4 Metro // Return to Sender: Echo Heights residents call out FedEx for not keeping environmental promises.
By Amber Chadwick
5 Static // News Roundup: Black Dems threaten to reject Talarico (smh), while Red Raider chief did not bribe anyone and slain ICE victim put to rest.
By Anthony Mariani
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7 Sports // World Cup Wrap-Up: La Roja wins, and what’s next for USMNT?
By Kristian Lin
9 Sports Rush // Local World Cup Legacy: Even with so many global visitors, Arlington experienced a peaceful, pleasant soccer tournament.
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Rush Olson
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10 Night & Day // Don’t Throw Away Your Shot: Along with Hamilton at Bass Hall, fans of books, art, and Sarah McLachlan have something to cheer about.
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13 Streaming // Life’s a Bear: The acclaimed FX dramatic comedy goes down smoothly.
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17 Music // Notes & News: Quaker City Night Hawks, Como La Flor, and Phil Ford all deliver exciting new recordings.
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Return to Sender
Southeast Fort Worth neighborhood Echo Heights continues waiting for a FedEx facility to keep its environmental promises.
BY AMBER CHADWICK
FedEx promises to deliver on time — unless it involves sticking to agreements.
The global carrier has a long history of acting as a bad neighbor in the Southeast Fort Worth neighborhood of Echo Heights. For five years, the global carrier operated its 9.4-acre trucking facility under a permit lapse that went unnoticed by the City of Fort Worth, despite the lot sitting adjacent to a city code-compliance building. Now, halfway through a two-year Conditional Use Permit (CUP), the carrier has failed to fulfill its commitments made to the Echo Heights community.
When residents and environmental advocates exposed the lapse, Fort Worth City Council last month moved to approve the CUP following the recommendation of District 11 Councilmember Jeanette Martinez, who said at the time that she “hoped FedEx was able to live up to their words and commitment to being a better neighbor to the Echo Heights community.”
To secure the permit, FedEx spokesperson and legal counsel Sean Tate vowed to “demonstrate” the carrier’s “commitment to being a better partner moving forward, not with promises but with actions.”
Under the approved terms, FedEx committed to updating truck routing maps, erecting a new screening fence, planting a landscape buffer of more than 300 trees and shrubs, and installing a $30,000 air quality monitor at W.M. Green Elementary to be commissioned by Dr. David Lary’s UT-Dallas lab. Martinez conceded that the five-year lapse should have been caught sooner by both FedEx and the city. Municipal officials blamed the oversight on shifting processes, when permit approvals moved from the Board of Adjustment to the Zoning Commission and City Council.
One year later, FedEx hasn’t fulfilled any of its promises to the Echo Heights community. The facility was supposed to replace its chain-link fences and provide landscaping. Semi-trucks also continue to speed through residential streets, ignoring no-truck signs and destroying roads.
METROPOLIS
Most importantly, W.M. Green Elementary is still without an air monitor.
When pressed by the community, Martinez acknowledged that some of FedEx’s pledges weren’t legally binding. She clarified that FedEx committed to donating the air monitor as a “good-faith effort outside of the CUP approval process” and that “while it was not a condition of the permit, I believe businesses should honor the commitments they make to the community.”
Last month, demonstrators showed up outside FedEx’s Echo Heights facility at 4700 Martin St., demanding accountability for the carrier’s negligence. The rally was led by the Fort Worth Environmental Coalition of Communities (FWECC), with support from the Sierra Club and the Echo Heights Stop 6 Environmental Coalition. Protesters stood in tall weeds, holding picket signs targeting the company’s unfulfilled obligations to the community.
“There’s so many voices … tired of fighting, because it’s getting nowhere,” said Chris Jones, vice president of the Echo Heights Neighborhood Association.
The true cost of this infrastructure is measured in the community’s physical health. Echo Heights is a working-class neighborhood and one of Fort Worth’s most ecologically disadvantaged areas. Dozens of residential properties reside within the immediate emission radius of the FedEx lot, exposing families to heavy diesel exhaust containing more than 40 carcinogens known to cause malignancies and respiratory complications. Rubber tire degradation from these trucks also releases toxic microplastics into the air. Studies from the Health Effects Institute show that unsafe levels of exposure to traffic emissions and tire-wear microplastics regularly permeate areas up to a 1,640-foot radius of trucking corridors, while medical data shows that chronic exposure within 1,000 feet of heavy trucking facilities causes permanent, stunted lung growth in children. Because air pollution travels downwind, this leaves children vulnerable to inhaling particulates during recess and outdoor pickup lines. W.M. Green Elementary sits 1.1 miles away from the FedEx site, which is why the carrier’s promise of donating an air monitor is so important to the Echo Heights community.
Distribution centers choose neighborhoods like Echo Heights because of proximity to highways, cheaper land, and assumed lack of political resistance. Within a 2-mile radius of the FedEx facility, where the population is 91% people of color and 54% low-income, the area, based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indicates that Echo Heights is in the 90th percentile for hazardous waste proximity, with
the adult asthma rates sitting at 12%, surpassing both statewide and national averages. An audit of multiple FedEx facilities in North Texas found that they primarily operate out of minority-majority ZIP codes. However, this pattern isn’t specific to North Texas or to FedEx. It’s indicative of the broader national crisis of systemic inequities that the freight industry continues imposing on our country’s most vulnerable communities.
“We are human,” said Letitia Wilbourn, cochair of FWECC. “Humans can only absorb so much, and right now they are putting too much on us.”
FedEx, said Adam Snyder, FedEx communications strategic advisor for global media, “strives to be a good neighbor in all the communities where we operate. With regard to our facility in Fort Worth, Texas, we fully intend to complete the site updates and quality measurements in the next several months.”
