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In his latest book, Fort Worth’s Mark Nobles brings faces to the infamous characters of early Cowtown.

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STATIC Dave Hickey and Patricia Highsmith were good enough for the world, so why aren’t they good enough for Fort Worth?

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EATS & DRINKS A cheeseburger taco? All that and more are waiting at SoCal’s Jimboy’s on the West Side.

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STUFF MUSIC The blue-collar Bengals take The Grackle Art Gallery will on the flashy Rams Sunday be crackling with avantin Super Bowl LVI — and Tom jazz and collaborative art Brady won’t be playing! this weekend.

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INSIDE 50-Page Apology?

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Outlaws and outliers occupy Mark Nobles’ new novel about early Fort Worth.

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A Brady-less Bonanza No Hot Sauce?

No matter who wins Super Bowl LVI, every non-Bucs/ Pats fan can go home happy.

It’s weird, but you’ll get over it at Jimboy’s Tacos.

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Anthony Mariani, Editor Lee Newquist, Publisher

Take Hold, Thunder Road

In response to a judge’s needlessly spiteful decision, we have a few topic suggestions.

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Though shamelessly in bed with racist conspiracy nuts, local Republican judges have no problem moralizing from the bench.

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It’s election season in Tarrant County, which can only mean one thing — a surge of shameless fear-mongering and baseless assumptions of moral superiority by Republican candidates. Forget the fact that Tarrant’s powers that be are crumbling under the weight of unprecedented lawsuits, federal investigations, waning public trust, and endless blunders on the part of conservative leaders like Sheriff Bill Waybourn, DA Sharen Wilson, and longtime commissioner J.D. Johnson. What matters to Tarrant’s conservative leadership is that the wealthy elite and bigoted voters unite against perceived boogeymen like CRT and books that dare to teach kids that it’s OK not to be white, Protestant, or cisgender.

We say this because last week’s bogus trial of a former justice of the peace is yet another example of a criminal justice system that undermines its credibility by putting the self-serving aims of Tarrant’s good ol’ boy club over public interests.

Jacquelyn Wright has powerful enemies who include current Precinct 4 commissioner J.D. Johnson. In 2018, after she lost her Republican primary reelection bid to Christopher Gregory, Johnson allegedly made it known that he wanted Wright out of office before her term ended at the end of 2018. Tarrant County’s public integrity unit went snooping, as they did recently at the Carroll school distinct, and found that Wright had made a mistake when filing her

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homestead exemption — something that is never prosecuted as a criminal matter in Tarrant County. In early 2021, a county report that cited findings from three companies that specialize in locating fraudulent homestead exemptions estimated that, at any given time, upwards of 37,000 homeowners live in a home with an improper homestead exemption in Tarrant County.

Homestead exemptions allow homeowners to claim a special property tax deduction on their primary residence.

The DA put the full force of its taxpayer-funded resources behind indicting and prosecuting an elderly woman with a chronically sick husband.

Last week, an 11-member jury that was not allowed to hear testimony or see evidence about the political nature of the persecution, er, prosecution of Wright found her guilty on three counts of tampering with a government document. The former JP didn’t tamper with anything. She simply forgot to update her homestead exemption when she moved. Wright is appealing the conviction and requesting to move her case out of Tarrant County and away from further meddling by DA Wilson.

When setting punishment, Judge Daryl Coffey ordered Wright to pen a 50-page apology letter to Coffey within 90 days in addition to serving four years of probation, 10 days of county jail time, and paying a $2,500 fine. She doesn’t have to pay back any money to the county because she paid back what she owed for the outdated homestead exemption — a cool $10,000 — before she knew she was under investigation by the DA. Given the reasons Wright was unjustly targeted by the DA and our first-hand understanding of the cesspool that is Tarrant County politics, we offer the following writing topics for Wright’s consideration.

50 Pages on the Rampant Corruption and Racism of Local Republican Judges We’re not saying that Judge Coffey voted for Donald Trump, but, like a lot of white male Republicans, he almost certainly wants to lick his boots. Tarrant County residents should be horrified that Republican judges who oversee important criminal and civil cases also worship a certifiable nonsense-spewing idiot who has been credibly accused of rape by nearly 30

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50 Shades of Public Corruption

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By going all-in on Trump’s white supremacist movement, Tarrant County judges have forfeited judicial legitimacy in the eyes of many.

women, refused to rent properties to Black tenants, and continues to use his time and resources to further the cause of white supremacy.

To anyone who pays attention, the idea that conservative judges would go all-in for the Cult of Trump makes perfect sense.

Take Republican Judge Patricia Bennett of Tarrant’s 360th Judicial District Court. In 2018, she wrote on Facebook that a Hispanic state representative who had just lost his primary should be able to find a job in the hotel and food service industry, implying that that’s all Hispanics are good for.

