Fort Worth Weekly // Holidays 2022

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BY EDWARD BROWN

BY JENNIFER BOVEE

BY COLE WILLIAMS

BY WEEKLY STAFF

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Edward Brown, Staff Writer

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Christmas at Arlington Camera

December 9th & 10th from 10am - 5pm

It’s that time of year again. Merry Christmas and best wishes for a joyful Holiday Season from the Staff at Arlington Camera! We’d like to invite you to our “Christmas at Arlington Camera” two day OPEN HOUSE and Holiday Celebration.

Reps & Demos

Join us for an opportunity to talk with our Reps, and enjoy Special Pricing and Rebates on cameras, lenses, tripods, bags, smart phone photo accessories, video gear, and so much more! The Reps will be in the store on Friday & Saturday for demonstrations and to answer your photographic questions.

Also, THANK YOU for SHOPPING LOCAL! Our knowledgeable and friendly Staff is always available and more than happy to assist you with all your photographic and gift giving needs - before, during, and after your purchase.

Cameras for Christmas Cash!

Ben Dover with US Camera Pro will be in the store both days to offer you cash for your used camera gear. By using the money you earn from the sale to buy new equipment in-store during this event, Ben will add an additional 10% to your offer!

Photo Chicks Boutique Pop-Up

Cameras + Lenses + Lighting Studio Lighting equipment will be available in an area that will be set up for demonstration purposes as well as hands-on experience. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from some of the highest folks in the photo industry!

We’ll have a Winter Wonderland of unusual holiday goodies just for you! Choose from handmade woodland hats for baby to toddler, limited edition beaded Camera purses, Christmas ornaments for the photo enthusiast, fleece blankets to warm yourself by the fire, and stocking stuffers galore! Most items will be specially priced and available only during this event. Follow Photo Chicks Boutique on Facebook and Instagram for sneak peeks.

Gift Cards & Gift Wrap

Not sure about what to give your favorite shutterbug? Consider a Gift Card from Arlington Camera! It’s the perfect present that never expires! Our Elves are happy to Gift Wrap your Gift Card or other Arlington Camera purchases so they’ll be ready for you to put under the tree! Let us help reduce your holiday stress! HO! HO! HO!

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We will be closed on Christmas Day to spend time with our families. Our sincer wish is that you will be able to do the same!

Please join us for our special Open House as we joyfully celebrate this most wonderful time of the year! We hope to see YOU at Arlington Camera!

CONNECT WITH ART THROUGH COCKTAILS, CONVERSATIONS, AND CREATIVITY.

Each month you’ll find something different—from performances, artist talks, and unique tours to art making, music, and films.

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Surreal & Stylish

Experience

the midcentury Fort Worth art scene in the exhibition Charles Truett Williams: The Art of the Scene and dress in your sharpest suits and chic dresses for a night of socializing.

It’s the Most Wonderful Tiiiime of the Yeeeear

Christmas is gonna be a little lowkey around Chez Mariani this year, not because we’re more broke than usual — like you, we’re not investment bankers, so we need to watch our spending — but because some, uh, home-improvement opportunities! have popped up. Our foundation is cracking, our backyard fence is crumbling, and my 2008 chariot’s brake hydraulic$ have gone out almost completely — stopping these days is a Fred Flintstone, soles-on-the-road kind of affair. With all apologies to Joe Biden, the wife and I can’t rationalize going even deeper into debt making him look good. OK, just a little. Grandpa Joe’s worth it. You say I’m absurd. I say I’m just full of the Christmas spirit, Jack. (I’m definitely full of something.)

High-income spenders have indicated that they’re going to give the gifts that matter most: themselves. Instead of toys, clothes, and gift cards to Cheba Hut (hint, hint), rich people plan to funnel their assuredly hard-earned cash toward travel this season. For us worker bees, we intend to buy an average of nine gifts this year compared to last year’s 16, and it’s mostly because our dollars don’t stretch as far as they once

did. To the global supply chain issues and global inflation, I’d like to add my own gremlin: fatigue.

Think of all we’ve lived through over the past few years. It started with a bigoted conman winning the presidential election in 2016 despite losing the popular vote by 3 million, and it carried on through the pandemic, which crushed us emotionally if we were lucky enough not to have died a horrible, painful death. Even after we voted out the scumbag, he still haunts our national psyche like a COVID variant. We’re done. Finito Our country is divided, and no amount of Target gift cards and trips home will make it better. I’d even say that traveling

back to the ancestral manse to deal with your brainwashed family is worse for your health and overall well-being than pulling up at the end of the bar and watching Elf on repeat.

This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. What’s the alternative? Sitting at home stewing and then, finally, leaving a nasty comment on your older brother’s fourth pro-fascism Fakebook post this week? Editing this issue, one thing that really stood out to me was the sheer number of fun stuff there is to do in this town this season. I’ve bookmarked several theater excursions, a few art exhibits, and about a dozen gift ideas. As the father of a Black 11-year-old, I think that Soul Train show

at Jubilee sounds fun, and edutaining, and as the husband of a woman who would love nothing more than to get out of the house once this season to do something as an adult and not just a mom, I’m eyeing up that Ann Marion exhibit at the Modern. Though my wife hates (most) abstract and conceptual art and I love it, we always have good talks about it before, during, and afterward for a very, very long time. *puts in mouthpiece*

Were money no issue, I would have easily bookmarked more than 50 different things in this handsome edition. Alas, the Marianimobile isn’t going to stop itself.

— Anthony Mariani l

Nicole Von Enck and Brett Young star in Texas Ballet Theater’s production of The Nutcracker at Bass Performance Hall thru Christmas Eve (Sat, Dec 24).

Holiday Crush

BY EDWARD BROWN

The premiere of Zodiac Crush was treated as a star-studded affair. When show creators Mike Anthony and Rachel Black stepped out of the limo, the few dozen fans gathered at Four Day Weekend Theater whooped and cheered.

Upstairs, Anthony told me the 90-minute movie is a pilot for a dating show concept he co-created with Black. While contestants on dating shows typically rely on antics and showmanship to swoon a target man or woman, Zodiac Crush views dating through the lens of astrology. Hosts Anthony and Black try to predict how contestants will do based on their zodiac signs and give post-date commentary about astrological personality types. The show is funny, smart, and informative.

Visiting out-of-towners and locals on holiday break will soon be hitting up bars and turning to smartphone apps to mingle with other singles, so I met up with the show’s co-creators to learn some dating dos and don’ts.

Why should folks consider astrology

Anthony: I think it is a great way to start a conversation with new people.

Black: You can say, ‘Hey, are you into Astrology?’ If they aren’t, it can be a joke conversation starter. ‘Oh, you are a Libra, so you want to be a lover?’ That’s a conversation starter right there. Whenever you meet someone who knows astrology, too, it’s an instant connection. There are so many ways to use astrology to make pickup lines and sprinkle in something fun.

Where can folks learn the basics of astrology?

Black: There are a lot of apps. Co-Star is the main one. I prefer TimePassages.

Anthony: Co-Star is very easy to use. It has social media features [like chat options] too. I love collecting old books on this stuff. I have books from the 1800s on astrology and numerology. Everyone is a combination of all 12 signs but in different sequences.

Black: Whenever I got really deep in astrology, it was through YouTube. There are so many creators who just do videos on astrology. When I was single, I would watch compatibility videos on YouTube. That’s where I learned a lot. It’s a blueprint for figuring out who you are, like a compass.

What if you are in a dating relationship with someone who isn’t a good match astrologically. Can you work through that, and what does it take?

Anthony: I think you can work through it. There will be more challenges and more lessons. Sometimes, you need to go through those hard lessons to enjoy the easier relationships better. Knowing that you have those conflict points helps you talk about it.

Black: There can be challenging pairings. Cancer and Aries are a challenge because it’s fire and water. Virgo and Aquarius are probably not a great match. [Those differences] would be apparent in your communication style. Even if you take astrology out, you still have personality types to contend with. Say you communicate impulsively, and I communicate slowly. So how do we work with one another to see eye to eye? Astrology can be a guide. Initial

incompatibility can be fun, too. At the end of the day, it’s love. There are obstacles. If you have that love, it’s like you are on an adventure. It’s us against the world. Having tough conversations deepens connections. If everything is easy, you don’t have that extra layer of depth. That’s how we bond, by overcoming things.

On the show, you factor in something called life path numbers. What are they, and how do they work into dating preferences?

Anthony: That’s numerology. It looks at your ambition in life and where you are going to be heading in life. This dates back to ancient Babylon. Numerology isn’t that well known. I wanted to introduce people to it through my show. Numerology reads you like a book. It validates what you are doing.

Finally, give us some general dating tips.

