Lola's Fort Worth

It was a good run. Support the Motor Lounge, Cicada, Tulips and The Post! Happy New Year

The Sounds of Silence: The State of Fort Worth’s Music Scene The recent shuttering of Lola's Saloon along with two other music venues marks the end of an era. So, where does Cowtown’s music scene go from here?

Well for the second time. The Johnny Cash painting has gone missing. Jesus that thing has history

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My people. So awesome! They deserve everything. Hard work pays off

Hey y'all! We are feeling so blessed to be in Aledo! We are getting so much love and support and we are so truly thankful for everyone who is walking through our doors.

We're really working hard to provide for the needs of this community and we hope y'all can be patient with us as we grow. There are a few things I'd like to explain about our business that will help people understand us a bit better.

🔶️This business started 6 years ago 10 minutes away in White Settlement. It started as Dayne’s Underground Barbecue, we sold BBQ once a month right from the front yard!
🔶Our vision was to pursue excellence in barbecue, we genuinely want to bring y'all the best barbecue and customer service.
️🔶️We spent years and years fighting to keep this dream alive, we refused to give up.
🔶We are committed to serving you fresh, high quality barbecue everytime. We do not reheat yesterday's barbecue.
️🔶️We are NOT trying to make cheap barbecue, there are plenty of barbecue joints making cheap barbecue, we're not interested in being one of them.
🔶️We spend twice as much on our meats to bring our customers, prime, all natural smoked meats. Please remember this is expensive for us too, but our goal is excellence in barbecue.
🔶️Instead of buying cheap frozen sausage, we choose to make 3 different sausages by hand from scratch each week. This takes an incredible amount of time and skill. Skilled staff costs us more.
🔶️We are doing our best to invest in our staff to help bring you a great experience, we are sick and tired of the declining customer service in the food industry and want to bring y'all a better refreshing experience (and that isn't accomplished by finding the cheapest labor around)
🔶️We are also committed to cooking with 100% wood on our 1000 gallon offset smokers, you'll see our smokers buring 6 days a week from 3 a.m- 12 p.m. There is really only 3 hours a day that someone isn't physically working these smokers every 20 minutes. (Believe me, that isn't cheap.)
🔶 ️Please try to remember that we are just getting started. We are only going to bite off what we can chew. We are hiring more staff and training more pitmasters so we can expand what we are currently doing. Please be patient as we continue to work hard to bring our full vison to life.
🔶️Our full vison is as follows: A BBQ joint that Aledo can truly be proud of. One that strives to be the best from the quality of food to the service. We want to add breakfast, from 7 a.m to 10:30. We'll be serving BBQ breakfast burritos/and Czech style kolaches.We want to offer vaccum sealed meats at a discounted price in our deli case up front. So you can have Dayne’s on demand anytime you want. We want to do monthly private dinners where we collaborate with local chefs to bring an elevated barbecue dinner with wine and whiskey pairings. We want to host monthly barbecue classes to help bring the barbecue in your backyard up a notch. We also have a vison to be one of this areas go-to BBQ catering options. We also want to eventually have barbecue avaliable in the evenings on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. All while trying to maintain our quality of barbecue as top tier in the state of Texas.
🔶️ This is a huge vison and these are big goals that with your help we can achieve. I just need y'all to know that we're trying our best and we're growing fast. Just know that it isn't easy by any means.

We are so happy to live here and be y'alls barbecue place. I can't wait to see what the future holds! ❤️❤️❤️

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Make the Shot Cellar your Christmas destination this weekend! Friday happy hour 4pm-8pm

Friday: 4pm-2am | Saturday & Sunday: 12pm-2am
Christmas Eve Karaoke - begins Sunday at 7pm

Y’all go show your support tomorrow! 🫶
Rock 'n' Roll Rummage Sale

Friends of ours. Please keep an eye out

Greatness!