Bennett was publicly admonished by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

That’s it. They said, “Bad girl” and let her go about her business. She’s still holding court today.

Hmm … maybe Bennett should repeatedly write “I’m a racist piece of shit” for 50 pages.

Or take Fort Worth Municipal Judge Danny Rodgers, who, according to one 2019 human resources complaint, pines for the good old days when Blacks could be burned alive or hanged in public while hundreds of white Southerners laugh and enjoy picnics while viewing the spectacle.

Rodgers, according to the complaint, told a female Black colleague how great life was back in the good old days when white

people could own Black men and women.

“Judge Rodgers chose to share with me that his family owned a plantation and owned slaves,” the Black colleague wrote in her complaint. “He went on to say that he really loved plantations. His tone and conduct were very condescending, intimidating, and demeaning.”

Nothing was ever done about the complaint, as far as we could tell, and a city spokesperson declined to comment on the matter. Rodgers’ abhorrent behavior is currently under review by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, according to Isaiah X. Smith, a Black activist who filed the complaint on behalf of Rodgers’ Black colleague, who still works alongside the judge.

Judges aren’t the only elected officials who have no problem tying our criminal justice system to known racists.

On Monday, DA Sharen Wilson dispelled any doubt that our local criminal justice system serves the interests of racist bigots. Tim O’Hare, the county commissioner candidate who turned Southlake into a dumpster fire of right-wing paranoia over “Marxist” CRT programs, announced that DA Wilson has officially endorsed him.

“Tim O’Hare would make an outstanding County Judge for Tarrant Coun-

an investigation into Carlton and Moore, when typically most cases that DAs accept come from local police. Government documents that we received via open records requests show that the DA launched its own investigation into Carroll school district without the aid or consent of a local law enforcement agency. Weird, no? l This column reflects the opinions of the editorial board and not necessarily the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly.com. Submissions will be edited for factuality and clarity.

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It would be fitting for Wright to put Coffey’s bullshit writing assignment to good use by researching and documenting the rampant corruption that has characterized Precinct 4 dealings since J.D. Johnson took over nearly 40 years ago (“Betting on the Good Ol’ Boys” Dec 2021).

When you’re on the inside of the good ol’ boy club, things look great. To his supporters and admirers, J.D. could do no wrong, and it’s a safe bet that J.D. thinks his favors and generous spirit make everything all right in the end. It doesn’t. Every time he awarded a contract or did a favor for a political donor, he betrayed the public trust. The county employees who witnessed those acts and did nothing — and there are many of them — are equally culpable.

It is not without irony that, of all places in Tarrant County, Precinct 4 was where government officials allegedly schemed against Wright. J.D. may have shown favoritism when a longtime donor’s business recently benefited from a brand-new road that cost county taxpayers $377,520.87, according to county records we reviewed and conversations with former county employees. Our research is ongoing but suggests that J.D. made a career out of awarding government contracts to political donors and personal friends.

And yet the DA’s public integrity unit is celebrating the conviction of an elderly woman who paid back $10,000 to the county after noticing she misfiled her homestead exemption form. When the hell is J.D. going to pay back the county funds that he misused?

The unprecedented indictment and prosecution of Wright for not updating her homestead exemption, a crime that leaves her with two misdemeanors and one felony on her once-clean record, bears stark similarities to another unprecedented indictment and prosecution — that of Carroll school board members Todd Carlton and Michelle Moore.

Both cases were investigated by the DA’s public integrity unit that is head-

ed by assistant district attorney Lloyd Whelchel. Wright’s time would be well spent educating Judge Coffey about the other bogus prosecution that served the aims of political allies of DA Wilson. On Sep 23, Whelchel authorized a DA investigation into the allegations against the two school board members, and his decision suggests a coordinated effort to serve the aims of Southlake Families, a powerful and well-funded PAC that supports far right-wing candidates, and its alleged founder and current county judge candidate, Tim O’Hare. A Southlake police spokesperson told us they did not request

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50 Pages on Insider Dealings at Precinct 4

50 Pages on How the Public Integrity Unit Served the Racist Interests of Tim O’Hare

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ty,” Wilson said publicly. “I’ve known Tim for years and can attest to his solid work ethic and commitment to servant leadership. He is honest, respectful, and the best choice for conservative fiscal management.

I wholeheartedly endorse Tim for County Judge.”

For Wilson to call O’Hare “honest” is a public admission that our DA has gone all-in for a Republican party that has become untethered to reality. O’Hare’s press releases are packed with bullshit, mostly about his opponent, former Fort Worth mayor Betsy Price, whom O’Hare regularly paints as a card-carrying communist who performs abortions in her spare time.

