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Might in Flight

Arresting fleeing Dems carries little apparent weight since the ones who fled the state to break quorum are beyond the jurisdiction of Texas law enforcement.

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A showdown in the Texas House was locked into place Tuesday after the chamber voted overwhelmingly to send law enforcement after Democrats who left the state a day earlier in protest of a GOP priority elections legislation.

More than 50 House Democrats left Monday for Washington, D.C., to deny the chamber a quorum — the minimum number of lawmakers needed to conduct business — as it takes up voting restrictions and other Republican priorities in a special session.

That agenda, set by Gov. Greg Abbott, includes House Bill 3 and Senate Bill 1,

Static Gov. Greg Abbott’s 30-day special session, which he called after Texas Republicans failed to pass legislation that cracks down on state voting laws in May, is on track to be a partisan circus. In addition to restrictive new elections legislation, Abbott has also revived an assortment of other red-meat entrails that the GOP failed to get through in the regular session, which featured a slew of conservative victories, from a near-ban on abortions to permitless gun carry.

Rattled by threats posed by primary challengers, Tea Party darlings Allen West (Texas GOP chair) and former state senator Don Huffines, Abbott filled his special session agenda with fodder for the conservative culture wars, including additional funding for border security theatrics, protections for conservatives against purported censorship by social media platforms, restricting trans kids from competing in school sports, more restrictions on abortion, an overhaul of state bail law to undermine local reforms, and a purported ban on Critical Race Theory (CRT) that will further micromanage how history and race can be taught in Texas schools. Abbott also included the restoration of funding for the legislative branch, which he defunded with a budget veto last month ostensibly as a threat to ensure that Democratic legislators behave during the special session.

The regular session, which ended on Memorial Day, ended with more drama and finger-pointing than usual.

Despite strong majorities in both chambers, GOP leaders botched their push to

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enact Senate Bill 7, a sweeping elections crackdown package. After a secretive, last-minute rewrite of the bill added a slate of controversial provisions, including limiting Sunday early voting hours and allowing judges to overturn election results if voter fraud is discovered, Republicans rushed to pass the overhauled bill without debate. The rush prompted a dramatic walkout by House Democrats, breaking quorum and killing the bill.

In the aftermath, House and Senate Republicans blamed each other for the demise of the marquee bill, but neither took credit for the last-minute additions. Yet Abbott saved his wrath for the Democrats, immediately pledging to call a special session to pass elections legislation and revive his bail overhaul bill, a casualty of the walkout that would have given the governor more control of the bail system and then vetoing the section of the state budget that funds the legislative branch.

The autocratic ploy — which is being challenged in court — would effectively defund the Legislature beginning Sept. 1, a move purportedly meant to force Democratic lawmakers to acquiesce in the special session. As Abbott later acknowledged, legislators’ pay — which is constitutionally mandated — would be untouched. The victims of his veto would actually be the 2,100 legislative staffers and employees at the Legislature’s nonpartisan agencies, including the Legislative Council, which drafts bills and will be responsible for drawing the state’s political maps when lawmakers undertake redistricting in yet another special session this fall.

Despite Abbott’s threat, Democrats have pledged that all tactics and strategies remain on the table as the GOP prepares

the election legislation at hand that would make a number of changes to Texas’ voting system, such as banning drive-thru and 24-hour voting options and further restricting the state’s voting-by-mail rules. Over the weekend, both House and Senate committees advanced the election bills.

The impact of the House move is unclear since Texas law enforcement lacks jurisdiction in the nation’s capital. At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, though, Rep. Jim Murphy, a Houston Republican who chairs the House GOP Caucus, acknowledged that state authorities can’t force Democrats to return.

“We want them to come back — that’s our message,” Murphy said.

Meeting shortly after 10 a.m., the House quickly established that it lacked the twothirds quorum required to do business, with only 80 of 150 members participating in a test vote.

Then Rep. Will Metcalf (R-Conroe), chair of the House Administration Committee, moved to issue what is known as a “call of the House” to try to regain quorum. That motion passed 76-4. Metcalf offered another motion, asking that “the sergeant at arms, or officers appointed by him, send for all absentees … under warrant of arrest if necessary,” effectively making the missing Democrats legislative fugitives. That motion also passed 76-4.

to push through its agenda. House Democrats used the past few weeks to sound the alarm on national newscasts and in Washington, D.C., where they visited the White House and met with Democratic members of Congress to urge them to pass legislation that will restore federal voting rights protections.

Without federal action, both Democrats and voting rights advocates worry that Texas Republicans will be able to ram through an even more punishing voter suppression bill than the one they presented in the regular session.

“That was the threat that they made before we walked out,” State Rep. Nicole Collier, a Fort Worth Democrat, told the Texas Tribune. “They said, ‘You know, if we have to come back, this bill will be worse.’ We saw some of the harmful provisions in the original Senate version, and we expect for them to bring those back.”

Republican leaders appear to be intent on passing elections legislation as quickly as possible. On Wednesday — the eve of the special session’s start, before a bill had even been filed — Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pledged that the Senate would hold hearings on the legislation over the weekend. They did, and the measure passed. House Speaker Dade Phelan then announced that the House would do the same with its own elections bill.

Meanwhile, will the Legislature devote any of its time to issues that are actually important to Texans, like ensuring that the power grid keeps operating and lights and air conditioners stay running this summer? No need, Abbott says.

Most experts say the legislature’s grid reform bills are far from enough to prevent another catastrophic blackout, but when signing them into law last month, Abbott triumphantly declared

mission accomplished.

“Bottom line is that everything that needed to be done was done to fix the power grid in Texas,” he said.

In a later press release, he insisted, “These laws will improve the reliability of the electric grid to ensure these problems never happen again.”

Yet high demand for electricity this summer pushed the state grid to the brink and prompted the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to call on Texans last month to conserve energy to prevent another round of blackouts.

This week, Abbott pulled an aboutface, saying that “more can be done” and calling on his appointees at the Public Utility Commission — which regulates the state power market — to take a number of “immediate actions” to incentivize the construction of new power generation and ensure the reliability of existing facilities. He also revived his crusade to scapegoat renewable energy for the state’s grid failures by ordering his commissioners to institute penalties on wind and solar generators, a ploy that renewable energy advocates managed to kill during the regular session.

Apparently, Abbott believes he and his appointees can fix the grid by themselves, Legislature be damned — and defunded. — Justin Miller A version of this story originally appeared in the Texas Observer.

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House Republicans crowded around the speaker’s desk Tuesday to discuss a point of order attempting to strip absent members of their committee appointments.