Black: Don’t think that your value or worth depends on how someone thinks of you. How someone reacts reflects more on them than you as a person. I feel like dating can be hard because it hits your self-esteem a lot, especially if you have had a hard time. The holidays can be especially emotional. Staying firm in who you are and not changing yourself to please someone else is important. Be proud of who you are and don’t take things personally if someone rejects you. I like to encourage people, because rejection is literally part of the process. To succeed, we have to fail.

Anthony: I think a great first date could be over coffee. Put on your ugly Christmas sweater and go for it.

Black: I feel like exciting dates that are not the norm leave more of an impression. We are in the Sagittarius season. It’s all about going forth, being exciting, and having the energy of a little kid wanting to explore. This time of year is about being bold.

Anthony: It’s worth waiting to find the right person. I wouldn’t jump into a relationship too fast. Find someone who matches and aligns with what you want to do in life.

Black: Sagittarius energy is not about settling. It’s about going forth. If something doesn’t align, on to the next. There are many fish in the sea. Eventually, you’ll find your one true centaur.

Is your New Year’s resolution finding that special someone? The founders of a new dating show have some advice for you.

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Mike Anthony and Rachel Black, co-founders of the dating show Zodiac Crush, say astrology and numerology can help singles find true love.

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Hope or Hate for Hanukkah?

Pervasive anti-Semitism is less about Ye and Black Hebrews and more about Christian Nationalism — and it’s as old as the Festival of Lights itself.

BY LAURIE JAMES

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is less a holiday and more the commemoration of a victory by Jews in 138 BCE against a larger army of Assyrian-Greeks. At stake: whether the Jews would be forced into worshipping the Greek pantheon of gods and goddesses. Led by a group of orthodox, nonintegrationist warriors called the Maccabees, the Hebrews won and reclaimed their holy temple. Judaism uses a lunar calendar, so Hanukkah can start as early as Thanksgiving or coexist with Christmas. Around this time of year, people who want to acknowledge only Christmas get into a snit when it’s pointed out that there are close to a dozen historic and religious celebrations right about now.

Someone who heard me say, “You don’t hear us complaining about a war on Hanukkah, and there actually was one” corrected me this year.

“You mean ‘there is one,’ ” she said.

Anti-Semitism continues in Texas in a variety of extremely visible ways. From neo-Nazi banners and smaller incidents in colleges across Texas to arson at an Austin synagogue and a hostage situation in a Colleyville, 2021 and 2022 seemed like great times for people who love to hate Jewish folks.

By FBI statistics, in 2020, 59% of religious-based hate crimes were aimed at Jews, who represent less than 2% of the American population. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said 2021 was the highest year on record for harassment, vandalism, and violence directed against Jews since the ADL started tracking the data in 1979. Not surprising, since the previous U.S. president went out of his way to court American neo-Nazis and their sympathizers on the right.

In 2018, a gunman killed 11 Jewish worshipers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. The ADL, Southern Poverty Law Center, and numerous other social justice groups have labeled the spike in antiSemitism and accompanying racism over these last five years as a symptom of Christian nationalism, especially as conservative politicians and celebrities repeat and strengthen anti-Semitic theories that goad followers into acts like graffitiing houses of worship to killing Jews. Remember the Proud Boys last January 6 wearing shirts that said, “6 Million Wasn’t Enough”? The bipolar ramblings from the artist known as Ye are nothing new — he’s just a visible Black man spewing Nazi tropes. Perhaps the joke is on him. Hitler certainly wouldn’t have been a fan of his.

Christian nationalists’ agenda includes declaring Christianity as the national religion of the United States, despite the clear direction of the First Amendment and its Establishment clause, which prohibits government from establishing a religion. The downstream effects

of the extremist forms of Christian nationalism show up as school board members pull anti-hate education materials from classrooms. It’s not just a Jewish issue. State and local candidates across the country and especially in Texas won this year by deploring so-called “woke” policies that include equitable teaching about the American role in the enslavement of Africans since 1619. Remember that Hitler started by banning books a long time before he put Jews in concentration camps.

In October 2021, a neo-Nazi set fire to the door at Beth Israel, Austin’s oldest synagogue. That month was a great

Some so-called Proud Boys openly display their neo-Nazi worldview.

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before Halloween 2021, a neo-Nazi group launched a hate campaign that involved hanging banners over freeways near the local Jewish community center and distributing hate-filled leaflets. The 18-year-old who committed the crime destroyed wood and stained glass and caused smoke damage. He was indicted on federal hate crimes and a felony arson charge.

If you didn’t hear about this, it’s likely because, although hate crimes occur on the daily, the mainstream media gatekeep a lot of the content you’re ultimately able to access. That’s ironic because one of the longest-standing Nazi tales is that Jews control the media. It’s also true that, as Black civil rights observers have noted, the violence is nothing new. It’s just being recorded in real time and more frequently reported.

Case in point: The hostage situation at Colleyville’s Congregation Beth Israel in January was livestreamed until the FBI cut the feed. A British citizen who was allowed into the congregation during a Shabbat service pulled out a gun and held five people hostage for about 11 hours, all the while spewing hate for Jews, Israel, and American military policies. The response from the larger religious community was essentially shock — how could this happen here?

But it’s happened here. Twice. In 2019,

a gunman at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement opened fire and killed two parishioners. He was killed by an armed member of the church’s security force. Nearly 10 years earlier, in September 1999 during an evening youth program at Wedgewood Baptist Church, a U.S. Navy veteran with ties to anti-Semitic and KKK groups walked in armed with two handguns and a pipe bomb. He shot 16 people, killing seven.

The difference in these two incursions into houses of worship is that the response from West Freeway was informed by what happened at Wedgewood, much like the response of Tarrant County synagogues was informed by the violence at the Tree of Life in Pennsylvania. Across Texas, Jewish houses of worship have participated in trainings that cover everything from situational awareness to countering active threats to Stop the Bleed and other emergency life-saving training. In the Jewish community in particular, buildings have been hardened with access control, state-of-the-art cameras, and the routine presence of uniformed off-duty officers. The teenage arsonist who set fire to Beth Israel’s door was caught with a combination of video footage and a tip from a staffer. This being Texas, you’ll also never know if a congregant is carrying their own weapon or is about to inflict violence.

“It is a shame that we have to devote so many resources to security, but no one or no organization is immune from violence today,” said Barry Abels, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. “We have to be prepared, and we also need to support each other as a community and share information to reduce these acts of violence, especially in places that represent peace and sanctuary.”

The story of Hanukkah is one in a series of anti-Semitic episodes aimed at the Jews, who were the original monotheists.

I like to point out that had the small Maccabee force failed against the larger pagan armies, there would be no Christmas. At Beth-El Congregation, there’s a torah scroll that belonged to a synagogue in Uhrineves, a small town outside Prague. Hollace Weiner, who serves as the archivist for Fort Worth’s Jewish community, wrote that “the scroll was among 1,564 torahs the Nazis seized across the region.” The scrolls were stored in a forest and later ransomed for much-needed cash by the then-communist government of Czechoslovakia to London’s Westminster Synagogue. They were restored and loaned to synagogues around the world, whose leaders act as caretakers and share the story –– at Hanukkah, which starts Dec. 18, and every day. l

The Uhrineves synagogue torah was desecrated by the Nazis before being repaired and placed for safekeeping at Beth-El Congregation.

Laurie James

A neo-Nazi vandalized the doors at Beth Israel, Austin’s oldest synagogue, in 2021.

Courtesy Austin Fire Department

Doing Good

Fort Worth is abuzz with novel ideas on how to best support those in need.

BY EDWARD BROWN

Not Shark Tank

Understanding people. That’s what Dunnu Devulapally said is his real skillset. The founder of the mental health-minded nonprofit NRVE (pronounced “nerve”) said businesses across the country are faltering because they fail to understand their most important asset — people.

Close to where we were sitting, a box overflowed with pairs of new socks,

something Devulapally and NRVE volunteers said are in short supply at area homeless shelters.

Since launching last month with a small but hardworking and efficient team, NRVE has set ambitious goals that focus on providing area nonprofits with metrics, polls, and data on local populations that struggle with mental health problems. Setting a modest sockdrive goal might seem underwhelming for a team of ambitious twenty- and thirtysomethings, but Devulapally said it’s important to meet the community, listen to their needs, and slowly spread the word about your mission.

In today’s Shark Tank-esque business and nonprofit environment, Devulapally’s ethos is countercultural. He said he’s comfortable staying in first gear for as long as it takes. His research projects may take years to complete, but he said finding new solutions to address youth suicides, seemingly intractable homelessness rates, and depression in the United States will take new approaches

Dunnu Devulapally recently founded the nonprofit NRVE that aims to be the local repository of mental health research.

and a willingness to reevaluate how we address those systemic issues.

One volunteer with the group told me his parents were stricken with cancer when he was a kid and the mental anguish that he and his family had to go through drives him to help others. Many folks who struggle with mental health issues, he added, need someone who can listen closely to them and empathize with them.