The Post schedule

🎁 Upcoming Shows 🎁
Adrian Hulet (No Cover) 6pm 12/13
Sunny Sweeney 8pm 12/13
Jacob Furr (No Cover) 6pm 12/14
Charlie Mars 8pm 12/15
Funkytown Christmas 7pm 12/17
Jason Boland & The Stragglers 8pm 12/30
NYE with Squeezebox Bandits 10pm 12/31
Tickets available at Eventbrite.com
All Ages Welcome
Free Parking
Daily Drink Specials
Food available from our kitchen 11am-11pm

Thank you to Magnolia Motor Lounge for being the new host for December’s Rock 'n' Roll Rummage Sale!🙏🏻

🎄🎁We’re back just in time for all of your holiday shopping! 🎁🎄

🎪Join us for Fort Worth’s longest running outdoor monthly market showcasing some of DFW’s best artists, creators & vintage collectors just in time for the holidays!

Located at Magnolia Motor Lounge & hosted by Honeysuckle Rose Vintage

We are so excited that we have an amazing vendor lineup this month w/ art, vintage, music memorabilia, collectibles, oddities, jewelry, hand-crafted items and so much more that you’re sure to find what you’re looking for!

🎪70+ LOCAL VENDORS
🎸 LIVE MUSIC by Joseph Laws & Late To The Station
🌮 FOOD TRUCKS 🍔
📷PORTRAITS BY FOX TINTYPE
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 FAMILY-FRIENDLY
🐶 PET-FRIENDLY
🎟 FREE ADMISSION
☔️ or ☀️

Address:
Magnolia Motor Lounge
3803 Southwest Blvd. Fort Worth TX 76116

🚗Free Parking Available by lot (look for extra parking signs), carpooling is always recommended.

🥫🥫FOOD DRIVE INFORMATION 🥫🥫

Together, we can help create a community where no one has to go hungry… especially during the holidays. GIVE THE GIFT OF GIVING

🥫Needed Items for Tarrant Area Food Bank:
All non-perishable food items are accepted, but the greatest need is for healthy, kid-friendly foods and canned protein, fruits and vegetables.

Most needed food items are:
🥫Pop top cans of ravioli, meats, soups, etc.
🥫Cereal bars
🥫Fruit cups
🥫Juice
🥫Individual cups of macaroni and cheese, oatmeal, cereal, etc.
🥫Ready to eat food

In addition to food, the food bank provides basic toiletries like toothpaste, deodorant and shampoo which are also in short supply.

Please bring your donated items to the market at Magnolia Motor Lounge on December 17th between 12pm-5pm. We will have a designated space near the entrance.
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We cater any event, just give us a call for info or send us a DM! 🌮🌮🌮🤌🏼
(682) 966 96 45
301 s sylvania ave 76111

Goodbye, Lola’s
A 20-plus-year Fort Worth musician says the venue’s closing marks the end of an era and possibly the beginning of something much less epic.
BY STEVE STEWARD

What’s really sad to me about Lola’s closing is that I more or less wrote this column once before. In May 2022 (“R.I.P., 3726 W 6th St”), Lola’s was wrapping up its tenancy at its previous location as the Trailer Park and Saloon, a wonderful spot that in a kind of insult became home to a pastel-colored sports bar called Birdie’s.

“I had a moment a couple weeks ago,” I wrote, “standing on that deck in the northeast corner of Lola’s Trailer Park, when I concluded that Fort Worth is a lot less fun than it used to be.”

Roughly 18 months have passed since then, and now, this city is even less fun, with Lola’s making its closure official via social media yesterday. After 16 years in two different locations as Lola’s — Trailer Park/Saloon on West 6th Street near the Cultural District and Lola’s Fort Worth on West Berry Street near TCU — the business was shuttering.

The news followed Twilite Lounge’s equally dismaying announcement last week of its own closure, and in both instances, the reactions of those venues’ many fans and regulars were a mix of heartfelt sympathy, grateful tributes, and variations of “Why can’t this city keep music venues open?”

To that last part, I hope you know that it is not the responsibility of any city to keep music venues open, and if you posted a comment ascribing blame for the venues’ shuttering to the literal municipal government that is the City of Fort Worth, Texas, I appreciate your anguish, but, please, stop posting stuff like that. Municipalities are not liable for the survival of rock ’n’ roll clubs. The people who live in a city are.

