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FEATURE Recently released documents reveal disastrous conditions at Tarrant County Jail.

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STATIC Governor asks the feds for body bags instead of letting businesses enforce masks. Totally normal.

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STUFF As if it wasn’t perfectly clear, we’re here to tell you Rangers ownership is looking to sell the team.

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THE STORY heritage and brewing traditions continue for future generations.

gling Traditional Amber Lager, a product that would later become the flagship brand.

1829

David G. Yuengling establishes the Eagle Brewery on Centre Street in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

1919

The eighteenth amendment is ratified, enacting a call for the national prohibition of alcohol. To survive, Yuengling switches to production of near beer products.

1829

Lord Chesterfield Ale and Porter are introduced and continue to be brewed to this day.

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Fire completely destroys the plant and a new brewery is built on Mahantongo Street, Pottsville, site of the current brewery.

1960

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Yuengling tops the Brewer’s Association annual list of largest sellers of craft beer.

2009

Yuengling surpasses 2 million barrels.

2018

Yuengling introduces its first new year-round brand in 17 years, Golden Pilsner.

1998 1976

The brewery is placed on the national and state registers as America’s Oldest Brewery.

To meet demand, Dick Yuengling announces plans to build a second brewery at Mill Creek, three miles from the site of the original brewery.

2011

Mill Creek facility expands, adding capacity to help satisfy consumer demand.

2019

Yuengling celebrates its 190th Anniversary.

2020

Yuengling forms joint venture with Molson Coors to support western expansion.

2020 Prohibition ends. The brewery celebrates by producing “Winner Beer” and ships a truckload to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1999 1979

The brewery celebrates its 150th anniversary.

1873

Brewery name is changed to D.G. Yuengling & Son after David’s son, Frederick, joins his father as partner.

Frederick Yuengling adds the bottling line to the plant.

Demand for Yuengling actually begins to exceed the brewery’s capacity. The decision is made to withdraw from markets outside of the local area.

Ray Norbert becomes Brewmaster, a position he held for 40 years.

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The 100th anniversary of the brewery. Near beer remains the only product being produced.

Yuengling introduces its line of seasonal offerings.

The brewery celebrates 125 years of existence.

1920

Yuengling constructs a dairy directly opposite the brewery to help survive Prohibition.

2009

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A plant in Tampa, Florida, is purchased from the former Stroh’s brewery early in the year, and beer production begins by summer.

2012

24/7 Wall St names Yuengling Traditional Lager America’s #1 Favorite Beer.

2001 1936

The brewery Rathskeller is built.

1987

Production begins at the Mill Creek facility, greatly increasing the overall brewing capacity.

Dick Yuengling makes the decision to reintroduce Yuen-

2014

Sixth generation earns leadership roles through years of service and look to ensure

Yuengling announces FLIGHT by Yuengling, the Next Generation of Light Beer.

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Yuengling begins brewing in Fort Worth and introduces Yuengling Traditional Lager, Yuengling Light Lager 99, Yuengling Golden Pilsner and FLIGHT

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STUFF America’s Oldest Brewery® comes to Fort Worth.

EATS & DRINKS Yuengling will be available in Fort Worth on August 23rd.

HEARSAY Yuengling to introduce itself at an opening celebration in the Stockyards this Monday.

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Ownership Is Destroying the Rangers If you think this year’s big-league team is bad, wait until next season.

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The Texas Rangers’ active payroll for 2022 is slated to be $8,350,000, as it stands now.

If that’s the case by Opening Day 2022, it would likely be the lowest in all of Major League Baseball — for a team playing in the country’s fifth-largest market. That number would have been the lowest for this season. If nothing changes, total payroll, which includes paychecks to players who no longer play for the club, would total $27,600,000.

Sure, the team could always sign a few free agents or make trades for higherprofile players who are paid more, just as the front office has done since, well, forever. I wouldn’t get too excited, though.

Based solely on the recent behavior of ownership, I’m not sure that’s a given.

