Showroom Sounds
Printed Threads’ intimate concert series carries on a sweet post-pandemic tradition.
BY JUAN R. GOVEA AND ANTHONY MARIANI
EATS & DRINKS
The Near Southside’s Tres Amigos carries on a local Tex-Mex tradition. BY
LAURIE JAMES
JENNIFER BOVEE
With Arrt Dept., these locals in a New York state of mind hope to reinvigorate the gallery concept. BY
ELAINE WILDER
Keep Fort Worth Beautiful is hosting its 40th Annual Cowtown Great American Cleanup! This is the City’s largest cleanup event of the year, averaging approximately 4,500 volunteers each year. The first 4,000 volunteers to register will receive a free t-shirt. All volunteers receive litter cleanup supplies.
After the cleanup, celebrate Earth Party at Rockwood Park from 11 am - 1 pm to show appreciation for all the hard work done to keep our city clean and green.
Let’s not forget about the Trashion Fashion Show! Reduce, reuse, and refashion is the foundation for this event. Deadline for submissions by Thursday, March 27.
For details about the Cleanup, Earth Party, and Trashion Fashion Show, visit www.fortworthtexas.gov/cowtowncleanup.
Dean’s List
Arrt
By Elaine Wilder
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The Foilies 2025
Recognizing
the worst in government transparency.
BY DAVE MAASS, AARON MACKEY, BERYL LIPTON, MICHAEL MORISY, DILLON BERGIN, AND KELLY KAUFFMAN
The public’s right to access government information is constantly under siege across the United States, from both sides of the political aisle. In Maryland, where Democrats hold majorities, the attorney general and state legislature are pushing a bill to allow agencies to reject public records requests that they consider “harassing.” At the same time, Donald Trump’s administration has moved its most aggressive government reform effort — the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE — outside the reach of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) while also beginning the mass removal of public data sets.
One of the most powerful tools to fight back against bad governance is public ridicule. That’s where we come in: Every year during Sunshine Week (March 16-22), the Electronic Frontier Foundation, MuckRock and AAN Publishers team up to publish The Foilies. This annual report — now a decade old — names and shames the most repugnant, absurd, and incompetent responses to public records requests under FOIA and state transparency laws.
Sometimes the good guys win. For example, last year we highlighted the Los Angeles Police Department for using the courts to retaliate against advocates and a journalist who had rightfully received and published official photographs of police officers. The happy ending (at least for transparency): LAPD has since lost the case, and the city paid the advocates $300,000 to cover their legal bills.
Here are this year’s “winners.” While they may not all pay up, at least we can make sure they get the negative publicity they’re owed.
The Exorbitant FOIA Fee of the Year: Rapides Parish School District
After a church distributed a religious tract at Lessie Moore Elementary School in Pineville, Louisiana, young students quickly dubbed its frank discussion of mature themes as “the sex book.” Hirsh M. Joshi from the Freedom from Religion Foundation, a lawyer representing a parent, filed a request with the Rapides Parish School District to try to get some basic information: How much did the school coordinate with the church distributing the material? Did other parents complain? What was the internal reaction? Joshi was stunned when the school district responded with an initial estimate of $2 million to cover the cost of processing the request. After local media picked up the story and a bit of negotiating, the school ultimately waived the charges and responded with a mere nine pages of responsive material.
While Rapides Parish’s sky-high estimate ultimately took home the gold this year, there was fierce competition. The Massachusetts State Police wanted $176,431 just to review — and potentially not even release — materials about recruits who leave the state’s training program early. Back in Louisiana, the Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s office insisted on charging a grieving father more than $5,000 for records on the suspicious death of his own son.
foundation then denied the request, claiming it was exempt from Wisconsin’s open records laws. After the denial, Libit filed a lawsuit for the records, which was then dismissed, because the university and foundation argued that Libit had incorrectly asked for a contract between the university and Altius as opposed to the foundation and Altius.
The foundation did produce a copy of the contract in the lawsuit, but the game of hiding the ball makes one thing clear, as Libit wrote after: “If it requires this kind of effort to get a relatively prosaic NIL consultant contract, imagine the lengths schools are willing to go to keep the really interesting stuff hidden.”
The Fudged Up Beyond All Recognition Award: CIA
There are state secrets, and there are family secrets, and sometimes they mix … like a creamy, gooey confectionary.
The Now You See It, Now You Don’t Award: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sports reporter Daniel Libit’s public records request is at the heart of a lawsuit that looks a lot like the Spider-Man pointing meme. In 2023, Libit filed the request for a contract between the University of Wisconsin and Altius Sports Partners, a firm that consults college athletic programs on payment strategies for college athletes’ NIL deals, after reading a university press release about the partnership. The university denied the request, claiming that Altius was actually contracted by the University of Wisconsin Foundation, a separate 501(c)(3). So, Libit asked the foundation for the contract. The
After Mike Pompeo finished his first year as Trump’s CIA director in 2017, investigative reporter Jason Leopold sent a FOIA request asking for all of the memos Pompeo sent to staff. Seven years later, the agency finally produced the records, including a “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year” message recounting the annual holiday reception and gingerbread competition, which was won by a Game of Thrones-themed entry. (“And good use of ice cream cones!” Pompeo wrote.) At the party, Pompeo handed out cards with his mom’s “secret” recipe for fudge, and for those who couldn’t make it, he also sent it out as an email attachment.
But the CIA redacted the whole thing, vaguely claiming it was protected from disclosure under federal law. This isn’t the first time the federal government has protected Pompeo’s culinary secrets: In 2021, the State Department redacted Pompeo’s pizza toppings and favorite sandwich from emails.
