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The only bar of its kind in town celebrates its first year with a rum-spiked bash on Saturday.

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Even a pandemic couldn’t stop this one-of-a-kind bar on the Near Southside from celebrating one year of togetherness.

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High-profile indictments during election season should be met with skepticism, especially in Tarrant County.

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Static Big hair, turned-up collars, Members Only jackets, Swatches, New Kids on the Block. There were gobs of ridiculousness in the 1980s. Too much to list really.

It wasn’t all totally awesome. In fact, in many ways it was unequivocally absurd.

Over the last century, seven decades were defined by war. Another two were given meaning by Prohibition or a great depression. The 1980s were the only decade in the last 10 that wasn’t defined by any of the three — unless you count the War on Drugs, which was initiated by Richard Nixon in 1971 but more infamously waged by Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign. But no one took that seriously (especially the CIA). The most traumatic thing that happened in the ’80s was probably New Coke. The rising generations of the other nine decades had the crux of their angst defined for them. We were left to our own devices.

Our elders called us Generation X or Gen X, and there was something to this.

In algebraic terms, we were an unknown quantity. We seemed directionless, ambitionless. Without a war or cataclysmic social or economic fiasco to suffer through or rail against, we had the luxury of looking around and taking note of things.

Usually superficially but still. There was no movement or spirit-crushing calamity to sway us from what was right in front of us. It was a blessing and a curse.

For those of us who were paying attention, there was this incredible sense that everything was wrong or going wrong. Not one thing or one issue. But everything.

Capitalism, corporatism, Reagan, famine, AIDS, ozone depletion — Holden Caufield was only a third right. The world of adults wasn’t just phony. It was irresponsible and dangerous. The world

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Carroll school district was weeks from a contentious board race that was flooded with tens of thousands of donor dollars from powerful Republicans who give generously to the campaigns of DA Sharen Wilson and conservative Tarrant County judges. The indictments validated views held by many of those same generous donors that the city had fallen under the sway of “Marxists” who are hellbent on turning the wealthy suburb of Southlake into a communist gulag that brainwashes students into feeling guilty about being white when, in fact, an increasingly diverse Southlake population was simply asking school leaders to acknowledge

jury found grounds for indicting two Carroll school board members in April, the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office capitalized on the moment by courting several prominent North Texas reporters with the breaking story (“Rising Partisanship,” Oct. 13).

Missing in the email thread between a DA staffer and reporters was any questioning of the timing of the indictments, which played right into the hands of county judge candidate Tim O’Hare and other right-wing extremists who are basing their professional and political careers on false narratives over the Black Lives Matter movement and Critical Race Theory or CRT. faced a thousand reckonings, none of which were our doing, and we deeply resented the inherited, irretrievable missteps, the resultant, impending disasters, and the day the bill for the causative idiocy and irresponsibility would come due. It seemed a long way off, but it wasn’t. And the extraordinary, horrifying question that occurred to us even then was what we would do when we were adults.

In The Breakfast Club (1985), the most popular cinematic examination of Gen X during this period, every high school participant’s stint in detention was due to some form of parental obliviousness, neglect, or specific parentally encouraged oafishness. And after each kid shares their reason for being there, Emilio Estevez’s character honestly and poignantly says, “My god, are we gonna be like our parents?”

Now, for the adults and grownups of the period who observed our generation from without, pay special attention. No matter how knuckleheaded or peabrained any of us may have seemed at the time, all of our ears perked up at the Emilio character’s interrogative. And what followed.

Molly Ringwald’s character says, “Not me. Ever.”

Not me. Ever.

Then Ally Sheedy’s character breaks the spell with a statement most of us resented (in every cell of our being): “It’s unavoidable. It just happens. When you grow up, your heart dies.”

This is how the real world appeared to us. And our parents’ recipe for success and personal fulfillment was following in their heartless footsteps.

We were the first generation raised on video games and arguably the first generation of kids relentlessly subjected to corporate marketing strategies designed to make us complacent little materialists.

To those of us who withstood these campaigns with some semblance of sentience intact, the “real” world (as our elders put it) was compromise, a Big Sellout. Adult-

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hood was anathema. And the rat race was a shameless, voluntary evil.

No one stated our distaste for Capitalism more succinctly or humorously than John Cusack’s character in another ’80s classic, Say Anything (1989). When asked by his romantic interest’s father what he planned to do after high school, he speculates candidly, “I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed or buy anything sold or processed or process anything sold, bought, or processed or repair anything sold, bought, or processed.”

Amen, brother.

Or at least that’s what our sentiment was then.

Somewhere along the way, however, we forgot. Or, as our well-meaning parents put it, we “grew up.”

It was a lie then, and it’s a lie now.

Decent, reasonable adults don’t disenfranchise their neighbors for political gain. Fair-minded folks don’t sell out fellow citizens for higher profit margins or inflated stock options. Practical-minded grownups don’t sacrifice their children’s future well-being for shallow, short-term gratifications. And responsible, rational human beings don’t base their economy on gambled derivatives, resource speculation, or opportunistic wars to keep Big Oil — and the biggest consumer of oil and gas

that the city has serious racism problems and that reasonable school policies could mitigate incidents of bigotry on the part of white students — in 2018 and 2019, videos of several white Southlake high schoolers chanting the n-word went viral, and that’s only the beginning.