The company Republican judges keep speaks volumes about the character and values of elected officials who seem to care more about furthering the cause of white supremacy and clinging to power than serving the ethnically and politically diverse community that is Tarrant County.

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Static Memo to the Texas Taliban

I received a message a couple of days ago from a local critic, and it made me smile. it’s a shame no one has not run over you with a truck yet. for being a Texan you sure have a pernicious attitude towards the state. I’ll say what everybody else is thinking MOVE This catchy “Love it or leave it” redux was originally in vogue around the time I was born, and this iteration no doubt emanates from a white man nostalgic for the days when “colored” people, women, and young folks knew their place and when unfortunate young men, in particular — with very little wherewithal or wisdom — “did their duty” without question. And if they didn’t do “their duty,” and they and their sisters, brothers, and mothers took to the streets and protested, mouth-breathing goons cracked their skulls or gunned them down in the streets.

Ergo, what’s new is old, and what’s old is new. Again. And chatty contrarians continue to rumple Rip Van Winkles.

I’m sorry, neighbor, but even with conservative cable news and talk radio girding you for menacing prattle, the good ol’ days are never coming back again (because they weren’t that good), and the good ol’ boys — i.e., the abhorrent golem-esque kakistocracy that you surely helped elect to dominate the Texas state legislature — is eventually going the way of the Dodo.

In the meanwhile, annoying folks like me will remain in Texas and jaywalk every time we get the chance — especially across the asinine byways that you and your ilk created to define and confine the rest of us.

All this, of course, is to say I won’t be leaving Texas or you or “it” alone.

As long as narrow-minded, self-important white men still try to 1.) disenfranchise persons of color, 2.) treat women as their inferiors, 3.) knowingly and willfully squander our natural resources and poison our landand seascapes for profit, and 4.) treat the rest of nature in this state as if it were expendable, sentient Texans will continue to stand up and speak out.

So, if, perchance, you get to feeling like you want to fire up that gas-guzzling King Ranch edition (yes, we know … the one with the dubiously defiant “Come and Take It” decal on the back window) after placing a pinch of Fox News between the ol’ hypothalamus cheek and cerebellum gum, and drive around looking for rational folks to mow down, we won’t be hard to find. We will continue to challenge the powers that be (and the pawns they manipulate), because if they or you were ever on the side of truly equal opportunities for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness or justice for all, you certainly aren’t now.

In the last two election cycles, you knowingly and willfully aligned yourself with a voting bloc that included neo-Nazis, Proud Boys, fascists, white supremacists, chauvinists, science deniers, Russian sympathizers, and treasonous insurrectionists, but instead of being ashamed or feeling aghast, it’s an alignment you’re surprisingly comfortable with.

Your conservative inclinations and associations are obviously your right and, even more so, your privilege, but being comfortable with the state’s diversity, trusting women with their own reproductive decisions, and generally advocating for the rights and privileges of folks who don’t look like you and me, who don’t love like you and me, and who aren’t represented in our government as fairly and beneficially as you and me is my right. And it’s my privilege. And it should be our privilege. And our mission.

So cling to your ignorance, your prejudice, and your

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tendency toward white male exclusivity while you still can, because, to borrow a metaphor (that you’ll probably only half understand) from the good book (that you definitely only half understand), the “Red Sea” in Texas will be parted.

It may not be tomorrow, next month, or later this year. But it’s coming. l Fort Worth native E.R. Bills is the author of Fear and Loathing in the Lone Star State (2021), Texas Oblivion: Mysterious Disappearances, Escapes and Cover-Ups (2021), and The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas (2014).

This column reflects the opinions of the author and not the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly.com.

Columns will be gently edited for factuality and clarity.

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Recently deceased art and culture critic Dave Hickey had a thing or two to say about the art world. Run by a class of people dubbed the “therapeutic institution,” the donors, curators, academics, collectors, and others who infringed on the democratic process defined beauty, he argued in his acclaimed set of essays, The Invisible Dragon. Beauty should instead rest solely in the viewer’s perspective, and everybody should get out of the way. By leaving the interaction solely to the viewer, opinions form, and democracy is indeed in action.

Hickey could have easily described Fort Worth’s therapeutic institution, which decides what is beautiful

was as central to her identity as anger, smoking, bigotry, and Fort Worth.

Highsmith, like Hickey, was messy. Messy does not please the therapeutic institution who willingly forget messiness and flaws are part of the human experience.

They are clear examples that we are a breeding ground for some of the most creative, most intelligent people who were also angry and depressed critics. Those people, however, do not qualify for the Acceptable Certificate because, like Hickey and Highsmith, their flaws were so public that they made the Trinity River look bad.