Asked whether there was tension among members, Morales said he did not sense any.

“It could be the relationships that I have built across the aisle, but I didn’t sense that tension,” he said. “Everyone is coming up to me and thanking me, even though they know I’m against” HB 3.

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Austin would have to start with Abbott reversing his veto of funding for the legislative branch.

Democrats are challenging the governor in court over that veto, which Abbott issued after two of his priority bills — including the election legislation — died after House Democrats walked out of the chamber in the final hours of the regular session. Funding for the Legislature, staffers and legislative agencies is set to run out Aug. 31.

By early Tuesday afternoon, members on the House floor were grouped around desks or visiting with Phelan near the front of the chamber.

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interview that any Democrats who fled the state should lose their committee leadership posts.

“Of course, any Democrat who is a member of any leadership, such as a chairman of a committee — they should be losing their job,” Abbott told Lubbock radio host Chad Hasty.

Meanwhile, House Democrats held a news conference Tuesday morning in D.C. reiterating their intention to stay outside of the state through the end of the special session.

Rep. Chris Turner, who chairs the House Democratic Caucus, said any negotiations about Democrats returning to

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Metcalf ’s motions were opposed by four Democrats who were present on the House floor Tuesday morning: Reps. Ryan Guillen of Rio Grande City, Tracy King of Batesville, Eddie Morales Jr. of Eagle Pass, and John Turner of Dallas.

Morales told the Tribune later Tuesday that he stayed in Austin because he thinks his constituency “expects” him to stay behind.

“I believe that my efforts would be best if I stuck around here and fought the fight here,” he said, adding that he supported his Democratic colleagues who had left the state.

Under a call of the House, according to chamber rules, all entrances or doors leading out of the hall are locked, and members are not permitted to leave without permission in writing from the speaker.

Morales said members had been told informally that House Speaker Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont) planned to excuse lawmakers daily in the afternoons as long as the chamber is under a call of the House.

“We don’t have to be here 24/7,” he said.

Around 2:30 p.m., Phelan told members that the chamber would stand at ease until 11 a.m. Wednesday and released them for the day as he handed out permission slips for them to exit the chamber.

After Metcalf ’s motions passed, Rep. Tony Tinderholt, (R-Arlington) sought to move to strip absent Democrats of their committee leadership posts if they do not return by noon Wednesday. The motion did not immediately get a vote, and in a subsequent exchange with Rep. Morgan Meyer (R-Dallas), Phelan said committee chairs and vice chairs cannot be removed from their positions under the current chamber rules.

Earlier Tuesday, Abbott said in a radio

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The intersection of sexism, homophobia, and other forms of bigotry leaves some in the local LGBTQ+ community searching for harassment-free places to socialize.

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ith COVID-19 cases steadily on the decline, the Crystal Methyd PRIDE Celebration at the Urban Cowboy Saloon on the East Side last month promised a rare night out for the group of friends. Jess (she/her), Jovan (he/him), B (she/they), and G (she/her) — who all self-identify as LGBTQ+ and Latinx — said the bar had a reputation for being heavily white and heavily cisgender, the term for people whose gender matches their sex at birth. “Cis” is a common abbreviation of cisgender.

“I saw that it was a white-dominated space, and that didn’t make me or my other queer friends feel safe,” B said. “We have been in these situations before. We had our guards up.”

The friends arrived around 11 p.m. and perched behind a row of VIP tables before the Crystal Methyd show. A group of middle-aged white men pushed their way toward the VIP tables and allegedly told the four friends, “Move, move, move, you broke bitches,” B said.

The friends decided not to react and to make the best of the situation.

One of the men at the VIP table allegedly “touched my friend,” B said. “I didn’t appreciate that. He did the same thing to me. That’s when I spoke up.”

I don’t appreciate you touching us, B told the man.

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The man allegedly responded aggressively and told the four friends that he knew the owner. The four friends said someone claiming to be the owner came to chastise them without questioning the behavior of the men at the VIP table.

Jovan was in line getting a drink several yards away when he saw what happened next.

“That’s when I see [the man] push G,” Jovan said. “He was 5-foot-9. She is 5’1’’.

Everyone is trying to get him off of her.

The table fell. The bartender jumps the bar with a bat. They are all yelling in our faces. ‘Get the fuck out. Get the fuck out.’

They are in my ear yelling with the drag queen saying, ‘Don’t look over there. Look over here. The show is over here.’ ” The group said one bartender taunted them by intentionally misgendering them as he pushed them out of the bar. B believes the bar staff targeted her friends for a reason.

“They saw a group of brown people and assumed we were the aggressors,” B said.

After realizing what happened, the man who had chastised the four friends earlier promised to “make it up” to them by offering them free drinks, B said. “I can go into a queer space as a brown, genderqueer person and assume that it’s supposed to be safe but still be approached by cis

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men who feel entitlement to my space and to my body. If I pleasantly voice my boundary, I am still met with aggression by cis men. In a queer space, we deserve better.”

In a public statement, the Urban Cowboy Saloon said, “At The Urban Cowboy Saloon, we strive for inclusion and a safe place for all every time our doors are open,” the statement read. “As Fort Worth’s largest LGBTQI+ nightclub, we do this by welcoming all, holding space for our

similarities and differences, and embracing that our space belongs to everyone. There are understandably teachable moments, and we strive to learn and grow. To keep a safe space, we train our employees to diffuse conflict swiftly, assess all sides of the situation, and resolve customer concerns.

We promote diversity and inclusion in this space to ensure a stronger community and a safer place for all.”

A 2020 poll by the Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan policy

Jovan: I went to a space in Dallas. Most of the music they play is in Spanish. The space is so inclusive. It’s people who look like me and speak the language I speak.

That is safety. A sense of community.

People are looking out for me, and I am looking out for them, but we are holding each other accountable.

white people.’ It is so automatic at this point.

Jovan: There was a time in my life when I didn’t want to identify my queerness with the spaces that I was in. I wanted to go to a lot of different bars. I went to a bar at the Stockyards. I brought a guy with me. We were kissing at the bar. We were followed. By the time I got to my car, all of my windows are bashed. I want to try these spaces. They aren’t always safe. It made me wonder what a safe space means.

For me, one person can’t make a space safe.

One owner can’t. It is a community effort.

It is people looking out for one another.

As a Mexican queer person, I know that this city is going to trust the white person first. I feel like I’m always going to be the perpetrator or the person who started it.

