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With a 2019 book about the roots of American food and a tour company that marries cuisine and history, Deah Berry Mitchell continues to teach and eat during the pandemic.

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Deah Berry Mitchell launched Soul of DFW Tours in 2018 because she believed that a spoonful of history goes down better on a full stomach. The concept is simple: Hop on a bus, stop at a historical site, get back on the bus, and go to one of the area’s beloved restaurants. Repeat a few times, making new friends as you

Static Let me get this out of the way first by saying that bars should remain open at limited capacity, especially if they have outdoor seating and strictly enforce mask wearing. Most of the bar owners I know and know of are responsible and are abiding by COVID restrictions. My old argument is that if you’re going to close bars, you also should close gyms and churches, and since gyms and churches were allowed to open several weeks before bars were allowed to in the great Republic of Texas, I’m putting all three in the same little box for rhetorical purposes.

You would also like to think that Code Compliance, TABC agents, and cops know better than to crash Lola’s Trailer Park (open air) or Tarantula Tiki Lounge (capacity strictly limited, small patio) instead of some spots on West 7th that are packing bodies inside on the reg.

We’ve all seen the pictures on Fakebook of the crowded rooms. There’s no way social distancing is being practiced, and it’s criminal. Tell me which cops do you have to pay off to have them look the other way while you’re throwing ragers in cramped quarters during a raging rager of a pandemic. Seriously, the whole world and the families of nearly 250,000 dead Americans want to know.

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“I wanted to take what I love –– food and history –– and use it as a tool to educate my community about the Black experience,” Mitchell said. Soul of DFW is “a celebration of culture, not just eating.”

Mitchell created the touring company and later partnered with writer/publicist Dalila Thomas as she expanded from Dallas into Fort Worth in January 2020.

The tours take history buffs and local food lovers alike to Fort Worth’s Blackowned restaurants and historical sites of significance, including the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church and Oakwood Cemetery.

“I understand that sometimes the subject matter is heavy,” Mitchell said.

“It’s never all history or all food. We purposely break up the tour to keep the mood balanced.”

Mitchell and Thomas had just hit their stride in terms of touring in Fort Worth when COVID shut down any event involving enclosed spaces. Mitchell said she hopes to ramp back up again in the spring.

A native of Sherman, Mitchell is a

2019 transplant to Fort Worth. She dived into the history of her new hometown with gusto, starting with Opal Lee, the woman acknowledged by many as the city’s de facto Black historian. Mitchell also credits Sara Walker from the Lenora Rolla Heritage Center Museum for providing perspective. The museum is named for the woman who founded the Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society, and it’s a gold mine if you’re looking for the history of Fort Worth’s Black citizens.

As for the food in the Fort, Mitchell didn’t have a problem picking favorites.

She likes Carpenter’s Cafe and cites perennial favorite Drew’s Place Soul Food for their fried chicken. She also calls them unique “because they have an app.”

There are, she said, “a ton of great restaurants I’m looking forward to trying.”

Mitchell and Thomas mix stops at some of our best restaurants (Mama E’s, Smoke-A-Holics) with visits to the history in our backyards that many of us don’t know. For instance, you’ve probably passed the McDonald YMCA dozens of times, but did you know it’s named for

Associate Supreme Court Justice Brett Michael Kavanaugh, “I still like beer” — I want people to remember to be safe.

It’s sad I have to say that. I understand.

We threw off the shackles in August and September, which makes reverting back to lockdown seem that much more cumbersome. You know what else is cumbersome? The weight of hundreds of pounds of soil falling over your head in the tomb.

Mask up, keep the lockdown at bay. It’s simple, um, math.

Of course, this conversation would just be a fever dream in my head while lying awake in bed at night trying to effing sleep if the person we shall all soon giddily refer to as “disgraced and disgraceful former U.S. president Donald J. Trump” had shown any respect for science. Had we instituted a lockdown from March until about June, and had soon-to-be disgraced and disgraceful former U.S. president Donald J. Trump invoked the Defense Protection Act to pound out PPE and tests, and had Congress delivered a massive relief package to pay people and business owners to stay home, and had soon-to-be disgraced and disgraceful former U.S. president Donald J. Trump mandated masks and mass testing, we would not only not be in the sad, scary condition we are, but I guarantee you that soon-tobe disgraced and disgraceful former U.S. president Donald J. Trump would have won reelection easily. As glad as I am that he didn’t — his sins and offenses, chief among them plain dumbassery, are simply too myriad to comprehend or numer-

ate — I wish he would have if only if that would have meant fewer dead Americans.

I wouldn’t have voted for him regardless, but I wouldn’t be celebrating his loss as much as I am. Once again, like Brett “Blatz” Kavanaugh, “I still like beer,” and since Uncle Joe’s resounding victory, I’m still liking it almost every day at 5 o’clock.

And to think that more than 70 million people voted for soon-to-be disgraced and disgraceful former U.S. president Donald J. Trump. That’s a lot of people who hate science. I know memorizing all those nerdy facts and data was hard sophomore year (believe me, I know), but was the class so bad you have to actively despise it now as an adult?

More than 150,000 Americans come down with the COVID per day, and there are more than 1 million new cases per week. In Tarrant County, 802 deaths have been confirmed from the novel coronavirus. It’s time to pass the HEROES Act in the Senate. The large relief package modeled on the $3 trillion HEROES Act that passed in the House in May stalled in the Senate. Any claims of pork from the right are dubious, especially when soonto-be disgraced and disgraceful former U.S. president Donald J. Trump and his Republican sycophants ran up the biggest deficits, the biggest national debt, and the most enormous budgets in the history of the United States of America. Holding Americans hostage until after the election appears to be the likely reason. And yet people still vote for these demons. Still.

