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This little label out of Cowtown represents some of the biggest names in avant garde musics.

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Babbitt: “Different music hits people in different ways. You can’t explain it. It’s like meeting your wife for the first time and it hitting you like a wave. You just know. It’s definitely not for everybody.

It’s like food. Some things are an acquired taste.”

Eighteen years after founding Dada Drumming, Greg Babbitt is still trafficking in the raucous avant garde music that’s always appealed to the label’s most important listener: himself.

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hen thinking of towns with reputations as epicenters for wild, experimental, and fiercely underground artistic movements, it’s likely the usual suspects cross your mind. New York, London, Paris, L.A., or Berlin, perhaps.

Yet, unlikely as it may seem, nestled within the dusty, decidedly un-dernier cri flatness of our own Texas backyard, resides a small independent record label that functions as one of the better appreciated sources for one of the more stridently boundarypushing artforms: the niche, subterrestrial music genre known simply as “noise.”

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instruments, found sounds, and heavily manipulated effects and electronics, noise music is as “out there” as music can be. Brittle, dirging, often abrasive, it can be a challenge for many to absorb.

Imagine the exact sonic opposite of an intricate baroque symphony but lovingly crafted with the same care and attention to detail that any master composer would employ. Compositions can appear random, directionless, and inadvertent — and no doubt random chance and serendipity certainly play a role in the music’s creation — yet just as Jackson Pollack’s indiscriminate splattered works are now appreciated, a noise artist is no less focused and intentional. There is purpose, craft, and a concrete objective. As far as any music genre can exist purely as art for art’s sake, noise practically deserves its own wing in the Met. Shockingly, a Fort Worth-based musician and label-runner named Greg Babbitt is one of the most reputable purveyors of noise material that can be found. His small self-funded Dada Drumming stands as tall as any other bulwark in the noise scene — staples such as France’s Atypeek Music or Home Normal in the U.K. “I do mostly noise, of course, but that’s not all,” Babbitt said of Dada Drumming’s focus. “I don’t really stick to

one format, and I never have. I try to focus on stuff you can’t hear on the radio or even find in record stores, for that matter. I do metal. I like ambient music, experimental music. I’ve done hardcore records. If I like something, I’ll put it out.”

Dada Drumming markets the works of a far-ranging international cadre of artists.

He sells vinyl, CDs, and cassette tapes that he still dubs by hand. His catalogue has earned a highly regarded reputation and is ravenously devoured by the close-knit, obsessive noise music circle.

As hinted at by Dada Drumming’s motto (“The Sexy Sound of Piercing Feedback”), noise is perhaps the most appropriately named musical subgenre ever conceived. Shrill electronic buzzing, monotone TV static, metallic bashes and clangs created with guitar effects pedals, modular synthesizers, sheet metal and lengths of chain — these are the tools of the noise artist. Not necessarily the pleasing warm honey-tone of a Stradivarius. As a result, few are lukewarm about it upon hearing it. For the many who simply don’t get it, at best, it might “just not sit well.” For others, it can be actively repulsive, but there are a few who do find the thread. These types then typically dive into the genre with the full collector-type enthusiasm of comic book traders, always searching for more — the rarest, the most sought after,

the strangest, the most extreme.

“People never stop chasing new music,” Babbitt said, “always wanting to be the first to have heard something.”

Dada Drumming has been a steady resource for those forever hunting their next aural fix for nearly two decades.

“I became involved in noise 15 years ago,” said Luke Tandy of Heat Signature, a Dada Drumming artist. “Dada Drumming was one of the first labels I discovered that I felt a connection with. It’s one of those labels that has such a consistent level of quality that you just trust in what they’re putting out and don’t feel afraid to take a chance on buying something you’re not familiar with.”

After a brief period of dormancy over the past few years, Babbitt has Dada Drumming back and fully operational again and is dropping the harshest, most intense, and most imaginative material available, returning to his former steady clip of releases. Most recently, the moniker has commissioned albums from a trio of revered Japanese avant garde and noise composers. Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro, C.C.C.C.) presented a new double LP of live performances captured while on tour throughout Texas, Kazuya Ishigami (Daruin) offered a mesmerizing new work of moody drone titled Mind Liberation, and an artist named Kimihide Kusafuka,

artists like Incapacitants, K2, and Mo*Te — it’s all these varying points of grit, piercing feedback, and raw aggression coming to a head under one banner.”

Babbitt, charmingly humble, shies away from any accolades directed at him for his efforts.

“This isn’t about me,” he made a point of saying. “I’m not looking to be patted on the back. I do this because I’m a fan. I am a fan of this music first. I don’t like to be front and center. I’m a drummer [as a musician]. I’d just rather be in the background doing my thing.”

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The 53-year-old Babbitt started Dada Drumming in 2003, mostly as a way to be able to listen to friends’ music that he was a fan of. He was discussing with a buddy he met on an internet noise forum (a popular meeting space for tech-centric fans of intense music) about finding a way to put out the material for his band Deadly Orifice. After exploring options, one day, Babbitt simply decided to take the task on himself.

“I used to collect this music,” he explained, “trading tapes and ordering records out of the backs of zines. I figured it wasn’t too difficult. A friend of mine needed a way to release his stuff, so I said, ‘Hell, I’ll do it.’ ” That initial release, a split between

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better known as K2, dropped the third and proposed final volume of his Rainy Tritium series of albums.

Any one of these artists would be an impressive get for any noise-centric label, but together they represent an enviable top-tier collection that’s indicative of Dada Drumming’s earned reputation among the tightly knotted noise community. Though they could choose from many other outlets with which to release their projects, these artists continue to trust their work to a small, unassuming imprint from Fort Worth, Texas.

“He is as true as it gets,” said DOMOKOS, another Dada Drumming artist, about how the label has earned the means to work with such regarded artists.

“To be associated in any capacity with Dada Drumming is nothing to be taken lightly. It is as serious, true, and qualitydriven as a label can get. There is no bullshit involved whatsoever.”

Taylor Geddes, who heads his own noise label called Absurd Exposition, which has released material from Babbitt’s own noise project, A Fail Association, agrees.

“Dada Drumming has always been consistent with the types of noise and [other] music that appear on the label,” he said. “Looking through the catalogue — with Texas harsh noise projects like Black Leather Jesus and T.E.F. and a strong line to some of the essential Japanese noise

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Dada Drumming founder and sole operator Greg Babbitt performs noise himself under the moniker A Fail Association.

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material completely unrecognizable as “music.”

“That’s a valid opinion … for them,” he said. “And I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Not everybody has to like everything. The internet seems to make it seem like everybody has to like everything all the time. But they don’t. There’s things that they like that I probably don’t. And that’s OK, too.”

But to Babbitt and his label’s fans, the strange “unmusical” sounds hit at the same base emotional level that all music is capable of. It’s moving in a way that’s unexplainable yet commonly recognizable.

“Different music hits people in different ways,” he said. “You can’t explain it. It’s like meeting your wife for the first time and it hitting you like a wave. You just know. It’s definitely not for everybody.

It’s like food. Some things are an acquired taste.”

Though the fanbase might be small and located in scattered areas, those areas extend around the world, a thing that’s demonstrated by the multiple countries represented on the label: Canada, Germany, Israel, and Japan, to name a few.

“There’s people doing this music everywhere,” Babbitt said. “You just might not know who they are. There may be one or two in Texas, maybe four or five in New York. The noise scene is massive in Japan. But the noise community is a big, incestuous circle. The internet has been revolutionary in bringing all these people together.”

