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Renting a boat or other seacraft is a great way to beat the heat.
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BY MARK HENRICKS
Many Fort Worthians survive August by staying in the air conditioning until, say, the third week of September. Others book vacations to cooler climes. For others, it means a boat ride on one of the area’s rivers or lakes, where they can pass a blissful afternoon skimming over the waves, enjoying the water-cooled breeze, and occasionally leaping in for a swim.
Unless you already own one of the 567,740 boats that the National Marine Manufacturers Association says are registered in Texas, buying may not be an option. The average watercraft of 26 feet or shorter in length sold for $91,000 in 2024, according to online boat marketplace Boats Group. Include outlays for insurance, storage, maintenance, equipment, accessories, taxes, and licenses, and it becomes apparent why watercraft owners often quip that “a boat is a hole in the water you throw money into.”
One solution: boat rental. Tarrant County lakes and waterways teem with opportunities to rent watercraft large and small for hourly rates that in some cases do not cost much more than tickets and concessions for a first-run movie. Here’s a how-to on boat rental.
Renting a kayak, canoe, stand-up paddle board, or other human-powered craft will get you on the water with the least expense and hassle. Rentals are available at many locations, including city-owned facilities like the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge, where the West Fork of the Trinity River joins Lake Worth, and Loyd Park on Joe Pool Lake in Grand Prairie.
In the heart of downtown, TC Paddlesports (480 N Taylor St, Fort Worth, 682-682-1313, 214478-7856) rents paddle craft from a Panther Island location. Manager Teresa Patterson has around 50 single and double kayaks, canoes, and stand-up paddleboards (SUPs) of varying lengths and styles available for rates starting at $20 an hour. That covers boat, life jacket, and basic instruction, including a warning not to get too close to the dam just downstream from the North Main Street bridge.
Patterson and her staff also guide organized outings like a sunrise float that backlights the skyline dramatically.
“On full-moon nights,” she said, “we have a full-moon paddle that’s our most popular.”
If you want more thrill and less exercise, consider a gasoline-powered craft. At Sam’s Dock Boat Rental (2500 Fairway Dr, Grapevine, 817-251-2628) inside Silver Lake Marina on Lake
Tarrant County Commissioners Court cuts more than 100 polling sites.
BY ANTHONY MARIANI
Under the guise of saving money, Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to eliminate more than 100 Election Day polling sites while also greatly reducing the number of early-voting locations for the November elections.
The vote was 3-2 along party lines. The number of places for ballots to be cast is now 216, down from 331 in 2023.
Dozens of people spoke out against the change over the course of two hours. 97 had signed up to speak beforehand. Most of them argued
Grapevine, you can commandeer an 11-foot Sea Doo personal watercraft capable of carrying two passengers at up to 50 mph. Sea Doos there cost $179 for two hours. A 20-foot ski boat suitable for six passengers runs at 45 mph and costs $319 for two hours.
Pontoon boats are the most popular powerboat rentals, according to Ben Yeager, manager of Sam’s Dock at Grapevine. These stable and comfortable craft ranging from 23 feet to 25 feet rent for $299 for two hours. They can carry up to 12 people for fishing and sightseeing and tow riders on tubes at speeds up to 25 mph.
If you want more — a lot more — a full-blown party boat may be what you need. These behemoths, approaching 100 feet in length, include multiple decks sporting indoor air-conditioned dining rooms, dance floors, and other amenities. At Lynn Creek Marina (5700 Lake Ridge Pkwy,
that reducing polling sites amounts to the suppression of Black, Hispanic, and college-age voters. The commissioners said the move is warranted to save money due to low voter turnout in nonpresidential elections. Elections Administrator Clinton Ludwig told the commissioners that about 12.5% of registered voters cast ballots in 2023, a paltry number.
There will now be 33 early-voting spots, down from 44 two years ago. Most of the cuts have come in the northeastern suburbs and cities outside the 820 Loop. None are on college campuses. The cuts may save about $1 million
“Cutting over 100 polling places in Tarrant County just months before an election is blatant voter suppression,” posted U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey. “Every Texan deserves fair & equal access to the ballot box — not longer lines, longer drives, and fewer voices heard.”
U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey’s letter indicates the influence of Donald Trump in Tarrant County Commissioners Court’s recent decision.
In a statement, he added, “These reductions threaten to undermine the fundamental principle that every eligible voter deserves reasonable and equitable access to the ballot box.
Grand Prairie, 817-640-4200) on Joe Pool Lake, The Wave Party Barge offered by Suntex Rentals — claimed to be the state’s biggest party boat — has twin water slides spectacularly snaking down from the upper deck into the lake.
Party boats can host up to 100 people for gatherings of all kinds, ranging from corporate team-building events to birthdays, anniversaries, and more.
“We had a wedding on here two weeks ago,” Yeager said of the Tejas, the largest of the party boats offered at Sam’s Dock. “They did the full ceremony and everything.”
That level of floating opulence will cost you, naturally. Any boat over the standard pontoon size typically comes with a captain to handle navigation and steering and often one or more crewmembers to operate the craft and serve passengers. For The Wave, to give one example, a three-hour weekend cruise will run you $1,875 before assorted extra fees.
Even if you can pay the freight, lake life on a rental boat isn’t all free and easy. Lifejackets are typically required, for instance. Renters will generally have to leave a credit card as a deposit. On busy hot weekends, it’s wise to call ahead and reserve to make sure your desired craft is available.
Also, younger renters must take a state-mandated boating safety course before piloting any powered watercraft.
“If you were born after September 21, 1993, you have to have the boater safety course,” Yeager said. “That’s the biggest challenge we’ve run into lately with new boaters.”
While you can take the course online for $10, it may take a couple of hours to fulfill the requirements.