Following recent press inquiries on deadline, confirmation from both Councilmember Martinez and Lary’s independent lab reveals that FedEx has finally released the promised $30,000 payment to the university to begin construction on the air monitor for W.M. Green Elementary. Martinez also said that her office fully intends to “review the concerns raised by residents and ensure any potential CUP violations are investigated and addressed.”
Community advocates remain skeptical until the appropriate actions are taken and results are apparent.
FedEx is already halfway through its two-year CUP. By the time the air monitor is constructed, calibrated, and able to yield significant data, FedEx will be reapplying for permit renewal. Whether this release of funds is a calculated public relations move or a genuine act of good faith is unclear. In the meantime, Echo Heights will continue to wait for FedEx to deliver on the rest of its obligations. l
Protesters stood in tall weeds last month, with picket signs targeting FedEx’s unfulfilled obligations to Echo Heights.
Courtesy of the Fort Worth Environmental Coalition of Communities
W.M. Green Elementary sits 1.1 miles away from the FedEx site, leaving children vulnerable to inhaling particulates during recess and outdoor pickup lines.
News Roundup
Black Dems threaten to reject Talarico (smh), while Red Raider chief did not bribe anyone and slain ICE victim put to rest.
BY ANTHONY MARIANI
Dumbest Timeline
When you hear someone is a “political content creator,” how bad do you gag? Is it a full-on almost-barf or just a little “ewww, can’t handle this right now”? For me, reading that some “political content creator” in Houston has threatened Texas Democrats’ best hope for a U.S. Senate seat with sitting out the election brought me to the edge of my toilet, my stomach churning, my lips foaming with spittle. Here you have James Talarico, a decent, honest, hardworking, good man, and his opposition on the right defines “slimy bastard.” And yet. And yet! Many Black Texans claim Sweet Baby James hasn’t kissed their ass hard enough and as a result may sit out the election or even vote for his opponent, Crooked Ken Paxton. *facepalm emoji* If “self-own” were a voting bloc, it would be these warped, misguided backward-brains who somehow believe that crucifying themselves brings the entire Democratic party closer to enlightenment. Shit don’t work that way. Not only is the Dem establishment led by spineless, blood-money-hungry do-nothings, but you’re only hurting yourselves and every other group dying under the oppressive regime of Paxton, Gov. Greg Abbott, the rest of the Nazis in Austin, and all the chief Nazis
in D.C. Put your obnoxious, nauseating ego away, grow a pair of balls/ovaries, and do what’s right for the common good — not for your objectively sophomoric “political content.”
“I’m not fixing to let your white moderates win,” said this “political content creator” via The Texas Tribune. “Because in 2028, we need to elect a new motherfucking president, and if you white moderates and you lowly ass fucking candidates like James Talarico keep pulling your shit, we’re going to end up with another fucking Trump.”
What one senator has to do with the election of a president is anyone’s guess, but there goes another unofficial spokesperson for the anti-Democratic, anti-common-sense wing of the Democratic party — eating ourselves is what we do best. And that is how you get “another fucking Trump,” not by voting for someone who isn’t a walking, talking pile of racism, sexism, bigotry, backdoor deals, and grift. Put the phone down. Grow up.
Down, Set, Tut-Tut
As if any more proof was needed that Ken Paxton is not only a terrible politician but a worse human being, he just accepted a huge not-a-bribe from some powerful MAGAt to help a college football team.
And the kid entered the NFL draft anyway. Thanks for beclowning yourself once again in public, Mr. Paxton, this time on my behalf, undoubtedly thought former Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby, who got busted gambling thousands of dollars on college football games, including his own, and was declared ineligible by the NCAA.
To fight to keep him on the field, Tech Board of Regents Chair Cody Campbell donated $275K to Paxton’s regressive U.S. Senate campaign against Dem wonderboy James Talarico. It’s among the most money Crooked Ken has received from any donor currently and reportedly among the highest that Campbell has ever shelled out to any statewide campaign.
What a coinkydink, then, that Texas Attorney General Paxton — fat donation firmly in greasy hand — went after the Big 12, warning the conference that not allowing the Lubbock institution to dress Sorsby would be “unlawful” and expose the conference to $200 million-plus in damages.
Sorry, but the third-biggest NCAA conference is not going to be pushed around by anyone, including the State of Texas and especially Crooked
“The bottom line,” the Tech chair wrote, “is that Texas Tech did absolutely nothing but act with complete integrity through this entire process.” *snicker* “We broke no rules, no laws, and crossed no ethical lines.” The lies! They burn! “We are proud to represent a university that supports its students the way that we do.” By making the whole literate world hate them? Got it.
R.I.P. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
Hundreds recently gathered on Houston’s East Side for the funeral of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three and construction worker shot dead by ICE on July 7.
The family said they did not know a vast majority of the attendees.
Ken. The Big 12 promptly sued Paxton, Tech, the Texas Tech University System, Chancellor Brandon Creighton, Texas Tech President Lawrence Schovanec, and Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt.
“The Big 12 and its member institutions … have no interest in being required to endorse or even appearing to endorse unethical and indeed unlawful conduct that strikes at the heart of athletic integrity,” the conference wrote in its complaint, whose chief argument is that Tech was infringing on the conference’s First Amendment rights to enforce its own rule of law.
Tech chair Campbell told the Star-Telegram that his not-untimely donation to Paxton was in no way underhanded or intended to sway anyone and was born only of support for the AG’s senate campaign. Between this April and June, Crooked Ken has raised three times less than Sweet Baby James, who’s sitting on a cool $30 million. However. The two candidates are statistically tied, with Talarico enjoying only a slight lead in most polls. Back to Blacks against James: Please, don’t vote for unlimited diarrhea (Paxton) when soft, downy comfort (Talarico) is only a punched button away.
Addiction is serious, and we’re glad Sorsby received the treatment he needed. We wish him the best in his pro football career.
Now, for a genuine LOL, Campbell released a statement after Sorsby skedaddled, and it’s full of more b.s. than West Texas ranchland.
