Fort Worth Weekly Classifieds // January 28 - February 3, 2026

TAYLOR REHMET WILL FIGHT

LOWER COSTS: Taylor Rehmet will fight rising costs by taking on corporate price-gouging and putting working families first.

FULLY FUND PUBLIC SCHOOLS:

Taylor will fully fund public schools so every student has a fair shot and communities can keep schools open.

AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE: Taylor will work to lower healthcare costs and make sure getting sick doesn’t mean going broke.

LOWER PROPERTY TAXES: Taylor will work to rein in property tax increases so families aren’t priced out of the homes they’ve worked hard to afford.

HIGH PAYING JOBS: As a union president, Taylor will fight for good-paying jobs, fair wages, and the dignity of work.

PUBLIC SAFETY: Taylor supports keeping communities safe by investing in smart, local public safety solutions that work.

Steak Out

Let’s dive into — and dine at — all the local spots featured on the hit TV series Landman.

Paramount+’s Landman has prominently featured several North Texas restaurants and bars, mostly in Fort Worth. With the show being a big part of my at-home streaming during last week’s #Snowpocalypse2026, I decided to explore the local establishments from the screen. Here’s what I discovered.

1.) Featured in a tense lunch scene in Season 1, Episode 4 (S1E4), 61 Osteria (500 W 7th St, Ste 100, Fort Worth, 817-953-3271) specializes in “Texas ingredients, the Italian way.” Keep in mind it’s open only for dinner IRL (4:30pm-9pm MonSat), not lunch.

2.) Cattlemen’s Fort Worth Steak House (2458 N Main St, Fort Worth, 817-624-3945) is a casual oldschool restaurant and saloon-style bar built in the Stockyards in 1947. After featuring them in S3E3, creator/showrunner Taylor Sheridan decided to buy the place. He and partners David Glasser and Dan Schryer made the purchase in June 2025 and have renovated the landmark to include event spaces and a private, members-only “Cattlemen’s Club.”

3.) Featured in S2E7, Don Artemio Mexican Heritage (3268 W 7th St, Fort Worth,

817-470-1439) is an upscale place specializing in the contemporary flavors of Northeast Mexico. While the annual stock show and rodeo is in town, Don Artemio is offering a Three-Course Rodeo Special for $69. For the first course, choose between taco de lengua and a bass-and-octopus ceviche. Second-course options are salmon in green mole, a filet with truffle potato mash, or a stuffed poblano in a puff pastry. Then, for dessert, it’s a tres leches cake with ice cream or a chocolate cake.

4.) Another Landman location is The Chumley House (3230 Camp Bowie Blvd, Ste 150, Fort Worth, 469-960-6541), a self-described “Europeaninspired steakhouse with a British flair.” It appears in S2E10 in the scene where Angela has lunch with Bella and learns that (spoiler alert!) Tommy has been fired and hasn’t told her. Per Bella, “There is nobody in the U.S. that can make a beef Wellington even edible, but here it is, mamma mia.”

5.) On almost every episode of Landman, one or more of the characters patronize the fictional bar and grill The Patch Cafe. Those scenes are all filmed on location at the former home of Dayne’s Craft Barbecue (9840 Camp Bowie West). If you go there to take a gander, nearby JD’s Hamburgers (9901 Camp Bowie West, Fort Worth, 817-8888914) and Margie’s Italian Gardens (9805 Camp Bowie West, Fort Worth, 817-244-4301) are great dining options. Both are seen in the background of The Patch onscreen.

6.) If you’re looking for an exclusive experience, The Petroleum Club of Fort Worth (777 Main St, Fort Worth, 817-335-7571) is generally a private members-only club, but it occasionally offers a Member for a Night program. During these specified periods, nonmembers can dine in the Skyline Room and access Bar 40 (featured in S1E1) with a $20 entry fee, plus a 24% service charge, provided nonmembers make reservations and follow the business-casual dress code. Follow the club on socials for updates on the next nonmember events.

7.) Appearing in S1E8, Chef Richard Sandoval’s downtown pan-Latin steakhouse Toro Toro (200 Main St, Fort Worth, 817-975-9895) offers daily rotating salads, chilled appetizers, inspired sides,

“There is nobody in the U.S. that can make a beef Wellington even edible, but here it is, mamma mia,” courtesy of The Chumley House.

and the chef’s signature parrilla plate. Currently, it is offering a lunch buffet for $18.

8.) Finally, Fort Worth’s oldest establishment of its kind, the White Elephant Saloon (106 E Exchange Av, Fort Worth, 817-624-8273), appears in S1E6. While primarily a bar, this Stockyards staple that’s been around almost as long as Billy Bob himself houses a Chili Parlor serving Texas-style chili and cornbread.

