Wealthy families stand to benefit the most from Texas’ new voucher law while poor special-needs kids could be pushed out.
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NIGHT & DAY
Mamma Mia! at the Worthington, MJ at Bass Hall, and a pet fundraiser at Martin House await.
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ART
The Modern’s Feeling Color celebrates two Afro-Caribbean abstract pioneers.
BY LAURIE JAMES
MUSIC
Psychedelic punks Labels are back with a White Hot album and an upcoming Texas tour.
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Try not to feel too old and sad now that it’s headed into history.
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Private school vouchers are now law in Texas. Here’s how they will work.
BY JADEN EDISON
Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed legislation authorizing a private school voucher program into law, marking the grand finale of an oftentimes ugly conflict that has largely defined Texas politics this decade.
Senate Bill 2 will allow families to use public taxpayer dollars to fund their children’s education at an accredited private school or to pay for a wide range of school-related expenses, like textbooks, transportation, or therapy. The program will be one of the largest school voucher initiatives in the nation.
“When I ran for reelection in 2022, I promised school choice for the families of Texas,” said Abbott during the bill’s signing before hundreds of applauding supporters gathered outside the Governor’s Mansion. “Today, we deliver on that promise. Gone are the days that families are limited to only the school assigned by government. The day has arrived that empowers parents to choose the school that’s best for their child.”
The law will go into effect on Sept. 1, with the program expected to launch in late 2026.
The law’s passage follows years of discord in the Legislature over school vouchers. The Democrats and rural Republicans who fought against it argued that the program would harm already-struggling public schools, a major employer for working families and a resource center for many Texas students — the majority of whom reside in low-income households.
“Remember this day next time a school closes in your neighborhood,” said state Rep. James Talarico (D-Austin) a few hours before at a news conference with other voucher opponents. “Remember this day next time a beloved teacher quits because they can’t support their family on their
salary. Remember this day next time your local property taxes rise because the state government is not doing its fair share of school funding. And if recession comes and we are forced to make even deeper cuts to public education, remember this day.”
Top Republicans like Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick have forcefully rebutted, saying parents needed more schooling options for their children in the face of COVID-19 health restrictions and frustrations with public schools’ efforts to foster a more inclusive environment for all students. Abbott and company have insisted that a voucher program and the state’s public education system can coexist.
Those arguments came as voucher programs in other states have largely benefited wealthier families who already had their kids enrolled in private schools and led to disappointing academic outcomes for students.
What we know about Texas’ school voucher program
• Families can receive about $10,000 to send their children to private school at taxpayers’ expense
• Texas will spend $1 billion on vouchers in the first two years, but costs could skyrocket
• Most families can participate, including some of the wealthiest Texans
• The program launches next year, but other specifics are still unclear
• Participating students won’t have to take the STAAR test
Most participating families will receive an amount equal to 85% of what public schools get for each student through state and local funding — roughly somewhere between $10,300 and $10,900 per year for each child, according to a legislative budget analysis, which included financial projections for the next five years.
Children with disabilities are eligible for the same funding as other students, plus up to $30,000 in additional money, an amount based on what the state would spend on special education services for that student if they attended a public school. Home-schoolers can receive up to $2,000 per year.
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Gov. Greg Abbott signs legislation authorizing a private school voucher program into law at the Texas Governor’s Mansion in Austin on May 3, 2025.
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Andor-ing
Weddings, office meetings, and indecision mire this Star Wars series in boring muck.
BY REESE PIERCE
A meme derived from a 2009 political cartoon always comes to mind when I see a new Star Wars project. Farmer Mickey Mouse, with an armful of buckets, gleefully strides toward an emaciated and fearful-looking milk cow wearing a Star Wars sign around its neck. Mickey says, “Good morning, Sunshine!” The point is that Disney has milked Star Wars dry. Looking at the slate of TV shows and middling movies, this is not far from the truth. There are highlights among the wreckage, though. Some of the newer films have their moments, and everyone wants to watch Pedro Pascal escort The Child through the universe. I also will take Ewan MacGregor’s Obi Wan Kenobi anyday, but it’s been otherwise disappointing.
Enter: Andor. The series, created by Tony Gilroy, follows Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), the ill-fated sidekick of Felicity Jones’ protagonist from the 2016 film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Andor sets out to answer the burning question no one ever cared to ask: How did Cassian Andor become a rebel spy? There is much more going on with the show, but at its heart, this is the story. I could say
it’s about how a fascist empire takes over the galaxy, but that has been addressed in every single movie or show to sprout from this IP. One could also argue this is a street-level look at the effect the evil Empire’s actions have on regular people and side characters. In that case, let me point you to Star Wars Rebels.
I realize my bewilderment with this series isn’t broadly shared. Both Season 1 and now Season 2 have been met with much critical acclaim. The show has been hailed as “Star Wars for adults” or a “masterpiece” by various media outlets. But is it? What is at stake for a character we know to be dead already? One that I might point out wasn’t even the lead in the film he originally appeared in. It’s easy to see why so many people jumped on the bandwagon in Season 1. It filled the gulf in mediocre content lingering under the Star Wars tab of Disney’s streaming service. It’s also not a fluke that so many are drawn to it. It’s very well executed. The show is shot well, the cast is excellent, and the overall production is outstanding. Compare it to the recent Star War’s show The Acolyte, and it’s practically the second coming of Christ on every level.
