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Sundance Square Stockyards Cultural District Near Southside

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February 2010

andy warhol the last decade Also in This Issue... Valentine’s Shopping: What to Buy Now Find it All on West 7th | Love and Culture are in the Air

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F E AT U R E S • • • • • • Valentine’s Day:

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Welcome Warhol.....6

Managing Editor Dana Crumbliss danac@downtownfw.net

Find it all at West 7th.....10

Business/Operations Trish Bermejo

COLUMNS•••••• the foodie pages.....8

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andy warhol the last decade

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ost folks probably know of Andy Warhol as that skinny dude with the frizzy white hair who painted Campbell’s Soup cans back in the ’60s. But what most folks probably don’t realize is that if not for his soup cans –– and his Del Monte boxes and his Brillo boxes and other precise replications of consumer products –– the stuff we listen to, look at, and read today would probably be a lot duller.

Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Francesco Clemente Alba’s Breakfast, 1984.

Mixed media on paper mounted on canvas Bischofberger Collection, Switzerland.

What a lot of folks also probably don’t realize is that Andy –– and we’re all on a first-name basis with him –– continued working steadily up until his death in 1987. A survey of his important works from the Decade of Decadence will be on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from Sat., Feb. 14, until

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Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait (Strangulation), 1978.

Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, ten parts Collection of Anthony d’Offay.

May 16. Organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum, Andy Warhol: The Last Decade features more than 50 works, all on loan from private collections and also institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. The exhibit includes an introduction to the artist and is divided into thematic sections “based on significant Warhol series,” according to the museum, namely his abstract works, collaborations (featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat), black-and-white ads, works about death and religion, self-portraits, camouflage patterns, and his Last Supper series. “Andy Warhol is one of the most important artists in the genre that the museum collection represents, post-World-War II,” said the Modern’s Kendal Smith. “He was the King of Pop Art, which has had a significant impact on artists, celebrity, and society in general for almost 50 years.”

Intense programming will accompany the exhibit. Skeptics, be ready to develop a whole new appreciation for “that guy who just painted soup cans.” Dr. Mark Thistlethwaite, the Kay and Velma Kimbell Chair of Art History at Texas Christian University, will deliver four lectures over a two-month period at the Museum Auditorium from 4 to 4:45 p.m. Last Decade programming also includes special edutaining opportunities for ages 12 to 16. Each session will be composed of a tour,

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group discussion, gallery projects, and studio project and is $10 per kid.

Registration is recommended. And at 1 p.m. every Sunday throughout the duration of the exhibit, a different North Texas artist will lead a free tour.

Scheduled to participate are Richard Patterson, Noah Simblist, and Michael Corris, with more to be named later.

“This exhibition is important in several regards,” Smith said. “It is the first museum show of Warhol’s work in North Texas, or Texas for that matter, in many years. It is the first to focus on the last decade of his life. This work has rarely if ever been seen together anywhere. The last decade of his life, Warhol changed focus so his art, and the series in the show represent a new direction.”

Andy Warhol Self-Portrait, 1986.

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The Foodie Pages

Dining Around Town on Valentine’s Day Head downtown this Valentine’s Day and fall in love –– with food. February 14th is the restaurant world’s Christmas, and when the special day falls on a weekend, many establishments up the ante by offering special menus featuring entrées and delights not available throughout the rest of the year.

You can never go wrong with any of the traditional but never compromising Fort Worth steak houses. Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House (812 Main St., 817-877-3999) is the gold standard and always delivers on a special occasion, especially when the evening is topped off with Del Frisco’s bread pudding with Jack Daniel’s sauce.

For the less carnivorous, Taverna (450 Throckmorton St., 817-885-7502) has created a Valentine’s Day menu filled with lobster. Available February 12-14, choices include some creative takes on the delectable crustacean, including a lobster bisque, lobster risotto, and stuffed lobster tail.

