Fort Worth Weekly // April 17-23, 2024

High Times … for Now

Our a-hole lieutenant governor may move on from bathrooms to entire houses to stop hemp.

By Steve Steward

Art Fair Time

Take in all the art, cuisine, and music in Sundance Square

Thu-Sun.

By Elaine Wilder

Beyond Good

Yummy burgers await in a South Fort Worth gas station.

By Madison Simmons

Yolk Music

With The Good Egg, Black Market Garden whips up tasty new sounds.

By Juan R. Govea

About the Artists on FW Weekly’s Cover and Back Cover:

Sundance Square’s 2024 Fort Worth Art Fair is proud to showcase the work of Fort Worth artists like Kelsha Reese Spencer (Front Cover “Buckin’” paper collage) and Brian Dickson Jr. (Back Page “There A Glitch In Your System” mixed media).

Kelsha Reese Spencer was born and reared in Stop Six. She is an accomplished multidisciplinary artist as well as a high school art teacher in Arlington ISD and art instructor/mentor with adjudicated youth in Tarrant and Dallas Counties . Specializing in collage and acrylic work, Spencer's art is driven by her southern roots, the feminist perspective, and a dedication to amplifying the voices of marginalized people, particularly focusing on the narratives of Black women. Beyond her artistic practice, Spencer is deeply committed to making a positive impact in her community through creativity, dedicating her expertise to empowering young individuals. With each piece she creates and each life she touches, Kelsha contributes to a more inclusive and empathetic world.

Brian Dickson Jr. is a mixed-media artist from East Fort Worth and graduated from FWISD’s Paul Laurence Dunbar's Young Men's Leadership Academy. He received a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies from TCU; and will soon receive an M.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies from UNT. Brian has shown at Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts (The Historic Turner House), Arts Fort Worth, 400h Gallery and Studio, and in 2023 won the Cowtown Buckaroo Artist Showdown. Today, Brian is Education Coordinator at Kinfolk House. His work references personal experiences with discovering joy, strength, love and worth while simultaneously surviving oppression. Though the stories Brian conveys in his work are his experiences as a Black Man in America. Brian strongly believes the messages in his work can inspire anyone to leave the shackles of fear and live boldly despite their dark past and uncertain future.

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Texas Forgetting

Murderers are scary, but the state legislature is right up there with them.

BY E.R. BILLS

So, I’m sitting in a Port Lavaca hotel room on a weekday evening, thinking about winding down. It’s been a long drive from Fort Worth, and traffic has been a beating. But then I open the roller-shade on the only window in my room and see it.

No, not the ocean, though I see that, too.

It’s the Shellfish.

And, no, not a shellfish. The Shellfish. The Port Lavaca restaurant. It looks closed down, and I don’t immediately recall why I know the place.

I’m in Port Lavaca to do some research

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for a new book. I wouldn’t say it’s been an all-consuming process of late, but spotting the Shellfish sidetracks me.

Then, I remember. I realize where I am.

I’ve written a lot about some pretty dark stuff. Massacres, murders, lynchings, rapes, genocide, ecocide, disappearances, expulsions, and cataclysms. It would be unfair to say the stuff doesn’t leave an impression on you or, in this case, me, but if you do it long enough, you can lose track. You care about the victims and the people in the stories, or cases or history you’re researching, but when enough of it piles up in your memory, you can slip.

I slipped.

I got invited to a history festival in Houston that Saturday and decided I’d kill two or three birds with one stone (a horrible metaphor in the end). In Port Lavaca, I visited the site of the old port city of Indianola, the victim of two late 19th-century cataclysms. I’m focused on the subject matter at hand and not paying attention to other details. For instance, I didn’t notice that my hotel was located right before the Port Lavaca causeway. And I also didn’t realize my hotel sat between the causeway and the Shellfish.

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Forty-three years ago, on the morning of April 1, 1981, a 24-year-old woman named Kathryn Elizabeth Collins disappeared in front of the Shellfish restaurant just off the Port Lavaca causeway. A tire on her brown

1974 Chevy Caprice had gone flat. She attempted to change it but didn’t have a jack. A couple stopped to help, but they didn’t have a jack, either, so they left to borrow one. At approximately 8:45 a.m., a tan van pulled up. Multiple witnesses saw a man stepping out of the van and offering to help. Kathryn apparently joined him for a ride, but the tire on the Caprice never got fixed, and Kathryn Collins was never heard from or seen again.

In Texas Oblivion: Mysterious Disappearances, Escapes and Cover-Ups in 2021, I devoted a chapter to her and another young lady who had disappeared in the area just three years earlier. Kirkus Reviews called my book “authoritative and well-researched,” and Texas Books in Review had high praise for the collection, calling me “a voice for the forgotten.”

All well and good then, but now I don’t feel authoritative or reliably vocal. I feel mute and amnesic. I am embarrassed and a little ashamed.

Sometimes I forget I’m a tourist with a typewriter — sorry, a “keyboard.”

We try to get the stories right. We try to tell the truth. We try to be mindful of the victims and their families and maybe help

Mother Kathryn Elizabeth Collins went missing 43 years ago in Port Lavaca after she stopped her 1974 Chevy Caprice to change a flat tire.

them find some closure. Maybe even help them find answers.

But then we’re on to the next story. The next disappearance. The next murder. The next cataclysm.

There are so, so many in Texas. And so many Texans are hurting. But we’re not real keen on remembering, these days. Especially on Opening Day.

While I was staring out my hotel window at the spot where Kathryn Elizabeth Collins disappeared, most folks back home were watching the reigning World Series champion Texas Rangers (or, down here, the Houston Astros) play baseball.

And a week from the anniversary of the day Collins disappeared was eclipsed in my memory by another story, that we’d be witnessing an actual solar eclipse — between meaningless sports spectacles and the reporting of well-meaning but forgetful journalists.