“How could we not show up and be here?” said visitor Luke Orlando, who did not know Salgado Araujo personally but lives near where ICE killed him. “It could have been any of us, any of our neighbors.”
Since the start of Donald Trump’s second term in January, encounters with ICE and other immigration agents have resulted in at least 10 deaths, including two in Maine and Florida just days after Salgado Araujo’s fatal shooting by ICE.
ICE claimed Salgado Araujo attempted to use the vehicle he was driving to ram the agent who discharged his weapon allegedly in self-defense, but many witnesses contradict ICE’s version of events and a statement by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas does not mention any collision between Salgado Araujo’s vehicle and any other vehicle while also never explicitly saying that any officers, including the gunman, feared for their lives.
Salgado Araujo loved soccer and his construction job. At the funeral home, his white hard hat, work gloves, tape measures, and a toolbox sat on a greeting table that also displayed his soccer memorabilia and two of his Team Mexico jerseys. A Houston Eastsider for more than three decades, Salgado Araujo put his three sons through college via his construction business. May justice be served.
This column reflects the opinions of the editorial board and not the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly.com. He will gently edit it for clarity and concision.
Alleged Democrats hammered Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico at a town hall in Houston recently.
Annie Mulligan/ The Texas Tribune
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World Cup Wrap-Up
It’s the Los Reyes de Fútbol Edition!
BY KRISTIAN LIN
The party’s over, and Argentina’s late-game magic finally ran out. The final in East Rutherford, New Jersey, was mostly one-way traffic for Spain, but it took more than 105 frustrating and unnerving minutes before Ferrán Torres blasted home Nico Williams’ cutback header to breach Emiliano Martínez’s goal. The Barcelona striker’s first tally at this tournament gave La Roja its second-ever World Cup title. We’ve got the last update from this summer of soccer.
How’d Spain do it?
The same way they beat a France team with better talent than Argentina’s: by possessing the ball so much that the opposition went crazy. (How else to explain Enzo Fernández’ red-card foul that sent Pau Cubarsí tail over teakettle?) Those of us who like our soccer to be entertaining may have preferred a side with more of a cutting edge, but I must salute a team that dominated its games and found the back of the net when it needed to.
Does this affect Lionel Messi’s legacy? Not even. He failed to win a second World Cup title, but he is far from a loser. We haven’t seen a player his age excel on the big stage since 40-year-old Dino Zoff captained Italy to their triumph in 1982, and Zoff was a goalkeeper. Messi tallied eight goals and four assists in North America, two of the latter coming late in the semifinal that smashed England’s hopes. (More on that in a second.) He was stellar when younger competitors looked washed, and he settled the whole wearisome debate over whether he’s better than Cristiano Ronaldo. He’ll have a heavy heart when he flies back to his club team in Inter Miami, but as the MLS season starts back up, crowds all over America can pay tribute to his greatness. (When he returns from his two-match post-tournament break, that is.) Most of us didn’t see Pelé, Johan Cruyff, or Diego Maradona in their primes. We can tell our kids about Messi carrying his team repeatedly with so much poise and a self-effacing humility that’s rare among superstar athletes.
What happened with England?
Much as I hate to throw in with the consensus, Coach Thomas Tuchel handed Argentina that semifinal. Anthony Gordon’s goal in the 56th minute should have keyed the Three Lions to move in for the kill and end Messi’s World Cup run. Instead, England’s manager threw all his defensive players onto the pitch to shut up shop for the rest of the way. That might have worked with five minutes
left in the game, but with 35, it gave the Argentines the ball and the initiative to come back. In Tuchel’s defense, fearing Lionel Messi is a wholly reasonable thing for an opposing coach to do, and there’s no guarantee that England would have emerged as winners if they’d kept pressing for another goal. Yet the way Spain kept the ball away from Argentina’s offense only showed how England could have done the same. The coach who started this tournament vowing to play England’s way no matter what ended up selling out his beliefs, and Old Blighty’s 60-year wait for another major men’s soccer title continues.
What happened next?
England beat France in a defense-be-damned 6-4 thriller in the third-place match, yet Tuchel still insists that he got it right against Argentina. Soccer coaches can be maddening sometimes.
How much did Donald Trump foul up this World Cup?
He did his best. It was all too predictable that the crowd booed him at the trophy presentation. Less so was Trump staying on stage when Spain actually lifted the trophy, as if he’d won the World Cup, too. This, less than a week after Trump trashed their country as “full of hopeless, bad people.”
Even Kalshi spokesman/new Real Madrid coach/ Donald Trump of the sport José Mourinho would have shown more respect. There should be no sympathy for FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who repeatedly tried to pull Trump off the stage. He brought that embarrassment on himself.
Why did Trump do that?
Seriously, you have to ask? The economy was set up for a boom, and he’s hammered it by starting an illegal war with Iran that has jacked up inflation and gas prices (not to mention killing American soldiers and Iranian schoolchildren), as well as imposing tariffs that we’re all paying for at the grocery store. His ICE thugs are killing people on America’s streets again, his loyal Senate majority
leader might be dead, and his cuts to the CDC’s budget are now giving people explosive diarrhea. Everything he’s touching is turning to explosive diarrhea, especially in sports: The New York Knicks’ only playoff loss was in the game he attended, and he overturned Folarin Balogun’s red card only for Belgium to rub their win over Team USA in his face. If he weren’t a sexual predator and a hateful racist, I might actually feel sorry for the president. As it is, I’m here for the Spanish FA editing him out of the celebration photos and social-media memesters having fun at his expense.
Enough shit-talking. Who is in your team of the tournament?
