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METROPOLIS If Texas is smart, it won’t reopen anytime soon.

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Tarrant County needs to remain as is until COVID-19 trends downward.

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Don’t tell me I’m not desperate, because I am. Like most of the businesses that our readers know and love, the Weekly is small. And like most of them, we also applied for forgivable loans from the federal government. We fit the chief criterion: We do not have more than 500 employees in our building. After our recent layoffs, we are down to seven plus some trusty offsite freelancers. We define the “S” in the alleged “Small Business Administration,”

Static Visitors to the fifth floor of the Tarrant County Administration Building were checked for cold and flu symptoms before being admitted to the Commissioners Court meeting Tuesday. The morning gathering opened with a briefing lead by Dr. Vinny Taneja, Tarrant County Public Health Director.

“Texas is No. 4 [in the country] at 190,000 cases,” he said during a slideshow presentation. We have 1,333 positive cases in Tarrant County and “three more deaths to report.”

The public health message for Tarrant County residents remains the same, he continued.

“Stay at home,” he said. “You don’t need to be out unless you are performing a critical function. When you are out, the guidance is to wear some kind of facemask. Wash your hands, cover your cough, stay home if you are sick, and seek medical care if you are seriously sick.”

Commissioner Roy Brooks asked Taneja how his department will know when Tarrant County COVID-19 cases peak.

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the federal organization that oversaw the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The $350 billion package was intended to help “small” businesses. What we did not know is that the SBA has a funny definition of the term “small.” The winners of the PPP sweepstakes were lots of monster corporations. The company that owns the Ruth’s Chris Steak House chain received a $20 million payout despite possessing $86 million cash on hand and recently furloughing “a significant number” of field and office team employees, the company said.

The heartwarming news is that the chief executives, martyrs to the core, are taking a pay cut, going from a bajillion dollars a year to only a gazillion.

As legally required, more than 70 publically traded companies reported receiving money from the program. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) was outraged, telling the Washington Post that “companies that are not being harmed at all by the coronavirus crisis have the ability to receive taxpayer-funded loans that can be forgiven. ... I am concerned that many businesses with thousands of employees have found plied. “There are several ways to look at it.

One of the easiest is to look [for guidance from] our federal plan. The number of cases reported should be on a downward trend for 14 days. That’s a good indicator.

You can’t tell when you are at the top, but you can see a downward curve.”

Topping the agenda was a vote to amend the county’s ongoing executive order, which was first enacted on March 27. The order, which largely mirrors Fort Worth’s shelter-in-place order, calls for the temporary shuttering of nonessential businesses and adherence to social distancing guidelines.

County Judge Glenn Whitley said, “What we are doing with the changes to this order is bringing this in line and in compliance with the governor’s orders.”

Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order allows for the resumption of elective medical procedures under new guidelines.

Retail stores will be able to service customers under social distancing guidelines this Friday.

The changes to the county orders were largely perfunctory. The state-level guidelines supersede local orders. Whitley did hint that Tarrant County would be taking steps in the near future to work under the state directives to open up businesses even as several public comments urged against opening businesses too soon.

loopholes to qualify for these loans meant for small businesses. Unfortunately, when it comes to the PPP, millions of dollars are being wasted.”

Though we Weeklyfolk are down with PPP, we have not heard back about our submission and, honestly, do not expect to. As lawmakers consider another multibillion-dollar round of forgivable loans, or PPP, we are prepared to go through the rigmarole all over again. We will marshal hopefulness to keep our spirits up. While applications are on a first-come/firstserved basis, there is a pecking order of industries, according to the SBA. At the top of the recent awards was “Construction,” followed in descending order by “Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services,” “Manufacturing,” “Health Care and Social Assistance,” and “Accommodations and Food Services.” Down near the bottom, right below “Educational Services” but above “Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation” and “Mining,” that’s where you’ll find “Information,” which I’m supposing includes local rags. We Weeklyfolk can only hope, because as a non-divisive, non-

self-enriching, real national leader once said, “Keep hope alive!”

More than staying in business, we hope the curve starts trending downward soon because we’re big fans of existing life and aren’t really appreciative of needless death. In this endeavor, we will also marshal hope, because the outlook isn’t great. The low numbers recently reported by the Tarrant County Health Department –– three straight days of single-digit cases after 11 consecutive days of nearly 40 or more –– might be a mirage. County officials said the low numbers could be due to a temporary lag in reported lab results. As of Tuesday, April 21, Tarrant County has confirmed 1,249 COVID-19 cases, including 208 recoveries. As testing increases, as it is supposed to later this month or by early May, according to Gov. Greg Abbott, we can expect more cases, more recoveries, and certainly more bad news. The county also reported its 39th COVID-19-related death on Tuesday. Texas ranks near the bottom of the country in testing totals.

The only way the curve is going to start flattening or better is if we Texans

Whitley (center): “We are staying in step with the governor while looking to put the different sectors of the economy back to work.”

“When we started this,” Whitley said, “we put the restrictions in place to make sure we didn’t fill up our hospitals to the point where they had to close. I think we have been successful with that. I do believe that we need to begin a parallel track. We have the economy, business, and health.

We have been primarily, if not exclusively, on the health front. Now, we have to begin to discuss and think about how to open businesses back and new ways that we will operate those businesses to make sure that we don’t reignite the spread of this

virus. We are two to three weeks, maybe four weeks, away from beginning to lessen those restrictions. We are staying in step with the governor while looking to put the different sectors of the economy back to work.”

The city said it is waiting for Abbott.

“The city will be waiting until Gov. Abbott announces his plans for reopening on April 27 before considering any changes to the current declaration,” the city attorney said.

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after the curve has begun to dip down.”

The other day I walked into an essential business, and on the way in to purchase an essential 750-ml. bottle of Kraken and an essential 12-pack of Bud Light, I ran into a good buddy of mine. After bumping elbows, we chatted for a bit. I felt a little ridiculous in my homemade facemask as he stood there talking with a visible, wideopen mouth and nose like normal. I also thought maybe he was judging me a little, like maybe I wasn’t manly enough to go buy essentials without caving into the alleged fear-mongering going on (according to that one certain “news” channel). I’m still glad I wore it.

I don’t know about you, but I caught the flu a couple of years ago. I wouldn’t wish it on the worst Trump family member.

(Note: That would be Donald J.) Coughing nonstop, running a high temperature, and not being able to sleep because I was constantly trying to cough up the phlegm stuck in my throat, I was capital-M Miserable. As I waltzed into that essential business the other day, paid for my delicious essentials, and waltzed back out, I kept thinking of those days when I couldn’t clear my throat and couldn’t sleep. I don’t care how dorky I look or may be, I’m not going anywhere anymore without a facemask now. You shouldn’t either.

My social media feed has been full of friends and “friends” claiming they now have no plans on eating at Ruth’s Chris anytime soon, which is kind of like saying you’re giving up launching yourself into the sun every day. I appreciate the sentiment and feel it myself. I only hope the employees are feeling the same way. I only hope that worker bees all over the country are feeling this way, because there needs to be a reckoning for the ineptitude and ignorance that doomed us. What I’m hoping for, basically, is a $100,000 Ruth’s Chris gift card. Solidarity among worker bees is a dream as long as racism not only exists but is fueled by the devils passing themselves off as leaders today. As The Atlantic says, “Poor Americans don’t uniformly support greater government intervention on behalf of workers, and it’s not clear whether the pandemic is going to shift those hardened political fault lines. In the past few decades, many low-income whites have become allied with other whites, not with other poor people.”

The closures are coming. Make no mistake about that. Small operations all over the world are going to shut their doors for good. Maybe even us. I’m as desperate as anyone else to reignite the economy yesterday. I’m still not going to risk my life or the health of my family for it. As a formerly low-income white guy and his hard-rock band once sang, “Need a little patience. Yeeeeeeah, yeah.”