In late 1984, infamous serial killer Henry Lee Lucas was interviewed regarding a number of cases in Victoria County, Calhoun County, and surrounding counties, but the dates he said he was in the area didn’t correspond with Collins’ disappearance. In 1991, investigators looked at serial killer Donald Leroy Evans regarding the incident, but no connection was ever established.

I talked to employees at the hotel where I was staying, and they’d never heard of Kathryn Collins. They had to look it up on

their phones. They were surprised. And so were some older locals I visited with at the Calhoun County Museum in Port Lavaca. They didn’t remember the disappearance, either. They had never even heard of it. It was sad, but my lapse of memory was worse, especially in a year that will later mark the 50th anniversary of the disappearance of three girls at a Fort Worth mall, a complete and utter vanishing that for a while kept people away from the place that’s now La Gran Plaza.

I have a daughter about the age Collins was when she went missing. I can’t help but be a little uneasy about my daughter driving alone, especially at night, but Collins was

taken in the daytime. She was 5’5”, brown hair, brown eyes, petite. She had a young son and a boyfriend. Her son eventually went to live with her boyfriend’s family.

As another National Women’s History Month passes, I think about all that women have endured in Texas. I marvel at all their incredible contributions, and then I think about how many women I know who are talking about leaving Texas because they don’t feel safe. And I understand.

I am discomfited by the creepy, unconscionable chauvinism reemerging in Texas politics, essentially reinforcing the objectification and subjugation of women at the same time.

The Texas legislature is much scarier than one guy in a tan van — if he got you pregnant and let you live, the state lege would make you keep the fruit of his brutality. And if you tried to abort it, you could be sued by Christian activists or thrown in jail.

Will the current abortion of female autonomy in Texas be forgotten?

Will future Texans even remember it existed?

Even right near where Kathryn Elizabeth Collins was possibly abducted, the people to whom the author recently spoke knew nothing about the incident from 1981.

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Art by E.R. Bills

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Hope and Joy

Despite our current condition, the author recommends both.

BY KEN WHEATCROFT-PARDUE

My daddy always swore it was true, and, I guess, a 14-year-old boy would notice such things.

When Montgomery, Alabama, finally got word of Japan’s surrender, spontaneous dancing broke out in the streets. My daddy was thrilled because he didn’t have to hustle to hawk his newspapers. That huge headline — “VJ Day!” — sold them all for him. Then after taking a breather to enjoy

his entrepreneurial accomplishment, he spied three nude young women.

No mad Gorgons turning celebratory jitterbuggers to stone, no matron Fates spinning yarn, but young American womanhood, full-bodied with finger waves, celebrating in a downtown fountain naked as the day they were born. Forget all about your black-and-white memories. This was in living color. Our mothers and fathers were not, as we were told, priggish wallflowers. News flash: Your generation did not invent sex, let alone exuberant joy.

Imagine those years of war, all the doing-without they endured. And we tend to forget, the thousands of casualties that deeply scarred loved ones all over the country. Back then, grief was an everyday occurrence — the letter, the knock on the door, the news that flattened you like an A-bomb.

So, what were they celebrating? All that misery finally being over. And why wouldn’t they? I suppose you can blame it all on joy. Yes, joy! From our always crabby 21st century, I vote for you! Joy, joy, and more joy!

That World War II generation braved an era that asked for a much greater sacrifice than we faced with COVID shutdowns and mask mandates, and somehow that generation survived without succumbing to bird-brained conspiracy theories. These days, even spring with its trees budding with waxy newborn green leaves barely seems to get us out of our perennial funk. The world is too much with us if robins,

daffodils, and redbud trees can’t shake us, even for a moment, from our dystopian nightmares.

In our own country, we’ve had full employment for more than two years, but

many of us still think the economy is as bad as if we were in the middle of the deepest recession. You can surely blame most of that on Republicans’ media-of-choice continued on page 9

The happily over-the hill couple share a kiss — and hope for the future.

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brainwashing the gullible, but this mental funk is greater than that. And we all have to fight it. Sometimes “hope is the thing with feathers,” while other times, it is something we build, despite what everyone around us is saying.

And so I ignored Shakespeare’s warning — “beware the Ides of March” — and got married on that infamous date. A 67-year-old does not marry unless he harbors some hope for the future. My bride, her son, my daughter, the grandkids, and other assorted family members and friends met us downtown at the beautiful, pink granite, Renaissance Revival Tarrant County Courthouse to witness — as Oscar Wilde wrote about second marriages “the triumph of hope over experience.”

It had been pouring a few minutes earlier, but when we jogged from the parking lot across the street to the courthouse, the sky was clear and the air freshened. Once inside, we found the office of the Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace ran a tight ship. Even with numerous clusters of soon-to-be married couples and their parties clogging the hallways outside of court, we got married close to our appointed time. And the JP, who I’m sure has officiated more times than I could imagine, cared enough to make it a special moment.

Now, I’m not saying that because I had one good day we should all be copacetic about our world of 2024. We face real problems. The climate crisis and continuing inequality top my list. In Texas, we’re dealing with one of the most reactionary state governments in the country, forcing birth, bashing immigrants, demonizing public schools, and scapegoating pretty much everybody who’s not white, hetero, and fundamentalist. And, sadly, too many of our fellow citizens still worship at The Church of Don the Con, whom presidential historians unsurprisingly rank as the 46th “best” president in the history of our country. In other words, the absolute worst.

