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METROPOLIS Why was a dropped harassment case against a deputy chief buried?

BY EDWARD BROWN

NEWS Patriots, unite! Cancel culture is coming for TCU men who are fresh.

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INSIDE Fort Worth PD isn’t talking, but one of their own was recently accused and cleared of sexual harassment.

By Edward Brown

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Forget the Alamo

While many Texans whine about the erasure of lies, we’re here to brag on lots of other truly brave Texans.

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Details about the recent dismissal of sexual harassment charges against a Fort Worth deputy police chief remain hidden.

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In a 2020 interview with Madeworthy Magazine, Fort Worth Deputy Police Chief Michael Shedd appeared to be a strong advocate for open lines of communication between local police and the public.

“The greatest misstep that may have contributed to the tense relations between our department and communities of color would have to be a lack of communication,” Shedd said. “I don’t think our department has done an adequate job of communicating the steps we take on a daily basis to improve those relationships and hold our officers accountable for violating that trust.”

But Shedd’s transparency apparently only goes so far. When it comes to a recently dismissed sexual harassment case against him, there’s not much information to go on.

In May, a confidential source with connections to the Fort Worth police department told us that Shedd, who oversees several divisions, was under investigation for allegedly sexually harassing a female officer. The female officer reported Shedd’s behavior to several superior officers, the confidential source told me, but nothing was done. The confidential source was alarmed that the investigation of a high-ranking officer was kept secret.

“This is troubling because the command staff talks about how ‘transparent’ they are on all these incidents,” the confidential source said. “They send out a media release as soon as officers are implicated in some sort of wrongdoing, but when it involves one of them, they try to sweep it under the rug. Any other officer would have had their gun and badge taken and placed on restricted duty status” while the investigation ran its course.

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After the alleged victim brought the allegations directly to investigators with the Office of Internal Affairs (OIA), that department initiated an investigation.

“I am trying to confirm an internal investigation of Officer Mike Shedd,” my subsequent media inquiry read. “The alleged offense is sexual harassment.”

Since my inquiry involved the OIA, I was told by a FWPD communications liaison that I would need to resubmit my questions via an open records request, which I did. Several days later, I learned that the Fort Worth Secretary’s Office, which handles open records requests, had appealed my inquiry to the State Attorney General’s Office by seeking a legal brief. The legal maneuver is basically a delaying tactic meant to stop embarrassing information from coming to light. The AG’s office typically takes three to four months to reply.

The city’s correspondence with the AG, shared with me via email, provides the only insight I have into the May OIA investigation.

“The investigation determined the allegations to be unfounded or the allegations did not result in discipline,” reads the city’s request for a legal brief. “The submitted records relate to an internal affairs investigation and were created and maintained in the course of providing professional legal services and advice to the City of Fort Worth in anticipation of litigation. Because the City has shown that the records were created in anticipation” of the city being sued by the alleged victim, the records are confidential and can be withheld.

The confidential source said Shedd accepted retirement in lieu of disciplinary action. A Fort Worth police department spokesperson said Shedd has not notified the department about the deputy police chief ’s intention to retire — an option that is often given to disgraced public officials in Tarrant County as an alternative to termination.

A 2020 open records request filed by the government transparency-minded nonprofit MuckRock found that 167 complaints were filed against Fort Worth police officers in 2020. Around 85% of those complaints were sustained, according to data provided by Fort Worth police department, and most of the disciplinary actions ranged from one- to 30-day suspensions with 18 being listed as “indefinite” suspensions.

The city’s ability to hide embarrassing information from the public may be diminishing. The June runoff elections flipped

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The local police union blew $25,000 in a failed campaign that was intended to reelect former District 6 councilmember Jungus Jordan.

Fort Worth City Council’s balance of power from a conservative majority to a contingent of youngish, progressive leaders who may be less inclined to let city staff use their positions to coverup alleged wrongdoing by high-ranking police officers or anyone else.

That flip came following the ousting of District 6 councilmember Jungus Jordan, who was heavily backed by the Fort Worth Police Officers’ Association, which sent a slew of false and misleading political flyers to Fort Worth voters in the weeks before the elections (“Local Police Union Uses Uptick in Crime to Consolidate Power and Money,” May 26). The police union contributed $25,000 to Jordan through a May

donation. Jordan lost his seat to Jared Williams, a young community organizer who holds a doctorate in environmental science and education.

Citizen complaints against members of the Fort Worth police department can be filed by emailing the Office of the Police Oversight Monitor at PoliceOversight@ fortworthtexas.gov or by calling 817-3926535. Descriptions of police abuse and/ or misconduct can also be sent to an independent panel of police reform experts who are currently providing Fort Worth City Council with recommendations on police reform. That group can be reached at info@ policereformexperts.com. l

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A Real Alamo

Texans aren’t short on bravery. Here are a few who fought for a good cause around the same time.

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I get it.

As a native Texan, I feel your pain.

I, too, was weaned on comic book versions of the Alamo and the Texian War for Independence, and I understand your anger and frustration. We have been betrayed.

The question now is: What are we going to do about it?

Should slap AR-15s over our shoulders and strap pistols across our beer bellies and head to the state capitol to stage our own Alamo about what never really happened at the Alamo? Do we need to stand tall with the Texas chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy and protest these shameless revisions to all the lies we hold dear? Or is it time to face the mariachi music?

Call me crazy, but I’m a proponent of the latter.

The genie is out of the proverbial tequila bottle, and as the new book says, forget the Alamo.

It’s time to reckon with an ugly truth.

Texas independence was mostly about slavery (and gringo knavery) and not much at all about bravery. In fact, the biggest things in this state chock-full of big things are the whoppers we’ve told about our history for almost two centuries.

But, hey, on the lighter side, you have to admit, Ozzy Osbourne is looking smarter all the time. And Phil Collins. Maybe he should sue, sue, Sussudio all those socalled Alamo relic peddlers. I bet he feels like a real pendejo.

But fret not, fellow Texans. There was actually a real Alamo. Dozens of native Texans — not of the mostly white immigrant variety who fought in the fake Ala-

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mo, of course — bravely volunteered and voluntarily fought and died to preserve the freedom of a people and stop Spanishspeaking fascists. It just didn’t happen here. It happened in Spain 100 years after Texas independence.