The You Can’t Handle the Truth Award: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin
In Virginia, state officials have come under fire in the past few years for shielding records from the public under the broad use of a “working papers and correspondence” FOIA exemption. When a public records request came in for internal communications on the state’s Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program, which provides tuition-free college to spouses and
children of military veterans killed or disabled as a result of their service, Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s office used this “working papers” exemption to reject the FOIA request.
The twist is the request was made by Kayla Owen, a military spouse and a member of the governor’s own task force studying the program. Despite Owen’s attempts to correct the parameters of the request, Youngkin’s office made the final decision in July to withhold more than two folders’ worth of communications with officials who have been involved with policy discussions about the program.
The Courts Cloaked in Secrecy Award (Tie):
Solano County Superior Court, California, and Washoe County District Court, Nevada
Courts are usually the last place the public can go to vindicate their rights to government records when agencies flout them. When agencies lock down records, courts usually provide the key to open them up.
Except in Vallejo, California, where a state trial court judge decided to lock his own courtroom during a public records lawsuit — a move that even Franz Kafka would have dismissed as too surreal and ironic. The suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union sought a report detailing a
disturbing ritual in which officers bent their badges to celebrate their on-duty killings of local residents.
When public access advocates filed an emergency motion to protest the court closure, the court denied it without even letting them in to argue their case. This was not just a bad look. It violated the California and U.S. constitutions, which guarantee public access to court proceedings and a public hearing prior to barring the courtroom doors.
Not to be outdone, a Nevada trial court judge has twice barred a local group from filming hearings concerning a public records lawsuit. The request sought records of an alleged domestic violence incident at the Reno city manager’s house. Despite the Nevada Supreme Court rebuking the judge
for prohibiting cameras in her courtroom, she later denied the same group from filming another hearing. The transparency group continues to fight for camera access, but its persistence should not be necessary: The court should have let them record from the get-go.
The No Tech Support Award: National Security Agency
In 1982, Rear Adm. Grace Hopper (then a captain) presented a lecture to the National Security Agency entitled “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” One can only imagine Hopper’s disappointment if she had lived long enough to learn that in the future, the NSA would
claim it was impossible for its people to access the recording of the talk.
Hopper is undoubtedly a major figure in the history of computing whose records and lectures are of undeniable historical value, and Michael Ravnitzky, frequent FOIA requester and founder of Government Attic, requested this particular lecture back in 2021. Three years later, the NSA responded to tell him that they had no responsive documents.
Befuddled, Ravnitzky pointed out the lecture had been listed in the NSA’s own Television Center Catalogue. At that point, the agency copped to the actual issue. Yes, it had the record, but it was captured on AMPEX 1-inch open reel tapes, as was more common in the 1980s. Despite being a major intelligence agency with high-tech surveillance and communication capabilities, it claimed it could not find any way to access the recording.
Let’s unpack the multilayered egregiousness of the NSA’s actions here. It took the agency three years to respond to this FOIA. When it did, the NSA claimed that it had nothing responsive, which was a lie. But the most colossal failure by the NSA was its claim that it couldn’t find a way to make accessible to the public important moments from our history because of technical difficulties.
But leave it to librarians to put spies to shame: The National Archives stepped in to help, and now you can watch the lecture in two parts.
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horror-filled tales about the literal end of the WFAA recently said that eight of the 10 schools in North Texas with the lowest vaccination rates for measles are private Christian schools. One unvaccinated child has already died in West Texas, so because of irresponsible “Christian” parents, all of us are affected right here where we live. My youngest grandchild who is 1 and a half and
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other children who haven’t had their second dose of MMR vaccine are more at risk because of these “Christians.”
These people believe in lies about vaccinations, like those spread by our present Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man who, The New York Times said, “during a 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people (79 of them children), actively worked to undermine public trust in the one thing that would have helped most,” vaccinations, not Vitamin A or cod liver oil, for God’s sakes.
Surveys say that 80% of evangelical Christian voters supported Trump in the last election. Without them, Trump would have limped off the world’s stage in November and finally faced legal consequences for his life of crime. As bad as Trump was his first term, we’ve learned these past few months that Trump 47 promises to be many times worse. So, what are we to do?
I’m not anti-religious. I was confirmed in the Lutheran Church of America and once seriously considered the ministry, spending one year at Austin Presbyterian Seminary. But these conservatives give Christianity a bad name and harm our country by being a major voting bloc in support of a klepto-mafioso regime.
In Texas, conservative evangelicals are the backbone of three decades of Republican dominance, widespread governmental malfeasance, and open corruption. Locally, they are the wind beneath the wings of our rightwing county government. If we are to make Texas and Tarrant County sane again and not laboratories for the worst conservative ideas, we must find a way to put a dent in this critical voting bloc.
Over the years, I have met countless refugees from evangelical churches. Those people might be key to reaching out to the evangelical community. I suggest they start with the Bible for the simple reason that if you erased wokeness out of the Good Book, you’d no longer have an epic of Western Literature but a very dreary, very short novella.
We don’t have to convince all evangelicals. We just need to shave off some of that voting bloc by appealing to those who are sane-curious and want their beliefs to be biblically grounded, not based on hate or crazy conspiracy theories. There is nothing Christian about scaring your kids with apocalyptic fables, denying them perfectly safe vaccines, or hating on the most vulnerable people in our society. l
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The measles outbreak won’t just be confined to other parts of Texas.
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Male-fare State
Why can only rich, white bros get angry?
BY E.R. BILLS
Notice how frustrated people are these days?