Having spent a good bit of my growing-up years in the turbulent ’60s, I’ve fortunately been immune to the siren calls of those who insist the world is going to hell and its corollary, that in some nameless time in the past, everything was perfect or pretty nearly so. Growing up when political assassinations, urban riots, and the threat of nuclear annihilation were everyday realities does that. Or should. Our time is complicated, as all times are. A simpler, quieter time has never existed. Despite that, hope and joy are possible, and I recommend them both. l

Fort Worthian Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue happily lives in the crabby 21st century.

This column reflects the opinions and fact-gathering of the author(s) and only the author(s) and not the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly. com. He will gently edit it for clarity and concision.

Local Art, Cuisine, and Music Will Overflow the Fort Worth Art Fair This Weekend

The third annual Fort Worth Art Fair was created to honor the city’s rich artistic legacy and celebrate all things local, including art, cuisine, and music. The art tent will be open 10am-8:30pm Thu-Sun, but feel free to wander Sundance Square on your own. For a more curated experience, here is a breakdown of some fair-related happenings.

Special Events

Thursday

Start the weekend with the Art Fair KickOff Party at 400h Gallery (400 Houston St) 6pm-8pm Thu. There will be a meet-andgreet with artist/curator Sarah Ayala, along with cocktails, light bites, and music.

Friday

Join local artist Jana Renee as HerStory Gallery (333 Houston St) celebrates Renee’s exhibition of ethereal paintings 6pm-8pm. The reception includes a live art demo and tequila cocktails. While there, check out women-led brands from around the globe. From 1pm to 4pm, visit the studio (101 2nd St) of Sundance Square artist-in-residence Karinne Smith (@bend_oeuvre) to see her artistic practice in action and view her new sculptural works in preparation for an upcoming solo show.

Saturday

Artist of the month Mouty Shackelford (@ MoutyShackart) will be at Lookout Hill Yarn & Art Supply (316 Main St, Fort Worth,

It’s time for the third annual Fort Worth Art Fair in Sundance Square.

817-247-3519) 6pm-8pm. Multimedia work by the local creative appears to be fabric or plastic but is sculpted out of paint, thread, and resin. View her work throughout April.

Sunday

At 1pm, 400h Gallery (400 Houston St, Fort Worth, 817-222-1111) hosts the Fort Worth Art Fair Panel Discussion moderated by Maggie Adler, curator at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. The panel includes artists Brenda Melgoza Ciardiello, Dr. Valerie Gillespie, and Kelsha Spencer.

Art All Weekend

Thursday thru Sunday

For artwork by local creatives who have recently exhibited at 400h Gallery, including LaShonda Cooks, Brian Dickson Jr., Frank Sowells, Dahlia Horne, and Kelsha Spencer, head to Booth A2 at the fair.

Caravan of Dreams Gallery will be at Booth A4 10am-8:30pm. There will be work by photographer Courtney Carroll from the original Caravan of Dreams jazz club in 1984 along with other artists who represent the spirit of this cultural landmark that helped shape the creative scene here, including sculptural and three-dimensional work by Cary O’Keefe, Dizzy Orbit, Miguel Martin, and Nadia Rosales

Zona 7 Gallery will be at Booth A4 10am-8:30pm. The work of artists who have previously shown at Zona 7 Gallery, like Betsy Horne, Caya Crum, Charles Gray, Chelsea Reyes, Eva Herrera, Ivette Levy, Joy Reyes, Katie Jones, and Tatyana Alanis, will be on display.

Courtesy Fort Worth Art Fair

Works by photographer Courtney Carroll will be at the Caravan of Dreams booth. Courtesy Caravan of Dreams Gallery

Pictured: Elliot & Erick Jiménez, Blue Chapel (detail), 2022. Archival photo print on canvas in Artists’ custom frame.

inches. Set of

unique. © Elliot & Erick Jiménez. Photograph by Elliot & Erick Jiménez, courtesy of Spinello Projects

Let It Grow

Will Texas’ backward leadership harsh our hemp-fueled buzz? STORY AND PHOTOS

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Let It Grow

Will Texas’ backward leadership harsh our hemp-fueled buzz?

STORY AND PHOTOS BY STEVE STEWARD

Iwas 19 the first time I smoked weed. It was in 1997 at a party at “The Hole,” a rental house about a block north of University Christian Church near TCU. I didn’t know why it was called that, only that it was occupied by some dudes in the Ultimate Frisbee Club on campus. I think one of them was pre-med, and the others were all Advertising/PR majors. As you may imagine from that Frisbee detail, Phish was playing in the background, Dead posters were everywhere I looked, and there was a line in the kitchen leading to a grimy glass bong stationed on the stove. I got in line, which was long enough to take a couple pulls from a bottle of Taaka getting passed around. Hitting the bong — which I was surprised to find smelled like a diaper burning above some old, wet potatoes — took some coaching. A guy in cargo pants who sang along to Trey Anastasio’s guitar solos lit the bowl for me while I huffed, but after a couple tries, I cough-laughed a comically large cloud.

I threw up in a flower bed not too long after that, but in between getting fogged and barfing up cheap vodka, I sank into a couch, where my buddy Myles and I laughed hysterically about the theme song to Gremlins 2 for what seemed like an hour but was probably more like 50 seconds. For a college “first,” smoking weed turned out to be a pretty good time, even with the jam band soundtrack noodling into my shwag-addled brain.

A lot has changed in the intervening 27 years. For one thing, no freelance pharmaceutical salesperson I know has any shwag weed, and while that doesn’t sound like a problem, sometimes I have a hankering for that icky, sticky, baffle-brained, rebellious eighth-grader high, the one that makes your eyeballs look like maraschino cherries, gives you the weirdest headache, and can only be had from weed that looks like shrubbery from a model train display, if said shrubbery were somehow pressed into a brick in a brownie pan. Shitty weed is almost an endangered species, even in Texas, a place that will probably legalize cannabis only after the federal government has forced it to. Which leads me to another thing that has changed in the 27 years since I started smoking: While you can’t legally purchase cannabis products at a store in Texas, you can legally buy products made from hemp. And, well, they work exactly the same as their marijuana counterparts.