Finally, keep in mind that, in addition to your terrestrial worries, you may want to leave your phones and key fobs behind. Dropping something on a boat often means hearing a splash instead of a thud. Patterson said so many of her clients have lost electronics to the Trinity that she provides free lockers.
“Anything you do not want to get wet, put in the locker,” she said. l
By concentrating voting locations away from urban and diverse communities, this proposal risks silencing the voices of working families, people of color, the elderly, and voters with limited transportation.
“Additionally,” he continued, “it’s concerning that this comes while President [Donald] Trump is also urging states to end mail-in voting, which would also significantly reduce voter access. Voting should not be a burden. It should be a right that is simple, fair, and accessible to every citizen.”
Allison Campolo, Tarrant County Democratic Party Chair, advocated against the reduction in polling sites. Afterward, she posted, “I am IMMENSELY grateful for everyone who answered the call. I’m extremely disappointed that this process played out this way (rushed, very little transparency or time to make changes), but I am enormously proud of Tarrant County today. You showed up. Let’s keep doing that ❤”
Rep. Nicole Collier spends the night on the Texas House floor after refusing police escort.
BY KAYLA GUO, THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
A Texas House Democrat was confined in the Capitol overnight after she refused a police escort that Republican leaders imposed on lawmakers who participated in a two-week walkout over a GOP mid-decade redistricting plan.
Rep. Nicole Collier (D-Fort Worth) declined on Monday afternoon to sign a slip giving her permission from Speaker Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) to leave the House floor with a state law enforcement officer shadowing her.
“I refuse to sign away my dignity as a duly elected representative just so Republicans can control my movements and monitor me with police escorts,” Collier said in a statement Monday. “When I press that button to vote, I know these maps will harm my constituents — I won’t just go along quietly with [Republicans’] intimidation or their discrimination.”
On Monday, just over two dozen Democratic lawmakers, including Collier, ended their walkout over a congressional redistricting plan — demanded by Donald Trump just four years after Republicans last redrew Texas’ map — that is designed to pad
the GOP’s slim U.S. House majority in next year’s midterm election.
After the lawmakers returned to the Texas House, Burrows announced they would each be subject to an around-the-clock police escort to ensure their attendance when the chamber reconvenes on Wednesday morning to vote on the map. He added that Democratic lawmakers would be responsible for any state costs incurred in ensuring their attendance.
Most Democrats signed the permission slip required to leave the Capitol with a police officer in tow, even while objecting to the mandatory surveillance and emphasizing that they would not have returned to Austin on Monday if they planned to skip the vote on Wednesday.
Republican lawmakers “exercised control, and they tell us we can’t leave unless we do exactly what they say,” Collier said in a video Monday. “We’ve had enough. We’ve had enough of them taking all of our rights away, and so I’ve taken a stand. I’m pushing back.”
Collier slept at her desk on the House floor Monday night and remained there Tuesday, almost 24 hours after first arriving, though she said she’d received permission to go to her office in the Capitol. Rep. Gene Wu of Houston, chair of the House Democratic Caucus, and Rep. Vince Perez, D-El Paso, stayed with her overnight, with other Democratic lawmakers and staffers coming by to provide moral support, food, clothes, pillows, and other necessities. All of it was captured on a livestream the House Democratic Caucus set up on the House floor, with up to 50,000 viewers tuning in at one point.
“Rep. Collier’s choice to stay and not sign the permission slip is well within her rights under the House Rules,” Burrows said in a statement. “I am choosing to spend my time focused on moving the important legislation on the [governor’s special session] call to overhaul camp safety, provide property tax reform, and eliminate the STAAR test — the results Texans care about.”
A handful of supporters outside the House chamber were arrested Monday night for “trespassing when the Capitol is closed.” They each received a criminal trespass warning barring them from returning to the building for a year, according to a video of the incident.
The order requiring Democratic lawmakers to keep a police escort is set to expire when the House grants final passage to the congressional map, House Bill 4, later this week.
Big D Concrete, Inc, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for an Air Quality Standard Permit, Registration No. 180118, which would authorize construction of a permanent concrete batch plant located at 3120 South Precinct Line Road, Hurst, Tarrant County, Texas 76053. Additional information concerning this application is contained in the public notice section of this newspaper.
Hulu’s dang new reboot of Texas’ most famous TV family should make us proud, I tell you what.
BY DANNY GALLAGHER
Mike Judge and Greg Daniels’ King of the Hill holds a special place in my heart for many reasons. The original 13-season run still works as a slice-of-life comedy that maintains its realism without leaning into tired stereotypes of Texas bumpkins while refusing to fear being goofy or (for lack of another better adjective) cartoony. It’s also very special for a personal reason.
Just a few years before the dawn of the millennium, my family moved from my lifelong home of New Orleans to Tyler, Texas. My dad could not have picked a more opposite place to move to if we moved to a place called Louisiana, N.O. I was terrified of having to adjust to a new life in a new culture right before college, especially switching from a city with drive-thru daquiri shops to a dry county. I didn’t even know lower levels of prohibition still existed in any form.
King of the Hill made its primetime debut on FOX around the same time, and from the very first episode that aired after my beloved Simpsons, my family gathered around the TV for every episode. The guy who blessed the world with Beavis
& Butt-Head and Silicon Valley found a brilliant way to make my parents and siblings laugh at the same things.
King of the Hill also introduced Texas’ social culture to me in a way that felt honest and accurate but not in a hokey, Hallmark-y way. It leaned into the personalities, fears, and foibles of people who still feel real and universal and found ways to make their feelings and beliefs funny and inventive.
The very first season of King of the Hill won acclaim with viewers and critics, two audiences who usually hold opposing views about what qualifies as good television. Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, and Time magazine all put the show on its list of the 10 best of 1997. Hulu’s 14th season reboot would face an uphill path to reach the same level of quality, charm, and acclaim.
Long story short (too late), does it? Hoo yeah!