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keep practicing social distancing. What we do not need, Greg Abbott, is for businesses to reopen too soon. Last week, the governor announced a strategy to open Texas back up incrementally. Despite closing schools for the 2019-20 year, he said that state parks would reopen, hospitals would be able to perform some non-elective surgeries, and that retailers would be allowed to deliver items or offer them for pickup.

If this week goes well, Abbott said, he intends to use Monday, April 27, as the day to announce the reopening of Texas bars, bar/restaurants, and theaters with social distancing in place, which may mean they open at half-capacity and with employees in facemasks.

“If I am honest,” recently wrote Megan Henderson, director of events and communications for the urban development nonprofit Near Southside, Inc., “we are not hearing anything about our businesses being able to change anything by Friday. The governor’s new policy really doesn’t favor small business, as most of our small guys have been already conducting business via online sales (if possible for them, as not everyone can showcase their entire inventory online) and simply delivering orders or sending them via mail. Friday does not really signal a change for our community. That’s what our small businesses are reporting.”

Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price is not bullish on reopening anytime soon either.

In a TV interview recently, she did not acknowledge Abbott’s plan, instead deciding to stick to the national guidelines set forth by the current presidential administration.

One of them, a big one, includes a downward trajectory of new cases for 14 days before reopening can even be entertained.

“We know that we can meet the hospital responses, but we’re not meeting the 14 days of declining just yet,” Price said.

One way to tell if a local politician has done something right is by listening to the chorus of naysayers on the right. Most Texas conservatives were not pleased with Abbott’s executive orders. One right-winger called them “a plan to reopen an economy that should have never been closed to begin with, politicians coming up with solutions for problems they created.”

We, however, are glad that Abbott understands that COVID-19 is not the flu and that we have no vaccine for it or builtup immunity to it. Like most people who aren’t brainwashed by one certain “news” channel, he understands.

Most Americans don’t want to reopen now anyway. Nearly 60 percent of us are concerned that loosening restrictions too soon will result in a spike in COVID-19 cases and deaths, according to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Thirty-two percent are worried the restrictions will stay in place for too long while 3 percent are worried about both scenarios.

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For a competition, Hugo designed a 3D-printed gripper in his Robotics Club.

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n the corner of Dos Amigos, a six-table taqueria located in the heart of the Polytechnic Heights neighborhood, the TV is blaring Univision, but that sound is mostly drowned out by the clattering of pots, pans, and dishes, plus a steady stream of to-go orders this Saturday night before the coronavirus turned our world upside down. Inside, the walls are burnt orange, but the air is filled with the savory aromas of [frijoles], pollo, carne, arroz rojo, tripas, puerco, and other mouth-watering delights.

I’m at a table in the back, visiting with the owner’s son, Hugo Ceja, a senior at Trimble Tech High School. This March, he was ranked third in a class of more than 400 students. His GPA is 4.45. His teachers, principal, and counselors all sing the praises of this mature, well-spoken young man. He’s been a student leader, founding C.O.N.N.E.C.T., a club dealing with racism, and has been asked to speak at a national LatinX Conference in Houston.

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Hugo and his fellow C.O.N.N.E.C.T. Club members recently discussed racial slurs at Daggett Montessori Middle School.

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nationally for a Coca-Cola Scholarship, but now he is one of 251 finalists, the only student in the Fort Worth school district to be so named.

But Hugo is no son of affluent parents who could afford to send him to private schools and lavish him with tutors galore.

He is a product of Fort Worth ISD. His parents are Mexican immigrants and small business owners. Truly from humble origins, he’s had to work hard to reach his goals. In fact, his life could have turned out very differently. And he can point at the exact moment when that occurred.

In the summer of his freshman year, he enrolled in a program in Carbondale, Colorado, called HS2 (High School Squared), which, as its website explains, is “a rigorous STEM-based summer enrichment program … [for] underserved communities.” At the time, Hugo says, he was displaying “an unhealthy level of selfesteem.”

He was “very cocky,” he admits, shaking his head. “I did not listen.”

He was so overconfident, in fact, he ended up being drummed out of the program for not following instructions, but the very worst part was when he had to explain to his parents how he had failed.

The shame of that moment led him to reflect on what he had done and adjust his attitude.

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Hugo and his cousin worked on their grandmother’s grave site in El Cortijo, Guadalajara, Mexico.

how attentive the middle schoolers were.

Later he was told that C.O.N.N.E.C.T.’s presentation had produced a lot of discussions among the students, which made him feel good.

“We’re just a little older than them,” Hugo says. “They could relate [to us] in a way.”

When I ask if his group had made a difference at Trimble Tech, Hugo at first says it’s hard to know, but he adds that he thinks there’s been an improvement at lunch. It’s not quite as self-segregated as it had been his sophomore year.

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But that’s not the only club Hugo is involved in. As a self-described avid reader, Hugo began devouring what he could about climate change, including predictions of its severity by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Because of that wake-up call, Hugo reinvigorated Trimble Tech’s Green Earth Club. As described by Cynthia Jankowski, the club’s sponsor, “Hugo comes along and reforms the club and

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Hugo’s father, Dos Amigos’ owner for the past 20 years, finally gets a chance to come out to greet me. Built like a boxer, he seems a man with boundless energy.

“Is he telling you the truth?” Ceja jokes, pointing at his son, who shares his first name. We laugh.

Ceja wants to know if I want something to eat. Of course, I tell him. I’m at a Fort Worth taqueria. I’ve got to eat something. It’s mandatory.

After his father goes back to the kitchen, Hugo reveals that his change in attitude led him to become more socially conscious. Returning to Trimble Tech his sophomore year, he noticed lots of racial tension. At a campus with students from all over the world, people regularly made fun of others of different ethnic origins, he says, and during lunch, most students self-segregated, only hanging with their own kind. Hugo decided to start the C.O.N.N.E.C.T. Club to tackle racism head-on, to show that all students, regardless of where they came from, had more in common with one another than not.

Another of Hugo’s main motivations for forming C.O.N.N.E.C.T. was his father’s experience when he first came to America. While working as a dishwasher at a restaurant, Ceja shared with the owner his big dream of one day opening his own place. With a few gruff words, his boss totally annihilated him. Forget about it, the man scoffed. You’re “a wetback.”

Words, Hugo says calmly, fighting back emotion, “have meaning.”

Importantly, Hugo wanted to include in his club Trimble Tech students who also participated in Success High School, a program for over-aged and under-credited students to prepare them for graduation and college or the workforce. Many Success students are new immigrants who have had to deal with racism daily, much as Hugo’s father had to when he arrived.

At first, C.O.N.N.E.C.T. worked hard to improve racial tensions at Trimble Tech and Success, but the club also went to elementary and middle schools to discuss the scourge of racism. At the elementary level, they talked about kindness and respect. For middle schoolers, they tackled a more difficult topic: Was it right to use the N-word or other inappropriate racial epithets?

Crystal Mercer, the group’s faculty sponsor, says in an email that Hugo was “able to connect with second-grade students.” In fact, she found it “inspiring to see him connect with people of all ages.”

For Hugo’s part, he was surprised at

Hugo not only brought back recycling on campus but helped the Green Earth Club raise money for Australia after its devastating wildfires.

builds the highest membership we have had through his passion and enthusiasm for the environment.”

The club meets every Monday, discussing such topics as food waste, greenhouse gas emissions, and the climate crisis, but the organization is not just a place for soapbox discussions of these terribly important issues. The students have also acted. The club has reintroduced recycling at Trimble Tech, picking up recycling bins every Tuesday. The club has also participated in several trash cleanups in the community and raised money for Australia after its devastating wildfires.

While Hugo has led clubs featuring two of the weightiest issues of the day, being a social justice warrior is not all there is to him by a longshot. He describes himself as a budding entrepreneur, identifying Tesla founder Elon Musk and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban as his personal heroes.