To every person lamenting the loss of Lola’s and Twilite, I have to ask: When was the last time you spent money at those venues? Because people spending money at a club is literally what pays the club’s bills, not the city government and certainly not anyone’s personal nightlife aspirations that culminate in Facebook comments such as “We almost went to that show!” I don’t mean to shame anyone for how they express their grief, but one of the most frustrating — if well-intentioned — comments I’ve read in the wake of all this was something to the effect of “If I’d known last Wednesday was going to be the last show, I would’ve gone!” To which I have to ask: Would you have, really? What kept you elsewhere all the nights when you thought Lola’s was still open?

There are a million reasons for the absence of the people who would have gone to Lola’s if only they’d known it was the bar’s last hurrah, which, in this case, was Big Mike’s Box of Rock a few nights ago. I wasn’t there, for example, and my No. 1 reason is that I work every Wednesday night at a different bar. But even if I didn’t have a long-standing commitment to show up to my job when I am scheduled to, I probably would have stayed home. I am a middle-aged man, and the health of my body and personal finances — both of which I ignored for the better part of a couple decades because spending time and cash at Lola’s and other local venues was imminently more meaningful to me than not doing those things — are two factors that take precedence over a lot of other activities these days. Multiply me by everyone else like me, and our failure to show up at shows takes a toll.

And for a fuller picture, add to this toll a generational shift away from young people engaging with live, local, original music, as well as most of this less-engaged generational cohort having even fewer dollars to spend than people of their age in previous cohorts, plus expecting that cohort to spend money in an economy where everything costs more and where property owners live for the dream of flipping property for even more money are far more important than the hundreds of lives and incomes that music venues positively impact, and that total cost is incredibly difficult for any venue to bear.

Naturally, the economics of a music scene are also just as incredibly difficult for consumers to bear. I’ve read enough gripes about how live music only happens where alcohol is sold, how such places are unappealing to people with tight budgets and/or booze-free lifestyles. It certainly does cost money to go out, but this is true whether you go to a place that sells beer and liquor or some hypothetical, platonically ideal juice bar/coffee bar/kratom bar. Lacking evidence of a successful “third space” in this city for which the bulk of sales come from nonalcoholic offerings, stays open late, and also hosts live music, I can only guess how long such a place might remain open. If such a place existed, I would be shocked if it did so for longer than four months, let alone 16 years.

It is undeniable that there is a dearth in Fort Worth of third spaces where people can hang out until midnight or later that don’t cost any money or revolve around alcohol consumption — I mean, you can’t even go to the Botanic Garden for free anymore during the day, let alone for any event that happens at night there. There are no late-night coffeeshops, few late-night restaurants, and certainly no gathering spaces outside someone’s personal dwelling where you can just sit around with your friends until 2 a.m. without spending any money. Sorry to say, but there are no bands at the Denny’s on Hulen onstage yelling, “What the f**k is up?!”

Also, nothing is free in a live music scene because venues have to pay bills, and it doesn’t matter if they sell beer, coffee, or bottled water sourced from the Ever-Flowing Fountain of Youth. Unless the people opening a venue (or juice bar, or coffee bar, or kratom bar, or oxygen bar, or whatever other bar adequately meets the tastes of the people dissatisfied with bar-bars) also own the building that houses it, they are at the mercy of a landlord. What landlords truly care about the business paying them rent? If they did, wouldn’t rents be lower? Would commercial symbiosis between businesses and landlords be an actual thing then? Probably not. Property owners, no matter how benevolent, are ultimately only real friends with their bottom lines. If one business can’t hack a steep rent increase (“Sorry, bud, market rent is market rent”), there is inevitably another aspirant who will fill that space when the previous occupant goes under. Rinse, wash, repeat until your city is nothing but a bunch of FOR LEASE signs. Why would this be different for a venue that doesn’t expect its patrons to spend money? Perhaps some hypothetical someone could open a nonprofit event space that caters to an alcohol- and commerce-ambivalent clientele, but if you think this is a sustainable solution or, even more imaginatively, an easy, if-you-build-it-they-will-come sort of endeavor, find a person who ran 1919 Hemphill and see what they think about that business model. Or, better yet, put your own ass in the wind and see how your own money fares opening that kind of space. I possess neither the money nor the imagination for a spot like that, but even if I did, unless I owned the property, this fictitious not-for-profit venue is f**ked as soon as the property owner is able to sell it to someone who wants to build more apartments.

