01.25.2024

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🍵 “It’s not easy bein’ green”

Start your day with a green tea from these 10 local spots

Photo of a girl holding a matcha latter in a green sweater.

Don’t be afraid to matcha your beverage. | Photo by @fortworthcoffeeco/@thejaycedaniels

We love starting the new year with little changes that help us feel our best — such as cutting back on caffeinated beverages like coffee. But sometimes, we still need a pick-me-up to help us get through our day.

Swapping your morning cup of joe for a steaming green tea or matcha can give you the energy boost you need without the jitters — with just 29 mg of caffeine per cup versus the 96 mg in coffee.

Sip around at these 10 local shops and cafes:

Leaves Book and Tea Shop | Magnolia
Located inside Stir Crazy Baked Goods, the tea shop sells 10+ kinds of green tea including strawberry sencha, citrus jasmine, and dragonwell.

Gong Cha Fort Worth | Sterling Creek
The boba tea shop serves milk teas, slushies, and coffee drinks. Try a green tea with passionfruit or peach.

Cherry Coffee Shop | Magnolia
Missing the holidays already? Grab a horchatcha heels — with homemade horchata, sweet matcha, and cinnamon — before they’re gone.

Ampersand | West 7th
The coffee shop-slash-night club serves an assortment of teas. Try an iced strawberry fields matcha.

Fort Worth Coffee Co. | Camp Bowie
Choose from a loose-leaf tea or a matcha latte. Plus, ask about seasonal offerings.

FTW-vaquero-coffee-green-tea — Sip, sip, hooray for healthy and delicious beverage choices at Vaquero Coffee Co.
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Photo by @reckless.travels

Vaquero Coffee Co. | Downtown
Order an iced matcha or spicy Mexican hot chocolate on your way to work.

P’tit Tea Maison | West 7th
Stop by the pink tea shop for a green Thai milk tea or a drink with matcha fondue.

Pax & Beneficia | Downtown
Try something new with a mint-matcha cream soda with peppermint cold foam.

HTeaO | Multiple locations
Sip back to your Texas roots with a tall glass of iced green tea in various flavors including unsweetened, sweet almond, or sweet blueberry.

Black Coffee | Eastside
Pair your tea latte with a gluten-free apple cider donut.

Events

Thursday, Jan. 25

FWSSR ProRodeo Tournament | Thursday, Jan. 25 | 7:30 p.m. | Dickies Arena, 1911 Montgomery St., Fort Worth | $33-$110 | Present a valid TCU student or faculty ID at the ticket office for half-priced rodeo admission + wear your TCU duds for free Stock Show admission.
“Marjorie Prime” | Thursday, Jan. 25-Sunday, Feb. 11 | Times vary | Stage West, 821 W. Vickery Blvd., Fort Worth | $39-$47 | Watch the Pulitzer Prize finalist play by Jordan Harrison about a futuristic world of artificial intelligence and memory.

Friday, Jan. 26

Dinosaurs Around the World | Friday, Jan. 26-Thursday, May 30 | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. | Fort Worth Botanic Garden, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth | $6-$12 | Travel back in time to when dinosaurs walked the earth with an outdoor exhibit of animatronic reptiles.
Craig Conant | Friday, Jan. 26-Saturday, Jan. 27 | Times vary | Big Laugh Comedy Club, 604 Main St., Fort Worth | $30 | The fun-loving comedian nicknamed “Mr. Loosey Goosey” is bringing laughs to Funkytown.

Saturday, Jan. 27

TCU Men’s Tennis | Saturday, Jan. 27 | 2-5 p.m. | Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center, 3609 Bellaire Dr. N., Fort Worth | Free | Watch the Horned Frogs take on Rice in the ITA kickoff weekend.
Pat Green | Saturday, Jan. 27 | 10 p.m. | Billy Bob’s Texas, 2520 Rodeo Plaza, Fort Worth | $20-$65 | The Fort Worth-based “Wave on Wave” crooner is taking the stage again at the world’s largest honky-tonk.

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News Notes

Development

Earlier this week, City Council amended the Neighborhood Empowerment Zone to require developers to set aside 20% of new housing units for affordable housing. Previously, developers could opt out by paying a fee to the Housing Finance Corporation.