GK: Vozinha (Cape Verde)
CB: Pau Cubarsí (Spain)
CB: Cristián Romero (Argentina)
CB: Marc Guéhi (England)
RWB: Pedro Porro (Spain)
LWB: Marc Cucurella (Spain)
CMF: Rodri (Spain)
CMF: Jude Bellingham (England)
FW: Erling Haaland (Norway)
FW: Kylian Mbappé (France)
FW: Lionel Messi (Argentina)
Bench: Gregor Kobel (Switzerland), Emiliano Martínez (Argentina); William Saliba (France), Rúben Dias (Portugal), Gustavo Gómez (Paraguay), Achraf Hakimi (Morocco), Lucas Digne (France); Elliot Anderson (England), Ayyoub Bouaddi (Morocco), Mikel Merino (Spain), Michael Olise (France); Leandro Trossard (Belgium), Julián Quiñones (Mexico), Vinícius Júnior (Brazil), Ousmane Dembélé (France).
Coach: Ståle Solbakken (Norway).
Who scored the best goals of the tournament?
15. Jude Bellingham (England) vs. France. 14. Malik Tillman (USA) vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina. 13. Stephen Eustáquio (Canada) vs. South Africa. 12. Daizen
Maeda (Japan) vs. Sweden. 11. Kylian Mbappé (France) vs. Senegal 10. Hwang In-beom (South Korea) vs. Czech Republic. 9. Yasin Ayari (Sweden) vs. Tunisia. 8. Ismael Saibari (Morocco) vs. Brazil. 7. Kevin Pina (Cape Verde) vs. Uruguay. 6. Wilson Isidor (Haiti) vs. Morocco. 5. Gio Reyna (USA) vs. Paraguay. 4. Andreas Schjelderup (Norway) vs. England. 3. Eldor Shomurodov (Uzbekistan) vs. Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2. Julián Álvarez (Argentina) vs. Switzerland. 1. Sidny Lopes Cabral (Cape Verde) vs. Argentina.
What’s next for American soccer?
As I mentioned before, MLS suspended its season for the duration of the World Cup. They’ll be starting up again with Messi and several members of Team USA and other countries, including Cape Verde. Coach Mauricio Pochettino is still weighing his options as his contract runs out — U.S. Soccer is understandably anxious to re-sign him, but high-profile club teams are batting their eyelashes at him now. If he moves on, we’ll report it in these pages. Next summer, the Women’s World Cup takes place in Brazil, which means that you won’t have to stay up late to watch those matches. We’ll be here for that as well.
What will you remember from this World Cup?
As I predicted, the stuff that happened on the pitch brought it all together. Cape Verde’s magical run justified having 48 countries at the party. Casual fans discovered Erling Haaland, and we’ll see 100 dudes and dudettes who play like Messi before we see another player with the Manchester City striker’s peculiar set of attributes. (And he apparently fell in love with North Texas.) Despite a president who hates the rest of the world, ordinary Americans welcomed those crazy Scotland fans, Algerian players found a new home in Lawrence, Kansas, a German tourist discovered a miraculous place called Waffle House, and global celebrities became fans like the rest of us. That’s what the World Cup can do. Until next time … l
Not appearing in this photo: Donald Trump. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons
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Local World Cup Legacy
Like every other North American host city, Arlington was peaceful and downright pleasant during the global soccer tournament.
BY RUSH OLSON
On June 25, Japan drew with Sweden at what we can now once again call AT&T Stadium. It set up my personal favorite moment of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup.
I didn’t attend that game, but in the evening, I headed to Texas Live!, where I planned to meet some friends to watch Team USA’s final group stage game. The place teemed with supporters still in the area from the earlier match played on the other side of Johnson Creek. On the way in, I conversed with a Swedish guy who had flown into Los Angeles, where he had friends, and driven to North Texas. He had loved his trip so far. A few minutes later, as I sat at the bar, the Stars and Stripes scored against Türkiye and the familiar “USA! USA! USA!” broke out next to me. Except the people who started the chant weren’t the ones wearing red, white, and blue. They sported yellow jerseys. And they high-fived me.
I loved that the Swedish fans felt so happy to be here watching soccer that they would cheer for their hosts. And I also loved that my experience was not unique. Rather, it seemed typical.
North Texas FWC Organizing Committee
Co-Chair Dan Hunt, in his remarks at the group’s closing press conference, named the Swedes’ opponents that day as one of his favorite parts of the event.
“The Japanese fans and their constant singing throughout the match and then the fact that they cleaned up after the match,” he said.
Japan played in Arlington twice. One of those came in the first match the city hosted, a 2-2 tie against the Netherlands. It was preceded by another of my favorite moments, the Orange Walk, as throngs of Dutch fans paraded around current and former baseball stadia on their way to the match venue. The Japanese supporters mingled in and out of the procession in a spirit of goodwill. I watched orange and blue fans who had met seconds before get a photo taken together with the big football stadium behind them.
I saw some fans in Astros kit that day (presumably the only orange clothing they owned). After another hard-fought draw, I watched Portugal fans get selfies with supporters of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a keepsake of their shared interaction. Both groups wanted their teams to win. Both seemed to value the spirit of the game at least as much.
“Over these past several weeks, fans from every corner of the globe filled our stadiums, our parks, our restaurants, our neighborhoods, our hotels, and our hearts” said North Texas FWC Organizing Committee President Monica Paul at the presser. “Different languages were spoken, different flags were waved, different songs were sung. Yet everyone shared something in common: a love for the beautiful game and a belief that sport has the power to unite us all.”
The United States has a long tradition as a place where disparate cultures meet and interact peacefully. Though developments in recent decades have created some headwinds buffeting that reputation, we saw the power of sport blow a powerful gust to fill its sails this summer.
“It’s about so much more than just a tournament,” said Nina Vaca, Hunt’s co-chair. “It’s about people and bringing people together in a true celebration of humanity.