Two days after we published that expansive look into increasingly partisan Tarrant County courts, news broke that the DA office had announced another high-profile grand jury investigation, this one into Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD).

“This office has received a complaint and information regarding actions

on the planet, the U.S. military-industrial complex — chugging forward and belching death.

Americans haven’t been adults about anything for years, but perhaps the closest we came to it was in the ’80s when Gen Xers looked around and said, “Wow. This is fucked up.”

The revelation was drilled out of us in short order.

Love him or hate him, Barack Obama was the first Gen-X president, and he brought a mild version of this sensibility to the job. He moved the dial a little, but he was followed by a rabidly backward Baby Boomer and then his own former vice president, a tepidly middleof-the-road Boomer dealing with a stupefyingly divisive pandemic.

Now, of course, we’re the “grownups.”

And we have become our parents.

We’re buying and selling and processing lies, staunching our idealism, dooming our children’s future, and defiling the fierce, innocent soul of our generation. If our hearts aren’t dead, they’re dying. We willfully embrace falsehoods and invest in them. So much so that we can longer make sense of our lives outside the careful confines of ignorance and wishful prevarication.

As teenagers, we weren’t impressed.

As adults we’re not impressive.

It’s too bad.

We had such promise. — E. R. Bills Fort Worth native E. R. Bills is the author of Fear and Loathing in the Lone Star State, Texas Oblivion: Mysterious Disappearances, Escapes and Cover-Ups, and The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas.

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ties in the county, and local elected leaders who oversee the taxing entities have historically misused their influence to elect favored TAD board members.

During a public meeting in 2017, the top-ranking county staffer, County Administrator G.K. Maenius, said the court’s votes should be delayed to give the commissioners a “better understanding as to where we are on how the other jurisdictions have cast their votes [...] if that’s important to you on how we place our votes,” which means he was urging Tarrant’s elected leaders to delay their vote as a means of swinging the final tally toward candidates of the court’s choosing.

The new house bill, which was conceived by local Realtor Chandler Crouch, compels large taxing entities to cast their votes early enough for smaller groups to have a fair chance at protecting their electoral interests.

Those last two examples are only the most recent reminders of how Tarrant County’s good-ol’-boy club operates, and DA Wilson is one of the most powerful players in that club. TRWD has a longstanding history of supporting nepotism, graft, and egregious misuses of taxpayer money, but investigating cronyism at one Tarrant County old-boy club doesn’t absolve another from scrutiny.

Beyond being politically expedient for the DA, the opening of a grand jury investigation into TRWD dealings could have catastrophic consequences for the DA’s ability to ethically prosecute former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean, the white man who fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson, a young Black woman, while she played video games with her nephew in the home that she shared with her mother two years ago.

Dean’s lawyer, Jim Lane, is a current TRWD board member and potentially a target of the grand jury’s investigation.

When Dean’s trial begins in November, Lane could reasonably argue that the DAled investigation is an act of intimidation.

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of the Tarrant Regional Water Board,” wrote Wilson, according to a document first published by the Fort Worth Report.

“The purpose of the letter is to put you on notice that the Tarrant Grand Jury has opened an investigation into actions taken by the Tarrant Regional Water District.”

No, the investigation isn’t looking into Tarrant County’s ridiculously high water bills (“Rising Water, Rising Bills,” April 14), although that would probably be a better use of taxpayer money.

The grand jury will examine how a former general manager’s retirement was handled. TRWD’s new board recently axed a proposed $300,000 payout to Jim Oliver which was promised by a former TRWD board member. Oliver, who spent 30 years at the helm of the governmental group that oversees flood control and drinking water and also finishing the stalled $1.2 billion Panther Island development, argued that the $300,000 was for paid time off that he was due. The current board disagreed. Oliver subsequently retained attorney Jason Smith, and the matter was settled for $161,647.

The indictment of the TRWD will likely help DA Wilson, who is seeking reelection, garner public support ahead of next year’s midterm election that will see three county commissioner seats, including that of county judge, potentially change hands. Former DA prosecutor Tiffany Burks will face Albert Roberts in the March 2022 Democratic primary, and the winner will go against Wilson next November.

Under Wilson’s tenure, Tarrant County’s commissioners court, which leans conservative, has benefited from having the county’s top prosecutor as a political ally. One recent example: the DA’s documented support of Constable Jody Johnson’s decision to skirt the state constitution by maintaining his elected position while he runs for the seat that will soon be vacated by his father, longtime commissioner JD Johnson (“Skirting the State Constitution?” Sep. 15).

Recent communications between a DA staffer and the Star-Telegram, which we received via an open records request, show that the local district attorney’s office openly supports Jody’s decision to retain his elected position while seeking higher office.

