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Cameron Smith With his latest single, the former War Party frontman has fully evolved into a songwriter’s songwriter.

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FEATURE In the podcast still …, three journalists examine seven Fort Worth cold cases.

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METROPOLIS Why is the city resisting a police oversight board?

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EATS & DRINKS Come to El Chignon for the beverages, stay for the people-watching.

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BUCK U When you break down the numbers, football is just good business.

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STAFF Anthony Mariani, Editor Lee Newquist, Publisher Bob Niehoff, General Manager

Unsolved Mystery

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The crime podcast still … examines seven cold Fort Worth cases.

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Beto for the Win

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As Abbott fumbles, the former Texas pol positions himself as a man of the people.

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Looking at the numbers, we just really like football.

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Events/SpringFestival (last tickets sold at 3pm).

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From noon to 5pm, head to Lola’s Trailer Park (2735 W 5th St, 817-759Sunday 9100) for The Wild Cajun Shrimp & Crawfish Boil. Live music will be provided by James Hinkle & Friends, featuring Ginny Mac, Gary Grammar, and others playing bayou tunes by CCR, Dr. John and other Cajun or Cajuninspired artists. The cost is $5 per person at the door.

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From 9am to 5pm thru Sat, Apr 3, see the short film Grounding by Rambo Monday Elliott at the Hardy & Betty Sanders Theater at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center (1300 Gendy St, 817-739-1938). The filmmaker’s intention is to fill some gaps in the audience’s mental health education by taking them through a mental exercise known as “grounding.” This event is funded by the New Normal Grant and is free to the public.

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Spring Japanese Festival: Year of the Ox is this weekend at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden.

From 6pm to 9pm tonight and every Thursday, enjoy Thursday an intimate acoustic show featuring folk, jazz, pop, and rock music by Pepe Valdez — a Peruvian-American guitarist, composer, and educator based in North Texas — on the rooftop of the SpringHill Suites Fort Worth Historic Stockyards at Atico (2315 N Main St, 682-255-5112), the latest culinary concept of Chef Tim Love. A carefully curated menu of fine wine and tapas will be available.

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Feel like an adult Easter adventure?

Habitat Friday ReStore Plano (2060 W Spring Creek Pkwy, 972-424-0791) — a volunteer-based organization that sells donated furniture and uses the proceeds to refurbish homes of the needy in Collin County — is hosting an Adult Easter Egg Hunt Fri-Sat from 11am to 3pm with raffle prizes, savings opportunities, and cold hard cash. The idea that the raffle prizes include a 5-by8 rug of your choice, a surround-sound

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From 9am to 5pm today and Sunday, attend the family-friendly Spring Saturday Japanese Festival: Year of the Ox at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (3220 Botanic Garden Blvd, 817-463-4160).

Enjoy traditional Japanese performances, food, and more in support of the Fort Worth Japanese Society. Tickets are $6-12 at FWBG.org/

Tarrant Transit Alliance is hosting a Fort Worth Mayoral Candidate Tuesday Forum online from 5pm to 7:45pm in which the candidates will share their perspectives on the topic of transit and the future of Fort Worth.

The public is invited to watch the panel discussion for free via Facebook Live at Facebook.com/TarrantTransitAlliance.

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From 7pm to 9pm every Wednesday thru May 26, PubGuys Trivia is hosting Wednesday Trivia Night at the new Maple Branch Craft Brewery (2628 Whitmore St, @MapleBranchBrew) in the Foundry District. This small-batch brewery and biergarten is also animalfriendly, so feel free to bring your wellbehaved pups and ask the bartender for a water bowl.

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Braque (both from 1911) appear to be a matched set. Both are painted with somber gray and ocher hues with mostly abstract but also geometricshaped imagery. I had an ah-ha! moment upon learning that the two artists were acquaintances.

Monets are scattered around North Texas, including four at the Dallas Museum of Art (1717 N Harwood St, 214-922-1200), but two are at — you guessed it — the Kimbell, including one of the 10 Weeping Willow paintings that Monet created as a mournful response to the tragedies of World War 1.

The second Monet at the Kimbell is “La Pointe de la Hève at Low Tide” (1865), a dark, stormy beach scene near where the artist grew up. As this is one of the landscape paintings that launched Monet’s career when exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1865, it’s a must-see.

The Kimbell Art Museum is open noon-5pm Sun, 10am-5pm Tue-Thu, noon-8pm Fri, and 10am-5pm Sat. Admission to the permanent collection is always free. For a complete list of the artifacts, paintings, and sculptures on display, visit KmbellArt.org/ Collection.

By Jennifer Bovee

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Well, that’s not entirely true. While the Queen Nefertari traveling exhibit just ended at the Kimbell Art Museum (3333 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-332-8451) and the next great blockbuster has yet to begin, there are some interesting — and very famous — things to see in the permanent collection. (For starters, ask them about the super-secret Vincent Van Gogh painting they have on loan.)

Did you know that the first known work by Michelangelo is right here in Fort Worth? Believed to have been painted when the artist was just 12 or 13 years old, “The Torment of Saint Anthony” (1487) is on display in the world-renowned Louis I. Kahn Building. This space is home to African, Asian, Ancient American, and European collections crossing time, place, and medium.

In the same building in the North Gallery resides “L’Asie” by Henri Matisse (1946), a bright oil painting of a female figure clothed in rich, exotic costume. In 1948, Matisse wrote that he wanted his work “to have the lightness and joyousness of a springtime.” As spring begins on Saturday, start here.

While across the room from each other rather than positioned together, “Man with a Pipe” by Pablo Picasso and “Girl with a Cross” by Georges

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“Portrait of May Sortis” by Frederic Leighton is just one of many gems on permanent display at the Kimbell.

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Waiting In this new podcast, three journalists dig into seven cold cases and come up with one solution.

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hree journalists have teamed together to analyze the abduction and murder of seven young women in the mid1980s. In their podcast still …, they dive into seven cold cases that span from 1983 to 1985, all closely related and occurring in North Texas. The team believes these murders to be the work of one serial killer.

Host Gary Anderson is the voice of the podcast, while his wife Karin Anderson and her former colleague Kristine Hughes spearhead the investigation. The three are all former journalists who changed career paths and are thrilled to be back in the industry, practicing their passion. They refer to themselves collectively as The Reporter’s Notebook.