G: You do an assessment. How many white people are there? How many queer people

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appear to be in there? That’s the first thing I look for. If I felt safe enough, I might sit by myself or I might move on. If anything were to go down, I’m always going to be the problem. Because of my immigration status, it doesn’t matter if I am in the right.

How much am I going to be allowed to be myself without putting myself and others in danger?

Jess: Besides the rainbows there, [Urban Cowboy] didn’t feel like it was any safer than a regular straight bar. There should be spaces that are close to where we live.

We were talking about maybe going out in the future. We talked about going all the way to Dallas because there are places in Dallas that would be safe for us. As far as Fort Worth, I don’t feel there are any.

B: I never felt that I had a space here as a brown person. Growing into my queerness, that adds another level. I have escaped to

M: Do we create bars ourselves? Do we create change from within? Is there room for us to maneuver these structures that have been in place for decades that stem from white supremacy?

G: We have all of these gay spaces where there are older white men who feign [to have experienced] discrimination but completely fail to understand the intersection of being Mexican, brown, Black, a lesbian, or transgender. That’s what Fort Worth is missing. A safe space for everyone would mean that these white people start to recognize how all of these things intersect. They are always missing that point of how we can make a safe space for everyone else.

Jovan: The gay rights movement happened because a Black trans woman [Marsha P.

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Fort Worth’s gay-friendly bars are often packed with cisgender white males, which can leave Black and brown members of the LGBTQ+ community feeling left out.

G: One person cannot make a space safe.

An establishment can never be the part of it that makes it safe. What makes it safe is a community. If you can come to a place and know that everyone has your back and everyone would defend you, that is what makes a safe space.

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M: We know what the culture is in Fort Worth. You see a lot of older white gay men [in queer-friendly bars]. Because these spaces are some of the only spaces that are queer-centered, we try to have a good time. We’ll go, but I feel like we keep to ourselves. It is never a conscious direct thing where we are like, ‘Oh, here are these

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What is gay bar culture like in Fort Worth? What do you have to think about when going out?

Dallas to try to find my space over there.

It’s not concentrated in Fort Worth. Fort Worth has a specific way of going about it. As far as white dominance, cis male dominance, that’s worldwide.

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institute dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans, found that LGBTQ+ people continue to face disproportionately high levels of discrimination and other challenges. Just over 1,500 self-identified LGBTQ+ adults were interviewed for the survey. More than one in three LGBTQ+ Americans faced discrimination of some kind in the past year, according to the survey. Half of respondents reported “moderate or significant negative psychological impacts” as the result of past discrimination.

Republican state lawmakers are currently working to codify discrimination against transgender teenagers. One of Gov. Greg Abbott’s top priorities in the current special legislative session is a bill to ban public school athletes from competing on teams that align with the youth’s gender identity. Texas led the nation in the filing of anti-LGBTQ+ bills this past session, according to Equality Texas, a political advocacy organization that supports the full equality of the Texas LGBTQ+ community.

One week after the incident at The Urban Cowboy Saloon, B, G, Jess, Jovan, and M (he/him) met me at Liberty Lounge on the Near Southside to discuss what safe spaces for marginalized groups can and should look like. M, who is Latinx, wasn’t at Urban Cowboy that evening, but he has had similar experiences, he said.

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You can be kicked out of your church or a place of worship. There are so many other things that go along with the need for having a safe space. That’s why we are advocating for this. A lot of us have been disowned by our families. A lot of us have been kicked out of our churches. It needs to change.

Jovan: I know Fort Worth prides itself on being gay-friendly. Fort Worth city council recognized Pride Month, but they won’t fly the pride flag in government offices. It’s just a flag, but that symbolism is not just for queer people. It would speak volumes that the city was not going to tolerate discrimination from people who are against LGTBQ people.

B: Having safe spaces is monumental because we look for these safe spaces. We know that we are not going to get the same comfort or validation to even minimally be seen at our places of work. You can easily get fired by even saying your pronouns.

G: I know Tarrant went blue. We are on the verge of making that commitment to change. What I want to say is, “Progressive white people, you are out there. Fucking speak up, not just by voting but by making safe spaces for people. White people, show

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people make less money than white people.

M: We keep saying “safety,” but for who?

Safety for [white men and women] is achieved through violence. That same thing can be seen within structures and relations between bartenders and clients, police to civilians, and how those interactions go. White people are kept safe through violence against people of color.

There are parallels.

Last month’s LGBT Pride Month was locally led by cisgender men, according to the group of friends.

Johnson] decided it was enough. White spaces, whether straight or queer, have always been safe for white people.

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J: Look at the Pride Month advertisements.

It is mostly cis gay white men because they are appealing to a product that they can afford. Historically, Black and brown

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up for other people.” Honestly, what queer people need are white bodies on the line, white bodies to be in front of us when anything goes down. If we keep defending ourselves as brown people, the risks are higher for us. The reckoning needs to happen. Fort Worth is a majority [person of color] city, which means there are more people at risk [of experiencing racism and bigotry] than there are people who feel safe. Those with privilege need to stand up for us. I’m not asking for a white savior. If you are going to vote blue, make the real change. Make it within yourself. Don’t just be a liberal on paper.

M: Mainly, what we are looking for as queer people of color is solidarity.

Historically, the way these movements have progressed is through coalitions between marginalized communities. We need places where [marginalized people can] make themselves heard. Knowing that people accept you and won’t misgender you, they won’t be actively hostile toward you. You don’t always know that when you are entering a room full of white people. Look at conservative values. Those opinions will negate your experience and entire existence. It’s not a reach to say that these people have these opinions about my friend and something could happen to me being in their space. Accountability and solidarity go hand in hand. l

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Crack the beers, clutch your pearls, and cue up indignance, because college athletes ’bout to get paid. Somewhat quietly on July 1, intercollegiate athletics experienced the largest change to their core structure anyone alive has ever experienced.

The timeline is long and convoluted but influenced greatly by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from June. NCAA v.

Alston affirmed that many of the ways the governing body of college sports compensates athletes has and continues to violate antitrust laws, and while the ruling does not necessarily convey that players should be paid to play college sports, it has placed the NCAA on the defensive.

The high court’s ruling essentially killed the NCAA’s bloodthirsty desire to prevent athletes from being paid for their NIL (Namesake, Image, Likeness). The battle sprung from EA Sports’ NCAA Football video game franchise, which always featured a prominent player on the cover and teams that resembled the real-life players to an impressive degree.

There have been many questions about NIL, and since clear answers can be hard to come by, I solicited help from the best source I could find: Senior Associate Athletic Director for compliance at TCU, Ike Ukaegbu. The 14-year veteran of athletics compliance was gracious in walking me through his staff ’s process in establishing new institutional policies for Frog athletes.

