of what a press release described as “inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady,” and whichever PR flack described Morris’ pedophilia with those words should crawl into a hole. Morris was only the highest profile of a series of churchmen forced from their jobs, from Tony Evans at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church (for an unspecified sin) to Josiah Anthony at Argyle’s Cross Timbers Church. Why haven’t these churches been publicly reduced to ash the way the Catholics and their sex abuser priests were 20 years ago? Mostly because these churches don’t belong to the same organization or denomination and don’t have some ecclesiastical authority
MORE TRAINS MORE OFTEN
Protestors and counterprotestors clashed briefly outside Higher Purpose Emporium during a Pride event.
overseeing them from Rome or Jerusalem. Or Jacksonville. That makes for a more dangerous situation, because although Gateway’s followers voted with their feet and left the church by the thousands, it’s harder for the powerful men at these institutions to be held accountable when they step out of line (especially knowing they can run for president as Republicans). Word to all these churches: Trust in God, but pay for a background check on your pastor. In the meantime, we give these abusers some turkey fat in the collection plate. l
This story 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.
Reflections and Realizations
Sonny Dykes secures a winning season against Arizona with a W that showcases what could have been.
BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT
Here’s what I wrote before the season began three months ago: “This season’s resetting of expectations for Frog faithful should leave fanatics primed to consider a seven- or eight-win season from the Frogs a hopping success.” It doesn’t really feel like it, though, does it?
It’s appropriate enough that Thanksgiving is supposed to be a season of reflection and thanks for the blessings we have, not of how much better things can be, but forget that noise. Stay bitter, Frog Nation, because this season should have been better, much better, and we’re going to discuss why.
Saturday’s spat with Arizona, much like the Frogs’ last game against Oklahoma State, went off mostly without dramatic trepidation for local faithful as TCU rolled up more than 450 yards of offense en route to 49 points. Andy Avalos’ defense intercepted the ’Zonies on the first play of the game and promptly produced points. Despite the Wildcats’ kicker keeping his team in the game throughout the first half, a TCU score before the break and four consecutive offensive drives for touchdowns coming out of the locker room provided a mostly celebratory senior day for the home crowd. QB Josh Hoover tossed one interception in the first half, and backup quarterback Ken Seals suffered a strip-six in garbage time to make the final score seem somewhat more respectable for the visitors at 28-49.
This leaves the Frogs at 7-5, bowl eligible, and on the precipice of an eight-win season if they can handle the Cincinnati Bearcats on an early Saturday evening in Ohio. The ’Cats will be fighting to become bowl eligible as they’re currently 5-6 and have dropped four in a row. If TCU has proved nothing else over the past two weeks, it’s that they’re capable of extending a poor
team’s losing streak. But the overarching question remains. What could have been this season?
Avalos, who is in his first campaign, has shown consistent scheme and execution improvement as the defense continues to tackle more effectively, produce pressure, and force turnovers. Offensively, the early part of this season has been classic Kendal Briles: produce a boatload of stats while losing.
The most effective adjustment in hindsight was moving Savion Williams from an occasional wildcat quarterback to a full-time running back along with additional duties. Williams has passed, thrown, and run for touchdowns this season (two on Saturday). The Frogs rushed for five total scores against Arizona, none of which were from Hoover being ramrodded into the endzone, which is an accomplishment for this team all its own. But, knowing what we do now, this season could and should have been so much more.
The Big 12 is a college football case study in mediocrity right now. The top four teams all have two conference losses, and the next five, including TCU, have three. The conference was wide open for the taking this year, and the Frogs had one of the easier paths to rumble through with minimal damage, but an epic meltdown against UCF and a performance flatter than the Midland-Odessa landscape while hosting Houston has left TCU watching a probable championship game between Arizona State and *chokes back vomit* Colorado?