We’re left to wonder that if soon-to-be dis-

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Mitchell: “I understand that sometimes the subject matter is heavy. It’s never all history or all food. We purposely break up the tour to keep the mood balanced.”

graced and disgraceful former U.S. president Donald J. Trump and the ReTrumplicans had spent half the time, money, and energy on COVID instead of combating nonexistent voter fraud, would we be on the road to recovery by now? My answer is yes.

In addition to the HEROES Act, Texas could follow the lead of some other states — Republican- and Democrat-led — and issue a binding mask mandate, meaning enforcement and fines for noncompliance. To throw a hissy fit over wearing a mask in public, man, your life has to be pretty, pretty cushy. Talk about privilege. It’s a piece of fabric that could save lives. Or are you afraid people won’t see your pretty face? In that case, may I introduce you to a little website you may have heard of called Instagram?

We shouldn’t have to wait until January 20 for us to tackle the pandemic. The sooner that the stonewalling Republicans in Congress begin to accept reality, and the sooner that soon-to-be disgraced and disgraceful former U.S. president Donald J. Trump can be dragged away from the golf course to concede, the sooner we can begin to move the eff on. — Anthony Mariani The Weekly welcomes submissions from all political persuasions. Please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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the first Black man to own a hotel in Fort Worth? William “Gooseneck” McDonald was born to enslaved parents, and he amassed a fortune as an educator, banker, politician, and entrepreneur.

“We stop on the tour [at the McDonald Y] because they have a tribute wall to him,” Mitchell said. “Physically, you can see the trajectory of his life.”

Mitchell merged her love of Southern culinary tradition and history in Cornbread & Collard Greens: How West African Cuisine and Slavery Influenced Soul Food. Her 2019 book details how the slave trade that originated in West Africa influenced cooking styles in the American South and all over. She describes the book as “a beginner’s guide to the culinary history of soul food.” But it’s not all history.

“One-third [of the book] is me telling my stories and how I’m connected to a food item,” she said.

If you’re a food writer, or you just love food, Mitchell is a hoot to spend a few hours with. We got into a discussion about yam casserole for Thanksgiving, and I will never look at the dish I make with “yams” and marshmallows the same way again.

“Not many people know that yams and sweet potatoes are drastically different,” she said. Apparently, what I’ve been calling yams are not yams, despite the label at Whole Foods.

“Yams are from a specific region in Africa, and they were eaten mashed,” Mitchell said. “Due to slave trade, Africans used the food of the American South, and where sweet potatoes were commonly grown, people found they had a similar texture to yams.”

But Mitchell promises that she doesn’t correct her relatives when they bring the candied yams to the holiday dinner, even though those are really sweet potatoes.

That’s what makes Mitchell so engaging: She’s smart and funny, but she knows when to put the brakes on the history lesson. In addition to the traditional area soul food favorites, Mitchell’s list includes a couple of vegan restaurants.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone, because much of the cuisine in both Africa and the American South for enslaved people was vegetable-heavy. She likes It’s So Vegan in southwest Grand Prairie because of the variety of food.

“If you want nachos or something that feels more like a Southern dinner, [the owner] has different vegan meals that allow you to feel like you’re hitting those cravings,” she said.

Mitchell also likes Rebirth of Food –– the vegan restaurant and meal-planning service –– off Oakland Boulevard.

Cornbread & Collard Greens: How West African Cuisine and Slavery Influenced Soul Food is available at Amazon, Target, and now in the gift shop of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, which was a bit of news that brightened Mitchell’s 2020. Look for the Soul of DFW bus tours to ramp back up in 2021. l

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A growing number of Como residents are voicing frustration and anger over police cameras.

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uttressed between Ridglea Hills to the west, Westover Hills to the north, and Tanglewood to the east and south, the Como neighborhood has served the surrounding white communities with domestic workers for several decades. A new generation of college-educated working professionals is reframing Como’s workforce as the neighborhood continues to benefit from its enviable location within Fort Worth.

Growth and development in Como have been mixed over the past several years, according to Leon Reed, a criminal defense lawyer. Several buildings near the intersection of Horne Street and Manhattan Drive, where I spoke with Reed and two other locals, are shuttered.

Economic incentives and a booming population have spurred growth along the stretches of Bryant Irvin Road and Camp Bowie Boulevard that border Como, but once vibrant Black-owned small businesses are now a rarity within the neighborhood, Reed said.

Residents of the predominantly Black community have long been the target of over-policing, Reed said, but the recent installation of police cameras have made that daily law enforcement reality almost unbearable. Reed said a growing contingent of his clients face criminal charges because police officers, possibly several miles away, thought they detected suspicious activity. Reed said that besides being a lazy and Constitutionally precarious form of policing, the camera system lacks transparency.

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Reed recently filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request through the Fort Worth Secretary’s Office to learn the number and location of the visible police cameras — not hidden cameras.

Reed’s hunch is that the monitoring devices are more prevalent in predominantly minority communities and absent from Fort Worth’s wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods like Tanglewood and Rivercrest. Reed also has questions about who is monitoring the cameras.