So, who is acceptable, and what is beautiful? It’s those who also have access to status and class. They include the late twin painters Scott and Stuart Gentling, whose first retrospective recently ended at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. The exhibition was fine — the museum is dedicated to this kind of art — but at the behest of Ed Bass, the Gentlings will also be forever memorialized at the Philip Johnson-designed building. A new research center there bears their name.

While they contributed to our cultural fabric, most notably with their Bass Hall murals, and were popular in social circles, they’re not getting recognized primarily for their art but for being the West Side’s acceptable oddballs. Their works are rendered museum-worthy and beautiful mostly because of their status, not necessarily their talent.

Yet the Gentlings, Hickey, and Highsmith can coexist. They liked Fort Worth. The question is if the ruling class will get out of the way and allow them all to be recognized. l This column reflects the opinions of the author and not the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly.com. Columns will be gently edited for factuality and clarity.

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Dave Hickey and Patricia Highsmith were wildly successful Fort Worthians but messy people — do they deserve to be laid in cultural state?

and, by extension, our collective memory. This smalltown façade is nice. What’s not nice and is messy is the combination of alcohol, drugs, divergent opinions, and, perhaps, intellect. What’s nice is revisionist, such as the fantasies of Sundance Square and the Stockyards, and that’s all too evident in two new books, including one about Hickey and a recent art exhibition about very different Fort Worthians.

Hickey was born and raised here. He went to TCU, a source of hometown pride, yet he was conflicted about his relationship with Fort Worth and, by extension, Texas, according to the newly released Far from Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art by Austin writer Daniel Oppenheimer. In this loving biography of the late critic, we see why he did not meet Nice’s standards. One, Hickey was complicated and messy. He took drugs, was crusty, and was an intellectual flamethrower whose views pissed off all sorts of people, including many women artists, curators, and historians.

He is also one of the city’s two known recipients of a MacArthur Fellowship or “Genius Grant,” with its coveted financial gift of $625,000 given to individuals with extraordinary talent in their fields. The other is Texas A&M School of Law Professor Thomas Mitchell, who received it last year.

Hickey described the city as “a very strange and private place, indeed — where the modalities of social interaction are virtually nonexistent, and the populace at large is segregated not only according to the traditional race, color, creed, and national origin but also according to age, sex, income, education, neighborhood, mode of transportation, and line of endeavor.”

In Fort Worth, he added, “being an asshole is optional — although it remains a very popular elective.”

Fear not, civic boosters: He also trashed Dallas.

Patricia Highsmith exemplified Hickey’s belief that an asshole is a standard option. The acclaimed fiction writer of books such as Strangers on the Train, The Price of Salt, which became the movie Carol, and The Talented Mr. Ripley was born and raised in Fort Worth and was an asshole. At any point during her life, including in Richard Bradford’s biography Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires released last year, she told her editor that she didn’t “like anyone.” That included at any point Arabs, Blacks, Catholics, Jews, her mother, and her partners’ husbands.

The city is not in the new book Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks 1941-1995, but as the late writer Don Graham noted in Texas Monthly in 2004, the misanthropic and macabre Highsmith believed “her essential character was formed by age 6, and those first six years were spent in Fort Worth.”

Indeed, in Andrew Wilson’s 2003 biography Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith, she loved the feeling of living in a frontier town, among nature and ranches. She also loved women. She also fell in love here with a woman. In a 2016 Harper’s Bazaar article, British writer Jill Dawson learned then 6-year-old Highsmith, who hung out at Barber’s Bookstore downtown, also fell in love for the first time with a young woman named Rachel Barber. Highsmith’s sexuality

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In his latest book, Fort Worth’s Mark Nobles brings faces to the infamous characters of early Cowtown.

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Though the title may conjure images of ’60s-era stoners a la Cheech and Chong, nothing could be further from the reality depicted in this novel. Would you believe the first official Fort Worth city flag, circa 1912, featured a skyline practically obscured by smoke and the words “We’re for Smoke. All Roads Lead to Fort Worth”?

Cowtown, a.k.a. Panther City, was trying to shake off its rough-and-tumble image as a Western frontier town, courting an influx of factories with their jobs and belching smokestacks. The city fathers wanted Fort Worth to join the growing ranks of affluent cities like Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

Drawn from actual newspaper articles beginning in 1904 and spanning the years to 1920, Nobles’ novel presents some poignant, vicious, pathetic, and tenacious characters. These are all the more appealing because they are not fictional, though the author may have exercised his imagination in providing additional details of their harrowing lives.

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Consider Bessie. Abandoned by her parents as a girl in Hell’s Half Acre, she was quickly forced into a life of theft and prostitution. Bessie was a survivor and eventually became something of a local celebrity for breaking out of the county prison twice and the Fort Worth City Jail so many times that both she and her captors lost count.

