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METROPOLIS Out near Weatherford, fracking trucks are kicking up dirt again.

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EATS Maggie’s R&R doesn’t get it all right but does more than enough to satisfy a hankering for outdoor dining.

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STUFF This week’s Super Bowl pits the greatest against the greatest of all time.

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MUSIC Johndavid Bartlett and Acid Carousel aim to reinvent psychedelic rock.

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STAFF Anthony Mariani, Editor

Betrayed

Lee Newquist, Publisher

In “accepting” the Race and Culture Task Force’s recommendations, the city merely acknowledged them. Not good.

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Bob Niehoff, General Manager Ryan Burger, Art Director Jim Erickson, Circulation Director Edward Brown, Staff Writer Taylor Provost, Proofreader

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Dragging It Out

Julie Strehl, Account Executive

Fort Worth’s most popular drag show will be hitting the small screen soon.

Because when you really think about it, the Super Bowl could be the passing of the torch.

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In early January, the rumblings of 18-wheelers brought back memories that Bobby Pickard would prefer to forget. A decade ago, the multinational gas company EnCana agreed to a truce of sorts. Instead of sending semitrucks within feet of Pickard’s property — the vehicles kicking up fine dust, dirtying the air, and damaging nearby roads — EnCana leaders diverted their water-laden trucks down nearby 4500 White Settlement Rd., which is devoid of residences. At the time, it was an all-too-rare victory against Big Oil (“Trail Dust,” Nov. 2008). That informal deal appears to be off.

On a recent frigid morning, Pickard pointed east and down his fence line toward a long stretch of dirt road.

“They usually send the first round of trucks around 9:30 a.m.,” he said. “To access this road, they have to drive past school buses and children. It looks so outrageous.”

The roads that lead to the dirt road, as he showed me later that morning, are also used by the residents of Chisholm Heights.

Pickard said the massive trucks, which can

Static Unacceptable Leadership

A 2018 ploy by city leadership is motivating reform-minded locals to try to vote in an entirely new city council and mayor in May. Two years ago, Mayor Betsy Price and city councilmembers appeared to listen intently to dozens of outspoken locals as city leaders voted to accept 22 recommendations by the Race and Culture Task Force, a group of citizens formed by city councilmembers in 2017 in response to public uproar following the heavy-handed arrest of a Black mother and her two daughters in 2016 (“Settling for Less,” April 2017).

As we chatted near the fence line, a lone 18-wheeler labored down the dusty road on the Beggs Ranch. Pickard said it is only a matter of time before the traffic picks up.

At the time, local media (the Weekly included) described the vote as “adopting” the recommendations. While the broader narrative peddled by the mayor and other leaders gave the appearance that substantial social and economic reforms were being considered, the city’s legal team crafted the resolution’s language to merely “accept” the report findings. For lawyers, accepting means that one party acknowledges that it has received something. Nothing more.

Now, one of the most important and far-reaching recommendations by the task force is being ignored. Task force members recommended that the city create an independent redistricting committee to ensure that councilmembers do not redraw district maps to serve, ya know, themselves (“City Officials Backpedaling on Promises?” Jan 28). Fort

Worth will add two new city councilmembers and two new districts in 2023.

City staff are using a council-appointed redistricting task force that will give final redistricting guideline recommendations in March.

“By wording the resolution the way that they did, city council absolved themselves and the city of any responsibility to deliver upon or fulfill the recommendations,” recently posted a leader with the grassroots group United Fort Worth.

The city’s wordsmithing should be seen for what it is — an effort to mislead the public and to prevent the types of reforms that are long overdue in Fort Worth. City council unanimously voted in favor of “accepting” the recommendations, and many are looking to boot the current city council on May 1 at the ballot box.

As we chatted near the fence line, a lone 18-wheeler labored down the dusty road on the Beggs Ranch. Pickard said it is only a matter of time before the traffic picks up. The truck drivers are being told to drive slowly to minimize noise, Pickard said, but that doesn’t change the safety and privacy concerns he and many neighbors share. Days of rain have prevented the dust plumes that typically follow the large trucks and linger in the air for hours at a time. Backyards that typically offer privacy have had to be abandoned to avoid the gawking eyes of truck drivers, Kelly said.

The neighbors said they aren’t progovernment regulations and they aren’t anti-oil and gas. The incursions by EnCana and, more recently, Bedrock Productions have forced the neighborhood residents to protect their livelihoods, Pickard said. There are several alternative routes to reach the gas wells that do not jeopardize the health and well-being of families, the two residents said.