If I’m reading the tea leaves correctly, the Rangers’ ownership group led by Ray Davis and Bob Simpson does not appear to have any interest in adding payroll because that would make the team less attractive to potential buyers. The organization

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just christened a new ballpark, the Giant Panini Press in Arlington, which, along with gutting payroll, follows a timehonored formula for selling a major sports franchise: build a new home, cut expenses, and maximize profits. Davis and Simpson no longer care about winning as much as they do lining their pockets on the way out the door. If that sets the franchise back a few years and alienates a few fans, they’re figuring, so be it.

In a market housing the egos of Mark Cuban and Jerry Jones, Davis and Simpson are the worst sports team owners — and it’s not even close. For all of their faults, at least Cuban and Jones (Juban? Cubones?) want to win.

As the big-league team languishes in last place, with the second-worst record in baseball (two games better than the Orioles, as of this writing), the front office has fully committed to a rebuild and stripped the roster down to its studs.

After last month’s trade deadline, three of the team’s four best players are gone — 28-year-old rookie Adolis Garcia has three more years of team control on a very cheap-by-baseball-standards contract — and we fans are all left to anxiously wonder whether or not the newest crop of Rangers farmhands will represent the core of the next good team.

This isn’t unusual, by the way.

Conventional baseball wisdom says you trade away your older, more expensive players the moment you realize your team isn’t going to compete any time soon. After a decade-long run as a viable playoff team, the Rangers’ front office gambled on a core of players that included recently traded Joey Gallo, fighting house elf Rougned Odor, and human Oxycontin dose Nomar Mazara. For the last few years, John Daniels and new G.M. Chris Young tried to patch holes in the team with lowcost vets like Kyle Gibson, Ian Kennedy, Lance Lynn, and others. Like the three mentioned above, all of them are gone, replaced by a package of younglings who, until they produce at the big-league level,

Rougned Odor is one of many high-priced players the Rangers have recently traded.

are little more than a handful of magic beans. Since we now live in an era in which baseball front office heads hoard their top prospects like so much dragon’s gold, the franchise-altering Mark Teixeira-type trades just don’t happen anymore.

What made this most recent spate of deadline deals all the more irksome is the fact that Gallo, one of the organization’s few home-grown success stories, practically begged management to ink him a new deal.

Pitchers Lance Lynn and Mike Minor, both of whom appeared in All-Star games representing Texas, also expressed a desire to stay. All were sent packing. It’s also worth noting the Rangers turned down a trade that would have sent Gallo to San Diego for a highly regarded prospect, but Texas was asked to take on the $5.6 million salary of past-his-prime Eric Hosmer.

In all fairness to Davis and Simpson, the team’s total payroll for this year is about $97 million, which means your Texas Rangers have the worst payroll-towin ratio in baseball. So, a cynic might ask, why add payroll next season if all of that money Davis and Simpson spent on

this year isn’t producing wins? Couple that with the impact COVID has exacted on attendance, and, if you squint hard enough, it only makes sense to go young and let only the kids play — make next season an audition year, and keep your powder dry for 2023.

After spiking my hat, I would then ask the questions: What happens if none of the kids are ready? What if none of them can play at a high level? I’m not suggesting that none of the Rangers’ young players will become big-leaguers, but it takes a special amalgam of skill and luck to develop star players — and you need those guys to win.

Which pitcher will stop a losing streak?

Who can even eat innings if you’re trying to protect your young pitchers from being shelled when their stuff isn’t working?

How are you going to protect leads? Who will be the bat in the lineup that makes the opposing manager change pitchers? Who is going to grab a kid by the collar and tell him he can’t be late to meetings? Who is taking their kids to see a team that loses 100 games?

Going 100% young is a recipe for sinking morale and creating a losing culture. Young players in baseball, more than any other sport, are volatile. Even the hardest-working, most talented rookie needs to see a veteran go about his business. Even the most plucky, optimistic kid can’t withstand loss after loss, at least not without someone who is not a coach there to tell them it’s not supposed to be this way.

Our best hope for the future of the Rangers is that the club sells quickly and, ideally, to a baseball fan. The DavisSimpson combo has become just as bad as its predecessor, Tom Hicks. For the two oilrich multimillionaires, their baseball team hobby has become a cash-grab — a way to add another few hundred million into their Scrooge McDuck money bins. They don’t care, at least not enough to compel them to reach into their deep pockets.

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Mask Fight Even as COVID cases rise among children, the state resists mandating wearing a piece of freaking cloth.