Soberly, college football is no longer a sport of year-to-year improvement, where a young team with good prospects is expected to bring their experience back to do better in a follow-up campaign — that just isn’t how things work anymore. You have to win with what you have and hope to retain players and add talent through the transfer portal while shoveling NIL money into the fire. Most of TCU’s key production pieces have two games remaining. Williams and Jack Bech will be on NFL rosters this
time next year. The eligibility of elder statesmen JP Richardson (who logged his second consecutive 100-yard receiving performance, against Arizona) will expire, and he has professional-level potential as well. The running-back room is young, but none of them were particularly effective before Williams joined the rotation. Eric McAlister hasn’t given any indication he’ll fly the coop, but you never know, and he should be the highlighted target for Hoover next season. This receiving corps is and was tremendously talented and could have delivered a better season if adjustments by this coaching staff had been successfully implemented earlier, most specifically Williams as a running back.
In an ironic twist of fate, SMU was the best team the Frogs lined up across from all season. The Ponies lost a close game to BYU but are unblemished otherwise and currently ranked 13th. They’ve clinched their spot in the ACC title game against either Miami or Clemson. This means they control their destiny in achieving a playoff berth, even if the committee would rather they not be included.
TCU lost to SMU by 24 points in a game in which the Frogs committed five turnovers. The Frogs fell to Houston by 11 after losing the ball four times. Both losses against Baylor and UCF were clean, zero turnovers, and short of paydirt by a combined four points. TCU’s ball security has improved in the latter half of the season — two lost over the last three games — but was bad enough early that the Frogs are still 120th in the nation in turnover margin and dead last in the conference.
It wouldn’t be the first time I’m a victim of past-me’s advice, but it’s apropos to heed it now as much as ever: Frog fanatics should be grateful for a winning season, perhaps even excited about the future, but it’s always human nature to ponder how much better things could have been, and they could have nay, should have — been much better than this. l
TCU is 4-1 since Savion Williams became a fixture in the Frogs’ backfield.
Courtesy TCU Athletics
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If you’ve always wanted to do a pinup shoot, now is the time.
Whether you’re treating yourself to a customized hat accessorized with your choices of chains, feathers, leather strips, and more, or buying one as a present (your main job right now), be sure and shop at Flea Style in the Stockyards (128 E Exchange Av, Ste 580, Fort Worth, 682-224-5887) this week. Starting on Black Friday, every $100 spent on apparel earns you a complimentary black-and-white (or teal) checkered sweater (limit of two per person) while supplies last.
The seasonal offerings at Perfect Touch Day Spa (2525 Weisenberger St, Fort Worth, 817870-3610) include sessions for couples and individuals that can be purchased in-person or at PerfectTouchSpa.com. The Holiday Couple’s Package for $300 includes 1.75 hours of pampering in which two people enjoy a Champagne Couple’s Massage followed by a Chocolate Peppermint Body Polish. I hope Santa brings me a Holiday Bliss Spa Package for $265 to enjoy four hours of pampering, including a facial, warm stone massage, spa manicure, paraffin hand treatment, and pedicure. Gift certificates are available in increments of $25 and up and can be used toward any spa services from our 2024 best spa winner. For impromptu contests and specials, keep an eye on Facebook.com/ PerfectTouchDaySpa.
Those spending $100 or more on apparel at Flea Style right now will receive a complimentary black-and-white (or teal) checkered sweater.
LOCAL FOR HOLIDAYS 2024
Remember the glorious queso from Torchy’s Tacos (nine area locations) that won the critic’s choice for best queso in Best Of 2024? Well, you have a chance to win that very same dish for free for a year. (A year!) How? Simply give the gift of Torchy’s Tacos by purchasing $250 worth of gift cards in-person at your favorite location to unlock the exclusive 2025 Queso Gold Card while supplies last. Lucky cardholders get a full-size award-winning green chile queso when they stop by Torchy’s and make a purchase throughout 2025. The cards are limited and will not be replenished, so get them before they sell out!