If that name sounds familiar, then I assume you know of her social media alter-ego, the Hemp Housewife, and her pre-rolled joint brand, Mamma Needs a Minute. For the uninitiated, the fortysomething Flores, a mom of four kids ranging in age from 9 to 19, redefined her relationship with cannabis in the wake of the pandemic before taking to social media as an advocate for the medical benefits of marijuana.

“During the pandemic,” she said at Power Biopharms recently, “I think everyone was going through a mental health crisis. I was certainly myself. [I was] abusing alcohol. I was on a bunch of different prescription drugs for depression, anxiety, all that fun stuff. I used cannabis for fun, but I didn’t respect it. I went to a real, legal cannabis dispensary for the first time — it was in Las Vegas — and the guy there was like, ‘What do you want cannabis for?’ And I said, ‘I’m trying to get fucked up,’ y’know, trying to be funny, and he was like, ‘Well, [cannabis] can help with anxiety. It can help you sleep better.’ … He told me all these things that it could help with.

“I felt like I was doing a therapy session, and I remember leaving there and thinking, ‘Damn, I take medicine for all that stuff,’ and I knew that cannabis could help with those things. … I would say I was maybe even abusing cannabis [during the pandemic]. I wasn’t using it in a healthy way, and, now, I’m like, ‘This is how I’m going to use it, for medicinal purposes.’ After that dispensary experience, I came home and really dove into how I can use [cannabis] to benefit my health. … I am no longer on those medications. The last time I drank was in the middle of December, and it was just a reminder of like, ugh, why I don’t. … I remembered quickly that I can’t just have one drink, and it reminded me of how I was abusing alcohol during the pandemic, and I didn’t want to fall back into that habit.”

A few weeks ago, amid a break during our weekly D&D game, a friend of mine whom I’ll call Claxton asked, “You tried that loophole weed yet?” I replied that I had and

that, in fact, it was indistinguishable, both in form and feel, from the weed in the pipe getting passed around our group.

“Loophole weed,” which is legal per the 2018 Farm Bill that legalized the sale of hemp and hemp products containing less than .03% THC by dry weight, contains the molecule THCa. When heated, THCa turns into THC, producing essentially the same exact effects — the euphoria, the scattered, lateral thought processes, the munchies — as marijuana.

I’d also tried a “loophole gummy,” a

10mg edible purchased at Roy Pope Grocery, of all places. Both of them hit the spot in the same way a few pints of the nonalcoholic THCa seltzer Lil’ Bit does, just like a few cans of the similar, locally made seltzer Power House.

A collaboration between Fort Worth’s Martin House Brewing Co. and Power Biopharms, Power House is a seltzer made by the former with the hemp-derived THCa produced by the latter. Though Martin House makes the beverage, they do not sell it. That’s the job of Kim Flores.

“We’re not going to accept the negative stigma any longer for using hemp products and cannabis products.”

Flores took to social media to share her thoughts. “I was like, ‘Why are we afraid to talk about this?’ So, I went on the internet and started calling myself the Hemp Housewife. I wasn’t trying to ‘be’ anything at that time. I realized there was a real lack of education about cannabis, particularly with women my age. … On my 40th birthday was when I launched my brand, when I had products under my line.”

Her brand and tagline, Mamma Needs a Minute, came to be from regular posts in which she’d explain why a break is necessary.

“I would always imply that I was smoking a jay or something,” she said, “and I’d say something with the hashtag #mammaneedsaminute, and then I would start talking about products. Well, a guy in Washington State was like, ‘Hey, I want to talk to you about Mamma Needs a Minute, and, fast forward, I have a brand and licensing deal in Washington State” with wellness company Greenlink International and a cannabis retailer called the Herbery.

“That all happened within 10 months of me going on the internet,” she continued, “and that has been a huge learning experience, especially when I’m in Texas trying to work these deals. I have proof of concept, and people have been in my DMs asking how to get my products from Washington

The Hemp Housewife Kim Flores, a working mother of four, aims her brand Mamma Needs a Minute chiefly at folks like her.

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here, which you can’t, because those are in an adult-rec state, and you can’t ship those products here, but I can partner with a hemp grow and produce a THCa version, which is what we’ve done here at Power, and we launched my THCa rolls with them on December 1. … My whole thing was for the moms. My packaging has positive affirmations on all my pre-rolls — ‘You’re a bad bitch,’ ‘You’re loved,’ ‘You’re enough,’ ‘You’re resilient’ — and it’s all just to remind women everywhere that it’s OK to take a minute for themselves and that we’re not going to accept the negative stigma any longer for using hemp products and cannabis products.”

Modern Smoke, and VapeDZ. If you’re in North Fort Worth, there’s Emerald Organics in Keller, and, of course, I can’t say enough about those Roy Pope gummies, including that you might want to be in for the night before you eat one. These stores offer a legally purchasable hemp high, but whether or not that remains the case is not set in stone. Or even set in stoners, for that matter.

Anecdotally, I can say that one of the Hemp Housewife’s THCa pre-roll joints is pretty much like any pre-roll you’d buy in a legal state. It’s a very nice smoke, and it’s available in places like Thrive Apothecary. It’s also one of many brands, available in many stores across town — on West Magnolia Avenue alone, you can find THCa and CBD stuff at Panther Canna CBD,

The City of Austin decriminalized weed first, and in 2022, the cohesive efforts of separate nonprofits Texas Cannabis Collective, Mano Amigo, and Ground Game won the hearts and minds of people in Denton, Killeen, and San Marcos and successfully got those cities to pass ordinances decriminalizing marijuana — until Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick stepped in and overruled those municipalities, insisting that decriminalization conflicted with state laws, despite the obvious will of those cities’ voters.