Taking no backseat to them, a list of Hugo’s entrepreneurial endeavors is enough to make your head spin. Some years back, he came up with the idea of making and selling arroz con leche (rice pudding). Every night, he would whip up a batch and put it in cups. The next day, he’d schlep them to school in a cooler and sell them, but that’s not all. When he came home, he hawked them door-to-door throughout his neighborhood, facing the problem since time immemorial of doors being slammed in his face. But with his neighborhood being mostly Hispanic, his perseverance paid off, and many neighbors began to look forward to buying their desserts from Hugo.

During his junior year, he was also part of a team selling fuzzy socks, a project for his entrepreneurial class. One person in his group quit, Hugo says, because she thought their goal of selling 500 fuzzy socks was totally unrealistic, but with a lot of hustle, Hugo and his friend proved her wrong.

Currently, he has a startup cellphone repair business, replacing screens and doing other minor repairs. Over the past two and a half years, his work has grown by word of mouth, passing out business cards, and with the help of Snapchat. Normally, he fixes two to three phones a week, he says. Understand that he does that at the same time he is burdened with tons of homework, participates in two clubs, and works regularly at his dad’s taqueria.

But Hugo’s get-up-and-go is nothing new. It’s been part of his makeup for years. Since he was 8 years old, he has worked at his dad’s restaurant. At first, his father didn’t make him do the most “gruesome” work, as Hugo describes it, but over the years, he’s done a little bit of everything: bused tables, performed minor maintenance, worked the register, cooked, washed dishes.

Hugo’s work ethic was also honed by summers in El Cortijo, Guadalajara, a small village that is his family’s ancestral home.

There he didn’t spend long, lazy summers working on his tan at some all-inclusive resort. He spent one summer working on a raised-cement masonry burial plot for his grandmother. In Mexico, he explains, burials are different from here. You have to buy the plot, but the families are

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responsible for constructing the grave site.

It was hard work under the unrelenting Mexican sol with many hours of mixing cement and digging holes. Undaunted, the next summer he again worked with cement, this time making an irrigation canal. But Hugo being Hugo, long days digging in the heat wasn’t enough. He also had a side-business, going door-to-door installing older video games on televisions.

He counts himself lucky to have had those formative experiences.

Like many of his generation, he lights up when talking about programming, robotics, and AI. Last year, he designed a gripper for his robotics team by downloading free software for designing robotic parts. In the end, the team didn’t use that particular part, but the process taught him a lot, he says.

“I grew fascinated by the various ways I could assemble and disassemble parts,” he says. “Through trial and error … I

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From his father, Hugo has learned more than how to run a restaurant. He’s learned lessons in life. One of his dad’s most important lessons was to never put down manual labor, like sweeping floors.

Besides that dose of humility, Hugo has learned the hard way to get the orders right. When he got them wrong, his dad punished him by making him do his least favorite job: washing dishes.

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After sending his parents on a dream vacation with money he earned, Hugo ran his dad’s taqueria, Dos Amigos.

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learned how to add the features I looked for and piece together the dimensions for the gripper. It struck me as … beautiful that I could bring this gripper to life in a matter of hours with the 3D printer in my local library.”

But Hugo’s love of his family takes top priority. For example, his mother and father had for years dreamed of going to Las Vegas. One day, Hugo heard his mother dismiss it as just one of those impossible dreams we all have. Hearing his mom say that really irritated Hugo.

He hates hearing anyone say something is impossible, so he decided to do something

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about it. He raised enough money through his various entrepreneurial endeavors to send his parents on their dream vacation.

While they were gone, he ran his dad’s taqueria.

It was hard work, he admits. He had to deal with all of the things that smallbusiness people deal with every day, from customer complaints to employee dissatisfaction, but he managed to do it without calling his dad for help, even once, he says. And his mom and dad? Their dream vacation turned out to be all they’d hoped for. In Vegas, they had the time of their lives, strolling arm and arm and

soaking up the local color.

As our talk winds down, I ask the young man: What do you see yourself doing in the future? Hugo explains that someday he wants to open a company in AI that will make more dexterous robotic appendages.

Here again, his parents figure prominently in his thoughts. Over the years, he’s noticed how tired and sore they are after a long day’s work. Robots at home would help them to be able to pursue their own interests in the evening. His dad, Hugo tells

me, has always loved art, while his mom has an interest in psychology, but neither can pursue these activities because work trumps everything and even after work they’re both too worn out. But whatever Hugo ends up doing, he hopes to continue to be very vocal about environmental issues and racial equality.

I wish the young man luck, and we fist bump on one of those last halcyon nights when restaurants and bars were still crowded. Then I receive my to-go order, a gigantic carne asada burrito. And when I get home, I treat myself to an icecold cerveza negra and one muy sabroso burrito that no way in the world could my girlfriend and I ever finish at one sitting.

A postscript: First, the good news. A week after I talked to Hugo, he learned he was one of 150 students throughout the country named a Coca-Cola Scholar, which gifted him $20,000 for college, a great and well-deserved honor. Also, he was accepted

by Georgia Tech University in Atlanta and Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, so now he has to decide between them and the University of Texas in Austin that had already accepted him with a scholarship.

The not-so-bad news: The LatinX Conference has been delayed until October. At this time, it’s unclear if Hugo will be able to attend.

Now for the bad news. A few weeks after we talked, I learned that Hugo was self-quarantining. He had flu-like symptoms. He felt achy and weak. A doctor tested him for a number of different diseases, but not one came up positive. And because he was not over the age of 60 and had no underlying health conditions, the doctor would not test him for COVID-19.

And his dad had to shut down, at least temporarily, Dos Amigos.

I felt terrible for Hugo and his family, but, at the same time, my thoughts inched in a more selfish direction. How long had it been since I’d interviewed Hugo? I quickly checked my calendar. More than two weeks. I could stop my deep breathing.

A week later, I texted Hugo to find out how he was doing. When I got his text, I was almost too scared to check, but it turned out to be all good. He was feeling much better. And, Hugo being Hugo, he’d organized a fundraiser to donate N95 masks to hospitals, even feeling well enough to hit me up for a donation. l Fort Worth writer Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue retired from teaching at Carter-Riverside High School in 2013.

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Of the major games releasing in this time of self-isolation from the relaxed guitar background music to the kindness of and quarantine, few could be as timely as Animal Crossing: your fellow islanders, the Switch’s graphical prowess making New Horizons. The latest entry in Nintendo’s relaxing the animals fuzzier, the breeze gentler, and the vibe just even life-simulation series has all the laid-back gameplay more relaxing.

What’s new to the series is that, instead of moving to an people know and love while also bringing in much-needed already established town, you and two random animals start tweaks and additions.

New Horizons, like all Animal Crossing games, has on a deserted island. There are no houses and no shops, just you making an unassuming avatar and moving to a town roughing it in a tent or as rough as it gets in Animal Crossing. full of cute talking animals. There’s no world to save, just You can’t starve or freeze to death or anything, leaving you to collect sticks, stones, and other materials to a life to live, each day providing new things Animal Crossing: craft tools like the shovels, axes, and fishing to do as the in-game clock counts forward in New Horizons rods needed to turn your island from a weedreal time, sunup to sundown. As in older titles, Available for Nintendo infested plot into a thriving village. In some you’re free to wander your town, befriending Switch ways, it feels like adding depth to the game by your furry and scaly neighbors and pursuing Genre: Casual/Life Simulation putting your starting point further back than in pastimes like catching bugs, collecting fossils Rated E previous entries. However, with crafting comes for the museum, and buying things to furnish customization, and being able to make your your home with while also paying back local business owner and Realtor raccoon Tom Nook for your move own home furnishings and paint them adds a deeper level by selling things like fish you catch or seashells you pick off of personalization. This goes even further, as you can now the beach. Even after all these years, it’s still adorably chill, place furniture outside, allowing you to decorate the yard in

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In 2003, my friend Dan and I explored Southeast Asia. The SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic was winding down, but, in the last few months, a new strain had emerged, characterized by fever, diarrhea, respiratory duress, and a high fatality rate. Several folks in remote Cambodian villages had succumbed to the affliction, perishing in fits of coughing, choking, and delirium.