Like Rogue One, it strikes a somber tone, and there is clearly an audience for this type of show in the Star Wars space. After seeing the constant hype, I gave in and watched Season 1. Though I did not care for the first half (it was overly slow and meandered for no good reason), the series crescendos to a satisfying close. The last several episodes were well done and riveting and left me ready for this final season. It’s easy to forgive a show that takes its time world building on the outset if it finally pays off. After all, The Wire is one of my favorite TV shows of all time. I also love White Lotus (maybe not Season 3 as much), The Leftovers, and any other show bold enough to try something new and take its time. These slow burners are sometimes difficult and frustrating, but the good ones are worth the time invested. Andor Season 1 met that criterion, but Season 2 has decided to
move sideways instead of forward and is more interested in tone than it is in content and conflict. It prefers to tell and not show, and as it turns out, showrunner Gilroy is just another Mickey Mouse with a milk pail. Season 1 demonstrates the effects of the Empire on everyday life in the galaxy, and Andor gets caught up in the turmoil. When it’s at its best, it is working to show how someone can get radicalized. At the end of the first season, he has just officially joined the rebellion and seems to understand what this means. Season 2 then should be a race to bridge the gap between him joining the rebels and the mission that takes place in Rogue One. But nine episodes in, and he is still on the fence about his commitment. He spends the majority of Season 2 brooding and taking little to no action. Imagine Hamlet in space. It seems absurd that three quarters of the final season could go by with no arc for Andor’s character. How could this be? For one, there was a three episode-long wedding that achieved nothing more than having to deal with a character’s change of allegiance. That is, unless you are really into every minute aspect of a Chandrilan wedding. Let me demonstrate further. Here are the competing threads a viewer has to hold onto as the episodes progress in Season 2: Mon
Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) and Perrin Fertha (Alastair Mackenzie) work through a marriage, a three-episode wedding, and galactic politics; Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgard) and Kleya Marki (Elizabeth Dulau) build a rebellion and a spy network; Bix Caleen (Adria Arjona) deals with past traumas and is sidelined on Coruscant; Syril Karn ( Kyle Soller) and Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) make their way up the military ladder of the Empire, attend meetings, and deal with a nosey mother-in-law; Major Partagaz (Anton Lessor) and Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) do evil stuff and scheme to ruin the universe; Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay) and Cinta Kaz (Varda Sedthu) build a rebellion on Ghorman; Saw Gerrera (Forrest Whitaker) and crew act menacing. Confused or bored yet? That is not even an exhaustive look at every side story. Each one of these, aside from Saw Gerrera, gets close to equal time as Andor, the title character.
Herein lies the problem. The series is stalled out by the scope with which it chose to tell this story. I am the first to defend a show that takes its time with a character. Even one whose fate we know. Take Better Call Saul, for example. It’s a masterclass in character and world building and taking its time to get to large events. What those writers understand is that to do this you need to allow the leads to develop over time. They need a large character arc, yes, but they also need smaller stakes each episode that develop their characters over the larger timeline. This never happens for Andor. He plays the same beat in each scene and is the exact same person he was in Season 1, which has left him relatively inactive or at least ineffective this entire season. As I write this, there are three episodes left, and I cannot imagine how they will connect this series to Rogue One without some incongruous time jump, character changes, or a dispatching of the litany of side characters. Episode 9 of Season 1 ends with Andor flying off in a ship as a single tear runs down his welling eyes as he ponders the state of his affairs. What a fitting metaphor for the experience of watching this once-promising show meet the same fate as the emaciated milk cow. l
An eternally conflicted and brooding Andor (Diego Luna) leaves the rebellion base after yet another setback.
Andor
Starring Diego Luna, Adria Arjona, Stellan Skarsgard, and Genevieve O’Reilly. Created by Tony Gilroy. Directed by Toby Haytnes, Ariel Kleiman, Benjamin Caron, Susanna White, Janus Metz, and Alonso Ruizapalacios. Rated TV-14. Disney+.
ART
Feeling Color-ful
The Modern’s newest exhibit introduces Fort Worth to two Caribbeandiaspora pioneers of 20th-century abstract art.
BY LAURIE JAMES
Feeling Color: Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling celebrates the work of BritishCaribbean artists Aubrey Williams (19261990) and Frank Bowling (b. 1934). The artists’ contributions to the story of abstract painting in the late 20th century were significantly influenced by their migration from British Guiana (now Guyana) in South
America to Britain and beyond in the 1950s. The artists left social upheaval in their native country, both landing (ironically) in the nation that colonized their homeland.
Up now through July 27 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the show was organized by Curator María Elena Ortiz, who joined the Modern as curator in 2022. She comes to Fort Worth from the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), where she was also curator. Ortiz founded and spearheaded PAAM’s Caribbean Cultural Institute, a curatorial platform dedicated to Caribbean art. Ortiz has a history of diversifying
museum collections, and she’s well-placed at the Modern. Feeling Color presents works from Williams’ series Shostakovich (1980-81) and The Olmec Maya and Now (1982-88), while Bowling’s works include his Map series (1967-71) and his later poured paintings, which push the limits of abstract art.