Tarrant’s commissioners court was on the minds of Texas state legislators when they recently passed House Bill 988, which applies to all Texas appraisal districts. The bill will stop the long-standing local practice of misusing allotted votes to skew how board members of appraisal districts, including the Tarrant Appraisal District (TAD), are elected. TAD, the governmental group that appraises properties and awards exemptions, is governed by a five-member board. Every two years, taxing entities that are funded by property tax income (school districts, cities, county colleges) are allotted votes to elect TAD board members based on the respective size of those groups. The commissioners court represents one of the largest taxing enti-

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Letter to the Editor When Thoughts and When news spread about the shooting at Timberview High School, I held my breath like many other parents in Texas.

It was even harder to realize that some would have to face the one thing that no parent wants to hear: that your child has been hurt or, even worse, has become a statistic in the hundreds of school shootings that happen every year. While the details surrounding this particular incident are still unfolding with some talks of this being an issue of bullying gone wrong, it still brings up the bigger problem of how these troubled kids are able to get guns in the first place.

The saddest part of the whole situation is this shooting is like so many others that have become routine in Americans’ lives. No matter how common it has become, this isn’t at all normal. Neither is the anguish these families go through that will continue to be devastating for years to come. Too many children, teachers, and school employees have been hurt or died in past shootings.

The grim reality that all the schools face now is how easy it is for anyone to have access to guns in many states, especially in Texas.

There needs to be an honest conversation about the role that government plays in creating laws for gun control and safety, yet many Republicans have done the exact opposite and have been catering to their extremist following that believes their rights to bear arms is the most important thing above all else.

Much evidence of that is shown in how our current GOP all have similar responses to each school shooting. Usually, that speech includes sending their thoughts and prayers to the victims’ families. In the same breath, most of them tend to also gloss over any accountability they have in enabling these many tragedies. This atrocious behavior extends from the GOP leadership down to our local representatives.

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A prime example of this in Texas is Gov. Greg Abbott’s message after the Timberview shooting: “As law enforcement continues their investigation, our hearts go out to the victims of this senseless act of violence.

Thank you to the law enforcement officers and first responders who arrived on the scene to help the victims and prevent further violence. I have spoken with the mayor of Arlington and offered any assistance the state can provide, and I have directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to make state resources available to help bring the criminal to justice. I ask all Texans to join [wife] Cecilia and me in praying for the victims, their families, and the entire Timberview High School community.”

In the above statement, not once does Abbott ever mention any actual gun policy change to help this from happening again. He especially doesn’t acknowledge the passing of his new permitless gun carry law that directly affects Texans’ ability to easily access guns more than ever.

Sen. Ted Cruz has also echoed similar sentiments and never touched on the actual issues that have led to the increase in school shootings throughout the state and country.

It is apparent that these politicians’ thoughts and prayers are not enough anymore. We must also hold our government to a higher standard. They must provide better laws, policy change, and gun regulations to our state and country. Our students, parents, and school faculties deserve better than just a familiar script of empty promises without any real changes ever being made.

Kimberly McHale, Fort Worth This letter reflects the opinions of the author and not the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a letter, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly. com. Letters will be gently edited for factuality and clarity.

The only bar of its kind in town celebrates its first year with a rum-spiked bash on Saturday.

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alk into any tiki cocktail lounge in the United States, and the drinks and decor will likely whisk you away to the shores of some far-flung island. To where exactly is another question. Hawaii? Key West?

Polynesia? After several chats with Autumn Brackeen, I’ve learned that the experience of escapism is more important than any symbolic arrival.

And you could say that Tarantula Tiki Lounge has been on one helluva journey. Co-owned by Brackeen, the only bar of its kind in town opened right before the pandemic locked everything down.

That the Near Southside bar not only survived but will be celebrating its one-year anniversary with a rummy bash Saturday is a testament to old adage that hard work pays off.

And being kickass. There’s no other watering hole in the fort inspired by a ’60s sitcom. The tarantula theme specifically comes from The Brady Bunch. In Season 4’s “Hawaii Bound,” Peter and Bobby stumble upon an ancient Tiki idol that sends them evil omens, including a tarantula. While that episode was set near Hawaii, Tarantula Tiki Lounge pulls influences from the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, the ancestral home of rum.

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Cody Soape puts the finishing touches on a drink as Cody Brackeen gives him the bartender version of bunny ears.

ticket sales from this Saturday’s party will go to Near Southside Inc., Brackeen added.

Like other businesses that had the misfortune of opening in 2020, Tarantula Tiki Lounge was not eligible for federal

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Several members of the Tarantula Tiki Lounge team recently met me on the bar’s new back patio to chat about this past year. Were it not for a once-ina-century global pandemic, the cocktail lounge would have officially opened in spring 2020.

Co-owner Steve Steward said that month was hectic.

“We were originally going to open March 13,” he said. The pandemic “gave us more time to get the bar ready. It was a lot of work through June to get everything ready.”

Brackeen, Steward, Kolin Jardine, and Cole Austin alternately used words like “exciting” and “stressful” to explain the mix of emotions they felt that spring and summer. Brackeen said the landlord gave them a little break on rent, but the bar co-owner still had to generate enough money to keep the business afloat. In June, the Tarantula team held a fundraiser using donated items from the Near Southside community. The TikiThon helped the business scrape along, Brackeen said.

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days in June before Gov. Greg Abbott shut down Texas’ bars, his preferred whipping boy throughout the pandemic.