By relying on data-driven research and keeping a low overhead, Devulapally said NRVE is well positioned to apply for donations from foundations and corporations. The culture of large charitable institutions needs to evolve, he said. He hopes more nonprofits see collaboration rather than competing for individual grants — a finite pool in Fort Worth — as a means of doing the most good.

Follow NRVE across all major social media platforms @NRVEhq.

Check Out that Bass Fort Worth Public Library recently started an initiative that allows locals to check out — like books — donated instruments. Guitars, keyboards, and

select percussion instruments are available now along with accessories like portable PA systems, guitar slides, and amplifiers.

“We’ve seen a great response from the community in checking out all of our current instruments,” said music librarian Rita Alfaro. “We were surprised to see demand for certain instruments we weren’t sure there would be a large interest in, like our banjo. We only ordered one to start with, and it immediately had a waitlist.”

Before bringing instruments to any Fort Worth library, potential donors should submit a printable form via FortWorthTexas.gov/departments/ library.

It all starts with a library card, which provides unlimited access to on-demand online training services. Through @ FortWorthPublicLibrary on YouTube, rootsy Fort Worth singer-songwriter and all-around bon vivant Jacob Furr offers free guitar lessons.

Affordable housing remains in short supply in Fort Worth. The average Texan spends about one-third of their income on housing costs, based on findings by the Texas Affiliation of Affordable Housing

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local singer-songwriter Jacob Furr via @ FortWorthPublicLibrary.

Providers, a nonprofit trade group. With average monthly rates of $1,400 locally, apartments are often financially out of reach for working-class folks.

Realtor Tuan Phan and his team of volunteers have a novel approach to making housing affordable for lowincome locals. Through the Phan Foundation, young carpenters, often after aging out of the foster care system, are hired to renovate homes that are then sold to raise funds for the nonprofit that buys low-rent properties. Young men and women who are statistically more likely to experience homelessness are gainfully employed, and the low-income housing managed by the foundation provides a roof for the homeless and disadvantaged.

Through their website, foundation members make their mission clear: “Everyone deserves safe, sanitary, and affordable housing. Our first program will be dedicated to providing affordable housing to low-income individuals/ families.”

Learn more at The-Phan-Foundation. org.

A Bright Future

Meghan Farmer founded The Bright Factory as an ethically minded for-profit

company that restores dignity to women leaving the local carceral system. The end products will be T-shirts sold in bulk to apparel stores and vendors that then customize the tees with personalized prints.

Farmer’s work in the fashion industry showed her the environmental costs of fast fashion and the safety concerns of poor working conditions at

Realtor Tuan Phan leads a team of volunteers working to make housing affordable for low-income locals.

Andrew Updegrove

Dinner with the

Fridays through February 3

Executive Chef Jett Mora welcomes you with warm hospitality, creative cuisine, and a seasonal menu rooted in Texas ingredients. Create your own holiday memories on Friday nights at Café Modern. Seating is available from 5 to 8:30 pm. For reservations, use QR code or call 817.840.2157.

The Modern trees will be illuminated with an array of festive lights in celebration of the holiday season. The museum galleries are open for FREE until 8 pm on Fridays.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 3200 Darnell Street Fort Worth, Texas 76107 817.738.9215

It’s crunch time, people. With all the supply chain problems this year, online purchases may or may not make it to your abode in time. Besides, it’s always best to #KeepItLocal when you can. Small businesses of every category have great options for your consideration. Here are some selections from some of our sections, with clever titles because that’s how we roll.

Retail Therapy

If you need a fresh cut or beard trim before the holidays are in full swing, make an appointment as soon as possible with local shops like Aaron’s on 7th (3402 W 7th St, 817-984-1062), The Cutting Room Barber Salon (1306 May St, Ste 100, 682-250-4451), or Novak Hair Studios (250 W Lancaster Av, Ste

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One-of-a-kind estate pieces can be found at Sovereign Jewelry.

The Man Made Book of Good Grooming, Vol. 8 is $47 at NovakHairStudios.com or in-store.

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Defiant Arms has tactical stockings in black, brown, and green and will help you stuff them, too.

110, 817-592-4247). While there, pick up some beauty products, gift cards, or personal care sets for the well-coiffed people in your life.

From funky finds to rare estate pieces, great jewelry can be found in local small businesses not just national retailers. Check out the selections at Hurst Gold & Silver (803 W Pipeline Rd, 817-282-0223), Southwest Gold & Silver (5124 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-7351451), or Sovereign Jewelry Company (207 S Jennings Av, 817-885-7848) for something shiny.

Sports & Recreation

The sportsman in your life will be happy you hunted down a local deal at Defender Outdoors (2900 Shotts St, 817-935-8377), Defiant Arms (5200 Denton Hwy, Ste 20, Haltom City, 817393-7738), or Marksman Firearms (8100 Rendon Bloodworth Rd, Mansfield, 817453-8680). You could also take them to the gun show. (Did you just make a fist and point to your biceps? Yeah, me too.)

The Lone Star Gun Show is coming to Will Rogers Memorial Center (3401 W Lancaster Av, 817-392-7469) Sat-Sun Dec 17-18.

Local sportsball is happening all over town this holiday season, starting on the hardwood with the Simmons

Panther

Bank Showdown this Sunday at Dickies Arena (1911 Montgomery St, 817-4029000), where TCU will take on bitter crosstown rivals SMU and UTA will battle Texas State. Tickets start at $16 at DickiesArena.com. Plus, kids’ tickets are only $5 with an adult ticket purchase.

Professional men’s lacrosse is back, too. Panther City Lacrosse Club faces off against the Las Vegas Desert Dogs on Friday, the Colorado Mammoth on Sat, Dec 18, and the Vancouver Warriors on Sat, Feb 11. Tickets are $24 at PantherCityLax.com but are 50% off for a limited time.

Drinks on You!

From coffee and juice to beer and booze, local options abound. Give the caffeine addict in your life something different than the Seattle-based bender they’ve been on by introducing them to Ol’ South Pancake House (1509 S University Dr, 817-336-0311) or White Rhino Coffee bags or gift items. For the more health-conscious folks on your list, check out the deals at Juice Junkies (925 Foch St, 817-885-7775).

Along with bottles of premium spirits for the gifting, a couple local distilleries are serving up whole boozeinfused desserts. Silver Star Spirits (1734 E El Paso St, Ste 130, 817-8412837) makes seasonal pies with its 1849 Straight Bourbon. Pecan pies are $40, and sweet potato pies are $30 at SilverSpirits.com. At BENDT Distilling Co. (225 S Charles St, 214-814-0545), its famous whiskey bundt cakes are $45 at BendtDistillingCo.com.

#MAF22: Local Music Christmas

For arts and music gift ideas, check out next week’s Big Ticket column in our year-end music edition. This special issue is also where you’ll learn who won our 2022 Music Awards. Find out before the masses and see a free show at our Music Awards Ceremony on Sunday at the Ridglea Theater (6025 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-738-9500). For more information, see the ad in our Music section (pg. 42).

By Jennifer Bovee

Going Places

There are sights to be seen all over North Texas this holiday season, so get in the car! Each town has its own kind of thing going on. City by city, here are a few solid choices, starting with ours.

YOU’RE FORT WORTH IT!

Yes, you are, and I have four hyper-local happenings from three entities in the Fort for your consideration.

Mule Alley just opened an all-new seasonal ice-skating destination/event called Giddy Up & Glide at Stockyards Rodeo Rink (131 E Exchange Av, 817625-9715). Entry times are available every two hours 11am-8:30pm Mon-Thu and 11am-10:30pm thru Sun, Feb 5. Tickets are $20 at FortworthStockyards. com/Events.

Jubilee Theatre and Sundance Square present Santa on the Square, featuring multiethnic Santas for children to visit from 11am to 8pm daily thru Fri, Dec 23, at the covered patio outside the former Bird Café in Sundance Square Plaza (155 E 4th St, 817-338-4204). Families can choose a traditional Santa/Kris Kringle, a Black Santa, or a Latino Santa when scheduling time slots. Complimentary

photo texts will be provided, but prints can be purchased for $15 with proceeds benefiting Jubilee. Register for free at https://bit.ly/Jubilee_SantaontheSquare.

Since the holidays can get a little crazy, blow off some steam at the final performance of The Nutty Nutcracker, Texas Ballet Theater’s parody that will be retired after 12 seasons. The show is 8pm Fri, Dec 18, at Bass Performance Hall (525 Commerce St, 817-212-4280), and tickets are $60 at TexasBalletTheater. com. TBT’s traditional production of The Nutcracker runs from Fri thru Sat, Dec 24, at various times at Bass Hall with tickets starting at $25.

Read more about these and other arts and theater happenings in this week’s Stage section. Meanwhile, here are those other city selections I promised you and that you’ve been begging for.