Locals were sacrificing pigs and chickens and standing up straw effigies to ward off evil spirits.

In Thailand, SARS was never mentioned. We never even saw anyone in surgical masks. We didn’t realize it was still lingering in the region until we attempted to enter

Cambodia. At the Poi Pet crossing station, we flashed our passports and began the visa application process. We were the only visitors in the facility.

After we paid for our visas, we were accosted by three young machine gun-wielding representatives of a Cambodian militia. In broken English, the shortest one explained that, due to the SARS outbreak, we would be required to submit to a supervised quarantine. If we coughed or sneezed or exhibited any symptoms of pneumonic complication, we would be held pending further medical examination or turned away outright.

Dan looked at me and shrugged.

The quarantine staging area was simply 20 grimy, plastic lawn chairs tucked under a tarp behind the station.

We dropped our backpacks and grabbed a couple of seats.

Two silent machine gun-wielding teenagers monitored our condition.

For the duration of the quarantine, Dan and I tried to remain solemn. Dan flashed hints of a smile a few times, and we both tried not to laugh. It can be exceedingly dangerous to scoff crude customs you encounter in the Third World. Especially when your immediate point of contact has a machine gun.

On the Cambodian side of the border lay typhoid, hepatitis, encephalitis, malaria, and six million land mines. It seemed ironic that the Cambodians might be concerned about two doughy Yanks bringing anything

front of your home, as well as select where buildings like the museum go when they’re available. Later on, you’re even able to change the island’s layout, moving rivers and raising or lowering land.

There are smaller quality-of-life changes as well.

Character creation is simpler, and the game gives you a large storage space when you get a house and the ability to more easily rearrange furniture in it. But the best addition may be the new multiplayer mode. Not only does it give you the ability to visit other towns, but now you and other gamers living in your town can play local couch co-op, allowing you to run around, craft things, find fossils, and reduce debt at the same time, which is perfect for friends and families stuck inside.

It’s unlikely to change the minds of those who see its low stakes and casual nature as a bore, and it has some drawbacks –– only one village is allowed not per game cartridge but per Switch console. But New Horizons refines the already great Animal Crossing formula and, perhaps most relevantly, provides a refreshing simulation of going outside with friends. l dangerous into their country, but the Vietnam War wasn’t that long ago — I’m surprised they let us in at all.

When our 20 minutes were up and we had neither coughed nor sneezed or even cleared our throats, the shortest soldier returned and smiled.

“Welcome to Cambodia,” he said.

I think about the experience a lot these days. Our president’s messaging regarding COVID-19, a cousin of SARS, seems politically skewed and opinion polldriven. Our governor’s efforts to “cure” abortion during this pandemic are nakedly partisan and evil, even for him. And some of our neighbors are beating up AsianAmericans, conscientiously stressing social distancing while they know immigrants are still crowded together into prisons on our border with no conscience whatsoever, and averting their gazes as our sons and daughters in the Navy see captains punished for simply having conscience and conviction. The primitivism Dan and I encountered at Poi Pet that day may have been laughable, but at least it was honest — which is more than I can say for what’s passing for leadership in the United States today.

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Conducting Greatness This season finds soonto-be-former FWSO music director Miguel Harth-Bedoya working as hard as ever.

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After returning to the States from an overseas conducting engagement in mid-March, Miguel Harth-Bedoya remembered being shocked that U.S. airports were not testing offboarding passengers for symptoms of COVID-19.

After spending the better part of a day in a cramped airplane, the music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra promptly self-quarantined in the bedroom of his Fort Worth home.

Eight days later and showing no symptoms, he slowly resumed what has become his current homebound routine of leading livestreamed conducting webinars and helping our city’s resident orchestra launch its new online community engagement program, The Music Lab. Were it not for the pandemic, the end of Harth-Bedoya’s 20-year tenure with

I launched free webinars. My goodness, hundreds of people are stranded and wanting to chat about stuff. Today, I’m talking about programming from the music director’s point of view. It’s one day at a time, and I’m glad that I can be of help.

These programs are part of my [Summer Orchestral Conducting Institute]. I will have a few guests, including [virtuoso violinist] Augustin Hadelich. We were able to make a donation fund from the free webinars. We raised nearly $2,000 for scholarships through $5 donations.

Has the shelter-in-place situation changed your thoughts on programming your Conducting Institute?

Now, the institute will no longer just be a summer program. We can offer online opportunities and satellite versions of what we do during the summer so people don’t have to travel.

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Half of our administration is working on applying for the federal relief package while the other half is working on The Music Lab. The last weeks have been quite intense. Our CEO, Keith Cerny, has been remarkable.

Are there still plans to hold Concerts in the Garden?

Everyone is waiting to see what happens.

Those concerts [necessarily] have to do with the gathering of people. We all are waiting to see what the city’s recommendation will be. At the moment, it is going to happen.

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the FWSO would have been marked with a crescendo of live performances with the orchestra that has gained a worldclass reputation under his baton. His newest venture, the Summer Orchestral Conducting Institute, is led by several faculty members (of which I am one) who gather each summer to teach emerging conductors the wide range of skills that are needed to lead orchestras and large ensembles.

During a recent online interview, Harth-Bedoya didn’t lament what could have been. The conductor and educator was eager to talk about Fort Worth’s cultural future.

Harth-Bedoya: “This may sound shocking, but I think the biggest challenge is watching YouTube instead of studying music and watching conductors in real settings.”

How are the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra musicians doing?

What I am hearing is that everybody is healthy. I don’t want to intrude as they adjust. It’s not that they have nothing to do. We are going to organize an online rehearsal without rehearsing. We have never done an online meeting before.

Hopefully, that will happen soon.

What is FWSO doing at the moment?

We are doing programs with schools, the young artist competition, and podcasts of recent performances. One program is called Happy Hour with Miguel. I’ll give a Facebook Live talk for amateur music lovers. People can ask me questions.

Talk about your transition from FWSO music director to professor and Conducting Institute director.

I’m ending two tenures, one with [FWSO] and a seven-year position with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. I had a feeling that it would be best to have a clean start. It was a gamble, but if I free myself up, there is room to accommodate something new. I wasn’t contemplating a full-time position that would make us move. The kids want to finish school here.

Now, I will be focusing on guest engagements and a faculty position [as director of Orchestral Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha]. It was providential. I will teach two semesters and will continue my guest engagements.

People think I travel more than I do. I currently travel about one week a month.

Those continuing engagements are important. Having a foot out in the field is important for educating our students.

One highlight of the University of Nebraska is they are interested in an undergraduate [program] in conducting.

[Undergraduate conducting programs]

What were your earliest learning moments as a conductor?

It is a gateway. We are not trying to teach everything in three weeks. A gateway is the first step, a door you can knock on to see what conducting is about. All of the students are at the same level. There are classes, and I work with them individually.

I would never call these masterclasses.

This is not a one-time thing. Next year will be four weeks, which allows just enough time to show progress or to help someone who is stuck.

What challenges do young conductors face?

This may sound shocking, but I think the biggest challenge is watching YouTube instead of studying music and watching

I did my undergrad at the Curtis Institute of Music and my master’s at the Julliard School. My first job was as music director of the New York Youth Symphony. We would rehearse once a week. I also became an assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic. In four years, I conducted twice. [Conductor] Kurt Masur said, “Your main job is to continue learning.” At first, I didn’t get the point. Looking back, my goodness, I saw so many rehearsals. I would say that that part is missing with young conductors today.

This story is not well known. I conducted all kinds of groups during that time. I conducted an all-girl high school orchestra when I was a student [at Curtis]

What about the last 20 years with the FWSO are you most proud of?

You might expect me to say it’s how the orchestra sounds. Well, that’s the result of the answer. The answer is having created an integrated workplace for music-making.

That takes time. There is satisfaction that comes from intense work and heavy work. If you make [working in an orchestra] the place you want to go to and work every day, then the orchestra sounds better. It doesn’t sound better because I tell them or order them.