Cantina Laredo (530 Throckmorton St., 817-810-0773) will offer a three-course special menu with a tequila cocktail pairing for each course. Start with a refreshing pomegranate margarita to get your taste buds ready for your choice of sea bass, roasted quail, or fillet mignon, all prepared with Latin flare. Finishing touches include a Heart-warmer (coffee infused with Baileys Irish Cream and tequila) and the Strawberry Buñuel’s, available Friday through Sunday.

Ferre Ristorante e Bar (215 E. 4th St., 817-332-0033) is venturing away from its traditional menu, offering a four-course dinner menu on Friday and Saturday to be enjoyed for a prixe fixe $45 or a la carte. Selections include Tortelloni Fonduta with a black truffle butter sauce, pink peppercorn-crusted scallops served over spinach-parmesan risotto, and dark chocolate polenta cake with Tuaca caramel.

Over on the South Side, the award-winning Lili’s Bistro (1310 W. Magnolia Ave.,

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Relative newcomer, the wildly popular Ellerbe Fine Foods (1501 W. Magnolia Ave., 817-926-3663) will also host a prixe fixe dinner on both Saturday and Sunday. The cost is $65 per person, and selections include creamy Carter Farm tomato soup, red wine-braised short ribs with Brazos Valley cheddar

potatoes, and delicate brown butter crepes with sweet ricotta cream and Framboise chocolate sauce.

No matter which place you visit, your honey –– and your belly –– will thank you.

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F i n d i t a l l a t T

he West 7th Street corridor just west of downtown has been undergoing a building boom in the past few years, with mixeduse, pedestrian-friendly projects that are part of Fort Worth’s acclaimed “urban village” plan.

While four projects have been moving along quickly, the West 7th development by Cypress Equities is finishing out, and should have most of the tenants and loft-living units leased out in the next few months.

“We are very pleased by the reaction we have received to West 7th,” said Kirk Williams, senior vice president of development for Cypress Equities. “We did our homework, listened to the people of Fort Worth, and we’re proud to be doing this type of project in a truly great city.”

Designed as a mix of office space, rental housing units, and “eatertainment,” as Williams calls it, West 7th “feeds off the energy of all these parts.” While the office and housing components are finished out and have begun leasing, the restaurant and entertainment elements are quickly forming as well.

Already, the Movie Tavern has been showing prime flicks with the accompaniment of drinks and fine food now for several months. L.A. Fitness recently opened. Yofe Fresh Fruit & Yogurt Café has a great menu of yogurt parfaits, specialty smoothies, and even soups and salads. Paciugo specializes in Italian gelato.

Also recently opened is Flirt Boutique, with its array of trendy, affordable, of-the-moment fashions. Toni & Guy (a salon) and Pure Bliss (a spa) are also now open for business.

One of the great restaurants in the area – Dallas-based Tillman’s Roadhouse – swung open its doors last month to critical acclaim. The western-themed décor with pine and birch mixes quite well with a menu that takes western dining fare to a new level. Tillman’s smokes its meat with post oak wood and serves only Texas microbrews on tap (including locally made Rahr).

The large chicken-fried hanger steak is topped with smooth and spicy gravy. You can design your own cupcake at a stand with quite a few choices of flavors and frostings.

Then there is the Frito Pie made with venison chili. Nuff said.

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In the next few months, more will be coming online: Terra’s Mediterranean Grill will feature Middle-Eastern fare, Delaney’s Irish Pub will be a great place to hang out and watch sports, Bailey’s Prime Plus Steakhouse will satisfy Cowtown’s beef wishes, and Houston-based Brownstone will focus on new American cuisine. Also on tap is Patrizio’s, a great Dallas-based Italian restaurant specializing in midpriced pasta and pizza specials.

Those who get a hankering for new cowboy boots will have great choices. Teskey’s out of Weatherford and Heritage Boots out of Austin will be open for business within the next few months.