The new Hulu episodes pick up right where the last FOX series left off, starting with its leading characters. The main conflict and comedy created by Hank Hill, the world’s most famous propane salesman and a proud Texan (voiced by Judge), comes from his struggle to retain his moral fiber, patriotic ideals, and love for football and power
tools in an ever-evolving world. His wife Peggy (voiced by Kathy Najimy) is a little more worldly, confident, and curious in a well-meaning but misguided way without coming off ditzy or brainless. One of her most famous running gags came from being a dedicated substitute Spanish teacher who couldn’t fully deliver accurate translations.
The showrunners cleverly explain the Hills’ absence from TV by indicating that Hank and Peggy had been living at Saudi Arabia’s Aramco Residential Camp for relocated oil and gas employees. The very first episode opens with the Hills returning to the Richardson-esque town of Arlen with a joke utilizing one of Hank’s funniest foibles — trying to use an airplane bathroom with a narrow urethra.
Unlike other animated shows featuring families which last more than 10 seasons, some of Arlen’s residents grew and evolved during the original run. Hank and Peggy’s only son, Bobby (voiced with scratchy perfection by Better Things creator and star Pamela Adlon), became one of the show’s most beloved stars. Bobby goes through the same, awkward tween years we all went through right before puberty, but the continuing stories
found great ways to grow his personality and confidence in very touching and endearing ways.
Bobby skipped college and now works as a Dallas chef running a Japanese restaurant fused with “the German heritage of the Texas Hill Country,” he says in the first episode. Seeing Bobby as a responsible adult was such a joy. It felt like running into a funny high school friend I hadn’t talked to in 15 years.
Bobby has more charm than ever as a workaholic single guy with only enough time for hooking up with college students at SMU. He reconnects with his first girlfriend, Connie Souphanousinphone (voiced by Lauren Tom, who also voiced Amy Wong from Futurama, another Hulu animated reboot). The meeting gives viewers another way to root for Bobby but also enjoy his struggle to rekindle their relationship.
The show also marks the return of King of the Hill’s long list of still living and highly memorable Arlen residents like the mumble-mouthed Boomhauer, the perpetually pathetic Bill (voiced by Stephen Root), and the conspiracy-embracing Dale, played by Richardson native and show writer Johnny Hardwick before he died during production. The showrunners made the difficult decision to replace Hardwick with fellow cast member Toby Huss, who absolutely killed in King of the Hill’s first run as Hank’s loud, brash, shin-less father, Cotton, and competitive Laotian neighbor and Connie’s father, Khan.
Huss has had a hand in performing on some of my favorite TV comedies and dramas since I was a kid, starting with Nickelodeon’s The Adventures of Pete & Pete as the devoted, cartoonish superhero Artie, the Strongest Man in the World. Huss is one of show business’ smartest and most entertaining performers. His infectious energy and commitment to his craft created brilliant supporting roles on shows like Halt and Catch Fire and Reno 911 that would not have been as successful without his presence.
King of the Hill’s return feels like something we need right now. Our beloved state has earned a bad rap in a world of die-hard politics replacing genuine personalities and widening cultural differences that don’t look like they’ll ever meet in the middle in my lifetime. King of the Hill is a funny and touching reminder of just how similar we are regardless of where we live, who we root for on Sundays, or what brands of beer we consider drinkable in a neighborhood alley. l
Our favorite goth girl returns with a new murder mystery.
BY KRISTIAN LIN
Of course, Wednesday Addams was my feral spirit animal when Jenna Ortega was just a gleam in her father’s eye. During my childhood, when my local network affiliate filled afternoons with reruns of old TV shows, I spent summer days watching the 1960s version of The Addams Family and basking in the weirdness of the clan that played together with high explosives. So, I was on tenterhooks to see Netflix’s Wednesday, which focused on the eldest Addams kid. Sadly, my film-criticism duties prevented me from catching the first season until it had already become the talk of TV fans, but now Season 2 arrives during the doldrums of summer to make me feel like I’m 10 years old again.
Except it’s better, because this Wednesday Addams is older and more developed as a character. Maybe Ortega doesn’t have the last ounce of pure creepiness that Christina Ricci (who’s in this show, too) brought to the character in the 1990s Addams Family movies. Ortega has nevertheless struck a chord with a new generation of fans, playing Wednesday Addams as a polyglot, cel lo-playing, kung fu-kicking, colonialism-bashing goth girl who faces down the scariest monsters with expressionless sangfroid and then dances
like nobody is watching. In the pantheon of sociopathic TV antiheroes, I’ll take her over Tony Soprano, Walter White, or Tommy Shelby. She’s less obsessed with money and power and consequently a lot more fun.
The second season has her returning to Nevermore Academy, this time with her younger brother Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) as an incoming freshman. After saving the school in the first season, she is now horrified to find that she is a campus celebrity, with the uncool new principal (Steve Buscemi) commissioning bad art to commemorate her heroism. Fortunately, there’s better news: Someone is sending her threatening notes and luring her into traps meant to kill her, and a murder of crows is murdering the citizens of the nearby town, including the disgraced former sheriff (Jamie McShane). Wednesday needs to save her best friend and roommate Enid Sinclair
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I would point out one more thing that’s different: Both Pugsley and her apiculturist fellow student Eugene (Moosa Mostafa) have grown much taller than her. As happened with Stranger Things, Netflix took so long between seasons that puberty noticeably kicked in with the young actors. Where the first season gave the main character an uninteresting love triangle with two boys, this one ventures into more fruitful territory by placing Wednesday in more contact with her family. Pugsley has his sister’s heedless bravery without her intelligence and gets into trouble as a result. With Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) spending more time at Nevermore’s campus as the new fundraising chair for the financially strapped school, Wednesday’s difficult relationship with her mother becomes clearer. Fred Armisen is more secure in the role of Uncle Fester as well, and it’s a particularly inspired touch that Wednesday’s being stalked by a crazed 13-year-old fangirl (Evie Templeton) who can turn invisible.