“We live in unincorporated land, so that’s why we have to fight our own battles,” Pickard said. “They do whatever they want to because they can. Back 10 years ago, we embarrassed them into doing the right thing, and that’s what we have to do again.” l

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oil companies often employ a small army of well-seasoned lawyers. Kelly and Pickard plan to replicate the same playbook that brought them a 10-year respite from EnCana. Kelly said she plans to reactivate a community blog (BarnettShaleLife. blogspot.com) to document the new traffic.

Community involvement is key, she said. Beyond connecting with affected neighbors, Kelly plans to contact the county sheriff, commissioners, and State Rep. Phil King, whose House District 61 covers much of Parker County. Elected officials were largely sympathetic to the plight of Chisholm Heights residents 10 years ago, and Kelly believes those leaders will come to their aid once again.

The Texas Legislature is preparing for its biannual gathering in Austin, and Pickard and King see another opportunity to advocate for legislation that protects homeowners from the trafficking of frac water (the toxic sludge that results from hydraulic fracturing) near homes. In 2009, a bill authored by King (HB3403) aimed to protect homeowners on unincorporated lands from drive-throughs by oil and gas vehicles. The bill did not pass. Kelly hopes similar legislation will be considered during the 2021 Texas legislative session.

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Bobby Pickard (left): “They do whatever they want to because they can.”

Two years ago, Mayor Betsy Price and city councilmembers appeared to listen intently to dozens of outspoken locals as city leaders voted to accept 22 recommendations by the Race and Culture Task Force.

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After a 10-year break, 18-wheelers are once again servicing natural gas wells and causing headaches for residents in Chisholm Heights.

weigh 80,000 pounds when laden with water, are slowly destroying the residential streets. Pickard said he enjoys the relative peace and quiet of living on the unincorporated land just northeast of Weatherford, but those freedoms also mean that road repairs would come from the pockets of nearby residents, not the oil company.

A sign near the entrance of the dirt road that leads behind Pickard’s home and several other houses reads, “Bedrock Production, LLC, Beggs Lease.” Pickard believes that the Houston-based oil company recently took over ownership of the wells from EnCana. The fact that the trucks changed delivery routes 10 years to the day suggests that Bedrock Production did not want to renew the contract that allowed the trucks to access the well sites via 4500 White Settlement Rd. Bedrock Production did not reply to any requests for information. Through its website, Bedrock Production says it is focused on “acquiring and enhancing mature oil and gas properties.”

Pickard’s neighbor Lisa Kelly said she has a plan to battle the most recent intrusion by an oil and gas company — public shaming. Fighting these companies in court rarely works, she said, because

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A local drag show with national ambitions is preparing to hit the small screen.

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Over the past five years, the fan base for drag has grown significantly in Fort Worth.

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Letha Jecktion gave energetic performances that evening.

Bursting out from behind the back curtain came a tallish, thin, white dancer wearing a white leotard and a white scarf made with faux features. Lady Monroe’s movements were in lockstep with the upbeat dance music as the audience hooted and hollered. Dollar bills flew through the air at times, and a handful of audience members braved the dance floor to bust moves alongside the drag performers.

Dancers Bronx Davenport and Letha Jecktion also gave energetic performances.

Each entertainer returned transformed via an entirely different costume and matching persona. By the end of the hourlong session, the dancers had worked the crowd into an ecstatic frenzy.

The name of this weekly show is My Oh My, and it is preparing to reach national audiences following a live recorded session on Sunday, Feb. 21, at The Haltom (5601 E. Belknap St., Haltom City, 682-250-5678). The nearly six-yearold event that runs every Saturday evening at Red Goose Saloon downtown is slated to appear on Channel 21 at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday mornings. Two TV stations outside of the North Texas market have expressed interest in running the program, and a national syndicator of shows has expressed interest in having the series broadcasted nationwide, said Robert Burke, the concept’s founder.

The plan is to film every six weeks.

Each recording should have enough material for three to four 30-minute episodes, Burke said, and each televised show will have a new cast of performers.

“There is so much talent here in Texas,” he said. “We haven’t had to look outside of Texas for our show.”

Burke, who grew up and lives in Fort Worth, said he wants to grow My Oh My while keeping it local. Over the past five years, the fan base for drag has grown significantly, he said. Whereas the majority of My Oh My attendees were first-timers to the gender-bending performances when

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back that did not conceal his rear end. The crowd of largely twentysomethings went crazy.

Mikyles was hilarious as a host that evening. It didn’t take long for him to zero in on two women who were each having their bachelorette party.

“Two bachelorette parties tonight?” he said. “No pressure. I need a Fireball shot. Who is ready to see some more drag?

Let’s hear it for Miss Lady Monroe.”

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Who’s ready to have a fun night?”

Robert Burke asked the cheering crowd. “Our emcee for tonight, Mr. Patrick Mikyles!”