During this three-and-a-half-year time period, approximately two dozen cases occurred in the Fort Worth area, consisting mostly of the abduction, rape, and murder of women. The team chose these seven cold cases to be their focus because they were closely related and did not fit the demographic of the

other killings, which appeared to include prostitutes and other criminal activity.

Before leaving the newspaper industry, Karin and Hughes were former reporters for the Dallas Morning News.

In 2017, they discussed the possibility of working on a project together that would bring them back to their journalism roots.

Three years later, they decided to take that step and focus on cold case Fort Worthbased murders.

Hughes was around the same age of the victims and remembers living in Dallas during the murder spree.

“I recall hearing about it,” she said, “particularly the TCU homicide, and how girls that were going to college were being very careful, especially in parking lots at night, but it didn’t stop me from going to nightclubs and hanging out with my friends.”

Gary was merely a year and a half away from graduating from Grand Prairie High School and attending the University of Texas at Arlington, where one of the victims was attending when she was murdered.

“It is really fascinating to me from a personal point of view, going, ‘My gosh, we lived through this, and I had no idea,’ ” he said.

The trio hope that by talking about what happened, someone listening will remember seeing or hearing something and will contact the police. Someone may have a clue that is needed to bring closure to one of these unsolved crimes.

The trio’s research revealed that during the mid-1980s, six serial killers were operating in North Texas.

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Gary Anderson worked in the small newspaper business for five years before leaving journalism in 1994 for the advertisement and graphic design industry.

Kristine Hughes published a singles magazine in the early to mid-’80s for four years. She published daily newspapers in Texas, New Mexico, and Illinois for over 28 years before switching to a career in marketing and public relations.

Karin Anderson was a reporter at the Dallas Morning News and sister papers for 12 years before turning to corporate communications for 11 years.

“These two dozen murders prompted the formation of a task force in Fort Worth,” Gary said, speaking to me recently along with Karin and Hughes from the Andersons’ home in Garland and Hughes’ home in Alabama.

“Though each of those murderers are now either dead or incarcerated,” Karin added, “police aren’t certain that all of the victims have been identified. They could only identify the ones that they were able to link through DNA or confessions.”

An advantage that these reporters have over the police is being able to step back and observe all of the evidence and information through an objective lens.

In the first episode of still … that aired in late January, the hosts discuss the murders out of chronological order. The first murder was a cold case from August 1983. Twenty-seven-year-old Mary Till left her apartment in Arlington around 9 a.m. and headed toward her workplace at a downtown Dallas law firm. She didn’t arrive for work that morning, and her car was found 10 miles from the office with the interior burnt. Five months later, her body was found in a field not far from her car.

She had been shot in the head.

The way Gary narrates the podcast is ominous. He brings intrigue, as if you are listening to a scary bedtime story on the edge of your seat, wanting to catch every last detail. Satisfyingly, he provides them in depth. The podcast holds more interest than a mere retelling of each gruesome murder. The journalists did extensive research in taking on the private investigation.

The second murder took place in November of the same year. Sandra Bush, 21, left her southeast Fort Worth home at 6:45 p.m. without telling her family where she was going. Her car was found outside a bar on the North Side, wiped clean of fingerprints, with a bloody pillowcase in the backseat. Her body was discovered months later in a field near her car. She had been strangled.

What brings the podcasts to life is the commentary by family and friends of the victims, as well as police officers who worked their case. still … brings a unique perspective to each podcast by personalizing the victims’ stories, looking not only at all the facts but also into the prolonged effects of these life-changing tragedies.

In September 1984, 23-year-old Catherine Davis returned to her apartment in southwest Fort Worth around midnight.

Neighbors heard angry voices and witnessed a man shut the door to her apartment and leave in her car. Just hours later, her home was engulfed in flames. Her vehicle was found after several days, just a few miles away. Coat hangers with human blood were found inside her car, and blood was smudged on the door handle. Davis’ body was found less than seven miles from her apartment.

Less than a month after Davis’ murder, 23-year-old Cindy Heller disappeared after assisting a stranded female driver in

Cindy Heller, 23, died Oct. 22, 1984.

southwest Fort Worth. Heller left a note on the door of the driver’s friend’s apartment, trying to help them get in contact with each other. Months later, Heller’s body was found nude in a pond on the TCU campus. She had been strangled.

A listener who grew up in North Texas called in after hearing the podcast and explained why a lot of the young women at that time were not familiar with or precautioned about the serial killings.

The caller said even though she was aware of what was going on around her, a lot of people weren’t because media wasn’t the same then as it is now. There was no social media, so news wasn’t immediately

distributed. If you didn’t subscribe to the newspaper or watch the evening news, you were in the dark about the murders.

“Most of the people in the age bracket of these victims probably weren’t familiar with what was going on because they weren’t the demographic that was subscribing to the newspaper or watching the news,” Karin said.

“Four cases were concentrated not only in space, but they were concentrated between September and December of ’84, all within a two-mile radius,” Gary said.

That December, 21-year-old Angela Ewert stopped at a convenience store after leaving her fiancé’s house in southwest Fort Worth around 11 p.m. She headed east, but several miles down the road, she pulled over with a flat tire, which appeared to have been stabbed. Her body wasn’t found until 1993 in a field in south Tarrant County. Her purse was located in a pond in southwest Fort Worth, close to where Heller’s body was discovered.

“The ones that are most closely linked were all in the southwest Fort Worth area,” Karin said. “Two of them were definitely from the Wedgwood area, and two more were closer to Hulen and TCU. There are a couple of others … but, you know, at some point, we had to cut it off and say we can only really fully investigate this many cases and still make it understandable for our listeners.”

“In 1985,” Karin said, “the Fort Worth

Sarah Kashka, 15, died Dec. 30, 1984.

Police Department opened a task force because there were so many murders and abductions happening of women that they needed a team of at least 35 investigators to focus on these cases.”