Pissed off, ticked off, irritated? Stressed out? Anxious, impatient, manic?
Before, it seemed like it was just old white dudes. And they were pissed off, ticked off, and irritated because Rush Limbaugh or Alex Jones or Fox News was vilifying anybody who wasn’t an old white dude. Ultimately, white dudes were being asked to live up to the ideals they were raised with and always claimed they believed in, but the practical application of those ideals wasn’t easy. They felt like swell guys espousing them, but when anyone began asking them to deliver on the promise those ideals signified, they felt belittled, besieged, and disrespected. They had prepared themselves for gratitude and adoration, not real action. They wanted the credit for the notion, but they weren’t interested in seeing meaningful change in motion.
Ergo, the current roster of the Texas State Legislature.
Ergo, Greg Abbott.
Ergo, Donald Trump.
And there was a catch-all term they’d been using for decades to justify their perennial titty-baby mode, and conservatives wielded it even better than they wield the current cultural boogeyman acronyms like BLM, DEI, 1619, LGBTQ, and others.
It was “the welfare state.”
It’s “a system whereby the government undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens, especially those in financial or social need, by means of grants, pensions, and other benefits. The foundations for the modern welfare state in the U.S. were laid by the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.” It was expanded by President Lyndon Baines Johnson (a Texan, believe it or not) in what his administration dubbed the Great Society. It was a small step in the right direction in terms of humanity and our nation finally trying to make good on its ideals, but bitchy, whiny, old white men have been attacking it ever since. They say it’s not fiscally responsible (even though it’s minuscule compared to the military-industrial complex and our dipshit for-profit health-care system). They also say it disproportionately favors everybody but bitchy, whiny, old white men — who never want to talk about or acknowledge the mistakes and atrocities of their forebears but act like they themselves — not their forebears — built this country, and we all owe them because of what they accomplished?!
What we have here is a failure … to ruminate.
Taxation without representation — later becoming equal representation — was the lynchpin of our break with the Brits. Look it up, under “American Revolution.”
And all Affirmative Action and programs like DEI are trying to accomplish is a significant step toward inarguably that. Which, by the way, is coming up on 250 years — yes, count ’em — overdue. The denigration and general malfeasance that have been directed at anything trying to address American sociopolitical truancy is unconscionable and, well, un-American. But that doesn’t stop conservative politicians
and pundits from exploiting the issue and profiting from our cognitive dissonance. They have us right where they want us — at each other’s throats.
Look, I know you haven’t asked and probably don’t want to hear, but you’re Texans, right? Don’t we call ’em like we see ’em?
I like to think so, just like I like to think some of you do some thinking. There’s certainly not much evidence of it — especially considering who we let sway us — but I’m feeling neighborly. So, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Criticism of the “welfare” state has always been unadulterated malarkey perpetrated by conservative blowhards. No one enjoys more “welfare” than the military-industrial complex and the rich.
We don’t live in a welfare state (even though Texas leeches off the federal government as much as anybody). Truth be told, we live in a male-fare state — a white male-fare state, to be specific.
And women, minorities, LGBTQs, stereotypical “others,” and other
trouble-making sentient folk of every shape and stripe will just have to learn to live with it.
Because, as Gawd is almost every bitchy, whiny, old white guy’s witness (and patriarchal excuse), nothing will change until we pry their cold, clumsy, wrinkly hands from their petulant, red, white, and blue (but mostly white and red) dick-wag.
But that’s not going to happen either. Here in Texas, it’s practically against the law for anybody except old white dudes to be pissed off, ticked off, and irritated. l
Fort Worth native E.R. Bills is the author of The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas and Tell-Tale Texas: Investigations in Infamous History
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Look Again
Happy Hour in the Kimbell Café EVERY FRIDAY, 5–7 pm Live music | Beer | Wine | Food
Admission to the permanent collection is always free. View the full schedule of exhibitions, events, and programs at kimbellart.org.
Mummy Mask (detail), Roman,
A.D.
stucco/gesso with paint, gold leaf, and glass inlays. Kimbell Art Museum, AP 1970.05
ART
Homecoming Arrt Dept. brings a taste of Big Apple cosmopolitanism — and feminine power — to the Fort.
BY ELAINE WILDER
Fresh off a stint in New York City, the local wife-and-husband team of Cole and Raef Payne are launching Arrt Dept., a collective of visual artists, other creatives, and strategists working together as a newly launched design studio. As part of Spring Gallery Night, the Paynes are hosting a homecoming show of sorts for their inaugural event. From 2pm to 10pm on Sat, Mar 29, the free, all-ages, multisensory Spring: An Exhibition in Sight & Sound is happening at The Pool, the 2,400-square-foot community artspace on the first floor of Everly Plaza (1801 8th Av, Fort Worth, 817-924-0377) on the Near Southside.
The event will feature five female artists from North Texas — Erika Duque Scully, Mariell Guzman, Katayoun Hosseinrad, Taraka Larson, and Jessica Vollrath — with works across multiple mediums.
“This show is all about breaking the traditional gallery mold,” Cole said. “We’re blending visual art, music, and immersive design to create something refreshing and electric for Fort Worth’s creative community. This is a passion project for both Raef and me.”
Erika Duque Scully is a landscape and nature painter with a degree from TCU who lives and works in Fort Worth. She is currently represented by Fort Works Art Gallery. Duque is also an educator who leads workshops at museums like The Modern
media, and the metaphysical, an “unflinching excavation of the feminine in flux.” As a musician, performer, and sonic architect, Larson dismantles boundaries between the intimate and the infinite, channeling a raw, ecstatic vision of transformation.