My job was to motivate every human being in the orchestras who happens to have an instrument. People say I am hiring musicians. No, it’s a person who has a life and a family. You want that person to want to come make music with their chosen instrument. That takes time. If that works, the orchestra will play well and its members will do anything to play better. l To follow the FWSO’s new online events, visit Fwsymphony.org/in-thecommunity. More information about the Conducting Institute is available at Conductinginstitute.com.

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in Philadelphia. I would start at 7:30 a.m.

You had to do miracles. You could have one oboe and 10 saxophones, and you had to make music with that. Many of the young generations think [that kind of work is] not glamorous enough.

You know the first thing I conducted in my life? Many people think it was an orchestra. It wasn’t. I helped my mom, who is a freelance musician, with music for weddings, ceremonies, graduations, anything. It could be organ with a choir.

It was a single-mom household. I would carry music stands when I was a teenager.

One day, we had two bookings at one time. I was 16, so a member of the choir drove me. I was conducting 10 people at weddings. Those were my first conducting engagements. I learned that if you can have people react to you, then you are conducting somebody. If you are only waving your hands, nobody is conducting because they are not paying attention.

There is very little credit given to those kinds of opportunities, from a leadership point of view, these days. People would look down and say they are above that.

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conductors in real settings. There is way too much passive information available. It’s a problem. Also, if a young conductor does not know the repertoire by graduation, they are already left behind.

Conductors are on the front lines. It’s a very unforgiving profession.

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The workload is Monday through Thursday. I’ll probably be home here more than before in a certain way. I haven’t had free weekends for 20 years. It’s exciting.

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been open for a mere couple of months, dining companions, a student at a local and they’re still selling food to go as of culinary arts high school, floored me this writing, even though the dining by telling me she could process a whole room, with its fairly comfy dozen tables, raw chicken and casually discussed her favorite ways to prepare fowl. She was is closed.

My dining companions and I met interested in the quail, which turned out up just before opening time the week to be an adorable piece of poultry the size before all local restaurants were closed of my hand. Still, we thought the bird was for dine-in. There was a good bit of social smoked beautifully, seasoned well with distancing in the line outside (fewer than some citrusy-pepper spice, and it wasn’t the least bit dry. a dozen folks), but there You can order fatty was a steady stream of or lean brisket here, humanity rolling in Hurtado Barbecue and the lean version is between opening time Brisket, barbacoa, smoked turkey, all priced by the pound surprisingly moist and and when we left at ribs Smoked quail..........................$5.50 flavorful. Both cuts have nearly 1 p.m.

Sausage...................................$4.50 the obligatory cherryLet’s start with pink smoke ring but are what’s different here than at any other barbecue place. not overly smoky. The real test of lean Brandon doesn’t keep secrets, and when brisket is how well it holds up as leftovers, I asked about the barbacoa, thinking it and Hurtado’s did not disappoint. No Hurtado Barbecue, 205 E Front St, Arlington. was some kind of secret family recipe, he dry meat here, even after a day in the 682-323-5141. Accepting online orders only laughed. The secret is Big Red. The beef refrigerator. The restaurant also offers a at Hurtadobbq.com. All major credit cards cheek is smoked and then braised in the sweetly spicy mustard sauce and an even accepted. classic Southern tooth-rotting beverage sweeter, tangy ’cue sauce. The spicy zing until done. The result: The soft/crunchy of the barbecue version was damped by B Y L A U R I E J A M E S meat is sweet and slightly addictive, the almost Kansas-style sweetness. But At this point, it’s distinctly un-Texan not and it works well stuffed into a tortilla. that’s a matter of preference. Neither the to like, or at least root for, the backyard Unfortunately, Hurtado has only flour lean nor the fatty brisket actually needed ’cue guys who started selling food outside tortillas. The barbacoa makes up for the a lick of sauce.

Neither did the smoked turkey, breweries and then in food trucks. fact that burnt ends aren’t routinely on although the bird did pair well with Brandon Hurtado joins that list with the menu.

While waiting in line, one of my the mustard sauce. Again, the meat Hurtado Barbecue. The restaurant has was slightly smoky without being overwhelming and delicately moist. The house-made sausage, stuffed with gooey cheese, was a pure delight, with a kiss of spice and a satisfying pop when you bit into it.

There are two other unique dishes on the menu: brisket elotes and spicy coleslaw. I had high hopes for the elotes, but it was essentially warmed (not grilled) corn with the crema and cheese on top.

However, the heaping helping of brisket on top tasted just fine. The devilishly spicy slaw with pickled onions was on point, especially as a chaser with the fattier brisket or sausage.

The pork ribs were as good as anywhere else, with the meat sliding off the bone. Hurtado also serves beef ribs but only on weekends. The Hatch chile mac ’n’ cheese was the only disappointment ­­–– the thick, gooey cheese covering slightly overcooked macaroni wasn’t that spicy.

When Hurtado was selling by Arlington’s Legal Draft brewery, I circled the line a couple of times but never managed to try the food. Hurtado seemed to sell out of everything but the pork.

With the new restaurant, those sold-out signs are becoming scarcer. And while –– or if –– you can, it’d be nice to support the Hurtado Barbecue is accepting online orders only. Check the infobox above for details. new ’cue guy on the block. l

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Way back in 2020 B.C. –– Before Coronavirus –– working musicians weren’t prone to livestreaming performances.

Live shows in packed clubs were their livelihood. Giving away the goods online made little sense. Artists didn’t want fans sitting at home watching a screen. The entertainers wanted boots on the ground, butts on barstools, and warm bodies on the dance floors applauding, creating a vibe, guzzling drinks, tossing bills in tip jars, and buying CDs and T-shirts.

In March, COVID-19 changed all that.

The bars and music venues are shuttered.

Events are scrapped. livestreaming is the best way to reach fans, and musicians are

HearSay New Music Is Good for the Brain One upshot of the lockdown has been new music. Not “new” music like Xina Xurner or Sun Ship-era Coltrane –– I’m too stressed out for that –– but familiar music I haven’t heard before.

Perhaps you’re in the same, um, ship.

It’s all credit to streaming. We’ve written about all of the local livestreams until you may want to livestream yourself in the face with a plastic butter knife. There’s lots of good, juicy, new local tuneage in them.

There’s also a ton on streaming services.

For them, business is booming. Spending on Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, and other streaming services is up 20% compared to this time last year, according to Earnest Research. This portion is much

smaller than the ones for video streaming and, at the top, video games, but it is still Trump’s-ego-sized impressive.

Clearly, lockdown’s novelty is wearing off. Many of us are demanding new, familiar tunes. You can light candles in the dark and listen to “The End” naked only so many times before it starts to press down on you like the grimy heel of The Establishment’s boot. What we are desperate for is something like “The End” but not “The End.” This is science talking.

Our brains are hard-wired to desire familiar music, according to the research in a recent Pitchfork article, and listening to unfamiliar music is kind of a chore.

Familiar music can cruise down well-trod pathways in the brain while unfamiliar music has to chart its own territory. The plasticity of the brain is key.

“When a specific sound maps onto a pattern,” Pitchfork’s Jeremy D. Larson writes, “our brain releases

Blake Parish (right), shown with accompanist Kris Luther: “People have really gone above and beyond to help us out.”

hearts and blue thumbs spiraling across the screen.

Lea’s first livestream was part of MASS’ Social Distancing Concert Series, which has featured Sam Anderson (Quaker City Night Hawks), The Unlikely Candidates, Cut Throat Finches, Cameron Smith, Cory Cross, and many other local artists. The MASS owners approached Lea early on about doing a show.

“I agreed to play after hearing from so many people on social media that it would provide some relief in the midst of this ongoing catastrophe,” Lea said.

a corresponding amount of dopamine, the main chemical source of some of our most intense emotions. This is the essential reason why music triggers such powerful emotional reactions and why, as an artform, it is so inextricably tied to our emotional responses.”

Dopamine is not a reward in itself.