In 1936, conservative nationalist fascists attempted to topple the left-leaning government of Spain. Liberals, progressives, communists, and anarchists came from all over the world to the defense of

the Spanish Republic, but the fascists were backed and supplied by Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Oh, and also a Lone Star oil and gas outfit known as Texaco.

Texaco refused to sell oil to the freedom fighters but allowed the conservative fascists in Spain to put the oil they imported for their insurrection on a tab until the war was over.

In hindsight, the Spanish Civil War was a dress rehearsal for World War II.

And while FDR and the United States remained neutral, thousands of Americans came to the aid of the Spanish Republicans, including dozens from Texas.

Needless to say, the good guys lost, and the leader of the fascist insurrection, Francisco Franco, ruled Spain as a dictator until his death in 1975. But get this.

Fort Worth native Theodore Gibbs — a Black man who ran away from his home in Cowtown at the age of 13 after witnessing the rape of his mother by her white employer — joined the freedom fighters in Spain and drove an ambulance until he was killed by an artillery shell. Conroe native Philip Detro rose to the rank of Commander of the Lincoln-Washington Battalion and hung out with Ernest Hemingway before succumbing to complications resulting from a sniper’s bullet. Laredo native Virgilio Gonzalez Davila served with the Washington Battalion and then transferred to the 46th Division Campesinos, a “shock force” who fought in every major conflict of the war. Texarkana native Conlon Samuel Nancarrow emigrated to Mexico after serving with the Peoples’ Army of the Spanish Republic and went on to become one of the most original, influential musical composers of the 20th century.

And Oliver Law, a Black native of Matagorda, Texas, became the first African-American to command an integrated military force in American history. He was killed in action while leading the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in the first days of the Battle of Brunete.

Dozens of red-blooded native Texans fought in Spain, serving alongside or hobnobbing with the likes of Langston Hughes, George Orwell, Paul Robeson, Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Andre Malraux, and more. Sure, they were a bunch of liberals who thought for themselves — and fought for someone besides themselves — but they were still Texans.

And they went to fight in a real Alamo, for freedom and human rights — not the preservation and expansion of a disgraceful travesty.

That’s something, right? l This editorial reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily the Fort Worth Weekly. The Weekly welcomes all manner of political submissions. They will be edited for clarity and factuality. Please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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POWER OF MOVING NATURALLY

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Tim Tarpley moves himself and others in the right direction.

Tim Tarpley jokes about how he started running when he was growing up in California. “I really started running because I got kicked off the school bus,” he says. “I didn’t want my parents to know so I ran the three miles to school. I’ve always been an active person.”

Tarpley pretty much exemplifies the Blue Zones principle of Moving Naturally. A personal trainer since the 80s, Tarpley’s expertise is wide and varied. “I’ve literally played every sport there is,” he says.

From playing professional football for two weeks to going to bull riding school at age 30, Tarpley says “I was trying to find my place.” He made the transition from body builder to endurance athlete about 20 years ago.

Tarpley is also a firm believer in eating with a Plant Slant, another Power 9 principle. “I am fully plant based and haven’t had an animal product in four years,” Tarpley says. His favorite easy snacks: a squeeze-and-go tube of peanut butter, pita with hummus, or even some regular pretzels. Much like athletic training, managing your diet requires a level of commitment. “Most people treat their car better than they treat their bodies,” Tarpley says. “You go to the doctor and you want a pill to fix what you’ve done. It’s just not that easy.” But with a little commitment, mindfulness, and some small modifications, Tarpley says everything will fall into place.

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Last year, Tarpley lost both parents to COVID, and he says that the lesson for him with his parents dying within an hour of each other cemented the idea of both Downshifting and Family First. “On your deathbed, you learn what really matters,” he says. Tarpley credits the staff in the Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital ICU for bringing his dying parents into the same room to hold hands at the end.

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Tarpley says that the problem isn’t that people don’t want to exercise. “Life gets in the way,” he says.

“You’re tired, your kids are sick, but you have to figure out a way to get it done in the morning.”

Exercising in the morning removes all the post-work “I’m exhausted” excuses. But you have to make a commitment to do it most days. “It’s got to be in your calendar like an appointment.” To get control of your morning, Tarpley talks about another Blue Zones principle – Downshifting. “You have to get control of your night,” he says. That means making a purposeful effort to slow down, unplug from the electronics, and reduce the time you spend looking at screens.

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As vaccinations increase and cases go down, this writer is still unsure about returning to normal.

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After over a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems that much of society is pining to get back to normal. Texas lifted its mask mandate in March. The CDC recently changed its guidelines, saying that fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear a mask indoors or outdoors — though there are exceptions, such as on public transportation. Starting earlier this month, Texas public schools can no longer require people to wear masks.

The common opinion among many people seems to be that, this year, they will resume normal summer activities just like during pre-pandemic times.

However, I have a different view of the subject.

I don’t feel comfortable going back to normal yet.

I’m a cautious person — it’s just who I am. So when the pandemic started, my anxiety levels were high. I’ve been extra careful throughout the entire ordeal. I haven’t been out in public much. When I do go out, I wear two masks (and even a face shield and gloves at one time). I don’t want to get sick, and I don’t want to pass on the virus to my family members either.

I think it’s safe to say that the pandemic has derailed many people’s plans. The virus has taken a toll on lots of people. Aside from the obvious losses like the deaths, people have also lost their livelihoods. After I graduated college in May 2020, I was supposed to work at a retail store to save up money. Even more excitingly, I was supposed to travel last summer, but when the pandemic started, all my plans were forcibly halted. I couldn’t work anymore, and I had no idea when I could travel — if ever.

So after over a year of lockdown, quarantine, isolation, and being stuck in their homes, it’s no wonder people are eager to break free from it all. I too get swept up in the excitement. The prospect of going to the movies, going on road trips, going to concerts, and going to art exhibits is extremely exciting, to say the least. I just don’t want to get ahead of myself just yet.

I don’t want to underestimate the seriousness of this virus. I know how deadly it has been. At least 3.81 million people worldwide have died from it. I don’t want to blindly rush back into society. The risk of me catching the virus, being stuck in the hospital with it, or even dying from it is much too high for me to take a chance.

I truly don’t believe that COVID-19 is over yet — and I don’t believe that it will be completely gone by this upcoming summer either. At one point, vaccination rates were falling. Additionally, another COVID-19 variant has

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recently been reported in North Texas.