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More than 1.5 million sparkling LED lights wrapped around 555 trees make up the 10th annual Vitruvian Lights. Walk or drive through Vitruvian Park (3966 Vitruvian Way, 972-774-0552) 6pm-11pm nightly thru Sun, Jan 1. Entry is free.

Featured Artist Carren Allen

Take the Soul Train to Christmas with Jubilee Theatre thru Fri, Dec 23. Courtesy

old St. Nik is one of many German traditions you can experience at Texas Christkindl Market.

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ARLINGTON

Head to the North Plaza of Globe Life Field (1650 E Randol Mill Rd, 817-5331972) 11am-8pm daily thru Fri, Dec 23, for the Texas Christkindl Market Inspired by the cherished German tradition of the same name, this family friendly event has been an Arlington tradition since 2010. This shopping experience features handcrafted items from Germany, including merchandise from Käthe Wohlfahrt, designs from the Rothenburg ob der Tauber Christmas Village, and local vendors. Enjoy festive music and German food while you’re there. You can also visit with St. Nikolaus 3:30pm-8pm Mon-Fri and 11am-3pm or 4pm-8pm Sat-Sun. Admission to the market is free. For more info, visit TXChristKindlMarket.com.

CLEBURNE

Hulen Park (1010 Hillsboro St, 817-5568858) in Downtown Cleburne is decorated with more than a million lights during Whistle Stop Christmas. See the lights every evening thru Sat, Dec 31. This year’s theme is Christmas Around the World. Children can enjoy $3 train rides

6pm-9pm Fri-Sat from Fri to Sat, Dec 23. For information on a host of related events, visit WhistleStopChristmas.com.

COLLEYVILLE

Congregation Beth Israel (6100 Pleasant Run Rd, 817-581-5500) is inviting community families — members and nonmembers alike — to bring their kids to Urban Air Adventure Park (2201 W Southlake Blvd, 817-203-8686) at 10am Sun, Dec 18, to “jump into Hanukkah.” (See what they did there?) Admission costs for Hanukkah Pajamakah are $10 per child for nonmembers and free for members. Then at 6:30pm Mon, Dec 19, there will be a Menorah Lighting & Funnel Cakes event at the temple. For details on this and other public get-togethers, follow Facebook.com/ CBIColleyvilleTX.

THE COLONY

Speaking of tributes, North Texas artist Kristy Johnson — who impersonates Heart’s Ann Wilson and Evanescence’s Amy Lee — and a group of local and regional musicians have put together a new seasonal project called Winters Night: The TSO Experience, featuring the music of holiday supergroup TransSiberian Orchestra. See the group’s debut

Meeting

show at Lava Cantina (5805 Grandscape Blvd, 214-618-6893). Tickets are $1055 on Eventbrite.com, with proceeds benefiting Children’s Health.

DALLAS

The Dallas Arboretum is debuting a brand-new exhibit this season in the 21,000-square-foot historic DeGolyer House on the grounds of the park during its Holiday at the Arboretum festival. The Artistry of Faith & Culture features the three world holidays celebrated this season — Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa — plus Diwali, celebrated in the fall. Symbols representing each holiday have been included in the decorations of the various rooms by designer Michael Hamilton. Christmas (the Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus) is featured in the bedroom, library, and sitting room. Hanukkah (the Jewish festival of lights) and Shabbat (a day of peace and holiness) are featured in the dining room. Kwanzaa, created by Dr. Mulana Kerenga in the 1960s to celebrate traditional African and African-American cultural values and practices, is represented in the living

room. And, finally, Diwali (the Indian festival of lights) is showcased in the hallway. The house is open 9:30am4:30pm Mon-Sat and 11:30am-4pm Sun. Admission to this exhibit is included with festival tickets, which are $12-20 at DallasArboretum.org.

GRAND PRAIRIE

Based on the classic poem “A Visit from

St. Nicholas,” the world-renowned team at Cirque du Soleil has created its firstever Christmas show. For ’Twas the Night Before, 26 acrobats from around the world will help tell the tale of “a jaded young girl who rediscovers the magic of Christmas” with a backdrop of your favorite holiday tunes re-imagined. The touring company has shows at Texas CU Theater (1001 Texas Trust Way, 972854-5050) this week at various times,

from Wednesday to Sunday. For more information or tickets starting at $44, visit AXS.com.

GRAPEVINE

There are so many holiday festivities annually in Grapevine that it earned the title of Christmas Capital of Texas via a state proclamation. Over 40 days, there

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are more than 1,400 activities, exhibits, festivals, films, performances, and the like at the Gaylord Texan Hotel, Grapevine Vintage Railroad, Nash Farm, and more, including the Palace Arts Center. Since I’m a sucker for a great holiday movie, I’m excited to see the December schedule for the Palace Theatre (300 S Main, 817410-3100). It’s a Wonderful Life and White Christmas are both being screened, but you can’t beat Meet Me in St. Louis (2pm Sat, Dec 29), which is also referenced in a modern holiday favorite of mine, The Family Stone. Tickets are only $6 at Tickets.GrapevineTicketLine.com/ Event/PAC-Christmas-Movies-2022.

IRVING

Once the holiday season has passed and you’re looking for something different to do, come January, check out one of the top Bowie tribute acts in the world. David Brighton’s Space Oddity is in town for one night only at 9:30pm Fri, Jan 27, at Irving Arts Center (3333 N MacArthur Blvd, 972-252-2787). The show promises to be a “theatrically staged multimedia spectacle that transports audiences on a musical journey through the constantly metamorphosing career of David Bowie, one of rock ’n’ roll’s most celebrated innovators.” Tickets are $2743 at IrvingArtsCenter.com.

PLANO

Once when I was a kid, my hippie aunt stole my crayons to make candles. She and I should do some making up for lost time at the Crayola Experience Plano (6121 W Park Blvd, Ste A-100, 469-6422901), one of only five such museums in the country. We can help Santa save Christmas on a themed adventure, listen to snowmen and tree friends tell stories, sing carols, and take photos with a lifesized snow globe while crafting unique gifts. Colorful Christmas at Crayola runs 10am-5pm daily thru Tue, Jan 3. Admission is $27.99 for all guests ages 3 and up and free for ages 2 and younger. P.S. Get your own crayons, Aunt Clarisa!

WEATHERFORD

Nightly from 6pm to 9:30pm thru Sun, Jan 1, take a stroll and enjoy the holiday decorations at the free Pathway of Lights event at the Heritage Park Amphitheater (378 Jack Borden Way, 817-994-7072), including a 50-foot live tree and a 20-foot animated tree. Food vendors are on-site so that you can make a night of it. The rotation of food trucks includes Dosey Dough, Funky Munky, Juliebeans Ice Cream, Mama Lama Sweets, Smackin Mac, Tacos to Die For, and Waller Lane. For a complete schedule, visit ExperienceWeatherford.com.

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By Jennifer Bovee

David Brighton’s Space Oddity is in town for one night only at Irving Arts Center Fri, Jan 27.

Courtesy DavidBowieTribute.com

STAGE

Holidays Under the Lights

Nearly all of the 817’s theater troupes are busting out the cheer this holiday season.

BY ANTHONY MARIANI

Get Nutty One Last Time

It’s been a staple of the season for over a decade. Texas Ballet Theater’s popculture sendup will take its final bow on Fri, Dec 16, at Bass Performance Hall (525 Commerce St, 817-212-4280) as a result of new, clearly fun-hating leadership. Just kidding. TBT’s acting artistic director, Tim O’Keefe, has said, “We are sad to see this long-standing tradition come to an end at TBT, but we are excited for the future and look forward to starting new traditions that will be as fun for the audiences, and dancers, as Nutty.”

Sandwiching The Nutty Nutcracker will be several performances of its source material. TBT Artistic Director Laureate Ben Stevenson’s The Nutcracker will run thru Christmas Eve (Sat, Dec 24) at Bass Hall.

Scrooged

Anytime there’s a Christmas Carol adaptation, pop the popcorn and plant my ass in the front row. My favorite version is easily the best: 1970’s Scrooge starring Albert Finney and with music by Leslie “Candy Man” Bricusse. If you haven’t seen it and still dare to go about ranking Christmas Carol adaptations, you should be boiled with your own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through your heart, ya filthy animal. A distant second is a new one, Spirited, with Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. It has a couple LOL moments but is more cute than anything else, and in our household, cute is just fine, says the guy who watched A Castle for Christmas three times last year. Now thru Fri, Dec 23, Casa Mañana (3101 W Lancaster Av, 817-332-2272) is offering another new, by all accounts funny, and quite

possibly cute take on the Dickens classic. Casa says A Christmas Carol: A New Musical Comedy is loaded with current pop-culture references and features a contemporary pop score that is “sure to have you dancing in the aisles.” Sounds good to me, because apparently if there’s no song and dance in your Christmas Carol, then there’s no A-Train. (I said what I said!) Tickets are $29-44.