As “Purple Rain” blared through nearby speakers, Mikyles, draped in a glittering purple cape, lip-synched to the Prince hit while strolling around the main stage. Mikyles waited for the downbeat of the chorus to drop the cape and reveal a skintight purple outfit with a see-through

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the series launched, around half of fans are now repeat customers, Burke said.

Burke never set out to be a mover and shaker in the world of drag, although he genuinely enjoys working with the performers and he loves seeing the unbridled laughter and joy the performances bring to audiences.

His first run-in with the gender-bending

entertainment was in 2002 when he bought a nightclub in Las Vegas and needed some kind of act to draw a crowd. The venue’s manager suggested a drag show.

“I had never been to one, but I was open to it,” he recalled.

The risk paid off, Burke said. By the second week, there was a line “out the door.” During conversations with a manager at House of Blues Dallas in 2015, the idea of organizing drag performances

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As “Purple Rain” blared through nearby speakers, Patrick Mikyles, draped in a glittering purple cape, lip-synched to the Prince hit while strolling around the main stage.

Patrick Mikyles was fashionable, funny, and fabulous as the night’s emcee.

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came up. RuPaul’s Drag Race was popular came over and put his arm around me. He at the time and remains so, but Burke said, ‘Once you got started, my employees noticed that most drag shows in Dallas started calling me. “It’s a good crowd,” were held late at night and only in gay bars. they told me. After the fifth one called me, “I thought, ‘There had to be people I had to see what this was about.’ ” who’d love to see these shows who wouldn’t The co-owner left saying that he necessarily go to a gay bar or to stay up that wanted to host the show every month. My late,’ ” he recalled.

Oh My had an eight-month stint at the Over the next five years, Burke Northside bar Cassidy’s before finding its experimented with various dance clubs current home at the Red Goose Saloon in and music venues. The House of Blues’ September 2019. Chris Hutchinson, who late-night events were mildly successful owns the downtown bar, has been very with 30 to 40 people. On supportive of My Oh My Labor Day Weekend that from the beginning, Burke first year, the show packed said. After several months, My Oh My Drag Show out. it was once again selling Extravaganza “I realized the next out every Friday. Then Sun, Feb 21, at The Haltom, 5601 E Belknap St, Haltom day was Labor Day,” came the pandemic.

City. $10-$25. 817-946Burke recalled. “All these The lockdown, Burke 2295. people didn’t have to go said, was a catalyst for to work the next day. heading to TV. It proved there was an “People are afraid to audience for this type of show and that we go out like they used to,” Burke said. The needed to do the shows earlier.”

TV show will allow them to “sit at home In 2016, Burke moved My Oh My to and watch the performances. One of the the Dallas dance club Lizard Lounge. One entertaining things about the My Oh My of the co-owners was skeptical of the show’s show is audience participation. Garth ability to draw a crowd but gave Burke a Brooks can sing on Zoom, and it is still shot. Since the performances would start entertaining. With drag, you need to have at 7 p.m. on a Saturday, the event didn’t that audience reaction.” conflict with the late-night dance crowds In September, Red Goose resumed the venue relied on. hosting the drag performances, although “I’ll never forget that first night,” with a much smaller audience for public Burke recalled. “We packed the place out. health reasons. The current plan is to film I was sitting down, and the same co-owner My Oh My every six weeks. Burke said

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Bronx Davenport put on an athletic and captivating show.

The past year has hit the drag show industry hard, he said, estimating that around half of his performers typically perform drag full-time. The return of My Oh My means that some of those dancers can go back to making a living at what they truly love and train hard to do, he said.

Drag performers are, at their core, entertainers, Burke said. “They bust their butt to entertain the audience.”

The year and a half of shows at the Red Goose is paying off, he added. Having My Oh My filmed in his hometown has personal meaning to Burke.

“I want to do the show in Fort Worth,” he said. “I’m from Fort Worth. I love Fort Worth. I want it to be based here and to make this city our home.” l

Monroe Chesser burst out from behind the back curtain wearing a white leotard and a white scarf made with faux features.

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that fans of the live events and upcoming televised series can expect a “cleaner show” than a typical event. Yes, off-color jokes and sexual innuendo abound at the weekly performances, but grandmothers and children regularly attend and do so comfortably, Burke said. And it’s not just the fans who have made My Oh My a success, he added.

“The performers love to do our show,” he said. “Most of them typically do their shows at gay clubs. They are going there and competing with the bar. They are competing with the pool tables. A lot of people are there for other reasons than seeing the drag shows. The people who attend My Oh My are there for one reason — to watch a drag show.”

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NIGHT&DAY Akhnaten at The Met will be at the Drive-In.

In collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, the Fort Thursday Worth Opera presents Midnight Film Fest: The Met in HD at Coyote Drive-In (223 NE 4th St, 817-717-7767). From 7pm to 10pm, see Akhnaten with countertenor Anthony Roth Costanza as the eponymous ancient Egyptian Pharaoh and mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges as Nefertiti. Then, on Thu, Feb 11, see La Boheme, and on Thu, Feb 18, it’s Daughter of the Regiment. Tickets are $35 per car for one film, $60 for two, or $75 for three at FWOpera.org/ Moonlight-Film-Fest.

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Not that I need an excuse to go to Grease Monkey Burgers (200 N Mesquite Friday St, Arlington, 817-6655454) — they have a Swiss mushroom burger that is insanely good — but there’s live music happening in their dining room/bar area every weekend.

From 8pm to 11pm, singer-songwriter Zach Coffey will perform his particular

brand of country soul. You can hear song samples at ZachCoffey.com/Music.

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The appropriately named One Love Lounge (2315 S Cooper St, Arlington, Saturday 682-323-4950) suggests that we get together and a-feel alright for its annual Bob Marley’s Birthday Celebration from 9pm to 2am with music by DJ Mike Kiss. This event is free to attend if you arrive before 10pm.

The on-site restaurant opens at 4pm serving Caribbean cuisine, including cutters (apps), salads, wings, wraps, and entrees.

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If you are into cars, cigars, and shopping for sporting goods, I know Sunday just the place for you to watch the Big Game today. The newly minted Cars & Cigars Magazine — hitting stands by Father’s Day — is hosting a car meet/Super Bowl watching party at Cabela’s Fort Worth (12901 Cabela Dr, 817-337-2400), benefiting the Tarrant

Area Food Bank. The car meet starts at 10am. The watching party with football squares, food trucks, and drink specials begins at 1pm. There is no cost to attend, but a nonperishable food item donation is appreciated.

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Today is as good a day as any to help the animals and test your Monday luck. Thru Wed, Mar 31, Roger Williams Chrysler Dodge Jeep (1102 Washington Dr, Weatherford, 817596-0050) is sponsoring a sweepstake benefitting Fossil Rim Wildlife Center (2299 CR 2008, Glen Rose, 254-897-2960).

At a drawing to be held on Mon, Apr 5, one winner will receive a 2021 Jeep Wrangler Sport 4x4. Sweepstakes tickets are $25 for 25 entries at FossilRim.org/Jeep.

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From 6pm to 7pm — and monthly on select Tue dates — join the Tuesday Jordan Elizabeth Harris Foundation for a free virtual training course called Let’s TACO ’bout QPR,

a simple, three-step method of suicide prevention in which you Question, Persuade, and Refer an individual at risk for suicide. In this class, you will learn to recognize warning signs, offer hope, and get the person help. To attend, go to Zoom. us, click “join a meeting,” enter 338-2803013, and join. For future dates and more info, go to JordanHarrisFoundation.org. #TacoTuesdays

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At 6pm, Messina Hof Winery (201 S Main St, 817-442Wednesday Grapevine, 8463) hosts a Color Hype Acrylic Pouring class in which you will learn how to mix paint with pouring mediums and then create a flip cup or do a painting on one canvas or upgrade to two. Tickets start at $38 per person at CampsCUI.Active.com/orgs/ColorHype.

You will also be able to purchase appetizers on-site, including your choice of bruschetta, hummus, or a three-cheese board.

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Will the Chiefs beat the Buccaneers? Who knows. Neither team has an animal mascot — my usual go-to in football pots because “I want the animals to win” — and my good friend Bruce Corbitt isn’t here to advise me (#CancerSucks). What I do know is this: It’s hard to beat a Reagan.

My love for the hit television drama Blue Bloods is a recent development.

During the pandemic’s early days, I started binge-watching it from Season 1 via Hulu when we all worked from home. The fictional Reagan family headed by the police commissioner (Tom Selleck) includes his children, who are a district attorney, a beat cop, and a detective, plus Grandpa, who also retired from the force.

Beyond the scope of a typical procedural cop show, Blue Bloods covers every level of the rank-and-file police work through a cop family’s eyes. Professional and personal problems are solved around the dinner table at the weekly Reagan Sunday supper.

Blue Bloods is a nice mix of gritty and warm and fuzzy. It was just what I needed during lockdown. In a matter of only months, I managed to watch every episode from Season 1 through the end of Season 9, when — spoiler alert — the youngest Reagan son marries his partner because, of course, he married someone on the job.

Fast-forward to now.

Somehow, I have not kept up with Blue Bloods on primetime television. Once my schedule was somewhat normalized, I’d occasionally check for more Hulu seasons but to no avail. I recently figured out why that is. CBC is streaming it on their platform now.

What does this have to do with football?