“That’s when the state let us sell cocktails to-go,” Brackeen said. “That was the one good thing to come out of the pandemic.”

Selling cocktails to-go has become a small but important income source for the lounge. Jardine said patrons have learned the joys of grabbing a frozen cocktail while strolling down South Main Street. When Tarantula Tiki Lounge fully opened in September, it wasn’t the party atmosphere that they had envisioned.

“Policing masks was a nightmare,” Austin said. “No one wants to be told what to do. For the safety of everyone around, we were trying to be consistent.

There was a lot of backlash against that.”

Brackeen said her team strictly enforced capacity limits and maskwearing. Employees were tested for COVID-19 on a weekly basis during those uncertain times.

Halloween that year was surreal, the staffers said. Both the police and TABC stopped by for inspections on a night that had an extra 13th hour due to Daylight Saving Time. When one officer asked about a fire extinguisher, a

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confused Jordine, thinking the cop was in a costume, replied that he “didn’t know how to mix one of those.”

Steward joked that he did get to remind the police to stay 6 feet apart. One woman who was dressed as Queen Maeve from The Boys had transformed the conflicted hero into a full-on villain with her super-rude demeanor, Steward added.

“I had blocked out so much of that” night, Brackeen said with a laugh.

Many bars were able to reopen by selling food, which allowed them to operate as a restaurant. Brackeen said she collaborated with a lot of lesser-known chefs who have since gone on to open food trucks and restaurants.

“It was fun to be able to give chefs an opportunity to try their hand at a popup,” she said of the turbulent time.

By March, the situation had settled to the point where Brackeen felt comfortable lifting the facemask requirement for customers and increasing the indoor capacity.

“It was all of a sudden twice as lively in here,” Steward said. “I wouldn’t want to say that it felt stiff before, but we were finally able to operate how we always

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The Tarantula Tiki crew’s excitement was palpable. Before I could finish asking how they felt about Saturday, Jordine, in

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“I’m excited,” he said. “I am so thrilled. People are getting the kids watched. Everyone works so hard in their own ways. Raymond brought this patio to life. I have friends visiting. It means so much. A lot of people still aren’t going out [because of COVID]. People are making an evening out of this.”

Steward said his team met the challenges of opening during a pandemic and found a way to thrive, thanks in large part to the support of regulars. Austin said the bar is finally what they had wanted to open in the first place.

The format for Saturday’s party will be unusual, Brackeen said. The evening will feature two ticketed events with early seating from 6 to 9 p.m. and late seating from 9 p.m. ’til midnight. The $20 ticket includes a specialty cocktail made with Plantation rum and Lakewood Brewing beer. Attendees will receive a custom pint glass, free appetizers, and entertainment from DJ Don Hoe. (Ha!) For tickets, visit Facebook @ TarantulaTikiLounge or Instagram @ Tarantula_tiki.

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wanted. It was enjoyable and exciting.”

Austin said 2021 has afforded the Tarantula Tiki team more time to focus on honing their rum-based craft. Educating patrons on what qualifies as a tiki cocktail is an ongoing job, he said. Frozen drinks with cutesy umbrellas are technically island drinks or boat drinks. Traditional tiki drinks use fresh-squeezed juice, high-end rums that are often aged, and flavorings like allspice and nutmeg. The results are light-bodied and really boozy — partly the result of the bar’s preference for higher proof rums. Tiki drinks are intended to be sipped and savored.

When Americans do drink rum, it’s often with a splash of Coke or in a sugary piña colada or mojito. Tarantula Tiki Lounge’s cocktails are rum-forward. The Bombo, for example, is a rum version of an Old Fashioned. Tarantula Tiki Lounge team member Cody Raymond said the drink, which is made with Plantation rum, cinnamon syrup, and nutmeg, is a sippable cocktail that appeals to whiskey and bourbon fans.

After initially modeling the cocktail lounge after tiki bar stalwarts, Brackeen said her business is evolving with weekly drink releases that stray from traditional

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Crockett Row at West 7th is a vibrant destination to eat, drink, shop and explore in the heart of the Cultural District in Fort Worth, Texas. Located at the southeast corner of West 7th Street and University Drive, just minutes from Downtown Fort Worth, it encompasses five walkable blocks of fashion and accessory boutiques, salons and spas, a movie theater, gourmet and fast-casual restaurants and bars, as well as the new Crockett Hall, featuring 15 artisan food-and-beverage options under one roof. For more information, visit CrockettRow.com.

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Crockett Row at West 7th, in the heart of the Fort Worth Cultural District, will be closing the entire block of 2900 Crockett Street from noon to 4pm on Sunday, October 31, to host its annual “Monsters & Murals” Halloween Chalk Art Festival.

This free, outdoor Halloween community event is open to attendees of all ages and will feature live professional and amateur chalk artists, a kid’s activity area, food and drink specials, live entertainment, trick-or-treating, face painting, costume contest, festive décor, and more.

Amateur artists will be set up along Crockett Street creating custom pieces vying for attendees’ “votes” via cash donations. All proceeds will benefit The Art Station, a Fort Worth-based nonprofit offering individual and group art therapy and community programs to children and adults.