Due to the pandemic, my original graduation ceremony was canceled. This year, my college held a ceremony for the 2020 graduates along with the 2021 grads. I opted out of attending. Though the ceremony was held outside, and masks and social distancing were enforced, I still didn’t feel comfortable going. I certainly didn’t want to proudly walk the stage and revel in my accomplishment only to come down with the virus one week later.

Ultimately, I didn’t feel attending the ceremony was worth the risk. I just didn’t feel comfortable with the idea, especially with me not having even been vaccinated.

Recently, I actually did consider re-entering society. I had decided to apply for a summer job to save up money.

At first, I felt better about working during the pandemic. People were getting vaccinated, and COVID-19 cases were declining. If I got the job, I would be extra cautious. I would wear two masks, a face shield, and gloves. I thought I was ready.

However, when I interviewed for the job, I soon realized that I was stressed in public. Thoughts of contracting COVID-19 flooded my mind. And if I was stressed out about catching the virus, I wouldn’t be able to work ef-

fectively. I soon scrapped the idea. Working in public just wasn’t worth the risk of me catching the virus or bringing it home to my family.

Instead of re-entering society right now, I’m taking a different approach. Rather than rushing back into normalcy, I’m going to be extra careful and stay cautious. I want to have fun — but I want to do it safely. I want to be able to enjoy myself without worrying about getting sick.

For me, there is no point in having fun out in public if I’m going to contract COVID-19 in the process.

As more and more people get vaccinated and cases decline, normalcy seems to be on the horizon. I have hope that things will be much better in the near future and that the world will look much more normal soon. Until then, I’ll continue to be cautious, waiting for a better and brighter tomorrow. l This editorial reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily the Fort Worth Weekly. The Weekly welcomes all manner of political submissions. They will be edited for clarity and factuality. Please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly.com.

How Fresh Are Men Really?

TCU removes “freshmen” designation for first-year students, and heteronormative social media warriors should be furious.

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Hold onto your cancel culture gentlemen, we’re under fire again. Wait. Using the term “gentlemen” isn’t OK anymore, either?

Well. Gentle people with penises, please go directly to your social media feeds, mash your caps lock into attack mode, and shout to the interwebs because political coercion and wokeness are running rampant in Cowtown.

The godless decision-makers at Texas UnChristian University have deemed the “freshmen” title not gender-neutral enough, so they’re removing it in favor of the touchy-feely “first-year student” identification. When did being male become a crime? Though we do commit more crimes, on average three times as many as women and nearly 90% of the murders, that isn’t the point. Women received the right to vote more than 100 years ago, from benevolent

liberal snowflakes who want things like safety and health care are offended these days. We’re angry. Angry! If you aren’t pissed off yet, just look at the statistics. The gender wage gap is shrinking. In 1980, women hauled in 64 cents for every dollar a man made among all workers. Now, women are making it rain with our tears with 84 cents for every dollar we bros generate. You might read that as women making more, but that’s only if you’re a Democrat.

It’s actually men making less.

What happens if we just remove gender from our society altogether? Businesses won’t know who to underpay. Chaos will ensue. Californians relocating to Texas are obviously to blame for this and so much more, so what’s going to happen once they remove all gender identifications from our society? We won’t know who should raise the children at home and who should be able to get drunk and go golfing or hunting all weekend. This anarchy will result in feral gangs of children roaming the streets while everyone is golfing and hunting without knowing which bathroom to use. How will these children eat?

Probably by morphing our well-appointed lawns into vegetable allotments that they’ll barter instead of selling, resulting in the collapse of the U.S. dollar. Some of these children might even get to eat for free. Without money, how will we know who should starve and who should have a vacation home?

The real issue here is not a title but oppression and tyranny. Removing gendered terms is starting to oppress men, especially white men, who rightfully perceive any tangible decrease in dominance as sacrilege.

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all-male federal legislators no less, and now members of the fairer sex are pillaging for more. Apparently, traditional academic titles are too masculine and gender-specific.

This is obviously a calculated assault against the almost 41% who identified as male of last year’s TCU newcomers, in addition to all men everywhere. Disgusting.

The troubling progressivism of our hometown institution was brought to my attention by the enemy, a former SMU letterman — an alumni athletic designation TCU had already dropped in favor of the “Block T Association” — who obviously felt that rainbows and tolerance were being shoved down his throat and the days of enjoying life as a heteronormative Boomer were numbered. His fears were echoed by numerous commenters responding to reports of the change. I, for one, am elated that so many bearded men with truck selfies took the time to impart their worst fears for this country’s future. Forget voting rights, or gun violence, or an impending economic collapse. Removal of a gendered student designation from a primarily female institution is very clearly the first sign of the apocalypse. Though no one on TCU’s board would know it because they haven’t read the Book of Revelations. It’s in there. Trust me.

So what’s next? We could just accept this change of students being called students and identifying which credit year they’ve achieved (a common practice for those working toward graduate, law, or medical degrees), but that wouldn’t be right. Men everywhere should be irate. We’re under siege, and we’re 10” offended. I mean, we’re not offended.

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any attempt to lessen the amount in circulation is futile. So if one group is rising, another must be falling, which is something I learned as a freshman in college. We also learned about extinction, which seems like a cautionary tale in retrospect and is what we’ll experience unless we utilize the full power of ALL CAPS incredulous social media commentary before it’s too late. l This editorial reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily the Fort Worth Weekly.

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Don’t tell our rural Texas neighbors that the guy who lost the popular vote in two consecutive elections isn’t still in charge.

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Heading to Kerrville for a COVID-delayed 90th birthday celebration of my one and only’s father, I was looking forward to wildflowers dotting the fields and hilly scenic vistas. What I found instead was different and disturbing.

In Hico, we came to our usual pitstop at a combination gas station/convenience store, thinking nothing seemed out of the ordinary, at least at first. Then I noticed we were one of the few people still wearing

masks. No biggie, I thought. That’s their choice. Then I decided if I was to survive this trip, I needed more coffee and quick, so I grabbed some deep and dark roasted java and filed in line. It was there I first noticed it. If looks could kill, I would have been a dead man laid out on that stainspotted floor, my coffee leaking out of the ill-fitting top like black blood.