Recent research has shown that it’s actually a cousin to our motivation to seek rewards. We are clearly seeking out new yet familiar music on Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora. And I am clearly telling you to seek out new music on your internet machines. New local music.

Former Woodeye frontman Carey Wolff has released “Long Damn Day,” a crackling, slow-burning, minimalist mod-rock track that’s hyper-cinematic and driving. And rootsy. (Eff you, dude.)

(Love you.) There’s also a new EP by Son Volt-y singer-songwriter Jacob Furr.

Playing to empty tables and chairs was “bizarre but not necessarily in a bad way,” he said. “It doesn’t in any way, shape, or form replace having a live audience with a pulse, who you feed off of and collectively create a physical live experience. Like everything else, it’s got its pros and cons.”

Among the pros is wider audience appeal. Some local artists are lucky to draw 50 people to a live show. MASS’ livestreams are drawing thousands of viewers. Ending livestreams once the clubs reopen makes little sense now, Lea said.

“Streaming is not brand new, but with

Return is five tracks of gritty, bristling Americana full of crunchy guitarwork, pounding beats, and Furr’s trademark lyric emotiveness. And at 3pm Saturday at Panther City Vinyl, The Bong Hits are celebrating the release of their debut album. This is for real. The Facebook invite says nothing about live streams or anything, just that the band is, well, celebrating a release. Have not heard of them but am digging their listed influences: “Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Sweet, Jeff Beck, ZZ Stop,” that’s what it says, “UFO, Tom Petty, Paul Westerberg, Cheap Trick.” What is not in doubt is that The Bong Hits –– frontman Jeff Satterly, virtuoso guitarist Darrin Kobetich, drummer Mike Ratiff, and bassist Brady Stephens –– are legit. Can’t wait to go.

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flooding social media with impromptu videos.

“It’s actually been a fun and different way to connect with people,” said Kris Williams of Danni & Kris. “It’s been a great way for people who live in other states to watch us, who normally wouldn’t be able to. The feedback has been positive, and we’re getting more requests, engagement, and merch sales.”

The indiepop duo has livestreamed several shows from home in recent weeks, usually on Wednesday evenings.

Tips come in via online payments. The money doesn’t match what the band was earning at club dates, but the duo had few expectations since the pandemic had created financial hardships for so many people. Danni & Kris just want to remain linked to everyone.

“We aren’t sure what the future looks like for live performances, so we’re still planning to livestream even after things are opened back up,” Williams said.

Hearing Brandin Lea play a show in years past meant bellying up to a sticky bar, doing shots with friends, and dripping sweat –– and maybe blood –– by night’s end. You know –– rock ’n’ roll. Lea, a songwriter, producer, and sound engineer, has been one of North Texas’ most celebrated rockers since his former band, Flickerstick, won VH1’s Bands on the Run and was signed by Epic Records almost 20 years ago.

By contrast, Lea’s recent shows are formatted like everyone else’s these days –– sets performed in empty rooms. Viewers don’t touch or breathe the same air but chat with one another in real-time in the comments section and send little red

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the rules being so drastically changed … there will be no choice but to embrace that streaming will be very much a part of the future of live music,” he said.

MASS’ livestreams began immediately after the lockdown and quickly became the go-to place for online local concerts.

MASS co-owners Ryan Higgs and Jon Carney already had the technology in place because they are also co-owners of the Fort Worth Vaqueros soccer club.

Carney provides commentary for their livestreamed games.

“It was pretty easy for us to do this,” Higgs said. “We saw the writing on the wall that [clubs] were going to be closed.”

Smith began his show mid-afternoon with little advance publicity. Venmo and PayPal addresses were included onscreen.

Tips are divided between the artist, sound engineer, and bar owners. Smith’s show attracted 3,400 views and banked an impressive number of tips, Higgs said.

“We immediately saw the viability,” he said. “It was kind of astonishing.”

Ryker Hall, Katie Robertson, Anderson, The Unlikely Candidates, and Lea followed on consecutive nights, and the number of views kept growing. Online traffic on MASS’ Facebook page increased by several hundred percent, Higgs said.

The numbers have fallen in April.

Many artists are livestreaming shows from their homes, and Facebook has become saturated with them. MASS cut its webcasts back to Fridays and Saturdays, although Higgs realizes that livestreaming will remain as part of the post-pandemic business model in some manner.

Blake Parish, frontman for the hard rocking Royal Sons, has been livestreaming “quarantine jams” with accompanist Kris Luther and seems to be having as much rowdy fun as he does during bar gigs. The whiskey flows, the guys become animated, and the music rocks –– to a degree.

“I don’t feel quite as satisfied as getting to play a gig in front of people, but getting to scratch the itch and forget about this stuff for a little while is probably the best part,” Parish said. “The money has been pretty decent. All the donations, big and small, mean a great deal to me. People have really gone above and beyond to help us out.”

He sees more livestreams in his future.

“This has opened my eyes to new possibilities,” Parish said. “Maybe virtual tipping is the new way to do things or at least in addition to what we already do.

Streaming is a great way for people to feel like they are a part of something even when they can’t make it in person.”

On March 20, James Talambas debuted LOOM (Live Online Open Mic) on his Facebook page. The musician and music producer at New Media Recordings

has continued livestreaming the open-mic every evening since.

“We’ve had videos of live performances, but what makes this particular moment special –– and what I try to bring to LOOM –– is a direct personal engagement with an artist, the ability to share in that moment with others in real time, and seeing an artist in a more natural and intimate setting than you could have at a bar or venue,” he said.

Talambas has hosted more than twodozen shows, with some artists receiving more tips online than they might have received during live shows, he said.

Booking guests for a daily webcast is labor intensive, he said, but he plans to continue them post-quarantine.

“Our format enables more access for artists to directly reach a wider audience, have a deeper connection with their audience, and make money immediately and without overhead,” he said.

Keegan McInroe has been livestreaming via Facebook on a daily basis for weeks and doing virtual song swaps on Instagram. He jams with American artists at 7 p.m. on Mondays and European artists at 1 p.m. on Thursdays. Tips are welcome, but McInroe views the events as therapy for himself and his locked-down listeners.

“My intention and hope is to be a calming, positive resource for those who choose to tap in, to love on people, and to provide a small source of virtual community and fellowship on a daily basis,” he said.

The pandemic forced him to cancel all of his live gigs in Texas for the near future, and he nixed an upcoming European tour as well.

“Financially, I have taken a pretty good hit,” he said. “Fortunately from years of professional hobo-ing, I have my overhead down to almost nothing. I am used to living on very little when needed.

Despite the drop in income, I have found the online shows rewarding, though I am certainly looking forward to getting back to the in-person experience.”

He will continue livestreaming once he resumes his club dates, although with less frequency. The videos, he said, are another way to stay in touch with friends and fans and [to] market new material.

“I had actually been thinking about doing more online shows before all this started,” McInroe said. “I had already ordered an HD camera for my computer.

I would have probably gotten a nicer one had I known it would be getting so much use. And I was thinking of maybe a monthly online thing, so this has been a great learning experience for that.” l

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From coffee to crowlers, here’s where you can quench your thirst.

5 AM Drip Coffee Roasters 1201 Evans Ave #101, FWTX SquareUp.com/Store/5am-drip-dallas-fort-worth-texas Online ordering and curbside pickup for coffee and plant-based foods.

Ampersand Coffee 3009 Bledsoe St, FWTX, 682-707-9626 3025 S. University Dr, FWTX, 817-965-6565 www.AmpersandTX.com Currently offering Curbside & To-Go Drink Orders.

Feel free to call ahead for faster Pick-Up. The Bearded Lady 300 S. Main St, FWTX, 817-349-9832 Online at Bit.ly/FWBeardedLady Contactless To-Go Orders Now Available. Order online at www.thebeardedladyfw.squarespace.com or call us at 817-349-9832. Credit card payments over the phone or online only. No cash. No pens.