“This year’s ‘Monsters and Mural’ theme is our way of celebrating the

season in a family-friendly way, and we encourage people of all ages to come out and enjoy the afternoon,” said Sierra Tuthill, marketing director of Crockett Row at West 7th. “Our artists will be creating stunning chalk art in real-time throughout the afternoon surrounded by live music, activities for kids, and delicious food and drink specials.” In addition, many Crockett Row restaurants and shops will be offering free candy for trick-or-treaters.

There will be discounted/free menu items and Halloween specials at many stops, including Fireside Pies (15% off all food purchases and discounted specialty cocktails), Savor Patisserie (free Halloween macaron with gift box purchase), Movie Tavern ($6 boneless wings, $8 pizzas, $2 hot dogs, drink specials, and gift card giveaways), Social House (25% off all food purchases, discounted specialty to-go cocktails, and free candy and Halloween treats), Toasted (50% off cocktails, beer and wine with food purchase and free pumpkin spice latte giveaways), and It’s A Secret Med Spa (20% off all products and services).

Parking is free all-day in five parking garages located throughout Crockett Row. For more information, visit the event page at Facebook.com/CrockettRowW7th.

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Sat, Oct 30 From 7pm to 1am, Stagecoach Ballroom (2516 E Belknap St, Fort Worth, 817-8312261) hosts its annual Halloween Dance featuring Western Swing stylists Jody Nix & The Texas Cowboys. Tickets are $15 at StageCoachBallroom.com.

From noon to 6pm, Legal Draft (500 E Division St, Arlington, 817-962-2210) is hosting Rockers, Brews & Rescues Halloween Spooktacular featuring tribute music by Dallas Cooper (Alice Cooper), In Halen (Van Halen), and Sedated (The Ramones). While there is no cover to attend, a portion of the bar sales will benefit Texas Husky Rescue, an all-volunteer nonprofit helping Siberian Huskies in North Texas.

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On Sat, Oct 30, from 9pm to 2am, head to Free Play Fort Worth (1311 Lipscomb St, 682-231-1444) for the Haunted Rooftop

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With Halloween falling on the weekend this year, it’s prime time for bars and clubs. Time for some #adulting.

Fri, Oct 29 Start your night at 7pm at Lola’s Trailer Park (2735 W 5th St, Fort Worth, 817759-9100) with The Mammal Virus Halloween Party featuring the Mammal Virus as Ween, FTW as Motorhead, and Silver Hues as Silver Jews, plus there will be a costume contest and a pinata.

Cover charge is $10.

Then at 9pm, head to 40s & Shortys (3918 E Belknap St, Fort Worth, 817615-9298) for its 6th Annual Halloween Bash. As there were no particulars available at press time, keep an eye out for updates at Facebook.com/40s.n.Shortys.

October 30 & 31, 2021 Oakwood Cemetery 701 Grand Avenue Walking Tours: 1:00 pm and 3:30 pm on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

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*Notice: There will NOT be Twilight Tourst this years due the close proximity of seating in the Chapel. Social Distancing is not possible and we want to keep everyone safe.

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For an immersive experience, head to Screams Halloween Park (2511 FM 66, Waxahachie, 972-938-3247). Located on the grounds of the Scarborough Renaissance Festival, Screams features five haunted houses, each with a different theme, including two new ones this season — Klownz in 3D and Times Up Maze. There’s also a haunted cemetery, games of skill, and live entertainment throughout the park.

Plus, you can drink beer and sing ScaryOke at the pub. Screams is open 7:30pm1am every Fri-Sat thru Sat, Oct 30. Tickets are $42 at ScreamsPark.com. (I recommend adding on a fast pass for $26.35 per person to bypass the lines. It’s well worth it.)

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This Sun thru Sun, Oct 31, North Texas Jellystone Park (2301 S Burleson Blvd, Burleson, 817-426-5037) is celebrating its 12th annual Yogi Beer’s Fall Fiesta with fall-themed spooky activities for the young and young at heart. Weekend staycations start at $101.54 per night for a tent site for a family of four, but RV spots and cabins are also available. To make reservations or to check out potential fiesta and addon costs, visit NorthTexasJellystone.com/ Whats-Included-Stay.

It’s worth noting that the real Alice Cooper is in town this week. If you’re lucky, you can still find tickets to his Wednesday show at the Will Rogers Memorial Center (3401 W Lancaster Av, Fort Worth, 817-3927469) with Ace Frehley on the innerwebs.

For ideas on how to have a good time on Halloween proper — Sun, Oct 31 — meet me back here next Wednesday or check out our Eats & Drinks advertisers a few pages back.

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There are three days of fun on the books at Arlington Skatium (5515 S Cooper, 817-784-6222). On Fri, Oct 29, you can skate from 7pm to 11pm and enjoy a Candy Grab. From noon to 10pm Sat, Oct 30, skate the day away and participate in the Costume Contest, and on Sun, Oct 31, Arlington Skatium is giving out free candy, and you can skate from 1pm to 6pm. The admission price of $12+tax per skater per day includes your skate rental and the daily activities listed above.

Then, for more Alice Cooper tribute action, Oscars Bar & Grill (1581 SW Wilshire Blvd, Ste 101, Burleson, 817-4477232) presents Blacklist at 8pm followed by a whole night of Coop tribute music.