Rather than release the locations of the publicly viewable, tax-funded cameras, the secretary’s office asked the State Attorney General’s office for a legal brief, which is basically a request to keep important public information private through loopholes in the FOIA. Fort Worth’s use of public cameras to monitor areas with higher-than-average rates of crime is not unique. Dallas’ new Starlight program allows Dallas police department to directly monitor private

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Leon Reed: “They are over-policing us, and they are still wondering why there is distrust between people of color and the Fort Worth police department.”

business surveillance cameras. The program, which uses software to detect anomalies that may indicate criminal behavior, is also used in Chicago, Detroit, Louisiana, and other locales.

While basic information on the camera system remains hidden by city officials, the Fort Worth police department’s website noted that the recently renewed Crime Control and Prevention District (a half-cent tax that raises more than $80 million a year for the police department) allocates around $900,000 for “cameras that have and will continue to be installed in strategic areas throughout” Fort Worth, including historic Stop Six and Las Vegas Trail, two low-income neighborhoods.

Upscale districts like the West 7th corridor also have police cameras, the website stated.

Fort Worth police department maintains two camera programs: active monitoring cameras and a Community Camera Program that the city says deters crime and promotes public safety. Unlike the neighborhood camera program, the community program relies on the voluntary participation of residents who register their cameras with the local police department. A database maintained by Fort Worth police department is used to locate registered cameras for criminal investigation purposes. Participants are not obligated to release video footage, even if their cameras are registered. Fort Worth police department did not respond to numerous requests for basic information about their surveillance program.

If Fort Worth leaders see a surveillance state as a replacement for boots-on-theground community policing, Reed said, locals will rise up against that government overreach.

“People may not know everything about their rights, but they know when you are abusing your authority,” he said.

“People are just trying to live. That’s why people in Tarrant County want less government. We don’t want Big Brother.”

Traffic has increased in and around Como.

Once unhurried Horne Street is now a busy thoroughfare where cars dash north and south through the heart of the historic neighborhood. Due to the locations of three police cameras along Horne, local resident Pam Smith said many of her neighbors have opted to avoid that stretch of road altogether. Word of random police pullovers near the cameras has spread quickly, she said.

“The cameras are diverting drivers to Littlepage [Street] and side streets,” Smith said. “People are treating Littlepage Street like Horne Street and not stopping at the stop signs. I can see them running the stop signs.

It will take one person having an accident to make people look at what’s happening.

That’s one of the biggest concerns I have.”

With a precision honed from 16 years of defending clients from a local criminal

Tonya Carter: The officer told me “point-blank” that he pulled me over because of the camera.

justice system that disproportionately pulls over, harasses, and incarcerates persons of color, Reed described how something as seemingly uncontroversial as a camera fuels mistrust of police.

“This camera primarily faces this store over here,” he said, pointing to OK Food Mart, which sits on the northwest corner of Horne Street and Manhattan Drive.

The police camera (basically a small tinted

bubble affixed to a utility pole) was aimed at the food store and the intersection that leads customers to Horne Street.

“It’s one thing to have cameras that other stores use to help solve crimes,” he said. “Once the crime has taken place, go back and figure out what happened. I think it’s a whole separate thing to watch people and try to actively catch someone,” especially when that surveillance isn’t

performed uniformly across the city.

Actions that may appear suspicious from a distance — a prolonged handshake between two Black men, someone momentarily jumping into a friend’s car, or a reach into a sock for an unidentified item — can be perfectly explainable without nefarious suppositions, Reed said.

The intersection and Texas’ traffic laws offer several opportunities for Fort Worth police to pull over Como residents.

Coasting over the sidewalk without coming to a full stop, not signaling 100 feet before reaching the stop sign (an impossibility when leaving OK Food Mart), and not coming to a full stop at the stop sign could lead camera monitors to radio nearby cops to pull over unwitting food store customers.

Lifelong Como resident Tonya Carter described being pulled over after leaving OK Food Mart two months ago. Moments before Carter drove away from the store, a Black man leaned into her car to type his phone number into her phone. The man was scheduling hairdressing services, Carter said. Shortly after driving off, Carter was pulled over by a Fort Worth police officer.

“You can see what that exchange may have looked like,” she said. The officer “told me point-blank” that he pulled me over because of the camera.

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offense rates, it’s a function of overpolicing, Reed said.

“It’s selective prosecution or, as some would say, selective persecution,” he said.

Police cameras are often brought at the request of community elders with the promise of lowering crime, Reed said.

Councilmember Gyna Bivens welcomed the installment of 35 police cameras in Fort Worth’s East Side three years ago, for example.

“Some of the community elders may have wanted cameras” at first, Reed said.

“They may not have been told how the police were going to use them. It’s one thing to say we need a camera in this store.

I can tell you that this store already has

plenty of cameras. When you have cameras to help solve a crime, that’s one thing.

When you are using them to actively police people, they don’t want their family members being stopped and harassed. If you are going to use the cameras in that manner, then you’d better be using them citywide. Don’t drop 100 cameras in lowerincome neighborhoods.”

Reed said the same fair standards that govern other aspects of life should apply to Black communities.

“Referees don’t blow the whistle on fouls that they think happened,” Reed said. “They blow the whistle on fouls that they saw happen. In our community, they keep blowing the whistle because they

think someone committed a foul. Blow the whistle when you see that a foul was committed. Don’t guess at it. Don’t call it from the backside. It frustrates citizens in the community.”

