Steve Steward

Fort Worth

Contributor at Fort Worth Weekly

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Articles

Save The Cicada

3 weeks ago | fwweekly.com | Steve Steward

I am loath to write another “this bar I loved is closing/”-type of column, and given that The Cicada has not yet shuttered, I suppose this piece is not that. Fact is, though, the tight margins inherent to the bar business and factors like decreased foot traffic and shifting trends in leisure activities mean the lifespans of live music venues are often brief even in the best of times, and we do not live in the year 2015.
Summer Sounds

1 month ago | fwweekly.com | Patrick Higgins |Steve Steward

Hot New Tunes and ShowsLook, I know that the Budos Band’s new album, VII, comes out on May 30, and I am unlikely to give anything released after that date a whole lot of my time because I usually put their albums on repeat for a few years after they arrive and don’t get around to listening to much of anything else.
Fare Thee Well, The Pub

1 month ago | fwweekly.com | Steve Steward

Six years ago, I wrote a story about how the University Pub had boxes of Plan B for sale in its vending machine. A few things have changed in America over that time, but my Google AI Overview claims that you can still buy Plan B in Texas. Do your own research on that, because one of the things that has changed since 2019 is my faith in the veracity of anything I read online, which is why I didn’t initially believe the rumor I’d heard that the University Pub was closing.
Yemeni Delights

1 month ago | fwweekly.com | Steve Steward

Balqees Coffee, 2041 U.S. 287 Frontage Rd, Ste 103, Mansfield. 225-278-3083. 8am-10pm daily. Until a recent, long-overdue dermatologist appointment, the only reason I’d ever been to Mansfield was to play paintball in the late ’90s, and neither trip suggested the city was hiding anything worth driving back for. It’s not personal. It’s just far. Or at least it feels that way. Maybe that’s why a Facebook ad for a Yemeni coffee shop out in Mansfield hooked me.
Cutting the Cord

1 month ago | fwweekly.com | Steve Steward

You might call this easy listening, but the piece of audio I’ve been really enthralled with lately is Mark Hoppus’ new book, Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir.
Jambaloo and Then Some

2 months ago | fwweekly.com | Steve Steward

During the first week of February, Dallas-based talent-buying agency Spune Productions partnered with the Mullen & Mullen Music Project (a live-music promotion project from law firm Mullen & Mullen), plus 91.7-FM KXT and entertainment website Do214, to put on Jambaloo music festival, a week of free shows at Tulips FTW in Fort Worth, Club Dada and Ferris Wheelers in Dallas, and Andy’s in Denton.
This Is a Deathwatch

2 months ago | fwweekly.com | Steve Steward

A strange realization: the word “dystopian” no longer feels futuristic. Apocalyptic weather, the unpredictability of artificial intelligence, the convenience of attack drones, erratic driverless cars, the end-of-the-world escape schemes of technocratic oligarchs, Orwellian doublespeak, government agents disappearing citizens off the streets — all of that shit is already here, sizzling out of your newsfeed every day like ooze from a knocked-over barrel of toxic waste.
Emo Country

Mar 27, 2025 | fwweekly.com | Steve Steward

On Friday, singer-songwriter Dustin Brown will release his latest record, a self-titled 10-track collection of what he half-jokingly referred to in a recent interview as “sad, almost emo” country.
New Music Roundup

Mar 12, 2025 | fwweekly.com | Steve Steward

Spring has sprung, and the unpulled pages of my Far Side desk calendar are many. Along with nine weeks of old cartoons to catch up with, I have a list of new music by local artists I’d been sitting on that only gets longer by the week. In the interest of catching up (and also hoping to find Gary Larson’s notorious, debatably funny “Tethercat” cartoon in the past two months of unread Far Sides), here are some new tracks I liked a lot that debuted since the first of the year.
Sounds of Freedom

Feb 19, 2025 | fwweekly.com | Steve Steward |Patrick Higgins |Juan R Govea

Here’s an interesting gift idea: a record collection of Black artists who, for one reason or another, have called Fort Worth home.