One of the things that the task force was initially looking at was the strange coincidence of how so many of these victims, including some that were not among the seven, were involved in one

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Sandra Bush, 21, died Nov. 17, 1983.

that they love. Though it’s a difficult thing to do, it’s also very fulfilling because a lot of times, people really love the opportunity to share the good memories and they don’t want their loved one to be remembered for the horrible way that she died. They want her to be remembered for who she was.”

Gary recalls that the hardest connection made was with a sister of the victim. After hearing from her voicemail

how offended she was by the team’s call, it made them question if they were doing the right thing. The worst example was outweighed by another victim’s sister, who couldn’t have been more open.

“She’s been gracious, kind, and so thankful and grateful,” Gary said. “She couldn’t believe that after 35 years, somebody still cares about her sister’s death.”

The sixth victim who was analyzed was 15-year-old Sarah Kashka in late December of 1984. After being dropped off by her date, intending to visit a friend in southwest Fort Worth, she was last seen walking across the street to a Dairy Queen.

Her body was found a few days later in a creek in southwest Dallas, stabbed to death.

“I think that this man felt power by stealing the lives of beautiful women,” Karin said. “I think that gave him a sense of omnipotence and that he could do anything he wanted if he could steal the young beautiful women off of the street and kill them.”

The seventh victim is Terri McAdams.

She arrived at her fiancé’s apartment in Arlington around 6:30 p.m. on the eve of Valentine’s Day in 1985 and was expected to pick him up from the airport the following day. Around 10:30 p.m., an intruder broke in, raped her, and beat her to death.

“We believe throughout the course

Mary Till, 27, died Aug. 18, 1983.

of our podcasts and our investigation that it’s very likely that one man committed at least seven of the murders,” Gary said.

“Having the benefit of hindsight 35 years later,” Karin said, “we’re able to take all the things that were reported at the time and point out what appeared to be relevant and what police later dismissed as being just mere coincidence. We looked at the patterns of this particular man and compare them to these crimes, but I don’t

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way or another to the fashion modeling industry. Though all the victims were young and attractive, the investigators decided that information was merely coincidental.

“If somebody is hunting young, attractive women in this area, odds are pretty good that they may have been involved in modeling in some way or another in the mid-1980s,” Karin said.

According to the investigative journalist, the physical characteristics of the victims widened across a spectrum, varying in hair color, height, and even race.

One of the victims was African American, but the others were all Caucasian women.

The Reporter’s Notebook, Hughes said, wants to “keep the victims’ names and memories out there in hopes that something comes up that the police don’t know about yet. I don’t think our goal is to solve, because I think that would be arrogant, but just to shed light on it so that the families could get some kind of satisfaction from it, kind of a feeling of closure. Even if it’s not true closure, it’s a sense of closure.”

The most challenging aspect of their podcast was finding someone who knew the victim. “It’s a heart-wrenching moment to make a cold call to somebody when you don’t know how they’re going to react,” Karin said, “hearing you asking them about a murder that happened 35 years ago … the murdered being someone

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Using public data to view his background, the team discovered that the man they believe to be the killer, Curtis Don Brown, was arrested on May 29, 1986. The previous day, he had broken into a woman’s apartment and dragged her out into a field,

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want to say that we were the first person to say we think he committed these crimes.

We saw newspaper reports where police had identified him as the primary suspect.

It’s not like we solved the case of the century, and we don’t know that it’s been solved at all, but we were just following up and exploring further what had been kind of left behind.”

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Catherine Davis, 23, died Sep. 28, 1984.

raped her, and bludgeoned her to death.

They believe he was leaving the scene of the crime with two of her purses when he was noticed by police, who were staking out the area on an unrelated matter. When they tried to stop him to question him, he ran but was apprehended and arrested after a fierce struggle. When they looked inside the purses, officials found the woman’s ID, so they went to her apartment. Police saw that there had been a struggle there and began searching for her. She was found lying in the field. He was quickly charged with murder.

In tracking Brown’s history, the team discovered he had been previously convicted of an unrelated felony and was released from prison in 1983. Upon his release, he moved back to Fort Worth.

“We tracked where he was living at the time in relation to where the victims were taken, and he had ties to every single one of their locations in one way or another,” Karin said. “He lived very close, within a mile to where these women were being taken from or where they were being dumped or where their car was found. It was like you could just draw a map to him every single time.”

They had been working on this podcast since last July when they reached out to interview Brown in prison. They could not go any further because media aren’t allowed to interview prisoners via video or telephone. It had to be in person, which wasn’t an option because of COVID. After reaching out to him through the

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JPay system’s email, there was no response.

“There is a way where you can track prisoners online,” Gary said. “Punch in their information and see where they are.

We watched over four or five months, and he was transferred no fewer than two times, probably because of COVID or because he was dying.”

When they checked in on him again on February 5, the journalists were shocked to discover that he had died the previous week.

“A strange twist was that the date of his death coincided with the release of the podcast’s first episode,” Gary said.

“It upsets us deeply that someone who may have held the answers to so many questions took his secrets to the grave.

We pray that his death doesn’t mean an end to hope for the victims’ families or prevent police investigators from seeking DNA proof that could either clear him in these cases or confirm our suspicions.

Regardless, our pursuit of the truth has not come to an end.”

After incarceration, Brown was linked to additional murders.

“Arlington police got a match for one of their unsolved cases, so that’s how he got convicted for three murders before he died in prison this year,” Gary said.

The team believed Brown went unnoticed in 1985 because of his race.

“We want to note that African American serial killers are not rare,” Karin said. “They just didn’t get the attention from the FBI, so they didn’t get the attention from Hollywood. Every time you see a serial killer depicted, essentially, it’s a white male. This myth kind of got perpetuated through the years about who serial killers are.”

“A lot of it goes back to when the FBI started its Behavioral Science Unit,” Gary said. “They were trying to get funding from Congress. One way to do that was to

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Angela Ewert, 21, died Dec. 10, 1984.

Terri McAdams, 22, died Feb. 13, 1985.

do a media tour and talk about figuring out the mind of a serial killer. They essentially created a profile of what makes a serial killer, and they said it’s going to be a white man. It was born out of that, and it has just persisted for the last 30 to 40 years because of mainstream media, movies, TV shows, and books. … Nobody paid attention to the fact that it didn’t matter what race you were. Serial killers were evil. Evil is evil, and it didn’t matter at all when it came to race. …. We appreciate the story getting out because our work and our goal is better served the more listeners that we have.”