Heat Signature’s Tandy also values the international quality of the noise scene and Dada Drumming’s place within it.

“Greg has a strong sense of curating a no-filler roster of artists delivering the best in intense and extreme sounds,” he said. “Although the label works with international artists, Greg is especially intune with the best harsh noise happening in the U.S., both more established and newer acts.

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If you’re unfamiliar with noise music, you may count yourself among the majority.

The genre is so niche it makes Norwegian Viking metal look as big as Beyoncé as far as popularity goes. Though its modern form splinters from an inconspicuous node on the tree of musical history located near the fork formed by the divergent branches of experimental electronica and goththemed industrial, noise can actually trace its lineage all the way back to the early 20th century. A style employing some of the same philosophies valued by modern artists was born out of the Dadaist art movement that arose out of Switzerland in 1916.

Dadaism began as a reaction to the horrors of World War I that had been ravaging most of Europe over the previous two years. Initially a loose, small community, eventually artists, poets, and performers from all across Europe and eventually the United States

were associated with the movement.

These artists created satirical and often nonsensical works as a means to ridicule, and as an attempt to destroy, traditionally accepted Western artistic values. The rationale was that any society that could allow and perpetuate such a grievous tragedy like multinational war needed every aspect of its culture evaluated, and subsequently realigned, including its art.

To call into question the very concept of what qualifies as art, French-American artist Marcel Duchamp exhibited “Fountain.” A porcelain urinal turned on its back and signed “R. Mutt 1917,” it was submitted to New York’s Society of Independent Artists and quickly became the movement’s most famous, and perhaps its most definitive, piece.

The Dadaist philosophy eventually made its way into music composition. A pioneer in the style was Italian futurist artist Luigi Russolo. A participant in socalled “anti-symphony,” he employed the sounds of everyday objects and experimental, anti-tonal instruments he called intonarumori to create bizarre compositions. In his manifesto “The Art of Noises,” Russolo explains his motives.

“At first, the art of music sought purity, limpidity, and sweetness of sound … care being taken … to caress the ear with gentle harmonies. Today music, as it becomes continually more complicated, strives to amalgamate the most dissonant, strange, and harsh sounds. In this way, we come ever closer to noise-sound.”

Though the material Babbitt releases through Dada Drumming essentially conforms to Russolo’s general philosophy, and the label’s moniker borrows the Dada name, he stops short of claiming some profound and culturally relevant artistic statement. He said the aim isn’t to challenge the motifs of popular music in some sort of grand provocation. His motives are much less complicated.

“My philosophy is: I release what I like,” he said simply.

If there’s one aspect of his musical worldview that does conform to the Dadaist tradition, however, it’s in his belief that in all art, including music, there should be no rules.

“No one should say, ‘You can’t do that,’ ” he said. “No one should say, ‘You can’t sing that song or play that note.’ People shouldn’t say you can’t enjoy nice poppy music. And they shouldn’t say you can’t bang a contact microphone on a staircase and call that music either.”

Babbitt acknowledges it’s likely the average music listener can struggle to make the required sharp turn from standard radio-formatted tuneage to embracing albums that consist of little more than an hour or so of harsh, screeching, manipulated feedback. It’s true, most people without a frame of reference would find Dada Drumming’s artists bizarre, and many would probably consider the

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how he found the Great Tyrant record, not knowing what the hell it was,” Babbitt recalled. “He was freaking blown away. If I could sell records to just that one kid, I would. That’s what it’s about. Music can change you.”

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Deadly Orifice and another group, Praying Gods, became release DD01. Interestingly, the pressings have been removed from Dada Drumming’s catalogue. Deadly Orifice is a Canadian band. When delivery was made, the discs were confiscated by the Canadian customs officials at the border.

“They opened them up, and there was some artwork inside that we’ll just say they found ‘questionable,’ ” Babbitt recalled. “It made me think, ‘Crap! Are they going to look inside everything I send?’ I decided it would just be better to remove it from my catalogue to avoid any problems.”

That initial release, naturally, has become a highly sought-after cult-favorite collector’s item.

Since that first split, Dada Drumming has totaled more than 80 releases. Though noise does account for the bulk of the catalogue, it’s not all Babbitt champions.

He has released music from Israeli power violence outfit Rabies Caste, as well as local hardcore bands Four Days to Burn and Resigned to Fate, and, perhaps most notably, Dada Drumming put out the lone album from Fort Worth’s own Great Tyrant, the project that sits in the middle of the slow transition from local experimental band Yeti to their present-day form known as Pinkish Black.

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Babbitt is certainly proud of his roster of artists from around the globe, but he said he wants to work with more local artists as well, something he’s done in bits in the past. He has plans to do just that with a band unlike any he’s released before.

“I’m actually gonna release an alternative rock band,” he said in a way that hinted that even he was surprised by the suggestion. That band, Love in Reverse, is set to join the likes of Rabies Caste, T.E.F., and Scream and Writhe, a sort of relationship that, although different, Babbitt doesn’t see as contradictory.

“I’ve had lots of artists,” he said. “None of them, when they find out I do noise, have ever gone, ‘What the hell is this?’ ” Now that the label is ready to roll again, Babbitt has a ton of material in the pipe.

Joining Love in Reverse in upcoming releases from Dada Drumming are Japanese sound

composer MO*TE, Tandy’s Heat Signature, noise artist Sunk Cost, a death/grind 7-inch for Intestinal Fortitude, the side project of Devourment’s Chris Andrews, and a CD from Japanese grind outfit Napalm Death Is Dead. So, if noise isn’t necessarily your thing, there’s plenty of other options, and Babbitt hopes you give his label a chance.

“It would be foolish to open a store and say only certain people can come in to shop,” he said. “I’m not just one thing.

Again, it’s like food. How are you gonna know if you like something unless you try it? This isn’t about money for me. It never has been. I mean, making money would be great — anybody who tells you different is lying — but I don’t make money on this. I lose money. But that’s fine. I have money that I’ve put toward this because I’m confident in it. I’m confident if people try it, some will like it. And those that don’t, that’s fine too.” l

Strolling Sundance SUNDANCE SQUARE LAUNCHES A LOCAL ART EXHIBIT SHOWCASING FORT WORTH ARTISTS.

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All artwork is part of “THE NEW NORMAL: An Artist’s Response to COVID-19” / Fort Worth Sundance Square artist support program “Strolling Sundance” is a storefront window art exhibit showcasing the works of Fort Worth artists who collectively won $100,000 in grants awarded as part of “The NEW NORMAL: An Artist’s Response to COVID-19” funding initiative.

“The New Normal” was launched in 2020 with funding by Fine Line Group (the family offices of Sasha and Ed Bass), the Alice Walton Foundation, the Donny Wiley Memorial Fund at the North Texas Community Foundation,

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Artistic works in sculpture, painting, drawing, mixed media, photography, and video are among the 50+ winning pieces which will be featured in the exhibit.

“Throughout history, artists have responded to major catastrophes and provided the world with visual interpretations of a reality that captures and preserves the human experience at the time,” commented Sasha Bass, one of initiative’s co-founders.

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“The Sundance Stroll is a public invitation for all ages to visit downtown and enjoy the creativity of our extremely talented local artist community “ said Bill Boecker, President of Sundance Square Management. Additionally, our shops and restaurants are open for business and are following recommended face mask and social distancing protocols.”

