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This Week's Hot Headlines

Fort Worth BBQ crowned Texas' best in this week's 5 hottest headlines

Stephanie Allmon Merry
Oct 23, 2021 | 10:15 am

Editor's note: A lot happened this week, so here's your chance to get caught up. Read on for the week's most popular headlines. Want a list of best things to do this weekend? Find that here.

1. Fort Worth reigns supreme in Texas Monthly's new top 50 barbecue list. Texas magazine Texas Monthly has shaken up the barbecue world. Their newly released list of the state’s top 50 barbecue joints makes major changes to the conventional wisdom surrounding where to find the best 'cue in Texas. Topping the list? Fort Worth's own Goldee’s Barbecue. Rounding out the top 10 is Panther City BBQ, another Fort Worth favorite.

2. Fort Worth burger king Fred's Texas Cafe is leaving West 7th location. After nearly a half century, a legendary Fort Worth burger joint is on the move: Fred's Texas Cafe is closing its original location off West 7th Street and relocating to West Fort Worth. The flagship location at 915 Currie St. will close its doors on December 31. It'll relocate to the new, bigger space at 7101 Camp Bowie West in early spring.

3. Secret hidden speakeasy bars are the hottest bar trend in Dallas-Fort Worth right now. It's probably the biggest trend in Dallas-Fort Worth bars right now: the Prohibition-era speakeasy bar, a catch-all term that operators are using to describe — well, it's evolving into a whole host of things. Here's all the speakeasy bars that have arisen, maybe not so secretly, around DFW.

4. Luxury bus service drives into DFW with $15 fares to top Texas destinations. A luxury bus line just rolled out its nonstop service in Dallas, Austin, College Station, Houston, and Waco. Orlando, Florida-based RedCoach, which launched in 2010, announced its entry into the Texas market on Monday, October 18. To celebrate the Texas expansion, RedCoach is offering $15 fares for in-state routes from now until November 16.

5. Cheerful new vegan burger joint in Fort Worth makes it all from scratch. Fort Worth has been blessed with an exciting new restaurant specializing in vegan burgers: Called Zonk Burger, it just opened in a former doughnut shop at 2912 Race St., where it's serving a variety of vegan burgers, sandwiches, and fries.

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Movie Review

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is as wacky and over-the-top as expected

Alex Bentley
Nov 15, 2022 | 9:48 am
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is as wacky and over-the-top as expected
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Evan Rachel Wood and Daniel Radcliffe in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

For over 40 years, “Weird Al” Yankovic has reigned as the world’s most popular comedy musician. Given the unserious nature of Yankovic’s songs, a movie about his life was never going to be straightforward. Taking inspiration from a 2013 Funny or Die video of the same name, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story plays out as – what else? – a parody of music biopics, which tend to have many of the same beats, such as a rough childhood, music providing a salvation, issues with drugs and/or alcohol, and, ultimately, redemption.

And so, hilariously, the young Al yearns to play the accordion and make up fake lyrics to real songs, only to be stymied by his well-meaning mom, Mary (Julianne Nicholson), and angry and violent dad, Nick (Toby Huss). After hearing things like “We agree that you should stop being yourself and doing the things you love,” he rebels by going to … a teenage polka party. (Unintentionally funny is that Nicholson recently played Marilyn Monroe’s mom in Blonde, a 1-2 punch that’s hard to beat.)

When Al (now played by Daniel Radcliffe) finally gets out of the house, he’s able to spread his wings and make the weird music he wants, overcoming the skepticism of record executives like Tony Scotti (played by Yankovic) with the help of mentor Dr. Demento (Rainn Wilson). When Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood) becomes his girlfriend to, in part, get the sweet bump that one of his parody songs can provide, it starts in motion a series of events too ridiculous to be true.

Directed by Eric Appel (who also made the short film) and written by Appel and Yankovic, the film can essentially be split in two. The first half is the more successful part, as the pure comedy of his parents' overreactions to his music tastes, the random ways in which he draws inspiration for songs like “My Bologna,” and other out-of-nowhere things never fail to draw a laugh.

Not content to play out the whole movie that way, the filmmakers make the second half into something … weird. Without spoiling anything, it radically shifts the perspective of Weird Al as both a musician and a person, a change that, while still objectively funny, takes on a much different tone. It also features less of his music, a decision that takes some of the early fun out of the film.

The film features a bevy of celebrity cameos, like Lin-Manuel Miranda as a surgeon, Conan O’Brien as Andy Warhol, and Quinta Brunson as Oprah Winfrey, as well as a pool party scene featuring a slew of ‘80s icons like Devo, John Denver, Pee Wee Herman, Tiny Tim, Gallagher, Divine, and Elvira. You never know who’s going to pop up next, giving the film an extra dose of enjoyment in addition to the story.