It turns out that schools in Texas shaped SB 1385 as state lawmakers reached out to compliance directors and general counsel from various institutions to craft the wording and restrictions utilizing their expertise.

“We didn’t want to get left behind, so in March or April, some state legislators

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Max Duggan and his peers should be excited about the possibility of earning money while in school for companies wanting to use their name, image, or likeness (NIL).

reached out to compliance administrators to start crafting a bill,” Ukaegbu said.

SEC country and Texas led the charge. TCU started working through the framework of their state bill at that time, since they weren’t sure if anticipated NCAA policy changes were going to be adopted or not. The preparation paid dividends, as the big wigs at the national level dragged their feet before punting responsibilities to the states and their institutions. The NCAA announced their new temporary policy on June 30: Starting on July 1 — the earliest effective date of the states, such as Florida, who passed such laws — schools could follow guidelines set forth in their new state laws or craft an individual policy if their state law had not gone into effect or hadn’t been passed. There are currently 27 states that have passed new NIL legislation and four that have introduced bills working their way through committee.

That’s how we got here, but where are we? Athletes can be compensated for use of their namesake, image, and likeness, but that doesn’t mean they can specifically be paid to play, citing violation of NCAA bylaw Article 12 on necessitating amateurism. So, all of SMU’s shenanigans in the 1980s — along with many others — still wouldn’t fly underneath this new set of guidelines.

Colleges are forbidden from brokering sponsorship deals for their players, but as TCU’s director told me, they are able to consult and advise athletes on building and

monetizing their personal brands.

TCU utilizes Opendorse, a sports marketing company, as the primary resource to assist their student athletes in managing their personal brands. The company seemed poised and ready for these law changes and has an impressive book of college clients including conferencemates Texas, Texas Tech, and Kansas State, as well as other national-level teams like Ohio State, LSU, and Florida.

Signing deals started flowing through the interwebs within days of the new policy announcement. The first finalized contract with financial details published involves Miami quarterback D’Eriq King, who signed with an auto group for 20-grand. If that seems like big money, it’s not. Hercy Miller — the son of well-known rapper Master P — is a basketball signee with Tennessee State who is said to have lined up a $2 million contract with Web Apps America. Miller’s father said the deal had been in the works for some time, but they were waiting on the announcement of anticipated rule changes to announce and finalize it. Barstool Sports is known for reporting news but made some of their own when a Jacksonville State volleyball player told the outlet she wanted to be their first sponsored athlete. Barstool quickly signed her and then opened their door to any Division 1 athlete who was interested and said they would be welcomed to their sponsorship portfolio.

Despite mainstream worries that college athletes are about to become akin to NASCAR drivers with sponsor logos pasted all over them, Ukaegbu quelled these fears by informing me we’re not likely to see many athletes posting or filming promos donning school logos. Most of them are trademarked intellectual property of the institution and won’t be allowed to be worn or used for private promotion, though there might be some schools that will allow it. The types of deals and companies are also restricted dependent on existing university partnerships. TCU athletes, specifically, won’t be repping Adidas stripes or protecting the Under Armour house because they are beholden to Nike at an institutional level. Other private companies involved with supporting athletic departments are likely to receive no-contest consideration for athletes potentially supporting competitors from specific industries.

No matter how many caveats we take into consideration, these new laws have changed collegiate sports forever.

“I just want to make sure they do it the right way and they don’t get taken advantage of, they don’t get swindled,” Ukaegbu said when we agreed the change was a positive one for student athletes.

“This is good for [the athletes] and their families. I also hope we maintain what college sports is and we maintain the importance of higher education.” l

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ART Buddha Shiva Lotus Dragon

The god of creation and destruction, Shiva dances on top of the demon of ignorance.

in India at the time and only caught on later in China.) A magnificent Yuan Dynasty jar’s red copper decoration is marred by grayness near the top, a sign that the kiln operator overfired the finicky glaze. The Kimbell’s written notes for the items curiously omit the influences that filtered into Chinese art from Islam but otherwise do great work at pointing out small, significant details in the decoration.

China became so synonymous with ceramics in the West that we call porcelain “china” as a matter of course, but it wasn’t the only place making good pottery. The show also contains two delightful 17thcentury Japanese figures of courtesans that appear to have been made for Europe as well as a carefully wrought Korean bowl with a leaf shape and the country’s signature green glaze. Thailand and Vietnam are

The blue and purple of this stoneware bowl comes from a copper glaze.

represented here as well, as different parts of Southeast Asia developed their own versions of the art practiced to their north.

The other main attraction are the bronze sculptures from India’s Chola period in the 9th through 13th centuries.

Hinduism and Buddhism existed side by side — some artists made shrines for both these Indian religions — and the sculptures of gods and saints were intended to be covered with clarified butter and honey as part of temple worship. The 11th-century statue of the god Ganesha sports entrancing surfaces on its potbelly, elephant head, and four arms.

It comes with lugs at the base that indicate that it was intended to be carried at the front of a religious procession. Even more spectacular is the earlier statue of Shiva as lord of the dance. I can only guess (again, because I’m not a metalworker) what it took to render the fiddly bits with the god’s matted hair flaring out while a wheel of holy flame surrounds him.

If you’re looking for evidence of what perspicacious collectors the Rockefellers were, Buddha Shiva Lotus Dragon will give you plenty of it. If you want to admire the beauty of the individual pieces themselves, there’s lots of grist for the mill. However, I came away thinking about how connected these distinct parts of Asia were through business and art. A different show could say more about this subject. l

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An Edo Period courtesan and her ornate kimono are rendered in porcelain.

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The Kimbell Art Museum’s summer exhibit made me wish that I knew more about the intricacies of ceramics and metalworking. It’d sure be nice if the show gave us some insight into how an eighthcentury Chinese silversmith hammered a single sheet of silver into the ornate Tang Dynasty stem cup. Nevertheless, if there’s one thing I take from this, it’s that the whole of Eastern Asia, despite some impressive physical barriers of ocean and mountains, was united by commercial trade and the threads of Hinduism and Buddhism.

That’s certainly stronger than the stated theme of Buddha Shiva Lotus Dragon, which is that all these items were collected by John D. Rockefeller III and his wife Blanchette Rockefeller during their frequent trips to Asia in the mid-20th century. Much like the Kimbell itself, they did not have a specialty, instead collecting whatever caught their discerning eye and being selective about quality.