The celebration went both directions, too. Just as we Americans got to appreciate the skill of the world’s players and the passion of their supporters, they got to see the ways this country’s residents can welcome visitors, customers, and even opposing fans. Our guests discovered they were welcome at our Waffle Houses, our Buc-ee’s locations, and at our barbecue restaurants. We refilled their soft drinks for free, and, in turn, Scottish fans drank all of Boston’s beer. (A Dallas bartender told me the Austrian fans did the same in his establishment.) Visitors took in our baseball games, and I’m hoping some Rangers fans (Glasgow) became Rangers fans (Arlington). Visitors scarfed down our ranch dressing. Erling Haaland apparently took a liking to Texas culture just as we embraced his nation’s Viking Row.
“For me personally, it’s been fun to walk our stadium like I do on events and see people that have never seen a stadium like that, certainly never been in our stadium, and have them be in awe of everything they were able to see when they walked around,” said Chad Estis, executive vice president of business operations for the Dallas Cowboys and AT&T Stadium. “The atmosphere that those fans create is unlike anything we see in sport, and it’s been truly awesome to be a part of.”
We kind of knew our stadia would rank with the world’s best. The United States has been a leader in that space for a long time. It was nice to see we also still rank pretty highly when it comes to welcoming visitors to those venues and the communities that surround them. I’d like to think a lot of those involved in the event will have favorite memories like mine — ones that have very little to do with the result of a match and much with the resulting goodwill created. l
The Netherlands’ traditional Orange Walk welcomed opposing Japanese fans outside AT&T Stadium during the World Cup.
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Night & Day: ‘Hamilton’ and More
Don’t throw away
your
shot to catch some amazing art, shows, and fun.
BY ELAINE WILDER AND ANTHONY MARIANI
Three musicals have occupied Bass Performance Hall (525 Commerce St, Fort Worth, 817-212-4280) this summer — Hadestown , The Notebook , and now Hamilton — and they’re all marquee productions. Hamilton , I’m sure you already know about, and for good reason. It’s an amazing show with catchy hip-hop/R&B songs and a sneaky history lesson. “Immigrants — we get the job done.” Kudos to Bass Hall for bringing this multiple-Tony-winner to the Fort again at this point in time. The production runs for two weeks (today thru Sun, Jul 26), with tickets starting at $69. — Anthony Mariani
Perhaps best known for playing Uncle Ryan on Everybody Hates Chris , actor/comedian Tony Rock, Chris Rock’s younger brother, is on a stand-up tour. He’ll
perform at the Arlington Improv (309 Curtis Mathes Way, Ste 147, 817-635-5555) at 7:30pm Thu, 7:30pm/9:45pm Fri, 7:30pm/9:30pm Sat, and 7pm Sun. Tickets start at $31.40 at ImprovTX.com.
Scout Bookshop is celebrating Summerween with a screening of 1998’s Practical Magic starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock at the Fairmount Community Garden (504 5th Av, Fort Worth, 604-9045031) when the sun goes down. Food and drinks will be available for purchase from El Salchichón FW (gourmet, Mexican street-style hot dogs and tacos), Leo’s Churro Bar, and Ostara Coffee Roasters starting at 8pm, then the movie kicks off at 9pm. Scout’s Silent Book Club meeting for August will focus on the Alice Hoffman novel of the same name which inspired the film, and this free screening will launch the event. There is no cost to attend.
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Our annual Creature Comforts special issue hits the stands next week, and our inaugural Backto-School Issue comes out the week after. Courtesy Canva
Elvie Ellis, Nathan Haydel, Jared Howelton, and Tyler Fauntleroy star in Hamilton this weekend at Bass Hall.
The Love Texas Art Foundation has announced the artists selected for the 2026 Texas Juried Exhibition, one of the state’s premier exhibitions celebrating the excellence of contemporary Texas art. The 2026 exhibition showcases 40 artists from more than 2,400 submissions by 725 artists across Texas, reflecting the depth and diversity of contemporary art throughout the state. Chosen artists include Nancy Lamb and Sage Elwell of Fort Worth and TCU graduate Freddy Ortega. In total, there are nearly 25 artists from North Texas. The exhibition will be on view at Artspace111 (111 Hampton St, Fort Worth, 817-692-3228) thru Sat, Aug 29. This year, $20,000 in prizes will be awarded, including the Edmund Craig Memorial First Prize (a $10,000 cash award) and the opportunity for the recipient to present a solo exhibit or be part of a group show in 2027. Prize winners will be announced at 5pm Saturday during the opening reception from 4pm to 6pm.
NTX Vintage Markets is hosting an Adult Book Fair at Cowtown Brewing (1301 E Belknap St, Fort Worth, 817489-5800). From noon to 5pm, grab a cold beer and shop for books, journals, handmade goods, stationery, and other “bookish merchandise” from local vendors. Admission is free.
Also, Sarah McLachlan is performing at 7:30pm at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory (300 W Las Colinas Blvd, Irving, 214-978-4888) in support of her newish album, Better Broken , but I’m sure she’ll play your favorite Lilith Fair-era tunes as well. Tickets start at $39.50 at AXS.com. Read more about McLachlan and the recent Lilith Fair documentary in Weekly Women, our annual Women’s History Month issue (“Building a Mystery,” Mar 4), at FWWeekly.com.
Now that our #SummerOfSoccer is over and football season is, well, preseason, don’t forget about
baseball. The Texas Rangers have an evening home game against the Seattle Mariners at 8:35pm at Globe Life Field (734 Stadium Dr E, Arlington, 817-533-1972). Tickets start at around $15.
The Weekly has two special issues coming up. Our annual Creature Comforts edition hits the stands next week, and our inaugural Back-to-School Issue comes out the week after. Today is the final deadline for the animal-issue published Wed, Jul 29, so bark now or forever hold your peace. Send your story ideas and event listings to Marketing@ fwweekly.com. Business owners, contact your reps to reserve space or visit FWWeekly.com/ advertise-with-us.
Fort Worth luminary and former Best-Of cover model Nancy Lamb is among the 40 artists selected for the 2026 Texas Juried Exhibition opening at 5pm Sat, Jul 25, at Artspace111.
by Ryan Burger
Celebrate Summerween with a screening of Practical Magic on Friday in Fairmount.