The actress who plays Erin Reagan — the district attorney — is Tom Brady’s ex-girlfriend. The two of them are amicably co-parenting a 13-year-old son (the “kiddo” he famously hugged), so it was no surprise to me when Bridget Moynahan took to Twitter and had this to say to Brady about the division title that has taken him to the Super Bowl: “Could not be more proud. @TomBrady said he would do it, and he did. Congratulations, @buccaneers.”

This show of unity is what the world needs right now, so unless I decide to binge-watch Season 10 of Blue Bloods — and the available episodes of the current season — all weekend, I’ll be watching the Big Game on Sunday and rooting for the Buccaneers. As I said, it’s hard to beat a Reagan.

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December 6, 2020--March 14, 2021 The exhibition is organized by the Museo Egizio, Turin, and StArt, in collaboration with the Kimbell Art Museum.

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It’s a fun thought experiment and a source for many a “friendly” debate among sports fans to ponder what it would be like if cross-generational greats could go head to head. What would happen if Jordan went up against LeBron with an NBA title on the line? Who would come out on top if Gretzky faced off against Sidney Crosby for the chance to hoist Lord Stanley’s Cup? It’s the type of unknowable hypothetical that gins excessive pride in one’s favorites and leads to inexorable arguments. In other words, it’s just the type of blowhard controversy that is the very lifeblood of sports fandom. It is also, for maybe the first time ever, exactly what football fans are in store for this Sunday when the

frustratingly ageless Tom Brady leads the Tampa Bay Buccaneers against superstar Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV. (That’s 55 for those who prefer Arabic numerals.)

As much as it pains me (and the 95% of the country not located in the Northeast where they drop their Rs or currently residing in the center of the Floridian peninsula) to admit, Tom Brady is the single greatest football player of all time.

This isn’t intended as an intro to our own sports debate, inviting rebuttals extolling the achievements of the Peyton Mannings and Jerry Rices of the world. Believe me, being put in a position to defend TB12 leaves a sour feeling in my stomach. From his sideline crybaby antics, insufferable magazine ads, remarkable Peter Pan-like immortality, the supermodel wife, and the hundreds of millions in the bank account (not to mention his Trumpian political

leanings), he’s the classic some-guys-haveit-all-and-love-to-flaunt-it scenario. And we mere average mortals absolutely hate it. It also pains me personally that he’s the only current player in the entire NFL who is still older than me. He still basically looks exactly like he did when he first took a snap back in 2001, while I have basically turned into a sad caricature of my father.

Yet, despite all the well-deserved shade, it’s still a simple fact that he is the GOAT. This will be Brady’s 10th Super Bowl.

If you’re keeping count, that’s at least twice as many as 27 NFL teams have competed in in their entire histories. Brady has taken a trip to the Big Game™ in nearly half of the seasons he’s played in the league! He has even largely put to bed the debate about who deserves the credit for the Patriots dynasty, him or Belichick. By basically throwing a dart at a poster of NFL helmets, hitting the Bucs, and saying, “Well, I hope

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Expect a good game Sunday when the greatest ever and the greatest square off in Super Bowl LV.

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This year’s NFL championship matchup pins the league’s current best player against its greatest player ever.

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Super Bowl LV: The GOAT vs. the Kid

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those guys want to go to the Super Bowl,” Tommy Boy has proven he was at least partially responsible for those six rings.

The way he went off this year over the last month of the regular season with a 4-0 record, 12 TDs and only one pick, and with an average QBR of 126.9, he is showing he doesn’t just look like he did two decades ago. He can still play like it, too.

The only solace the Brady haters can take is that he’s lost three of those Super Bowls, which puts him tied for second all-time behind the had-to-be-cursed Jim Kelly, who lost four.

Across from Big Bad Brady on Sunday, heading into his second straight championship game, is the potential heir to the TB legacy in Patrick Mahomes.

While No. 12 has dominated the league for the last 15-plus years, Mahomes looks like he’ll be the one to dominate it for the next 15. Accuracy, mobility, improvisation, a canon for an arm — Mahomes has it all.

He’s incredibly fun to watch. While Brady is the stoic Master Splinter of efficiency, Mahomes is the Michelangelo of just letting it fly and having fun along the way.

Added to that, he has a generally humble demeanor (likely the result of growing up with a Kermit the Frog voice), and he’s easy to root for. Even when he’s not going against the league’s Darth Vader.

Some see this game as a passing of the torch, and it very well may be. Mahomes is only 25 years old. If there’s any quarterback who could conceivably challenge Brady’s accomplishments when his career is over, Mahomes is the only potential candidate. With the Chiefs loaded as they are on offense and with a much-improved defense, I’m not sure there’s any team that can beat them. Of course, you can never really count out Tommy Ugg Boots.