Thrive Apothecary (three area locations) will have lots of specials this holiday season, but Thursday is your last chance to win free gummies from this award-winning CBD retailer in several flavors, including peach, mango, strawberry, and watermelon. To enter, follow Thrive on Facebook and share the story from Sat, Nov 9 — here, let me help you: https://bit. ly/Thankful4Thrive. The giveaway closes at 11:59pm Thanksgiving night. Good luck!
Traders Village (2602 Mayfield Rd, Grand Prairie, 972-647-2331) is not just a mecca for flea-market finds and gift items — like the jewelry that got our attention during Best Of 2024 — but it can also be a resource for discounted home essentials. The village is currently offering Money Savings Deals focused on value/bargain shopping. For example, the dealer in Lot 5017 has Dove spray deodorant priced at three for $10 ($18.55 at Walmart) and Pantene shampoo and conditioner in 25-oz bottles for $5 ($7.97 at Walmart). Plus, the overflow area at Lot 21640 has Golden Pothos plants for $25 in the size typically found at Home Depot for $37.99. One neatly tied bow later, and that’s a lovely gift!
Purchase some pampering time for your favorite person or couple.
Please pick up a copy of our annual Holidays Issue in stands on Wed, Dec 4, for more gift ideas, an extended calendar of seasonal events, holiday recipes, and a ton of info to help you make your list and check it twice. To be included, start by emailing Marketing@FWWeekly. com. Happy Holidays!
By Elaine Wilder
The grateful Best Of winners at Thrive have a Thanksgiving giveaway for you.
NIGHT &DAY
While our Turkey Awards do mark the beginning of the holiday season for us Weekly folk, I did not intend for the majority of this week’s Night & Day to be so festive. But here we are. Most wonderful time of the year? OK, I guess I’m ready to lean in. For those who have a comedy lover in their life, feel free to buy some future show tickets from Big Laugh, and we’ll be at 100% festive capacity.
Every Thanksgiving, only the best of the best high school marching bands from around the country journey to New York City to perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC (and its
Peacock app) starting at 8:30am. The invitations are very exclusive, so it’s a big honor to be included. This year, the Flower Mound Band (3411 Peters Colony Rd, 469-713-5192) gets to go as the only high school representing the Lone Star State. Go, Jaguars!
You’ve probably heard of actor/producer/writer Sydney Castillo. He’s written for HBO’s Game Theory, VH1’s Celebrity Squares, and, most recently, NBC’s Marlon, now streaming on Netflix. Castillo’s stand-up can be seen on the HBO Max special The Headliners and in-person at Big Laugh Comedy Club (604 Main St, Ste 100, 512-817-9535) 7pm or 9:30pm Fri-Sat.
As part of its 2024 Christmas tour, the Vienna Light Orchestra will perform three times (1:30pm, 4:30pm, and 7:30pm) at the Ridglea Theater (6025 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-738-9500). Named for the “capital of orchestral music,” the VLO, comprising musicians and singers from seven different countries, performs holiday classics surrounded by more than 2,000 flickering candles and several Christmas trees. While GA tickets are already sold out, you can still enjoy a VIP experience with front-and-center seats for $145 per person at ViennaLightOrchestra.com.
Since today is National Museum Gift Shop Day, it’s appropriate that the Fort Worth Art Dealers
Association is hosting its inaugural Artist Sunday from 1pm to 5pm. Highlighting local artists, creators, and makers, the day promotes giving artistic items and experiences for the holidays. The participating galleries include Art on the Boulevard (4919 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-737-6368), Artspace111 (111 Hampton St, 817-692-3228), Fort Works Art (2100 Montgomery St, 817-7599475), Gallery 440 (440 S Main St, 817- 3350100), Rebecca Low Sculpture Gallery (7608 Camp Bowie West, 817-244-1151), and TCU’s Fort Worth Contemporary Arts (2900 W Berry St, 817-257-2588), which will also screen a 30-minute film about HIV at 2pm. To learn more, visit ArtistsSunday. com. See this week’s Shop Local section for other ideas for using your dollars to help independent businesspeople in our area.