Undoubtedly, one of the big draws of this show is its Chinese ceramics. The eggshell-blue stoneware bowl from the 12th-century Song Dynasty has splotches of purple that come from copper filings sprinkled over the glaze prior to firing, giving the tiny object an uncannily modern look. The larger pieces such as a Ming Dynasty flask and platter sport the familiar cobalt blue patterns. What I find interesting about these is their size, which indicates that they were made not for the domestic Chinese market but rather for the Middle East and India. (Indeed, the platter comes from the collection of Shah Jahan, the ruler who built the Taj Mahal. The big dish was intended for use in communal dining, which was popular

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This embossed silver stem cup comes from eighth-century China.

The bronze rendering of the god Ganesha is a study in molding.

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Kick off your weekend with a sense of humor every Thursday from Thursday 8:30pm to 10pm at the 325 Comedy Show — three professional comedians each doing 25-minute sets — at Hyena’s Comedy Nightclub (425 Commerce St, Fort Worth, 817-8775233). Tonight’s performers are Ben Creed, John Brow, and Luis Juarez.

Tickets are free with a reservation at HyenasComedyNightclub.com.

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Kelvin Dilks, a legendary Birdville ISD drama teacher who now directs and acts, is playing the title role in AMON! The Ultimate Texan.

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At 9pm Fri-Sun thru Aug 8, Hip Pocket Theater (1950 Silver Creek Rd, Fort Worth, 817-246-9775)

presents Pixie Posy by Lake Simons and John Dyer with music composed by Dyer.

Inspired by fairy paintings, including “The Piper of Dreams,” “The Wounded Fawn,” and “Fairy Hordes Attacking a Bat,” and the famous Cottingley fairy photos, this production asks the audience to consider the wee ones that dance among us. “And turn that cloak, for fairy folks are in the oaks!” Tickets are $15-20 at HipPocket.org.

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At 7:30pm Thu-Sat, plus 3pm Sat thru Aug 21, the Artisan Center Saturday Theater (444 E Pipeline Rd, Hurst, 817-284-1200) presents The

Sound of Music. Inspired by the story of the Trapp Family Singers, this musical was the final collaboration between the famous writing team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. It became one of the world’s most beloved musicals, and the motion picture version became the most popular movie musical of all time.

Tickets are $15-25 at ArtisanCT.com.

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At 2:30pm in the Main Hall of the Coppell Arts Center (505 Travis St, Sunday Coppell, 972-304-7047), Theatre Coppell presents the final performance of AMON! The Ultimate Texan. (There are also 7:30pm shows Fri-Sat). This play — and its companion book — written by newspaper columnist Dave Lieber is based on the life of local media giant Amon G. Carter. The lobby gallery (where concessions will be sold) opens at 1:30pm. Tickets are $19-22 at CoppellArtsCenter.org.

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The results are in for USA Today’s Readers’ Choice awards, and we are proud to announce we’ve been voted the 9th Best Science Museum in America!

USA Today assembled a panel of industry experts to identify the top 20 science museums in the U.S. The publication then opened the list to voting, asking the public to choose their top 10, and YOU helped us receive the #9 spot! Thank you for helping the Museum win this national recognition!

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REMEMBERING 9/11

Thru July 18th, the Museum is hosting the Honor365 exhibit, a 9/11 memorial that is traveling the nation on its way to New York City.

We’re proud to be the only location in Texas to present this display, which includes a remarkable scale model of the World Trade Center.

NEW MUSEUM HOURS!

The museum is open every Friday and Saturday from 10AM to 5PM, and on Sundays from 12PM to 5PM. Monday thru Thursday, we are closed. (Note: Noble Planetarium is open, but Omni Theatre and WaterWorks are still temporarily closed. Stay tuned for updates!)

INTRODUCING SCIENCE ON A SPHERE!

Guests interact with our brand-new Science on a Sphere, a large sphere hanging from the ceiling in the Current Science Studio that displays space and Earth-based content from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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From noon to 7pm every day, it’s happy hour at the Yellow Rose Saloon Monday (2811 Cherry Ln, Fort Worth, 817-812-8118). However, Monday is when you find the $4 Crown-and-downs.

I do not doubt that the daily drink specials compelled our readers to vote for Yellow Rose when it won Best New Bar in our Best Of edition last year. (You know, in 2019. That’s “last year” in bar time, right?)

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At 10am-5pm Tue-Sat thru Aug 14, the Visual Art League of Lewisville Tuesday presents Fresh Ideas 2021 — an annual juried exhibit highlighting works of all types by talented artists from across Texas — at The Gallery at Lewisville Grand Theater (100 N Charles St, Lewisville, 972-219-8446). This exhibit is free to attend. (VALL is an all-volunteer organization with community members who share an interest in the visual arts and fine crafts. The members have several exhibits each year.)

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Appointments are preferred but not required Wednesday at the Museum of Neon Lights (2212 W Peter Smith St, Fort Worth, 817-841-9988). Just like beauty and fame, your time to take in the neon sights and do photo sessions at the world’s only selfie museum is fleeting.

This exhibit is open only for three months, so drop by soon. Visit them 4pm-10pm tonight — or every Tue-Thu — or 4pm11pm Fri-Sat or 4pm-9pm Sun. Tickets are $22 at MuseumofNeonLights.com. For more of a visual on this, go to Instagram. com/MuseumofNeonLights_.

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Traditionally meat-focused chef obsessions — dry aging — are here applied to seafood. The process intensifies the flavor of the flesh, while careful butchering techniques and tightly controlled conditions keep the fish from rotting.

If all of this sounds like Robin Leach’s fever dream (if you’re younger than 35, google him), rest assured that, while you can still drop some serious coin here, everything is priced well below what you’d expect to pay for the superb quality of the ingredients.

An $85 caviar flight may sound pricey, but you’d pay triple that amount at many places around the country for the same product.

Having conquered the shrimp, we ordered a dozen of the superbly flavorful Wellfleet oysters, served with a peppery matcha as a mignonette — which the briny, creamy, mildly sweet East Coast mollusks didn’t need.

The house “Sharkcuterie” board is like a greatest hits album for the kitchen’s small bites. Lucious Blue Point oysters had been dunked in chile oil and jarred for slathering on fresh-tasting bread. Silken house-cured sushi-grade salmon gravlax practically dissolved on the tongue and was accompanied by the usual accoutrements: mustard, capers, and so on. In the center of the plate sat a smattering of caviar, which included the earthy, sage-like escargot, plus

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versions of buttery paddlefish, salmon, and smoked trout.