Max Krochmal, author and associate professor of history at TCU, said overpolicing in Como is the result of decades of public policy decisions that suppressed economic development in the historic neighborhood.

“We know Como was built as a white resort neighborhood that [relied on] Black domestic servants,” he said. “Segregation was baked into the area by design. White wealthy families there needed a labor force for jobs that were racialized and designated

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for Black workers. Over time, Como was encircled by ongoing development, including Ridglea Hills — a segregated white neighborhood” that built a wall to keep Como residents out.

As the population in Como became predominantly Black, Krochmal said bank practices deemed Black-owned homes as less valuable. Loans in Black communities came with unfavorable terms, he added.

“As a result, it becomes more difficult for people to invest in homes and neighborhoods” in Como, he said, “so the tax base is lower. Local governments saw the area as contributing less in taxes, so they provided less public services.

There was a systematic disinvestment of municipal services due to the history of discriminatory lending.”

Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, federal services that addressed poverty began being replaced with increased policing, both in Fort Worth and across the county, he said.

“What was happening was a war against the expanding rights of African Americans and other people of color,” he said. “It was a counterinsurgency designed to contain the liberation struggles and to preserve the unequal status quo of the 1960s.”

Lyndon Johnson’s call for a war on crime and Ronald Reagan’s war on drugs created sentencing guidelines and policing policies that disproportionately targeted Black and brown communities, he said.

“If I was a resident in Como and saw one of these cameras or felt like I was being pulled over more often, I think there are many reasons to be suspicious about what’s going on,” Krochmal said.

This past month, I sent the Fort Worth police department several questions about their surveillance program, including basic questions about the cost and the purpose of the cameras. My repeated requests for information were ignored.

Speaking to Channel 8 in 2017, Fort Worth officer Daniel Segura said the cameras were installed to “follow leads, follow suspicious activity, and to help the community. We have to be careful about who has access to cameras. Only command staff and specific personnel” can monitor the cameras.

“The surveillance society is upon us,” reads the opening line of a recent article by the American Bar Association. The article goes on to list the Constitutional concerns raised by the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) that can be coupled with existing camera systems to target individuals based on biometric analysis.

The only long-term solution is national legislation to protect civil rights, the article notes.

The United States is home to tens of millions of cameras that could be

“They are keeping that warrant open so they can pull you over again,” he said.

“If they find something the second time, they reverse engineer it. If they say they found weed, then it becomes, ‘Oh, I smelled marijuana, so I searched the car.’ Now, you have someone catching a criminal case in a predominantly minority neighborhood.”

The Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan American think tank, found little variation in marijuana use by race.

In Tarrant County, Black and Latinx defendants constituted nearly two-thirds of misdemeanor charges for possession of under two ounces of marijuana last year.

Black men and women are arrested for

The intersection and Texas’ traffic laws offer several opportunities for Fort Worth police to pull over Como residents.

marijuana possession at more than twice the rate of whites. Lopsided policing practices and a complicit district attorney’s office create statistics that are then used to validate over-policing, Reed said.

Como residents take crime seriously, Reed said. The tight-knit community has a long history of calling out bad actors within the neighborhood. The best deterrents of crime are engaged police officers who participate in community events and build trust with elders, children, and everyone in between, Reed said.

“Go to the little league games and show the kids that you are interested in them, and you’re not fake about it,” he said. “Everyone knows everyone’s families here. We want Como to be around for a long time. Our church wants to remain here.”

Reed believes that he will ultimately be successful in gaining the locations of the publicly viewable police cameras. He is asking for the camera locations from specific dates so city officials or police can’t fudge the numbers by installing cameras in predominantly white neighborhoods after the fact.

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“When you look at the raw data of African Americans who have vehicles, it’s [as low as] 14% of drivers,” Reed said. “We’re getting stopped in the 36th percentile and higher. From those stops, you are deriving citations, searches, arrests, and potential crimes. Whites are always underrepresented. These cameras are used to selectively stop [Black] people.”

Reed believes Fort Worth police frequently search the cars of Black men and women without consenting. Open warrants that result from an inability to pay off traffic tickets are grounds for continually pulling over Como residents, Reed said.

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weaponized to find compromising footage to blackmail politicians or for other nefarious reasons, a 2019 New York Times article said. Fort Worth police currently use license plate recognition software, according to the police department’s website.

“License plate readers have played an increasingly critical role in the transformation of policing and improving public safety,” the website said. “The Fort Worth police department has had multiple success stories utilizing this technology, aiding in the location of missing loved ones, locating kidnapping and sexual assault assailants, and other high-profile cases. The Fort Worth police department continues to invest in this technology, which has proven to be a force multiplier.”

A video made by Vigilant Solutions, a California-based surveillance corporation, uses a cartoon to show how the program catches dangerous criminals.

When automated surveillance programs are in clear sight and uniformly enforced, Texans tend to reject those programs. Last year, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill banning red-light cameras.

Critics of red-light cameras noted that it ran afoul of the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees the right of defendants to be “confronted with the witnesses against him.”

The same Constitutional-rights violations potentially afflict the Fort Worth police camera program. Reed said Fort Worth’s documented history of systemic racism places the burden on police to prove that their cameras are not disproportionately targeting Black communities. Since 2001, state laws have required Texas police departments to track race-related data. Reed cites those records when describing Fort Worth’s documented racist policing habits that date back until 2001 and presumably much earlier.