Lawman Kid Yates arrived in Fort Worth trying to make a fresh start after killing a man in Desoto, Texas. Yates was acquitted in the killing but shooed away from the town just the same, his wife dead and his two daughters almost more than he could manage. As the years rolled by, Yates’ body count grew, forcing his superiors to reevaluate his position on the police force.

Poor Tom Lee was downtrodden all his life but finally snapped when two of his companions cheated him out of $10 in a game of craps. Vowing revenge, he kicked off a string of events that resulted in a stand-off between law officials and a murderous mob and the most destructive race riot in Fort Worth history.

“The book started with Bessie Williams, the jailbreaker,” Nobles said. “I fell in love with her when an archivist from the Fort Worth Public Library showed me a folder with a bunch of her newspaper clippings. Not long after, I was looking at an exhibit at the downtown library and ran across the We’re for Smoke flag featured on the cover of the book. At that time (1912), if your city was obliterated with smog, it meant you were a thriving, industrial city.”

We’re for Smoke details the struggles of the poorest of Fort Worth’s citizens during the transition from cattle town to modern city. Local authorities often seemed to be more concerned with appearances than with justice, dispensing frontier-style retribution while trying to maintain a

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façade of civilized sophistication. This book entertains, educates, and enlightens the modern reader as to just how far we have come in the last hundred years.

Mark Nobles was born on Fort Worth’s infamous Jacksboro Highway.

A sixth-generation Texan, he proudly claims kinship with Thunder Road’s gamblers, outlaws, and wastrels. He is also the author of Fort Worth’s Rock and Roll Roots and has produced three feature documentaries. l

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Let me start by saying that I completely recognize his greatness. I willingly acknowledge that he is likely the single most accomplished athlete in the history of professional sports. But. All the same, I just can’t stand Tom Brady.

From his perfect, gleaming-white teeth and unfairly drum-tight, wrinklefree middle-aged skin, to his frostedtip, cool youth minister haircut that practically shouts, “You know who was a really rad dude? My man Jesus!” from a megaphone atop his head, to the fact that he says he’s never had caffeine in his entire life (and that ridiculous claim is totally believable), the man elicits the same boiling rage within me that a big brother does by grabbing your hand and repeatedly slapping you with it while taunting, “Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!”

I know it’s petty, but as a football fan, his recent retirement announcement is a relief on par with positive biopsy

which proves to be the better approach.

One the one hand, you have the Rams, who come with all the stereotypical glitz and glamor of Southern California. Based mainly on the way Los Angeles built their team through sacrificing long-term stability for immediate gains by dumping draft capital for top-name talent, including QB Matthew Stafford, who somehow retains a calf-roper’s drawl despite an elite Highland Park education, the Rams couldn’t be more L.A. if they were rostered with self-important celebrities making movies about the perils of climate change. There’s also the bileforming sci-fi look of their highlighteryellow and beryl laser-blue unis and SoFi Stadium, itself a monument to otherworldly technology and excess.

Across from L.A. on the field will be the embodiment of the blue-collar Midwest, a young team built the way good teams are traditionally built, i.e., through the draft. Beginning with native Buckeye Joe Burrow at quarterback, barely a year removed from a seasonending knee injury, the Bengals are made up of plucky upstarts, perpetual underdogs who seem to win through sheer grit and determination as much or more than talent — but they don’t lack much in that regard either. Ja’marr Chase and Joe Mixon are as electric as any on the offensive side of the ball. Even their uniforms scream made-up-teamfrom-a- small-budget- sports-comedy.

It’s certainly easy to find yourself with pom-poms in hand for Burrow as

Cincinnati’s own Shane Falco. Sure, the former national champion/Heisman Trophy winner hasn’t necessarily been following a washed-up, down-and-out redemption arc, but in facing the Rams’ nightmarish defensive front, it’s easy to imagine him as Aragorn in Return of the King, leading the final charge to certain death into the sea of Uruk-hai legions.

Sadly, unlike Aragorn, I don’t predict a stunning against-all-odds victory. The Bengals’ offensive line is a sieve, allowing a record nine sacks in their AFC Divisional game alone.

And that was against a fairly mediocre Raiders D-line. Imagine the torment Burrow will be under when going up against Aaron Donald, Von Miller, and Leonard Floyd, not to mention that trio being bolstered by the time afforded them to get home by All-Pro corner Jalen Ramsey shutting down routes in the secondary. It could definitely be a very long day for Joe Cool 2.0.

I think Chase will help him keep the Bengals hanging around and make it interesting, but I don’t think more of Cincy’s signature cigars will be in order after the game. I ultimately look for the Rams’ multiple high-dollar lottery tickets to cash. Give me L.A. 33-27.