The star among stars on our evening was the weekly offering of ceviche — a dryaged Hawaiian opah served whole but that flaked at the touch of a fork. The fish was topped with pineapple, serrano peppers, and the house matcha. The opah was bathed in a marinade that delivered chile heat and citrus acidity in precisely calibrated doses.

This was a virtuosic dish.

The dry-aged Alaskan salmon, served skin-on, sat atop a bed of black pearl rice with a tongue-searing veggie mix of okra and squash alongside a piquant sauce. The fish’s texture was fatty, but its flavor was pure and lean.

Clams bobbing in a spicy broth of chorizo, epazote, and mezcal were served with bread for sopping up the delicious mix.

There was no dessert available that evening, but there are bar options for sauternes and other sweet boozy treats if you’re so inclined.

La Onda is that rare animal — at least in this town — that challenges your perceptions as much as it does your palate.

Every bite was delicious and unfailingly interesting. The dining room isn’t meant to turn three times over every night. It’s the sort of place you linger, swirling another glass of tempranillo or an artfully designed cocktail while contemplating your dinner with an academic’s curiosity.

The Villarreals could have gone down the cash-strewn path to Margaritaville, but they chose instead to cook (and mix drinks) the way they like it — full of adventure. l

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The Hawaiian opah ceviche was the weekly offering at La Onda, a monthly Latin-inspired eatery on Race Street.

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followed was just as daring, ambitious, artfully prepared, and delicious.

Named after an avant-garde art movement that grew out of the 1960s counterculture in Mexico, La Onda is just as much the chef ’s mission statement as it is a name. The entire bill of fare represents the kind of cuisine locals rave about when they travel abroad to the world’s foremost food cities. The small menu requires a certain level of trust that the chef knows his food better than you. As Villarreal told our table during a post-entree visit, he aspires to create the kind of food chefs enjoy when they’re trying to impress other chefs.

Absent are the easy choices to assuage your food-coward aunt or bratty tween. No, the kitchen can’t just make chicken fingers.

The Villarreals are refugees of the Food Hall at Crocket Row’s Version 1.0, where Chef Victor manned the spatula at scratch-pizza critical darling Abe Froman’s of Fort Worth and Misty was the GM and bar manager for the entire food hall. When the hall’s owners decided to reimagine the La Onda, 2905 Race St, FW. 11am-10pm Tueconcept, the couple saw it as an opportunity Sat. All major credit cards accepted. 817-607to hit the eject button and follow their own 8605. vision. Victor has been working in area kitchens for decades and recently helmed B Y S U E C H E F I N G T O N dearly departed Sera Dining & Wine.

Our server told my guest and me the chef His resume also includes stints at local recommended that we eat our Hawaiian powerhouse kitchens like Clay Pigeon, shrimp appetizer with the shells on. After Grace, and The Mansion at Turtle Creek.

La Onda’s setting is a converted all, the outer layer of the amply-sized crustaceans — served here three to a plate, 1940s bungalow, and the feel is as homey topped with a velvety, piquant butter sauce and quaint as the exterior suggests. The and served with cotton candy tomatoes and modest-sized dining room houses about a diced cucumber — packs easily as much dozen tables, and there’s a small bar that flavor as the meat within. While most diners also serves as a doorway to the kitchen. wouldn’t hesitate to scarf down a soft-shell Treated wood and exposed brick add to the crab like a drunk devouring a Jack in the authenticity of the vibe.

Based on the menu alone, you might Box taco at 3 a.m., the shrimp’s shell still holds a place of mystery in the minds of don your highest heels or swankiest blazer before jet-setting to La Onda. You can dress even the most adventurous diners.

The app augured well for the rest of up if you want, but you’ll likely stand out in our evening at La Onda, the month-old the relaxed, unpretentious environs. On a Latin-inspired seafood- and cocktail- recent visit, more guests were decked out in shorts and graphic tees focused eatery on Race La Onda Street, opened by the Ceviche .......................................... $25 than collared shirts.

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The dish’s sauce delivered a refined the state. La Onda is the only place in Fort balance of spicy and rich, just subtle enough Worth you can sample escargot caviar, for to complement, not overpower, the tender, example. The kitchen serves a sublimely sweet shrimp. The brittle-but-crunchy fresh ceviche of the week, a selection of shell trapped pools of the sauce and added often-hard-to-obtain oysters, and a rotating a delicate touch of brine. Every morsel that choice of dry-aged fish. Most of the seafood

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7.) Did you know that Studio80 (500 Taylor St, Fort Worth, 817-332-4833) — North Texas’ only all-’80s nightclub — is actually three clubs in one? Along with dancing on the main Studio80 dance floor, you can enjoy the Piano and Fashion bars.

Thursdays are a great night to check out the Fashion Bar. Doors open at 8pm, there is no cover, and the drinks are $3. #ThirstyThursdays 8.) Starting Thursday, Tributary Cafe (2813 Race St, Fort Worth, 817-744-8255) — award-winning local purveyor of Cajun/ Creole cuisine and Southern seafood — is relaunching its full menu and brunch menu, plus going back to its normal business hours of 11am-9pm Wed-Sat and 10am-2:30pm Sun (closed Mon/Tue).

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3.) Cowtown Farmers Market (3821 Southwest Blvd, Fort Worth, 682-9997097) never lost a step during the pandemic.

5.) Are you counting carbs? Freebirds World Burrito (several area locations) offers a new Low Carb Keto Bowl featuring cauliflower rice from $7.70 to $9.60, depending on your protein selection.

Along with bean and cheese choices, the protein options are chicken (seasoned or white meat), pork (slow-roasted), or steak, but you can also order Beyond Meat or a vegetarian bowl that includes guacamole.

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Spirits fly high in the Fashion Bar at Studio80.

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2.) With July being National Ice Cream Month, a new flavor from Texas-based Blue Bell Ice Cream (1101 S Blue Bell Rd, Brenham, 979-836-7977) has just hit the store shelves. Coconut Cream Pie has a coconut French ice-cream base cooked with coconut flakes. Pie crust pieces, toasted coconut, and whipped topping are swirled in. For a limited time, this flavor is available in pint and half-gallon sizes. To find a retail location near you, visit BlueBell.com.

4.) In celebration of its 80th year in business, Dickey’s Barbecue Pit (several area locations) is currently offering a pitsmoked Pulled Pork Classic Sandwich, choice of side, and a Caramel Crunch Brownie made with Snickers for just $8.80.

Founded in North Texas in 1941, Dickey’s still smokes meats low and slow with hickory wood daily at every location to this day. To find the Dickey’s nearest you, visit Dickeys.com/Locations.