There is no cover.

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Somehow, the Cowboys just survive against the Patriots in a game they had no business losing. And, really, no business winning.

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Heading into Sunday, much was made of the fact that the Dallas Cowboys haven’t won a game against the New England Patriots in Foxboro since 1987. Granted, this stunning stat accounts for only six games over that span, yet considering the Pats boast a 18183 record at home since those waning years of the Reagan administration, there is no denying the legitimate home field advantage the Massholes possess regardless of whether or not they’ve had the greatest NFL player of all time behind center. The record is even more shocking over the Tom Brady era, however, with New England dropping only 17 out of 144 home games.

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Lamb posted nine catches for 149 yards and two touchdowns, including the walk-off 35-yarder in overtime, capped with an instantly GIF-able wave bye-bye.

goal favorite before kick. As such, the contest had all the makings of a classic Cowboys trap game. Subpar opponent? Check. Rookie QB? Check. Dallas seems to love to spot first-year signal-callers the best game of their early career. (Recall the Thanksgiving game against RGIII?) Four-game winning streak ripe for being snapped? Check. Evil sports sorcerer exceptionally skilled at nullifying your team’s greatest strength on the opposing sideline? Also check.

Yet it was Football Palpatine’s lack of ability to do so that ultimately allowed Dallas to sneak out of Bah-stin with the W. It’s hard to take away a team’s offensive strength when they’re pretty damn good at everything. It took the last-minute heroism of Dak Prescott (how he is not leading MVP discussions right now is downright criminal) and second-year wideout CeeDee Lamb to lift Dallas to a stunning 35-29 overtime victory.

Far from a clean game, it was a riveting, often enraging, and absolutely oxygendepleting affair that no doubt sent stock prices of blood pressure medication soaring in the Lone Star State. To the previous point, Belichick was far from the Cowboys’ most potent adversary. That title belongs only to the Cowboys themselves. The combined

forces of persistent red zone problems (aided by poor officiating), untimely turnovers spotting the Pattys free points, and an almost laughable amount of costly penalties (12 of them to the tune of 115 yards!!!) all did their best to wrest away what should have been a fairly simple win.

Dak would have to throw for 445, the most passing yards allowed against a Belichick-coached New England team ever, to overcome the tomfoolery. He was helped by defensive end Randy Gregory, who garnered two sacks, one resulting in a fumble (and a likely concussion for QB Mac Jones) and cornerback Trevon Diggs, who continued his impossible streak (seven interceptions in six games) by adding another pick-six to his ever-growing resume for Defensive Player of the Year consideration. You can ignore the fact that he appeared to be burned for a 75yard TD on the very next play. That one was more likely on safety Damontae Kazee.

The aforementioned Lamb was integral, posting nine catches for 149 yards and two touchdowns, including the walkoff 35-yarder in overtime, capped with an instantly GIF-able wave bye-bye.

Despite the hair-pulling, it was one of the more entertaining games you could

hope to see. It recalled another Cowboys alltimer when Tony Romo characteristically farted around and spotted the Buffalo Bills a pair of touchdowns off interceptions and Dallas also allowed a kick return to go to the house. Romo would eventually pick the team up over his head and carry the ’Boys to a last-second game-winning field goal in the classic Monday night game. Like Sunday’s against the Pats, it was a game they should have easily won that became a game they had no business winning but that they eventually would.

This, to me, is just the latest example of how this year’s Cowboys team is also different. (That ’07 Cowboys team went 133.) Last year, two years ago, 10 years ago, Dallas loses this game. Yet, mostly due to the heroics of one Rayne Dakota Prescott, they managed to pull it out. It wasn’t without cost, however. Dak came down awkwardly on the final pass, straining his calf, an injury that saw him in a walking boot after the game. An MRI on Monday assuaged the worst of fans’ fears as it doesn’t appear to be serious.

As luck would have it, Dallas heads into the bye week next week, which should give No. 4 plenty of time to heal. In addition, the week off will potentially help this great team get even better. Right tackle La’el Collins will again be available after his five-game suspension. And the rich get richer: Secondround rookie corner Kelvin Joseph and wide receiver Michael Gallup should also be back.

It’s also another week toward Pro Bowl edgerusher Demarcus Lawrence returning from a broken foot as well. How crazy is it that you probably haven’t even thought of the fact they are missing Gallup and Lawrence? (Gregory is about to get a giant sack of money.)

Next up, Dallas draws the 3-3 Minnesota Vikings in chilly Minneapolis in another prime-time game on Sunday Night Football on Halloween. Could that be the trap game the Pats game almost was? I can’t wait to find out. l

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The trope “there’s something for everyone” can easily be said about Second Rodeo Brewing, which sits between another Mule Alley newcomer, Side Saddle Saloon, and Marine Creek.

A 14,000-square-foot one-stop shop with multiple bars, food options, expansive patios, a brewery, an upstairs beer hall, and a stage for live music, Second Rodeo presents itself as a C&W carnival. In the front of the house, you are flanked by fermentation tanks on the left, and to your immediate right, there’s an assemblage of portraits, candids, and mugshots of pop culture’s most iconic outlaws adjoined by a makeshift jail cell that probably doesn’t allow for conjugal visits but plenty of Instagram photo-ops.