“We need listeners to get involved,” Karin added. “We need their thoughts and their theories. If somebody saw something or heard something, or remembers something, it could be a lot more significant than they realize, and so the more people that engage with us, the better off everyone’s going to be and the better off the odds will be that police will be able to finally close these cases.”

All the police knew was that each of the missing women had been in their cars and were somehow taken.

Anyone with any information pertaining to the murders discussed should contact the Fort Worth Police Department’s cold case unit at ColdCase@ ftworthpd.com.

Now that this part of still … is finished, The Reporter’s Notebook is already working on its next project. All of their ideas are related to criminal investigations.

Through poring over spreadsheets, searching old newspaper clippings, listening to TV news reports, and conducting good old-fashioned investigative journalism, still … is in-depth and enthralling. The podcast focuses on finding peace of mind for those affected by the violent crimes.

“More than 35 years later,” Gary said, “the victims’ families and friends are still waiting for answers, still waiting for justice, still waiting for peace.” l

When Fort Worth leadership recently backpedaled on commitments to allow citizens to redraw the city’s district lines (“City Officials Backpedaling on Promises?” Jan. 28), many reform-minded locals wondered if the proposed citizen review board — which would review police policies and possibly have disciplinary powers — was also at risk. In 2018, the Race and

Static Crafty Greggy

As King Ad-Rock said about some unnamed trick, maybe Lucy but they all called her “Loose,” Gov. Greg Abbott sure is crafty.

The Republican nutjob currently occupying 1010 Colorado St in Austin is poised to blame immigrants at the border for the upcoming surge in COVID-19 numbers. Never mind that Gov. Greg rescinded the mask mandate weeks ago, just in time to prop up struggling businesses whose owners and employees could benefit from a Spring Break boom. And never mind that the man also removed social distancing orders, bullied cities into complying with said mask and social distancing orders, and screwed up the vaccine rollout — only 11% of Texans are fully vaccinated, including me now but only partially. (Hey, take it up with my doc. She claims that I am quoteoverweight-unquote. Psh. Two-hundredand-five pounds on a 5-foot-10 frame never looked this svelte.) (It has. Billions of times before, undoubtedly.) No, be-

cause of Abbott’s posturing, the Central Americans fleeing two natural disasters and nonstop drug wars and the droves of Mexican immigrants at the border now will be blamed by our fearless governor for the forthcoming bad COVID numbers. He’s crafty! He’s got a gripe!

The Biden administration *blesses self* has offered help that Abbott has denied, which simply encapsulates the entirety of the Republican party postDump. People do not matter. Poor people really don’t matter. Only power does.

Because Abbott is just more of the same party-over-country crap we’ve come to expect from so-called conservatives, I’m really looking forward to voting for Beto O’Rourke for governor in two years. In a social media post the other day, the former Texas pol and now all-around do-gooder says everything we all know about Abbott’s manufactured border outrage but that our friends and loved ones on the right won’t see or hear because of the right-wing media bubble, which is more like a steel cage tipped with razorwire but that we’ll call a “bubble” to drive home the imagery of guntoting, bible-thumping rich white folks floating away, hopefully to be wonderfully popped and come back down to Earth.

Kim Neal’s office is tasked with exploring how to make the Race and Culture Task Force’s call for a citizen review board a reality.

“You care about immigrants?” our future governor wrote. “The day before a white supremacist killed 23 people in El Paso (claiming there was a ‘Hispanic invasion of Texas’), you mailed a letter urging Republicans to ‘DEFEND TEXAS NOW’ from immigrants and ‘take matters into our own hands.’ ” Beto goes on to say that Abbott can continue to “stoke fear about immigrants and asylum seekers” because the governor rejected an offer from the Biden administration *blesses self again* to set up a system to provide COVID testing and quarantine for families released from Border Patrol.

And the border mess, Beto goes on, “provides a convenient scapegoat when COVID cases spike following your surrender of all public health protections for a state that has seen nearly 50,000 killed by your ineptitude. You’ll just blame it on the immigrants.”

This, what Abbott is doing, is craftiness on the highest order. Whatever we may say about the guv, we can’t say he didn’t set this up perfectly. Already, conservative media are ignoring the fact that the former occupant of the White House and future felon dismantled large parts of the asylum system, handcuffing the

Biden administration *blesses self once more* in its ability to process the migrants in a lawful, humane way. Thanks, Obama.

The sad part, other than families suffering at the border, is that when time comes to vote in 2022, so many new, probably manufactured crises will obscure what Abbott is doing now. And what he did back during the snowstorm, leaving dozens to perish “because the profits of your energy industry donors were more important than the lives of the people of this state,” Beto says. “So go on with your radical right-wing theatrics and your scapegoating of the vulnerable and defenseless. Texans will take care of each other and work to help these families and children, just as we have during the pandemic, just as we did during the winter storm. Without your help.”

Well said, Beto. — Anthony Mariani The Weekly welcomes submissions from all political persuasions. Please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@ fwweekly.com.

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Despite reservations from some city councilmembers, Fort Worth is closer than ever to holding Fort Worth police accountable through a citizen oversight committee.

Culture Task Force, the volunteer group assigned to documenting systemic inequities in Fort Worth, recommended forming a citizen review board to address “systemic, structural, and institutional racism” at the city level.

Early last year, Fort Worth City Council took an important step toward police accountability by creating the Office of Police Oversight, which is headed by Kim Neal, herself a long-time police reform expert.

Neal’s office is tasked with exploring how to make the Race and Culture Task Force’s call for a citizen review board a reality.

Neal laid out her plan during a city council work session in December.

The citizen review board “may not make everyone happy, but I think it is a positive step forward for community oversight of law enforcement,” Neal said during her presentation that day.

Before describing the steps that would lead to the formation of the review board, Neal updated city councilmembers and the mayor on her department’s ongoing work and research.

“We have hired a senior policy advisor,” she said. “We are in the process of hiring a deputy police oversight monitor.

We are moving forward with putting steps in place to ensure that community oversight is viable.”