Many of us equate abstract art with Picasso or perhaps the rampant paint splatters of Jackson Pollack. Mark Rothko’s vibrantly colored rectangles and the street art of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat may also ring a bell. With Feeling Color, Ortiz turns the focus on two Afro-Caribbean painters
of the ’60s who were part of a larger migrant movement as the British Empire’s former colonies shrugged off their colonizers. While continued on page 9
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Williams’ “Quetzalcoatl III” is a visual feast highlighting the artist’s love of the Amerindian tribe with whom he lived and worked.
Bowling’s “Think Tree” is a playful and beautiful use of mixed media.
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both Williams and Bowling hail from the former British Guiana, their styles and life experiences are markedly different.
The late Aubrey Williams was the son of a civil servant in British Guiana. Although he was a talented artist as a young man, he became a field officer in the nation’s agriculture department in the late 1940s. A stint on the sugar plantations on the nation’s eastern coast radicalized him, because he saw how hard the subsistence farmers worked and how little they took home. Williams helped the farmers organize to demand fair trade from the Britons. His “reward” was banishment to a tiny ag station in the northern rainforest, where he worked with the Warru tribe. Immersion in the Amerindian culture profoundly influenced his future work. Two years later, he returned to Georgetown, where his revolutionary advocacy to shake British rule from Guiana caused the Guianese authorities to make life uncomfortable. Williams migrated to Britain in 1952, ostensibly to continue agriculture studies at Leicester University. He gave up the student role for one of travel and immersed himself in the post-war art scene in Europe. He enrolled in London’s St. Martin’s School of Art, exhibiting in several galleries. Williams was influenced by abstract-expressionists like Pollack and Rothko, along with Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose symphonies and quartets formed an auditory
but his trajectory was a little different. Bowling moved to live with family in London with the stated objective of studying English with an eye toward becoming a writer and poet. He did a stint in the Royal Air Force and afterward became an art student. He ultimately won a scholarship to London’s Royal College of Art around the same time as David Hockney, one of the pioneers of British pop art. By the mid-1960s, Bowling had studios in London and New York City and was leading a jet-set life. Through his work and writings, he continuously promoted the idea that AfroCaribbean people do not fit neatly into a checkbox marked “Black.” As of this writing, he continues to work daily in his art studio.
backdrop in the artist’s formative years as he painted in his London studio.
The title of the exhibit comes from an interview with Williams, who said that when heard Shostakovich’s work, he could “feel color.” Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, Williams worked and exhibited internationally in Jamaica, Guyana, and Florida. He died of cancer in 1990.
Richard Sheridan Franklin Bowling, OBE, is Williams’ contemporary with a similar migration story. Sir Frank (the artist was knighted in 2020) has been called one of Britain’s greatest living abstract painters, and he was the first Black artist elected to Britain’s Royal Academy of Arts. Bowling migrated to London just after Williams,
It’s interesting to compare the two artists Ortiz has pulled together, especially considering they worked in parallel. Their similar backgrounds belie the divergence of their work. The Modern says, “These works reflect the artists’ histories by combining modernist abstraction with, in Bowling’s case, imagery derived from African diasporic dwellings and, in Williams’ case, the Indigenous cultures of South America, each pointing to the complexity of their postcolonial heritage. These are works that embrace color, movement, experimentation, and abstraction to convey human emotion.”
Williams’ premature death came at a time when people were rediscovering him as an artist of significance. Ultimately, both artists were recognized as pioneers of the late-’60s Caribbean Arts Movement,
a short five-year post-war heyday of AfroCaribbean joy featuring art from diaspora painters from British colonies and former colonies. The loose collective of artists, poets, filmmakers, and others was a hive of creativity for West Indian migrants, folks running from corrupt governments like Williams, and Black Britons.
Curator Ortiz has compiled a wildly colorful set of both artists’ work, expanding the artists’ stories for those who are learning about the works for the first time. Some of the art feels familiar, but much of it looks novel if you’re only now learning how multidimensional abstract art is. Feeling Color is the inaugural presentation of the Modern’s program Platform, which “seeks to link a variety of contemporary artists and art histories from across the globe.” Well done. l In “Realm of the Sun,” Williams merges Amerindian imagery with abstract art.
Bowling’s “Plus Mother’s House” underlines the artist’s Afro-Caribbean roots.
Feeling Color: Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling Thru July 27 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St, Fort Worth. Free-$16. 817-738-9215.
Based on the making of Michael Jackson’s 1992 Dangerous world tour, the multiple Tony Awardwinning MJ: The Musical is startin’ somethin’ as it makes its premiere at Bass Performance Hall (525 Commerce St, Fort Worth, 817-212-4280) this week, offering a close look at the creative mind and collaborative spirit that catapulted Michael Jackson into legendary status. Showtimes are 7:30pm Wed-Sat, 1:30pm Sat-Sun, and 6:30pm Sun, with tickets starting at $98 at BassHall.com.