For Williams, the housing side of the equation has far exceeded projections. Of the 345 one- two- and threebedroom loft apartments, about 70 percent have been leased. Same goes for the 100,000 square feet of office space.

“We have always seen this area on the near West Side as being not only a prime location but a special place in the city of Fort Worth,” Williams said. “When you see who are our neighbors – from great museums to downtown being so close to the Will Rogers Memorial Center with all of its great events – we are very humbled. And we take very seriously our mission to give Fort Worth something that is unique and lasting.”

Cypress Equities had planned a grand opening in December, but that was put off because of some delays in finishing out some of the retail spaces. But on March 4th, a formal ribbon cutting will be done, and by then more and more of these entertainment venues and restaurants will be opened.

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he Fort Worth Zoo has always been a big treat for the kids but will be so more than ever in March, with the opening of the new $19 million, 30,000-square-foot Museum of Living Art, an indoor/outdoor herpetological facility that will house more than 100 amphibian and reptile species, representing more than 850 animals.

The Puerto Rican crested toad, the spring salamander, Chiricahua leopard frog, Annam leaf turtle, Utila Island iguana, Houston toad, Chinese three-striped box turtle, Grand Cayman blue iguana, and Malayan painted river turtle are just some of the exotic creatures that will be on display. The Fort Worth Zoo started work on MOLA a couple of years ago in response to the recent global amphibian crisis –– 32 percent of the world’s amphibians are facing extinction in the next five to 10 years from universal causes (climate change, disease, habitat alteration) and also from Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a killer fungus.

Biologists have likened the amphibian crisis to the death of the dinosaur. Zoos have been called on to intervene and instigate conservation efforts. The Fort Worth Zoo, with MOLA, is leading the way.

A lot of the great stuff happening at MOLA might be going on behind the scenes. The museum includes state-of-the-art conservation tools, including quarantine rooms and hibernaculums to facilitate the breeding of rare, endangered, and critically endangered animals.

MOLA will replace the zoo’s old Herpetarium (built in 1960) and will comprise several major exhibition areas, including Gharial (devoted to longsnouted gharial crocodiles), Komodo Kingdom, Discovery Hub (giant salamanders, which can weight almost 100 pounds), Saltwater Crocodile, Giant Tortoises, Nursery/ Interpretive Area, Living Jungle, Tropical Trail, Flooded

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Forest, Montane Gallery (palm vipers, Thai bamboo racers, and the Boelen python), Diversity Gallery, Adaptation Hall (North American and other arid species), Desert Exhibit, Insect Gallery, and the Outdoor Classroom.

The Fort Worth Zoo promises that MOLA will help students develop a passion for the sciences (natural, life, physical, and earth), and an

interpretation center will allow teachers, students, and visitors of all ages to ask keepers questions and see hatchlings and babies up close. The zoo also says that the exhibits will highlight man’s successes in wildlife conservation as a catalyst to rally around current wildlife changes.

“We are very excited about bringing some of the most exotic, colorful, and unique creatures in the world to Fort Worth,” said Fort Worth Zoo Executive Director Michael Fouraker. “While our old Herpetarium was a longtime favorite, guests will be able to come face to face with these animals and engage in ways that they’ve never been able to before.

MOLA will also provide an opportunity to continue the zoo’s extensive conservation work locally and globally.”

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irst things first, there’s nothing wrong with being a redneck.

Ain’t nuthin wrong with kicking back at the local watering hole, putting up yer cowboy boots, and relaxing with a schooner of Shiner, with Willie, Waylon, and Merle on the juke. But even the boot-scootin’-est among us needs to occasionally step out

Old Fashioned is in style at The Usual. and step up (so to speak). And while there’s no shortage of fine art in town, there has been -- up until recently -- a dearth of places where folks could go to discuss what they’ve just seen on stage at Bass Performance Hall or Jubilee Theatre or on the walls of the Amon Carter, Kimbell, or Modern.