Austin Zamhariri, who runs the Thrive location on South Main Street and started Texas Cannabis Collective as a Facebook page, said his org and others are working hard to get cannabis decriminalized in

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Full of legal hemp and CBD products, Thrive Apothecary is one of dozens of retailers that have opened across Fort Worth since around 2018.

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Dallas, though the heavy hands of the state’s well-funded conservative overlords will likely fall as they did in those other cities.

While Patrick does not seem to issue idle threats, these THCa and CBD businesses remain legal, just as cannabis continues to waft through mainstream American culture like a burning, overstuffed doob at a music festival. And on 4/20, in celebration of the universal weed holiday, Near Southside burger and craft beer emporium Pouring Glory will host a huge party starring weed-friendly performers Smokey Lewis & Brewed Up J/O/E, Pablo & The Hemphill 7, and Sally Majestic, among others. More than 40 “cannabis culture” vendors will be on hand, and there will be a drive to raise funds for statewide decriminalization efforts and register voters.

The paranoia that this could all come crashing down is real. Patrick’s agenda does not favor freedom, so if you partake of THCa and enjoy its intoxicating, decarboxylated form, a.k.a. what happens when you apply a flame to it, and would like to continue to buy it at upscale Westside grocery stores, the best thing you can do — aside from supporting these retailers — is vote for the politicians committed to bringing Texas’ marijuana policy into the 21st century with the other 28 states that have sensible cannabis policies.

Also, not to be cynical, but Dan Patrick is keeping a lot of hardworking, tax-paying entrepreneurs from making a living, providing jobs, and offering relief from a host of physical and mental maladies to Texans of all walks of life. If you don’t want your mellow harshed, you need to show up at the polls and vote these prohibitionists out. The sooner Texas legalizes cannabis, the sooner I can buy a bag of brick weed at a store though a return trip to The Hole is never out of the question. l

Cowtown Canna’s Wedding Crasher is derived from a strain of totally legal hemp-derived THCa flower.

YOU ARE INVITED TO ENJOY FORT WORTH'S FINEST ART, MUSIC & FUN

SUNDANCE SQUARE

APRIL 18-21, 2024

GALLERIES OPEN 10AM-8:30PM

FEATURED GALLERIES:

• LOCAL ARTISTS ONLY: CURATED BY RED MILK CRONE

• 400H GALLERY

• CARAVAN OF DREAMS GALLERY

• PENCIL ON PAPER GALLERY

• FAMILIA PRINTSHOP

• THE WORLDS WE ARE: CURATED BY BRENDA MELGOZA CIARDIELLO

• SUNDANCE SQUARE GALLERY

• ZONA 7 GALLERY

MUSIC SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, APRIL 18

COUNTRY / WESTERN

11:00 AM KRISTYN HARRIS 1:15 PM SQUEEZEBOX BANDITS

3:30 PM GINNY MAC 5:45 PM MATT HILLYER

8:00 TO 9:45 SUMMER DEAN

FRIDAY, APRIL 19

SINGERS / SONGWRITERS / STORYTELLERS

11:00 AM BARRY & THE SOULFLAKES 1:15 PM REMY REILLY

3:30 PM NIK PARR & THE SELFLESS LOVERS

5:45 PM JUNYA 8:00 PM KWINTON GRAY 10:00 PM TO MIDNIGHT DJ DANNY WEST

SATURDAY, APRIL 20

JAZZ / RHYTHM AND BLUES

11:00 AM CANDY WILLIAMS

1:15 PM GREGORY NEWMAN JAZZ QUINTET

3:30 PM QUAMON FOWLER 5:45 PM TATIANA LADYMAY MAYFIELD

8:00 PM SUNDANCE SQUARE BIG BAND 10:00 PM TO MIDNIGHT DJ DANNY WEST

SUNDAY, APRIL 21

LET’S DANCE!

11:00 AM MARIACHI REAL DE ALVAREZ

1:15 PM KNICE 2 KNOW 3:30 PM UNT LATIN JAZZ LAB

5:45 PM THE SPECIAL EDITION BAND 8:00 - 9:45PM LARA LATIN

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Music All Weekend

The live entertainment experience kicks off on Thursday as well. Here is who to see and when.

Thursday

From 11am to 9:45pm, Summer Dean, Matt Hillyer, Ginny Mac, Squeezebox Bandits, and Kristyn Harris will perform.

Friday

From 11am to midnight, there will be shows by Barry & The Soulflakes, Remy Reilly,

Kwinton Gray, Junya, Nik Parr & The Selfless Lovers, and DJ Danny West.

Saturday

The music continues with sets by Quamon Fowler, Tatiana “LadyMay” Mayfield, the Gregory Newman Jazz Quintet, the Sundance Square Big Band, Candy Williams, and DJ Danny West from 11am to midnight.

Sunday

Hear Knice 2 Know, Lara Latin, Mariachi Real de Alvarez, The Special Edition Band, and the UNT Latin Jazz Lab Band from 11am to midnight.

Read more about all the artists and vendors at FortWorthArtFair.com. For live updates during this weekend’s events, follow @ fwartfair on social media.

By Elaine Wilder

Ginny Mac will do her wonderful country stuff Thursday at the Fort Worth Art Fair.

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The UNT Latin Jazz Lab Band performs Sunday at the Fort Worth Art Fair.

Courtesy University of North Texas

If last week’s eclipse got you thinking about Mother Earth, your mind is in the right place. Every April, people worldwide celebrate Earth Day as a coordinated effort toward protecting the environment. First held in 1970, it now happens every April 22. If we take care of her, she will take care of us. Along with being a good steward of the resources available to us on this planet, a lot of us are also interested in the earth’s other kinds of bounties.