Im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Caba-raaay (Winter Version) Want a great way to kick your holidays into fifth gear on your red-and-green Vespa of spirit? At 8pm on the day before The Nutty Nutcracker, head to Amphibian Stage (120 S Main St, 817923-3012) for a “night of top-notch music, holiday charm, and winter magic” — plus a champagne station and passed hors d’oeuvres by Tasha Monticure from South Main Bodega, all included with your $40 ticket. Led by fun-lovin’ Music Director Drew Wutke, Broadway’s Tari Kelly (Boy from Oz, Something Rotten!, Billy Crystal’s Mr. Saturday Night) and Dallas’ Lauren Urso, who’s performed across the globe, will belt out holiday classics and Broadway favorites (“Willkommen” to start things off, perhaps?) and will also lead a “boozy” singalong (“Thank You Very Much,” perhaps?). The Phibs’ A Winter Cabaret is Thu, Dec 15, at 8pm.

O, Holy Night Visitors

Anytime we can free up some space in our entertainment media for the least represented among us, we should, and that’s why I will sing the praises of Amahl and the Night Visitors despite its Jesus-y subject matter. Nothing against the savior. He grew up to become a great Buddhist. But, man, what fringe right-wing demons are doing to Him and the church I grew up with makes me want to avoid anything related to their loud, dumb, bigoted noise all the more. I’m even having a

hard time listening to Christmas music this year, and it’s my favorite genre of music of all time. Anyway. Amahl and the Night Visitors. On their way to pay their respects to 8-pound, 6-ounce Baby Jesus, disabled shepherd boy Amahl and his sweet mum bump into the three wise men. Kindness and generosity ensue. The opera premiered on network television more than 60 years ago, and it’s getting the full in-person treatment this year by Fort Worth Opera starting Friday and running thru Sun, Dec 11, at Fort Worth Botanic Garden (3220 Botanic Garden Blvd, 817-463-4160). Tickets are $25-39, and children under 4 are free provided they … sit on an adult’s lap. I understand babysitters are in high demand, but if you’re bringing a 4-year-old to the opera, Buddha bless you. And the people who have to sit near you.

Get Punchy

Now in its fifth year, Circle Theatre’s annual fundraiser is back on Sat, Dec 10. Hosted by the incomparable Denise Lee, Holiday Punch is a night of carnival games, raffles, giveaways, original live performances, and lots of music that

“you know and love.” Oh, so a little “My Favorite Things” by Coltrane and a little Scrooge? I’m in! With your $50 ticket purchase, you’re automatically entered into a gift basket raffle. And some of them are off the chizzain. One includes a bottle of wine, a $50 Airbnb gift card, a $100 gift certificate to Tangerine Salon, and a wine tasting for two at Lost Oak Winery while another features two Four Day Weekend tickets, two tickets to a Lost Oak wine tasting, two tickets to Billy Bob’s, a $20 gift card to Buffalo Bros, and one bottle of TX Whiskey. Dang. The fun gets going at 7pm at 230 W 4th St (817-877-3040).

All Aboard!

Jubilee Theatre (506 Main St, 817-3384411) will be kicking it old school thru Fri, Dec 23, with Take the Soul Train to Christmas. No, this show does not involve shaking what ya got on the line (as far as we know), but rather it’s about kids taking a trip through history while researching a school assignment on how African Americans celebrated Christmas in the past. Tickets are $29-44.

Fra-GEE-Lay

A young woman from Israel on vacation with her grandmother in the U.S. ends up stranded in a motel room on Christmas Eve with “an oddball” deliveryman. “Is their meeting an accident, or is it destiny generations in the making?” A “hilarious and heartwarming romantic comedy,” Handle With Care “exudes gobs of comic energy and insight,” says The New York Times. The play’s regional premiere is Thursday, and it runs thru Sun, Jan 8, 2023, at Stage West (821-823 W Vickery Blvd, 817-784-9378). Tickets are $40.

What a Ham

The Herdman siblings are “the worst kids in the history of the world,” writes the author of the bestselling Best Christmas Pageant Ever who clearly was published before 17-year-old white trash Kyle Shittenhouse crossed state lines and murdered several protestors with an assault weapon he was not allowed to touch much less use. Anyway, the six “rowdy” Herdman kids take over an annual holiday pageant in a tale that involves the three wise men, scared shepherds, and a ham at Artisan Center Theater (444 E Pipeline Rd, Hurst, 817-284-1200) thru Fri, Dec 23. Tickets are $10-15.

Not So Silent Night

For the Callahan Kids’ Christmas reunion TV special, everyone is psyched about the former child stars’ return to television until the “kids” realize that “as grown-ups, they are no longer cute and their talent is lacking.” Now, the only thing that can save the show is (#thoughtsandprayers) “a Christmas miracle.” Running thru Sun, Dec 18, at Theatre Arlington (305 W Main St, Arlington, 817-275-7661), Holiday Musical is appropriate for ages 6 and up. Tickets are $32. l

Though not necessarily known for their sense of humor, the dancers/choreographers at TBT can get a little wild for their Nutcracker-based pop-cult sendup The Nutty Nutcracker.

Courtesy Texas Ballet Theater

Winter Wonderlands

Golden Age, and Murillo: From Heaven to Earth at the Kimbell Art Museum (3333 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817332-8451) celebrates his work to make for one of the largest gatherings of his pieces in the United States in 20 years. While his sacred paintings have garnered a lot of attention over the years, he also explored the secular world of 17th-century Seville, putting everyday folks at the center of the wider cultural dialogue. The Kimbell’s exhibit features 50 Murillos drawn from the Musée du Louvre, the National Gallery of Art, the Hispanic Society, and more. And thru Jan 29, 2023, happy hours at the Kimbell are every Friday from 5 to 7pm. The Allegro Guitar Society performs, and assorted noshes and adult beverages are at your fingertips — museum members enjoy 10% off all purchases, so join today. If not for you, then for a beloved family member. (You’re welcome for that gift idea.)

First Nation Photography

BY ANTHONY MARIANI

Edge of the Road, Pahdner

What could be less Christmasy than the American West? The place where people go to snow ski and, I dunno, raise cows and pre for the apocalypse is the subject of the new show at Artspace 111 (111 Hampton St, 817-692-3228). For Edge of the Road: An Exhibition of the Spirit of the American West (not the American West but the “Spirit” of it), two Fort Worthies — American painter Daniel Blagg and photographer Jill Johnson offer their harmonious explorations of Texas’ varied landscape, mostly its traditionally Western aspects. Blagg’s precise renderings of abandoned buildings and other distraught structures and Johnson’s encapsulations of haunted-looking road signs and more may make viewers question where the American Dream — expand, conquer, prosper — has led us. To Christmastown, of course! Anyway, you can’t afford any of Blagg’s paintings, so maybe set your sights on something from the Modern’s gift store, hmm? Edge of the Road will be up until Jan 7, 2023.

Remembering Ann Marion

Speaking of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St, 817-738-9215), someone who could have afforded several Blaggs and then some, Anne Marion, is the subject of a sparkling new tribute up thru Jan 8, 2023. One of the museum’s greatest patrons owned a wealth of A-list modern art, including works by Francis Bacon, Richard Diebenkorn, Arshile Gorky, Ellsworth Kelly, Anselm Kiefer, Willem de Kooning, Agnes Martin, Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Cindy Sherman, and Carrie Mae Weems. On Marion’s recent death, she gave the Modern five landmark pieces. Gorky’s “The Plow and the Song,” de Kooning’s “Two Women,” Rothko’s “White Band No. 27,” David Smith’s “Dida Becca Merry X,” and Kelly’s “Spectrum III” join 75 other works by 47 artists to make up Modern Masters: A Tribute to Anne Windfohr Marion.

Murillo at the Kimbell Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682) was one of the best-known and -regarded painters of the Spanish

My wife and I are virtual schooling our fifth grader, because we despise what Gov. Greg Abbott has done to not only our gun-fucking state but the places where our children are supposed to be able to go to learn and be safe, a.k.a. schools, and she and I are enjoying a good refresher on early-American history, starting with the treatment of First Nation peoples. Based on what we’re learning, there was some back and forth between Indigenous Americans and the early settlers, and it seems both sides had their pluses and minuses, with the settlers’ side having a bit more minuses than pluses. This past Thanksgiving, I wanted to text my right-leaning family “Happy First Nation Genocide Day!” but thought better of it — they don’t really care, and the glee I would feel twisting in the turkey-carving knife would have been lost on them. All of this is a roundabout way of saying, hey, there’s a great exhibit of Indigenous-American photography at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-738-1933) thru Jan 22. As I am down with The Struggle, I am headed to see Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography on an upcoming Thursday, when the museum stays open until 8pm. (Has to be a Thursday for me because regular hours are until 5pm, and my wife doesn’t get off work until 4:30 and we live 15 minutes away.) Focused on “the dynamic ways that Indigenous artists have leveraged their lenses over the past three decades to reclaim representation and affirm their existence, perspectives, and trauma,” this Carter-organized show is one of the first major museum surveys of its kind “to explore this important transition.” More than 30 Indigenous artists display approximately 70 photographs, videos, 3D works, and digital activations. As always, the Carter is free.