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Voter Restriction Law Approved by Texas House

Voter suppression works. Decades of gerrymandering, mail-in ballot restrictions, and similar efforts have left Texas with a legislature that is 61% white even though just over 40% of Texans identify by that race. Of 99 Republican senators and state representatives, 95% of them are white.

Texas’ largely white, largely male (73%) governing body — with the vocal support of Abbott — recently approved a voting restrictions bill that aims to protect the staunch whiteness and maleness of the Texas lege for years to come.

On Friday, the House passed SB 7 after making several changes to the original bill. Since it differs significantly from the Senate bill, a conference committee will work to resolve the differences before the proposal is signed by Abbott and becomes law. Several provisions that passed in the Senate, like the banning of drive-through voting and redistribution of polling sites away from Black and Hispanic communi-

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Conservative Texas legislators have until May 31 to show us that they used their time in Austin to restrict women’s access to reproductive care, support lax gun laws, and weigh in on which sports transgender students can and can’t play. Senate Bill 8 would ban abortions when a fetal heartbeat is discernable while House Bill 1927 aims to strip the need for a license as a requirement for carrying a handgun. A slew of dangerous laws is potentially heading to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk before the end of the month. These three bills in particular caught out attention.

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ing eight to 10 overdose calls a month. Since January, that figure has soared to as many as 26 a month, said Heath Stone, operations manager for MedStar Mobile Healthcare.

Many of the calls coming into the ambulance service concern teens and youths who have taken pills containing fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times stronger than heroin.

Ambulance crews are responding to overdose cases not just in homes but in school bathrooms and parking lots, said Stone, who is also a paramedic.

A couple of weeks ago, one of the patients was just 9 years old, Stone said.

“Where did they get it?” he said. “Two houses down. It was that easy.”

The drug easily falls into the hands of young people because it is cheap for criminal rings to manufacture and sell, and they

ties, did not survive House deliberations.

The cutting of the more heinous voting restriction proposals may have been an attempt to dodge federal lawsuits that are basically the only remaining protection for voting rights in Republican-led Texas.

The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, if passed by Congress in D.C., could end Texas’ never-ending push to disenfranchise non-Republicans by requiring federal approval of all voting law changes made in the Lone Star State.

As passed by the House, SB 7 would criminalize any attempt to provide applications to vote by mail to individuals who did not request a mail-in ballot. The use of public funds to support the third-party distribution of vote-by-mail ballots would be prohibited, and poll watchers would gain new protections under the current bill.

The Republican-led effort to disenfranchise non-Republicans from the ballot box follows similar trends across the South. President Joe Biden’s landslide November victory was followed by baseless claims of voter fraud by prominent Republican officials in Texas and across the country. More than 60 of the former president’s lawsuits — some filed by political allies and others filed by The Former Guy (TFG) — were dismissed, even in cases where the federal judge was appointed by TFG. The lone instance where TFG’s lawsuit found success didn’t even deal with alleged voter fraud but rather the amount of time Pennsylvania voters had to fix errors on their mail-in ballots, according to PolitiFact.

In March, the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan law and justice institute, tallied 361 bills that are intended to restrict voting. With 49 such bills in deliberation at the time, Texas led the country in trying to restrict one of the most fundamental rights afforded to U.S. citizens.

pass it off as something else — usually oxycodone, hydrocodone, Percocet, or Xanax, according to a panel of experts who recently participated in an online discussion about the disturbing trend. The program was hosted by Challenge of Tarrant County, a nonprofit education and advocacy group for people suffering from addiction.

“When we respond, a lot of them are unconscious, confused, or barely breathing, or they’re blue or purple in the face,” Stone said of the young people treated by MedStar, the ambulance service covering Fort Worth and 14 other cities. Tiny eye pupils — pinpointsize — are another sign of an overdose. Once a patient is at that point, they risk not making a full recovery — assuming they survive.

Paramedics have treated young people whose condition became so dire from an overdose that they remain in a wheelchair or must leave school due to a permanent dis-

ability, Stone said. Some of the young people survive but live with lasting brain injuries and need help with talking, walking, and eating.

Buyers believe they are buying a brandname prescription drug but are often receiving a pill filled with caffeine and fentanyl. In addition to making an illegal drug purchase, the buyer is putting their life at serious risk.

Just two milligrams of fentanyl is considered lethal.

Drug traffickers sell the pills for as little as $5 each, with no regard for whether the person taking the pill will suffer serious harm or die. Adding to the danger is the lack of “quality control” for how much fentanyl is added, said Eduardo Chavez, special agent in charge of the Dallas Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

The counterfeit pills are the right size,

Backing the Blue with Lots (and Lots) of Green

retrieve their bond, which is basically a deposit. For-profit bail bond companies profiteer off mass incarceration by offering defendants bail bond loans for a fee (typically of 10%). Last week, the Texas House of Representatives passed HB 20, which is alternatively known as the Damon Allen Act after a slain state trooper who was killed by a known offender who was released on bond.

The act would require magistrate judges to use risk-assessment tools when setting bail amounts. The bill does nothing to address the impoverished inmate population that languishes and not infrequently dies in Texas’ jails.

Tragic stories of crimes perpetrated by individuals who are out on bond are often used to justify the existence or even strengthening of monetary bond, but those very real public safety concerns have to be weighed against the tens of thousands of innocent men and women who are jailed simply because they cannot pay bond amounts of as little as $100.

Texas Bail Project, a nonprofit that documents the mistreatment of Texas inmates, recently released a report card on Tarrant County’s jails. Nearly 2,600 people in Tarrant County are pretrial, meaning they have not been found guilty and are presumed to be innocent, the report found.

The annual cost of jailing a man or woman in Tarrant County’s jail is $26,445 per year.

The nonprofit said 17 jail custody deaths were recorded in 2020, including the death of Javonte Myers, a 28-year-old Black man who was charged with trespassing and given a $250 bail that he could not afford. Myers died of medical complications related to seizures he had while being held in Tarrant County Jail. In a public statement, Myers’ mother, Sandrea Miller, said her son was never a threat to public safety.

“If anything, the jail and the $250 bond was a threat to his life and safety,” she said.

Few careers offer the job security of law enforcement. Fort Worth’s police department gobbles up around one-third of the city’s general fund, and police union dues are used to steer local elections through campaign contributions and in-kind political ad programs. Given the unmatched financial and political sway of Fort Worth’s police department and similar law enforcement agencies across Texas, HB 1900 may be more political propaganda than an attempt at meaningful legislative reform.

The bill, which would basically defund large cities that reduce police budgets, is a rebuke of the massive protests that shook the nation and Fort Worth following the murder of Black man George Floyd by white cop Derek Chauvin last summer. Those protests called for the reallocation of a portion of public funds from police budgets to social and community services and for a greater means of holding police accountable to the citizens they are charged with serving. The House recently passed HB 1900, which is similar to a bill passed by the Senate.

Profiteering off the Poor

Cash bail, also known as monetary bail, remains one of the most glaring examples of how the U.S. criminal justice system favors the wealthy and criminalizes poverty. Once arrested for a Class B Misdemeanor or higher in Tarrant County, men and women are presented to a magistrate judge who earns $142,000 a year. The magistrate sets a bond amount as a condition of release. The average bail set in Tarrant County in 2019 for Class A and B misdemeanors and all felonies, according to the Tarrant County Criminal Court Administrator, was $4,785.09.

The antiquated idea behind bond is that defendants will show up to court to

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POWER OF BALANCE Lee and Isis Hargrave build more than just strong bodies.