Courtesy Warner Bros.
The Kitchen Is Closed
Cooler heads must prevail in this “last supper” of the acclaimed FX dramatic comedy
The Bear.
BY WYATT NEWQUIST
The Bear completes its last shift after five seasons and one surprise flashback episode. It’s all a melting pot of everything I love and sort of dislike about the FX show.
Breaking from series tradition, most of this final season covers the span of one day. Beginning the morning after Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) tells Syd (Ayo Edebiri), Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), and Natalie “Sugar” (Abby Elliott) that he is quitting the business, The Bear, the restaurant, has run out of time and money. Their business partner Jimmy is going to sell the building, their food storage is low, their credit cards have been declined, and Pastry Chef Luca is going back to Copenhagen. That’s not even mentioning the torrential downpour halting traffic and, even worse, potentially canceling reservations for the evening.
The Bear has always been great for individual character moments. Richie’s arc is easily the best in the series, beginning as someone I wanted fired to a man worthy of redemption. Carmy’s trajectory is far messier but still rewarding. He wanted to be a chief to be close to his brother, Mikey, but after working in an abusive environment in New York City, Mikey’s suicide, and being saddled with The Beef, predecessor to The Bear, Carmy feels like the
The Bear has always been great for individual character moments.
burden of manning a restaurant isn’t worth his sanity. And Syd has gone from working under Carmy to now leading the charge in what they believe is their “last supper.”
What’s been less enjoyable is how much the show constantly reminds us that these people are a “family.” When someone tells Syd that the universe is trying to tell her something, she replies, “I don’t listen to the universe. I listen to my chefs.” The shots of food being prepped and faces deep in thought make some of it feel self-indulgent.
Richie’s speech to rally everyone before opening was wonderful, though. Starting with a prepared, manufactured lecture, he instead launches into a humorous, inspiring rally direct from the heart. It’s yet another standout moment for a man who’s come so far and is a highlight of the series overall.
The cinematography is different compared to past seasons. Before, we felt part of the tense, panic-inducing experience of running a restaurant. The camera was up close inside the kitchen and outside the dining area. Now, when the doors
open, we feel like just an observer. The camera is farther away from everyone, like what happens from here on out is out of our control.
The music feels more synth-heavy than ever before. It brings that sense of urgency that permeates this final season.
What I’ve come to realize about The Bear, both the restaurant and the show, is that you have to take the good with the not as good, and thankfully it’s mostly really good through to the end. I went into this final season wanting to just get it over with, but once the kitchen closed, I found myself missing these characters. I missed seeing them scramble and bicker and coming out the other side battered and bruised but heading back to work to do it all over again. Life sure is a bear. l
Jeremy Allen White ponders life away from the heat in a well-rounded final season.
Courtesy FX
The Bear Created by Christopher Storer. Starring Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Ayo Edebiri.
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EATS & drinks
DFW Restaurant Week: Ate Days of Discount Fine Dining
BY ELAINE WILDER
With rising food costs, you might as well skip the greasy drive-thru and opt for something better and local. While this is true of most types of cuisine, you might still find fine dining a bit out of reach in this economy. Why not help yourself and support a local nonprofit at the same time? With that in mind, here are some of the luxury retso options in Fort Worth during the next DFW Restaurant Week which you’d be smart to take advantage of in August.
Bob’s Steak & Chophouse (1300 Houston St, Fort Worth, 817-350-4100) is offering a Signature Experience for $99 per person. This includes your choice of Caesar Salad (Caesar dressing, parmesan cheese, and croutons), wedge salad (blue cheese dressing, crumbled blue cheese, tomato, and bacon), or the Chophouse Salad (greens, cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, bacon, and hearts of palm). Your entrée will be a 9-oz filet, pork chop, or salmon, each served with Bob’s signature carrots and smashed potatoes. For dessert, there’s carrot cake, chocolate cake, and Key Lime pie. As for cocktails, the Barrel Aged Old Fashioned, Strawberry Bobbie, or glass of Austin Hope Cabernet goes for $18 each.
Bonnell’s Fine Texas Cuisine (4259 Bryant Irvin Rd, Fort Worth, 817-738-5489) will serve a three-course dinner for $59 per person. For the first course, choose either the house salad (mixed greens with baby heirloom tomatoes, jalapeno-garlic vinaigrette, and queso fresco) or roasted tomato-and-jalapeno soup. For the main course, there’s grilled salmon (with confetti rice, green beans, and
lemon butter) or a 5-oz filet (with shoestring fries, green beans, and whiskey cream). Then for dessert, choose a slice of buttermilk pie or Texas sheet cake with pecans. If you’d like a signature drink with each course, upgrade to the Signature Experience for $99 per person.
Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse (812 Main St, Fort Worth, 817-877-3999) has so many options on the $59 three-course dinner that I’m skipping the descriptions on this one. For starters, you can choose from lobster bisque, a Caesar Salad, a blue cheese wedge salad, Wagyu meatballs, a jumbo lump crabcake, or shrimp cocktail. Then for the entree, there is the pan-roasted Arla salmon, a double-bone Kurobuta pork chop, a roasted half chicken, braised Angus short rib, or jumbo crabcakes. Sides aren’t included, but add-ons for $15-27 include lobster mac ’n’ cheese, chateau mashed potatoes, or roasted broccolini. There are also entree enhancements available for $10-20, including jumbo shrimp, special butters, Gorgonzola fondue, and Oscar-style additions. Dessert options are a chocolate mousse, butter cake, or strawberry hibiscus cheesecake. For details on the expansive Signature Experience options, check it out online. We don’t have the space here.