More or Less Placemarks

Thru Jan 14 at William Campbell Gallery (4935 Byers Av, 817-737-9566), Billy Hassell interrogates physical locations “observed with intense concentration” that usually “involved a personal experience.” For Placemarks, the vaunted Texas artist known for his clear, colorful, almost graphic design-like nature paintings offers pieces of mostly protected places. “All are at risk of being encroached upon either for resources or for development,” he says. Dear Santa …

At William Campbell’s other spot (217 Foch St, 682224-6131), More or Less: Una Retrospectiva follows the work of local-guy-done-good Benito Huerta from 1975 to today. The painter/collagist cooks up his “visual gumbo” by mixing references to pop culture, art, and music with Mexican motifs to comment satirically on politics, economics, and social issues. The exhibit is part of a two-part effort. The other show is Más O Menos: A Retrospective at the Latino Cultural Center which will open in January 2023. More or Less hangs thru Jan 14. l

There’s lots to love in the museums and galleries this holiday season, and — for all you bah humbugs out there — none of it is holiday-themed!

As with his other works on display, Billy Hassell painted “Orchard Oriole and Persimmons” in a natural place that’s protected for now.

Courtesy William Campbell Gallery

Nicholas Galanin’s “Get Comfortable” is part of an exhibit of Indigenous photography at the Amon Carter.

Courtesy Amon Carter Museum of American Art

The Kimbell offers Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s “The Marriage Feast at Cana” as part of a retrospective of the artist’s oeuvre.

The Henry Barber Trust, the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

SCREEN

Holiday Movie Preview

Here’s what to expect at the multiplexes during the festive season.

BY KRISTIAN LIN

It’s the young people who are keeping movie theaters afloat these days. How else to explain the recent box-office numbers? We’ve seen Black Adam and the Black Panther sequel consistently topping the charts while excellent adultoriented fare like The Fabelmans goes begging for an audience. The older viewers have been staying home, which suits the streaming services just fine but doesn’t do much for the multiplexes. (The Knives Out sequel would have been a bigger hit if Netflix had left it in the theaters.) As people emerge from their houses for holiday activities and perhaps moviegoing as well, we’ll see if this state of affairs continues.

The big Hollywood release this December is Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron’s sequel arriving 13 years after the first fantasy-adventure. The original is the all-time box-office champion yet seems to have relatively few diehard fans, and whether the new film can draw anything like the original’s audience remains to be seen.

Aside from this, the cupboard is relatively bare when it comes to big studio releases. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish promises to be the ultimate adventure for the Shrek character voiced by Antonio Banderas, while I Wanna Dance with Somebody is a biography of Whitney Houston that’s officially sanctioned by the singer’s family. There’s also Emancipation, the needlessly grim slavery movie that stars Will Smith as a real-life Haitian slave who escaped to the Union side during the Civil

War. Babylon, the epic by La La Land’s Damien Chazelle that’s set in the early days of Hollywood, has received heavily polarized advance reviews, so that entry has the highest ceiling and the lowest floor.

It’s the smaller-scale Oscar contenders that hold more interest this season. Sam Mendes pays a misty-eyed tribute to his childhood moviegoing days in Empire of Light, set at a once-palatial movie theater on England’s southern shore in the 1980s. Sarah Polley’s Women Talking is a stagey but well-written and well-acted drama about a group of Mennonite women deciding their next move after discovering that the men in their community, including their own husbands and brothers, have been drugging and raping them. That one may not see theaters until after the new year.

Melodramas receive a bad name (often deservedly), but Michael Showalter’s Spoiler Alert is a strong effort based on the memoir of Michael Ausiello, the gay TV critic who found love and then had to nurse his husband after his cancer diagnosis. Even more wrenching than that is Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, with Brendan Fraser giving a performance that already seems like a lock for an Oscar as a 600-pound gay man trying to reconcile with the teenage daughter whom he abandoned.

If you’re looking for something lighter (play on words not intended), Disney is putting out Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again, which is drawing less publicity than the previous entries in the series because the original talents (including Ben Stiller) have all left. Netflix’s big holiday entry is Matilda the Musical, an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s

children’s book that includes songs by Tim Minchin and musical support by Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, and Andrea Riseborough. Don’t overlook Four Samosas, Ravi Kapoor’s delightful comedy about an Indian-American would-be rapper and his loser friends who decide to rob their local Indian supermarket. Tom Hanks stars in A Man Called Otto, a remake of the Swedish comedy A Man Called Ove, about a grouchy widower who’s shaken out of his misanthropy when some non-white neighbors move in next door to him. If you’re in the mood for something retro, Neil Jordan teams up with Liam Neeson for Marlowe, adapted from Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled detective novels.

Overseas, Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters) directs the Korean film Broker, starring Song Kang-ho as a criminal scratching out a living arranging for abandoned Korean babies to be illegally adopted by foreign parents. From the same country, Lee Jung-jae, the actor who won a historic Emmy for his role on Squid Game, makes his directing debut with the spy thriller Hunt, in which he also stars. Austria’s Oscar contender is Corsage, which stars Vicky Krieps as the 19th-century empress who decides she’s more than just an ornament. Jafar Panahi is currently unjustly sitting in an Iranian prison along with several of his colleagues, but his No Bears (which co-stars himself) comes to us this holiday with its dual plotlines about people getting into trouble with the government for their artistic pursuits. If any of these spurs you to give the local movie theaters your business, their underworked employees will be sure to welcome you like family. l

Avatar: The Way of Water is Hollywood’s biggest blockbuster this holiday season.

Courtesy 20th Century Studios

Joysticks to the World

acted campaign alongside brutal combat. Those who want all of those things with multiple deep mechanics and a sci-fi/ fantasy sheen should check out the JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Nintendo Switch). For the more casual gamer and animal lover, you’re covered with Stray (PS4, PS5, PC), which lets you play as a cat in a futuristic city filled with robots and a button dedicated to meowing, and for animal phobics, A Plague Tale: Requiem (PS5, Xbox Series X and S, PC, Nintendo Switch) features a nihilistic medieval world filled with a depressing but engaging story and literal waves of killer rats.

Alongside Xenoblade, the Nintendo Switch had a good year for exclusives and the number 3, with Bayonetta 3 finally releasing with expertly crafted and stylish combat, while Splatoon 3 arrived to fill the void for competitive shooters, with its charming world of ink-blasting cartoon squid kids.

any entry in recent memory.

BY COLE WILLIAMS

With games now averaging $70 a pop, here’s a guide to the year’s best to help you make the most of your holiday bucks. With the Game Awards on Thursday, let’s cover the nominees for game of the year. Elden Ring (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, PC) won rave reviews for its dark, pared down open world and unflinching combat, while Horizon Forbidden West (PS4 and PS5) filled its expanse with its enthralling main quest, sidequests, and visuals. God of War Ragnarök (PS4 and PS5) sits somewhere between the two, with a moving and well-

The Big N also had a pair of Pokémon releases, with open-world spinoff Pokémon Legends: Arceus received as a fun divergence and mainline entries Pokémon Violet and Scarlet applauded for their new, wider world and additional new Pokémon. Be warned, though. The two latter entries are still plagued by technical issues, from poor framerate to bugs.

And speaking of Nintendo, their old rivals Sega put their famous blue hedgehog front and center with the new open-world game Sonic Frontiers (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, Nintendo Switch, PC), which has done more to reinvigorate the franchise than

On the shooter side, Call of Duty has returned with Modern Warfare 2 (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, PC), a sequel to the 2019 reboot, winning acclaim for its campaign and competitive scene, while Overwatch 2 (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, Nintendo Switch, PC) launched with changes to the original game’s formula, not the least of which is changing it from 6v6 to 5v5, though for many there weren’t enough changes to qualify it as a full-on sequel.

Fighting fans got a little love as well. Warner Bros. launched their characterthemed, Smash Brothers-like MultiVersus (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, PC), allowing players to pummel one another on teams of two as everybody from Batman to Bugs Bunny, while SNK brought us the newest in its long-running King of Fighters series, XV (PS4, PS5,

Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, PC).

Strategy fans had Total War: Warhammer III (Mac, PC, Linux), bringing Games Workshop’s dark fantasy world of figurine battles to gamers; the awkwardly named Triangle Strategy (Nintendo Switch, PC) with its Tactics Ogre-like battles and branching story; and Marvel’s Midnight Suns (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, Nintendo Switch, PC), which delivered intense tactical superhero combat.