I was getting nasty looks from the throng of unmasked customers and from the equally unmasked counter help. I wanted to explain I was from Fort Worth where most people, the week before Memorial Day, still wore masks inside, but why bother? Filled with disinformation, they weren’t in the listening mood. When I paid the man, it was my first visit there when I didn’t hear a “thank you,” “have a nice day,” or even a “dirty, rotten pedophile-loving Demoncrat” in return.

I consulted my girlfriend and her son if I was off-base with feeling like I was being singled out. They confirmed they felt the same. OK, now I know. In rural Texas, masks are evil. And those who wear them are the enemy, virtue-signaling elites and not real Americans.

On our trek, the surprises didn’t end there. The rest of the day, going south through Hamilton, Lampasas, and Burnett, just about every small town we passed had Trump signs or flags in evidence. In my six decades of life, I’ve never seen a losing presidential candidate’s signs still up after six months, let alone so many.

We were driving deep through the heart of Trump Country. In 2020, 45 won Hamilton County with 83.1% to Biden’s

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At Llano’s Eagle Outfitters, a.k.a. the Texas Trump Store, the banner reads, “Trump 2020: Make Liberals Cry Again.”

In front of the Eagle Outfitters in Llano, the sign spells it out: Democrats are not included in “We, the people.”

14.7%. In Lampasas County, he won 77.8% of the vote to the former vice president’s 20.6%. In relatively “liberal” Burnett County, Trump’s percentage was down to 76%, and Biden secured, in comparison, a hefty 22.8%.

Since they seem to love him so much, I wondered, what did Trump ever do for these people? His biggest accomplishment was a “yuge” tax giveaway to corporations and the wealthy. I’m sure some wealthy folks live out there who hang on 45’s every word, but I saw plenty of Trump signs and flags at modest homes. Maybe Trump Country’s residents love how the twiceimpeached former-reality TV star “owns the libs,” but those are slim pickings for people who have largely been shut out of recent economic growth.

And did Trump politicizing maskwearing and totally botching the country’s response to COVID-19 counter-intuitively make rural Texans’ lives better? I doubt it.

The medical journal The Lancet found that nearly 40% of around a half-million COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. during the Trump administration were avoidable. Some of those fatalities surely came from these very towns, I imagine.

Another sickness not carried by a virus is now shaping our political lives, the slip-sliding away of our democracy. At its core, that is what Jan. 6 was about. Never in my life did I think that a president would try to foment a coup and that his party would then defend him afterward, but that’s where we are. The majority of Republicans believe the Big Lie that somehow a candidate who lost the popular vote by almost 3 million in 2016 and never reached above 50% in approval rating actually won in 2020.

Republican-controlled legislatures are now making it possible for their states to overturn the will of the people. As it was said by Jacob Grumbach, a political scientist from the University of Washington, our nation’s GOP-controlled states are “laboratories of democratic backsliding.”

They are, as The New York Times’ Thomas B. Edsall has written, “determined to enforce white political dominance.”

Look at the news from that weekend.

On the Friday we arrived in Kerrville, local authorities with the help of the FBI foiled a white supremacist’s plot to shoot up a Walmart. In Dallas, Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security advisor who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia, and was promptly pardoned by 45, spoke at a gathering of conspiracy theorists and endorsed a Myanmartype military coup here. And Sunday night, Democratic legislators in Texas walked out to prevent the passing of one of the most restrictive voting bills in the country.

It doesn’t take much to see that our very democracy is at an inflection point.

On the way back to Fort Worth Sunday, we twice had to dodge turtles crossing the road. We did it and managed to not injure any reptiles or ourselves in our quick maneuverings. I can’t vouch if those migratory creatures made it to the other side of the road alive. Just like I can’t vouch for American democracy remaining. l This editorial reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily the Fort Worth Weekly. The Weekly welcomes all manner of political submissions. They will be edited for clarity and factuality. Please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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I’m sitting in the dark every night and sweating to the oldies because I don’t want to burden the grid.

The grid that failed us during the snowstorm.

The same grid that Gov. Greg Abbott said was fixed just last week.

And the very same grid that is hamstringing families like mine now because it already can’t be counted on to keep us cool after the first few days of the upper 90s.

My nightmare is that just as soon as I’m about to perform an abortion on a young Black woman who goes to church only twice a month (heathen), the power will go out, forcing me to tap into the magnetic 5G nanobots built into my bloodstream as a result of my recent COVID vaccination to be able to finish the procedure. There’s no telling what that kind of power drain would do to me. Worse, will I have the energy to be able to rub goat’s blood all over my belly while gyrating under the full

with one strapped to him like he’s some kind of Dirty Harry.

Here are measures we’ve been recommended to take by ERCOT, they of the disastrous power grid overseeing: Turn off and unplug any unnecessary lights and equipment, crank the thermostat down to 78 degrees while at home and 82 (!) when away, use fans (what about unplugging stuff? never mind), don’t do laundry or use the dishwasher, don’t use your oven, and keep your house dark during the day.

And here is one measure to take when heading to the polls next year: Vote the suckers out.

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flew in the orange, rotten face of TFG’s antimask protestations. Hmm, I thought. Maybe Abbott is his own man. Of course, I was wrong.

Of course, Abbott and nearly every other conservative politician is afraid of “his base.”

“Does Trump approve?” was once “the yardstick” against which Republican legislators were regularly measured, as the Washington Post said in an analysis of recent polling data.

The new question is “Does Trump’s base approve?” — “a different and trickier calculus,” the Post says.

Not only does “his base” vote, but they will storm your offices and murder or maim you.

“That was the concern: that this often-vocal group, a small subset of which had stormed the Capitol the prior month, would turn on them,” meaning U.S. Republican lawmakers.

An entire political party held hostage by conspiracy theorists and gun fetishists and conspiracy theorizing gun fetishists. Remember that. Next time your timeline is stained

by Ted Cruz doing something “patriotic,” like reciting the “Pledge of Allegiance,” which is still honored everywhere in our republic, ask yourself: Am I looking at a pol in the greatest nation the world has ever known, or is that just a big, fat, hairy Cancun-loving coward? The answer is as obvious as Sweaty Teddy’s Dos Equis belly beneath his sport coat.

In the time between the snowstorm and now, Abbott and his goons did absolutely nothing, not one single thing, about ending blackouts. What the bums did do was restrict women’s reproductive rights, make it harder to vote, whine about Critical Race Theory, and allow any jackass with a gun to walk around

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moon with Chuck and Nancy later on? Speaking of my fellow Demoncrats, will we be able to keep the children fed that we have locked up in local pizzerias around the country until that glorious grid comes back online?