Reed provided copies of the reports, which were reviewed in full. Consistent in the data is underrepresentation of white residents and substantial overrepresentation of Black residents in tallies for traffic citations and arrests.

The city data frequently change reporting methodology (bar graphs, pie graphs, no graphs) from one year to the next. That decision makes comparing year-to-year changes difficult.

In 2019, Black drivers accounted for 38% of vehicle searches. In 2009, 42% of vehicles searched had Black drivers, and numbers from 2002 show that Black residents accounted for nearly 40% of Fort Worth police department vehicle stops, even though the Black community at the time accounted for only 18.5% of drivers in Fort Worth. Black drivers were significantly overrepresented across a wide range of police interactions — without exception — between 2003 and 2019, according to Fort Worth police department records.

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TCU footballers are embarrassed during their first action outside the Lone Star State this season.

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My 3-year-old started a nap strike several months ago. Consequently, TCU’s morning games usually result in my sitting in a strip-mall parking lot watching the Frogs’ follies on my mobile device after he’s fallen asleep. As I stared at a CVS marquee on Saturday, the fourth quarter commenced with TCU trailing West Virginia by 11 points, set to receive a punt and start the ensuing drive with favorable field position. Punt returner Derius Davis (#12), who has electrified Frog faithful in recent games, didn’t dress out for this contest and was sidelined with an undisclosed illness. In Davis’ place, Trevon Moehrig (#7), Coach Gary Patterson’s star safety who’ll be playing for big money by this time next year, subbed in to receive the punt. Moehrig muffed the kick back to the Mountaineers. WVU quarterback Jarret Doege (#2) promptly bombed the ball to T.J. Simmons (#1), who strode away for a 38-yard TD and an 18-point advantage. Soberly, I closed the Fox Sports App and bid my time playing Call of Duty: Mobile, an environment in which the ineptitude is mine and subject to my complete control. I returned with a cooler head, but after reconnecting I saw what appeared to be TCU on the cusp of finding the end zone for the first time.

Promptly, Frog “slinger” Max Duggan (#2) threw a corkscrewing pass directly into the eager arms of Mountaineer safety

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Tykee Smith (#23), who fled from the 1 yard line to the 43 before Duggan corralled him long enough for re-inFrogments to arrive. That, in a nutshell, was how this game progressed for our Toads.

“Touchdown” isn’t a word I can use to reference our Frogs this week. Offensive Coordinator Sonny Cumbie and his unit can’t claim any. Placekicker Griffin Kell (#39) notched two field goals while Duggan overthrew stud wideout Taye Barber (#4) when he was as inexplicably open as public schools during a spiking pandemic. You’ve just read the entire highlight reel. Other than those reprieves, TCU’s offense left Morgantown resembling a hill blown to bits so miners could ravage the coal buried within. Duggan, similar to last week, struggled to complete meaningful passes to outside receivers, often airmailing them well out of lanky receivers’ wingspans.

His throws across the middle of the field were more successful but fruitless on the scoreboard. The Mountaineer defense remained unwilling to allow Duggan scrambling attempts, rendering the gifted sprinter wholly ineffective.

Last week, I mused that if Doege received protection, then difficulty awaited the Frog defense. An ardent pessimist, being correct about things isn’t enjoyable. Doege attempted fewer passes than anticipated but with a startling 73% efficiency leading to two touchdowns, plus a rushing score. Simmons was money in the bank on Saturday, hauling in only four passes but finding the end zone twice while amassing 90 yards. The West Virginians didn’t need much else since Leddie Brown (#4) pounded the rock 24 times for more than 150 yards. TCU’s pass rush, which improved markedly during wins against Baylor and Tech, evaporated into the mountain mist. Frog defenders dropped Doege only twice, one of which was on the stat line thanks only to an intentional grounding penalty.

As inept as TCU’s offense remained throughout the game, hope remained through three quarters. Despite falling behind early, Kell’s field goals and WVU’s own undisciplined nature kept the Frogs within striking distance thanks to repeated bonehead penalties that helped our flatlining offense. Saturday, like many games this season, felt different than the stat line suggested. WVU outgained TCU only by approximately 100 yards, yet the

Duggan and his Frogs didn’t enjoy their first trip out of state this season when they failed to find the end zone.

score was 24-6. Doege completed only three more passes than Duggan, but if you watched them play, it was clear which one you’d want for your Thanksgiving Day pick-up game. Each defense performed well within — 24 points are the fewest scored by WVU at home this season. But six points is the fewest scored by a Horned Frog offense in almost four years. To be fair (said in Letterkenny voice), WVU has been the best defense in the conference this season and has been lights out at home. Sloppy execution continues to be the calling card of a TCU offense that just can’t seem to remove their heads from their ass. Additional offensive coaches, which were supposed to buoy what has been a sinking ship for the last two seasons, seem now more liability than asset. Matchups with the Mountaineers have never been a given, but the couch burners now boast a 5-4 record over Patterson since the two joined the Big 12, with Team Deliverance claiming the last three meetings.

The most worrying trend in the TCUniverse is not this game specifically but patterns themselves. While Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia seem to be evolving and improving as the season moves along, the Frogs oscillate between

average and asinine. The defensive secondary sustained additional injuries and consequent deletions on Saturday, and Cumbie’s offense remains awful. Duggan, who I maintain shows tremendous potential, does not seem to be improving this season, and as frustrating as that can be for fans, there is absolutely not a better option on the roster. TCU has claimed victory only once after trailing this year, which was against the Longhorns while down a field goal early in the fourth quarter. On no other occasion have the Frogs trailed and rallied to win the game, which made WVU scoring a touchdown on the first drive an ominous early sign.