Known for its various arts ’n’ crafts nights, The Cicada (1002 S Main St, Fort Worth, @The_ Cicada_FTW) invites you to “step into the dark side of the season, summon your inner Krampus, and create a delightfully dark holiday gnome.” Tickets for the DIY Krampus Gnome event are $30 on Eventbrite.com and include all supplies and one drink ticket, so you can imbibe a specially themed cocktail or mocktail. Doors creak open at 7:30pm, and the crafting begins at 8pm.
With the beautiful, shiny, and new Dickies Arena (1911 Montgomery St, Fort Worth, 817-402-9000) in
our backyard, Fort Worth has been able to score some pretty cool shows this last couple of years that could have also played in Dallas or at the AAC. Case in point: KISS FM’s annual Jingle Ball at 7:30pm. Meghan Trainor, Jason Derulo, and Kane Brown are the featured performers at this holiday concert, along with Madison Beer, Dasha, KATSEYE, Saweetie, Shaboozey, and Wonho. Tickets start at $28.50 at TicketMaster.com.
But wait, there’s more.
Next week is our annual Holidays Issue, which will be merry and bright and December-y from cover to cover. Should you be interested in contributing editorial ideas or advertising campaigns (yeah, I went there), please reach out to me as soon as possible at Marketing@FWWeekly.com, and I will connect you with the appropriate Weekly elf or Santa himself. “I know him!”
By Jennifer Bovee
The Flower Mound Band is the only Texas group of its kind performing in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade at 8:30am Thu on NBC. Go, Jaguars!
Marlon’s Sydney Castillo is doing stand-up at Big Laugh Fri-Sat.
EATS & drinks
Oven Heat
I am so baked. Who will win the new season of the beloved Great British Baking Show?
BY KRISTIAN LIN
In Deadpool & Wolverine, someone brings up the subject of The Great British Baking Show, and Deadpool says, “That show stood between me and suicide for 15 years!” I don’t share that attitude — come to think of it, how would Deadpool go about killing himself? — but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that I started watching the show on Netflix during the pandemic. I detest comfort television, and yet the program is comfort TV at its best: informative and local in mostly good ways, with a regular dose
of suspense built into each episode. The season finale comes out on Friday, and if you’ve missed it so far, here’s where things stand.
Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith remain on hand to judge the contestants’ bakes, though Alison Hammond has replaced Matt Lucas as cohost. (You can see Lucas currently in Gladiator II.) That last is a welcome development, though it’s past time for remaining co-host Noel Fielding to move on. He twice refers to the technical challenge as a “mystery shrouded in gingham.”
While The Great British Baking Show is no stranger to foreigners competing, this season offers up something new: an American contestant. Sadly, you won’t have much time to root for Jeff, as the 67-year-old New Yorker encounters health problems that force him to withdraw from the competition as the first baker eliminated.
The structure of each episode continues to be: signature bake, technical challenge, showstopper. When tasking the
bakers with making breakfast pastries, the judges take the unprecedented step of letting them rest their laminated dough overnight in the fridge. The challenge still
trips up all the remaining contestants. That same episode gives the contestants opera cake as a technical challenge, and
Hazel Vaughan prepares a cake to look like a designer handbag in the latest season of The Great British Baking Show
Eats & Drinks
the famously bare-bones instructions on the recipes reduce baker Georgie Grasso (a pediatric nurse of Italian extraction who speaks with a ferocious Welsh burr) to tears of hopelessness and despair.
The show has gotten itself into trouble in the past when having its contestants make international dishes, so the most ethnic this season gets is spanakopita. (I would be daunted at the prospect of making my own phyllo dough from scratch.) The first episode has the contestants making Battenberg cakes, and I was wondering when the show would get around to those marzipan-covered delicacies with the distinctive checkerboard design. Even more British than Battenbergs is the infamously named spotted dick, and the bakers run into some severe hurdles making those steamed puddings bound together with suet (beef fat).