Questions like these keep me up at night.

You know who’s not awake worrying about electricity? Greg Abbott. And Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. And every other politician, left or right, who bivouacs in Austin. They will be just as fine as they were during the snowstorm that robbed my family of power for three days and clean water for a week. That snowstorm that cost as much as $130 billion in damages in Texas alone, according to AccuWeather, and that killed dozens of fellow Texans can’t be forgotten about too soon, no matter how many shiny baubles Abbott dangles in front of the press to convince us otherwise. The man and the lege had months to prepare for triple digits.

Instead, he and his fellow “patriots” in Austin have been trying to appease The Former Guy’s base by fighting insane culture wars. I hope that when Abbott moseys out there to make his big announcement about his dumb border wall next week, the whole state blacks out. Just long enough for him to turn tail and go home.

That’s it. The downside would be that I’d have to postpone payment to all of the coyotes I’ve hired to run illegals across the Rio Grande, which would actually not be a problem at all because magnetic 5G nanobots, duh!

I’m still proud of my state. I’m proud of all the street fighters looking for social, economic, and environmental justice and all of the good, high-IQ leaders we’ve elected. In a weird way, I had hope for Abbott. The source of my inspiration was his mask mandate that

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(1245 Bedford Rd, 817-925-1430), see the Stars Theatre Company production of Oklahoma!, the first musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Set in the farm country outside Claremore, OK, in Indian Territory in 1906, Oklahoma! tells the story of farm girl Laurey Williams and two young men who are really into her. Tickets are $15 at StarsTheaterCompany.org.

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Mondays are Family Movie Night at local metaphysical shop Monday Maven’s Moon (1111 Roberts Cut Off Rd, River Oaks, 817367-9235). Today at 8pm, see Up, the computer-animated comedy/adventure Pixar film from 2009. The cost of $10 per family includes your first bowl of popcorn and bottled water for up to four people.

There will also be a snack bar open for purchasing, well, snacks.

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At 6-9pm, attend a free viewing of Force of Nature, a new group Thursday exhibition showcasing the natural world in a series of abstract and figurative works. The show features pieces by Andrew Abbott, Luciana Abait, Lee Albert Hill, Marshall Harris, Michele Kishita, and Nathan Madrid at Cufflink Art (120 St. Louis Av, Ste 149, Fort Worth, 817-489-5059), a modern/contemporary art gallery and seller of fine art books and prints in the South Main Village neighborhood. Force of Nature is on view thru Sat, Aug 21, by appointment.

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I have a soft spot in my heart for bands who’ve lost members and carried

on. Famously, the guys in Lynyrd Skynyrd almost lost everyone. (During the pandemic, I ordered Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash on pay-per-view and found the partbiopic/part-documentary movie to be quite compelling.) At 10pm tonight and Sat, see the current line-up/remaining members of Lynyrd Skynyrd as they grace the stage at Bob’s Texas (2520 Rodeo Plaza Rd, Fort Worth, 817-624-7117). Tickets are $50-200 at BillyBobsTexas.com.

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At 10:30am, the Fort Worth Opera presents Juneteenth Jamboree in Saturday partnership with Unity Unlimited for Opal’s Walk. This event includes a parade that will pass between

Bass Performance Hall (525 Commerce St, Fort Worth, 817-212-4280) and the Tarrant County Courthouse (100 E Weatherford St, Fort Worth, 817-884-1111). In addition to musical performances by Seth Clarke, Sheran Goodspeed and friends, Alexandria Jackson, Keron Jackson, and Audra Scott, there will be the historic 2.5-mile Opal’s Walk with Opal Lee, the Grandmother of Juneteenth. You can participate at the $10-20 level, but all levels of donations are welcomed. Register at OpalsWalk2DC. com/Juneteenth-2021.

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From 10am to 3pm, instructor Debbie Malone teaches the beginner Tuesday abstract watercolor class Ladies of Attitude Watercolor at Contempo Art Glass Gallery (1101 S Bowen Rd, Arlington, 817-673-2949). The course costs $60 per person and includes the supplies for several practice pieces and a 12-by-16-inch pièce de resistance to take home. Call to register.

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As the final screening of its Spirit Cinema Series, the Center of Unity (1650 Wednesday Hughes Rd, Grapevine, 817-488-1008) serves pizza and shows 1989’s Field of Dreams at 6pm. The film tells the story of an Iowa farmer inspired by a voice he can’t ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. There is no cost to attend, but you must RSVP at CenterofUnity.org. (The film is then discussed at Sunday services at 10:30am online and in-person if that also interests you.) #IfYouBuildItTheyWillCome

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From 11am to 2pm, you can enjoy a Father’s Day Mariachi Brunch at El Patio Mex-Tex Restaurant (4400 Hwy 121, Lewisville, 972-410-2096) featuring carved brisket, an egg station, dessert bar, sopa de mariscos, verde enchiladas, a waffle bar, and more, plus live music

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Beret’s Survival Story of the Fort Hood Shooting — recount his testimony. In addition, all fathers will receive a gift.

This event is free to attend.

Who done it? Find out this weekend.

At 11am-3:30pm Sun, Bendt Distilling Co (225 S Charles St, Lewisville, 214-8140545) — known around the world for being one of the first to make hand sanitizer from

its runoff booze early in the pandemic — hosts Oaked & Smoked V: A Celebration of Dad. Reservations available for 11am, noon, and 2pm. General admission tickets are $35 for adults and $15 for kids 12 and under. Your admission includes a barbecue lunch prepared by Chef Ken Rathbun, live music, and craft spirit/whiskey samples for the 21+ crowd. There are also special “Dad” tickets from $55-95 that include a sweet treat to take home, a certificate for a future tour for two guests, and a 750ml engraved bottle of spirits at each of the three ticket price points. Reserve your tickets at BendtDistillingCo.com/Tour-Booking.