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It was right after the first day of school, and our brand-new fourth grader (don’t look for his “first day!” picture on Fakebook or anywhere else) was telling us about his day.

“Yeah,” A. said. “They said to reach up and hang onto the door to hide your feet.”

Oh, my wife D. and I acknowledged immediately. So the gunman can’t see your feet under the stalls. Smart. Absolutely absurd, and ridiculous, but smart.

“They also said that when you’re hiding, to breathe soft,” A. went on, “not to huuugh huuugh huuugh real loud.”

D. and I were like, This is it. This is our lives now. In the greatest country on Earth, we are teaching our schoolchildren not to breathe instead of passing sensible gun laws. The sad fact is that all of us, Democrats and Republicans, just accept it. We just lie back and swallow all of that nonsense about bipartisanship while voting accordingly only to be heartbroken by gridlock due to the solidly bicameral mind.

Don’t misunderstand. There’s only one side to trust now. I’m sorry, conservatives, but your party is now devoting itself to the destruction of democracy, and in that sense, I can understand the Dems’ efforts to walk alone. Not accepting the results of the 2020 presidential election is conservatives’ first sin. (Trump, claiming “voter fraud,” went 1-60 in court. #neverforget) Your second sin is thinking COVID-19 is no

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Former Deputy Police Chief Planning Retaliation?

A recent slew of confidential tips has made one thing abundantly clear. Someone or, more likely, a handful of individuals with close ties to the Fort Worth police department, want former deputy police chief Michael Shedd cut from any say in police matters.

Shedd retired on July 1 but not before the Weekly reported on a possible explana-

METROPOLIS big deal. It is, and now that school is back in session, things are only going to get worse.

In a 7-day span last week, the Star-Telegram said, the coronavirus struck 5,000 more Tarrant County residents. About 250 of them — almost all of them unvaccinated — were sent to hospitals. Adult ICU bed occupancy is at 94%. The pandemic high was 99% on Dec 28. On Monday, Tarrant County reported two COVID deaths and 623 new cases. Since the virus took hold, the county has reported 287,244 cases, which includes 3,707 deaths and an estimated 265,583 recoveries. The rate of confirmed COVID patients in the North Central Texas Trauma Region (45 counties) is 17.10%, at his highest since 17.15% on Feb 4.

Since COVID patient Gov. Greg Abbott banned mask mandates like the heartless jerk he is, Texas now has the highest number of COVID cases in seven months, and seven of the state’s 22 trauma regions have zero ICU beds.

What’s funny — not funny-haha but funny-odd — is that the numbers haven’t been this bad since last winter, when Abbott et al. shut down our knowable world (limiting indoor capacities, banning gatherings, and forcing in-person students to wear masks).

The difference now? Conservative rage.

We have a popular U.S. president, a Democrat, who won a landslide victory as most states — which are Republican because of gerrymandering — are clawing to power in objection to the mandate that President Joe Biden was given by We, the People to the tune of 7 million more votes than The Former Guy. Tarrant County’s top elected official, Judge Glen Whitley, is not enthused by Abbott’s approach or the politicization of life-saving science.

“I’m not hearing anything from the state,” he told the Star-T. “It’s all ‘personal responsibility.’ Well, if everything’s a matter of personal responsibility, why have any laws?”

The surprising twist is that this new COVID variant, delta, that has formed in the

cesspools of humanity that the unvaxxed have created by ignoring science and hewing to the words of vaccinated conmen on TV is attacking young people, children included.

Last Thursday, the DFW Hospital Council said there are no available pediatric ICU beds in North Texas, the highest level of pediatric COVID patients ever treated in the region (19 counties). Nationally, The New York Times said, the number of children in the hospital and the number of new admissions every day are the highest they’ve ever been, based on federal data dating back to October. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released guidance recommending universal masking for all students and school staffers. Despite Abbott’s anti-mask order, some of the largest school districts in the state, including Fort Worth, are requiring masks.

Experts are calling the circumstances for the surge in pediatric cases a “perfect storm,” an amalgam of relaxed public health protocols, a sharp drop in vaccinations, and the emergence of the delta variant, mostly likely because of the lack of vaccinations.