Magnolia at the Modern — an ongoing series featuring critically acclaimed films screened in the auditorium of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St, 817-738-9215) — screens Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary this weekend. British Invasion icons The Zombies reflect on 60 years of their musical path in the band’s first feature-length documentary. Surviving band members Rod Argent, Colin Blunstone, Hugh Grundy, and Chris White share their story of navigating the tumultuous music industry, making one of the most influential albums of all time — 1968’s Odyssey and Oracle — and missing out on their biggest moment by breaking up before their song “Time of the Season” became a global success in 1969. Showtimes are 3:30pm, 6pm, and 8:30pm Fri, 4:30pm Sat, and 11:30am, 2pm, and 4:30pm Sun. Tickets are $10 at TheModern.org.
From 6pm to 9pm at Martin House Brewing Company (220 S Sylvania Av, Ste 209, Fort Worth, 817-222-0177), the Fort Worth Chefs Association hosts its annual Dogs for Dogs (and Cats) fundraiser in which top chefs prepare gourmet hot dogs with the proceeds benefiting local animal nonprofit Saving Hope. Admission is $15, and you get to sample everything.
Bookshop (6637 Meadowbrook Dr, Fort Worth, 817-457-5700) for their free Creating Communities of Hope event 6pm-9pm. This evening’s discussion will focus on the teachings of the Bahá’í faith and the unity of religion and humanities, with an emphasis on social justice, equality, and the importance of the independent investigation of truth.
Voices of Fort Worth, a choral chamber ensemble dedicated to a cappella music featuring works from the early Renaissance period to contemporary times, has its final concert of the season tonight at Trinity Episcopal Church (3401 Bellaire Dr S, Fort Worth, 817-926-4631) at 7pm. The Elements: Songs of the Earth will celebrate the four traditional elements — earth, air, water, and fire — through breathtaking choral works that promise to stir the soul and awaken the senses. Tickets are $25 at VoicesofFortWorth.com/events.
Like the happenings mentioned in last week’s new Karma Column, many of us are looking for hope amid the chaos of current events. Meaningful Conversations, a local group with a goal of welcoming all perspectives in the search for the deeper truths that unite us, is right there with us. They will gather at The Dock
Are you secretly an ABBA fan? I knew it! Join other like-minded ladies at the Mamma Mia! Girls Night Out Pajama Party at the Rooftop Cinema Club on the roof of the Worthington Hotel (235 Throckmorton St, Fort Worth, @ RooftopCinemaClubDowntownFortWorth) and watch the iconic film based on the band’s music. Tickets start at $27 and include an Adirondack chair, popcorn, and a swag bag. Doors are at 6:20pm, and the film begins at 7:20pm. Come early for the pre-movie karaoke and belt out “Dancing Queen” like no one is watching. Themed cocktails will help.
Back to work, y’all. Sigh. For us Weekly folk, this means putting the final touches on Summertime 2025. This glossy-bound special edition featuring camps, events, getaways, summer blockbusters, and more hits the stands on Wed, May 21. Business owners, if you need to get the word out about anything happening this summer, now is the perfect time. Email your ideas for event listings to Marketing@ FWWeekly.com. As for reserving space, start at FWWeekly.com/advertise-with-us. We don’t go to press until Tuesday, but why wait?
By Jennifer Bovee
Magnolia at the Modern screens Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary this weekend.
Dogs for Dogs (and Cats) is at Martin House Brewing on Thursday, benefiting Saving Hope Animal Rescue.
Jordan Markus plays the title role in MJ: The Musical this week at Bass Hall.
Ate Days of Food & Booze Celebrations
This week is American Craft Beer Week, and Flying Saucer Draught Emporium (111 E 3rd St, Fort Worth, 817-336-7470) is celebrating 11am-11pm daily thru Sunday with $5 craft drafts, special brewery lineups, and limited tappings. For updates and details, visit Facebook.com/FlyingSaucerFortWorth.
While manufacturing operations will remain unchanged, today is the final hurrah for Rahr at the current event space at Rahr & Sons Brewing Company (701 Galveston Av, Fort Worth, 817-810-9266). Guests who purchase a $20 wristband for the Here’s to 20 Years event, 10am to 2am, will receive a commemorative pint glass and 3 pints of beer. Food trucks from El Salchichon, Street Dogs, and Nona’s Argentina Bakery will be on-site. There will also be live music throughout the day, including performances by Wellertones (8pm), Kyle Magruder (4:30pm), Jeff Martin (1pm), and Denver Williams (10am), plus a set by DJ Zilla (10pm-2am).
Local organization Neighbors Involved in Community Engagement (NIICE) is hosting the Taste of Fort Worth Food Festival & Car Show at William McDonald YMCA (2701 Moresby St, Fort Worth) noon-5pm. This fundraiser for the YMCA will include food for purchase, music by DJ TDK, and a car show featuring custom bikes, cars, slingshots, and trucks. Tickets are free in advance via Eventbrite.com or $10 at the door.
Taste of Tokyo Streets will showcase the vibrant flavors of Japanese street food at Tokyo Cafe (5121 Pershing Av, Fort Worth, 817-737-8568) at 7pm. This
five-course experience includes takoyaki (ball-shaped snacks filled with octopus and drizzled with a sweet and savory sauce), a yakisoba dog (yakisoba noodles nestled in a soft bun), assorted tempura (with seasonal vegetables and seafood), nigiri (slices of fresh fish atop seasoned rice, with a house-made tamago sweet egg omelet), kushiyaki (skewered and grilled savory bites), and anmitsu (a traditional dessert with agar jelly, sweet red bean paste, mochi, and seasonal fruits). Tickets are $75 at TokyoCafeFW.com.