Chimy’s 1053 Foch St, FWTX, 817-348-8888 www.Chimys.com Margarita delivery available. Now offering familysized fajita packs. Available for 4, 8, or 12 at $12 per person. For to-go procedures and delivery instructions (2pm-5pm only), please visit Chimys. com.

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Cowtown Brewing 1301 E Belknap, FWTC, 817 489-5800 www.CowtownBrewco.com Curbside Pickup Available. “Please support your local Breweries by purchasing Beer to go.” -Shawn Kidwell - Cowtown Brewing Co.

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Crude Craft Coffee Bar 804 S. Main St #120, FWTX, 682-224-5541 www.CrudeCoffeeBar.com We’re still here to serve you via Call In orders, To-Go, or our online menu! Tough times call for Caffeine!

Division Brewing 506 E Main, Arlington TX Facebook.com/DivisionBrewing Curbside Sales are available every day Noon - 8PM. Beer is flowing and coolers are stocked. Check our FaceBook page for our menu.

HopFusion Ale Works Facebook.com/HopFusion Live From The Hop Music Series will be streaming LIVE from HopFusion Ale Works every Wednesday until the New Normal. We present bands you’ve come to know and love here @ The Hop. Each band will choose the charity of it’s choice for the performance with ALL proceeds donated directly from HopFusion after the show. Their charity of choice will be announced prior to the Facebook Live Event. (WEDNESDAY, 4/22 @ 8PM - we feature a band near and dear to us, Tom Fleischer of Big T & The Totalers.)

Kent & Co Wine Bar 1101 W Magnolia, FWTX, 817-454-6966 Facebook.com/KCOWines KC0 has Drive Through or Delivery available. Just call or text our Dedicated Wine Line. Text when you arrive and we’ll bring it to you car. Watch for Specials on

Facebook.com/KCOWines. View our Full Wine Menu at bit.ly/kcowines.

Jakes Burgers and Beer 8 DFW Locations Including: 515 Main St, FWTX, 817-332-5253 www.JakesBurgersAndBeer.com Serving Curbside and Delivery in all 8 DFW locations.

We have family meal packs, beer, wine and cocktail kits to go. Thank you so much for supporting locally owned business!

Legal Draft Beer Co. 500 E Division, Arlington TX, 817-962-2210 www.LegalDraftBeer.com We’ve heard you asking whether we’re going to sell beer to go, and the answer is YESSS!! Details on our website.

Locust Cider & Brewing Co. 701 S Main, FWTX LocustCider.com/TapRooms/Fort-Worth Currently offering TO GO from Wednesday to Sunday, Noon to 8pm. TO GO includes growlers, grunts, and six packs of hard cider as well as gift cards and merchandise. We are also offering online ordering (https://squareup.com/store/locust-cider-fort-worth) for pick up in our taproom or curbside.

The Post At River East 2925 Race St, FWTX, 817-945-8890 www.ThePostAtRiverEast.com Our cocktail delivery menu has arrived! These 32 oz carafes of house made cocktails will yield roughly 6 drinks when poured over ice, and you can get them delivered to your door for only $20! We will also be offering a daily rotating $4 takeout meal. $20 family size portions available with an hour or more notice.

Full Menu, including Cocktails, Beer, and Wine is available for Take-Out or Delivery. Call to order.

Roots Coffeehouse 400 Bryan Ave #101, FWTX, 817-349-8059 9101 Blvd 26 #101, NRH TX, 817-503-7344 www.Facebook.com/RootsCoffeehouse Open reduced hours for Take Out and Curbside Pick Up. Find our hours by visiting our social media channels @rootscoffeehouse. Our order ahead / curbside pick-up link is https://rootscoffeehouse. square.site/ Southside Cellar 125 S. Main St, FWTX, 682-703-2184 www.SouthsideBeerCellar.com Our retail space is fully stocked and ready for you to run in and grab a few brews. Tap Wall available for to-go Growlers or Crowlers. Plus, Gift Cards which will come in handy once all of this blows over!

Tommy’s Burgers + Brew 1736 Mall Circle, FWTX, 817-759-9088 www.TommysHambergerGrill.net Serving our regular menu To Go. Curbside available for Pick Up Orders. FREE beer with your order! We also deliver with FAVOR. Hours are 1030am to 8pm.

Call to order. Follow us on Facebook for updates.

Winslow’s Wine Café 4104 Camp Bowie, FWTX, 817-546-6843 www.WinslowsWineCafe.com We are OPEN and will proudly offer Curbside To-Go. Give us a call and let us know how we can be of service.

Yucatan Taco Stand 909 W Magnolia Ave, FWTX, 682-385-9395 Facebook.com/YucatanMagnolia The NEW Yucatan has arrived. We are now open for To-Go food and alcoholic beverages. Please call (682) 385-9395 for curbside pick up orders.

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Wag Canine Emporium 4737 Camp Bowie, FWTX, 817877-4924(iwag) www.WagForDogs.com Now offering curbside pickup, online ordering, and will accommodate private shopping hours. We are here for the dogs of Fort Worth and their humans. Follow us on social media @WagForDogs.

FITNESS & BEAUTY The Bar Method 5277 Monahans FWTX www.BarMethod.com Bar Method Fort Worth is providing your favorite barre exercise from the comfort of your own home! Our instructors are teaching live stream classes 7 days a week on our live stream instagram account @ barmethodftwlivestream. Not a member of our studio? Not a problem! Purchase our Virtual Access Package for granted access to our live stream classes AND 30 days of Bar Online.

Madison Reed Color Bar 3000 S Hulen St #156, FWTX www.Madison-Reed.com Our Color Bars are temporarily closed during this time. But don’t worry...the hair color we use in our Color Bar is the exact same salon-quality color we sell online, delivered to your door. If this is the first time ordering online, we will send you a box and ship it to you free!

Miss Botox Fort Worth 1327 Hemphill, FWTX, 817528-9899 MissBotoxFortWorth.com During the covid crisis, we are

Stockyards Salon & Spa 112 NW 24th #116, FWTX, 817-965-8107 No need to show roots!

Custom Hair Color kits made just for you. Delivered for free to your door (in Fort Worth).

Our Color experts will create your Custom Kit after a phone consultation. Pamper yourself by adding Professional Hair care and Skin care products to your basket. Shampoo, Conditioners and even Moisturizing Face Masks.

Urban Yoga 1706 8th Ave, FWTX, 817-908-3569 www.UrbanYogaFW.com Urban Yoga is bringing the community Facebook Live classes and / or YouTube video and a streaming service via Zoom / Mind Body. For the latest updates, follow us on Facebook or subscribe to our newsletter by emailing InfoUrbanYoga@gmail.com HEALTH & WELLNESS Mothers Milk Bank of North Texas www.TexasMilkBank.org We are currently experiencing an increased need for donor milk in North Texas NICn Us. For important COVID-19 information related to breastfeeding and milk bank safety, click the link on our home page at www. texasmilkbank.org.

Fort Worth Dental Arts 2421 W. 7th St, FWTX www.FortWorthDentalArts.com We are creating a safe space for our patients by seeing one patient at a time and sanitizing every surface, as always! Dr. Hoyt is here for our patients and any dental emergencies that arise. Stay Strong Fort Worth.

MIND/BODY/SPIRIT Gateway Church Church time is the BEST time!

Join us for online church each weekend. Online services start at 4 pm (CT) on Saturdays and are available to watch any time after. https://gway.ch/ GatewayPeople.

Virtual Tarot Class Sat 4/25 @ 5:30pm, Hearth Wisdom Store Facebook.com/ HearthWisdomStore Due to changes in operations, we are going to host our monthly tarot class virtually!

This month, as we celebrate the Pink/Hare moon, we will explore how pregnancy and fertility shows up in tarot.

SERVICES Masters of Disasters Decontamination Services www.masters-of-disasters. square.site/ We sterilize homes, cars, and have plenty of HS-100 Hand Sanitizer for sale and in stock.

You can now order our Masters of Disasters hand sanitizer online at https://masters-ofdisasters.square.site/ FREE DELIVERY within Tarrant County!