As delta may be familiar to health care providers by this point, there’s one big difference. The young patients can speak because they’re not on mechanical ventilators but high-flow oxygen systems. One doctor in Miami, a sweet man, often talks to them.

“Every single patient regrets not getting the vaccine,” Dr. De La Zerda told the Times.

“I don’t have one that doesn’t. They look really sick, and they look really young. You can see somebody now talking to you, and the next time you see them, they’re dead.”

Reportedly and anecdotally, one of the reasons conservatives are reluctant to get vaxxed is that the vaccine lacks FDA approval, even though its origins date back years. As if you had to ask, these same conservatives are buying into Regeneron, a monoclonal antibody that also … lacks FDA approval, but since it’s coming from

Republican pols who are probably swallowing money from Regen’s backers, our conservative friends and loved ones will take their pants off to fart. That’s an old Chinese idiom that applies here. “It’s useful in describing things that are needlessly complicated,” tweets Citizens for Ethics’ Robert Maguire, “like a governor [Florida’s Ron DeSantis] offering a costly experimental treatment for a disease that people can avoid by getting a cheap vaccine and wearing a mask.” (Maguire follows this up with “BREAKING: The DeSantis administration has declared that cars in Florida will no longer be required to have seatbelts, but every car in the state will be followed by its own individual ambulance.” Awesome.)

What’s doubly frustrating is that the unvaxxed claiming “my body, my choice” (insert: pro-choice joke) are endangering all of us. Even deadlier or vaccine-resistant variants could emerge. The science proves that vaccines prevent 75-85% of symptomatic infections and 90-98% of hospitalizations and deaths. Vaccines also reduce transmission by a shit-ton. There’s no way to tell how much exactly, but it’s a literal shit-ton.

Masks help, too, but best if everyone is onboard. “A colleague has a 4 y/o who is intubated due to COVID,” an MD recently tweeted, “and asked us, a group of physician friends, how to tell the 6 y/o their sibling may not come home. This is what happens when you leave masks up to parent choice — this child wore TWO masks, other kids didn’t.”

I just can’t understand it. How has wearing a cloth covering over your face become such a big deal? And not just any cloth covering but one that can prevent you from catching a deadly virus? Just put the fucking thing on, stop your whining like a snowflake, and go about your day. The mask is not going to hurt your baby face. You can breathe perfectly fine (though if you need to catch your breath,

tion. Shortly before his retirement, Shedd was investigated by the police department’s Office of Internal Affairs (OIA) for allegedly sexually harassing a female colleague (“Closed Records,” June 16). The alleged victim voiced her concerns to superiors while Shedd was still employed, but nothing was done, a confidential source told one of our reporters in June. She then took the matter directly to the OIA, and Shedd subsequently “retired.”

Given the police department’s cushy pension plans and the fact that this former officer appears to have skirted any form of meaningful disciplinary action, one might expect him to buy a ticket to Tahiti or some other far-flung destination to pop open a bottle of Champagne and give a big middle finger to police accountability.

Based on the documents we obtained from the City of Fort Worth, Shedd used his first day of retirement to hunt for the identity of the whistleblower who outed him to the

Weekly. On July 2, according to the documents we reviewed, the former deputy filed a very lengthy open records request to the City of Fort Worth seeking documents with the keywords “Shedd,” “sexual harassment,” “reprimand,” “unappointment,” and “demotion.”

Move along. Nothing self-incriminating here.

Based on the documents, Shedd referenced Texas Public Information Act sections to ensure that his requests were answered and promptly. On July 27, six days after we published our second article about Shedd (“Shedding Light on Misconduct,” July 21), the former deputy submitted 10 separate open records requests that mirrored his July 2 public query, possibly as a means of avoiding some type of open records roadblock placed by city officials.

Open records requests from one disgruntled former police officer normally wouldn’t garner ink in our paper. Shedd’s requests suggest that he maintains some mech-

anism of retaliation against the whistleblower or whistleblowers who brought the alleged misconduct to us and to the greater public.