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This year, as the Los Angeles Rams host the Cincinnati Bengals — the second year in a row the host city’s team has made it to the championship — I have a new level of excitement entering the game. It’s not just the lack of the haunting natural-wellness-supplementstore-clerk specter of Tommy Boy. It’s also that these two teams have intriguing storylines in their own right. Setting aside the already compelling thread of two premier quarterbacks who happen to be on opposite ends of their respective careers squaring off, the entire milieu of each team highlights the severe contrast between them. It’ll be fascinating to see

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Let’s talk about sex, baby. This is the opening Friday weekend for The Pleasure Trials at Amphibian Stage (120 S Main St, 817-923-3012). “When Rachel and Callie start clinical trials on their new female libido enhancement drug, willing participants come out of the woodwork looking for an internal revolution. Quickly after the first dose, the effectiveness of the medicine is undeniable, but the overwhelming pressure for its success may corrupt the experiment and everyone involved. The Pleasure Trials is an insightful and entertaining examination of women, sexual desire, and the burden of meeting expectations.” The production starts at 8pm Thu and runs at various dates/times thru Sun, Feb 27. Tickets are $60-100 at AmphibianStage.com.

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Why buy a bouquet when you can create one of your own? Lovely Extras Saturday Co. is hosting a special build-your-own floral arrangement class at Lucky Lou’s (1207 W Hickory St, Denton, 940-484-5550) at 3pm. Don’t feel intimidated if you’ve never done this before because they’ll teach you all the tips and tricks of the trade you’ll need to achieve a showstopping design. And if you don’t have anyone to give flowers to, keep the bouquet for yourself — we wouldn’t blame you! Price of tickets includes flowers and materials. Bring a date or a friend to receive a discounted ticket. Tickets are $50-85 at LovelyExtras.com.

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It’s time for the annual Stolen Shakespeare Festival. For 2022, the Sunday Stolen Shakespeare Guild presents two plays in the Sanders Theater (1300 Gendy St, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, 817-738-1938). Hamlet runs 8pm Sat, then various dates/times thru Sat, Mar 5.

The Merry Wives of Windsor runs 8pm Fri, Feb 18; 2pm Sat, Feb 19; and 2pm Sun, Feb 20, then various dates/times thru Sun, Mar 6. Tickets are $24-26 at StolenShakespeareGuild.org.

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Grab a gal-pal or two and your favorite yoga mat for the Galentine’s Yoga Tuesday and Tea event at Leaves Book and Tea Shop (120 Saint Louis Av, 682-233-4832) at 6:30pm. Led by Brooke Blankenship (Yogi Squad), this 45-minute class will leave you relaxed and rejuvenated.

After class, stay for one of Leaves’ many delicious teas and treats from Three Danes Baking Co. Tickets are $15 at Leaves-Bookand-Tea-Shop.square.site.

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“Brinner” is the official term for brunch-fordinner, and if you haven’t Wednesday heard of it, you aren’t properly #yolo-ing. Party with The Queens at the new Latin-flavored hotspot La Chingona (2800 Bledsoe St, 817-8709997) is here to help. This reverse brunch features not just bottomless mimosas but performances by some fabulous drag queens hosted by Adecia Lush and music by DJ OROD. (Is “breakfast and a show” a thing now?) Enjoy brunch starting at 8:30pm followed by the drag show at 10pm. Tickets are $40 at LaChingonaFW.com.

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The theme of this Second Thursdays at the Carter is Sips & Stories. At Thursday 5pm, join the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-738-1933) for an evening of storytelling, cocktails, and live music. Chris Curtis & Ed Rogers host an open-mic with locals sharing their own stories and music. Don’t feel like going up onstage? Pick up a pen and write your own tales inspired by works in the Carter’s collection. And if you’re feeling bold, cruise through the collection with a choose-yourown-adventure tour. RSVP for free at CarterMuseum.com.

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than the large urban city to which it belongs. Having lived in the stretch of Cowtown nestled between White Settlement and Aledo for several years before moving to the urban core, I can personally attest to that characterization.

So imagine my surprise when I googled Jimboy’s Tacos, the highly Instagrammable and popular taco-centric restaurant from California, and found its first Fort Worth location is just miles from my old home. The restaurant has a simple layout with just under a dozen large tables and a walk-up register that’s backed by a brightly lit menu offering tacos, burritos, bowls, appetizers, and desserts, all with a California twist. Cal-Tex cuisine is understood to be less spicy and less meat-centric than its Texified competition. Other than the use of black olives and the absence of hot sauce, I didn’t notice too many differences between the Cal-Tex/Tex-Mex divide.