Lee and Isis Hargrave are the husband-and-wife team who own enduraLAB, the strength and endurance gym in Fort Worth that offers so much more than just a workout. EnduraLAB was born when Isis worked at Lululemon and was tasked with organizing a “fun run.” Lee, a passionate endurance athlete, jumped at the opportunity to provide a new direction for run groups. Before they knew it, one thing led to another and theenduralab.com, an online endurance community, was born.

“Everyone wants the next fad, a magic pill, or the next big thing,” Lee says. “We are not that.” Lee and Isis examine everything about an athlete’s performance, from movement to how they fuel their bodies.

Isis promotes nutrition coaching as just as integral to an athlete’s performance as how much they can bench press. “I love helping people balance fuel and performance,” she says. In the Nutrition Lab, Isis encourages people to move beyond the fads of the day “to know what their food is made of.” The Blue Zones principle of eating with a Plant Slant is important Lee says –– people who consume fruits and vegetables tend to be healthier. “Covid-19 emphasized how unhealthy we are in the US in general, and in Texas in particular,” he says.

Another part of fitness is the Power 9 concept of Downshift, which the Hargraves say doesn’t get enough attention. Downshifting includes incorporating some kind of stress reduction that can battle chronic inflammation. “We encourage athletes to program breathing and a wind-down routine,” Lee says. It’s not rocket science (although Lee is actually an aeronautical engineer). Along with strength training, enduraLAB employs a physical therapist and a licensed massage therapist on site to help athletes modify routines if injuries occur.

Like the Blue Zones Power 9 principles, the Hargrave’s philosophy is all about balance: making small improvements to different aspects of your life that have a cumulative impact on well-being. As Lee says, “It’s the simple things people can do to be healthier.”

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“Runners wanted programming for training,” Isis says, “And that became an online resource.”

EnduraLAB grew from a small group to what Blue Zones Project calls the Power 9 principles of Right Tribe -- a collection of like-minded people who support each other’s health and well-being. “Here, someone checks on you,” Lee says. “We help keep people accountable.” Now a decade in, the LAB combines all facets of the things that endurance athletes need, from strength training to recovery.

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was the death of Luke Wright, a straight-A 16-year-old athlete at Aledo High School.

He died of a fentanyl overdose in February 2020 after taking a counterfeit Percocet pill that he bought for $5, according to published reports. Following the tragedy, his family started a foundation, Lives for Luke, which gives away the nasal spray Narcan, an opioid blocker that is used to offset an overdose.

Families said they want to prevent others from living through the same devastation of losing a loved one to fentanyl.

How is fentanyl moving into Tarrant County and other parts of North Texas?

The supply comes into the United States through Mexico, Chavez said. A substantial amount is also coming in from China, but that tends to be more through online purchases in smaller amounts, he said.

Mexican and Chinese criminal organizations are even working together in selling the illegal drugs, he added.

Traffickers in China are supplying Mexican criminal organizations with raw fentanyl powder, Chavez said, and the Mexican trafficking organizations are then making them into tablets and pushing them into the United States for distribution throughout the country.

Unfortunately for people struggling with addiction, selling fentanyl is a lucrative business for drug traffickers. They can purchase a kilogram of fentanyl from China for several thousand dollars and turn it into a profit of $1 million to $1.5 million, Chavez said.

The pills are made in laboratories in clandestine warehouses deep in south-central Mexico and can even be manufactured in a drug trafficker’s bedroom, Chavez said.

North Texas’ problem reflects the broader national problem of overdose deaths caused by opioids.

More than 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States across a 12-month period ending in May 2020, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The figure marked the highest number of overdose deaths “ever recorded in a 12-month period,” according to the agency.

Synthetic opioids and illicitly produced fentanyl are the primary culprits, according to the CDC. Although fentanyl is taking a toll on communities everywhere, there are steps you can take to thwart the harm the drug is causing. Two of the most important things are having candid discussions about drug use and keeping lines of communication open with family members and friends, panelists said.

Emergency assistance must also be obtained for anyone who appears to be having a drug overdose.

The DEA’s primary mission is not to arrest drug users but to go after criminal drug trafficking rings, Chavez said.

One of the concerns callers sometimes have is whether the police also respond to overdose calls, Stone said. Police do respond, but the focus is on getting the overdose victim the proper medical care.

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shape, and color of prescription drugs and even have an authentic-looking stamp, Chavez said. Traffickers also go as far as attaching a fake prescription label to a bottle to make it appear as if it came from a pharmacy.

The DEA is also seeing an uptick in the number of people overdosing in Tarrant County and into Oklahoma, Chavez said.

Many parents are surprised to learn about the aggressive tactics used to market drugs to students, said Mark Blair, a Fort Worth police department school resource officer at Fossil Ridge High School in Fort Worth, which is part of Keller ISD. This year alone, the school has had a couple of overdoses, Blair said during the presentation.

Free pills are offered as samples at parties, or classmates may offer drugs for sale in school bathrooms, Blair said. Additionally, social media is used to target youths.

“Students are telling us … it’s as simple as being on Snapchat and a dealer saying, ‘Hey, I’m open for business,’ ” Blair said.

Students have reported receiving messages on social media from friends of friends or people they do not even know. Some of the drug dealers are young people selling marijuana who begin dabbling in pills to make more money, Blair said.

Old stereotypes about the types of students who are using drugs no longer apply.

They can be athletes, straight-A students, or kids with a strong support system with many friends.

“It’s not just the depressed-looking kid who looks like, man, they’re struggling,” Blair said.

The Keller school district is proactive in combating the problem, he said.

“We have started to go around, classroom to classroom, and have discussions,” Blair said.

The district is also linking parents and students with treatment programs and other resources, Blair said. Security personnel are checking restrooms more frequently, and some of the higher-traffic bathrooms are being locked to thwart any potential drug activity.

In January, a fentanyl overdose claimed the life of Kyndyl Campbell, a 16-year-old student at Fossil Ridge and a member of the football and basketball teams.

In a YouTube video, Kyndyl’s mom, Donnetha Campbell, pleads with other parents to have uncomfortable conversations to warn their kids about the dangers of drug use.

“Because what you think they know, they may not really know,” Campbell said.

Never assume it can’t happen in your family, she added.

“In my mind I thought, ‘My son. He’s not one of those kids,’ ” Campbell said. “He’s not gonna do this. He knows better. He knows what’s out there, so I never had that conversation with him.”

The problem is not limited to large cities. In Venus, a tiny town south of Dallas, counterfeit prescription drugs made with fentanyl were blamed for the March 2021 deaths of two teenage males. A third teen was admitted to a hospital in serious condition for a fentanyl overdose but later recovered.

Venus has a population of just 3,700.

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Fittest in Fort Worth Meet the most elite CrossFitters in town.

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I’m not sure if anyone in my social circle does CrossFit. If you aren’t confident you know anyone who’s been baptized into the fitness cult, then you probably don’t — only vegans and Jehovah’s Witnesses are more eager to talk about their lifestyle choices. Chances are if there’s a functional fitness fanatic in your life, you’re already frequently subjected to them speaking in coded acronyms while your eyes glaze over. Yet even if you don’t know anyone personally, you’re about to be acquainted with the two fittest Fort Worthians.