When you slide in front of the downstairs bar’s impressive tap lineup that not only includes Second Rodeo’s house brew but also a salute to other local craft breweries, go ahead and order one of their own. Standouts include the Mex-Tex Mexican lager and Beard Science’s Lemon Cucumber sour. We were fairly pleased with them and every other beverage the bartenders poured for us.

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Second Rodeo features its own brews in addition to many local favorites.

Best Foo d Truck? high praise for its delectable mole sauce, chile spices, and chocolate powder.

The outside patio, complete with games, features a bar pieced together from an old trailer, where a Big Tex-like neon figure keeps watch. The double-sided fireplace will surely be a centerpiece for guests during chilly months when you might feel pretty outdoorsy by drinking next to an actual creek — just don’t nosedive into its stagnate waters.

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served straight from the barrel on-site,” Wehrmann said.

The bar’s entrance plays like a church foyer for what’s to come. With a sacrilegious beer in hand, walking into the expansive indoor-outdoor patio eventually leads to the nave, where the congregation meets. One can’t help but glance upward to breathe it in, and the roof is retractable when the weather dictates. A cluster of mismatched tables and chairs loosely faces the direction of a stage that will seldom, if ever, be empty due to the promise of live music every. single. day.

Here, in this cowboy cathedral of sorts, is where customers will order food from a walk-up window that seems awfully similar to another outdoor bar, one that originated in Dallas with locations now in The Colony and Houston. Anyone heard of the Truckyard? Yep, Brain Storm Shelter is the same ownership group, now with an obvious Western twist on their first Fort Worth concept.

Jason Boso, Second Rodeo’s owner, enthusiastically stated, “We’re pumped to have a spot in the Stockyards. We’re celebrating Texas the way Hank would’ve done it.”

Truckyard’s famous cheesecakes and nachos made the menu here, though the biggest addition at Second Rodeo is the wings. Whacky selections such as the citrus-glazed and Cuban-spiced Mojo or the Lime in the Coconut (lime- and coconut-glazed with graham cracker salt) bring a tropical flavor to this swing dance.

Or combine brunch and wings with the chicken ’n’ waffles[,] slathered in a maplebacon jam and dusted with waffle crumbs.

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If I was writing you a letter, it would probably sound something like an apology.

(The 2007 movie Waitress is back streaming on Hulu, so now I’m addressing you the way that Jenna Hunterson writes to Baby in her new diary. Because I’m obsessed.)

Anyhoo, what I mean to say is that we feel like we’ve been neglecting you. With all this talk of Best Of, who’s the best reader? You are. And as such, we’ve found some ways you too can win some yummy prizes.

1.) Let’s start with us. Have you tried Ol’ South Pancake House (1509 S University Dr, 817-336-0311)? This Best Of 2021 winner in the breakfast category has armed the Weekly with gift cards for you, dear reader. For a chance to win, you’ll want to subscribe to our email newsletters for further instructions. Sign up now at FWWeekly.com/FW-Weekly-NewslettterSign and then look for Food, News & Booze in your inbox on Tue, Oct 26.

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This sensation is manifest succinctly on Slow Your Mind. Following their selftitled 2019 EP, the psych duo’s recently released debut album represents organic, homegrown, handmade rock ’n’ roll.

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communication, a psychedelic vibration to the listener,” August said.

Produced by Land Mammal with drummer and Grammy-nominated producer and engineer Bryan David (Duran Duran, Tracy Chapman, Supertramp) at Anthem Recording Studio in Plano, Slow Your Mind was mastered by Grammy winner Richard Dodd (Wilco, Green Day, Steve Earle) in Nashville. It took over two years to record, August said.

The pandemic got in the way.

“We really wanted to take our time and put together an album that we were truly proud of,” Weise said. “Our goal was to capture an authentic rock sound. We’d much rather have a take of a song that has emotion and feel rather than a take that is ‘perfect’ but otherwise stale and devoid of emotion.”

Purity could be said to be Land Mammal’s ethos, which does not preclude top-notch branding. The vinyl format features a deluxe gatefold cover and special vinyl mastering with artwork by Robin Gnista, the band’s favorite artist, and a groovy video for “Psychedelic Hand” came out in August. Filmed at Makers Gym in Frisco by Corey Ray and Brad Holmes, the video features the raw energy of Land Mammal in their element: onstage.

The band’s roots date back to 2018, when August and Weise were gigging around North Texas, vocalist/lyricist August in his solo band and guitarist/ sitarist Weise in Gypsy Sun Revival.

“We met at a gig and hit it off,” Weise said.

Weise, August said, called him one day at 8:30 a.m. “For some reason, I answered while getting ready to go to work. I don’t know what sane musician calls anyone that early, but I really enjoyed his band and respected his talent as a guitarist, so we began to write music together a week after that call and have explored many

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Weise (right): “We’d much rather have a take of a song that has emotion and feel rather than a take that is ‘perfect’ but otherwise stale and devoid of emotion.”

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territories of sound since beginning this musical journey.”