In summary, let’s be tourists in our own hometown, shall we? As wildly popular as this column is, you should get a jump on this and make a reservation on OpenTable.com ASAP (#ShesGotJokes). But, seriously, if you are planning to visit the places above, or any other restaurant for that matter, consider buying a gift card in advance. Last weekend’s weather closures were tough on small-business owners. They can use our support.

By Elaine Wilder

MUSIC

Take Them Home From local pop-punk bands of yore, Mean People

arrive a little more seasoned, a little less breakneck.

BY STEVE STEWARD

You never know what might happen when you call up an old friend for the first time in 15 years — the kind-of-hard-to-watch scene in Fargo in which Marge Gunderson meets her old classmate Mike Yanagita at the hotel bar immediately comes to mind — but in the case of drummer Matt Bell and bassist Matt Kuczaj, that kind of “hey, what’s up?” call eventually led to the creation of their new band.

Fronted by friend and former bandmate Andrew Kelly, Mean People formed about three years ago, following the dissolution of Kelly’s most recent outfit, a punk band called Big Useless Brain. Over that time, the three of them got together every week to woodshed a collection of riffs into concrete material, and on Fri, Jan 23, Mean People released Take Me Home, their six-song debut EP.

Perhaps at odds with the common rock band practice of playing live shows first before dropping debut material, Mean People have yet to play a single show. But really, what’s the hurry? The last time Bell, Kelly, and Kuczaj played together was in a pop-punk band called Cityview, which had itself evolved in the early 2000s from their high school band, PVK. Cityview lasted until the early 2010s, but Bell had quit in 2006, and other than a rock band called Ransom and occasional jam sessions with friends, he hadn’t been in a cohesive project in a long time.

“I was looking for a new band,” Bell said. “Then one day, I randomly got a call from an unknown number. I checked the voicemail,” and it was Kuczaj.

Kuczaj had gotten Bell’s number from their former Cityview bandmate John Robinson, and after Bell called him back, they met up for beers. Before their second round, they cracked open the “we should start a new band” conversation. Bell had a small drum room at EMP Rehearsals, and soon he and Kuczaj were hanging out again, jamming on old favorites and new riffs.

“Once we wrote a few things, I knew,” said Bell alongside Kuczaj and Kelly. “I was like, ‘OK, we need a singer. We need a guitar player.’ Getting together, playing random stuff, that was cool a few times, but we’re like, ‘It’s funny how we’re wired, where we have to get to writing new songs as quick as we can.”

“We can’t just be like, ‘Oh, let’s just play random stuff,’ ” Kuczaj said. “It was like, ‘OK, let’s actually write a whole set of new stuff.’ ”

Kelly heard his former rhythm section was playing again, and, since Big Useless Brain had run its course, he was eager to join whatever Bell and Kuczaj were up to.

“I harassed both of them to start this band,” Kelly said, “because the best band I had ever been involved with was with both of them, and I was like, ‘Well, if I’m actually going to be in a band, I might as well do with people that, like, I really respect and have that chemistry with.’ ”

or a vocal phrasing there, the tones and fretwork often sounds a lot closer to the biggest hitmakers of the alt-rock era — both “Under the Table” and EP closer “Fires” seem to glean inspiration from both My Chemical Romance and Smashing Pumpkins. Take Me Home’s arrangements allow room for more exploratory interludes and emotional movements.

Kuczaj attributes much of Mean People’s expanded sonic palette to tempos pulled back from the breakneck, double-time norms of Cityview. Mid-tempo songs, Kuczaj said, “have a lot more space, and I think we write everything based on that. We can do more interesting stuff at a little bit slower tempos, and I mean, some of our stuff still even has faster tempos. We’re just not at 200 bpm anymore.”

Mean People also give a lot of credit for their sound to producer Will Beasley (Turnstile, Asking Alexandria). In September 2025, after demoing material with producer Jordan Richardson (White Denim, Son of Stan) at Electric Barryland in Justin a few weeks prior, Mean People decamped to Beasley’s studio in Richmond, Virginia, for two weeks to record Take Me Home

Beasley was “super-awesome,” Kelly said, “and we just clicked,” though he added that they were initially nervous that Beasley didn’t really listen too much to their demos.

“It was like, ‘OK, let’s actually write a whole set of new stuff.’ ”

On Take Me Home, that chemistry is undeniable. Three dudes in their early 40s, having long-since mastered all the sonic tropes and velocities of War on Terror-era pop-punk, split the difference between the passage of time and the four-chord, jump-on-the-off-beat blueprints of their youth. The result is a 21-minute slice of crisply produced, anthemic, modern rock that’s heavy on guitar crunch and the soaring stacks of Kelly’s vocals that fly over the dense, precision-tooled architecture of Bell and Kuczaj’s rhythms like falcons through a city skyline. Kelly’s voice is at the front of Mean People’s sound, but his vocals are bolstered by his FX-colored guitar leads and breakdown riffage, which act as a tether for Kuczaj’s melodic bass runs that weave above and below the melody, propelled by Bell’s emotive, dynamic percussion. And while the DNA of Propagandhi and New Found Glory emerge across these songs in a chord progression here

“But we just went in and played everything live, and then went off of that,” Kelly said. Beasley “was like, ‘I just like to be there and feel it, rather than listen to the songs when you’re not here.’ I think the best way to describe it is that he puts a vibe into so many things. Like on ‘Fires,’ he didn’t change a lot, but he changed my vibe with a few little things, and the whole song flows completely different.”