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City Chapel (4015 W I-20, Arlington, 817-561-1295) has a very special guest at its Father’s Day Service. At 10am Sun, hear combat veteran John Arroyo — author of Attacked at Home: A Green

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At noon-6pm Sat, Trinity River Distillery (1734 E El Paso St, Ste 130, Fort Worth, 817-841-2837) has a special gift for dads at its whiskey bar and distillery at the Silver Star Saturday event, including on-site cigar rolling thru 5pm. Food is available for purchase from Smiley’s BBQ. Distillery tours are $27.06 and can be booked at SilverstarSpirits.com.

Saving Hope Rescue will also be on hand doing fundraising and dog adoptions, so you can end the day by becoming a #PupParent.

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If by celebrating dads, you mean crawdads (I’ll see myself out), the Stockyards is the place to be. At 11am-7:30pm Sat, head to the Father’s Day Last Yee Haw Crawfish Boil in the Fort Worth Stockyards (131 E Exchange Av, 817625-9715). For the price of $10 per pound — with no limit on the number of pounds you buy — you will be loaded with corn, potatoes, and live jazz by the Big Easy Brass Band. Purchase your pounds at the ticket booth onsite or reserve ahead of time via the Eventbrite.com page.

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Does your dad like Westerns? How about mysteries? Many fathers do. Every Friday and Saturday thru Nov 13, the Lone Star Murder Mystery troupe at Texas Star Dinner Theater (816 S Main St, Grapevine, 817-310-5588) is performing Dead, Dead on the Range. For the price of admission, you get a three-course plated dinner of beef, chicken, fish, or veggie, your choice of coffee, tea, or water, and a seasonal dessert, plus an entertaining 90-minute show about bringing a cattle baron’s murderer to justice in 1880s Texas. Tickets are $59.95 per person (tax/gratuity not included) at TexasStarDinnerTheater.com. Doors open at 7pm, dinner is served at 7:30pm, and the show starts at 8pm. As this show often sells out, purchasing tickets in advance is strongly recommended.

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those attending will be in the know! Also coming the THEATER are American Aquarium with Morgan Wade on Monday, June 28; the great Bastards of Souls on Saturday, July 10; on Friday, July 23, there’s a Ghost Tour and Investigation of the supernatural happenings in this historically ethereal venue. On the lighter side, Saturday, August 14, brings Candid Camera’s LOL Tour with Peter Funt.

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In taking over the former Pier 1 building, is Fort Worth thumbing its nose at us?

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On the heels of a municipal election that brought in a slate of new faces to Fort Worth City Council, many of whom campaigned on a more open and responsive city government, one committed to addressing the inequities that divide west and east Fort Worth, the city, months before, thought moving into the former Pier 1 headquarters in 2022 was a good idea.

It’s somewhat ironic because accessible, equitable, and municipal, it is not.

When the architecture firm Duda|Paine of Durham, North Carolina, was commissioned to design the headquarters for the retailer in the early 2000s, it faced a difficult task. The property, for one, was in the Central Business District but as far as one could get from the bustle of downtown.

Building a tower was without a doubt on executives’ minds. Towers enhance skylines, and a big skyline signals confidence, power, and strength. The goal was for everyone to see it. Yet the location is more in tune with the nearby Trinity River than with the street. The team had to at once deal with the hubris that comes with creating a corporate headquarters in an urban core as well as the fact that it was removed from the same core. And they had to do it for Pier 1, a go-to source for overpriced incense and wicker for suburbanites.

After surveying the area, Duda|Paine crafted a handsome 20-story steel and glass building that looks like a man’s torso, with a deeply sunken butterfly roof.

Light illuminates from the top all the way down the sides It is similar to their Frost Bank Tower in Austin, but, instead of sharp roof edges, that one has a crown. It

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was designed as a corporate headquarters, expressing confidence. It was not designed to be a city hall.

Yet thanks to a fast one pulled by city council last December, it will be.

That’s when, within days of announcing plans to purchase it, they swiftly and unanimously voted to buy it. There was no dissent, much less discussion about the rapid decision-making rate and lack of transparency that came with buying it. The mayor and council parroted the following lines: They had to move fast because the window to buy it was closing; it’s fiscally prudent and a better deal than building a new one for an estimated $250 million; it will consolidate offices currently spread

out across downtown; it is better looking than Edward Durrell Stone’s City Hall, a frequent target of bullying by citizens and the city. The purchase additionally did not require voter approval because the $100 million price tag instead is financed using tax notes, which allow the city to immediately purchase it and to pay it off later. The purchase was also former Mayor Betsy Price’s last big contribution to the city before announcing her retirement.

The last time a city hall was built locally was in 1971. City leaders mounted a campaign parroting similar lines about the need to consolidate departments spread across the city, but the public was also actively involved. They were able

to take a vote. What became the third people’s house was a modern stone and glass building centered around an atrium, the lower level of which was designed as a one-stop customer service center. It, too, was designed to induct a new era for Fort Worth as well. Designed by Stone, a famous New York architect, the flat modernist building gets its fair share of bullying by the public and elected officials alike who deem it inefficient.

It wasn’t always that way: Small features, including a fountain and pond (later replaced with a garden), welcomed citizens. Other changes decimated the municipal experience, including a nationwide epidemic in the 20th century that left urban cores to rot.

As with its predecessor, the idea of a new city hall was rooted in fiscal prudence and government efficiency. A new, tall city hall is also about showing Fort Worth as a major player on the global field. For Price, who served as mayor for a decade and saw the city rise in population amid rapid changes, this building aligns with the goal of creating that new city. A New Fort Worth is rightfully or wrongfully rooted in implementing the city’s modest economic development plan from 2017, which emphasizes diversifying the tax base by attracting emerging industries.

In his new book City Hall: Masterpieces of American Civic Architecture, photographer and writer Arthur Drooker documents 15 of the country’s most distinct city halls, from San Francisco to Buffalo. He believes city halls have the chance to empower the citizenry through bold design and accessibility. In the introduction, Thomas Mellins, an architectural historian, writes that the halls selected by Drooker were built to express civic pride and show the cities were at the forefront of change politically, economically, and architecturally. Not all the city halls deserve to win awards, he notes, but they were designed with the citizenry in mind.

That’s what makes the decision to acquire Pier 1 so disappointing. It may bring departments together, offer more parking for citizens, and have a nice view of downtown, but it’s a lost chance to create a city hall that serves as “a community’s living room,” as former San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales said upon the opening of their Richard Meier-designed hall.

Even worse, we further cheapened the expectations of our government and betrayed the confidence of our younger, riled-up electorate.