Even still, give me Kansas City to cover the three-point line. Mahomes wins his second Super Bowl MVP as the Chiefs top the Bucs 34-30. Either way, it should be a good game.

So this Sunday, enjoy the best ever going against the best. It’s not something we’re likely to see again. That is, until next year, when both these guys are back for Super Bowl LVI. l

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Love at Bonnell’s Bonnell’s Fine Texas Cuisine (4259 Bryant Irvin Rd, 817-738-5489) offers curbside meals to go and a special menu for the dining room for Sun, Feb 14. Curbside for two is $135 and includes salad, lobster tail, beef tenderloin filets (with asparagus spears, truffle mashed potatoes, and dinner rolls), and chocolate ganache tart with MELT cherries jubilee ice cream. The three-course dining room meal is $90 per person. It includes a first course of elk tacos or pork belly, a second course of house salad, spinach salad, or lobster bisque, a third course of beef tenderloin filet, duck breast, potato-crusted Tasmanian ocean trout, or a vegetable Wellington, and a tray of miniature desserts. Call for dining room reservations — or order curbside at BonnellsOnline.com.

Get Your Fixture Fixture Kitchen and Social Lounge (401 W Magnolia Av, 817-708-2663) is taking reservations for dining on the evening of Sun, Feb 14, until 9pm, but its Valentine’s menu is available starting Thu, Feb 11, for $39 per person. Outside seating is available on the heated patio. The meal includes a first course of corn and crawfish bisque or a wedge salad, a second course of blackened redfish, creamy lobster pasta, or smoked prime rib, and a third course of salted caramel bread pudding or ultra-rich chocolate cake, plus wine pairings for $20.

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Flying Saucer + Bird = Love Flying Saucer (111 E 3rd St, 817-3367470) is giving love to its former sister concept Bird Cafe this Valentine’s Day

Pop-Up at N2 Vino If you’d like to drink a little wine while you shop for your valentine, then come to the Pop-Up Vendor Craft Show at N2 Vino Handcrafted Winery (3980 Boat Club Rd, Ste 106, Lake Worth, 817-386-2835) 5:30pm-8:30pm Sat. As the place closes at 10pm, there’s no rush to leave after the event. Stay and enjoy your favorite varietal and snack on the sandwiches and cheese trays available for purchase.

Beer and Boutiques at Panther Island On Sat from 2pm to 6pm, grab your favorite gal pals and head to Panther Island Brewing (501 N Main St, 817-882-8121) for Beer, Boutiques & Beauty: A Galentine’s Extravaganza. This event is free to attend, but bring spending money. The brewery will have beer, cider, kombucha, and wine selections available for purchase.

Select pop-up vendors will be on-site for shopping. Crave Medical Spa will be on hand with info about cosmetic injectables and prize giveaways. Food options are available from Firefly Grilling Co.

Table for Two at Rack Attack BBQ Burleson’s newest barbecue spot, Rack Attack BBQ (6620 Storm Cat Ln, Ste 101, 682-4104442), has a deal for two. For $170 per couple, relax and enjoy grilled and smoked dishes, including one salad, an entree, side, and dessert per person on Sun, Feb 14. Menu selections are a house salad, your choice of beef short ribs, grilled lobster tail, baconwrapped filet mignon, or smoked reverseseared ribeye; a side of smoked mashed potatoes or bacon-wrapped asparagus; a mini cheesecake; and smoked raspberry champagne. Reserve a table at Direct.

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Heat lamps! We spent this past summer happily eating outdoors at restaurants, but then when late September hit, we started thinking, “Uh-oh, what do we do when the weather turns cold?” Some restaurants had the foresight to anticipate a winter under this pandemic and ordered outdoor heat lamps, because no meal tastes good when you’re freezing your ass off. I sat underneath some of those heat lamps while I was dining at Maggie’s R&R, which opened this past fall on West Magnolia Avenue, from which it takes its name. As long as the wind wasn’t blowing, or I was sitting at outdoor tables against the building protected by the wind, it was downright comfortable. The food could be described as comfortable, too, if lacking somewhat in distinction.

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certainly not anything that would make a Londoner want to fly over here to try. The Southern chicken BLT put a twist on the grilled chicken sandwich — in this case, the sandwich actually needs the bacon to give back some fat to the otherwise lean breast meat — but it still amounted to no more than an acceptable lunch. The pecan chicken aimed to do the same thing by crusting the cutlet in the crushed nuts. I appreciated the crunch and earthy flavor that they brought to the meat, yet I found myself missing the juiciness of a good chicken-fried chicken. As for the Triple B burger, the curlicues of barbecued brisket and the crunchiness of French-fried onions gave some interesting texture to the traditional bacon cheeseburger without elevating the sandwich to something that made the restaurant worth recommending.