When the judges ask the bakers to create a vegan version of parkin, Gill (pronounced like “Jill”) Howard rubs her hands in glee because she hails from Northern England, where the sticky ginger treat is native to, and she’s made it many times. In one of those reversals of fortune that the show is famous for, she places last in the challenge because she forgets to add baking soda as a
leavener. (Remember that one season when they had a bunch of contestants of Indian descent, and none of them could bake a decent garlic naan?) Winning the challenge is Illiyin Morrison, who has never heard of parkin but uses her Caribbean ancestry as a guide and approaches the dish as if it’s a Jamaican ginger cake. Meanwhile, Gill becomes hellbent on redeeming herself and incorporates parkin into her showstopper to demonstrate that she indeed knows how to make the thing.
As they say, it’s the bakers who make a given season of this show, and this one gives us Hazel Vaughan, the 71-year-old retired nail technician from Kent who is eliminated early but manages to make a cake to look like a designer handbag, complete with an edible strap that she winds around her arm when she carries it up to the judges. I was rather rooting for Sumayah Kazi, the 18-year-old dental school student with an eye for brightly colored decorations, but a bad week with the spotted dick and a tiramisù sends her out. The finale (spoiler alert) pits the aforementioned Georgie against Dylan Bachelet, a 20-year-old aspiring chef who brings his Indian and Japanese ancestry to his recipes, and Christiaan de Vries, a gay Dutch fashion designer who similarly favors unusual flavor combinations that work. As the weather turns and the prospect of turning on your oven becomes more appealing, The Great British Baking Show remains a cozy source of inspo for your kitchen. l
Fashion designer by day Christiaan de Vries places the finishing touches on his umami apple loaf cake.
COMPARE CREDENTIALS
MUSIC
Spring Palace Spreads Out
With their debut LP, the erudite indie-rockers attempt to capture the liminal space between urban majesty and the great Western expanse.
BY PATRICK HIGGINS
For more than 100 years, “Where the West Begins” has been the town’s official slogan. In many ways, Fort Worth is a typical big city, boasting nearly a million residents and towering glass-and-metal structures comprising a quintessentially urban skyline. Yet it sits at the edge of the North Texas metropolis, opening to a vast and sprawling prairieland that stretches to the mountains of the far West and eventually to the sea. The untamed wild of the young American West of its origin is still infused into the culture of the city today.
As a child, Chase Johnson would visit his grandparents in Aledo, and he was moved by the transition along the westbound highway from the bustle of the big city to the sleepiness of the country, where the streetlights suddenly end and barren grassland was all that seemed ahead. It was this unique duality of Fort Worth, and its service as a gateway to the heartland of the country, that influenced the themes for Rodeo Fortune, the debut album from Spring Palace, the ’90s-indie-heyday-inspired rock band he fronts.
“It just feels very Fort Worth-y,” said Johnson about the album’s inspiration. “I wanted to capture that feeling and those thoughts of when you’re out there on the highway and you’re on the edge of a large city but also on the cusp of this greater Western American idea.”
Johnson says the sudden and somewhat unceremonious release of Rodeo Fortune — announced unexpectedly via social media just earlier this month — sits in stark juxtaposition to the amount of thought, intention, and
Though retaining the infectious melodies and drum-tight vocal harmonies established on the indie-rockers’ 2023 EP, Rodeo Fortune sees the musicians stretch their abilities and their creativity into new territory, musically mirroring the westward expansion that inspired the lyrical themes.
effort that he, drummer Seth Gamez, bassist Jacob Jones, and a newcomer, keyboardist Katie Robertson, put into the record.
“I felt like when we had finished the EP, that was such a proof of concept for us,” Johnson said, referring to the hooky indie-rockers’ 2023 debut Whatever Happens
“It proved that we could do what we wanted to do and make this kind of guitar-rock music within the realm of the things that we liked. We had learned how we were going to work together and how we were going to write. When we started working on this album, the idea we talked about a lot was that we really just wanted to do something that felt like a big swing, something that really felt ambitious.”