Though they haven’t yet booked their first show (“We just thought it would be better if we had some music out so people could at least be somewhat familiar with the songs,” Kelly said), Mean People continue to woodshed their set for whenever that time comes while also working on writing new songs, and, in the way that Kuczaj called Bell out of the blue to start their new band, reach out to some industry contacts.

“We’re definitely gonna shop it, whatever that means these days,” Kelly said.

If nothing else, Take Me Home is proof that it’s pretty easy for old bandmates to reactivate their musical telepathy. Sometimes all it takes is picking up the phone. l

CLASSIFIEDS

RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS OIL AND GAS DIVISION

DISTRICT 05 STATUS/PERMIT NO. 912945

DATE OF ISSUANCE: JAN 27, 2026

NOTICE OF PROTEST DEADLINE: 5:00 PM, FEB 17, 2026

ADDRESS: RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS

ATTN: DRILLING PERMIT UNIT

P. O. BOX 12967

AUSTIN, TEXAS 78711-2967

FAX: (512) 463-6780

EMAIL: SWR37@RRC.TEXAS.GOV

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the UPP OPERATING, LLC, [RRC Operator No. 875310] has made application for a spacing exception permit under the provisions of Railroad Commission Statewide Rule 37 (16 Tex. Admin. Code section 3.37). Applicant seeks exception to the lease line distance requirement because the Applicant is less than the required Rule 37 lease line distance to an unleased or non-pooled interest within the subject unit for the RECOMPLETION permit in Sec. , Bk. , MAISE, M Survey, A-1001, NEWARK, EAST (BARNETT SHALE) Field, TARRANT County, being 0 miles Within direction from ARLINGTON, Texas.

PURSUANT TO THE TERMS of Railroad Commission rules and regulations, this application may be granted WITHOUT A HEARING if no protest to the application is received within the deadline. An affected person is entitled to protest this application. Affected persons include owners of record and the operator or lessees of record of adjacent tracts and tracts nearer to the proposed well than the minimum lease line spacing distance. If you have questions which are specific to the Application or the information set forth in this Notice, please contact the Commission’s Drilling Permit Unit at (512)463-6751. If a hearing is called, the applicant has the burden to prove the need for an exception. A Protestant should be prepared to establish standing as an affected person, and to appear at the hearing either in person or by qualified representative and protest the application with cross-examination or presentation of a direct case. The rules of evidence are applicable in the hearing. If you have any questions regarding the hearing procedure, please contact the Commission’s Docket Services Department at (512)463-6848

IF YOU WISH TO REQUEST A HEARING ON THIS APPLICATION, AN INTENT TO APPEAR IN PROTEST MUST BE RECEIVED IN THE RAILROAD COMMISSION’S AUSTIN OFFICE AT THE ADDRESS, FAX NUMBER, OR E-MAIL ADDRESS SET OUT ABOVE BY Feb 17, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. IF NO PROTEST IS RECEIVED WITHIN SUCH TIME, YOU WILL LOSE YOUR RIGHT TO PROTEST AND THE REQUESTED PERMIT MAY BE GRANTED ADMINISTRATIVELY.

THIS NOTICE OF APPLICATION REQUIRES PUBLICATION

The location and identity of the well is as shown below:

FIELD: NEWARK, EAST (BARNETT SHALE)

Lease/Unit Name : YU UNIT

Lease/Unit Well No. : 4H

Lease/Unit Acres : 604.87

Nearest Lease Line (ft) : null

Nearest Well on Lease (ft) : 642.0

Lease Lines

Lines

Wellbore Profile(s) : Horizontal

Lateral: TH1

Penetration Point Location

Lease Lines: 41.0 F S L

Terminus Location

BH County: TARRANT

Section: Block: Abstract: 929

Survey: LACY, W D

Lease Lines:

Survey Lines:

Field Rules for ALL fields on the permit application are as follows:

NEWARK, EAST (BARNETT SHALE) :

GAS Special Rules 330/0, 320.0 acres.

GAS Optional Rules 330/0, 20.0 acres.

OIL Special Rules 330/0, 40.0 acres.

OIL Optional Rules 330/0, 20.0 acres.

This well is to be drilled to an approximate depth of 9000 feet.

If you have questions regarding this application, please contact the Applicant’s representative, AL ROSALES, at (281)9958659.

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