But first, some background. One of the most quotable lines from HBO’s acclaimed Eastbound and Down series came when the disgraced former pro baseball player at the center of the show was asked about the exercise regime of a triathlete: “I play real sports, not trying to be the best at exercising.” And I’m sure some sports purists think the same about CrossFit. Why would anyone train to be the best at training? Well, like it or not, CrossFit is mainstream, especially amazing considering its brief lifespan. An exercise class according to some, a lifestyle cult if you ask others, CrossFit is both and more. According to the company and its founder, it’s constantly varied functional movements executed at high intensity. If that sounds obtuse, that’s because it is, purposely.

As a training style, it’s what would happen if gymnastics, Olympic weightlifting, and calisthenics combined for a cocaine-fueled romp in the sack, and it’s exploded in popularity since it was conceived in 1996 and trademarked in the year 2000. If you were to compare CrossFit to a more established sport, it’s like a decathlon but the events constantly change. It didn’t take participants and the parent company a decade to realize the potential for a championship of fitness, and thus the CrossFit Games were born in 2007.

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all the trimmings associated with highprofile sports: corporate sponsorships, cottage equipment industries, substantial prize money, and full-time professional athletes.

The CrossFit Games, dissimilar to other sports, holds almost zero barriers to entry. Anyone older than 14 with $20 — this year’s registration fee — can compete through the online qualifying process called the CrossFit Open. Known to the fitness community as simply “The Open,” the worldwide qualifier began in 2011 and has been an online first-stage competition predating the pandemic necessity of remote everything. Open workouts are traditionally performed at CrossFit gyms in the presence of a certified judge who will count and approve each individual rep of whatever workout is being performed. If a participant scores well enough, compared to other competitors, they’ll be allowed to advance to one of several regional-level meets. A small percentage of those regional athletes will advance to the CrossFit Games (traditionally 30 men and 30 women), once held in Carson, California, and now in Madison, Wisconsin. The company of CrossFit suffered scrutiny and controversy last summer thanks to the fumblings and general grossness of former CEO and founder Greg Glassman. The new CEO, Eric Roza, introduced changes to The Open that would make it possible for more competitors to advance to a newly conceived online quarterfinal stage.

The initial online competition, which was shortened from five weeks to three this year, releases a workout on Thursday, and a certified score must be posted by the following Monday evening to count.

The top 10% of males and females on each continent are then invited to proceed to the second stage in which they would receive five workouts on a Thursday and need to perform all of them and submit their results — judged, as well as videotaped this time — by Monday for a chance to qualify for an in-person sanctioned event to qualify for the CrossFit Games.

James Kim recently finished 739th on the worldwide Open leaderboard.

That might not seem impressive to the uninitiated, but that was out of more than 137,000 registered participants, placing him in the top 5% of all male CrossFitters with his open performance.

A native of Virginia, Kim has been following a functional fitness workout routine since he was in college while working out in traditional big-box gyms.

For many years, he was a “main siter,” meaning he worked out on his own along with whatever workout was posted on at CrossFit.com. A club lacrosse player in college, Kim was attracted to the training style after watching top-level competitors and intrigued by their overall fitness and skills.

For this Marine Staff Sergeant, fitness

Kim and Conger represent the most elite of the fitness community in Fort Worth.

has always been a pillar of his life. When asked for specificity about his work in the Marine Corps, the 31-year-old smiled and said he was with a special unit. Not wanting to jeopardize my safety, we moved on from there. After moving to Fort Worth to be closer to his wife’s family, Kim needed a new CrossFit gym to call home and found it at CrossFit Iron Horse near Como. Iron Horse is owned by Candice Wagner, a former Marine, who has appeared three times in the CrossFit Games, in 2010, 2012, and 2016, and has finished as high as 17th. Kim was able to find community there upon moving to Cowtown and a competitive environment. His talent was well utilized when the affiliate qualified a four-person team (two men, two women) to a regional event in 2018. While training at Iron Horse, Kim made a close connection with Matt Haynes, who convinced him to move gyms when Haynes took ownership of CrossFit Westwood near the Hospital District. Kim, who said he trained at home most of the pandemic because he and his wife were expecting their first child, is a certified coach but said he will fill in sparingly between his new-father duties and Marine obligations that regularly send him back to Washington, D.C. Kim’s child arrived safely, if not inconveniently, during the rolling blackouts of our historic winter storm. His fitness results indicate he weathered the storm and additional responsibilities masterfully as his placement in The Open suggests.

The Marine reservist said he mostly continues training to stay fit for his career and keep up with raising his children, but he still holds fire for perhaps reaching an individual regionals competition or returning with a team in the future. He stayed performance-ready during the pandemic by completing similar online competitions from his home gym. Despite earning an invitation, Kim declined the opportunity to compete in the quarterfinals stage, as it would have required him to make special arrangements with work and put a pause on his parenting duties with a newborn. As might be expected in a nichesport world, our fittest male and female

already knew each other.

Megan Conger, a 22-year-old recent TCU graduate, is also a CrossFit coach and currently trains with Wagner at Iron Horse.

Another transplant from the Mid-Atlantic, Conger is originally from Maryland and a former collegiate volleyball player. I caught up with our fittest female roughly a week after completing her quarterfinals workouts as she was preparing to return to her regular training the next day. She represents the older of the new guard in the sport of fitness, those who have been aware that they’ve wanted to compete since their teenage years.

Transferring to TCU after an Achilles injury ended her volleyball career, Conger began training specifically for CrossFit, coachless, at TCU’s rec center.

“I was broke and didn’t have a car at the time,” she said.

She was working at Righteous Foods on West 7th Street and learned of CrossFit Iron Horse nearby, eventually approaching Wagner, who took her on as an athlete and employee at her gym. Still a novice in terms of competition, Conger competed at the Fittest Experience in Austin during her first live throwdown in January. This Open, her second, she finished 1,176 out of more than 108,000 women, an impressive score despite dealing with a back injury dating back to the pandemic.

Similarly to Kim, Conger found respite from lockdown by teaming up with a neighbor who owned equipment so she could stay on top of her training while gyms were closed. Different from her friend and former gymmate, Conger’s expectations and career in competition are just beginning. She is forgoing graduate school for now so that she can fully focus on her training, which is normally three to four hours per day as well as the mobility, rehab, and yoga that come along with that level of intensity. Despite a singular focus on performance, the devout Catholic said she makes time to attend Mass most mornings. Both Kim and Conger spoke more than once about their religious faith being paramount in their lives and guiding them in surprising directions.

During quarterfinals, she finished 832nd of 3,408 competitors who were whittled down from The Open, which seats her in an elite group of the top 3% of CrossFit women overall. Conger said she also plans to stay in Fort Worth and continue coaching at Iron Horse and working at Righteous Foods, which tops her list of recommendations for healthminded folks seeking a delicious bite.

Believe it or not, CrossFit is a real sport and has been for some time. If you fancy yourself a fit athlete, I might advise you to register for The Open next year or head down to CrossFit Westwood or Iron Horse and take a class with one of these machines before you lie to yourself that CrossFitters aren’t playing real sports but are simply being the best at exercising. l

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Every Tuesday thru Jun 29, bring your own mat and attend free yoga classes Tuesday from 5pm to 6:15pm at Burnett Park (501 W 7th St, Fort Worth, 817-870-1692) taught by Meredith, an instructor from the Downtown YMCA. If you park in the First on 7th Parking Garage at 500 W 6th St, stop in at Neighbor’s House Grocery for free parking validation and 10% off your purchases. Just show Neighbor’s your yoga mat.