Art Museum of Fort Worth and The Sid Richardson Museum and frequently teaches at Oil and Cotton.
Mariell Guzman is a Texas-based mixed-media painter/muralist who also does illustrations and installations and has an art degree from the University of Texas. Born in Mexico, she feels her heritage deeply influences her art. Guzman’s murals can be found throughout the country and Mexico.
Katayoun Hosseinrad also hails from TCU. She is a second-year master’s student and visual artist whose work is influenced by the cultural and natural landscapes of her hometown of Tabriz, Iran. Hosseinrad draws inspiration from surrealism and Persian painting traditions.
Texas native Taraka Larson will be showing a film installation. Arrt Dept. describes her work as an alchemical fusion of myth,
Jessica Vollrath started as a self-taught painter and went on to earn a degree from Howard University. She is currently working on her master’s from TWU. Arrt Dept. says her paintings are luminous meditations on femininity, transformation, and connection. “Her work invites us into an intimate dialogue about identity and growth, expressed through masterful oil paintings that feel both ethereal and deeply rooted in lived experience.”
Molly Chapin, a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter from Houston, will perform. If you’d like to check her out sooner than Gallery Night, she is doing an acoustic set of jazzy and R&B originals and covers at Troy’s at Texas Live! (1650 E Randol Mill Rd, Arlington, 817-769-1749) at 6pm Thu. l
Jessica Vollrath’s “Carved in the palm of my hand” will be on display at The Pool on Spring Gallery Night as part of Arrt Dept.’s Spring: An Exhibition in Sight & Sound
The art collective Arrt Dept. is the brainchild of the local wife-and-husband team of Cole and Raef Payne.
NIGHT & DAY
The Sights and Sounds of Spring
With its newly renovated lobby known as the Velvet Lounge, Circle Theatre (230 W 4th St, Fort Worth, 817-877-3040) will transport you back to 1920s Harlem for the final performances of Ain’t Misbehavin’, a celebration of the music of Fats Waller and the Harlem Renaissance era of jazz and Ragtime. A limited number of single tickets and tables are available for 7:30pm Thu, 8pm Fri-Sat, and 3pm Sat. For pricing and reservations, call the box office at 817-877-3040.
come-and-go Ostara Spell Jar Workshop 1pm-7pm Fri-Mon. Craft a personalized jar with crystals for abundance, harmony, and new beginnings; herbs symbolizing fertility, prosperity, and fresh energy; and charms and decorations inspired by the beauty of spring and bring your intentions to life. Tickets start at $15 at Eventbrite.com.
Art, toys, collectibles, and a mystery Kaiju movie are all a part of today’s Southside Monster Market at Southside Preservation Hall (1519 Lipscomb St, Fort Worth, 817-926-2800). The market is open from 11am to 4pm and features 40 vendors. Then, the Movie Mutant presents a curated collection of monster clips,
Art, toys, and monster movies will fill Southside Preservation Hall on Saturday as part of the Southside Monster Market.
movie trailers, and music videos at 2pm, followed by a secret giant monster movie that is rated PG and runs approximately 90 minutes starting at 3pm. The price of admission is a pay-what-you-can donation at the door. See more at FWCinema.org.
Cavalera Conspiracy, featuring the two Cavalera brothers from Sepultura, are returning to North Texas as part of their Third World Trilogy tour. They’ve recently released a re-recorded version of their 1987 album Schizophrenia with brand new artwork and the previously unreleased track “Nightmares of Delirium.” The brothers will perform at Echo Music continued on page 18
To celebrate the arrival of spring, local metaphysical shop Embodii Crystals Express (519 Pennsylvania Av, Fort Worth, 817-913-2651) is hosting a
The Ostara Spell Jar Workshop at Embodii Crystals Express Fri-Mon will help you bring your intentions to life.
EATS & drinks
Tres Is Better
Sandy Rankin and family put the inherited recipes from OG Fort Worth restaurateur Paul Willis to work in a familiar location.
Tres Amigos Tacos and Tequila, 909 W Magnolia Av, Ste 10, Fort Worth. 682-224-2554. 10:30am10pm Sun-Wed, 10:30am-11pm Thu-Sat.
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JAMES
Breakfast taco plates are served all day and come with your choice of filling, adequate borracho beans, and tasty herb-infused rice.
You don’t have to have resided in the Fort for a quarter of a century to feel the impact of the late Paul Willis on our food scene. Willis originated Pedro’s Trailer Park (pausing for a moment of silence) and concepted Fuzzy’s Tacos (back before it was franchised to infinity and lost the original spark of greatness). Fort Worth restaurateur and chef Sandy Rankin worked alongside Willis for the last two decades, and she, along with her husband and son, have tried to redeem some
If the queso blanco and dusting of spices on the tortilla chips look familiar, it’s because Tres Amigos Chef Sandy Rankin spent a lot of time in the kitchen with the late Paul Willis, the chef who concepted Fuzzy’s Tacos and Yucatan Taco Stand, among other places.
of the original recipes in their new Tres Amigos Tacos and Tequila.
Perhaps it doesn’t help that Tres Amigos has taken over the Magnolia spot owned by Yucatan Taco Stand, home of the perpetual health code violations. Yucatan
was also Willis’ original concept, and I loved it shortly after it opened –– Yucatan was fancier than Fuzzy’s, and it made for a nice gathering place to blow off a particularly nasty week of TCU higher education. The post-COVID version of Yucatan was frankly a neighborhood nuisance. While Tres Amigos definitely offers a much cleaner environment with attentive service, the cuisine is super-similar.