Travel

Frontier Airlines is adding 13 new nonstop routes from DFW Airport in April. To celebrate, the Denver-based airline is having a mega sale, with flights as low as $19 one-way through Wednesday, June 5. Check out flights to Nashville, Chicago, Salt Lake City + more.

Film

Local writer and director Taylor Sheridan has set his sights on Comanche leader and frequent Cowtown visitor Quanah Parker’s story. Sheridan’s company Bosque Ranch Productions optioned the rights to S.C. Gwynne’s book “Empire of the Summer Moon.” Stay tuned to see if the screen adaptation will be a film or television series. (Deadline)

Announced

Rosedale Plaza Park will be renamed Historic Stop Six Park in honor of the neighborhood’s heritage.The 6.25-acre park at 5200 E. Rosedale St. features a walking path, playground, pavilion, and fitness stations + “caters to the needs of an underserved African American community in east Fort Worth.”

Civic

Money, money, money — City Council allocated $17.2 million to the general fund + $50,000 to the FY2023-2027 Capital Improvement Program from the $18 million sale of the Central Library. This allows funds to be used for costs associated with the old building, leaseback + construction of a new library.

Coming Soon

Speaking of the Central Library — the Fort Worth Public Library will open an interim location at City Hall. The temporary location — which takes the place of a different downtown location that fell through last fall — will have 800 items to check out and access to the city-wide catalog.

Outdoors

The city hired Dallas-based McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. to construct the first phase of the CentrePort Trail for $6 million. Scheduled to start in February, the trail will connect the TRE CentrePort Station to the Arlington River Legacy Trail with a 12-ft-wide walking path and pedestrian bridge by March 2025.

Community

Look both ways — city leaders voted to raise the pay for school crossing guards from $12 to $13.50 per hour. A comprehensive review of crossing guard wages across Texas last fall revealed that Fort Worth’s wages were below average.

Cause

The owners and management team of the former Buttons Restaurants are hosting a benefit concert for chef Keith “Buttons” Hicks, who is in palliative care for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The “Button’s Family Affair Benefit Concert” will be held at Ridglea Theater on Wednesday, Jan. 31 at 6 p.m. Tickets start at $25.

Home

Perfect for a cleaner, healthier home: this extra-large maple cutting board, which is BPA and phthalate-free and conditioned with beeswax, flaxseed, and lemon oil.*

Learn

Crafting custom cars isn’t just a job at House of Hotrods — it’s a passion that fuels every project. Here are ten things the House of Hotrods’ team loves about building these automotive masterpieces.*

Correction

Heads up — the public feedback meeting regarding the Fort Worth Botanic Garden’s master plan will be hosted at City Hall, not at the garden as previously reported. The meeting will be at the City Council Meeting Chamber on the second floor on Tuesday, Jan. 30 at 6 p.m.

Sports

⚾️ El Koja makes history

Former Rangers third baseman Adrián Beltré selected for baseball Hall of Fame

Texas Ranger Adrián Beltré dressed in uniform throwing the ball during a game.

The Dominican MLB legend played for the Rangers for the last eight years of his 21-year professional career + his number (29) was retired in 2019. | Photo by Keith Allison/Wikipedia

The National Baseball Hall of Fame has a new inductee, former Texas Rangers third baseman Adrián Beltré.

In a historic vote, Beltré received 366 votes from the 385 ballots submitted — the same percentage of votes received by Babe Ruth — and was officially elected to the Hall of Fame.

This prestigious award is just one of many. The MLB legend, known for his signature kneeling home run and more than 3,000 hits, was also a four-time MLB All-Star + five-time winner of the Gold Glove Award.

Beltré is the 12th Hall of Famer to have played for the Rangers. The Dominican player follows pitcher Nolan Ryan (inducted 1999) and catcher Iván “Pudge” Rodríguez (inducted 2017).

The official induction ceremony will take place in Cooperstown, New York on Sunday, July 21.

Asked

What former or current Rangers player do you think should be in the baseball Hall of Fame?

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The Wrap

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From the editor

Need a gift or date idea for your Valentine? Try a hands-on pasta-making class at il Modo with light bites and wine. The classes sell out quickly so book your spots now for the next class on Thursday, Feb. 22.

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