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Sidesaddle Saloon

In bustling Mule Alley in the Stockyards, this new gem from restaurateur Sarah Castillo pays tribute to cowgirls in all their gritty, glamourous glory.

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A gagged damsel in distress lies tied against railroad tracks surrounded by barren land. A whistle announces the impending doom of a distant locomotive as the masculine hero and villain are at fisticuffs. When the protagonist prevails, he saves the damsel right in the nick o’ time from sheer death, a scene played out in Western films for decades. What we never saw were the heroines or female outlaws of the era known as the Wild West.

Cowgirls like Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane were often left out of the onscreen action, although their tough-as-nails demeanors and bawdy reputations could ride in tandem with Buffalo Bill Cody and Doc Holliday.

Much like those women of tenacity, restaurateur Sarah Castillo deserves as much — if not more — recognition as her male counterparts. She embodies the entrepreneurial and pioneering spirit of the West. In the early years, her Taco Heads food

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truck was among the first in North Texas with a semi-permanent location, behind Poag Mahone’s, feeding the sober and notso-sober alike. I generally fell into the latter category but the quality I experienced wasn’t lost in my inebriated state.

She later opened a brick-and-motor location on Montgomery Street ahead of the construction boom and another location on trendy Henderson Avenue in Dallas (since closed). In early 2020, her Tinie’s Mexican Cuisine, upscale and rooted in authenticity, opened in the South Main neighborhood. Years in the making, the opening was brief after being thwarted

by COVID. The restaurant has since fully reopened, and the area is again thriving.

Her ambition and foresight to lock down leases in up-and-coming neighborhoods is uncanny, which led to her latest venture, this one in Mule Alley.

Off the main walkway of the trendy locale, the neon silhouette of a cowgirl hovers above the entrance to Sidesaddle Saloon mere steps from Marine Creek. The barroom’s finish out is a duality of Western chic and Art Deco, with soaring ceilings that tend to amplify a small crowd into sounding large and raucous. Neil Young and Dolly Parton share the airwaves, and departed animals and vintage photos share walls accentuated with scalloped gold fixtures.

The bar offers the best seats in the house and why not. It is a saloon. The cocktail list reads as a curtsy to the females of Western lore, and a giant mural of cowgirls in the dining area captures that motif perfectly. And after tasting several selections off the cocktail list, I noticed another characteristic. Not all beverages retained the bold personality of their namesakes, many of whom are honored at the National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame, across the street from Taco Heads, incidentally.

Gunslingers Belle Star and Pearl Star are near identical drinks made with Fort Worth’s Silver Star vodka and strawberry aloe syrup separated by citrus (lemon and lime), bitters, and mint. Perhaps a miscue by the bartenders, both beverages were served with mint, prompting an overpowering flavor that left the strawberry syrup and bitters nearly undetectable with corrections not remedied.

Hall of Famer Wilma Mankiller, who was inducted in 1994, was a Native-

Led by a cowgirl of sorts herself, Sidesaddle Saloon is a welcome retreat amid a sea of beer joints.

American Cherokee activist who was the first woman to be elected as chief of the Cherokee Nation, a position she would hold for a decade. A drink of the same name starts with vodka, followed by dry curacao, a hibiscus syrup, and lime. The taste was light and floral as expected, though it felt as if it were holding back on being audacious. The opposite of Mankiller’s legacy.

Prairie Rose Henderson, another Hall of Famer, is known as the first female professional bronc rider and champion to boot. Also the recipient of a drink named after her here. Either intentionally made to be light-bodied or an accidental easy pour of the hooch, the bourbon Texas tea with raspberry and rose water offered only a faint hint of bourbon in what we were hoping to have more hitch in the giddy-up.

Still, if effervescent flavors in time for the triple digits are what you’re shooting for, the above drinks will suffice. If you’re longing for something to put hair on your chest, Sidesaddle can still oblige.

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Sidesaddle Saloon’s presence is a welcomed reprieve from the whiskey and Coke-ladened bars that dot the surrounding terrain, especially after the closure of beloved cocktail bar Niles City Saloon. Castillo continues to blaze new trails for female entrepreneurs while contributing to the local hospitality industry. And that’s something we can tip our hats to. l

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by Knice 2 Know, James Ross, and Johnnie Judah, plus several barbecue vendors will be on hand. This event is free to attend.

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6.) Back in March, more than 100 members of the North Texas Burmese community gathered outside the Fort Worth Convention Center to raise awareness about the military coup and subsequent violence in their home country, Myanmar. (Read more about this at FWWeekly.com.) At 4pm-7pm Sat, Jun 26, the DFW Myanmar Ethnic Community (@DFWMayanmarEthnicCommunity) invites you to learn about its culinary culture at the Second Annual Food Fair & CDM Fundraiser at Dallas Chin Baptist Church (9850 Walnut St, Dallas, 214-575-5160). (For those unaware — myself included — CDM is short for “Civil Disobedience Movement,” a nonviolent form of protest.) Admission is free, and food coupons can be purchased onsite for $5 each or three for $10.

7.) As part of its Live with Locals monthly series, the Meadows Museum (5900 Bishop Blvd, Dallas, 214-768-2516) presents Live Virtual Cooking Class: The Spanish Paella Experience on Sat, Jul 10, at 11am. In this month’s program, Arantxa Lamas Gastrolamas — a Madrid local

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5.) At 6:30pm Thu, Jun 24, the Meadows Museum has a special in-person version of its Culture Corner Live (usually virtual) event. At Tapas & Crafts, learn how to make custom toile ornaments and paper roses. Tickets are $30 and include DIY tapas-to-go provided by a local chef and a link to an instructional video to recreate the experience later on at home. Call the box office at 214-768-8587 to participate.

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Roxanne McLarry is returning as the GM, and Jett Mora — a veteran WPC chef — is leading the culinary team. Beverages will showcase local spirits, while the food menu will focus on comfort delights with a global influence. Indoor and outdoor patio seating is available. For reservations, go to OpenTable.com or call 817-840-2157.

8.) The City of Murphy is getting into the festival game, for the fifth time, with Tunes, Tails & Ales Craft Beer Festival on Sat, Jul 17, from 2pm to 8pm at Murphy Central Park (550 N Murphy Rd, 972-4684444). Along with craft beer tastings, there will be crawfish, five food trucks, a kid zone, local Texas wine for sale by the glass, and a concert featuring Graceland Ninjaz, Jay B & The Zydeco Posse, and the Texas Bluesmen Band. Tickets are $32-52 at MurphyCraftBeerFest.com, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Murphy Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Fund.