Three tacos arrived with crispy shells that had an initial crunch followed by a hearty, chewy texture. The slightly oily corn casings, which had a pungent ground-masa flavor, were no mere afterthought and added to the overall delicious profile. Topping off the three starters was a dusting of parmesan that added a bit of saltiness but not much else.

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The ground beef taco was straightforward with a dense mix of seasoned meat and cheddar cheese. The only light-ish ingredient was the lettuce, fresh and freshly cut.

True to its name, the Taco Burger held all the goodies you’d expect from a burger — ground beef, diced tomatoes, lettuce, pickles, shredded cheese — and a “special sauce” that tasted like extra-tangy mayonnaise. The experience of eating a taco with the occasional pickle took some getting used to, but I dug it.

The carnitas taco offered flavorful strings of pork that could have benefited from hot sauce. Served as it was, the delicacy was a bit dry.

Jimboy’s isn’t known for health food, but they do have a delicious keto option.

The carb-free taco came served on a thick leaf of Romaine lettuce. Juicy chunks of chicken seasoned with paprika and other spices were the center attraction. Drizzles of a pimento cheese sauce added heat to the handheld treat topped with a large avocado wedge.

Up next was the Tahoe Burrito, a behemoth of an entree that requires two hands to maneuver. The charred grill marks on the flour tortilla showed that some real Jimboy’s Tacos Keto chicken taco ....................................$3.95 Tahoe Burrito ............................................$8.65 Carnitas burrito bowl ...............................$7.10 Ground beef taco .....................................$2.32 Carnitas taco ............................................$3.35 Taco Burger ..............................................$3.65 TaquitO-M-G ..............................................$7.35

TLC went into making the belt-busting wrap. Seasoned and perfectly cooked strips of steak made each bite delectable. The Spanish rice was fluffy and not too oily, and the dense sour cream added a lovely creamy mouthfeel to the perfectly balanced burrito that also featured pinto beans and a mild red sauce.

Jimboy’s bowls come with several protein options. I sprung for the carnitas and found the morsels of pork to be every bit as tender and juicy as what I experienced with the tacos. Don’t expect the mix of meat and vegetables to be the lighter, veggie-centric option that other restaurants and fast-food joints peddle. Here, it’s all about densely cramming everything Americans love about Mexican food into one container. The dish was a mashup of rice, pinto beans, black olives, diced tomatoes, cilantro, and sour cream. The bits of lettuce seemed like an afterthought. The overall effect was filling but, disappointedly, only mimicked what I already ate that day without adding anything new.

I rounded out my Jimboy’s Taco experience by indulging in the TaquitO-MG, which could have been a meal in itself.

Four dense and perfectly fried bad boys came topped with a fresh pico de gallo and lots (and lots) of creamy queso. Two generous scoops of sour cream and guacamole made the selection from the “munchies” section of the menu one of my favorite dishes.

When I left the West Side, hoping to land a more drivable hop to the Near Southside, I did so thinking that I was escaping a stretch of town that was devoid of fun dining options. My recent trip to Jimboy’s Tacos left me wishing I lived a bit closer to my old haunts. l

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After a nearly 50-year career, Dennis González has turned his attention toward cataloging his 70 past exhibits that have spanned the globe and his output as a performer and recording artist.

“I think that life has been pretty good,” he told me. “I wake up in the morning and think, ‘Wow, what a life. I’m still here, and it’s an amazing thing.’ ” The acclaimed jazz trumpeter will perform his most recent release, the album Nights Enter, on Saturday at the Grackle Art Gallery. The show that will be up through February at the multidisciplinary space includes

new art by González and his 8-year-old granddaughter, Isabella Anais SiskGonzález. The start of the series Five Years of Collaborative Works began after González’ 2007 decision to pause his busy touring and recording schedule.

He shifted his focus to a new series of large-scale works on paper and cardboard, The Doctrine of Hieromancy, that is characterized by images of insects that fascinated the artist as a child and iconography from Egyptian hieroglyphs.

After booking a show at Mighty Fine Arts in his hometown of Dallas in late 2015, González was finishing up what he thought was his “masterpiece” when his toddler granddaughter grabbed a gold marker and started scribbling over the near-completed work.

“I thought, ‘What am I going to do?’ ” González recalled.

Isabella, whom González affectionately calls “Issy,” had picked up on her grandfather’s love of drawing, and the veteran artist realized that he needed to trust her artistic instincts.

“She knew what she was doing,” he said, “so I used her work and incorporated it. When we opened the show in October, it was the first piece that sold.”

The popularity of the collaborative works and the joy of working together prompted González to start Five Years of Collaborative Works. About a third of the 25 pieces in the series have sold so far, he said, and the remaining works that capture Issy’s artistic development from ages 3 through 8 will be on display Saturday. González said he donates a portion of sales to the gallery and puts the remainder in a college fund for Issy.