Actually, “clean” is the first adjective I’d use to describe the place –– it smells like someone went deep with scrubbing utensils not too long ago.
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The lovely patio is still apparently popular among weekday diners. It accommodated half a dozen of them when I recently visited for lunch with a friend from my TCU days. Another dozen customers were scattered throughout the inside.
While waiting for my dining companion, I ordered a house margarita on the rocks. It was the perfect tart-sweet balance, and my only regret was that I hadn’t made my lunch date for early dinner, when I could have enjoyed a slightly cheaper beverage during happy hour.
My dining companion joined me and noticed olive green and light orange concoctions spinning in the frozen machine, and server Felisha obliged with a couple of samples. The orange was a house-created special with a vodka base that tasted mostly like a baby aspirin. The green creation was the St. Patrick’s week feature. The peach was pleasantly muted, and the well-rounded Lucky Charm was definitely a pot of gold at the beginning of this meal.
Queso is a must for a catchup lunch at a Tex-Mex joint. The queso blanco and accompanying chips with orange spice dusting pretty much tasted like Fuzzy’s products. Not terrible, not awesome. Sadly, the kitchen was out of the spicy black bean dip.
Tres Amigos serves a generous array of breakfast tacos all day, either as single tacos or as a plate with two of the same tacos,
plus rice and borracho beans. Choose flour or corn tortillas. (Nobody judges here.) A single beef chorizo-and-egg taco on a corn tortilla was an unexpectedly piquant treat. The Mexican sausage was richly seasoned and smoky, and it paired well with the corn and egg. The two breakfast-taco plate, with loaded egg, cheese, and avocado tacos, needed some salsa or tomato and onion what we were offered was a jarred hot sauce. If you know you want your breakfast tacos with salsa, order that as an appetizer. The presentation was underwhelming with the exception of the delicious, savory, crispy fried potatoes, which you can also order as a side.
The enchilada plate also came with rice and beans –– the menu indicated refried beans, but what came out were borracho beans. The enchiladas were flat and difficult to cut,
The Lucky Charm margarita (left) looked like a green smoothie and tasted like a million bucks, and the house rocks ’rita with a Tajin rim was solid.
and while they were appropriately cooked to temperature, the cheese was rubbery. Six flavorful, plump shrimp and a fiery, well-seasoned green sauce somewhat redeemed the dish. The beans were fine –– most of the side stayed in the cup in which they were served. But the fluffy, subtly seasoned white rice was absolutely delicious. I can generally take or leave the rice in a Mexican restaurant, and while this stuff wasn’t traditional Mexican rice, it was tasty.
Tres Amigos has been open since the fall, and at some point last winter, I went with friends for drinks, and I liked the loaded Latin nachos –– the queso tasted better on top of a pile of chips, red cabbage, pico, and a roasted garlic aioli.
Happy-hour specials are pretty standard, but Taco Tuesday offerings include deeply discounted chicken and green chile carnitas tacos. If you wear your medical scrubs weekdays for lunch, they’ll give you a 15% discount on your check (alcohol excluded). l
Tres Amigos Tacos & Tequila has similar decor as predecessor Yucatan Taco Stand but is a lot cleaner.
Color rules at Tres Amigos.
Hall (1323 N Stemmons Fwy, Dallas) with Dead Heat and Necrot. Doors are at 6:30pm, and the show starts at 7:30pm. Tickets to this all-ages event start at $28.50 at CavaleraConspiracy.net/tour.
Nonprofit arts (and crafts) organization the Welman Project (3950 W Vickery Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-9244000) is starting a new four-week adult class series. For the next four Mondays, Mar 24 to Apr 12, explore block, Gelli, and linocut printmaking while experimenting with different inks, mediums, and paints to make fine art prints, stationery, and textile pieces with your one-of-kind design at Print Play: Printmaking Basics from 6pm to 8pm. The cost of $150 per person covers your class fees and supplies, plus the proceeds help provide free supplies and support to local teachers. Register at My.TheWelmanProject.org/adults.
Save the date! Next Saturday is Spring Gallery Night, where you can enjoy art exhibits at some of Fort Worth’s best art galleries and museums. There are no entry fees today, and most participating art spaces are open from noon until 9pm. For the complete picture of what is happening where, visit FWADA.com/GalleryNight/ere, but here are a few of the offerings.
The Kimbell Art Museum (3333 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-332-8451) is open 10am-5pm for Gallery Night and is offering its permanent collection, which ranges from European masterpieces and Egyptian and classical antiquities to the art of Asia, Africa, and the ancient Americas. The Kimbell’s permanent collection is displayed in both the iconic Louis I. Kahn Building and the Renzo Piano Pavilion and is always free to view.
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St, Fort Worth, 817738-9215) has two special exhibitions on view, Alex Da Corte: The Whale and Feeling Color: Aubrey Willis and Frank Bowling, from 10am to 5pm. Read more about The Whale at FWWeekly.com.
Zona 7 Gallery in Sundance Square (404 Houston St, Fort Worth) is open from noon to 9pm for Gallery Night and has Pink Tax: Unpacking Femininity. This group exhibit features regional artists using the color pink in various mediums as a way to explore the histories of girlhood, power, and resilience. Gallery proceeds will benefit the Women’s Center of Tarrant County, which provides vital services to local women in need.