Whistleblowers are protected by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Whistleblower Protection Program, but even the feds can’t prevent the bullying and harassment of individuals who cross the thin blue line. Given the documented lengths that OIA went to in a failed attempt to hide Shedd’s investigation from the public, it’s no wonder that a growing number of whistleblowers are reaching out to publications like the Weekly to spotlight the internal affairs of local police departments. l

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The Summer of Our Discontent Now that we are being ruled by the worst elements of society, we can expect more pain. And death.

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August is now officially awful. At 10pm the other night, it was 90 degrees. Truly soulkilling. Summer, which always begins with such high hopes, is not exiting nearly fast enough. And I don’t know about you, but the number of my Facebook friends recently who are having meltdowns is easily approaching double figures.

My late brother-in-law, a Presbyterian minister, would annually deliver a sermon to warn his San Antonio parishioners during these dog days not to make any big moves.

You’ve had it with your significant other and want to end it now? No, you should probably wait. You’re sick of your idiot boss and stupid unfulfilling job? Hold off and see how you feel later. You want to move not now but last month because you’re sick to death of the unrelenting sun and heat? Wait until September’s cooldown comes, and, just maybe, you’ll feel different then.

Yet somehow this August seems worse.

Maybe we’re just tired. We went through COVID times with a blundering president, but after 45 exited and, finally, competent people took charge, with the rollout of COVID vaccines, it felt like we might just get back to something resembling normal. But no!

Too many haven’t gotten vaccinated, especially here in Texas. The delta variant had loads of room to run. The Absolute No group — about 14% of those eligible nationwide and probably a bigger group in Texas, fueled by conspiracy theories and magical thinking — held us back, but they’re not the only ones.

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) changed its advice in May to say that if you’d gotten a shot, you didn’t need to mask anymore, all of a sudden, the number of mask wearers plummeted. Curious, I checked the CDC website to see the percentage of Tarrant residents vaccinated then. It still hovered below 40%. Huh? It was like those surveys that show that very

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To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly.com. Submissions will be edited for factuality and clarity. few men believe they’re only average at sex.

Just as the bulk of males are average at sex, a lot of people who never got a shot don’t need to be running around maskless.

We’ve an added burden here in Texas.

Kakistocracy is government by the worst elements of a society. I wish Texas was only that. Now that our one-party Republican oligarchy has logged more than a quarter of a century, they’re actively trying to kill us.

We’re now a kakastocracy, a government by shitheads.

For years they’ve refused to expand Medicaid, even though it wouldn’t cost much and would help more than a million uninsured and underinsured Texans. Cover Texas Now, a group of faith-based and consumer organizations, estimates that about 750 people needlessly die every year because Republicans are more interested in keeping a very few trans student athletes out of school locker rooms than actually doing anything to help the average Texan.

That’s not all their death dealing. Republicans are wedded to a very few big energy concerns and speculators who benefit from our Texas-only grid that collapsed last winter. BuzzFeed estimated that the collapse killed 702 people. And don’t forget, Republicans passed the so-called constitutional carry bill over the objections of law enforcement. What could go wrong with allowing any adult over 21 to carry a weapon without a license?

And, to top it off, Gov. Greg Abbot, trying his best 45 imitation to ingratiate himself to his bizarro base, refuses to allow masks in schools so as to ensure more kids, staff, teachers, and their relatives die in the future. In a sane state, public health would not be a partisan issue. First off, more people would have heeded the advice of experts and gotten the shot. Also, school districts would be free to mandate masks after being advised by county health officials.

Since Republicans won’t push vaccinations or even allow districts to mandate masks, voters need to exercise their power and throw these crazies out on their ears.

Make Republicans pay for being a Trump Death Cult, more interested in tough/dumb guy signaling than in the health of actually still-alive Texans.

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certainly drop your covering to your chin until your breathing returns to normal), and, maybe my favorite part, the mask covers half your ugly fucking face. Is this really the hill some people want to die on? Not wearing a piece of fabric?

The only hill I’m willing to die on is the one that keeps my kid masked at school.

Unlike Fort Worth and dozens of others, my school district is waiting to see what the bigboy districts do before making a call, which is typical. Not unexpected or offensive but typical. I only hope A.’s immune system can hold

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out until the call is made to enforce masks on all the students and staff. He’s asthmatic.