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Every Wednesday at 6pm, Steve’s Wine Bar (111 Industrial St, Denton, 940Wednesday 514-1852) presents Jazz from Denton featuring two local groups online. The performances will be streamed live — in real time only — at Facebook. com/MusicPerformanceTrustFund. This week’s artists are the Lynn Seaton Trio featuring Quincy Davis and Peter Rioux and the Brian Piper Trio featuring Steve Barnes and Brian Mulholland. This event is funded by the Music Performance Trust Fund and is therefore free for anyone to stream. For info on future jazz nights, visit Facebook.com/StevesWineBar. Cour tesy Facebook

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Spoiler alert: I first watched Top Gun at a party where someone Saturday shouted out, “This is the part where Goose dies!” Thanks, dude.

Now that I’ve ruined this movie for you but you still dig aviators, head to the Fort Worth Aviation Museum (3300 Ross Av, Fort Worth, 855-733-8627) for a Top Gun screening as part of Movie Night at the

From 6:30pm to 9pm as part of the Fort Worth Foto Fest — happening Sunday Fri-Mon — you can meet up with the professionals and hobbyists of Fort Worth Camera (1600 Montgomery St, Fort Worth, 817-335-3456) and learn to shoot a sunset at the Funkytown Sunset event. The meet-up point is the Hogsett Trailhead of the Trinity River, north of the intersection of Northside Drive and Main Street in Fort Worth. This event is free to attend. They simply ask that you tag @ FWCamera when you post your glorious photos on Instagram.

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From 6:30pm to 8:30pm, enjoy the beauty of the Fort Worth Botanic Friday Gardens (3220 Botanic Garden Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-463-4160) and listen to jazz at the final installment of After Hours in the Garden: Spring 2021.

Sheran Keyton and the Joe Rogers Trio will perform. Tickets are $20 — or $10 for FWBG members — at FWBG.org and include appetizers and one alcoholic or mocktail beverage at the cash bar.

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Museum. Bring a blanket and/or chairs to watch the film under the stars among all sorts of aircraft, including an F-5 that stood in as a Mig 28 in the film (#PhotoOpp).

Concessions are available for purchase, but feel free to bring your own snacks. Tickets are $5 at ShopFortWorthAviationMuseum. com. Kids under 12 get in free.

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Every Monday thru Jun 7, head to Tulips (112 St. Louis Av, Fort Worth, 817Monday 367-9798) from 9:30pm to 11pm for Five & Dime Mondays local music series/industry night. This week’s musical guest is Mammal Virus.

Drink specials include tallboys, whisky hitchhikers, special shots, and craft cocktails at $5.10 each.

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Those who play acoustic guitar — or have an interest in the singerThursday songwriter side of the music world — should head to MASS (1002 S Main St, Fort Worth, 682-707-7774) at 8pm for the Fort Songwriters Song Swap.

Host Matthew Boyles and fellow musicians Brandon Burnett, Christian Williams, and Taylor Young will be jamming and trading tunes. This event is free to attend.

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Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again is organized by The Broad, Los Angeles, and curated by Ed Schad, Curator, The Broad.

The presentation in Fort Worth is generously supported by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts, with additional support from the Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District.

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During the early days of lockdown, the Fine Line Group — the family offices of Sasha and Ed Bass along with the Alice Walton Foundation, the Donny Wiley Memorial Fund at the North Texas Community Foundation, and Kit and Charlie Moncrief — launched The New Normal, a way for artists to interrogate the ramifications of, well, the new normal.

Fine Line awarded more than $100,000 in grant money to various Fort Worth artists.

Fast-forward to May 2021. The time has come to showcase the work of the grant-winning artists whose pieces — more than 50 in total — include drawings, mixed-media artifacts, paintings, photographs, sculptures, and video.

Open daily thru Fri, May 28, Strolling Sundance is a storefrontwindow art exhibit of the work. Located on the corner of 3rd and Houston streets, Strolling Sundance is a unique exhibit viewable from the sidewalks of Sundance Square. Background information on the displaying artists can be found at NewNormalFW.com.

“Throughout history, artists

have responded to major catastrophes and provided the world with visual interpretations of a reality that captures and preserves the human experience at the time,” Sasha Bass said.

Bill Boecker, president of Sundance Square Management, said the stroll is “a public invitation for all ages to visit downtown and enjoy the creativity of our extremely talented local artist community.

Of course, we are not out of the woods yet, but strolling this outdoor gallery of art is safe for families. Additionally, our shops and restaurants are open for business and are following recommended face mask and social distancing protocols.”

Parking for the exhibit is free.

Daytime parking is free as part of Sundance Square’s complimentary daytime short-term parking program at Sundance Garage No. 3 (345 W 3rd St). Weeknight and weekend parking is provided by the Downtown TIF District at several select garages, including Sundance Garage No. 3.

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Welcome, Emporium Pies

The grand opening was celebrated on South Main all weekend long.

If only Lady Luck had been on my side.

All I had to do was roll a 4 or a combination thereof, and I would have won a $40 gift card from Emporium Pies. As usual …

The game was part of the Dallas mini-chain’s grand opening weekend on South Main Street on the Near Southside.

The store is the fourth Emporium Pies in North Texas. Another little promotional trick, the 40th person in line on every day during the weekend won a free slice of pie every week for one year. #yolo My luck only involved a short line for my three slices of warm pie, certainly a victory but not, y’know, free. Definitely not free.

At this time, the pie shop is operating with a walk-up window while their dining room is under construction until the end of summer. Unfortunately, they do not provide outdoor seating, so you have to take your pie to go. Each goodie is served in a small, sturdy basket wrapped in floral parchment paper and held together by a string bow, so if you’re eager, you can easily enjoy your pie on the move.

Megan Wilkes and business partner Mary Sparks own and operate this Emporium Pies. Sparks runs the kitchen while Wilkes manages growth.

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Emporium Pies features three house flavors: (from left to right) Smooth Operator, Lord of the Pies, and The Drunken Nut.

Smooth Operator appears simple, Their shop features three house flavors: Smooth Operator, Lord of the but a thick layer of French silk chocolate Pies, and The Drunken Nut. All of their sits on top of a salty pretzel crust. The pies are made from scratch using their own chocolate was smooth and light, not as recipes. Aside from the three mains, their decadent or rich as it appeared. Though menu changes seasonally. All the pies and the combination of sweet and salty tends future ones receive their quirky names to pair tastefully, the pretzel crust wasn’t as complementary to the chocolate as before being introduced to the public.

What makes Emporium Pies unique I had hoped. The saltiness was a direct to Fort Worth is the creativity they use in distraction.

A slice not lacking in girth is Lord of taking classic recipes and giving them a the Pies. The deep-dish apple pie contains new perspective.

The Drunken Nut tasted like a sweeter an overload of fruit, with its highlight spin on pecan pie. Rather than corn syrup, being the cinnamon streusel that heavily blankets the top.

Emporium used Its crust backing caramelized butter is thick to support and brown sugar Emporium Pies The Drunken Nut ........................................... $6 the generous layers as the sweet filling. Lord of the Pies ............................................. $6 of apple slices.

A hint of bourbon Smooth Operator........................................... $6 Indulge yourself burst through in in the sweet aroma every bite. What gave the pie an even sweeter taste was the before tasting. The apple-cinnamon shortbread crust. It’s the perfect slice for scent intoxicates you into a holiday-like euphoria. your dessert craving.

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“We do two things really, really well,” Wilkes said. “First thing is pie, obviously.

And the second thing is we really care a lot about everybody who comes to the pie shop. We want everyone to have a great experience.”