Radcliffe, though much shorter than the actual Weird Al (likely a joke in and of itself), is a great fit for the role, bringing the type of energy it deserves. Even when lip-synching (the voice when singing is definitely the real Weird Al), he’s all-in on the performance. Wood is also great, delivering a depiction of Madonna that’s even more out-there than the real-life version.

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story ultimately hits more highs than lows thanks to the funny “origin” stories around songs like “Eat It,” “Another One Rides the Bus,” and “Like a Surgeon.” You can give the filmmakers credit for trying something different, but like any popular musician, things are better when they play the hits.

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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is now streaming on The Roku Channel.

Evan Rachel Wood and Daniel Radcliffe in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

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Evan Rachel Wood and Daniel Radcliffe in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

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Get the Party Started

Pink amps up the fun with Summer Carnival tour coming to Arlington

Alex Bentley
Nov 14, 2022 | 11:30 am
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Pink will play at Globe Life Field in Arlington on September 29, 2023 as part of her Summer Carnival tour.

Grammy Award-winning singer Pink (aka P!nk or P!NK if you prefer) is bringing her Summer Carnival tour 2023 to Globe Life Field in Arlington on Friday, September 29.

The initial tour announcement includes 21 dates around North America, starting with Toronto, Canada on July 24. All dates will be at Major League Baseball stadiums or similarly large venues.

In addition to the stop in Arlington, Pink will also play in San Antonio on September 25 and Houston on September 27. All Texas dates - at which she'll be joined by Brandi Carlile, Grouplove, and KidCutUp - are post-summer, but who's counting?

This will be Pink's first appearance in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since her Beautiful Trauma World Tour in 2018-2019.

The tour announcement did not come alongside a new album announcement, but there are signs that one is coming soon. Earlier in 2022, she released the protest song "Irrelevant" in part in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and she just released "Never Gonna Not Dance Again" on November 4.

Pink's last album was 2019's Hurts 2B Human, which was her third straight - and third overall - No. 1 release.

Tickets for the tour go on sale to the general public starting at 10 am Monday, November 21 at LiveNation.com.

Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning 10 am Wednesday, November 16 until 11 pm Sunday, November 20 through the Citi Entertainment program.

Verizon will also offer a presale for select shows in the U.S. through its customer loyalty program, Verizon Up, from 12 pm Thursday, November 17 to 11 pm Sunday, November 20.

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Airplane News

Two pilots from Keller were among 6 dead in crash at Dallas military airshow

Teresa Gubbins
Nov 14, 2022 | 10:08 am
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One plane hit another at the Wings Over Dallas Airshow at Dallas Executive Airport.

Six people died in an airplane crash at the Wings Over Dallas Airshow at Dallas Executive Airport in south Dallas on November 12, two of whom were from the city of Keller.

Len Root worked as a contract commercial pilot; and Terry Barker was an Army veteran and pilot for American Airlines for 36 years.

Barker was also a former city council member for Keller, according to Keller Mayor Armin Mizani, who said on Twitter that "I was fortunate to have him as a friend, and his guidance when it came to what was best for our residents never steered me wrong."

Other casualties included Major Curtis Rowe, a veteran pilot, who volunteered to be a crew member on the B-17, and according to Fox 4, Houston-based pilot Craig Hutain, who was flying the P-63 Kingcobra. Hutain flew for United Airlines and was planning on retiring in a few years.

Kevin “K5” Michels and Dan Ragan were the other two men who died.

Described as a chance to "re-live history," the show featured vintage World War II planes in air. The crash made national news and was photographed and recorded by a number of spectators.

The two planes that crashed were a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, and a small Bell P-63 Kingcobra. According to Airlive.net, the P-63 took a wide turn which would have prevented its pilot from seeing the B-17.

Both planes were owned by the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) and based in Houston. According to CNN, hundreds of spectators watched as the planes collided, then burst into a fireball on the grounds of Dallas Executive Airport.

CAF president Hank Coates said that the pilots at CAF airshows are volunteers, many airline pilots, retired airline pilots, or retired military pilots, and said the aircraft were safe and well-maintained.

The NTSB will issue a preliminary report in four to six weeks, although spokesman Michael Graham said a full investigation could take more than a year. They're urging anyone with video or pictures to send them to witness@ntsb.gov.

“They’ll actually be very critical since we don’t have any flight data recorder data or cockpit voice recorders or anything like that,” Graham said. “They’ll be very critical to analyze the collision and also tie that in with the aircraft control recordings to determine why the two aircraft collided and to determine, basically, the how and why this accident happened and then eventually, hopefully, maybe make some safety recommendations to prevent it from happening in the future."

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