Trinity River Distillery (1734 E El Paso St, Ste 130, Fort Worth) is hosting a free Summer Kickoff Party, 3pm-9pm Fri, May 23, and noon-9pm Sat, May 24, with themed drinks and live music by Brock DeWald on the patio. Trinity’s popular Texas Honey Whiskey will be the featured spirit in today’s drink specials that also include lemonades, frozen cocktails, and strawberry margaritas. Distillery tours ($25), scheduled for 7pm Fri and 2:30pm, 4pm, and 5:30pm Sat, include a tasting of all five Silver Star spirits.
Spicy Food Productions brings its annual ZestFest: Spicy Food & BBW Festival to Amon Carter Hall in the Will Rogers Memorial Center (3401 W Lancaster Av, Fort Worth, 817392-7469) 1pm-5pm both days. ZestFest features live chef meet-and-greets, cooking demonstrations, food competitions, and interactive workshops. Tickets start at $23 on EventBrite.com.
Africa Day Party comes to Southcliff Church (4100 SW 820, Fort Worth, 817-9242241) at 6pm. People of all ethnicities and backgrounds are welcome to this community potluck, celebrating the food, music, and traditions of African culture. For more details on participating and attending, visit Facebook.com/SouthcliffThrive/events.
John Wayne: An American Experience museum (2501 Rodeo Plz, Fort Worth, 682224-0956) is hosting a John Wayne Wine Dinner at 4:30pm. Along with a curated menu by Los Vaqueros inspired by Duke’s legacy, there will be limited-label wine tastings, dessert by Gold Handle Coffee, artwork on display by Buck Taylor, live music by Moses Rangel, and a museum tour. Tickets are $150 at bit.ly/3ExgbCr.
By Elaine Wilder
The Flying Saucer implores you to get your beer on this week.
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Fare Thee Well, The Pub
Try
not to feel too old and sad now that it’s headed into history.
STORY AND PHOTO BY STEVE STEWARD
Six years ago, I wrote a story about how the University Pub had boxes of Plan B for sale in its vending machine. A few things have changed in America over that time, but my Google AI Overview claims that you
can still buy Plan B in Texas. Do your own research on that, because one of the things that has changed since 2019 is my faith in the veracity of anything I read online, which is why I didn’t initially believe the rumor I’d heard that the University Pub was closing. I overheard it from across the bar top, which gave it even less gravity. But when I saw that the news came from Bud Kennedy, I allowed the rumor a lot more weight — like a 98:2 ratio of truth to my refusal to accept reality.
The Pub is closing, baby, that’s a fact. It will open its doors for the last time on Saturday, and the final “last call!” will be yelled around 1:45am on May 18. According to the Star-Telegram, next-door neighbor Buffalo Bros has taken over the lease to expand its dining room. Buffalo Bros owner Jon Bonnell told the paper that he rented the space when it became available, then in a comment on the Pub’s own farewell post on its Instagram account, Bonnell added, “The Pub is not closing because of Buffalo Bros. ... We’re sad to see them go as well, been great neighbors for many years.”
I guess you’d have to do your own research on that, as well, and I’m not going to read between any lines, although the other point of that old column about the Pub was that it had beef with the chicken wing restaurant when the latter starting hosting bar trivia on the same night as the Pub (Tuesdays, a detail that, in the fullness
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of time, feels insignificant yet sticks out in my head — like trivia!). Great neighbors or no, one is taking over the space of the other, and that hurts no matter what.
Indulge me here, because I’m literally copy-pasting from my Plan B story: “I first set foot in the University Pub 20 years ago. It was in August of 1999, the summer I turned 21, right before classes started at TCU. For the next few years, the bar would be the setting for some of my giddiest highs and cringiest lows, across a litany of drunken episodes running the gamut between hilariously triumphant and indisputably lamentable. Balls were busted and noses were tweaked as pitchers were drained and livers were pummeled. I remember perusing the wall of Polaroids that first night, drinking in the drunken revelers who’d been regulars before my time, and I watched with pride as the months turned over and pictures of my own social circle began to fill a section of wall, blurry weekend by blurry weekend. By blurry weekend.
“I raised beers at the Pub on a warm night in May of 2000 to celebrate my diploma. Some 17 months later, on a similarly warm night, I stared at the bottom of a glass in grief because that morning I’d watched the Twin Towers crumble into history. I could go on and on, kicking the can down Memory Lane, a stroll rowdy with laughter
Nostalgia is best avoided, because 46 is too old to be crying at the Pub.
and clinking glasses, of jukebox singalongs to Bocefus, Buffett, and Mr. Bojangles, and Jerry Jeff, Def Leppard, and Robert Earl Keen, to boot. I was young. For all I knew, the road did go on forever, and the party would never end.”