Yes. April is also when we lament the fact that marijuana is still illegal here, even though public support for recreational use has grown sky high over just the past few years alone. Urban legend has it that the first 420 party (i.e., “4/20”) was started by some California kids smoking out at 4:20pm every day. True or not, we’re all down for a theme party. Check out this week’s feature story for a bigger picture of the 420 scene, politically and party-wise. As for celebrating green buds and the blue planet, where munchies are plentiful for us lucky ones, I’ve got a few ideas.

It’s Easy Being Green

1.) Cheba Hut (1217 8th Av, Fort Worth, 682-224-0021), the “toasted” sub shop “curing munchies since its start in 1998,” hosts its Solar Sesh 420 Party 10am-midnight Sat. When you purchase a nug-size sammie that day for $4.20, you will also receive a commemorative golf disc while supplies last.

2.) The Cicada (1002 S Main St, Fort Worth, @the_cicada_ftw) is celebrating 420 with a Parking Lot Party 2pm-6pm Sat featuring a clothing swap to bring awareness to the nonprofit thrift store Berry Good Buys, plus flash tattoos, munchies, and vendors coordinated by Wandering Roots Markets There is no cost to attend.

3.) Pouring Glory (1001 Bryan Av, Fort Worth, 682-707-5441), the restaurant/ growler-filling station serving craft beer, food, and live music, hosts Fort Worth’s 420 Party from noon to 10pm Sat. Along with a curated food menu and a street market with artists, makers, and vendors, the outdoor stage welcomes Smokey Lew with Brewed Up J/O/E, Pablo & The Hemphill 7, Sally Majestic, and Denver Williams

4.) In celebration of “the world’s greatest plant family,” Thrive Apothecary (212 Carroll St, Fort Worth, 817-480-7098) hosts

its annual 420 Festival 2pm-6pm Sat. There will be drinks, treats, music, prize raffles, and vendor opportunities for all who attend this free community event.

5.) Self-described as a “staycation eatery,” Tropic Lady (2719 Race St, Fort Worth, 817-349-8034) offers beer, craft cocktails/ mocktails, salads, smash burgers, and wraps, all brought to you by the folks at the Bearded Lady. At the grand opening party Saturday from 11am to midnight, you’ll enjoy 420-themed festivities, live music, and a local vendor market.

Our Blue Planet

6.) While I do love IKEA, wandering around inside IRL would probably be my worst nightmare. Curbside pickup is my friend. But! I would take them up on a guided tour like the one offered by IKEA Grand Prairie (1000 IKEA Way, 972-641-9535). In honor of Earth Month, they’re hosting their annual Exclusive Sustainability Tours on Mon, Apr 22, at 11am, 2pm, or 5pm. This

in-person event will allow you to explore the store and learn about how the global company is trying to reduce its carbon footprint.

7.) Hao’s Grocery & Cafe (112 St. Louis Av, Fort Worth, 682-250-4751) invites you to celebrate Earth Day with an Italian Garden Feast 6pm Mon, Apr 22. This dinner with local ingredients includes Panzanella salad, Italian wedding soup, Calabrese meatballs, Chicken Marsala, and an olive oil cake for dessert. Tickets are $50 on Clover.com.

8.) As Tanger Fort Worth (15853 N Fwy, Fort Worth, 817-464-5400) is the proud home of an Alvéole rooftop beehive with more than 15,000 honeybees, the mall offers a free in-person workshop called Meet Your Beekeeper at noon Sat in honor of Earth Month. Along with the class, the 11am-3pm celebration includes educational activities (like planting pollinator flowers), honey tastings, balloon creations, and photo ops.

By Jennifer Bovee

Celebrate Mother Earth and her various bounties this Saturday and Monday. Courtesy Canva

Have a Pet-andEarth Friendly April!

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Guest contributor Shawna Gibson from SHAW’S Paws Pet Services (@FetchPetSit, 817-296-1769) has been caring for their own (and other people’s) furkids for more than 14 years. Every now and then, we publish her answers to your pet questions. Now is one of those times.

Question: With April being Earth Month, what are some planet-and-pup friendly ideas you can implement with your pets to live a more sustainable life?

Anwer: I love this question! Here are a few ideas.

Trash Scavenger Hunts

I’m always a big supporter of taking your pet family outdoors and while I’m not the greatest at multitasking, I do love a good trash scavenger hunt with my dogs. When you go out for a walk, bring a recycled (!) bag and pick up the litter you see. Along with helping the environment, those trash smells

will be of great interest to your furry friend. Exploring the parks, hiking, and swimming at lakes are all wonderful opportunities for a trash bash adventure. Local shelters often let people “check out” dogs for the day and those pups would certainly love to sniff out some trash with you!

Commit to Sustainability

Speaking of bags, make a habit of using/ re-using recyclable products. From bottles to poo bags, you can find “earth friendly” alternative products at your neighborhood

pet store and online. Commit to using all sustainable materials and all-natural pet-friendly cleaning supplies, shampoos, and more.

Plant a Pet-Friendly Garden

Planting a garden is a fun outdoor activity to do with your pet. Do you have a friend that has horses, and or cows? Ask to take some of their pony poo. Cow dung is among one of the best fertilizers you can use in a pet-friendly garden. Want to give your feline friend a little treat? Include catnip

in your garden. Choose plants, fruits, and vegetables that are safe for pets, like apples, beets, blueberries, broccoli, butternut squash, carrots, celery, cucumbers, green beans, peas, spinach, sweet potatoes, and watermelon, and enjoy them together.

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SCREEN

Shooting Conflict

Alex Garland’s war film pulls the old bait-andswitch.