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My meeting with Local Famous Records co-founders Anthony Sosa (Temporal Distortions) and Michael Garcia (Double Bear) started with a handshake and ended with hugs — and at its core, that singular interaction is what Local Famous Records is all about.

Sosa and Garcia are just two of the ever-expanding crew at Local Famous Records.

If you’re like me (or, at least, like I was before I met up with the guys), you may have quite a few questions about what Local Famous Records actually is. I had heard a few people talking about them, and

HearSay James Cook’s Other Side of Hell

On his new album, soul singer-songwriter James Cook goes from the end of the world to the place where he wanted to be all along.

Produced by Bart Rose at his Fort Worth Sound studio (The Toadies, Asleep at the Wheel, Larry Joe Tayler), The Other Side of Hell is a collection of 10 Cook originals that benefit from a stellar lineup of contributors, including Voice alum and Fort Worth bro Luke Wade, Courtney Patton, Sarah Hobbs, and Jeff Grossman with drummer Ricci Amador, bassists Ian Clark and Tim Maloney, and Zack Holiday on pedal steel and electric guitar.

The Other Side of Hell is a concept album that takes a chronological look at Cook’s personal struggles before and after meeting the person who would save his life. The Wichita Falls native’s penchant for engrossing narrative lyrics and riveting vocals delivers quite a punch. Equal parts

grit, sorrow, and heart, the songs are a blend of roots, folk-rock, gospel, country, and Southern blues.

Cook said the openness of his savior, wife Stacie Cook, allowed him to emerge from darkness to be where he is now.

“What You’re Doing to Me” is a sparse, breezy peek into the beginnings of Cook and Stacie’s courtship, while “We Both Know Better,” a powerful midtempo Americana-tinged track, features memorable harmonies with songbird Hobbs. Personal accountability forms the basis of the bluesy rocker “No One’s Leaving Here Alive,” and “Skipping Stones” changes gear for Cook to learn the value of patience. “Easy On My Mind” finds the singer at his most soulful and grateful.

The album, Cook said, is “the story of me losing myself, finding hope, and discovering what I’m made of and what I’m made for.”

The stunningly beautiful “Truth and Beauty” brings the album to a close with its sweeping gospel-tinged arrangements and flourishes of strings, horns, and vocal

to meet people to create with, and how to break out into the industry in general. This is where Local Famous Records comes in.

“Calling it a label just gives it some weird form of legitimacy,” Sosa said. “We aren’t a ‘real’ record label. We aren’t trying to make money and sign bands and send them on tour or whatever. It’s more about ‘Hey, let’s build this community of local artists and musicians.’ The label doesn’t take a cut. It’s just a platform for the artist.”

“We came up with the idea of being a collective more so than a label,” Garcia added. “Calling it a label is just the easiest way to describe what we do.”

“My life was at its lowest when I met her,” he said. “Many friends had written me off because of my poor choices. My attitude toward others was always pessimistic, and I had personal problems piled a mile high. I just wanted to be alone so as to not hurt or bother anyone. Stacie did more than love me. She showed me how to love others, how to start seeing the good in life and greatness in others. She showed me kindness, how to deal with my emotions, and how to stay focused on the things I want. She’s the reason I am who I am today, and for that I am forever grateful.”

Finding a good place to start writing while bemoaning a year’s worth of canceled shows only motivated Cook, who uses his music to support Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Red River.

Though he said he’s “constantly in Cook: The album is “the story of me losing Fort Worth” — he played at Magnolia myself, finding hope, and discovering what I’m made of and what I’m made for.”

Motor Lounge not too long ago — he spreads his tunes across North Texas and help from Wade as Cook conveys nearly Oklahoma. His next local gig will be Jul six minutes of genuine, heartfelt reflection 2 at Bob’s Off the Square in Granbury. — Juan R. Govea and peace.

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Sosa: “It’s more about ‘Hey, let’s build this community of local artists and musicians.’

The label doesn’t take a cut.”

And what they mainly do is network their asses off. Local Famous Records is sort of like crowdfunding industry connections. Everyone involved knows a few people with resources in the music industry. Someone knows an engineer, someone knows someone with a studio, someone knows a PR guy. Through this expanding network of connections, Local Famous Records aims to build a tighter community of Fort Worth musicians and elevate and empower them to be successful in all of their endeavors.

“Our three- to five-year goal would be to have a physical space, to do shows, festivals, whatever,” Sosa said. “We wanna have a venue. We wanna have practice spaces. We wanna do it all.”

Sosa has lofty goals for the organization but ones that he’s confident will be achievable. Local Famous Records is a legacy project, he said, and it’s one that aims to create something greater than the sum of its parts. Their goal is to organize more shows, more festivals, and help people make more, lasting connections in their local scene. Sosa even mentioned the idea of expanding and helping other people open local chapters of Local Famous Records in their own towns, all over the country.

The first big, organized event from Local Famous is taking place Friday at Lola’s Trailer Park. Since the idea for this collective was born during the pandemic, this will be the first time that everyone who is a part of Local Famous Records will be in the same place at the same time.

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seen a little here and there on social media, but prior to this meeting, I really couldn’t wrap my head around what was going on.

Was it a record label? A tongue-in-cheek name for a band? Some kind of creative conglomerate?

Turns out the answer is, Local Famous Records is a little bit of everything.

Sosa and Garcia have been a part of the local scene since the early 2000s, but the idea for Local Famous Records was actually born out of last summer’s Black Lives Matter marches.

“Organizing [protests] is like the same thing musicians do,” Sosa said. “Having a band practice is the same as having a meeting. We’re all working towards a common goal. Except in that instance, rather than it being a song or a record we’re trying to put out, it was this local issue that we were trying to fix, but I wanted to do that in the music scene too.”

Local Famous Records is not a record label in the traditional sense of the word.

At its base, the idea around Local Famous Records is to build community and to give artists a platform to have their music heard.

Anyone who’s lived in Fort Worth for more than, oh, 15 minutes knows that North Texas is expanding quickly. And it’s not getting denser. Fort Worth has stretched and sprawled to the point where it encompasses over 300 square miles.

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