Unfortunately, all this comes rather at the expense of the guest stars who’ve climbed aboard this successful show. Haley Joel Osment pops in a
role (as a doll-obsessed serial killer) that’s meant to be a black joke and nothing more, but Buscemi is surely overqualified to portray the petty manipulator that his character has been so far. The same goes for Thandie Newton as the director of the local insane asylum and Billie Piper as Nevermore’s new music teacher.
Possibly some of these issues will be addressed in the second batch of this season’s episodes, which drops on September 3 — a Wednesday, of course. For now, it’s enough that showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar keep their eye on their title character’s shortcomings amid her badassery and surround her with people equipped to deal with her crap. The first half of the season ends with Wednesday not only getting badly hurt trying to intervene but accidentally freeing all the inmates from the asylum, including the ex-boyfriend (Hunter Doohan) who wants to kill her and Enid. How she gets out of this pickle remains to be seen, but I’ll be spending August waiting for the resolution, accompanied by Ortega’s invigorating disdain for the foolishness of lesser mortals. l
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BY BUCK D. ELLIOTT
Growing up a pro football fan in the Metroplex was magical in the ’90s. The Dallas Cowboys were the platinum standard for gridiron excellence, and Warren Moon’s Houston Oilers — though oft mediocre — offered a fun alternative if you were bored of America’s Team winning all the time. College football was the opposite. SMU was in postmortem reconstruction from the NCAA’s death penalty, and TCU was middling bordering on irrelevant. I sported a white Emmitt Smith and blue Troy Aikman jersey on alternating days can’t even recall another article of clothing from 1991 to 1994.
Then something happened the Cowboys never seemed to recover from: the salary cap. The collective bargaining agreement would successfully keep more money in NFL owners’ pockets and try to temper the domination of just a few teams. Shortly after, the Frogs and Mustangs found themselves excluded from the Big 12 after the formerly prominent Southwest Conference disbanded in 1995. TCU and SMU dropped to mid-major status in the Western Athletics Conference (WAC), an all-too-appropriate name for their new station.
For the next 25 years, the professional and collegiate games mirrored similar financial restrictions and careful resource management. Sure, athletes found ways to make money at university, but it was always don’t ask/don’t tell. The jaw-dropping spending came in the form of the arms race of athletic facilities to attract the best recruits. Now, it’s all basically for naught. House v. NCAA now says colleges can revenue-share
more than $20 million per year with their athletes. Alongside what amount to venture-capital funds for Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL), we’ve entered what could be considered the college football cold war — outspend your enemy, even if you never fire a single shot.
Rankings and projections are starting and, rightfully so, are influenced by what each school is shelling out for their roster, which for most teams is shifting substantially every season. No longer do pundits and analysts have any earthly idea how good a team will be. They never really did (except yours truly, of course). But the incredible shifting of rosters and money-bombing of top recruits have turned collegiate football into a race of which school can shovel money into the fire the quickest. What will teams achieve for this incredible expense? Well, that remains to be seen. My instinct says not much. Previously, the big money was
levied at high-profile coaches and eye-popping facilities. Almost every competitive college boasts weight and recovery rooms that would make most Olympic training centers seem like prison yards, but most schools have not turned former winning into current success. Texas A&M comes to mind. Only two years ago, the Ags paid former coach Jimbo Fisher almost $78 million to seek employment elsewhere. The College Stationites spend as much or more than any other program and don’t have any hardware to show for it.
Currently, the Big 12 team to watch is Texas Tech, whose NIL collective is one of the most aggressive and well-funded in the country. The Matador Club paid NiJaree Canady — one of the best softball pitchers in the country — $1 million to transfer from Stanford (the largest NIL deal for a college softball player — ever) and turned the acquisition into a College Softball World
Series appearance. Current estimates are that Tech will pay their footballers around $28 million this season, and their preseason ranking (23) is a reflection of that.
Locally, the Tennessee Volunteers attempted to lure TCU’s starting quarterback Josh Hoover from Fort Worth during the offseason. Hoover, who reportedly makes more than $1 million with the Frogs, turned down an offer from the Rocky Toppers for at least an additional million. And the Texas Longhorns are ranked No. 1 in the preseason poll, anticipating a roster spend between $35-40 million.
My most pressing concern is how this all feels, which can only be described properly as “ick.” I was fairly transparent that I thought college athletes should be entitled to compensation since their bodies and careers are the ones on the line, but players taking pay cuts on rookie contracts in the NFL just feels wrong. Combine that with the proliferation of players transferring en masse every single year, and the game is but a shadow from the early aughts, when there was still a tacit suggestion that these athletes were cosplaying as students and peers to their universities’ nonathletes in some way. It all gives a third-marriage vibe. The passion might be there somewhere, but it’s an afterthought compared to retirement accounts and liquid assets.
So far, NIL doesn’t seem to have affected on-field results in any concrete way. Teams that have been dominant still are, and the normal flux of teams on the precipice midseason, as well as the occasional surprise, seems within the margin of error to which we’ve become accustomed as fans. You can wager with good conscience that teams won’t find the level of success by simply paying more for players that Red Raider softball enjoyed with their pitching acquisition last season. Football is simply too complex and dynamic a game for one player, or even a group of players, to make that kind of a difference. Sure, there are outstanding game changers, but supporting pieces and coaching schemes make a more substantial difference in football than in other sports. You need look no further than the NFL to see teams completely whiff on draft picks and pay huge extensions to players that amount to no more wins than previous average seasons. There are simply too many factors to accurately predict how a team and their dynamic will evolve simply based on how that athlete played in a different season, on another team, or at a different level. In many ways, offering huge money — especially to high school players — might be the worst investment college football programs can make, but, hey, my portfolio is still half GameStop, so what do I know? l
From March thru September, the third Thursday of every month finds businesses in South Main Village offering a free walkable gallery night. From 5pm to 8pm, 18 locations will exhibit the work of various local artists, including Tatyana Alanis (@French75Studios) at Amphibian Stage (120 S Main St, Fort Worth, 817-923-3012). For information about all the artists and locations, follow Third Thursdays on Instagram (@ThirdThursdayFTW).