Along those lines, beat-’em-up players had reason to celebrate as well, with brawler Sifu (PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, PC) and its lose-and-age gimmick, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, Nintendo Switch, PC, Linux), which brought back the turtles with gorgeous pixel art and sweet martial arts.

And it was a big year for smaller releases as well: Zelda-inspired action/adventure game Tunic (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, Nintendo Switch, PC) delivered adorable fox adventurers and old-school instruction manuals as game mechanics; Cult of the Lamb gave everyone a reason to love adorable cartoon critters as cult members and sacrifices to dark eldritch gods; and Vampire Survivors (Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, PC, Mac) delivered quick yet casual roguelike gameplay in a horror-themed world.

So even with a frugal holiday budget, there are plenty of options for the needs of your favorite gamer. Or you can always be lazy and just buy them points cards for their favorite system. l

An inflation-affected budget doesn’t have to mean a dearth of good new gaming this season.

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BY EDWARD BROWN

If you haven’t barhopped Fort Worth in recent years, you may be pleasantly surprised by the robust scene. Within the past two years alone, our city’s watering holes have checked off important boxes. Authentic tiki bar? Check. Refined dive bar bringing Buffalo (?) energy?

Check. Mezcal-forward cocktail lounges? Check, check, check.

Newcomer Don Artemio (3268 W 7th St, 817-470-1439) is an awardwinning restaurant that takes cocktail service as seriously as its upscale MexMex cuisine. Bar Manager Pam Moncrief and her team can pour you a seasonal continued on page 33

The Tierra Caliente blends Uruapan Charanda Añejo

for a heavenly experience.

favorite: The Tierra Caliente. The libation anchored by Uruapan Charanda Añejo blends spices and citrus notes for an intoxicatingly heavenly experience.

Nearby Pour Decisions (2800 Bledsoe St, 682-203-0726) offers Instagrammable mirror rooms and an adult-sized slide for those brave/drunk enough to dive on

in. My cocktail recommendation is the Good Vibes. Steeped in cucumber and mint, it’s light, tart, and refreshing.

The Stockyards, thanks to revamped Mule Alley, is now a nighttime hotspot with ample dining and drinking options. Within short walking distance, you can snag a frothy beer and catch a live show at Second Rodeo Brewing (122 E Exchange Av, Ste 340, 817-240-4959), toss back a tumbler of whiskey at Sidesaddle Saloon (122 E Exchange Av, Ste 240, 817-8627952), or sip a signature cocktail at Fort

Worth’s newest music venue, Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall (122 E Exchange Av, Ste 200).

If you find yourself on a brewery binge, Fort Worth is awash in them. Now-defunct Funkytown Fermatorium is home to a newish brewpub that churns out superlative pizzas and brews. Bankhead Brewing (611 University Dr, 817-439-9223) pours award-winning suds in a laidback restaurant environment. Locals clamor for the Gussy Up wheat beer and S’Mores Liquid Language, a

boozed-up bourbon barrel-aged stout. Named after the historic line between Texas and the Louisiana Territory, Neutral Ground Brewing (2929 Race St, 682-499-6033) was founded by homebrewing expert Stan Hudson and master chemist Sean Doublet. Popular pours at the newish River East establishment include the sweet and spicy La Bruja, hazy and juicy Brave Noise NEIPA, and the dark, coffee-kissed The Accursed porter.

The bar at Toro Toro (200 Main St, 817-975-9895) is open seven days a week, and the downtown lounge boasts ample quasi-living-room seating options. The espresso martini, made with freshbrewed espresso and topped with roasted java beans, is one of the smoothest and most delicious in town.

The Near Southside is home to several fun newish local bars. Nickel City (212 S Main St, Ste 100) hangs more holiday decor per square foot than any watering hole in Tarrant County.

After grabbing a hot toddy and digging into some golden-fried tots there, check out nearby Tarantula Tiki Lounge (117 S Main St), where authentic tiki cocktails are made with premium rum and minimal sweeteners. The setting delivers a colorful and fantastical escape from reality.

Just a short walk away is The Backroom at Funky Picnic (401 Bryan Av, Ste 109, 817-708-2739). The adultsonly pizzeria and cocktail lounge boasts the same brick-oven pizza used by former tenant Black Cat Pizza. My recommendation is the steak pizza, which comes topped with arugula and

zigzags of reduced balsamic vinegar.

Resplendently named Pinky’s Champagne Room and Velvet Jazz Lounge (615 S Jennings St) offers affordably priced bubblies and live jazz on the weekends and certain weekdays.

Fort Worth’s newest distillery also serves impressive grub. Lockwood Distilling Company (1411 W Magnolia Av, 682-499-6270) sells popular spirits like hibiscus-flavored vodka or bourbon cream liqueur that you can sip or take home, and the Dirty South Pie (Fritos, house pastrami chili, melted pimento cheese, sour cream) is the perfect cure for winter temps. l

Second Rodeo Brewing Company offers a wide range of largely German-inspired beers, elevated pub grub, and live acts throughout the day.

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For the last several years, I’ve enjoyed indulging in fine dining for Thanksgiving rather than trying to cook a spread at home. I don’t see myself cooking this Christmas, either. New Year’s Eve or Day? Nope. Luckily, many fine establishments will welcome my lazy little tribe and me with open arms.

1.) Blue Mesa Grill (612 Carroll St, 817-332-6372) has Holiday Fajita Party Packs that can be delivered within a 5-mile radius of the restaurant. If you have relatives visiting from out of state, this will give them a taste of the Mexican

food we love so much in North Texas. Order online at BlueMesaGrill.com.

2.) On Christmas Eve (Sat, Dec 24) from 11am to 10pm, B&B Butchers & Restaurant (5212 Marathon Av, 817737-5212) is at your service. Enjoy the brunch menu from 11am to 3pm or the annual Christmas Eve dinner service that night. For reservations, call the restaurant directly or book through OpenTable.com.

3.) Central Market has some chef-made Holiday Meals ready for the taking at both local locations: Fort Worth (4651

W Fwy, 817-989-4700) and Southlake (1425 E Southlake Blvd, 817-310-5600). If you place your order by Thursday and it’s a minimum of $50 or more, you’ll receive a coupon worth $10 off your next in-store visit. Complete meals are available. Appetizers, main dishes, sides, and desserts can be purchased separately. View the full menu at CentralMarket. com/Holiday-Meals

4.) Along with the usual full menu available 24/7, Ol’ South Pancake House (1509 S University Dr, 817-3360311) offers a Ham Dinner on Christmas Day to enjoy dine-in or to-go. This offer is also available at the Burleson location (225 E Renfro St, 817-989-9090) but for dine-in only. For future updates on the side dishes and the pricing, visit OlSouthPancakeHouse.com.

5.) Omni Fort Worth Hotel (1300 Houston St, 817-535-6664) never

This meal of smoked ham with apricot ginger glaze from Central Market feeds 6-8 people.

disappoints. For the holidays, they are tempting me in two ways. From 11am to 3pm on Christmas Day (Sun, Dec 25), we are invited to enjoy a “ festive culinary continued on page 38

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Forget about a ham dinner. I want my ham in the form of an Ol’ South Big Tex Cristo!

Heat-and-serve options at Blue Mesa will make life easy this Christmas.

experience featuring holiday favorites.”

Seating is available every half hour. Holiday brunch costs $76 for adults and $44 for children ages 6 to 12. Kids under 5 dine for free. To reserve your space, find Cast Iron on OpenTable.com.

6.) The Omni also hosts its Stirring Up Nostalgia: Artisanal Hot Chocolate event. Thru Tue, Jan 31, enjoy a warm beverage from a specialty hot chocolate menu, including add-ons like handcrafted marshmallows, espresso upgrades, and boozy options. Also, thru Sat, Feb 25, you can take advantage of the Sweet Traditions special offer with

your night’s stay for those who want to staycation. Along with 10% off your accommodations, you’ll receive two artist-designed cocoa mugs and a $10 food/beverage credit.

7.) Christmas pre-orders at the everpopular Panther City BBQ (201 E Hattie St, 682-499-5618) are now up and live. While you still can, go to PantherCityBBQ.com, click on the merchandise tab, then view and select your choices. Savory options range from a half pan of holiday brisket elote for $40 to a whole brisket for $165. As for dessert, here are five glorious words you don’t often hear together: Holiday Nutter Butter Cheesecake Pudding. A half pan is $30. All orders will be available for pickup on Christmas Eve (Sat, Dec 24) from 9am to 10am only. If you’d like to dine in while you are there, regular service is available 10:30pm-2pm with a full menu, but it’s first-come/firstserved. Because barbecue.