Don Artemio Mexican Heritage (3268 W 7th St, Fort Worth, 817-470-1439) is keeping it simple. Your three-course meal for $59 starts with Quesadilla de Flor de Calabaza (a fried, handmade blue heirloom corn quesadilla with an ancho-pasilla-herbed black bean purée, lettuce, and cream). For the entrée, choose between the Salmon in Pipián (fresh sautéed Norwegian salmon with a house-made green pipián mole, refried beans, and fresh salad) or Chile Hojaldrado (a cream cheese pecan-stuffed poblano chile wrapped in puff pastry over house-made tomato sauce). Dessert time brings a mini Escondido de Chocolate (hidden chocolate cake, berry couli, covered with whipped cream and cocoa powder). On the Signature Experience for $99, you’ll enjoy four courses instead of three and different than above. Details online.
Quince Riverside (1701 River Run, Ste 181, Fort Worth, 682-385-9073) will serve weekend brunch ($29), a two-course lunch ($29), and a Signature Experience for dinner at $99 per person. The $59 dinner plan includes three courses. Start with your choice of lamb barbacoa dumplings, rock shrimp tempura, or a chopped Caesar Salad. Entrée options include a pepper-crusted half chicken, aji pepper risotto, or an 8-oz roasted salmon, and while sides weren’t listed, I’m certain you’ll get some. For dessert, it’s flourless chocolate cake or baklava cheesecake.
Wicked Butcher (512 Main St, Fort Worth, 817-601-4621) will not provide a signature upgrade, but add-ons are available, and the $59 plan is already loaded with great choices. First-course options include creamy cauliflower soup, fried calamari, a white truffle Caesar Salad, braised tenderloin hummus, and tuna crudo. Second-course choices are ginger-miso Chilean sea bass (with basmati rice, cashew, curry nage), a Berkshire porkchop (with five-onion mélange, apple compote), seared salmon (with herbed fregola, romesco, sautéed spinach), a 6-oz filet mignon (with cacio e pepe ravioli), or a 12-oz ribeye (with asparagus, marbled potatoes). As for dessert, it’s banana pudding (banane du Brésil custard, vanilla wafers, toasted coconut), a chocolate tart (dark chocolate, hazelnut crust, peanut butter mousse), or mango lavender crème brûlée (with fresh lavender, figs, and golden raisins, diced mango).
Forty-three of Tarrant County’s finest dining destinations are gearing up for a major milestone this summer: the historic 30th anniversary edition of DFW Restaurant Week. When folks dine out at participating local restaurants, 20% of their meal will benefit Lena Pope, the 96-year-old Fort Worth nonprofit dedicated to strengthening children and families through counseling, education, and behavior intervention programs.
The month-long culinary celebration officially kicks off the week of Mon, Aug 10, and runs through Labor Day (Mon, Sep 7), following a special Preview Weekend scheduled for Thu-Sun, Aug 6-9. For the full dish on DFW Restaurant Week, visit DFWRestaurantWeek.com and follow them on socials. l
The chocolate tart at Wicked Butcher features dark chocolate on a hazelnut crust with peanut butter mousse. Courtesy Wicked Butcher
Your entrée at Bob’s, including this 9-oz filet, is served with carrots and smashed potatoes.
Courtesy Bob’s Steak & Chophouse
Start with the roasted tomato-and-jalapeno soup at Bonnell’s during DFW Restaurant Week.
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MUSIC
Notes and News
Quaker City Night Hawks, Como La Flor, and Phil Ford all deliver exciting new recordings.
BY STEVE STEWARD
Como La Flor’s “Haunted” Is Exactly
That
The third week of July is the part of the summer where the heat and humidity start to feel genuinely oppressive, like in the first act of a commercial when the only gas station in the entire desert is just waiting for the crisp pop of a soda can to soak the three old men sitting under the rusty signs on the porch with some badly needed chill. I kind of like summer weather because it always feels mildly hallucinogenic, like is this real? This used to just be air I moved through, but now it has a texture and weight? Why does sunlight make me feel like it’s about to rob me? Why is it still this hot at night? A lot of psychedelic music goes well with this weather (Earthless’ Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky is my immediate reference), perhaps because experiencing both tends to overwhelm your brain and make you feel sweaty. I can’t speak for you, but for me, that’s a specific, cathartic feeling, and I love it. I get that that might sound unpleasant, but if such an experience sounds appealing to you, I’d like to recommend “Haunted,” the latest single from a newish local shoegaze band.
Como La Flor plays heavy, FX-shaded alt-rock, and having seen them a few times, I can vouch for their live show, as it feels mentally overwhelming and cathartically sweaty. They write good melodies, have interesting arrangements, and they really wring a lot of cool noise from their instruments. Sonic references, to my ears, anyway, include Deftones, and the last time I saw Como La Flor, they closed with a P.O.D. cover. Given that “Haunted” has a rap verse, that influence on the band seems apparent, but Como La Flor are their own thing. Their music, while heavy, is dramatically atmospheric, and “Haunted” showcases this quality like an urban explorer’s video of an abandoned insane asylum.
For one thing, the track’s live-recording vibe makes it sound huge, and within the shadows of that space lurk daemonic forces formed from distortion and decay. For another, the vocals are ghostly and unnerving, hovering in the midst of the guitars and drums like a specter in the periphery of a bad dream, the kind that disappears if you look at them directly. I streamed the track on Spotify the other night while sitting on my
front porch, and even out of my phone’s speaker, the combination of the dark, the heat, the lives of the feral cats, the frogs, and the bugs, and “Haunted”’s ethereal menace made me consider what was real and what was not, and who’s to say which is which? The song ended, and the mosquitoes nagging my ankles confirmed my existence, so I played the song again before I went to bed. I don’t remember dreaming.
Scenester Sounds
Designer/producer/electronic artist Phil Ford did a set at the Boiled Owl Tavern on the Near Southside last Saturday night which didn’t so much blow my hair back as smooth it, like a
balmy, groovy, computerized breeze. Performing as emt_dsc, Ford mixed a hypnotic mood shaded with ambient textures, ’90s Jungle rhythms, and a lot of genre-crossing beats. I messaged him about the set, to which he replied, “A lot of that stuff was unreleased, remixes, some stuff from an album soon to be released on [Denton record label] Memory Terminal. Most of my stuff is on Scenester Bandcamp.”