Would movies like Star Wars be as epic without John Williams’ majestic scores? Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
doesn’t think so either. At 7:30pm Fri-Sat at Bass Performance Hall (525 Commerce St, Fort Worth, 817-212-4280), FWSO will accompany a screening of 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens Tickets start at $46.10 at FWSymphony.org.
Sitting just above the Sunset Strip, Laurel Canyon, one of the most sacred musical places of the 1960s and early ’70s, is practically synonymous with the artists who called the neighborhood home during the era, including Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joni Mitchell, The Mamas & The Papas, and Buffalo Springfield. The Music of Laurel Canyon, originally staged in the Reid Cabaret Theatre in 2022,
returns to the main hall at Casa Mañana (3101 W Lancaster Av, Fort Worth, 817-332-2272) at 8pm for one night only. Tickets start at $49 at CasaManana.org.
Jubilee Theatre (506 Main St, Fort Worth, 817-338-4411) has been doing a production of Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds since last week, and the final performance is today. Featuring all the reggae legend’s hits, including “One Love” and the title track, Cedella Marley’s heartwarming musical set in Jamaica follows Ziggy, a young boy who “embarks on a journey of self-discovery and bravery.” —Anthony Mariani
Don’t forget to grab a burger! Tarrant Area Food Bank is the beneficiary of the Seventh Annual Fort Worth Burger Week. Daily thru Sunday, participating eateries will offer $7 specialty burgers to raise funds for the TAFB. For the complete list of options, visit WhatsUpFortWorth.com/FW-Burger-Week.
Based on the response to our “In Memoriam” article in our annual Creature Comforts animal issue a few weeks back, we understand how deeply felt the loss of a beloved pet can be. The folks at Keith House (4814 Edwards Ranch Rd, Fort Worth, 817-924-4134), a meeting space for nonprofits and community groups, feel the same way. In recognition of this heartache, Keith House invites you to Honoring Our Grief: Celebrating the Lives of Our Pets Memorial, a special program to honor the grief of those who have lost pets and to celebrate the memory of their cherished companions. From 6pm to 7:30pm, pet owners will share
stories, reflect, and pay tribute to the lives of their pets through memory-sharing and a pet tribute display. There is no cost to attend. For ways you can participate in honoring your pet at this event, visit KeithHouseConnects.org/pet-memorial-reserve.
While it’s still (or is it “finally”?) hotter than balls outside, the fall bird migration season has actually begun. Did you know that you can help our feathered friends have a safe migration while saving on your electric bill? Now thru the end of November, turn off all the nonessential lights in your home from 11pm to 6am. Reducing the amount of bright light that birds encounter helps them migrate safely at night, as light poses a risk of fatal collisions with buildings and structures. For more information about the Lights Out Texas initiative, visit FortWorthTexas.gov/news/2025/4/lights-out.
By Jennifer Bovee
Several culinary-oriented contests and events are afoot — including one of ours — with fun, seasonal themes. From the Weekly’s annual Best Of season to the State Fair and Halloween, there are many ways to celebrate with food and booze. Let’s start with yours truly.
Best Of 2025: The Ballot Is Open Now thru Fri, Sep 12, make your voice heard by participating in our online-only write-in ballot to determine the Readers’ Choice winners in the five sections: Getting & Spending, People & Places, Arts & Culture, Good Grub, and On the Town Plus, help us decide which local bands will make the cut for our upcoming Music Awards by also making choices in the Music Awards Nominations section.
The food categories in the Good Grub section include Bakery, Barbecue, Breakfast, Brunch, Burger, Burrito, Cajun Food, Catfish, Chef, Chicken-Fried Steak, Chinese Food, Coffeeshop, Deli Sandwiches, Empanadas, Food Truck, Fried Chicken, Hot Dog, Italian Food, Japanese Food, Korean Food, Mediterranean Food, Mexican Food, Pizza, Plant-Based Dish, Queso, Ramen, Restaurant, New Restaurant, Salsa, Seafood, Soul Food, Steak, Street Tacos, Sushi, Tamales, Tex-Mex Food, Thai Food, Vietnamese Food, Waitstaff, and Wings, Plus, every section, including this one, has a Wildcard category in case we forgot something.
Booze categories under On the Town include Bar-Bar, Bartender, Beer Selection, Brewery, Place to See Comedy, Craft Cocktail, Place to Dance, Distillery, Dog-Friendly Patio, Drag Show, Happy Hour, Hotel Bar, Karaoke Night, Late-Night Food, LBGTQIA+ Bar, Margarita, Martini, Mixologist, Patio, Restaurant Bar, Sports Bar, Place to Drink Wine, and Wildcard. Go to FWWeekly.com and search for Steal This Art, and you’ll find an article that outlines every category and includes art that businesses can save to help them promote the vote (and the rules for doing so). The ballot itself is at FWWeekly. com/Best-Of-2025-Ballot.
All’s Fair in Love & Fried Food Since 2005, the State Fair of Texas has been hosting its Big Tex Choice Awards in the months prior to the event to showcase the season’s best new food creations. Everything from fried beer to fried peaches and cream has joined the exclusive club of fried food creations. This year, the fair has added an award for drinks, so the three categories are Savory, Sweet, and Sippers.