Really? “Some 17 months later”? How about “17 months later”? That line isn’t exactly a “low,” but I am cringing all the same. Anyway, I pulled that column up while sitting at the Pub’s bar at the end where the retaining wall is and wondered which Polaroids were newest. How long had the place had had a POS? I noticed the Stars were behind the Jets 0-1, and that reminded me how I watched them lose to the Devils in the 2000 Stanley Cup Finals, standing around that same corner. Add to all those memories above an afternoon in the fall of 2021, when I gathered with a group of fellow Sig Eps to toast the memory of a brother who had died in a freak accident a couple of weeks before. And the night I took my girlfriend there a few weeks
after that, because she wanted to see all my college haunts. Those and more rolled around in my head like half-empty Bud bottles in the bottom of a trash can. Friday night was one of those perfect mid-spring evenings, and the combination really took me back.
I feel like at my age, about a month away from 47 and feeling increasingly baffled at how the present has become the way it is, nostalgia is best avoided, because 46 is too old to be crying at the Pub, but if it happened, I reminded myself, it wouldn’t be the first time. And as I pondered that, pushing down memories as if they were peeling strips of wallpaper, I started to tear up.
Thinking about Matt V is what did it, and if he were here, he’d call me a pussy, and I’d tell him that was uppity from someone who liked Erasure as much as he did. I’m sitting there, trying not to cry about my dead friend, Alice in Chains’ “Down in a Hole” started playing, then Pink
Floyd’s “Brick in the Wall,” then “It’s Been Awhile” by Stain’d, and on down a playlist of things I probably heard on the jukebox in 2001. I got up to leave, because I was getting too sad.
The Pub, as anyone who went there will tell you, was a TCU staple. “Shithoused since ’81,” reads its famous T-shirt. Buffalo Bros is not too far from their 20th anniversary, so I suppose they’ll have their own legacy-noting shirt as well. I thought about that while sitting across the street from Jon’s Grill, the Berry Street traffic whizzing by, the Stars game deep within the restaurant yet clearly visible on its enormous TVs. It’s not that the TCU area is no longer recognizable, because a lot of the buildings are mostly unchanged, even if their tenants have. But even the tenant turnover is not so much unrecognizable as it is shifted — after all, Jon’s Grille used to be on the same block as the Pub until relatively recently. People I graduated with have kids in college now, also. I texted a couple of those people. We all felt varying degrees of old and sad. But that’s what happens. The world moves on. Kids grow up, go to college, drink cheap beer at a dive bar for a couple of formative years before they get jobs, get married, and have kids, who grow up, go to college, and if they’re lucky, get to go to the same bar their parents got drunk at in the days before they got jobs, got married, and so on. Maybe one of the people in that cycle is you. If it is, I hope you get to grab one more beer at the Pub before it’s gone. l
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White Hot
With a new album and their first road trip booked, psychedelic punks Labels are ready to scorch the earth.
BY STEVE STEWARD
I didn’t ask why Labels wanted to meet in the food court of Northeast Mall for this interview until after I showed up, but in its aftermath, I thought a lot about the setting’s steady flow of sensory noise. The ambient conversations and foot traffic reverberating off the ceiling; the insistent, enthusiastic glare of the food-court tenants’ backlit signs; the olfactory tangle of a dozen international cuisines — the sum of all that is highly overstimulating, but it’s sort of a time-release sensory overload, the kind you think about later and pick out details piece-by-piece like burrs from a sock. Labels’ blend of hardcore punk and garage-rock psychedelia hits like this — in the moment, its barrage on your brain doesn’t feel overwhelming. It’s only later, when you pick out this guitar lick, or that drum fill, or the repetition of a particular hook that feels genuinely galvanizing, that your brain sits up and says, What the fuck was that?
Labels, formed by identical twin brothers Braden (vocals/guitar) and Taylor Burgan (drums) in 2019 when they were still in high school, recently released their third album. Called White Hot and self-produced like their previous releases (2022’s Brain Fragments and
2024’s Moral Laws), the album is the first to feature a finally solidified lineup, after years of trying to find both a regular bassist and a singer who shared the brothers’ drive to make the band a top priority. Now, with frontman Tyler Waller and bassist/backing vocalist Matt Frandsen on board, Labels are roaring with all engines lit.
Waller, who was once part of a rap group called Mob Mentality, met the Burgan brothers while they all worked together at a huge grocery store chain — he helped the band get their very first show. Frandsen, who plays guitar in Denton-based psychrock band Divine Calypso, got to know them from playing shows together, and he was stoked to join on bass when that spot opened up. Seeing them off-stage, at a mall, beneath the triangulated smells of Sbarro, K-Dog, and Master Wok, it was obvious to me that the Burgans and Waller and Frandsen have quickly tuned into that musical telepathy common to really great bands. But they talk over the phone a lot, too, and this also feels central to the fire scorching through White Hot’s 10 tracks.
“We talk on the phone all day long,” Braden said. “We have our earbuds in, and we have long hair, so it looks like we’re just walking around work talking to ourselves.”
“People be like, ‘Are they talking to each other?’ ” Taylor added.
“They’re also talking to me, though,” said Waller, who drives a delivery truck for continued on page 18
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(From left to right) Braden Burgan, Tyler Waller, Taylor Burgan, and Matt Frandsen did not intend to make a “political” record, but here we are.
Labels has always put on a good show, but White Hot has dialed their live-band intensity into explosive territory.
he sounds like a person who’s about to throw a brick — maybe metaphorical, more likely not — at an oppressive entity.