The blah main dishes were upstaged time and again by the sides that came with them. The French fries were done up to a pleasing consistency between crunchy and crispy, and the green beans came out crisptender and shining underneath a patina

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of butter. Best of all were the aligote-like mashed potatoes, infused with enough cheese to give them the stretchiness of melted mozzarella. The seasonal cocktails for the winter included three versions of spiked hot chocolate, and the one I ordered had the decadent boozy twang of a hot cocoa made with eggnog. (The alcohol actually came from RumChata and Skrewball whiskey.) These sides pointed up what was lacking in the entrees.

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The establishment has a quite large outdoor patio space with gravel underfoot for most of the seats, and it’s a perfect space to have your dog sit with you while you confab with members of your party.

It’s also great for watching the big game, as large-screen TVs play sports most of the time. (One exception was the recent night of Georgia runoff elections that determined the U.S. Senate, when the screens featured a running tab of the vote count.) If you’re wondering how the space performs in inclement weather, I went there during a rainy night and found the umbrellas over the bench seats closed up and the diners forced inside (or to the outside tables that were behind a transparent vinyl shower curtain-like drape), so be advised. I think this spot would be best in warmer weather, when one has the leisure to cool off with a beer and watch the pedestrians walk by on the busy thoroughfare.

Ah, if only the entrees were up to scratch. It’s not that any of them were bad.

Rather, they were consistently mediocre.

The fish and chips were decent but

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In 1968, back when Texas’ legendary psych-rock scene was emerging, a young folk musician by the name of Johndavid Bartlett signed a record deal with the Lone Star State’s premier psych-rock label, the Houston-based International Artists. Two labelmates, the 13th Floor Elevators and The Red Krayola, urged the high school student to hit the studio. With help from Krayola mastermind Mayo Thompson, Bartlett went into Golden Star Studio in his birthplace of Houston and began recording his debut album, but the label soon folded, leaving Mother’s Milk in limbo.

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Local indie rockers and hip-hoppers, I’m sorry to say, but you can forget about scoring airplay on any commercial radio station. What’s standing between you and the program directors at the big local stations is a swarm of gatekeepers or “promoters” paid by labels with mucho disposable income to push songs onto the air. And sometimes push them off. As far as we’ve come since Alan Freed first spun “Rocket 88,” we’re still trapped in an oligarchy wherein the haves and havenots not only exist but exist in the same, general, unfair unbalance that we see in everyday life. Wonder why …

Does anyone listen to radio anymore?

Yes. Especially online radio, whose reach has “increased sharply in the last decade,” according to the consumer data company Statista. In 2019, the most recent year for numbers, 67% of the U.S. population listened to online radio like Pandora and iHeartRadio, compared to 27% in 2009.

Does anyone listen to terrestrial radio

anymore? Yep. According to the same research firm, 92% of us listen to AM/FM radio regularly, a number that’s higher than TV viewership (87%) and even smartphone use (81%).

You may not listen to terrestrial radio because you’re a city slicker, but lots of folks in poor areas rely on radio for not only nonstop Eagles songs but news.

Which brings up question No. 3: Does anyone listen to terrestrial music radio anymore? Of course. Zillions. The same way we still pick up newspapers, we still listen to music over the AM/FM bands.

Question 4: Do we listen to terrestrial music radio only while driving?

“No one listens to the radio unless in car,” according to that one radio promoter somewhat exposed in a Rolling Stone article from October. Steve Zap had texted a station to slow down spins for Ed Sheeran and Panic! at the Disco and put Shawn Mendes on “super power for #1.” The previous week, Sheeran’s “I Don’t Care” was No. 1 while Mendes’ “If I Can’t Have You” was 3. Not long after Zap implored the station to spin Mendes’ tune “every 15 min,” Mendes leapfrogged Sheeran to the No. 1 spot.

The Rolling Stone article was followed by lots of handwringing and finger wagging.

Nothing has changed. Welcome to the apex of late-stage capitalism.

Whatever you think of Zap, the guy has a point. Much in the way that landlines no longer exist, I doubt a lot of houses still have boomboxes, a phenomenon that I intend to address single-handedly by purchasing a gently used Panasonic Platinum “powaaah!” via eBay. Why? Because I hate using my laptop to stream KXT. I also miss All Things Considered.

Not driving to and from work has at least one downside apparently.

Of all that handwringing and finger wagging, I can only make sense of a few points. One that generated only down marks on the Popheads subreddit is that quality trumps money. Bear with me a moment. The theory goes like this: Obviously, radio wouldn’t continue playing a crappy song no matter how much money you threw at it. Which is true only because most pop songs sound the same.