Among the finalists that includes Crab & Mozzarella Arancini, Deep Fried Deli Tacos,
brisket sandwich and potato leek soup — slowcooked chopped beef brisket served on a Brioche bun with loaded potato salad and homemade baked beans. To see the full menu, visit StageWest. org/cafe. Reservations are recommended. Email BoxOffice@StageWest.org or call the theater. Arrival time for dinner is 6-6:30pm. The performance begins at 7:30pm. Arrive for Saturday lunch or Sunday brunch between 12:30pm and 1pm with the matinee beginning at 2pm.
the Vietnamese Crunch Dog, and Wagyu Bacon Cheeseburger Deviled Egg Sliders, the Brisket & Brew Stuffed Pretzels by Glen and Sherri Kusak caught my eye. Slow-smoked brisket is blended with a bold, velvety beer cheese made from sharp cheddar and a hearty brew. Then, it’s all wrapped up in soft, chewy pretzel dough, hand-rolled, sprinkled with sea salt, and baked until crispy on the outside and gooey in the middle. They are served with your choice of spicy mustard or tangy barbecue sauce.
Candy Lemon Sour Face, the Chill & Thrill Delight, Dubai Chocolate Cheesecake, Rousso’s Dubai Chocolate Funnel Cake Fries, and Tex’s Toast a la Mode are the five finalists in the Sweet category. They had me at “funnel cake,” plus I’ve been wanting to try Dubai Chocolate. Rousso’s Dubai Chocolate Funnel Cake Fries are made by frying funnel cake strips until golden brown, then drizzling them with warm Belgian chocolate, topping them with pistachio cream, and adding delicate pieces of knafeh pastry. Yum!
In the inaugural Sippers category, finalists include the Coconut Quadruple, a Cookie Chaos
Milkshake, Hot Honeycomb Lemonade Shake Up, Nevins Dirty Red Bull Tex-Arita, and the Poppin’ Boba Rita. Honestly, anything with “’Rita” on the end sounds refreshing. But the Coconut Quadruple, made by Binh Tran and My Volooks, is the perfect dessert drink for me. A whole, young coconut is served with an ice-cold, freshly made coconut slushy topped with soft-serve coconut ice cream and a sprinkling of coconut flakes. I’m in!
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Stage West Theatre (821 W Vickery Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-784-9378) is presenting a Pulitzer Prize-winning play this month and next. From Fri, Aug 28, thru Sun, Sep 14, James Ijames’ Fat Ham retells Shakespeare’s Hamlet with a queer, Black twist, when a young man in a Southern family is visited by the ghost of his father at a backyard barbecue and is asked to seek revenge. Tickets are $38 at StageWest.org/Fat-Ham.
When you see Fat Ham, you’ll also want to make a reservation for pre-performance dining in the Lobby Cafe. If you’re attending Thu-Sat, you can get into the spirit with a barbecue chopped
Spoiler alert: Our film guy wasn’t a big fan of the Freakier Friday sequel that just came out, but he did enjoy the nostalgic part when Anna (Lindsay Lohan) reunites with her ex-bandmates (Christina Vidal, Mitchell, and Haley Hudson) and performs songs from the first movie. (Read more of his thoughts at FWWeekly.com in Film Shorts.) If you don’t care and you’re seeing it anyway, make it a theme night and go to any PF Chang’s in North Texas — including their newest location in Alliance Town Center (2949 Amador Dr, Fort Worth, 817-484-5025) for PF Chang’s Freakier Friday contest. One lucky grand prize winner will have a Freakier Year and will receive a Disney Freakier Friday Prize Pack that includes a year of dinner specials and movie tickets, valued at $2,600 and $2,080, respectively. Ten other people will win a runner-up prize of a $150 gift card to PF Chang’s and two movie tickets. Dine-in customers can enter by scanning a QR code on the menu, then ordering a Freakier Friday Color-Changing Refresher by Tue, Sep 2.
Located on the grounds of Scarborough Renaissance Festival (I-35 at FM 66, Waxahachie, 972-938-3247), Screams Halloween Park has been open during Halloween for the past 28 years. It was announced last winter that the 2024 season was its last. This fall, it’s set to reopen with a new concept called Scarborough’s Hollow: A Fall Fantasy Festival. It’s open 2pm-10pm Saturdays from Oct 11 to Nov 15 (plus Halloween night 5pm-midnight) for “an unforgettable interactive journey through the enchanted Scarborough’s Hollow transformed by three fairy sisters and filled with magic, mischief, and autumn wonder.” There will still be at least one haunted house to check out, but there will also be artisan shoppes, a fun house, live entertainment, a petting zoo, and promises of seasonal fun with a touch of spooky delight.
If beer is your autumn indulgence, add on a $39 tasting experience ticket for Brews of the Hollow Tasting led by Scarborough’s own certified cicerone, Seamus Norwood. He’ll guide you through how to truly taste beer, share how continued on page 17
it’s crafted, pair it with light bites, and weave in fascinating (and sometimes cheeky) stories from beer’s rich past. Seamus brings his signature mix of humor and expertise to the pavilion near Taboo Tavern at 4pm and 7pm every Saturday, plus 7pm and 9pm on Halloween night. Each guest will enjoy a tasting flight and take home a commemorative souvenir glass.
The usual ren fair foods will be available for purchase, but there will also be an interactive s’mores station. For those 21 and older, Scarborough’s Hollow has six pubs and taverns throughout the grounds, serving beer, wine, and the ever-popular mead varieties, Breaking Brew and Nidhoggr. Also look for weekly specials and seasonal drinks at the Headless Horseman, Jack O’ Lantern, Hogshead, Dragon’s Lair, Red Lion, and Taboo Tavern (a full-service bar).
Tickets start at $17 for adults and $6 for kids. For tickets and times, activity reservations, and add-ons, visit SRFestival.com/hollow.
Sweets as a Team Sport
Division Brewing (506 E Main St, Arlington, 682259-7011) is celebrating the back-to-school season with an old-fashioned Ice Cream Social from 1pm to 4pm Sat, Aug 23. Contestants will vie for the title of Best Hand-Cranked Ice Cream, and everyone gets to sample and vote for free. All educators will receive discounts on food and drinks. If you’d like to compete, email Wade@DivisionBrewing. com for details.
dipped in blueberry-flavored icing, topped with sprinkles). Each donut is adorned with the appropriate house crest.