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1.) Dill Pickle Candles have been out of stock. I was unaware that Best Maid even sold such a thing. For whoever needs to know, these candles are back.

The 12-oz version is made with soy-blend wax and the essence of dill. Don’t let the potentially powerful smell fool you. Once lit, the candle has a mellow dill scent that will burn for up to 90 hours. This item is available in-store only for $15 at the Best Maid Pickle Emporium (829 W Vickery Blvd, Fort Worth, 682-351-8286).

Groceries were essential, after all. Fort Worth’s original producer-only farmers market — meaning that everything sold is grown, raised, or produced within 150 miles — has been open every Saturday without fail. Now, the Wednesday market is back on schedule, giving you two days to shop for veggies. The hours are 8am to noon on both days. To see what foods are available before you go, visit Facebook. com/CowtownFarmersMkt,

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THU 7/22: Andrew Sevener (Acoustic). FRI 7/23: Chastity with Smokin Steady’s. SAT 7/24: Radio Kaos.

FRI 7/30: Fleetwood X (Fleetwood Mac Tribute). SAT 7/31: Little Skynyrd (Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute) with ZZ Tex (ZZ Top Tribute).

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Three Links 2704 Elm St, 214-484-6011 ThreeLinksDeepEllum.com THU 7/15: The Buffalo Ruckus, The Late Great Charlie Borski, Ryan Glenn. FRI, 7/16: SEVIT (Album Release) with Rosegarden Funeral Party, Circle Burn, and DJ Death Church. SAT 7/17: DK Nick Memorial Show.

Trees Dallas 2709 Elm St, 214-741-1122 TreesDallas.com THU 7/22: Jake “The Snake” Roberts. SUN 7/25: Devotional (Depeche Mode Tribute). FRI 7/30: Yngwie Malmsteen.

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THU 7/15: Possessed By Paul James. FRI 7/16: Jacki Darlene (Live Lunch), Shake Russell (PM). SUN 7/18: The Accidentals (Daytime Show). WED 7/21: Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers. FRI 7/23: Hayden Miller & Nolan Ryan Robertson. SUN 7/25: Danni & Kris. TUE 7/27: Jenna Clark Band, Charlie J Memphis. FRI 7/30: Squeezebox Duo (Live Lunch), Legacy 4 (PM). SAT 7/31: Melon Ball (Daytime Show), Pour Brothers (PM).

Rail Club Live 3101 Joyce Dr, 817-386-4309 RailClubLive.com SAT 7/17: DFW Domination Fest. WED 7/21: Faster Pussycat, Enuff Z Enuff. THU 7/22: Comedy Night with Average Joey. FRI 7/23: Wildstreet. SAT 7/24: Eric Martin, Trixter. SUN 7/25: Anti-Mortem, Scattered Hamlet. FRI 7/30: Tantric. SAT 7/31: K Camp.

FRI 7/16: Mojo Brothers (theater); Celestial L’amour, Xavier ll, Carson Aday (room). SAT 7/17: The Loved Starved Dogs (room). SAT 7/24: Brothers Beckham (room). FRI 7/30: Sounds Like Summer ’21 (room); The Reagan Firestorm (lounge). SAT 7/31: Quentin Moore and The DaxTones (theater); Ghosthookers, CashingIN, Down! Not Out, TongueNcheek, and The Nothing (room).

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HALTOM CITY The Haltom Theater 5601 E Belknap St, 817-677-8243 HaltomTheater.com WED 7/14: Summertime Nightmare Tour with Pigweed and Transient. THU 7/15: Gifted Summer Jam. FRI 7/16: I am Destruction, Empty Shell, Cathexis, Coprolalia, Transcendent Reticulum. SAT 7/17: System 6, Maleficus, Eva Kora, Little Green Men, Midnight Murder Show. SUN

Fat Daddy’s 781 W Debbie Ln, 817-453-0188 FatDaddysLive.com THU 7/15: In Halen (Van Halen Tribute). FRI 7/16: Ashmore. SAT 7/17: Incognito. THU 7/22: Local Yoakam.. FRI 7/23: Ever the Essence with Cole Rogers.

SAT 7/24: Rockaholics. THU 7/29: Crushin” It (Brad Paisley Tribute). FRI 7/30: Le Freak. SAT 7/31: Blake Nation with Gunpowder & Lead.

ON THE AIR Local Content 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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THU 7/15: Ginny Mac. FRI 7/16: Alex Blair. SAT 7/17: Marion Powers Quartet. THU 7/22: Jonathan Fisher Trio.

FRI 7/23: Ricki Derek & The Vegas Six. THU 7/29: John Adams Electric Trio. FRI 7/30: Red Young. SAT 7/31: Shelley Carrol.

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SAT 7/17: The Toni Braxton & Friends Jazz Series featuring Cindy Bradley.

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THU 7/29: The Love Starved Dogs. FRI 7/30: Glare, Trauma Ray, Downward, Grivo. SAT 7/31: Hen and The Cocks (Album Release) with The Dangits and B.U.B.

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SAT 7/24: Ryan Hager (During Daynes BBQ), then Greenbeard (PM). SAT 7/31: The Mammal Virus (EP Release Party).

WED 7/14: Lofi Beats To Study To. FRI 7/16: Mike and the Moonpies. SAT 7/17: Bob Schneider. SUN 7/18: Kalu & The Electric Joint, Sam Morrow, Trymore MOJO. WED 7/21: Damien Jurado. FRI 7/23: KXT presents Matthew McNeal, Joseph M, Yeah Huh. SAT 7/24: Vandoliers. FRI 7/30: Tulips FTW Grand Opening with The Band Of Heathens. SAT 7/31: Shaun Martin Three-O, Mark Lettieri Group, Retrophonics.

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MUSIC Jose “Chico” Santiago’s Northside studio is a haven for all manner of hip-hoppers, from hyperlocal to international.

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When Jose “Chico” Santiago started out in 2010, his studio was a little garage on the North Side. Since then, major label Fort Worth rapper Snow Tha Product, Houston superstar Paul Wall, Baby Bash, Lou CharLe$, and dozens more have recorded at Music in Focus. And while rap is the main genre, it’s not necessarily the only one.

“Since we moved, now we are putting ourselves out front with everybody, and we’ve got a lot of new clientele, and a lot of

I Live for the Weekend (and Dayne’s)

The thing about being married to a vegetarian is that there’d better be some good vegetarian options on the menu every time you go out to eat, which means I haven’t had barbecue since the Van Buren administration. With everyone in my house cracking from the Pandemic Pressure ® last Saturday, my wife kindly suggested that maybe my 9-year-old and me could get the mother-hunching hell out of the house, please, and as if by magic, my 2008 Ford Escape piloted itself to Lola’s Trailer Park (2735 W 5th St, 817-759-9100).