Though Wilkes believes that for $6 you have a way to treat yourself or celebrate something special, I feel it’s a steep price to pay for a slice of pie. Knock a dollar or two off that, and now we’re talking.

Emporium Pies delivers within a 35-miles radius of their Dallas kitchen.

“We pay our drivers a living wage to deliver pies,” Wilkes said. “People who like what they do are going to produce more delicious pies because it’s made with love and pride. … All of our neighbors have been so kind. … I’m really excited to see people who have come to visit our Dallas store for the last 10 years and now people who are finding out about us for the first time.” l

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Not the Usual Sangria

Updated versions of the wine punch are enjoying popularity all over Fort Worth.

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Famously hard-drinking British writer Kingsley Amis once described sangria as “cheap, easy to make up, and pretty harmless — so that you can drink a lot of it without falling down.”

But Sangria, the wine punch that Spaniards consume throughout the summer months and in the tourist spots year-round, does not have to be over-sweetened with sugar and cheap liqueur or a repository for rotgut that is too stale to be served by the glass. It apparently doesn’t even have to conform to Spanish traditions.

Many modern high-IQ culinarians think of the drink instead as a template, an

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invitation to experiment with fresh, fruity wines and other fine ingredients.

Jason Pollard, head bartender of pioneering West Magnolia Avenue cocktail bar The Usual and vice president of the Fort Worth chapter of the United States Bartenders Guild, said the best sangria recipes are simple: Take a decent wine, seasonal fruit, a couple of flavorful flourishes, and stir over ice.

“As with just about everything else in the world of libations, the devil is in the details,” he said. “First and foremost, if you put crap in, you’re going to get crap out. Secondly, trust your tastebuds. Is it too sweet? Add some lemon juice. Too tart? Add a bit of sugar or maybe some sweet fruit. There’s no perfect recipe for sangria, until you land on the perfect one for you and your guests.”

For his version, he starts with a bottle of red wine. “Think Rioja or something big that’s going to hold up to everything else we’re about to throw at it,” he said. “Don’t cheap-out here. Wine is the base of your sangria. Don’t break the bank, either –– $15 to $20 should do if it’s something you know and like.”

To take your punch to another level, he said, add Grand Marnier, freshsqueezed orange and lemon juices, and a dash of bitters.

“You can substitute some whole cloves and cinnamon sticks [for bitters] if you’re making this ahead of time and have time

for them to steep and/or want a lighter spice component,” he said.

Add simple syrup to taste, he continued. “I start at about 15 milliliters and keep adding until it tastes right. This is going to depend on your wine, oranges, lemons, and preference.”

For the fruit, he said, that depends on your taste. Whatever you like is going to taste best to you. Once all the ingredients are combined in a pitcher, let everything sit for anywhere between 15 minutes and overnight –– the latter option requires that you refrigerate the whole pitcher.

“I like to top mine off with a splash of Topo Chico as I’m serving it for a little added zip,” he said. “Serve in a goblet if

you’re feeling fancy.”

In short, to make his Not the Usual Sangria at home, you’ll need 750ml bottle of red wine, 175ml Grand Marnier, 120ml fresh-squeezed orange juice, 120ml freshsqueezed lemon juice, 4ml Angostura bitters, simple syrup to taste, and seasonal fruit.

Combine ingredients in a pitcher.

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3.) The Near Southside’s neighborhood plant/comic store Ephemera Terrariums (1208 W Magnolia Av, Ste 106, Fort Worth, 817-382-8238) is hosting a Pop-Up Plant Sale on the patio at Trinity River Distillery (1734 E El Paso St, Ste 130, Fort Worth, 817-841-2837) — purveyor of Silver Star Spirits — on Saturday from 1pm to 4pm. There is no cover charge to attend. Just bring your plant-shopping and spirit-sipping funds and Fido. (Doggos welcome.) We all know that April showers bring May flowers, but did you know that Silver Star spirits are made using Texas rainwater? Well, now you do.

4.) Saturday evening is UFC 262 featuring Oliveira vs. Chandler in the World Lightweight Championship, Edwards vs. Diaz in a Welterweight Bout, and more. Many local watering holes will be broadcasting this pay-per-view event for free for their customers starting at 9pm,

6.) One of Dallas’ popular annual events, Woofstock, is headed west. At 11am Sat at MUTTS Canine Cantina (5317 Clearfork Main St, Fort Worth, 817-377-0151), shop with unique artists and artisans at a local vendor market, hear live music, and try craft beer varieties from Rahr & Sons Brewing Co. In addition, Saving Hope Animal Rescue will be on-site for meet-and-greets with dogs available for adoption. The event is free to attend for you and 1-3 dogs with an annual membership, monthly pass, or day pass. For pricing, visit MuttsCantina.com/Membership.

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2.) At 5-10pm Fri, River Ranch Stockyards (500 NE 23rd St, Fort Worth, 817-624-1111) welcomes the 3rd Annual Beer, Bugs & BBQ party. The proceeds benefit the Brotherhood for the Fallen, a local nonprofit composed of FWPD officers who travel to police funerals across the country to provide financial and emotional support to the families of fallen officers. Ticket options range from $50-60 for general admission to $700 for a 10-person VIP table at Facebook. com/RiverRanchStockyards. GA tickets include crawfish with potatoes and corn, chopped beef sandwich with beans and slaw, unlimited soft drinks, three adult drink tickets, and live music by Poo Live Crew.

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1.) At 3-8pm Sat, Acre Distilling (1309 Calhoun St, Fort Worth, 817-632-7722) hosts Spring Harvest Bash in celebration of Texas farmers and the grains they grow for Texas distilleries and breweries. This event features Fort Worth beers, fresh-offthe-grill food, raffles benefiting Black Dog Charity, and live music by Quaker City Night Hawk Sam Anderson, Ginny Mac, and Jeff Dazey. Tickets — $25 at Facebook. com/AcreDistilling — include four raffle/ drink tickets that can be used for beer, cocktails, or raffle participation.

5.) In celebration of its official grand opening, WineHaus (1628 Park Place Av, Fort Worth, 817-887-9101) has a weekend event called A Taste of WineHaus happening Fri-Sun. From jazz nights on the new patio to unique brunch pop-ups featuring champagne paired with fare from local culinary favorites, patrons will have the opportunity to experience a “taste” of each program. Wine Down Friday features free music by local jazz artists the Tim Bauckman Quartet, a special on brickoven pizza from Chadra Mezza & Grill, event pricing on zero-waste WineHaus growlers, charcuterie boxes by Sage & Board Grazing, and raffle prizes.

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including BoomerJack’s Grill & Bar (12 area locations, BoomerJacks.com), Buffalo Bros (two area locations, BuffaloBrosTexas. com), Jack’s Tavern (508 S Elm St, Denton, 940-808-0502), Toadies Bar & Grill (1705 Airport Fwy, Ste B, Bedford, 817-287-9090), and World of Beer (3252 W 7th, Fort Worth, 682-708-7021). If you’re looking to watch at home but don’t have ESPN, sign up with any number of providers listed in our Classifieds.

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When I asked Godbold about himself, because there’s not much available on him online, other than his stellar R&B/rap tracks, I was a little confused by his texted response.

“Yeah I’m really new at the whole process. So I had to come up with all of this in full out written form mama mama mama mama mama. But hopefully this suffices.”

“Mama mama mama”? The text right below explained a lot.

“Sorry I’m using text to speech and my son was talking at the same time hence the mama’s.”

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The Yucca Man

Guitarist/composer Darrin Kobetich is driven by the open road — and his Space Shuttle.