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work, and he said the three of them and Frandsen pretty much bounce ideas off one another all day long in between stocking shelves and dropping off packages, working out ideas for song arrangements and brainstorming places to play. That constant communication is key to a shared goal: Making music is what the dudes in Labels want to do.
White Hot came to be after a studio session with engineer Joe Tacke at his Cloudland Recordings on the Near Southside. While in the studio, their former bassist allegedly decided to alter some arrangements on the fly, which, given the finite time their limited budget allowed, was counterproductive to finishing the tracks as the musicians had written and practiced them.
While the band liked the experience overall and while one track from the session with Tacke — “Silver Serpent Tongue” — made it onto the final album, they ended up doing everything at home like before.
“The studio is fun,” Waller said, “but you’re just there on the clock.”
“Yeah, and that was also kind of stressful,” Taylor added. “We got to do as much as we can in one day, but it is a good experience on how it works. I want to do it again.”
A DIY approach is kind of Labels’ aesthetic, as much as the sudden time-signature left-turns and the compressed fuzz on the guitar leads. But even if their approach to recording remains the same, their sound has evolved from Moral Laws. Of that album’s lyrics, Braden told me, “We’re nice people. We just want to promote the positive, y’know?” And while they remain nice people, the world has wormed its way into Labels’ lyrics this time around. It’s less vibey, more angsty — Waller’s shouted vocals hit all over the spectrum of rage. Sometimes he sounds at his wit’s end, like a person trying to get answers in a maze of passed-off calls and interminable hold times. Other times,
“Punk is my shit,” Waller said. “The last album had lots of punk it in it, but this album kind of goes harder. … When we started writing the lyrics, the songs got a little bit more political than we thought when they started to come together.”
Frandsen, who came aboard after they elected to make the record at home, said he joined “at the perfect time because I’m uber-political, so they kind of started working on this album that [wasn’t specifically a political album] but had a lot of political themes.”
I recalled that he made some pointedly political remarks at a show at the Boiled Owl Tavern the previous Saturday, and we all chatted in a shake-my-damn-head sort of way about what Frandsen described as America’s “descent into fascism” and “just the absolute insanity” of our government.
“And then Trump got elected,” he continued, “and it was like, ‘OK, perfect. Now we really have something to write about.’ ”
“I mean, we have a song called ‘Devastation of Our America,’ ” Braden said, “so [our political beliefs] are just pretty obvious in that.”
At that show at the Owl, the band played White Hot start to finish, and what I noticed is that these new songs, through the virtues of their subject matter and the brain-sizzling power of their riffs, kind of … I dunno … it’s like they’re letting the band go bigger, be louder, play faster. Labels has always put on a good show, but White Hot has dialed their live-band intensity into explosive territory.
They’ve booked their first multi-city Texas tour for August, joining Divine Calypso and Tacke’s band, Mean Motor Scooter, on a run from Fort Worth to Austin and San Antonio. Labels also have created what Braden calls a “DIY record label-type thing called Twin Reverse” that’s mostly a social media channel to promote Labels and other bands they like and share the stage with. No matter where they play (they’re back at the Owl on Sat, May 24), White Hot is sure to leave burn marks everywhere its songs land. Maybe one day those songs will float out of a food court’s PA, but until then, the band wants to reach every pair of ears they can, one blistering performance after another. l
What may appear to be slow or static is actually moving. The developing changes are imperceptible from day to day, but incrementally substantial. So please maintain your faith in the diligent, determined approach. Give yourself pep talks that renew your deeply felt motivation. Ignore the judgments and criticism of people who have no inkling of how hard you have been working. In the long run, you will prove that gradual progress can be the most enduring.
TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20)
The most successful people aren’t those who merely follow their passion, but those who follow their curiosity. Honoring the guidance of our passions motivates us, but it can also narrow our focus. Heeding the call of our curiosity emboldens our adaptability, exploration, and maximum openness to new possibilities. In that spirit, Taurus, I invite you to celebrate your yearning to know and discover. Instead of aching for total clarity about your life’s mission, investigate the subtle threads of what piques your curiosity. Experiment with being an intrigued adventurer.
GEMINI (May 21-Jun 20)
Gemini author Huston Smith was a religious scholar who wrote 13 books. But he was dedicated to experiencing religions from the inside rather than simply studying them academically. Smith danced with Whirling Dervishes, practiced Zen meditation with a master, and ingested peyote with Native Americans, embodying his view that real understanding requires participation, not just observation. In the spirit of his disciplined devotion, I invite you to seek out opportunities to learn through experience as much as theory. Leave your safety zone, if necessary, to engage with unfamiliar experiences that expand your soul. Be inspired by how Smith immersed himself in wisdom that couldn’t come from books alone.
CANCERIAN (Jun 21-Jul 22)
More than 2,000 years ago, people living in what’s now the Peruvian desert began etching huge designs of animals and plants in the earth. The makers moved a lot of dirt! Here’s the mystery: Some of the gigantic images of birds, spiders, and other creatures are still visible today, but can only be deciphered from high above. And there were, of course, no airplanes in ancient times to aid in depicting the figures. Let’s use this as a metaphor for one of your upcoming tasks, Cancerian. I invite you to initiate or intensify work on a labor of love that will motivate you to survey your life from the vantage point of a bird or plane or mountaintop.
LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22)
You now have extra power to detect previously veiled patterns and hidden agendas. That’s why I urge you to be alert for zesty revelations that may seem to arrive out of nowhere. They could even arise from situations you have assumed were thoroughly explored and understood. These are blessings, in my opinion. You should expect and welcome the full emergence of truths that have been ripening below the surface of your awareness. Even if they are initially surprising or daunting, you will ultimately be glad they have finally appeared.
VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22)
Renowned Virgo author Nassim Nicholas Taleb has called for the discontinuation of the Nobel Prize in Economics. He says it rewards economists who express bad ideas that cause
great damage. He also delivers ringing critiques of other economists widely regarded as top luminaries. Taleb has a lot of credibility. His book The Black Swan was named one of the most influential books since World War II. I propose we make him your inspirational role model for now, Virgo. May he incite you to question authority to the max. May he rouse you to bypass so-called experts, alleged mavens, and supposed wizards. Be your own masterful authority.
LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 22)
I predict that your usual mental agility will be even more robust than usual in the coming weeks. Although this could possibly lead you to overthink everything, I don’t believe that’s what will happen. Instead, I suspect your extra cognitive flexibility will be highly practical and useful. It will enable you to approach problems from multiple angles simultaneously—and come up with hybrid solutions that are quite ingenious. A possibility that initially seems improbable may become feasible when you reconfigure its elements. PS: Your natural curiosity will serve you best when directed toward making connections between seemingly unrelated people and fields.
SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 21)
You’re ready to go to the next evolutionary stage of a close alliance. Although you may not feel entirely prepared for the challenge, I believe you will be guided by your deeper wisdom to do what’s necessary. One way I can help is to provide exhilarating words that boost your daring spirit. With that in mind, I offer you a passage from poet William Blake. Say them to your special friend if that feels right, or find other words appropriate to your style. Blake wrote, “You are the fierce angel that carves my soul into brightness, the eternal fire that burns away my dross. You are the golden thread spun by the hand of heaven, weaving me into the fabric of infinite delight. Your love is a furnace of stars, a vision that consumes my mortal sight, leaving me radiant and undone. In your embrace, I find the gates of paradise thrown wide.”
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21)
In ancient Egypt, mirrors were composed of polished copper. To remain properly reflective, they required continual maintenance. Let’s take that as a metaphor for one of your key tasks in the coming weeks. It’s high time to do creative upkeep on your relationships with influences that provide you with feedback on how you’re doing. Are your intended effects pretty close to your actual effects? Does your self-image match the way you are perceived by others? Are you getting the right kind of input to help you stay on course?
CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19)
Chances to initiate creative transformations will come from unexpected sources in the coming days. I guarantee it. But will you be sufficiently receptive to take maximum advantage? The purpose of this horoscope is to nudge you to shed your expectations so you will be tenderly, curiously open to surprising help and inspiration. What sweet interruptions and graceful detours will flow your way if you are willing to depart from your usual script? I predict that your leadership qualities will generate the greatest good for all concerned if you are willing to relinquish full control and be flexibly eager to entertain intuitive breakthroughs.
AQUARIUS (Jan 20- Feb 18)
For many Indigenous people of California, acorns were part of every meal. Nuts from oak trees were used to create bread, soups, dumplings, pancakes, gravy, and porridge. But making them edible required strenuous work. In their natural state, they taste bitter and require multiple soakings to leach out the astringent ingredient. Is there a metaphorical equivalent for you, Aquarius? An element that can be important, but needs a lot of work, refinement, and preparation? If so, now is a good time to develop new approaches to making it fully available.
PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20)
When Pisces-born Jane Hirshfield was a young poet, she mostly stopped writing poetry for eight years. During that time, she was a full-time student of Zen Buddhism and lived for three years at a monastery. When she resumed her craft, it was infused with what she had learned. Her meditative practice had honed her observational skills, her appreciation of the rich details of daily life, and her understanding that silence could be a form of communication. In the spirit of the wealth she gathered from stillness, calm, and discipline, I invite you to enjoy your own spiritual sabbatical, dear Pisces. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to relax into the most intriguing mysteries.
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Frontman Tyler Waller (far left): “Punk is my shit. The last album had lots of punk it in it, but this album kind of goes harder.”
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THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF BRAZOS
TO ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS IN THE ESTATE OF Bennie G Arevalo, Jr, Deceased Cause No. 18751-PC, County Court At Law #1, Brazos County, Texas.
Abel Arevalo filed in the County Court At Law #1, of Brazos County, Texas on this the on this the 24th day of October, 2022 an Application to Determine Heirship Within Administration of said estate and request that the said Court determine who are the heirs and only heirs of said Bennie G Arevalo, Jr and their respective shares and interest in such estate. Said application will be heard and acted on by said Court after 10:00 o’clock a.m. on the first Monday next after the expiration of ten days from date of publication of this citation at the County Courthouse in Bryan, Texas.
All persons interested in said estate are hereby cited to appear before said Honorable County Court At Law #1, at said above mentioned time and place by filing a written answer contesting such application should they desire to do so.
If this citation is not served within 90 days after the date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF SAID COURT, at office in Bryan, Texas, 5th day of May, 2025