As often as I have darkened the West 7th corridor joint, I had never, ever appeared on a Saturday afternoon. First good sign upon our arrival: live music, a sort of C&W-type thing. Not my speed but fine. Second, better sign: Dayne’s Craft Barbecue. And the line was only two deep when A. and I slid on in. I was just on Bud Light Numero Uno when our little pager

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Santiago: “The people I used to record in my garage are now recording in a better studio, and my clientele is growing with me.”

people who were looking for me when I was in my garage are now seeing where we’re at,” Santiago said. “The people I used to record in my garage are now recording in a better studio, and my clientele is growing with me.”

Originally from Puerto Rico, Santiago and his mother moved to his uncle’s house in Fort Worth in June 2000. The now 37-year-old married father of three was 16 years old at the time and knew no English. Growing up was hard, he said, but listening to music helped, with both his emotions and his English.

started to beep. Impressive for a place packed with barbecue-stained mouths.

The problem now is, do we return at noon Saturday, when folk singersongwriter Tommy Luke and harmonica genius Gary Grammer perform, or swing by on a Friday or Sunday, the two days when Dayne’s whips out its highly raved about brisket burger? And while noon Sunday sounds fun because of Lola’s popular Rock ’n’ Roll Rummage Sale, I kind of like the idea of being able to park hassle-free. And not wait in a line longer than two deep for my Dayne’s fix.

The best solution is also the worst for my arteries, and that’s going on Friday and Sunday but — but — not ordering the brisket burger twice. Unless it really is that good, then I can’t be responsible for any Pandemic Pressure ®-related conversations between my wife and me about my waistline that may or may not involve numerous, watered-down variations of potty words. Earmuffs!

So if A. and I crash the Trailer Park Friday and Sunday, that will free us up for Doc’s Record Store Day Bash Round 2 at noon Saturday. Four kickass locals — The Cush,

Music in Focus has grown mostly by word of mouth, he said. During lockdown, Santiago kept busy by mixing and mastering artists’ home-recorded tracks.

He and wife Brenda Santiago moved equipment from the garage to the studio in Diamond Hill in January 2018.

Now Music in Focus is a “one-stop shop,” Santiago said, referring to his wife’s on-site printing company.

“I feel like everyone has a shot and everyone is one hit away by knowing who’s creating the opportunity and who’s willing to work,” Santiago said.

The Go-Go Rillas, Meach Pango, and Lorelei K — are set to play Doc’s Records & Vintage (2628 Weisenberger St, 817-7325455). There is no cover, and there is free beer to be consumed responsibly. #freebeer On the other side of town during the Sunday rummage sale, Tulips FTW (120 St. Louis Av, 817-367-9798) will be the site of what sounds like a crazy-fun dayto-evening. From 11am to 2pm, singersongwriter Tom Sless will perform as part of the free Sunday Brunch Market. Kalu & The Electric Joint with Sam Morrow,

Santiago doesn’t categorize himself as a musician per se but a “music-mix engineer.” He started out in music with aspiring rappers in 2004.

“Everyone wanted to be a rapper,” he said, “but nobody wanted to mix the sounds and have the patience to record, so I started doing it and fell in love with it.”

After studying sound engineering in 2007, Santiago started making records professionally in 2011.

It was not long after that when he met Snow through a mutual friend and recorded her early material. The rap artist signed with Atlantic Records not long afterward.

While Snow Tha Product is easily the biggest name that Santiago’s worked with, Paul Wall has deep underground appeal.

Santiago met the Houstonian through local rapper Smoothvega. Santiago has also opened for Wall as a DJ during live performances.

“Chico is an amazing engineer,” said Grand Prairie hip-hop artist Goldie Andrews. “The environment he provides for the artist is very creative, and his hands-on approach with artists in creating amazing records from start to finish is unparalleled. Music in Focus is everything its name implies, a true focal point on music and being as expressive and amazing as you can sonically make the best quality music.”

Contact Santiago at MusicinFocus@yahoo. com or MusicinFocusStudio@gmail.com.

Trymore MOJO, and Dead Vinyl will follow him from 2pm to 11pm. Tickets for the later show are $12-35.

Before going anywhere these days — the post office, Target, your rays’ house — you might just wanna ask yourself: But is Dayne’s gonna be there? Your whole life revolves around it now, apparently. — Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at Anthony@FWWeekly.com.

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PROPOSED AIR QUALITY REGISTRATION NUMBER 165746 APPLICATION. Pr’s Heavenly Bridge LLC, P.O. Box 161068, Fort Worth, Texas 76161-1068 has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for an Air Quality Standard Permit, Registration Number 165746, which would authorize construction of an animal carcass incinerator.

The facility is proposed to be located at 801 Eight Twenty Boulevard, Fort Worth, TarrantCounty, Texas 76106. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility's general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to application. http://www. tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/hb610/index.html?lat=32.83408&lng=-97.3455&zoom=13&type=r. This application was submitted to the TCEQ on July 2, 2021. The primary function of this facility is to properly dispose of animal carcasses through incineration. The executive director has determined the application was administratively complete on July 9, 2021.

PUBLIC COMMENT. Public written comments about this application may be submitted at any time during the public comment period. The public comment period begins on the first date notice is published and extends to 30 days from the publication date. Public comments may be submitted either in writing to Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087, or electronically at www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/. Please be aware that any contact information you provide, including your name, phone number, email address and physical address will become part of the agency’s public record.

RESPONSE TO COMMENTS. A written response to all relevant comments will be prepared by the executive director after the comment period closes. The response, along with the executive director’s decision on the application, will be mailed to everyone who submitted public comments and requested to be added to the mailing list. The response to comments will be posted in the permit file for viewing.

The executive director shall approve or deny the application not later than 30 days after the end of the public comment period, considering all comments received within the comment period, and base this decision on whether the application meets the requirements of the standard permit.

CENTRAL/REGIONAL OFFICE. The application will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ Central Office and the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Office, located at 2309 Gravel Dr, Fort Worth, Texas 76118-6951, during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, beginning the first day of publication of this notice.

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VIN

L4PBUMBK871001849

PRICE

$745.23

*Storage charges accrue daily until the vehicle is claimed *Failure of the owner or lien holder to claim the above vehicles within 30 days is a waiver of all right, title, and interest in the vehicles and a consent to the sale of the vehicle at a public sale.