What will happen to the space where Lola’s came to an end is up to whoever owns it — anything can be leveled and rebuilt into five stories of multi-family dwellings that few families can actually afford, but some real estate player will inevitably pitch it to someone with big-enough dreams, standing up another proverbial entrepreneurial domino to fall down. Sadly, Lola’s follows the demises of the Americado Food Hall (2019), the Moon Bar (2020), and the Berry Street Ice House (2021) at 2000 W. Berry St. What I, as an ignoramus who does not know anything about commercial real estate, cannot help but wonder is: What is the common denominator among four businesses that couldn’t make it work at that spot? In my ignorance, all I can think of is who has owned the property all this time. Has it not been the same owner? What does that person have to do with these businesses’ failures? I doubt I will know the real story. I guess it doesn’t really matter if the end is still “Dang, sucks that they had to close.”

I loved Lola’s. Oh, sure. I loved it a lot more when it was on 6th Street, but that was a different time for me, and I was glad that their move to Berry furthered the continuity of a music scene I’ve been a part of for over 20 years. I was even more glad to see it hang in there on Berry Street for as long as it did. I went when I could, I played there one time, and I’m grateful to have had those experiences. But Lola’s was more than its locations. I am reluctant to spout my own torrents of “I was there for X and Y show and played there in S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z bands,” because pretty much anyone in Fort Worth who enjoys live music and/or plays or used to play in a live band already told that story on Facebook in the hours after the bar’s farewell dispatch. But, yeah, I was there, too, playing on its stages and watching my friends do the same and, even for four months in 2011, serving drinks from behind its bars. And in all of those capacities, I felt like I was part of a not-so-secret Fort Worth rock ’n’ roll society, a wheels-off extended family that was a distinctive pillar of Fort Worth culture. Lola’s was the locus of a prominent sector or Fort Worth’s music scene, a bridge between the wild-ass days of the early 2000s and whatever happens next, and its fate marks the true end of that era. I miss it already.

Nothing lasts forever, but it’s still tough to say goodbye at the end. Thanks, Brian, Josie, et al for giving us a home all this time. We wouldn’t have had a scene without y’all and your bar, because Lola’s really did make living in Fort Worth a pretty good time.

It is heartbreaking to announce that after 16 years in business, Lola's is closing down. Last Wednesday was our final day. We went out with a bang! Big Mike's Box of Rock was a fitting end. Fort Worth has been wonderful to us through the years with love and support through thick and thin. I want to thank every single employee that has ever worked for Lola's, without you 16 years would have not been possible. The life blood of the place was them and of course the amazing talent of every musician in the town that played our stages. I have watched alot of you grow up and become my closest friends and supporters in the world. Please support the venues in town! Every single person that has ever been to Lola's means something to me. We have always felt the love and tried to give it right back. Thank You Fort Worth!! The list of people to thank for any successes we had is longer than Rosedale Avenue

THE SHOW TONIGHT at LOLA'S HAS BEEN CANCELED!⁠

Please go to https://www.prekindle.com/support for ticket refunds. We sincerely apologize. Thank you.
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Friday, December 1
The Jon Young Band + Levi Ray & The Heartworn w/ Taylor Craig Mills
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🔥THIS SATURDAY at LOLA'S!
Sat, 12/2 - 7pm⁠ Doors⁠

🟢Pride - In the Name of U2: Tribute!⁠

🎟️Tickets: https://www.prekindle.com/promo/id/532452770266004025

🌟THIS SUNDAY at LOLA'S!
Sun, 12/3 - 5-7pm

🤘Cut Throat Finches & Fort Worth Music Academy Showcase!⁠

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🩵THIS FRIDAY at LOLA'S!⁠
Fri, 12/1 - 7pm Doors⁠
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🌲The Jon Young Band + Levi Ray & The Heartworn w/ Taylor Craig Mills!⁠
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🎟️Tickets: https://www.prekindle.com/promo/id/532452770858167987
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❤️LOLA'S will be OPEN at 3pm today! Come say hey!❤️