8.) Lasagna from Shaw’s Patio & Grill (1051 W Magnolia Av, 817-926-2116) has become somewhat of a tradition. Beef and vegetable options are available in large pans and a la carte sizes. Along with being a great addition to your holiday table or a way to avoid cooking sometime this month, this is also a good gift for

a teacher. Way better than an apple! (Unless you’re baking apple pie. If so, do what you do.)

While visiting the above locations, be sure to pick up gift cards for stocking stuffers. Plus, you’re covered should you forget someone on your shopping list.

By Jennifer Bovee

Panther City BBQ,

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CrossTown Sounds

Three, Two, One… Happy New Year!

As the end of the year draws closer, I have a choice to make. Should I stay or should I go now? New Year’s Eve celebrations can be dicey, as it’s basically #AmatuerNight out on the roads. (Please don’t drink and drive.) But for those who are up for ringing in the new year by listening to great music or seeing a show, there are many options, especially with it falling on a Saturday this year.

The Ridglea is getting a head start on the festivities with a Friday night show. On Fri, Dec 30 at 7pm, come to New Years Adam — because “What comes before Eve? Adam, of course!” — and hear Relic with Hunter Cox and The Big League Boys at the Ridglea Room (3309 Winthrop Av, 817-941-0086). Tickets are $15 on Eventbrite.com.

On Sat, Dec 31, from 9pm to 2am, Fat Daddy’s (781 W Debbie Ln, Mansfield, 817-453-0188) hosts its annual New Year’s Rockin’ Eve featuring Def Leggend (Def Leppard tribute) and MidNight Ranger (Night Ranger tribute). VIP tables can be reserved for $100 for four people or $50 for two at Universe. com/FatDaddysNYE202. Each table includes a bottle of champagne and party favors. Advance tickets are required.

Chef Ben at The Fitzgerald (6115 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-349-9245) hosts his annual Las Vegas-style party called Boogie on the Bricks starting at 8pm. Play blackjack, craps, and roulette while enjoying a dinner buffet and DJ music. Tickets are $250 per person at EatAtFitz. com and include all alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, plus a champagne toast at midnight. You must be 21+ to attend.

The Post at River East (2925 Race St, 817945-8890) is hosting #MAF22 nominees Keegan McInroe and Squeezebox Bandits to ring in the new year with some local tunes. Tickets are $20-$125

on Eventbrite.com, and parking is free. A complimentary champagne toast and some black-eyed peas will be served at midnight.

The Rail Club DFW (3101 Joyce Dr, 817-386-4309) is hosting a tribute show for its NYE celebration paying homage to metal’s “Big 4.”. Starting at 6pm, hear Far Beyond Drink (Pantera), Kill ‘Em All (Metallica), PostMortem (Slayer), and Youthanasia (Megadeth) at NYE Tribute to the Old School. Tickets are $35-$50 on Eventbrite.com.

A second-chance prom is on the schedule at the Urban Cowboy Saloon (2620 E

Lancaster Av, 817-707-5663) this NYE. Doors open at 8pm, with dinner at 8:30pm from Kits Kitchen and a drag show hosted by Sapphire Davenport that starts during dinner. Then, it’s danceparty time at 10pm with a $2000 balloon drop and a champagne toast at midnight. Tickets for New Year’s Eve Prom 2023 are $20-$150 on Eventbrite.com.

For more happenings this New Year’s Eve, watch for our NYE Sections on December 21 and 28. To submit your event information, email Marketing@ fwweekly.com.

Let’s get rocked at Fat Daddy’s for NYE.

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Hear two of our #MAF22 nominees at The Post on NYE.

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Join the newly crowned Miss Gay USofA Newcomer 2022-2023 on NYE at Urban Cowboy.

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By Jennifer Bovee

MUSIC

Local Christmas Song Playlist

Bing and Andy are fine, but for something different, look no further than our backyard.

BY PATRICK HIGGINS

With late-stage capitalism evermotivating corporations to desperately make their year-end nut by going all-

in on Christmastime consumerism, the kickoff of the holiday season seems to begin earlier and earlier every year. The slog has meme-ified Mariah Carey into a sort of Pennywise-type boogeyman a terrifying, blood-red, fur-trimmed harbinger portending the coming months-long barrage of holiday music seemingly occupying every aural crevice it can crawl into. The descendants of Bing Crosby will get their annual royalty bumps as innocent radio listeners are perpetually hypnotized by his buttery baritone along with Brenda Lee’s rockin’ Christmas tree and “Mimi’s” interminable wish-list earworm. If you’re into festive vibez but have had enough of the same old Burl Ives and Andy Williams tunes, our crack local music journos have compiled a playlist of homegrown holiday tuneage to give your ears a break from the commercial radio and department store Muzak monotony.

We wouldn’t be doing our very hard, very challenging, not very rewarding jobs if we didn’t reacquaint listeners with a handful of our old local holiday favorites.

Inveterate psyche-rock darlings The Cush gave us “The Last Carol” a handful of years ago, and it still deserves the leadoff spot on our playlist. The winter hymn ignites the warm and fuzzies slowly until building into a crescendo of guitar noise

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With one original and several re-imagined classics, Jamestown Revival’s Fort Worthrecorded Songs that Sleigh is perfect for the holidays.

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and an angelic refrain of “Hallelujah.” We rejoice indeed.

Another somber classic is from the now-depressingly defunct experimental indie outfit Tame … Tame and Quiet with their take on the timeless Vince Guaraldi classic “Christmas Time Is Here.” Lush horns and guitarist/vocalist Aaron Bartz’s signature angular slipslide guitar work make for an artful reimagining while remaining faithful to the original’s melancholy yet hopeful tone.

Of course, no proper local Christmas playlist would be worth its weight in tinsel if it didn’t include Flickerstick’s climactic “Execution by Christmas Lights.” The soaring epic clocks in at over six minutes in length yet somehow still feels like it’s about 23 minutes shorter than we want it to be.

In June, while the rest of us were doing early summer things like watching baseball and sweating, Southeast Texas “backporch folk duo” Jamestown Revival headed up here to record some Christmas tunes at Niles City Sound, tracking and mixing five classics and one original with studio honchos Josh Block and Robert Ellis. The resulting six-song EP, Songs that Sleigh, offers delightful, country-fied takes on some of the classics you hear at the grocery store from mid-October through New Year’s Eve, decorated with gorgeous harmonies and the sparkle of pedal steel by Will Van Horn (Robert Ellis, Khruangbin, Shinyribs). Jordan Richardson (Son of Stan, Quaker City Night Hawks) mastered the sessions at his home studio Electric Barryland.

Jamestown Revival, formed in Magnolia, Texas, in 2014, is the project of singer-songwriters Jon Clay and Zach Chance, whose debut album, Utah, is probably one of the best Americana works of its kind to come out of the Lone Star State that decade. In addition to Van Horn, they’re joined here by Ellis on keys and guitar and the duo’s rhythm team of multi-instrumentalist Nick Bearden (Tony Lucca, Nina Storey) and drummer Ed Benrock (Starflyer 59, Kreepdowns), who are both ace session players.

As a unit, their versions of these songs are both beautiful and inventive without turning the proverbial wheel into something unrecognizable. This quality is most immediately noticeable on EP-opener “Blue Christmas,” rendered here with an island cha-cha beat on a drum machine, over which Clay’s and Chance’s disembodied harmonies fall like snowflakes.

Wham!’s “Last Christmas” follows, and Block’s production turns the ’80s jilted lover hit into a salty, two-stepping, mid-tempo country jam, the sort of thing you’d hear while watching couples twirl across the hardwood floor of a dive bar as you try to keep the tears out of your beer.

But the really sad track is the original “Merry Christmas.” It’s an economical tale of a couple whose holiday love story progresses through the years with these lines “One more year now, and how many more? / Clocks keep turning, getting hard to ignore / Take me in now, you are mine and I’m yours.” It’s a realass holiday song, the sort of thing you’d put on a playlist next to Hayes Carll’s “Grateful for Christmas.”

After that, there’s a pretty, instrumental, country-shuffling rendition of “O, Christmas Tree” that subs steel guitar and Fender Rhodes for vocals and nice re-imaginings of “Little Drummer Boy” and “Silver Bells,” the latter of which adding an overdubbed Peanuts-y children’s choir courtesy of Clay’s little boy. If you’re hankering for some new sounds to add to your holiday music staples, Songs that Sleigh is a really nice gift.

For some new tunes to work in this year, Cory Cross offers “Ice on the Road.” With its garage-rock vibe, it’s a sonic departure for the country singersongwriter, but the melancholy subject matter (loss in a time of celebration) fits right in with his oeuvre. Singersongwriter Court Hoang is about to serve up a video of his a cappella version of The Drifters’ “White Christmas,” while country duo Kendi Jean and Jered Harlan recently put out “Winter with You.” l

Steve Steward and Juan R. Govea contributed to this story.

C&W singer-songwriter Cory Cross throws a blanket over the holiday festivities with his melancholy tune about loss.

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