BY KRISTIAN LIN

This week comes Civil War, a movie about a second American civil war taking place in the near present. We are four years removed from an attempted coup by a mob of traitorous right-wingers and seven months before another election that has many people predicting yet more violence whatever the result might be. (Oh, and some people are still fighting over the meaning of the first Civil War — looking at you, Nikki Haley.) So this movie must be an important document with something to say about the current state of our nation, right? I’m afraid I’ll have to disappoint you, though you should blame writer-director Alex Garland, not me.

Garland, of course, is the dazzlingly talented British director of such films as Ex Machina and Men. Sometimes a foreigner can observe a country better because he thinks to point out features that the natives take for granted. Unfortunately, Garland has never been all that interested in America, even though one of his better movies (Annihilation) and his ill-conceived TV show (Devs) were both set here. Early on, we’re informed that Texas, Florida, and California have joined in rebellion against the United States, and while another filmmaker might have made that make sense, here it just comes off as tin-eared. The film never touches on the specifics of why there’s a civil war

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in the first place, so we don’t know whom we should be rooting for, regardless of our political leanings. While his approach chimes with the way its combat journalist characters are trained to think about covering a conflict, it’s undeniably frustrating for those of us who are seeking some insight into why real-life America is so divided. The movie can’t be bothered with that, which is really too bad, because it’s pretty good regarding what it does bother to discuss.

The story begins with legendary war photographer Lee Smith (Kirsten Dunst) taking pictures at a violent protest in New York City when she sees a younger colleague (Cailee Spaeny) take a police baton to the face. While Smith escorts her injured fellow photog away from the action, a suicide bomber runs past them and blows herself up, massacring police and protesters alike. Shortly afterward, Lee and fellow war reporter Joel (Wagner Moura) embark on a circuitous route to Washington to interview the president of the United States (Nick Offerman), whom they figure will be killed by the rebels in a matter of weeks. Tagging along are the aforementioned younger photographer, whose name is Jessie, and an

old one-legged writer (Stephen McKinley Henderson) who figures to join the insurgents in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The movie is more concerned with the mindset of combat journalists, the sort of people who run toward gunfire when they hear it and do work that I never could do. Their work is important, but they also get high off the action — Joel sees gunfire over the skyline of Pittsburgh and says, “My dick is so hard for that!” A deglamorized Dunst gives a nice hard-bitten performance as someone with no wish to be responsible for a 23-year-old fangirl on such a dangerous trip. We see how the photographers move in ways that give them protection in combat, and Jessie makes a number of mistakes that place her in danger while resulting in some killer shots.

Garland is good at generating surreal scenes from the setup, like a shootout that takes place in a Christmas-themed

Civil War

Starring Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny. Written and directed by Alex Garland. Rated R.

amusement park in the heat of summer. Jesse Plemons contributes a harrowing cameo as a soldier who confronts our heroes at a mass grave and maintains his easygoing, jocular demeanor even while he starts shooting them. The climactic set piece has our heroes following the rebels as they storm Washington, and it’s as grand and destructive as an action junkie could wish, with the rebels firing a rocket into the Lincoln Memorial and the presidential motorcade making a break for freedom.

I wonder if all that is good enough. These days, people seem reluctant to go to the theater unless a movie promises to be an earthshaking event. Civil War does promise to be some great commentary on our cultural zeitgeist, and yet it’s not much more than a higher-minded version of White House Down or Olympus Has Fallen Garland has said in interviews that this movie was inspired by him observing a similar polarization of society in his native Britain. I rather wish he had set this movie in the U.K., because then it would have felt more specific, more real, and more relevant to our own situation. That would have been a real event. l

don’t think Ken Burns will make a documentary about this Civil War

Courtesy A24

EATS & drinks

Dream Big

Burgers N Beyond does a lot of things right, but it’s their burger that really shines.

Burgers N Beyond, 1704 Galveston Av, FW. 682-703-2111. 11am-8:30pm Mon-Sat.

STORY AND PHOTOS BY MADISON SIMMONS

For many months whenever I drove east on Allen Avenue toward I-35, a mural has called to me. “Dream Big, Think Burgers N Beyond” advertises a restaurant attached to but not affiliated with — the Mr. T Food Store and gas station. Any discerning eater knows a restaurant like this can be either very good or very bad, with very few lying in between.

Based on the cars filling up the parking lot regularly and an inside scoop that employees of the county hospital across the street love the place, I had high hopes, and so one weekday morning, I decided to dream big and try it out.

Husband-and-wife duo Ali Altaher and Miada Khalaf opened Burgers N Beyond in January 2019. The couple, originally from Palestine, have lived in Texas for seven years. These business-minded people, with MBAs to prove it, figured a restaurant could

survive most ebbs and flows of the market.

“People will always be eating and drinking,” Altaher said on a break during the lunch shift.

As to the concept, the co-owners wanted to serve fast food made fresh to order and made well.

“It’s house-made food,” Altaher said. “We make our own seasonings, our own sauces, for affordable prices.”

I arrived around 11 a.m. on a weekday with three dining companions: two adults

“When they say, ‘This is the most awesome burger we’ve had in years,’ it makes us feel so delighted. We’re not even tired anymore.”

and a baby. All of us came deliriously hungry.

That hunger informed our choices, a senseless smattering of fried food and a couple sandwiches. Khalaf took our orders. Though the co-owners have a small dependable staff, she said either she or her husband, or both, work every shift.

We settled into a table in the back beneath another colorful mural. At this time, well before a normal lunch rush, about half of the 10 tables were full, and a steady stream of folks came inside to pick up callin orders. Watching others tuck into their burgers, smelling the salt of fresh fried food in the air, my guests and I seemed to grow visibly hungrier.

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Burgers N Beyond’s burger tasted how the burgers in fast-food ads look.