Patterson and company are off this week and preparing to visit Lawrence and the dead-last Kansas Jayhawks after Turkey Day. KU has challenged our Frogs in the past, and I wouldn’t put it past them to make this year’s edition another interesting episode in the series. Check back next week for Misery Loves Company: 2020 edition, and I’ll try to rationalize our struggles by pointing out other prominent programs that also suck. I promise, it’ll give us something to feel thankful for.

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Meet some of these ladies at the Moslah Shrine car show. (Wear a mask, y’all. If DCC can do it, so can you.)

From 5pm to 7pm in person (1612 S University Dr, Ste 401C, 817-484Thursday 5580) — or noon thru Fri at midnight online (KendraScott.com) — do some early holiday shopping at Kendra Scott Gives Back. The retailer will donate 20% of your purchase to Project BeLovEd, a nonprofit that “strives to educate, advocate, and collaborate to change the conversation about sexual assault and empower survivors to find their voices.”

Jewelry. It’s what’s for Christmas. (Note: If shopping online, use code GIVEBACK02YK in the coupon code field before you check out.)

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Ayden Trammell dropped a love song on Spotify on Valentine’s Day and Friday became our cover story in July (search by his name on FWWeekly. com). Trammell has been using his lockdown/pandemic time since then to write lyrics, experiment with sounds, and shoot a music video. This singersongwriter/TCU student is a busy guy, but he’s making time for the masses on Thanksgiving break. At 9pm, join

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Are you ready for some hot rods and hot babes?

Can I even say that? I Saturday think I will. You see, the 4th Annual Christmas Car Show is from 9am to 2:30pm at Moslah Shrine (1100 Henderson St, 817-335-9469) with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders as special guests. If you’d like to be a vendor or show a car, see the various costs at MoslahShrine. org. Attendance is free, but bring spending money. There will be a craft fair and the aforementioned vendors.

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While the margarita folks took their event outside this year, the annual Fort Sunday Worth Parade of Lights will be indoors only and telecast. That’s right, no in-person attendees. At 7pm, tune in at TXA21 on your television — or head to the Parade of Lights’ page on Facebook — and watch the parade from home. Then from 6 to 8pm Nov 23-24, see the floats in person for free at the Downtown Showcase of Floats (Main St) with holiday music playing and socially distanced photo opportunities available.

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From 5pm to 7pm, attend Pumpkins & Prosecco on the patio of Cat City Grill Monday (1208 W Magnolia Av, 817916-5333), where you will learn how to

make a floral and pumpkin centerpiece for Thanksgiving. The cost of $50 per person includes appetizers by Chef Osman and a complimentary glass of prosecco. Call to RSVP by Sat.

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Tulips — the long-awaited music venue — is now open at a limited capacity Tuesday at 112 St Louis Av (817247-2518) and is bringing in the one and only Big Mike for a weekly residency from 7pm to 10pm every Tue thru midDecember. These shows are free if you RSVP on Prekindle.com.

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Now that’s it cooled off but not freezing, it’s a great time to visit Traders Village (2602 Mayfield Rd, Grand Prairie, 972647-2331). As they are open year-round in an outdoor setting, it’s a pandemic getaway for shopping, eating, and drinking, plus they have a permanent midway with unlimited rides for just $14 per day and live entertainment. Admission is $4 per vehicle. From laundry detergent to the clothes and the washer, tiger blankets (#TigerKing!) to tires, and jewelry to junk, some of everything can be found at this thriving flea market. While you can’t go every day, you can undoubtedly go every weekend. Follow them on Facebook to see the latest happenings.

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Margarita Ball & Toy Drive 2020

In an abundance of COVID-19 caution, the Arlington Margarita Society is hosting its annual Margarita Ball outdoors this year.

Join the toy drive and celebration from 4pm to 9pm at Levitt Pavilion (100 W Abram St, Arlington, 817543-4301), benefiting Santa Cops of Arlington, a police volunteer group bringing happiness to Arlington children in need.

The toy-drive portion of the evening starts at 4pm. There will be a drive-by toy drop available for those who are not attending Margarita Ball but would still like to donate a toy. Shopping online through the Amazon Wishlist on the society’s website is another way to participate. You can also make a (tax-exempt) monetary donation at ArlingtonMargaritaSociety.org/ Donate and let the Santa Cops do the shopping.

If you are headed to the ball, you will receive one margarita ticket per toy. (The toys should be new and unwrapped, please.)

The Levitt lawn party is from 5pm to 9pm with music by the Party Machine.

This event is free to attend with a toy or monetary donation, but you must register at ArlingtonMargaritaSociety.org/ Registration.

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Trammell, Red Ants (his band), and KindKeith at MASS (1002 S Main St, 682-707-7774) for the Pre-Thanksgiving Getdown. Tickets are $10 in advance on Prekindle.com. Doors are at 8pm.

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From 6:30pm to 8:30pm, Lush Garden Works Wednesday — an Arlington garden shop — is hosting Girls’ Night Out Terrarium Class at Poured Wine Bar (1601 E Debbie Ln, Ste 1105, Mansfield, 817-453-7919). Tickets are $35 per person on Eventbrite.com and include all the supplies needed to build a succulent terrarium that will be yours to keep.