A few years ago, the Millennial Whoop was discovered. The Millennial Whoop, as you no doubt remember because you read my column religiously, is the theory

that so many pop songs sound the same because they use the same underlying sequence of chords. Though the keys, arrangements, and styles may be different, the progression is the same, which means that pretty much the only reason Maroon 5 continues receiving airplay and your local band does not — even though the quality of your songs are the same — is that, well, Maroon 5 is Maroon 5, and you’re a local without connections. Or money. But not without hope, I hope. #keepkeepingon The most popular terrestrial radio music format by far is Country with 2,179 individual stations. Talk is second, followed by Adult Contemporary or pop.

As of 2018, the Pew Research Center says, Americans averaged 106 minutes of radio listening time per day, mostly “while commuting.”

I guess Zap was right, though the only commuting I do now is from home to Kroger and back. Spin that Pandora all damn day long, though. #R.E.M.radio #Rushradio #PublicEnemy — Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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at the time working on what would become their last record.

“A few months into March of ’68, we were still making the record, and the Elevators started making their final album, Bull of the Woods,” Bartlett said. “We were making it at the same time in the studio.

I started participating in the recording process. That year was a very strange year, and IA finally folded in ’69, and I never got my album finished.”

Not long after Robby mentioned the idea of recreating Mother’s Milk, Bartlett met with Acid Carousel in Denton. The singer-songwriter and the band clicked immediately, Bartlett recalled.

“The first time we met, I was trying to teach them the songs, and we did it every Monday for about six months, and by the third week, I realized they knew the songs,” Bartlett said. “The suggestions they were making fit right in with the songs. … We tried to make it sound like it did in the late ’60s and ’70s.”

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After 50 years, singersongwriter Johndavid Bartlett takes another crack at recording his debut album.

Bartlett: “I did remember what I was going for and thought that I could recreate the spirit and sound of what … I tried to do back then.”

Along with the band — Gus Baldwin, John Kusmick, and Lucas Magnus Martins — In Your Dreams also features contributions from Ian Salazar, Fielder Whittington III, the Venus Twins, and Jennifer Rux, among others.

The record was produced, engineered, and mixed by Robby and mastered by Matthew Barnhart (Merge Records, Sub Pop, Matador Records) in Chicago.

Building up to the release have been a series of videos, including ones for the tracks “Big Lie,” “City Fires,” “Delphi,” and “Riki Tiki Tavi.”

In Your Dreams starts off heavy with “Big Lie,” a kind of atom bomb with Bartlett blaring into the mic: “You’ll never see it coming / You won’t miss it when it’s gone / I could make the story short / I can make the story long / You think you know the answers / You don’t even have a clue / You never asked the questions / And I’ll tell you what is true / It’s a big lie, loud and confusing / It’s a big lie / You just don’t understand!”

Much like the late ’60s and early ’70s, In Your Dreams is girded by themes of revolution and fixing a broken system.

“The music was lost,” Bartlett said, “and so it’s 50 years later and I had the opportunity to revisit the way that it felt to play that music 50 years ago and through the big ying-yang spirit of age between me and the guys in the band, so it was like reliving that time again, but at the same time it was a creative exercise. I wanted that music the way that I wanted it to sound, then to be what we were going for and we got it” Visit DreamyLifeRecords.bandcamp. com. l

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After a recent conversation with Jennifer and Robby Rux, co-owners of the Fort Worth indie label Dreamy Life Records (Ting Tang Tina, Chillamundo, Sur Duda), the 70-year-old Bartlett agreed to try to reproduce the album, and on Feb. 27, its 2021 iteration, In Your Dreams, will be released. To help him bring to life his long-thought-lost debut, the Ruxes and Bartlett enlisted the help of Dreamy Life Records signees Acid Carousel, a psych-rock outfit out of Austin.

In Your Dreams will be like Mother’s Milk in many ways but different in others.

“Robby asked if I could reproduce Mother’s Milk,” Bartlett said. “I told him that the tapes had been lost, and I only remembered scrapes of lyrics and almost no melodies. I did remember what I was going for and thought that I could recreate the spirit and sound of what [Thompson] and I tried to do back then.”

Part of that inspiration is the Familiar Uglies, a group of about 50 hype people who showed up at a Red Krayola/Bartlett show and just went nuts. All it took was once glance at The Red Krayola and the Familiar Uglies in action for Lelan Rogers, Kenny Rogers’ brother and the founder of International Artists, to sign the band. “He saw all these people freaking out,” Bartlett recalled, “like regular housewives in the middle of a parking lot in this shopping mall freak out, and Lelan said, ‘This is a freak out’ and signed the group on the spot.

They’re a legendary band now. [Thompson] still plays a lot but in other countries.”

Bartlett remembered he had access to so many great musicians when he first began recording Mother’s Milk, including the Elevators, who were in the same studio

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