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Nearly 88% of poll respondents “believe community oversight will help a little, some, or a lot,” Neal said, while less than half of Fort Worth police officers said independent oversight will improve policing and community relations.

tices, reviewing citizen complaints, and speaking with Fort Worth residents and area stakeholders like the NAACP and League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).

Nearly 88% of poll respondents “believe community oversight will help a little, some, or a lot,” Neal said, while less than half of Fort Worth police officers said independent oversight will improve policing and community relations.

“Our police department is not as much of a fan of community oversight as the community is,” Neal continued. “I think the term ‘oversight’ is not a wellreceived term. If we continue the dialogue, hopefully the [feedback] from the police department will improve.”

During community outreach programs held virtually throughout much of 2020, Neal’s team noticed that many of the marginalized communities that were the most likely to report negative interactions with police were also some of the areas of town that were hardest to engage through online meetings. These communities “tend to express lack of equitable treatment by police,” she said. “We need to build rapport in our marginalized communities.”

The first step toward forming a citizen review board will involve forming a “workgroup” that will take a “deep dive” into policing procedures and policies before providing final recommendations to city council and the mayor in February or March, Neal said in December.

In a recent email, Neal told us that the 12-member group, which she said consists of “diverse community and city staff members,” is “still working on the recommendation.”

The feedback from city councilmembers following Neal’s December presentation highlights the one remaining barrier to meaningful police reforms: support from Fort Worth’s city councilmembers and mayor, many of whom are up for reelection on May 1.

Councilmember Cary Moon queried Neal on the need for independent oversight of the police department.

“I feel like we already have a commu-

nity oversight board,” he said. “It’s nine members of mayor and council who are elected. How would this model be different ... compared to the historical success that we as a council have had?”

Neal responded that many in the community do not trust the police or the Fort Worth government as a whole and that a citizen review board would go a long way toward restoring that trust.

Councilmember Gyna Bivens said that Moon’s comments had left her “almost hyperventilating.”

“Let us not be mistaken into believing that we skipped all the way to the level of what some consider success,” she said. “I would submit that without the use of bodycams, we wouldn’t be forced to deal with the inequities that have taken place. Not until you have heard the voice of people who have been oppressed and treated unfairly do we get to give ourselves a passing grade in this city.”

Councilmembers Ann Zadeh (who is running for mayor) and Kelly Allen Gray voiced support for Neal’s outline of how a citizen review board would be created.

Brian Byrd (who is also running for mayor) said he will need to understand the “added value” of a review board before passing judgment.

“I think your office is already doing great community engagement,” he said.

“If we do a permanent committee, there will be a tremendous amount of work to shepherd that committee. I would encourage you all to focus on what is the added value and make that case for us.”

The confluence of the pending release of the workgroup’s recommendations on forming a citizen review board and the May 1 general election means that upcoming votes for eight city councilmembers and a new mayor — Mayor Betsy Price is not seeking reelection — are, in effect, a referendum on a citizen review board.

Already, special interests are using strawman arguments over “police defunding” to muddy the waters on the ongoing process of forming a citizen review board when such a board represents a step toward police accountability that nearly nine in 10 Fort Worthians view as progress. l

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An honest evaluation of our sports valuation.

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Attendance numbers for every sport will be in recovery mode for the foreseeable future.

various reasons, but what do we really care about?

The aforementioned question isn’t a difficult one at face value. Texans care about football. Pigskin is life, culture, religion, and family here in the Lone Star State. But how do you measure how much someone cares? Well, in the sports world, it’s typically quantified by showing up to watch or dollars spent. Bear in mind that I’m highly experienced in figure analysis, exemplified by a hard-earned C+ in elementary statistics as a TCU undergrad.

The following numbers were gathered based on TCU’s self-reported attendance and revenue numbers from annual reports and game summaries from the 2019 fall football season, 2019 baseball season, and 18-19 basketball season, as they represent the most recent complete reports before the sports world imploded in pandemic fallout.

Attendance Two factors were considered in evaluating the Who Cares Most attendance award: raw numbers and percentage of available capacity. For the 2019 football season, which wasn’t particularly successful for the Frogs, Gary Patterson’s purple people showed up to the tune of 257,288 attendees across six home kickoffs. In something that should be no surprise to anyone, the most packed game was against the Texas Longhorns. Second place belonged to Jim Schlossnagle’s baseball team, who lassoed 118,341 in-person fans across 27 home games in 2019. Last place was

Jamie Dixon’s basketballers, who logged a competitive season appearing against UT in the NIT semifinals. Dixon and company played in front of 111,554 fans that season during 17 home tips. Advantage in raw numbers clearly belongs to football, who more than doubled baseball’s attendance despite playing fewer than a quarter of their games. “What about stadium size?” someone screams from the back, making a valid point. Amon G. Carter’s theoretical capacity is 47,000 Frog fanatics, while Lupton stadium maxes out at a modest 4,500 with some wiggle room on the lawn bordering the outfield fences. Basketball’s home at Schollmaier Arena tops out with 8,500 basketball boosters. The most efficient sport with their home space was baseball, who averaged an impressive 97% filled throughout their home season.

This figure is somewhat skewed by their overflow space, with baseball meeting or exceeding their theoretical capacity on 10 different occasions. Football finished second in this subcategory packing the Carter to 88% full on average. Basketball — just like their raw attendance — was last, averaging only 77% full after accounting for the entire season.

Opponents were influential for individual game attendance. Baseball — similar to football — attracted their largest single attendance figure when the Longhorns came to town, but most fans in attendance across a three-game series came against Baylor. Basketball’s best attendance favored perennial power Kansas, with UT slightly behind at

second-most. Football fans, as discussed before, favored watching Texas as well, but the Bears brought TCU faithful in comparably impressive amounts. David Roditi’s men’s tennis program garners an honorable mention for securing multiple awards for best home attendance. The results from this attendance analysis are inconclusive, so allow me to move on to the second portion, which isn’t.

Revenue Hold on to your rally caps, baseball fans, because I’m probably about to bean you with a fastball. Frog football yields more than tenfold the revenue from ticket sales as baseball despite only 55% greater gross attendance for their respective seasons.