Texas Coalition For Animal Protection Burleson, Hurst, Fort Worth www.TexasForThem.org TCAP is offering FREE Spays and Neuters for 14 Zip Codes.

Qualifying Zip Codes are 76102, 76103, 76104, 6105, 76106, 76107, 76110, 76111, 76112, 76114, 76115, 6116, 76119, and 76140. Convenient Locations in Burleson, Hurst, and Fort Worth. To schedule an Appointment, call 682200-7630. For more info, visit www.TexasForThem.org.

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PROJECT MANAGER Reinhausen Manufacturing, a world leader in the Electrical Power Engineering Industry has an opening for 1 Project Manager for one of our Facilities in either Charlotte, NC; Dallas, TX; Humboldt, TN; or Chandler, AZ. The Project Manager will be directly responsible for our transformer clients throughout the U.S.

Essential Functions:

• Customer visits as related to increased service sales activity per Targets • Managers multiple concurrent projects, and provides guidance to other project managers and service coordinators • Develops project plan to establish scope/deliverables, schedule, budget, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project • Develops the project proposal during business development phase, including technical approach, scope/assumptions, schedule, cost, staffing • Confers with project staff to outline work plan and to assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority • Maintains accountability of project success and quality assurance. Directs and coordinates activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget, and informs project personnel and senior management in a timely manner of variances from plan.

• Develops, creates, owns and manages the MR Change Order Process • Reviews deliverables prepared by project personnel and modifies schedules or plans as required • Establishes and maintains project filing systems, tracking tools and databases • Tracks and analyzes project financial results including revenue and cost data and projections. Prepares project reports and presents results to management. Confers with project team and other management personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems • Proactively manages client expectations within limits of established scope, schedule, and cost. Effectively negotiates change orders and builds client relationships to achieve growth.

• Manages any project subcontractor relationships. Initiates purchases orders and approves vendor invoices, and coordinates payments with Accounts Payable • Prepares invoice requests for issuance by Accounts Receivable • Prepares project closeout and Performance Incentive Reports • Other tasks as assigned by Supervisor • Must be able to travel up to 95% domestically. Travel may vary depending on location of clients and which home office is assigned upon hiring. * Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or specific work history in line with Business Needs and/or a suitable combination of years of experience plus education in transformers, power plant maintenance and service business area required • 3 + years’ experience in Project Management leading a team of transformer technicians • 5+ years’ experience in technical engineering and in large Power Transformer installations, maintenance & testing preferred • 3+ years’ experience wiring of electrical systems preferred • Metal Fabrication experience a plus • PMP Certification strongly desired Reinhausen provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Reinhausen complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

Reinhausen Manufacturing enforces the Drug-Free Workplace Act; hence drug testing will be conducted as a condition of employment. In addition- random drug tests are performed in accordance with our policy.

Please send your resume to: Mr. Ric Bates r.bates@us.reinhausen.com or Jaime Vega at j.vega@us.reinhausen.com No Phone calls and no third parties please.

Please visit our web site, if you apply at our website please do not enter any personal information such as Date of Birth, age, upload a picture or nationality.

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Holocron Toy Store 3613 West Vickery #105, FWTX www.HolocronToyStore.com Order on line and either have items shipped or pick up locally via curbside on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. We have books, puzzles, Lego sets, and much, much more to entertain all!

Power BAR Women’s Fitness Arlington & Haltom City TX www.PowerBarFit.com Our pole dance studios are closed for the time being.

However, we are offering online tutorials for pole and dance enthusiasts who would like to continue – or start their training.

Thrive Apothecary 212 Carroll St, FWTX 817-480-7098 www.ThriveTX.com Curbside and Online Orders Only! We know you still need your Doctor Approved CBD, and we want to keep our employees working. Order online at thrivetx.com for FREE shipping or curbside pickup OR call us at 817-4807098 to place an order for pickup. Visit ThriveTX.com to place your order today.

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Arlington Camera 544 W Randol Mill, Arlington, TX, 817-261-8131 www.ArlingtonCamera.com We are offering curbside / no contact pick up beginning this Friday 4/24 at 10AM. This includes our amazing inventory of new and used photo gear, our full service digital photo lab and our complete rental department. Please prepay your purchase by calling 817261-8131 or by emailing support@arlingtoncamera.com.

not seeing our aesthetic patients in office. In lieu of Botox and filles we are currently Smoothing lines and providing skinhealth by ZO Skincare line.

We are treating acne, rosacea, hyperpigmentation, age spots and sun damage among other conditions. Call for virtual visit or order through on-line store.

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EMPLOYMENT Computer Technical

GM Financial seeks: Lead Global Automation Consultant: Req. BS in Electronics Eng, CS or Comp Eng & 5 years of exp developing robotic process automation solutions using an RPA platform. Position located in Arlington, TX. Mail all resumes with Ref#JL476056 to Yesenia Castillo Valdivia, 801 Cherry St, Suite 3500, Fort Worth TX 76102. EOE.

EMPLOYMENT Computer Technical

IT Technical Lead (Fort Worth, TX) Duties incl providing tech’l consultancy, functional solution dsgn for new product launches / enhancements; Create integration mapping specs; Dsgn d/base objects; Create application transaction specs; Review Java to code for clients to indentify functionality; Dvlp application flow diagrams. Master’s or its foreign equiv in Comp Sci, IT or Comp Engg or related IT field + 2 yrs exp in job or duties involving research / fact finding to dvlp or modify info systems or applications prgms using LINUX, Java Script, XML, Oracle 11G. Bach’s + 5 yrs post Bach’s & progressive exp also accepted.

Mail resumes to Ryder Sytems, Inc, Attn: HR Dept, Ref: Code KZ26, 11690 NW 105th St, 2nd flr - HR, Miami, FL

Amy’s Social Butterfly GREETING CARD CONTEST!

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TCAP: FREE SPAY & NEUTER!

Texas Coalition For Animal Protection is offering FREE Spays and Nueters for 14 Zip Codes. Qualifying Zip Codes are 76102, 76103, 76104, 76105, 76106, 76107, 76110, 76111, 76112, 76114, 76115, 76116, 76119 and 76140. Convenient locations in Burleson, Hurst and Fort Worth. For more info, visit them online at:

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The Gas Pipe, The GAS PIPE, THE GAS PIPE, your Peace Love & Smoke Headquarters since 4/20/1970, now has limited locations OPEN FOR YOUR SAFETY – with MEDICAL GRADE GLOVES, SANITIZING PRODUCTS and OTHER ESSENTIALS. Locations and Times Vary. LIMITS APPLY. Check out our FACEBOOK pages for more details. Oh, by the way, both our 4/20 Anniversary Celebrations have been postponed until 5/20! Keep Truckin’! BE SAFE, ya’ll!

THE RIDGLEA PRESENTS: All shows have been POSTPONED until further notice.

Live performances will be back as soon as possible, including many acts previously scheduled, as follows: RIDGLEA THEATER: Sat 5/2 CRUEligans; Fri 8/21 Ricky Lee Jones. RIDGLEA ROOM: Fri 5/8 Fort Worth Music Academy; Fri 5/22 Fusion Franklin, Bodega Da Gawd, LingoLive. RIDGLEA LOUNGE: Fri 5/15 Sushi Greenberg Phish Tribute; Fri 5/29 90s Nite w Marilyn Hanson. theRidglea.com

THRIVE APOTHECARY CURBSIDE & ONLINE FOR DOCTOR APPROVED CBD www.ThriveTX.com

EMPLOYMENT Management / Professional Business Analytics Analyst for Dept of University Analysts at Univ of Texas at Arlington in Arlington TX. Related degree & experience required. Criminal Background Check required. UTA is an equal opportunity / affirmative action institution. Minorities, women, veterans & persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. The University prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of sexual orientation. UTA is a tobacco-free campus. Send resume to: katherine.jones@uta.edu, job code: S02240P.