Still unsure which house you belong to? No worries. Let the Sorting Hat donut decide. Each is a donut filled with a mystery-colored Kreme representing one of the four Hogwarts Houses, then dipped in chocolate-flavored icing, sprinkled with shimmering gold stars and gold sugar, and topped with the Sorting Hat piece. Take a bite to see which house you’re in.
On Sat, Aug 23, Krispy Kreme is hosting a special Houses of Hogwarts Day. Participating shops nationwide will give any fan who reps their favorite house one free Original Glazed donut, no purchase necessary, while supplies last.
Meanwhile, Krispy Kreme is celebrating the start of school with a limited-time Harry Potter promotion. Participating Krispy Kreme shops across the country are offering new donuts that bring the houses of Hogwarts to life through four delicious flavors: the Gryffindor (an unglazed shell donut filled with cookie butter-flavored cream, dipped in red icing and Biscoff cookie crumble, topped with golden icing drizzles); the Slytherin (an Original Glazed donut topped with chocolate and green buttercream-flavored swirls, chocolate cookie sugar blend); the Hufflepuff (an unglazed shell donut filled with brown butter toffee-flavored custard, dipped in golden yellow icing, topped with black chocolate drizzle and cookie crunch); and the Ravenclaw (an Original Glazed donut
Then, beginning Mon, Sep 1, Krispy Kreme will give fans a chance to win a trip to either Universal Studios Hollywood or Universal Orlando Resort to experience The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. For more information, visit KrispyKreme.com/ promos/harry-potter/giveaway. l
By Elaine Wilder
Led by two local indie-rock luminaries, Horsepowers is in it for music’s sake.
BY PATRICK HIGGINS
Rock ’n’ roll is a young man’s game. Except it’s not. At least not for a particular breed of erudite guitar-driven indie rock. This is the realm of the balding and bespectacled music vlogger. The “r/Pavement” subreddit set. The fortysomething in jean cut-offs and Vans who owns a vinyl collection that dates back to a time when you could buy an LP for $20 instead of $40.
This is the realm of Horsepowers, the latest musical endeavor of local indie veterans Aaron Bartz and Jeff Williams. This project’s music — like that of all their prior efforts, whether from when they were young or now being maybe not-so-young, for good or ill, adored or ignored — is made for themselves. Not for the kids. Not for the Anthony Fantanos of the world. Not for you. But for them. And it’s exactly this approach that results in music that you absolutely should be paying attention to.
“As long as we enjoy it, that’s all that matters,” said singer-guitarist Bartz of his long-standing objective of being an artist on his own terms. “I feel like that’s been my mantra for all of my musical career. If we like it, that’s it.”
Interested parties will get their first (real) chance to see if they like it this weekend as Horsepowers play their first (fully formed) gig at Cool Jacket’s album release show at The Boiled Owl Tavern on the Near Southside, also with Denver Williams & The Gas Money.
You may know Bartz and fellow guitarist Williams from their previous venture, the seven-piece art rock outfit O. Deletron (of which this intrepid reporter was a member) or from Tame … Tame and Quiet (TTXQ). They of the intricately intertwined guitar layers and Bartz’s Berman-esque lyrical imagery. Or maybe not. You might recognize them from one or another of a litany of their other bands: Deep Snapper, Scattergun Reflex, 100s, Tortfeasor, Scenic Routes, et cetera, et cetera. Or maybe not. If local indie rock is a web, Bartz and Williams are consistently appearing nodes, helping to weave together a scene that has been running — whether you’ve noticed or not — for more than 20 years and one they continue to participate in for their own sake.
The two are musically complementary but also take very different approaches.
“I consider Jeff one of my guitar soulmates,” Bartz said. “He’s been into the same type of music that I’m into. Played in bands that I respect. But Jeff’s the type that plays guitar all the time. He practices constantly. That’s not a person like me. I just kind of write shit on the fly and present it every once in a while. It’s nice to have him as a catalyst. The things that he writes on top of my stuff isn’t something that I could have come up with, and I think I write stuff to his parts that he wouldn’t necessarily come up with. It just blends together really well.”
Musically, Horsepowers picks up largely where TTXQ left off, a frenetic and angular guitar attack born of Built to Spill and Archers of Loaf and nursed on the lo-fi dissonance of Polvo and Guided by Voices. Yet, along with new additions — bassist Jarrod Greene (Ox Combine, 100s) and drummer Nick Kelly (Tortfeasor, Blip) — Horsepowers is trying a different approach to vocals than Bartz has historically been accustomed, or relegated, to.
“I’ve been the primary vocalist or lyricist or whatever for a long time in all the bands I’ve been in,” he said, “and I was kind of burned out. Yes, a lot of shit’s been going on the last few years, and I feel like I should have a lot to say, but I just don’t take the time to sit and write it all down anymore. I just didn’t want to be in charge of all of that again.”
Despite this Saturday being the band’s first preplanned show (they hopped on a last-minute bill and attempted an impromptu instrumental performance at the Sunshine Bar in the spring), the four-piece started rehearsing three years ago. Because of this, Bartz said he also felt pressure to be “the frontman” again just to help the band progress.
“I also didn’t want [a lack of me writing] to be the reason holding us back from playing shows,” he said. “So, once I had this epiphany of ‘I really don’t want to have all this responsibility,’ I told the guys, ‘Look, we can be an instrumental band, or you guys are going to have to chip in.’ ”
And “chip in” they have. Williams and Greene are now contributing vocally and lyrically, singing over much of the material they’ve each been bringing to the table musically. Not only has this been a relief to Bartz, but it’s taken the songs in a whole new direction for all of them.