Eats & Drinks

We did not have to wait long. The food was served in Styrofoam containers, befitting the no-frills concept.

The cheese sticks and poppers were prototypes of their specimens, unremarkable in a Platonic-ideal type of way. The items had clearly just been pulled from the fryer and were still hot and crispy. Both were served with tangy homemade ranch. The creamy dip clung to the craggy, crunchy exterior and perfectly cut through the spice of the poppers.

Ranch also accompanied the chicken wings: juicy without being greasy and with the perfect slick of buffalo sauce all over.

To round out the snacks, we threw in an order of Volcano Fries. Topped with melted cheese, pickled jalapenos, ground beef, and the house signature sauce, the snack satisfied — how could cheese-topped fries do anything else? — but I only reached for a couple bites. Maybe more is not always more. Looking around, I could see this is one of the more popular menu items, so my apathy might speak to my own preferences more than anything else.

I also had only a couple bites of the Philly sandwich. Starring shaved sirloin and grilled peppers and onions beneath a quilt of cheese, it wasn’t necessarily craveworthy, but it was tasty.

Everything on the table was delicious. I would happily reorder any of those menu items and recommend them to others, but I

didn’t get that spark, that bit of magic, from the cheese sticks or the fries or the Philly or even from the wings.

But then I picked up my burger.

As I bit into it, an “oh!” escaped my mouth. Soft (but not too soft) bread, toasted on the inside, embraced a patty with a light lacing of char on the edge and a slightly pink middle. A tangle of shredded lettuce, lightly caramelized onions, and that signature sauce crowned the beef, anchored by a square of cheese. The nostalgia fell over me

at once. Burgers N Beyond’s burger tasted like sitting in the backseat of my mom’s car, unwrapping the wax paper of a kids’ meal. It tasted how the burgers in fast-food ads look. It tasted like someone had dared to dream.

Altaher and Khalaf said that people enjoying their food makes the long hours worth it.

“When they say, ‘This is the most awesome burger we’ve had in years,’ it makes us feel so delighted,” Khalaf said. “We’re not even tired anymore.” l

Any discerning eater knows a gas-station restaurant can be either very good or very bad, but Burgers N Beyond’s excellence leaves no doubt.

Burgers N Beyond

Burger meal ............................................... $8.56

Philly sandwich $7.61

Volcano Fries $6.16

Buffalo wings (6) ....................................... $9.54

Jalapeno poppers $5.14

Cheese sticks ............................................ $5.14

Starring shaved sirloin and grilled peppers and onions beneath a quilt of cheese, the Philly sandwich wasn’t necessarily craveworthy, but it was tasty.

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Good Eggs

On their cinematic debut LP, Black Market Garden don’t crack under heavy themes.

BY JUAN R GOVEA

Black Market Garden’s debut album is here, and it’s certainly different.

Whereas the indie-rock band’s COVIDera single and 2021 EP were both poppy, The Good Egg features a lot more diverse sonic textures and inventive songwriting structures. Some of the 12 tracks were written and recorded spontaneously and feature a few jam band-esque moments.

“We feel that we have created something that has all the potential to be deeply meaningful for people who are ready to hear it,” said frontman Jack Bellomy.

Black Market Garden recorded the album in a few days in 2022 at The Cove in Arlington with Peter Wierenga (Denver Williams, Tornup, Deep Sleepers). With Adrien Lewis on bass, Dylan Mosley on lead guitar, Alexis Randolph on drums, and former member Oliver Martinez on guitar and keys (he’s since moved to Vermont and has been replaced by Bellomy’s brother, Max Bellomy), The Good Egg was mastered by Chicago’s Matthew Barnhart (The New Pornographers, CHVRCHES, The Mountain Goats).

“The album’s title, The Good Egg, isn’t an inside joke or anything,” Bellomy said. “People always worry about the bad apple spoiling the bunch as an outlier when they

could be the opposite of that. Instead of worrying, the whole theme of the record is about having a good life.”

The album is a psychedelic cornucopia of victory and loss, sacrifice and reward. Bellomy said he and Martinez wrote the first track and single “Rosemary” for Bellomy’s friend and former roommate Chance Conover, who died from an accidental fentanyl overdose in September 2023. The title comes from the bush that Bellomy and Conover planted in their house’s front yard one spring day. The song, Bellomy said, was “intended to celebrate our friendship and has taken new meaning now that he is not with us. I know he is rooting for us like crazy from the afterlife.”

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Like “Rosemary,” a lot of tracks on The Good Egg are heavy thematically, and some of them could be “in fifth grade” by now, Bellomy joked. The record isn’t sad, he continued, just intense.

“There is a lot of sentiment in the album, but at the same time, it doesn’t insist upon itself,” he said. “There definitely are some tracks where you’ll be able to pull away from the heavy stuff. Most importantly, the album engages conversation and is meant to be engaged in dialogue and not go through the motions with people. We like to encourage people to think twice because you don’t know how much of a difference it can make, and shake your butt while you’re doing it.”

Bellomy’s rich baritone nicely complements the poetic subject matter, like in “Petrichor,” when he calls the listener’s attention to the smell of grass after rain. Since smell triggers our memories, Bellomy said the song is also about remembering where you came from.

And like any good band of poets, absurdity also makes an appearance. “Land Shark,” whose only lyric is “sacrifice,” and the instrumental “Frog” are decidedly cinematic. And weird.

Though Black Market Garden has a few local gigs coming up, they’re excited to get out on the road, too.

“We want to play out of town more because we haven’t been doing a very good job of it at all,” Bellomy said, “and we finally have something to show for all the hard work we’ve done in Fort Worth.” l

Jack Bellomy (standing right): “The whole theme of the record is about having a good life.”

Pete Rearden/Black Market Garden

Album art by Jordan Jeffreys

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