Johnson qualified his meaning.
“When you talk about ‘big swings,’ for us, I think we felt we had to do it in a way that still felt very humble and authentic,” he said. “I think in ‘indie rock,’ your artistic currency is authenticity. So, we had to write and have the themes be things that felt true to us. It had to feel a certain way.”
A listen of the record bears out the group’s intentions. Though retaining the infectious melodies and drum-tight vocal harmonies established on the EP, Rodeo
Fortune sees the musicians stretch their abilities and their creativity into new territory, musically mirroring the westward expansion that inspired the lyrical themes. Opener “Animal Skin” sets the bar for a new, epic, more layered sonic delivery. Thick guitars and fuzzed-out bass carry the main riff to titanic heights before falling into nearly empty space over the verses.
Similar space is used expertly across the album, widening the dynamic with songs like the standout “Reaching,” with its dreamlike waltz, and the title track, which, with its imagery of wild horses storming across the plains, most directly recalls the unbridled West. These are interspersed with tight pop numbers like “Holiday” and “Strange Rhythm,” providing a collection with as many different sonic hues as the sedimentary gradations on a canyon wall. Robertson’s atmospheric keys and her seraphic voice add yet more elements that push the effort into new territory for the band.
“When we were writing, instead of referencing certain albums or music, it was always more about the feelings of it,” Johnson said. “We talked a lot of how we wanted it to feel like a cathedral. Or like the short stories of Raymond Chandler or Flannery O’Connor. Or an A24 movie. Something where it felt like the creators had a vision, and a craftsmanship, and a purpose of journey, and they were taking you on this journey.”
The record stands as a result of taking chances, being faithful to yourself and your creative forces, and thinking big to achieve a big payoff.
“When you’re making art, you kind of feel like you stand in the shadows of everything amazing that’s come before you,” Johnson said. “You have these hang-ups and insecurities, but we just wanted to work in a way that completely stood in our own truth as artists. The idea was, ‘Don’t have any insecurities. Be honest, be sincere, and swing big,’ and what could we come up with out of those feelings? It was really refreshing making art in that headspace.” l
Chase Johnson: “When you talk about ‘big swings,’ for us, I think we felt we had to do it in a way that still felt very humble and authentic.” Courtesy Spring Palace
Courtesy Spring Palace
CLASSIFIEDS
EMPLOYMENT
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WRITING LOCAL
Attempted Kidnapping: Looking for Witness Accounts from 40 Years Ago
By James W.
Below is an account of an incident I was involved in some forty years ago. Are you the girl in the story? Are you a witness? I am working on my biography and seeking people who may know of the girl mentioned in the following story.
On January 4, 1986, there was an early playoff game for the Dallas Cowboys. My apartment manager at a community near Hemphill Street in Fort Worth had invited me to watch the game at their apartment. A woman was bringing her daughter to play with the manager’s son.
The children were around ten years old.
The games ended, and around 5:30pm, the little girl came into the living room and stated, “I need to go home now.” I told her, “Wait outside, and I will walk you home.” The girl rode her bike in the street, and I walked alongside her. Suddenly, a brownish older car drove by with the back-driver side open. A man grabbed the girl off her bike!
The child was screaming. I yelled very loudly at the men in the car. The criminals heard the yell and saw me running toward their car. The man in the backseat let go of the girl. When I got to the car door, the little girl brushed past me, went to the other side of the door, and looked at me. I said loudly, “Go home now!” She jumped on her bike and rode away as fast as she could. I then turned and began to fight the men in the car.
I want to get a statement from the little girl, who is now forty years older, to include in my book. Perhaps she talked about this in school that next week. If you are that girl or a friend of hers, anyone who recognizes this story and the people involved, then please contact me at Jkw10913@gmail.com.
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