The final figures in 2019 reported slightly less than $10 million in ticket sales for Patterson’s program, while Sclossnagle’s boys raked in just shy of $900,000. Dixon’s dribblers middled the two but weren’t even close to football, netting $1.4 million in total. In 2018-19 — the most recent period where all sports played full nonCovid seasons — football accounted for more than 81% of all ticket revenue when factoring in every sport TCU competes in. I’m not completely sure these figures are consistent throughout every major university, but I’d bet much more on it than I would on my NCAA tournament bracket. So is it true that no one cares about baseball or basketball? No, we just care at least two or maybe even 10 times more about football. l

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Believe it or not, it’s not my intention to troll or piss people off. This column strives to remain a sacred space to discuss the unimportant goings on of college sports with an emphasis on our hometown Frogs.

With still multiple months of college baseball remaining, I’ll refrain from hopping headlong into the diamond just yet and ask an honest question brought to my attention earlier this week. Who cares?

I’ve been following, but only lightly watching, the progression of March Madness as I’m sure most do this time of year. None of my regular readers would be surprised from my joy at the first-round banishment of second-seeded Ohio State

by Oral Roberts. In another surprising twist, UNT — the only team from our area to earn an invitation — surprised fourth-seeded Purdue to earn a round of 32 appearance before losing to Villanova, who’ll take on Baylor in the Sweet Sixteen.

Even Texas Southern managed to survive a play-in contest to make an appearance in the opening round only to be routed by first-seed Michigan. In perhaps the most talked about game in our great state, Abilene Christian might prove themselves the dunce cap on Shaka Smart’s tenure at Texas as the Wildcats defeated the Longhorns by a single point. Texas Tech — who played for a national championship only two years ago — advanced past the Utah State Aggies only to be dismissed back to their dust bowl by the Arkansas Razorbacks. A dear Red Raider frenemy of mine posted shortly after Lubbock’s demise that he was moving on to baseball season as many are this week. A regular troll to his musings asserted that no one really cares about basketball, or baseball, and that we were all just waiting for football season. While I agreed on the surface with the statement, it inspired me to dig a little into the numbers. All sports have a place in our hearts and fandom for

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For those of every faith, from Agnostics to Unitarians, Easter is a time to celebrate. For a complete list of non-food activities from the secular to the divine, read next week’s Big Ticket column in the Night & Day section. Meanwhile, we foodie types can plot and plan and dine at various locations for brunch next weekend. Here are eight.

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1.) B&B Butchers & Restaurant (5212 Marathon Av, 817-737-5212) — a classic steakhouse with a traditional high-end butcher shop — is offering its regular brunch and dinner menus on Sun, Apr 4, from 10am to 3pm and 4pm to 9pm with live music during dinner. For reservations — which are recommended — call B&B at 817737-5212 or go to Bit.ly/BBButchersFWRes. 2.) Complimentary hotel valet parking will be available for Easter Brunch at Cast Iron at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel (1300 Houston St, 817-350-4072) on Sun, Apr 4, starting at 11am.

The chef-served buffet will feature a made-toorder breakfast, chilled seafood appetizers; a chef ’s carving station with honey-baked ham, slow-roasted turkey, leg of lamb, and salmon entrees; an assortment of sides; and all the desserts you like. The cost is $68 per adult, $35 per child, and free for children ages 5 and under, plus tax and service charges. To reserve a table, call Cast Iron at 817-350-4072 or visit OpenTable.com.

3.) Two sittings are available for Easter brunch at Ella B’s (1004 N Collins St, Arlington, 972898-3306). Join Chef Patrick Whitfield on Sun, Apr 4, from 11am to 1pm or from 1:30pm to 3:30pm. The cost is $34.99 per person for breakfast (eggs, bacon, sausage, and seasoned potatoes), entrees (fried catfish, fried chicken, smoked chicken, or meatloaf included or addon lamb chops for a $5 extra), and your choice of two sides (cabbage, corn, green beans, mac ’n’ cheese, and yams). To reserve a time, call Ella B’s at 972-898-3306.

4.) If you are not into brunch, Silver Fox Steakhouse (1651 S University Dr, 817-3329060) has its full menu available for dine-in or curbside every Sunday, along with its brunch menu. This fact is true for Easter Sunday as well. The special brunch menu on Sun, Apr 4, from 11am to 4pm is $49 per person and includes your entree, sides, and mimosas

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5.) Social House is offering its usual full brunch menu for Sun, Apr 4, at both the Fort Worth location (840 Currie St, 817820-1510) and the Arlington one (1705 N Collins, Ste 101, 682-276-3830) from 10am to 4pm. To make a reservation, visit OpenTable.com/R/The-Social-House-FortWorth or OpenTable.com/R/The-SocialHouse-Arlington.

6.) Texas Spice at Omni Dallas Hotel (555 S Lamar St, 214-652-4529) features a chef-served Easter Brunch on Sun, Apr 4, every half hour from 10:30am to 4pm. The options include hot made-to-order breakfast items, assorted salads, a chef ’s carving station with honey ham and roasted striploin, plus desserts. The cost is $36 per adult, $12 per child, and free for ages 5 and under, plus tax and gratuity. To reserve a time slot, call Texas Spice at 214-652-4529 or visit OpenTable.com/Texas-Spice.

7.) At Winslow’s Wine Cafe (4101 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-731-6515), the Easter Brunch on Sun, Apr 4, has four seating times: 10:30am, 11am, 12:30pm, and 1pm. The breakfast selections include bacon, cheeses, sausage, and made-to-order omelets. The pastry options are French toast, muffins, fresh pastries, and waffles, and the entrees will be two carving stations with prime rib and stuffed pork loin, plus pizza and other kid-friendly fare. While the set-up is buffet stations, staff will be serving you. The cost is $45 per adult and $15 per child age 10 and under, plus tax and gratuity. To make a reservation, call Winslow’s at 817-731-6515.

8.) Don’t forget man’s best friend this Easter season. Three Dog Bakery (817 E Lamar Blvd, Arlington, 817-795-3165) — a bakery that bakes fresh treats and cakes for dogs — has your pups covered with their own Easter brunch. For $19.99, receive a meal that includes banana nut muffins, a carrotcake bar, a fresh fruit cup, and a turkey and cheese quiche, plus an Easter egg filled with treats. The deadline to order is Thu, Apr 1, for pickup on Fri, Apr 2, or Sat, Apr 3. To order, call the bakery at 817-795-3165 or stop by.