A google search for “scenester bandcamp” takes you to the new emt_dsc album. Mythology contains 29 tracks exploring a labyrinth of rhythms and textures in the service of their titles. I suppose it’s up to the listener to discern the narratives here, but getting from opener “Volition” to closer “Return to the World” via tracks with names like “Echo Chamber Collapse,” “Memory Castle,” “Lost Futures,” and “Escaping the Tower,” literally sounds like an incredible story.
Quaker City Night Hawks
Swooping in Soon
Aside from headlining Tulips FTW (112 St. Louis Av, 817-367-9798) on Sat, Aug 1, for the first night of the inaugural HEATSTROKE festival, Quaker City Night Hawks have a new song coming out … soon. Per a July 2 Instagram post with a D Magazine comment, the band alluded to an upcoming single release. To paraphrase that comment, I, too, have heard some of this new Quaker City album, and I agree that they manage to sound both timeless and contemporary. And also maybe a tiny bit like the Stooges now! Chew on that while you await the drop. l
Shown playing the Boiled Owl Tavern, heavy shoegaze band Como La Flor have released a new, doomy, trippy single, “Haunted.”
From the mind of Phil Ford, emt_dsc’s new techno album, Mythology, is out now on the Denton record label Memory Terminal.
Courtesy Phil Ford
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Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
AMENDED NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF APPLICATION AND INTENT TO OBTAIN AIR PERMIT (NORI) RENEWAL
PERMIT NUMBER 56119
APPLICATION. U.S. Venture, Inc., has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for renewal of Air Quality Permit Number 56119, which would authorize continued operation of a Bulk Petroleum Products Terminal located at 301 Terminal Road, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas 76106. AVISO DE IDIOMA ALTERNATIVO. El aviso de idioma alternativo en espanol está disponible en https://www.tceq.texas.gov/permitting/air/newsourcereview/airpermits-pendingpermitapps. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility’s general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to application. https://gisweb.tceq.texas.gov/LocationMapper/?marker=97.348333,32.82&level=13. The existing facility is authorized to emit the following air contaminants: carbon monoxide, hazardous air pollutants, nitrogen oxides, organic compounds, particulate matter including particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less and sulfur dioxide.
This application was submitted to the TCEQ on May 12, 2026. The application will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and the Fort Worth Diamond Hill/Jarvis Library, 1300 Northeast 35th Street, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review in the Dallas/Fort Worth regional office of the TCEQ. The application, including any updates, is available electronically at the following webpage: https://www.tceq.texas.gov/permitting/air/airpermit-applications-notices
The executive director has determined the application is administratively complete and will conduct a technical review of the application. Information in the application indicates that this permit renewal would not result in an increase in allowable emissions and would not result in the emission of an air contaminant not previously emitted. The TCEQ may act on this application without seeking further public comment or providing an opportunity for a contested case hearing if certain criteria are met.
PUBLIC COMMENT. You may submit public comments to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below. The TCEQ will consider all public comments in developing a final decision on the application and the executive director will prepare a response to those comments. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the TCEQ’s jurisdiction to address in the permit process.
OPPORTUNITY FOR A CONTESTED CASE HEARING. You may request a contested case hearing if you are a person who may be affected by emissions of air contaminants from the facility. If requesting a contested case hearing, you must submit the following: (1) your name (or for a group or association, an official representative), mailing address, daytime phone number; (2) applicant’s name and permit number; (3) the statement “[I/we] request a contested case hearing;” (4) a specific description of how you would be adversely affected by the application and air emissions from the facility in a way not common to the general public; (5) the location and distance of your property relative to the facility; (6) a description of how you use the property which may be impacted by the facility; and (7) a list of all disputed issues of fact that you submit during the comment period. If the request is made by a group or association, one or more members who have standing to request a hearing must be identified by name and physical address. The interests the group or association seeks to protect must also be identified. You may also submit your proposed adjustments to the application/permit which would satisfy your concerns.
The deadline to submit a request for a contested case hearing is 15 days after newspaper notice is published. If a request is timely filed, the deadline for requesting a contested case hearing will be extended to 30 days after mailing of the response to comments.
If any requests for a contested case hearing are timely filed, the Executive Director will forward the application and any requests for a contested case hearing to the Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled Commission meeting. Unless the application is directly referred to a contested case hearing, the executive director will mail the response to comments along with notification of Commission meeting to everyone who submitted comments or is on the mailing list for this application. The Commission may only grant a request for a contested case hearing on issues the requestor submitted in their timely comments that were not subsequently withdrawn. If a hearing is granted, the subject of a hearing will be limited to disputed issues of fact or mixed questions of fact and law relating to relevant and material air quality concerns submitted during the comment period. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the Commission’s jurisdiction to address in this proceeding.
MAILING LIST. In addition to submitting public comments, you may ask to be placed on a mailing list for this application by sending a request to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below. Those on the mailing list will receive copies of future public notices (if any) mailed by the Office of the Chief Clerk for this application.
AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION. All public comments and requests must be submitted either electronically at www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/, or in writing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087. Please be aware that any contact information you provide, including your name, phone number, email address and physical address will become part of the agency’s public record. For more information about the permitting process, please call the TCEQ Public Education Program, Toll Free, at 1-800-687-4040 or visit their website at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/pep. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040. You can also view our website for public participation opportunities at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/participation.
Further information may also be obtained from U.S. Venture, Inc., 222 W. College Avenue, Appleton, Wisconsin 54911 or by calling Ms. Jeannette Meade, Environmental Specialist at (920) 358-3508.
Amended Notice Issuance Date: July 9, 2026
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