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One fancy place that suits a refined palate and that really stands out is the latest addition to Fort Worth nightlife’s swanky side. The Usual, located at 1408 W. Magnolia Ave. in the heart of the South Side, is one classy joint. The décor is straight out of Architectural Digest -- blonde wood, metallic trim, and right angles abound. But The Usual’s main selling point is behind the bar. There might not be any place in town where you can get an Old Fashioned (3 oz. bourbon, three dashes bitters, half-teaspoon sugar syrup, splash water, half orange peel, maraschino cherry) or an Aviation (2 oz. gin, 1/4 oz. maraschino liqueur, half oz. fresh lemon juice, dash of creme de violette, flamed lemon peel for garnish) or any one of the other specialty cocktails on The Usual’s short but dynamic menu. Bartenders in other joints just don’t have the time to mix such complicated libations -- The Usual’s do. Always. Call 817810-0114.

An intellectual powwow at The Usual might be in order after experiencing the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra this month.

Three shows are lined up, starting with Chopin & Schumann, a tribute to two of the world’s most celebrated composers on the 200th anniversary of their births, starring conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya and piano soloist Horacio Gutiérrez. The concerts

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Brian Stokes Mitchell are from Fri., Feb. 5, through Sun., Feb. 7, at Bass Performance Hall (525 Commerce St. in Sundance Square).

From Fri., Feb. 19, through Sun., Feb. 21, at the Bass, the FWSO will perform with Tony Award-winning actor Brian Stokes Mitchell, who will bust out songs from such memorable Broadway shows as South Pacific, West Side Story, and Man of La Mancha. Even the reddest neck will stumble away with an appreciation for Mitchell’s uber-masculine yet lighter-than-air baritone and impeccable command.

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Daniel Mueller-Schott The FWSO also offers the Dvorák Cello Concerto, starring soloist Daniel Mueller-Schott, one of the world’s preeminent cellists. The main piece will be sandwiched between two other classics: Mozart’s Overture to Don Giovanni and Strauss’ Don Juan.

Both pieces revolve around that legendary literary figure and notable lover. Perfect for a post-Valentine’s Day date. The concerts are from Fri., Feb. 26, through Sun., Feb. 28, at the Bass. For ticket info, contact the hall at 817-212-4400. For more info on the

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Love will be in the air throughout the month, no doubt, and nowhere as intensely as at the Bass Hall for Texas Ballet Theater’s run of Romeo & Juliet, from Fri., Feb. 12, through Valentine’s Day, Sun., Feb. 14. Based on Shakespeare’s timeless tale of love and war in 16th-century Venice, TBT artistic director Ben Stevenson’s adaptation of the classic features moody music by Prokofiev and, of course, world-class choreography and balletic execution. For ticket info and more, visit www. texasballettheater.org.

If photography had existed back then, you can bet that Romeo and Juliet would have been on the cover of every tabloid magazine.

Such is the power of photography: its ability to shrink the world, to bring larger-than-life celebrities (and exotic locales) into our homes. At the Amon Carter through mid-July, Masterworks of American Photography: Popular Culture will highlight the myriad roles that photography has played -- for better or worse -- in creating the pop culture that we know today.

The pieces include a close-up of John F. Kennedy shaking hands at a rally in Fort Worth, a family posed calmly on some rocks at the lip of seriously raging rapids in Niagara Falls, and a happy boy and his dog in Tomball, Texas. “The photographs filling this display do not summarize

great events,” according to the museum. “Instead, they offer discrete details that at times play the edges of controversy but more often exude goodwill and humor.” Visit www. cartermuseum.org.

Puppy love at the Amon Carter.

In between all of the intellectualizing that you and your smart (read: most social) friends will be doing this month, shelve the thinking juice (read: booze) and lace up your sneakers for the annual Cowtown Marathon. The race gets going bright and early on Sat., Feb. 27, downtown. Visit www. cowtownmarathon.org.

An excellent February to you all.

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