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on a spit before being shaved into thin slices, served in the fold of corn tortillas, and sprinkled with onion and cilantro.

But at the newest Mexican eatery in the West 7th corridor, the entertainment comes first, and the food, at least the appetizers, is a byproduct. San Diego-based El Chingon, which bills itself as “Bad Ass Mexican,” does not exhibit mom-and-pop characteristics in the slightest, and the only part of that description that bears any truth is that, yes, the apps are bad.

A scroll through social media reveals that El Chingon (Spanish for “bad ass” or “best of the best”) was built to party — and that’s perfectly fine if that’s what you’re looking for. They know their customer base, and with the Fort Worth location being their second, in addition to other concepts

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When the word “taqueria” comes to mind, rarely is it synonymous with scantily clad female employees, a human dressed in a beer bottle costume corrupting a pole, and surprisingly great customer service. Not that authentic taquerias we have come to love provide terrible customer service, but typically the food is the sole focus, and that’s enough to warrant return visits.

Taquerias operating throughout Fort Worth are mostly owned by hardworking families showcasing various food styles from native regions. Take Jalisco’s seafoodheavy influences or the streets of Mexico City, where pineapple-soaked pork rotates

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in California, they’ve learned how to throw a bottle-serviced banger. Energetic Latino music bounces off the walls, festive colors cover murals and furniture, and a generously sized patio and outdoor bar come complete with a painted airstream trailer.

Without bringing the hammer down to hit tilt, praise is to be provided for El Chingon’s customer service. Having one attentive server is always good, but an entire team working together to ensure you’re taken care of is noteworthy. Our drinks never ran dry, any food that came out wrong was promptly corrected, and finished plates never lingered long.

Secondly, every drink ordered from a tequila- and mezcal-dominant list was as polished as possible. Choose the base of your drink for $10, then add a blanco, reposado, or anejo tequila or mezcal for a couple dineros more.

The Mexican Firing Squad was a big hit. Its briny reposado — a tequila typically “rested” for less than a year in oak barrels — sang along with in-house grenadine and bitters. The fruity guava- and agaveforward Battle of Juarez upended the basic Jose Cuervo by turning it into a smooth sipper, while smoked bitters and the smokiness of mezcal tangoed gracefully with almond orgeat for The Zapata.

And that’s where most of the positives ended.

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queso fundido, which came served in a not-so-sizzling skillet, lukewarm and gooey. Due to the mildness of both the mozzarella and Manchego cheeses, the dip, once cooled, became a block of dairy that shattered our chips into pieces. The minced chorizo had a cinnamon-esque sweetness to it that failed to complement the dish as we had hoped.

Next was an elote that was nothing more than a boiled corncob where the advertised fire roastedness went MIA prior to being sliced into wheels finished with a slathering of mayo, cotija cheese, and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. Usually a bowl or cob of elote will disappear with ease when in front of me, but this was barely edible, more so just a novelty.

The ceviche tostada with cod and shrimp, drizzled with agave syrup and touched with cilantro, red onion, jalapeno, and avocado, missed the mark when compared to other ceviches I’ve eaten before. The fish was unduly chunky and rubbery, and collectively with all of the other ingredients, the serving was rather humdrum. This dish should have been a satisfying balance of salty and tangy-sweet, spicy and freshly bright.

And we were dying to try the wedge salad with the addition of al pastor, but unfortunately the spicy habanero cream overwhelmed the iceberg lettuce to the point of being unbearable to eat due to excessive heat, which is usually a quality I seek fully aware of the gut-twisting punishment to follow.

The tacos saved the day. Abundant with delectable meat fillings, light on the garnish of pickled onion and cilantro and a spread of crema, and stuffed in doubled corn tortillas, the tacos are well worth trudging through the unappetizing apps.

It’s as if something clicked in the kitchen.

The flight of tacos for $15 on the happy hour lists five tacos, and this will be your best bet rather than forking over $14 for a plate of three tacos plus rice and beans.

With fajita plates that fluctuate between $23 and $48, depending on how many hungry people are in your party, just remember El Chingon can most certainly deliver a party. Unfortunately, the appetizers won’t be invited. l

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How delighted we are that 2020 is behind us. With restaurants and bars closed left and right starting March of 2020, FWW hunkered down, ran a lean staff, consolidated our separate food and beverage sections to a simple moniker of Eats & Drinks, canceled El Fuerte Taco Fest, and did not publish Eats Magazine 2020. In celebration of the local food community’s survival, the bars that now serve food, and the stores that give a local edge to shopping for culinary supplies for home cooking, we are proud to relaunch our annual magazine with a new name. As a tip of the hat to our previous culinary adventures, welcome to ZEST 2021, your guide to local eats, drinks, and shops.

With thousands of places to choose from, we know how difficult it can be for businesses to stand out in the crowd. Each year, we provide our readers with the most comprehensive guide in DFW. Welcome to ZEST, the Weekly’s 14th annual food and drinks guide! ZEST informs the community about all the best restaurants, gastro pubs, farmers markets, bars, and more...all in one fell swoop. Our readers keep this coffee-table style piece as a reference throughout the year for where to eat, drink, shop, and have fun. ZEST allows businesses, to brag about what makes your business stand out in a sea of options.

Along with being inserted into the paper you now hold in your hot, little hand, this special edition will also be found throughout the spring and summer at key high-traffic locations around the area. Plus, ZEST is online at FWWeekly.com for a FULL YEAR in our Magazines section. Enjoy!

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Great songwriting can be revealed through infinite musical forms. From McCartney’s infectious, sappy piano ditties to the simplechild’s-song-run-through-a-Burroughsfilter appeal of Kurt Cobain’s stanzas and the activism-fueled bars of Chuck D, there is no standard sonic delivery system for moving words or arrangements. There’s still just something about the intimacy of stripped-down acoustic folk music. The format somehow lays bare the fundamental essence of a song. There’s a reason those heralded as some of the greatest songwriters ever (Bob Dylan, John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, many others) favored the medium.