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in, well, his itinerary. From the West Texas desert to Colorado and Utah and the East Coast of his youth, his 10-album discography unfolds like an aural map.

His latest is another transportive gem.

The Yucca Tapes bristles with the veteran guitarist’s fleet fingerwork, summoning a mix of bluegrass, Delta Blues, and rock.

It’s a fitting antidote to our locked-down lives.

The 55-year-old guitarist/composer relocated with his family from Long Island to Weatherford in 1979. He began playing guitar at a young age, and he said his long hair shocked the hippie-averse county to our west. In Fort Worth, he formed a pretty successful thrash band that played the North Texas circuit. When A Million Pounds broke up in the mid aughts, Kobetich, after nearly 20 years of thrash, unplugged and turned inward, beginning to experiment in the acoustic-forward sound he has well mastered.

“The response to The Yucca Tapes has been very good,” he said. “I think it’s my best album yet.”

Now that cities and states are opening

Godbold: “To this day, there are probably some people who still don’t know this is what I do.”

produced in Fort Worth by Jose “Chico” Santiago from Music in Focus, a local label specializing in mostly underground hip-hop.

“DFW born, Kansas City raised, and Fort Worth refined,” Godbold said, he writes all of his songs and writes tunes for others, which, he says, is “really my passion — my name on the marquee is cool, but my name in the credits is way better.” l

that I made. Eventually, my disdain for that stigma resulted in me not even telling people about that talent when I met them.

As a matter of fact, to this day, there are probably some people who still don’t know this is what I do. As I got older, I realized that it didn’t define me. It is truly just a part of who I am and a gift that I want to share with the world.”

Tate funded Godbold’s first session and with Moody. The singer/rapper’s first full-length project will be released in the summer. LivingRoom LoveStory will be up, Kobetich is ready to pack up his “Space Shuttle,” a.k.a. a Toyota Tacoma with a camper shell, and hit the road. “That’s how I roll,” he said. “I park wherever and crash out.”

Spots in Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia are on the itinerary.

“California’s not ready yet, and up northern New Mexico is not ready, but other places are kind of excited about having some people play,” he said, “so it’s a mixed bag while booking this tour. … I had a full tour two years ago, and I’m counting on it this time.”

Locally, you can catch Kobetich at HopFusion brewery and Pouring Glory, among other places, and he’s helping stir quite a few other pots. He also plays in the prog outfit Agita, bluegrass purveyors Boxcar Bandits, and The Yucca Men, a mostly improvisatory group.

Self-recorded, The Yucca Tapes was mastered at Dubwise Mastering in Zagreb, Croatia, by Tom Krizic, who was recommended by Yucca Men drummer Terry Valderas. The album is available on Bandcamp, Spotify, and iTunes. l

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Godbold was referring to his 3-yearold son. The Fort Worth singer-songwriter also has a 9-year-old daughter. “And they run everything LOL.” The reason I reached out to him is that A.) I’d never heard of him and B.) he was scheduled to play 7pm Fri at a popular new venue, Tulips (112 St. Louis Av, 817367-9798), for the second time, his first being there last March, when he made his inaugural performance. Could it be that a venue was ahead of me, the most in-theknow dude around? The most in-theknow dude who hasn’t seen a live show in 100 years and who doesn’t live on the Near Southside or anywhere nearby? #yes #theanswerisyes True to what Godbold, a.k.a. Kevin Godbold, says, that he just wants “to be a part of making somebody’s next favorite song,” I’m impressed by his chops. I listened to all of his tracks on Spotify. He’s the real deal. His Tulips gig is his first headlining show.

He debuted into the professional musical world in December 2019, releasing three singles and The Godbold EP. Produced by Godbold and a little-known producer named Ishmael Moody, the EP has roots in a night out on the town.

Godbold met local singer-songwriter Jasmine Tate, and “before the night ended, and, on the spot, she sowed the first seed to remove my self-imposed barriers in pursuit of music professionally,” he said, referring to his earlier aversions.

“Growing up,” he said, “I was always known as the guy who could sing, and that essentially defined me and any friendships

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FRI 5/14: Like Combs (Luke Combs Tribute), Blake Nation (Blake Shelton Tribute). SAT 5/15: The Spasmatics.

WED 5/19: La Grange (ZZ Top Tribute). THU 5/20: Mike Ryan Band, Tanner Fenoglio. FRI 5/21: Guns 4 Roses (Tribute), Walk This Way (Aerosmith Tribute). SAT 5/22: MJ Live featuring Jalles Franca (Las Vegas #1 Michael Jackson

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FRI 5/28: Def Leggend & INTXS (Tributes). SAT 5/29: La Freak.

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Holy Dyver and Motley Tributes (room). FRI 5/28: Kadie Lynn Band, BackHand Sally (room).

SAT 5/29: Aristotle The Rapper, Duce BlaQue, Deuce Ace, and King TRIzzy (room).

Scat Jazz Lounge 111 W 4th St, 817-8709100 ScatLounge.com THU 5/13: Ginny Mac. FRI 5/14: A Sinatra Celebration with Ricki Derek & The Vegas Six. SAT 5:15: Red Young.

THU 5/20: Brad Williams Quartet. FRI 5/21: Sheran Keyton, Joe Rogers Trio. SAT 5/22: Marion Powers Quartet.

THU 5/27: Jonathan Fisher Trio. FRI 5/28: Dave Monsch Quartet.

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HALTOM CITY The Haltom Theater 5601 E Belknap St, 817677-8243 HaltomTheater.com WED 5/12: Katherine Brown. FRI 5/14: Fuego Fest featuring GT Garza, Justin Case, Phazerellie Bambino. SAT 5/15: Decades of Rock Fest featuring Blue Feel, C4, Grant Morrison, Kimes, Novakain. SUN 5/16: Mix-N-Sip with host JDiggs

Tha Prodigy. THU 5/20: Ghost Town Blues Band, Rocky Athas, Griff Hamlin, The Single Barrel Blues Band, Blues Child. FRI 5/21: Melodic Nirvana (EDM). SAT 5/22: The Argonaut with Insufferable Sorcery, Silvertongue Devil, Coprolalia. SUN 5/23: Blu3daprince, Transcendent Reticulum, Von. WED 5/26: Rhonda Lynn. THU 5/27: DJ Paulberaw. FRI 5/28: Lonestar Conspiracy, TowerHigh. SAT 5/29: Food Fest benefit featuring Ammo For My Arsenal, Cortez. Labellist, Macabre Eternal, Insufferable Sorcery, Skelteria.

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MANSFIELD Fat Daddy's 781 W Debbie Ln, 817453-0188 FatDaddysLive.com THU 5/13: Lolaville. FRI 5/14: Ashmore, Bringing in the Weekend Party w/ Jeff K (main stage), plus DJ Train Wreck (patio).

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THU 5/27: In Halen. FRI 5/28: Escape, Breaking Bad Co. SAT 5/29: Mob Rules, Def Legend.

ON THE AIR Local Radio Shows THU: The Local Show with Amy Miller, 7-8pm on KXT (91.7). SUN: The Paul Slavens Show, 8pm on KXT (91.7). SUN: Reckless Rock Radio, 10-12mid on KNON (89.3 FM). SUN: Loud & Local with Debbie Sexton, 11pm-12mid on KEGL (97.1 FM).

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SUN 5/23: Remy Reilly (noon). FRI 5/28: Suzy & The Sissies. SAT 5/29: Danni & Kris.

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