“Having this show has been a good boost because we’ve had something to work for,” Bartz said. “So, we’re actually practicing! Tomorrow will be four weeks in a row!” He laughed. “This show gave us the impetus to try to at least introduce something” vocally, he continued. “Let’s have it not be instrumental like we did [the first show]. Let’s have at least a few songs with something going on beyond us just dicking around on guitar.”
Bartz is hoping that the group vocal efforts will be a boost for not only this show, and for the many others they hope to play, but also for the album the band began recording with engineer Alex Bhore (Black Tie Dynasty, All Clean, BULLS) at Elmwood Studios in Dallas more than a year ago, an album, that, like all the others of all of their various musical iterations, is going to be made for them.
“Of course, we hope people are into it,” Bartz said, “but that’s not the ultimate goal.”
He sums it up by quoting the late frontman for post-punk legends The Fall: “What was it that Mark E. Smith said? ‘Make music to itself. Make music for itself.’ That’s the idea.” l
Consolidated Notice of Receipt of Application and Intent to Obtain
Permit and Notice of Application and Preliminary Decision
Air Quality Standard Permit for Concrete Batch Plants Proposed Registration No. 180118
Application. Big D Concrete Inc, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for an Air Quality Standard Permit, Registration No. 180118, which would authorize construction of a permanent concrete batch plant located at 3120 South Precinct Line Road, Hurst, Tarrant County, Texas 76053. AVISO DE IDIOMA ALTERNATIVO. El aviso de idioma alternativo en espanol está disponible en https://www.tceq.texas.gov/permitting/air/newsourcereview/airpermits-pendingpermit-apps. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility’s general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to application. https://gisweb.tceq.texas.gov/LocationMapper/?marker=-97.185001,32.805143&level=13. The proposed facility will emit the following air contaminants: particulate matter including (but not limited to) aggregate, cement, road dust, and particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less.
This application was submitted to the TCEQ on May 8, 2025. The executive director has completed the administrative and technical reviews of the application and determined that the application meets all of the requirements of a standard permit authorized by 30 TAC § 116.611, which would establish the conditions under which the plant must operate. The executive director has made a preliminary decision to issue the registration because it meets all applicable rules. The application, executive director’s preliminary decision, and standard permit will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and at the Hurst Public Library, 901 Precinct Line Road, Hurst, Tarrant County, Texas, 76053, beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review at the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Office, 2309 Gravel Drive, Fort Worth, Texas. Visit www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cbp to review the standard permit. The application, including any updates, is available electronically at the following webpage: https://www.tceq.texas.gov/permitting/air/airpermit-applications-notices
Public Comment/Public Meeting. You may submit public comments or request a public meeting. See Contacts section. The TCEQ will consider all public comments in developing a final decision on the application. The deadline to submit public comments or meeting requests is 30 days after newspaper notice is published. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the TCEQ’s jurisdiction to consider in the permit process.
The purpose of a public meeting is to provide the opportunity to submit comments or ask questions about the application. A public meeting about the application will be held if the executive director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not a contested case hearing. If a public meeting is held, the deadline to submit public comments is extended to the end of the public meeting.
Contested Case Hearing. You may request a contested case hearing. A contested case hearing is a legal proceeding similar to a civil trial in state district court. Unless a written request for a contested case hearing is filed within 30 days from this notice, the executive director may approve the application.
A person who may be affected by emissions of air contaminants from the facility is entitled to request a hearing. To request a hearing, a person must actually reside in a permanent residence within 440 yards of the proposed plant. If requesting a contested case hearing, you must submit the following: (1) your name (or for a group or association, an official representative), mailing address, daytime phone number; (2) applicant’s name and registration number; (3) the statement “[I/we] request a contested case hearing;” (4) a specific description of how you would be adversely affected by the application and air emissions from the facility in a way not common to the general public; (5) the location and distance of your property relative to the facility; (6) a description of how you use the property which may be impacted by the facility; and (7) a list of all disputed issues of fact that you submit during the comment period. If the request is made by a group or association, one or more members who have standing to request a hearing must be identified by name and physical address. The interests which the group or association seeks to protect must be identified. You may submit your proposed adjustments to the application which would satisfy your concerns. See Contacts section.
TCEQ Action. After the deadline for public comments, the executive director will consider the comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material, or significant public comments. The executive director’s decision on the application, and any response to comments, will be mailed to all persons on the mailing list. If no timely contested case hearing requests are received, or if all hearing requests are withdrawn, the executive director may issue final approval of the application. If all timely hearing requests are not withdrawn, the executive director will not issue final approval of the permit and will forward the application and requests to the Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled commission meeting. The Commission may only grant a request for a contested case hearing on issues the requestor submitted in their timely comments that were not subsequently withdrawn. If a hearing is granted, the subject of a hearing will be limited to disputed issues of fact or mixed questions of fact and law relating to relevant and material air quality concerns submitted during the comment period. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the Commission’s jurisdiction to address in this proceeding.
Mailing List. You may ask to be placed on a mailing list to receive additional information on this specific application. See Contacts section.
Information Available Online. For details about the status of the application, visit the Commissioners’ Integrated Database (CID) at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cid. Once you have access to the CID using the link, enter the registration number at the top of this notice.
AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION. All public comments and requests must be submitted either electronically at www14.tceq. texas.gov/epic/eComment/, or in writing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087. Please be aware that any contact information you provide, including your name, phone number, email address and physical address will become part of the agency’s public record. For more information about the permitting process, please call the TCEQ Public Education Program, Toll Free, at 1-800-687-4040 or visit their website at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/pep. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040. You can also view our website for public participation opportunities at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/participation
Further information may also be obtained from Big D Concrete Inc, 10361 Bickham Road, Dallas, Texas 75220-4205 or by calling Mr. Muamar Anani, Vice President, Big D Concrete, Inc.at (214) 682-6495.
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