It’s as if all the methods artists may use to move a listener — to evoke emotion — are distilled into their most basic elements, concentrated and highlighted by the nearly naked verses. All you need is a voice and simple accompaniment — “good bones,” as Cameron Smith calls it.

“It’s just the bones,” he said of the genre. “I love the intimacy of it, like

Smith: “That’s not to say I won’t ever do anything [different] again, but for now, it’s definitely singersongwriter-centric and probably will be for a while.”

folky. That was the stuff that I was first into.

That’s not to say I won’t ever do anything [different] again, but for now, it’s definitely singer-songwriter-centric and probably will be for a while.”

With the “freedom” that lockdown afforded many people, Smith has seen a recent explosion of productivity. There’s the forthcoming Sur Duda record from which he’s released three singles already, a covers album he’s working on with his wife, Steevie Smith, a sort of “the Smiths covering the Smiths” project featuring songs by the likes of The Smiths (naturally), Elliott Smith, and Mark E. Smith of The Fall. Cameron Smith also has contributed to an upcoming track by Katie Robertson (Chucho) as well as lyrics and vocals for two songs on the upcoming 50-song O. Deletron collaboration album.

(Disclosure: I am a member of O. Deletron.)

But it’s the next solo album he’s currently finishing that he’s most excited about.

Tentatively titled Shine, the eight originals and two covers maintain the songwriter’s songwriting in which Smith has immersed himself in recent years. If “There Is a Price” is any indication of what’s in store, the album — due out late spring/early summer — will likely see Smith’s continuing development

into the exemplar confessional songwriters who are his heroes.

From lead-screamer in hardcore bands as a teen to fronting blithesome garagerockers War Party in his 20s to now a mature and developed solo artist, Smith hasn’t experienced a linear evolution, necessarily, but the arc has been certainly bent in one direction — one that is to the benefit of those looking to build upon “good bones.” As an artist, his only concern now is doing what’s “on my heart.” The only pressure he feels now is the pressure to get it all off his chest.

“As I’ve gotten older, the things I want have slowly changed,” he said. “It happens while you’re sleeping. You don’t even realize it. You wake up one day, and you’re somebody else with a whole different set of goals. When you’re younger, you have these big dreams.

You have only this one big thing in mind back when you’re sure your life is like a movie or whatever, but then you realize you don’t have to do it that way. Things can be separate and compartmentalized. You don’t have to make money. You don’t need to be famous. Maybe you don’t even want those things and aren’t prepared for them anyway.

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someone is in the room with you. If you’re someone who’s into the sentiment of music — the human element of it — you like that stripped-down sound. They talk about how a house has ‘good bones.’ It’s the same. There’s something structural about it, and you can kind of build it to whatever you want it to be on top.”

With the recent release of his latest single, “There Is a Price,” Smith seems to have fully embraced this aesthetic. The solemn track begins with a Leonard Cohenesque acoustic waltz and subtle glockenspiel before Smith employs the haunting melody of a medieval ballad. Violin, acoustic bass, and bowed saw blades carry the funereal “ooh”s over the bridge until lifting into a bright chorus. The captivating song was a collaboration with Curtis Heath (Theater Fire), whose day job as a film/podcast composer helped lend the track its lush melancholia.

“He’s got this really cool home studio with all these fun weird instruments,” Smith said of working with Heath. “It’s all the stuff people would use for Hans Zimmer scores or whatever. After the first session, he sent me home with a bow and a saw to learn to play.

That’s characteristic of working with Curtis.

He’s deliberate and thoughtful and really wants to catch the vibe of what something is, which is the way I want to do things going forward. ‘What is the feeling?’ ” “There Is a Price” is the first music Smith has released as a solo artist since 2019’s arresting A Good Way to Say Goodbye and points to a continuation of the warm and confessional sound developed on that album. Although he’s still juggling the last bit of material for the sophomore release of Sur Duda, his full indie rock band, and plans on continuing as a guitar player for Hot Knife, as far as the material he’s interested in writing as a solo artist, he feels his direction is fairly set for now.

“All those things still have their places,” he said, “but when I’m working on my own stuff, it’s always more of what you might call traditional singer-songwriter — definitely

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The biggest is Mammal Fest, the inaugural one-day benefit for people “hit hard financially by another family member’s suicide,” says organizer Lance Sanders of the dark and trippy Mammal Virus. All proceeds from the $7 cover will go directly to the beneficiaries. “It’s to help these families get back on their feet,” Sanders says.

The music starts inside at 1pm

Daybreak Hits. Doors open at 9:30pm. Wear a mask.

Stay beer-spitting distance away from friends.

Saturday at Lola’s Saloon (2736 W 6th St, 817-877-0666) with Apolonio Romero Jr., followed by Smokin’ Jake Ferris and, at 3pm, Grey Parsons from Austin’s Heavenly States.

The Mammal Virus will headline the adjacent Lola’s Trailer Park (2735 W 5th St, 817-759-9100) at 10pm, preceded on the

Big Heaven brings their rowdy power-pop to Lola’s Trailer Park as part of a show to benefit the families of suicide victims on Sat.

hour by Jay Non Stop, FTW, Trav Is, One in the Chamber, Big Heaven, and, at 4pm, Denver Williams.

Mammal Fest is sponsored by EMPEndurance Music Productions, Mama Lu’s Kitchen, and Dragon Amps.

“I decided to do this because I had several friends kill themselves in the last

Adventurous, raw singer-songwriter Denver Williams will perform on Sat at Lola’s Trailer Park as part of Mammal Fest, a benefit for families victimized by suicide.

year, and a couple left behind a wife and kids,” Sanders says. “They’ve lost damn near everything, and I wanted to help out the best way I know how, and that’s to put on a big show with good musicians and great sponsors. Hopefully, we can help these families get back on their feet.”

Go to the show. Wear a mask, please.

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FRI 3/26 & SAT 3/27: Thin Line Fest Watch Party. (Denton's nationally renowned festival is going virtual this year but you have the opportunity to watch with some friends and a beer. The musical portion of the festival will be live-streaming outside on the patio on a big, blowup screen with a nice loud sound system. Documentary shorts and features will be rolling in the speakeasy with limited seating.)

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