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The entrance from the restaurant is dotted with antique keyhole plates and doorknobs. Entering from the outside, there is a medieval-style wooden door with a Latin phrase painted to the side.

“Carpe Noctem,” meaning “Go hard, or go home,” in layman’s terms. Party the night away with no regard.

With 16 offerings, the opening cocktail menu wasn’t convoluted but didn’t do any service to opening night. Possibly learning from this, the menu has been greatly reduced with only two remaining from the debut menu. Fortunately, with these modifications, the cocktails are

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The Amber Room is a welcome addition to Fort Worth’s burgeoning craft cocktail scene.

now dialed in. Earlier selections are still available upon request.

The Bermuda Triangle (choose gin over vodka for its base) reminds one of that first bite of cotton candy at the State Fair. A playful but well-balanced mix of Campari, orgeat syrup, pineapple, and lime gave a bright flavor with an easy finish.

A favorite from my first two visits, Orchid in the Morning found its way to the final menu. The floral notes from St. Germaine and pear nectar, along with the bubbles of champagne and hint of vodka, was delicate yet subtly dry and rounded out with slight sweetness.

When looking to carpe noctem, the Scarlett Letter, a combination of trending alcohols — mezcal and green chartreuse — will nudge you closer to reaching that goal, while chocolate and rye hints of the smooth Aztec Old Fashion will assist in sealing the deal.

While the future is not certain, bars and restaurants have always been sought as places of comfort. People turn to them for normalcy. Without them, things seem a bit off. Saving you from an emotional diatribe, I leave you with this: Support your local bars and restaurants any way possible. This review matters none in the long run. I only hope people choose to frequent these cradles of comfort many times over once the light turns green and the multiple knobs on the door to The Amber Room, and all our eating establishments, turn to open once again.

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months, with others deemed to open soon.

All locally owned. None marked safe from the pandemic.

Reviews can already be crippling for establishments, striking discord among readers and owners alike. I mulled over this with heavy heart, because, yes, there were missteps upon the Amber Room’s January opening. That goes without saying, and battle plans change when the first shot is fired.

My first visit was opening night, and I’m no simpleton who expects top-tier service during such an occasion. I respect their flow and go with it. However, my The opening quote contrived for this heart lowered when the bartender told article is a toast dedicated to alcohol — me in a hushed voice that this was not “To bourbon whiskey, amber liquid, sweet the cocktail menu they trained with, that and dear, not as sweet as a woman’s lips, it had completely changed right before but a damn bit more sincere.” Although opening, thus rendering them unfamiliar “It was the best of times, it was the worst with it. Cocktails were off, servers of times” seems more applicable. scatterbrained, half an hour to correct an This article was originally written on order, apologies and atonement from the St. Patrick’s Day, but now I’m bartenders. Customer service consumed by the roll call of The Amber Room was the saving grace. local restaurant and bar owners Inside Wishbone and Hoping they had locked making the unimaginable gut- Flynt, 334 Bryan Av, it in warranted more visits wrenching decision to shutter FW. 817-945-2433. to provide a fair shake. The for an unforeseeable amount second visit saw improvement, of time. Livelihoods rely on doors being while the third — prior to temporary open. Restaurants play a numbers game by closure — solidified The Amber Room as the week, and, after a prolonged closing, a necessary augmentation to Fort Worth’s recovery seems like a foreign concept. burgeoning craft cocktail scene.

I’m feeling contrite, engulfed with The bar itself is draped in eccentric guilt to review The Amber Room, a Victorian-esque pictures and garb speakeasy attached to Chef Stefon Rishel’s with earthy tones. Contrasting ornate Wishbone and Flynt in the up-and- chandeliers keep the room light enough coming South Main neighborhood under to locate a seat in one of the mismatched these conditions. The neighborhood has furniture offerings. Faux candle flames seen several openings within the last two flicker from sconces along the wall, though

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There’s always been a sticky commingling between classic C&W and rock music that has existed in so-called alt-country, or Americanan, or whichever other buzzy, ill-defined music journalism label currently being applied to the Pat Greens of the world. It’s not a new thing that music might feature both a sad pedal steel and a distorted guitar. However, with the progression of big name acts like Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, and Jason Isbell increasingly incorporating rock riffs, anthemic choruses, and a startling lack of twang in their vocal delivery, they seem to be dipping their boots well past the proverbial toes into the murky sweatscented waters of straight-up rock ’n roll.

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Musicians are still torn: Do they play live and risk spreading COVID, or do they starve? It’s not an easy choice, and there’s no right or wrong answer, though the question would be moot if strong, sciencedriven leadership at the top were around at the beginning of the outbreak. Narrator: It was not. The guy who was supposed to be in charge said the novel coronavirus was going to one day disappear “like a miracle.” Now we are stuck. Workaday musicians and bar owners/employees are still struggling, despite the loosening of restrictions to allow for at least 50% occupancy. And keep your eye on that because if COVID infection rates continue skyrocketing, another lockdown looms, putting us right back where we were in the spring. And no one can afford that.