Weise said they found a mutual work ethic and an undying determination to put out soul-stirring music. “Writing songs with [August] came easy, and that was a sign from the universe that we were somehow meant to create art together.”

COVID shut down recording for a few months, but the duo said that in a lot of ways, it gave them more time to reflect on their passions and their place in society.

“It gave us a break from our day-to-day activities and gave us a chance to step back and evaluate things with a different perspective,” August said. “It has been a reflective moment for us.”

The group explores the heavy sides of existence and aims to achieve a meditative experience by churning out unfiltered, fearless music with purpose.

“We write pretty much daily,” August said, “exchanging song ideas, riffs, or files. The creation process brings us fulfillment, so naturally we wanted to continue to explore what Land Mammal could become. It’s an ever-growing sound and always honest with us. … We have arrived, but this is just the beginning.” l

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Following his death in a motorcycle accident on Oct 16, outlaw singersongwriter and, by all accounts, great dude Rodney Moore will be celebrated with a campfire get-together 3pm Sat at The Farm (2633 County Road 531, Burleson).

“The witness said [Moore’s] back tire went flat, he lost control, and was instantly called home,” Moore’s brother Rhit Moore recently posted. “No one else was involved. Please pray for Mom and Dad.” After a short service at 4pm, there will be “music, campfire, BBQ, beer, and fellowship,” Rhit says. “We are going to celebrate Rodney Moore in proper form: pick’n and a-drink’n ’round the campfire.”

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Frank Herbert’s epic science-fiction Dune saga was made into a film by David Lynch in 1984, which boasted a superb look but completely failed in storytelling terms.

This week comes a highly anticipated new movie version of Dune, which also looks phenomenal and offers a much smoother storytelling experience. I walked away from it wanting more, in both good and bad ways.

The story picks up in the year 10191, when people have settled thousands of planets due to a mysterious commodity called “spice,” which allows for interstellar travel and is only available on the desert planet of Arrakis. The Harkonnen family has ruled Arrakis for almost a century and become wealthy off the spice trade, but the emperor suddenly hands over control to the Atreides family, whose duke (Oscar Isaac) vows to rule the natives more humanely than the brutal Harkonnens. When the Harkonnens return with an army to take back what was theirs, the duke’s wife Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) and son Paul (Timothée Chalamet) have to flee into the desert, hoping that the locals save them from the elements and the giant sandworms burrowing underneath.

Director Denis Villeneuve and his fellow writers have an elegant solution to the gobs of exposition that this story requires: Paul listens to a series of audio

Timothée Chalamet prepares to fight to protect his family in Dune.

lectures about Arrakis while preparing to go wings, and Paul stepping into a hologram there. The premise of a bunch of foreigners of a tree, its tendrils drawing lines across taking charge of a desert environment his face. Desert’s not the easiest landscape whose people practice strange customs to make interesting, but cinematographer and religions takes on a resonance that Greig Fraser finds sculptural lines in the even Herbert couldn’t have foreseen. The sand dunes (the film was shot in Jordan and author’s fans should know that the movie’s the United Arab Emirates), while Patrice narrative stops well short of the end of the Vermette’s sets contrast the outworlders’ first book, which makes the environment brutalist interiors with the more natural feel more lived-in than it does in Lynch’s ones of the Arrakis natives. No wonder the director was upset about film but also keeps this from Dune Warner Bros. releasing this being a satisfying standStarring Timothée Chalamet movie on streaming at the alone experience. Say this and Rebecca Ferguson.

Directed by Denis Villeneuve. same time. The film needs for Marvel: They know Written by Jon Spaihts, Denis the largest screen possible, how to make individual Villeneuve, and Eric Roth. as well as a theater’s films that please general Rated PG-13. floorboard-rattling sound audiences while also during the action sequences. At its best, the advancing storylines for the diehards.

Still, if you want spectacular vistas on movie is sublime in the old sense of making alien planets, Villeneuve gives you buckets you feel small.

Too bad Villeneuve overdoes it, as full of those. The shots of oldiers lined up in formation recall Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi- every scene seems to underscore the epic glorifying films, which I think is intentional. quality of this 155-minute film. Whatever We have sand hitting rocks like ocean intimacy his approach doesn’t beat out waves amid sandworm attacks, airships of the film, Hans Zimmer’s music takes with wings that vibrate like dragonfly care of. Chalamet is handicapped by a

character whose journey only truly begins at the film’s end. Even Javier Bardem is indistinct as the leader of the natives of Arrakis, and Zendaya spends so much time posing against desert backdrops in Paul’s dreams that you wonder whether she was shooting a fragrance commercial.

The only actor who makes an impression is a forceful Charlotte Rampling as the high priestess of Lady Jessica’s order of psychic seers who seems to know what a hard time Paul’s in for.

I do appreciate how the casting here fixes the original film’s overwhelming whiteness. (You can’t ascribe that to the time Lynch’s Dune was made, either: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alien, and The Empire Strikes Back all came out before it, and they all had characters of color.)

The content here may set up some more satisfying story beats later on. However, I’m obliged to review the film at hand, and, ultimately, this film is like a cleverly conceived and beautifully presented restaurant meal that makes you think about hitting the nearest McDonald’s. l

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