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-738-1933) is open 10am-5pm for Spring Gallery Night and is showing Classically Trained: The Gentlings and Music. Featuring more than 20 artworks by Fort Worth brothers Scott and Stuart Gentling, the show includes paintings, drawings, and music inspired by the intellectual and cultural ideals of the Enlightenment. You can also discover more about the evolution of Rufino Tomayo’s artistic technique through his works on paper and the ways he added volume and texture to a traditionally two-dimensional medium in Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation. Arts Fort Worth’s inaugural Arts Forward Summit is from 9am to 3pm at Texas Wesleyan University (1201 Wesleyan St, Fort Worth, 817-531-4444). Artists, art advocates, and community leaders will gather to connect. Tickets are $25-100 at ArtsFortWorth.org/summit.
By Jennifer Bovee
The Cavalera brothers from Sepultura will perform Sunday in Dallas.
Top Food & Booze Events the Rest of March
BY JENNIFER BOVEE
When our annual Zest special issue hits newsstands next week, you’ll have way more than eight ideas to choose from with our Night & Day column featuring food and booze events for April and May. Meanwhile, here are some events happening the rest of March
With Opening Day rapidly approaching, TX Whiskey is releasing a limited-edition baseball bottle and screening the film 42 inside the Oak Room at TX Whiskey Ranch (2601 Whiskey Ranch Rd, Fort Worth, 817-840-9140). A surprise MLB guest will also visit from 6pm to 9pm. Airstyle Art will engrave purchased bottles, and a food truck will be on-site. Doors open at 6pm, the movie will begin at 6:45pm, and the overall event ends at 9pm. Bring a camping chair for the flick. You must be 21+ to attend. Tickets are $10 on TXWhiskey.com.
Horus Hall (208 NW 24th St, Fort Worth, 817-683-2882) is the spot for the Fifth Annual Cowtown Crawfish Boil From noon to 8pm, $20 gets you 1 pound of crawfish and two drinks, but for $70, you can upgrade to an all-you-can-eat ticket. Along with those tasty mudbugs, Squeezebox Bandits, the Tommy Luke Trio, and the Eagle Mountain Band will perform. You can also take a break and stroll through a nearby car show and vendors market.
There will also be a vendor market at Maple Branch Craft Brewery (2628 Whitmore St, Fort Worth, 817-862-7007) 1pm-6pm. Vendors will be located both
inside and out, weather permitting, and the usual award-winning craft beer and woodfired pizza are on the menu.
Cat City Grill (1208 W Magnolia Av, Fort Worth, 817-916-5333) is hosting its Italian Wine Dinner showcasing a five-course meal prepared by Chef Osman Suarez paired with wines by Banfi. The cost is $130 per person plus tax and gratuity. Call the restaurant for reservations.
Martin House Brewing Company (220 S Sylvania Av, Ste 209, Fort Worth, 817-222-0177) is kicking off its 12th anniversary at the Barrel-Aged Beer Dinner with food from Oh Balls Food Truck 7pm-9pm. The five courses include cacio e pepe popcorn paired with Bianca (5%), a burrata with Mmm … Donuts (12%), a filet crostini with The Angel from My Nightmare (12%), a braised pork belly with Forbidden Fruit (13.8%), and Bananas Foster panna cotta paired with Bonjook (14.6%). Tickets are $60 on Shop.MartinHouse.com.
Business owners, before you head off to the beer dinner above, did you book space in the aforementioned Zest 2025 special issue? Today is the deadline. Reach out to Marketing@FWWeekly.com with ideas, comments, compliments, or to book that advertising space. #PayingtheBills
Central Market (4651 W Fwy, Fort Worth, 817-9894700) invites you and the kids to “get a little wild in our aisles” at Tropics Kids’ Stroll from 10am to 1pm. Along with sampling bites throughout the store, your little explorer will receive a beach ball, a pineapple squish toy, tropical sunglasses, and a $5-off-$40 coupon. Register to join this free treasure hunt at CentralMarket.com/tropics-stroll-2025.
If you’re in the Cultural District for Spring Gallery Night, stop by Winslow’s Wine Bar (4101 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-546-6843) 10am-11pm. Newly remodeled, Winslow’s now offers a full-service bar and an enhanced menu with braised short ribs and a catch of the day, plus indoor and outdoor seating. There is also a brunch menu served until 2pm on weekends.
Play ball! Or. Drink ballpark-themed whiskey on Friday.
Enjoy the doggo art and a new enhanced menu at Winslow’s during Spring Gallery Night.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19)
Now is a fantastic time to unleash a flood of gratitude and appreciation that takes very practical forms. Don’t just beam warm and fuzzy feelings toward your favorite people and animals, in other words. Offer tangible blessings that will actually enhance their lives.
TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20)
Identify the experience, substance, or feeling you really, really want more of, and then resolve to get as much of it as you really, really want.
GEMINI (May 21-Jun 20)
You are gaining access to new ways to read and understand your environment. Subtleties that weren’t previously clear to you are becoming so. Your perceptual powers seem to be growing, and so is your sensitivity to clues from below the visible surface of things. Your intuition is synergizing with your logical mind.
CANCERIAN (Jun 21-Jul 22)
It’s possible that your abilities may be underestimated, even by you. Hidden potentials and unexpressed capacities may be close to ripening, but they will need your full confidence and boldness. Don’t let skepticism, either from your inner critic or others, hold you back.
LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22)
Now is also a good time for you Leos to seek valuable information from adventures you began years ago. Even if those past experiences have not yielded relevant revelations recently, they may soon do so. Be alert for ways to harvest new riches from old memories.
VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22)
Maintaining high standards is always crucial for your long-term success. Others may be tempted to cut corners, but your natural integrity is one of your superpowers. Please redouble your commitment to providing highest value, Virgo. And ask for it from others, too.
LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 22)
Research the power of pauses. Rather than filling up every gap, allow space for pregnant blankness. Trust that in being open to vacancy, you will make room for unexpected riches.
SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 21)
Collaborate to create beauty with energies that aren’t entirely manageable. Undertake projects that require both careful preparation and a willingness to adapt to shifting conditions. Engage with opportunities that will have the best outcomes if you relinquish some control.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21)
Solicit the feedback of allies who have insight into your nature, but I urge you to rely heavily on your private investigations. How can you deepen your knowledge of the reasons you are here on earth? Who are you, exactly?
CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19)
Respond to an apparent scarcity or deficiency by calling on earthy alternatives. May you adjust to a problem by deepening your reliance on your natural self.
AQUARIUS (Jan 20- Feb 18)
Your response to tests and trials will define your success. As you encounter obstacles, you will treat them as opportunities to showcase your resourcefulness and adaptability. You will inspire others to summon resiliency, and you will bring out their best as together you engage in creative problem-solving. Trials will become triumphs.
PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20)
Your instincts for self-love are at a peak. Your ability to see your best possible future is lucid and strong. Your commitment to gracefully serving all that gracefully serves you is passionate and rigorous.
EXPANDED HOROSCOPES
For unabridged versions of the horoscopes above by Rob Brezsny, go to FreeWillAstrology.com.
Happy Birthday, Dear Pisces!
MUSIC
Showroom Sounds
Printed
Threads’ intimate concert series carries on a sweet postpandemic tradition.
BY JUAN R. GOVEA AND ANTHONY MARIANI
In all the verbiage about venues closing over the past couple of years, there’s been little mention of third spaces or nontraditional rooms. There are a few around town, including The Grackle, Sally Herring Birthisel’s front porch, and one that’s really blossoming on the East Side.
Since 2023, Printed Threads has been hosting intimate concerts in its warehouse at 210 S Fwy, and the 15-year-old company is now becoming as popular for Showroom Sounds as for graphic design and merchandize.
“A large part of our clientele is musicians,” said Printed Threads Founder/ Owner Brett Bowden, who created Showroom Sounds with Vice President of Production Alan Brown and Logistics Manager Ashley Mizell. “We do what we do best, which is create a cool design and put it on a custom T-shirt and bring people into our house, which is Printed Threads.”
The Showroom Sounds experience is all-inclusive for anywhere between 30 and
50 people (with a max capacity of 75). Food is catered, and an open bar offers alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks. While April’s event with Oklahoman John Moreland is sold out, Alex Maas from Austin’s Black Angels will perform on Sat, May 31. Tickets range from $30 to $70, depending on market value. Blackstone Recording’s Mark Randall runs sound, and each show is uploaded to @ PrintedThreads on YouTube. Recent performers include Fort Worth’s Robert Ellis; Theo Lawrence from Bordeaux, France; Florida’s Chris Staples; and Mississippi’s Cory Branan. For the following Showroom Sounds (Sat, June 28), Delta Spirit’s Matthew Logan Vasquez will perform.
Intimate shows in nontraditional spaces started sprouting up after the pandemic, when large gatherings were still sort of iffy,
and while these “tiny desk” concerts are not as common as they were back then, they’re still quite a draw. Showroom Sounds often sells out as soon as they announce a new show. A sense of exclusivity is also a huge part of the appeal.
“You can have good conversations with the artists, and it gives the artist the opportunity to tell stories in their set that may feel uncomfortable in a larger format,” Bowden said. “You could see your favorite band at a bar and spend $100 dollars on alcohol easily. [At Showroom Sounds], you’re given free drinks and a poster in a relaxed setting.” l
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Printed Threads Founder/Owner Brett Bowden (left) created Showroom Sounds with VP of Production Alan Brown (right) and Logistics Manager Ashley Mizell.
Showroom Sounds singer-songwriters come from all over, like Theo Lawrence from Bordeaux, France.
Showroom Sounds sells out quickly, so hop on that May show now.
CLASSIFIEDS
TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF APPLICATION AND INTENT TO OBTAIN AIR PERMIT (NORI) RENEWAL
PERMIT NUMBER 1498
APPLICATION. Molson Coors USA LLC., has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for renewal of Air Quality Permit Number 1498, which would authorize continued operation of the Malt Beverage Production Facility located at 7001 South Freeway, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas 76134. 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=97.32,32.644444&level=13. The existing facility is authorized to emit the following air contaminants: carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, nitrogen oxides, organic compounds, particulate matter including particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less and sulfur dioxide.
This application was submitted to the TCEQ on January 10, 2025. The application will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and the Fort Worth Public Library Wedgewood Branch 3816 Kimberly Lane, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas 76133, beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review in the Dallas/Fort Worth regional office of the TCEQ. The application, including any updates, is available electronically at the following webpage: https://www.tceq.texas.gov/permitting/air/airpermit-applications-notices
The executive director has determined the application is administratively complete and will conduct a technical review of the application. Information in the application indicates that this permit renewal would not result in an increase in allowable emissions and would not result in the emission of an air contaminant not previously emitted. The TCEQ may act on this application without seeking further public comment or providing an opportunity for a contested case hearing if certain criteria are met.
PUBLIC COMMENT. You may submit public comments to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below. The TCEQ will consider all public comments in developing a final decision on the application and the executive director will prepare a response to those comments. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the TCEQ’s jurisdiction to address in the permit process.