González modeled the early works in the series after the first spontaneous scribblings. He would create a largely

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finished work that featured collages of his previous work, and then his granddaughter would use pens or pencils to add her own signature lines.

“She would do her own stuff,” González said. “It looked like Jackson Pollock.”

As Issy grew older, she would begin new works, and her grandfather would follow her lead. Many of the most popular pieces in the collection, González said, were initiated by Issy.

“The pieces that she begins are the ones that people gravitate toward,” he said. “We are still children inside. I think the child in us connects to the childlike and innocent” way she conveys things.

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González said Issy’s early scribbles reminded him of Jackson Pollock.

responded that he “dug the cover art” but wondered where the music was. That led

ramping up the 2022 season to the recording of Nights Dennis González with art shows on the Enter at Klearlight Studio 7pm Sat at the Grackle second Saturday of every in Dallas throughout 2020.

Art Gallery, 4621 El Campo Av, FW. Free. month. The artworks can The eight-track album 817-615-0681. be viewed by appointment features Jess Garland in the days and weeks (harp), Jagath Lakpriya following each opening. (tabla), Drew Phelps (bass), and Derek Rogers (keys) in addition to The gallery, he added, also serves as an alternative performance space for nonGonzález on trumpet and percussion.

In the liner notes, former Weekly mainstream music through the monthly writer Ken Shimamoto says the music “is Grackle Live! house concert series.

González has shown work in several unlike anything else in Dennis González’ substantial discography. The confluence dozen galleries and art spaces here and of organic and electronic elements is overseas, but he said the Grackle, a seamless, and the swirling blend of repurposed house, offers something textures has a dreamlike quality. Dennis special.

“It’s more like hanging stuff up proves himself once again to be a master of melody — a trait he shares with the in my own home,” he said. “It’s a very greatest jazz musicians. On Nights Enter, giving and warm space. It has this spirit [González] and friends provide a healing of having absorbed a lot of positivity over the years. They have been very balm for troubled times.”

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Randy Rogers has been doing the Texas Music thing since Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 debuted, and in the intervening 20 years, the San Marcos-by-way-of-Cleburne

singer-songwriter Wayne Floyd’s Weird and Wild Waynesday. Not sure which of Wayne’s buddies will be joining in the festivities, but he always makes it a fun night. Twilite Lounge (212 Lipscomb St, 817-720-5483) has a jazz show on Friday, featuring Dallas saxophonist Daniel Henson’s quartet. Also on Friday, Lola’s Trailer Park (2735 W 5th St, 817-759-9100) hosts veteran country troubadour Guthrie Kennard with prolific songwriter (and words writer) The Matthew Show opening. — S.S.

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A good song is a good song, and Rogers has a ton of them. He and his band also put on an entertaining show, and catching him at Billy Bob’s Texas (2520 Rodeo Plaza, 817-624-7117) is basically the quintessential Randy Rogers Band experience. — S.S.

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PUBLIC NOTICES TDLR Complaints Any Texans who may be concerned that an unlicensed massage business may be in operation near them, or believe nail salon employees may be human trafficking victims, may now report those concerns directly to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) by emailing ReportHT@TDLR.Texas.gov.

RENTALS / REAL ESTATE Cyndy Reep, Realtor Berkshire Hathaway HA Alexander Chandler Realty 2900 S Hulen, FWTX 817-806-4100 Critic’s Choice for Best Realtor in Best Of 2021: “Here in North Texas, ladies — and gentleman, for that matter — tend to do what they want. Realtor Cyndi Reep is no exception. While she does have listings and can certainly help you sell your property, her true love is being a buyer’s agent. Whether it’s buying or leasing a commercial or residential space, she has a flair for helping clients find exactly what they want and need... (Read more at FWWeekly.com.)

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Property sale to satisfy landlord’s lien. Sale to be held at Mansfield Boat and RV at 1945 FM 157, Mansfield TX 76063 on February 22 at 12:00 PM. Cleanup deposit is required. Seller reserves the right to withdraw the property at any time before the sale. Unit items sold asis to highest bidder. Property includes the contents of spaces of the following tenant – Kayla Connors: Storage totes, Misc household items, storage racks

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Notice is given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Robert Donald Hammonds were issued on February 8, 2022, in docket number 2021-PR04118-1, pending in the Statutory Probate Court Number One of Tarrant County, Texas, to William Calvin Orville Harris III. All persons having claims against the estate, which is presently being administered, are required to submit them, within the time and manner prescribed by law, and before the estate is closed, addressed as follows: Representative Estate of Robert Donald Hammonds c/o Matthew Hancock 1908 Sutter Street Fort Worth TX 76107

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