🤘💯Lola's this week...⁠
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2000 W. Berry St.⁠
Fort Worth, TX 76110⁠
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🐼Wed, 11/29 - 8-11pm⁠
Big Mike's Box of Rock⁠!⁠

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💙Fri, 12/1 - 7pm Doors⁠
The Jon Young Band + Levi Ray & The Heartworn w/ Taylor Craig Mills!
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🟢Sat, 12/2 - 7pm⁠ Doors⁠
Pride - In the Name of U2: Tribute!⁠

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🤘Sun, 12/3 - 5-7pm
Cut Throat Finches & Fort Worth Music Academy Showcase!⁠

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🎟️Full calendar & ticket link: https://www.facebook.com/lolasfortworth/events

🤘TONIGHT at LOLA'S!⁠
Wed, 11/29 - 8-11pm - No cover
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🐼BIG MIKE'S BOX OF ROCK!!

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WE WILL BE CLOSED OVER THIS WEEKEND

Thank you for your understanding as we are working on some maintenance around the bar.

Unfortunately, this means that the show for tomorrow night (Saturday 25th) will be rescheduled for a date TBD.

Have a great weekend and we'll see you all soon!

🧡LOLA'S will be closed until this Friday, November 24th! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

🌟JUST ANNOUNCED!⁠
Sat, Dec 9 | 7pm Doors⁠
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🔥1st Annual Midgefest w/ Jordan Richardson (Son of Stan), Kevin Aldridge (Hotel Satellite), Kerry Dean (Darth Vato), Ryan Taylor (Yeah Huh) at LOLA'S!⁠
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🎟️Tickets On-Sale NOW!
https://www.prekindle.com/promo/id/532452770925762719
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💙JUST ANNOUNCED!
Fri, Jan 12 | 7pm Doors
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🌞CHILL & CHET SET at LOLA'S!⁠

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FOX TINTYPE is in the house!
🧡Join us today for Fort Worth’s longest running outdoor monthly market showcasing some of DFW’s best artists, creators & vintage collectors. Hosted by Honeysuckle Rose Vintage 😎

Held on 3rd Sunday's from 12pm-5pm at Lola’s Fort Worth.

🎪50+ LOCAL VENDORS
🎸 LIVE MUSIC by Van Darien and Tom Sless
Van Darien
🌮 FOOD TRUCKS + BAR BITES 🍔
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 FAMILY-FRIENDLY
🐶 PET-FRIENDLY
🎟 FREE Admission
🚗 FREE PARKING
🌧 RAIN or SHINE☀️

Address:
2000 W. Berry St. Fort Worth Tx 76110

🚗Free parking available in Lola’s parking lots and by surrounding streets as well as Paschal High School parking lot. Carpooling always recommended.

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Lola's Rock 'n' Roll Rummage Sale

🍂TODAY! SUNDAY at LOLA'S 12-5PM!⁠

🤘Lola's Rock 'n' Roll Rummage Sale

🧡Join us today for Fort Worth’s longest running outdoor monthly market showcasing some of DFW’s best artists, creators & vintage collectors. Hosted by Honeysuckle Rose Vintage! 😎

Held on 3rd Sunday's from 12pm-5pm at Lola’s Fort Worth.

We are so excited that we have an amazing vendor lineup this month w/ art, vintage, music memorabilia, collectibles, oddities, jewelry, hand-crafted items and so much more that you’re sure to find what you’re looking for!

🎪50+ LOCAL VENDORS
🎸 LIVE MUSIC by Van Darien and Tom Sless
Van Darien
🌮 FOOD TRUCKS + BAR BITES 🍔
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 FAMILY-FRIENDLY
🐶 PET-FRIENDLY
🎟 FREE Admission
🚗 FREE PARKING
🌧 RAIN or SHINE☀️

Address:
2000 W. Berry St. Fort Worth Tx 76110

🚗Free parking available in Lola’s parking lots and by surrounding streets as well as Paschal High School parking lot. Carpooling always recommended.

https://fb.me/e/1xDInPUv3

🤘TONIGHT at LOLA'S!
Sat, 11/18 - 8pm⁠ Doors⁠

👑Royal Sons + North By North (CHI) + Better Now!⁠

https://www.prekindle.com/promo/id/532452770723979259