OPPORTUNITY FOR A CONTESTED CASE HEARING. You may request a contested case hearing if you are a person who may be affected by emissions of air contaminants from the facility. 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 permit 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 the group or association seeks to protect must also be identified. You may also submit your proposed adjustments to the application/permit which would satisfy your concerns.
The deadline to submit a request for a contested case hearing is 15 days after newspaper notice is published. If a request is timely filed, the deadline for requesting a contested case hearing will be extended to 30 days after mailing of the response to comments.
If any requests for a contested case hearing are timely filed, the Executive Director will forward the application and any requests for a contested case hearing to the Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled Commission meeting. Unless the application is directly referred to a contested case hearing, the executive director will mail the response to comments along with notification of Commission meeting to everyone who submitted comments or is on the mailing list for this application. 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. In addition to submitting public comments, you may ask to be placed on a mailing list for this application by sending a request to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below. Those on the mailing list will receive copies of future public notices (if any) mailed by the Office of the Chief Clerk for this application.
AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION. 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 this permit application or the permitting process, please call the Public Education Program toll free at 1-800-687-4040. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040.
Further information may also be obtained from Molson Coors USA LLC, 7001 South Freeway, Fort Worth, Texas 76134-4001, or by calling Ms. Janeth Rodriguez, Environmental and Sustainability Engineer, at (817) 615-5505.
Notice Issuance Date: February 21, 2025
TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Notice of Draft Federal Operating Permit
Draft Permit No.: O4545
Application and Draft Permit. BIMBO BAKERIES USA, INC., 737 N Great Southwest Pkwy, Arlington, TX 76011-5426, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for an initial issuance of Federal Operating Permit (herein referred to as Permit) No. O4545, Application No. 35908, to authorize operation of the Earthgrains Baking, a Commercial Bakeries facility. The area addressed by the application is located at 737 N Great Southwest Pkwy in Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas 76011-5426. 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 the application. You can find an electronic map of the facility at: https://gisweb.tceq.texas.gov/LocationMapper/?marker=-97.046666,32.753333&level=13. This application was received by the TCEQ on November 2, 2023.
The purpose of a federal operating permit is to improve overall compliance with the rules governing air pollution control by clearly listing all applicable requirements, as defined in Title 30 Texas Administrative Code § 122.10 (30 TAC § 122.10). The draft permit, if approved, will codify the conditions under which the area must operate. The permit will not authorize new construction. The executive director has completed the technical review of the application and has made a preliminary decision to prepare a draft permit for public comment and review. The executive director recommends issuance of this draft permit. The permit application, statement of basis, and draft permit will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ Central Office, 12100 Park 35 Circle, Building E, First Floor, Austin, Texas 78753; the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Office, 2309 Gravel Drive, Fort Worth, Texas 76118-6951; and the Arlington City Hall, 101 W Abram St, Arlington, Texas 76010-7102, beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The draft permit and statement of basis are available at the TCEQ Website: www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/tvnotice. The application, including any updates, is available electronically at the following webpage: https://www.tceq. texas.gov/permitting/air/airpermit-applications-notices.
At the TCEQ central and regional offices, relevant supporting materials for the draft permit, as well as the New Source Review permits which have been incorporated by reference, may be reviewed and copied. Any person with difficulties obtaining these materials due to travel constraints may contact the TCEQ central office file room at (512) 239-2900.
Public Comment/Notice and Comment Hearing. Any person may submit written comments on the draft permit. Comments relating to the accuracy, completeness, and appropriateness of the permit conditions may result in changes to the draft permit.
A person who may be affected by the emission of air pollutants from the permitted area may request a notice and comment hearing. The purpose of the notice and comment hearing is to provide an additional opportunity to submit comments on the draft permit. The permit may be changed based on comments pertaining to whether the permit provides for compliance with 30 TAC Chapter 122 (examples may include that the permit does not contain all applicable requirements or the public notice procedures were not satisfied). The TCEQ may grant a notice and comment hearing on the application if a written hearing request is received within 30 days after publication of the newspaper notice. The hearing request must include the basis for the request, including a description of how the person may be affected by the emission of air pollutants from the application area. The request should also specify the conditions of the draft permit that are inappropriate or specify how the preliminary decision to issue or deny the permit is inappropriate. All reasonably ascertainable issues must be raised and all reasonably available arguments must be submitted by the end of the public comment period. If a notice and comment hearing is granted, all individuals that submitted written comments or a hearing request will receive written notice of the hearing. This notice will identify the date, time, and location for the hearing.
Written public comments and/or requests for a notice and comment hearing should be submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087, or electronically at www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/ and be received within 30 days after the date of newspaper publication of this notice. 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.
A notice of proposed final action that includes a response to comments and identification of any changes to the draft permit will be mailed to everyone who submitted public comments, a hearing request, or requested to be on the mailing list for this application. This mailing will also provide instructions for public petitions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to request that the EPA object to the issuance of the proposed permit. After receiving a petition, the EPA may only object to the issuance of a permit which is not in compliance with the applicable requirements or the requirements of 30 TAC Chapter 122.
Mailing List. In addition to submitting public comments, a person may ask to be placed on a mailing list for this application by sending a request to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address above. Those on the mailing list will receive copies of future public notices (if any) mailed by the Chief Clerk for this application.
Information. For additional information about this permit application or the permitting process, please contact the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Public Education Program, MC-108, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087 or toll free at 1-800-687-4040. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040.
Further information may also be obtained for BIMBO BAKERIES USA, INC. by calling Ms. Brenda Bravo at (817) 640-5284 x5810.
Notice Issuance Date: February 28, 2025
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