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the virus head-on in January, assuming most of us are still breathing clearly at that point, Bandcamp is doing what it can to serve up another money-making avenue for artists. Bandcamp Live will allow them to create ticketed livestream shows. A virtual merch table, real-time chat, and the ability to promote the show to preexisting Bandcamp users will comprise the “Bandcamp ecosystem,” where the ticketed livestream show will take place. At least 80% of ticket sales will go directly to the artist as part of the platform’s established Fair Trade Music Policy. Until March 31, 2021, Bandcamp will waive its fees on tickets, meaning 100% of ticket sales will go directly to artists until then. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Pedro the Lion, Madison McFerrin, and Cloud Nothings are just a few artists already slated to perform.

Local artists are no longer streaming like they were around the thick of the lockdown, which is a shame — I loved the streaming shows. The Unlikely Candidates

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From the starting point of slowstrummed, tear-in-my-beer acoustic waltzes, even these otherwise innocuous changes might seem jarring, but when your music already resides a bit further down the country/rock continuum, a big leap to the left of the dial makes the output all the more heavy and ever louder. Which is why, when Denton singer-songwriter Daniel Markham decided to crank up, the results have gone all the way to the extreme end.

With his latest record, Burnout, Markham offers a 12-song collection of chunky, Godzilla-sized, riff-fueled ’90s nostalgia that is infinitely more Melvins than it is McMurtry.

“If you listen to my records, I’ve always done rock stuff,” Markham said.

“I guess I get lumped in with the singersongwriter thing just because I go by my name. I kinda started in that realm, but my band has really always been a rock band.

When I started writing these songs, I was like, ‘I’m just going to be over the top and really dig into my teenage years and play riffs and stuff that sounds like something I would have listened to when I was a kid.’ ” Markham said that the genesis for the record that began about two years ago came from the purchase of a new guitar. Always a fan of groove metal pioneers Pantera, on a lark, he bought a Dimebag Darrell signature model Dean ML, complete with lightning bolt graphic.

“I took it out of the box, took the bubble wrap off of it, and the first thing I played was the riff for the song ‘Burnout,’ ” he explained. “It just came to me just straightaway, so I was like, ‘Well, I wrote that song. Let me write a bunch of others.’

I was really just going for it.”

And go for it, he does. The riffs on Burnout recall the standard mid-scooped, hard rock oeuvre any budding guitarist in the latter part of the previous century would have learned off tab printed in Guitar Player

Markham: “This was the first time I’ve really gone for the fully blowed-out guitar sound and just big dumb drums.”

magazine. The lines are both legitimately headbanging and a little comically amusing.

“That riff on ‘Strawberry’ is just ridiculous,” Markham said with a laugh. But what could have been perceived as pure borderline campiness is matured and grounded by Markham’s warm and developed vocal style.

The tenured harmonies and comfortable feel of his voice somehow make the chuggy guitar parts make sense. It’s the sort of trick only a seasoned and confident songwriter could pull off.

“This was the first time I’ve really gone for the fully blowed-out guitar sound and just big dumb drums,” he said. “It’s different for sure, but it’s still me. I think the songwriting is still in the vein of what I’ve been doing. It’s just that I’ve gone farther than I’ve gone before.”

Burnout was tracked by Justin Collins (Hares on the Mountain, Tony Ferrarro & The Satans of Soft Rock) at Denton’s Satisfactory Recording Co. Markham played every instrument on the album Dave Grohl-on-first-Foo-Fighters’-record-style. and Brandin Lea at MASS and Big Mike at home were big events around the Mariani household, with my wife, young son, and I gathered around the laptop with the beverages of our choice and with our feet up.

If there’s a better way for a sad old fart who’s afraid to drive at night and his family to take in a local rock show, I can’t think of it.

One of the best parts was how the concerts destroyed geographical boundaries. I invited friends and family members from back home up north and beyond to watch Big Mike, Brandin, and TUC, and many of them did, and most left tips. As enthused as I am about the return of live music, I also think livestreaming can play a role, as it has been — many bars are livestreaming their in-person concerts, too, which makes perfect, logistical, philosophical sense. With the addition of Bandcamp Live, a logical competitor to Facebook Live, local artists have another outlet, and it’s one that’s not as grimy and disgusting as Facebook.

All tracking was completed in just over 20 hours. Mixing was done by Elmwood Studios’ Alex Bhore (Unspell, BULLS).

Though the album was released just two weeks ago, Markham said he’s already ready to move on. The Dime Dean was sold, having exhausted its usefulness, and he already has a new album in the can. With the working title Pony Drones, Markham’s next effort was recorded in an abandoned grocery store in Turkey, Texas, and is yet another departure for him. Sonically, the “vibey, stripped-down affair,” as he described it, is said to have adopted the aesthetics of that West Texas town where it was recorded and the area he grew up in around Rotan.

“Burnout was kind of an anchor for me, and I just had to get it out there,” he said. “I’ve always just kind of moved on to the next thing. Pony Drones is sort of like the other side of Burnout. Like the other side of the bar. Maybe outside. Way past the alley.” l I understand the potential roadblocks.

Some artists may play out too much, diluting their turnout from show to show. This is not a problem endemic to streaming but could be more pronounced with yet another concert outlet on the market. And I know that Bandcamp’s new platform is geared more toward national artists than ones with smaller fan bases like most of the local acts we love so much.

I also know that of all the various music streaming/downloading platforms out there, Bandcamp seems to understand its users and fans. The company appears to be responsible. Setting aside days to allow Bandcamp artists to earn 100% of sales is one way the platform “gets” what it’s like to be talented yet unheralded. And hungry — for a big break, some airplay, a good review, or, considering life these days, lunch. — Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at anthony@fwwekly.com.

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