The despair, it is there. Sometimes it threatens to overwhelm me. The rage never goes away. It’s kind of like a toothache. Rub some alcohol on it and pray it goes away because letting some masked person stick their gloved fingers in your unmasked mouth still doesn’t seem like a good idea about now. l

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Treated “Like Animals”

Judaism is not accepted is Nazi Germany, Communist China, and Tarrant County, TX. Why? Police reform starts with jail reform.

Signed, C., 4/26/21 Commission on Jail Standards, I’ve been retaliated against. Blatant, outin-the-open retaliation. Three days ago, I wrote a grievance about a man who has been sexually harassing me for months. Yesterday, I was called into an office to identify him.

Today, I was taken and placed in a holdover cell with him. Alone. After that, the guards were talking so loudly about the situation that everyone knew everything. Now, I’m a target. On top of that, I wasn’t fed for 12 hours. The investigator asked if anyone else would come forward. Why would they? I’ve been made an example of. I will keep myself safe at all costs.

Nearly 400 pages of complaints by mostly legally innocent jail detainees shed light on inhumane conditions inside Tarrant County Jail.

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document mothers and wives who reported atrocities committed against their loved ones and several examples of prisoner neglect as COVID-19 swept through the facility.

One grieving loved one reminded the sheriff ’s department that animals are treated more humanely than the men and women who can go years without seeing the sun within the concrete and metal walls of Tarrant County Jail. As one Texas Jail Project staffer told me, the treatment of Tarrant County Jail’s population can’t simply be blamed on the jailers. The systems that funnel these people into 100 N. Lamar St., the staffer said, include “court systems, prosecutors, judges, and poverty.”

The names in the following accounts have been replaced with the first letter of each person’s last name. The local sheriff ’s department did not respond to requests for comment.

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Signed, F., 4/30/21 Commission on Jail Standards,

Nearly 400 pages of complaints describe the daily horrors of life within Tarrant County’s jail.

Inmate Grievance Form: On 12/27/20, inmate [redacted] started cutting his wrist … after an officer on intercom sexually harassed him by telling him to spread his ass cheeks. The officer on intercom encouraged and told inmate “to do it” and cut his wrist. The officer also sexually whistled at Mr. E when he tried to work out.

Mr. E. did slice his wrist.

Signed, C., 12/27/20 Grievance Response Summary: Mr. C, your grievance has been received in our office. Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention and for your concern of your fellow inmate. However, any correspondence on this issue will be addressed with the inmate. The incident has been addressed.

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n particularly quiet days downtown, the muffled moans and screams of imprisoned men and women can be heard through the streets. When the cries aren’t drowned out by revelers on their way to the nearby restaurants and bars, the echoes reach the county courthouse, Tim Curry Justice Center, and Tarrant County Administration Building.

As part of my recent profile of Texas Jail Project (“Humanizing Life Behind Bars,” Aug. 4), I requested copies of complaints filed against Tarrant County Jail, the 5,000-inmate-capacity building that, like other county jails, is designed to process and release men and women who have been arrested for Class B Misdemeanors and higher and to hold individuals who are deemed a public danger.

Increasingly, and largely due to monetary bail policies and the general apathy of Tarrant County’s criminal justice and political systems, the county jail is depriving impoverished detainees of their due freedoms and Constitutional right to a speedy and public trial. The nonprofit Texas Jail Project is working to humanize the plight of jailed folks who were arrested due to overpolicing of Black and brown communities, unpaid traffic fines, mental health crises, homelessness, and other nonviolent “offenses” that disproportionately target the poor.

My request to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) was answered with 383 pages of typed, emailed, and handwritten letters that date back three years (the chosen scope of my request). Several complaints refer to the Lon Evans Corrections Center, the newer building (2012) that neighbors the county jail and houses high security detention units and an infirmary.

The communications describe one man who was allegedly beaten nearly to death by jail guards. His subsequent call from the hospital to a Texas Jail Project director was a desperate plea to not be returned to his would-be killers. Another member of the county jail population sought to alert TCJS that his friend had slit his wrists as a means of escaping torment and sexual harassment by a Tarrant County jailer. Other emails

Signed, County Sheriff ’s Office, 1/22/21 Dear Commission on Jail Standards,

The muffled screams and moans of jailed men and women can be heard downtown on most days.

Tarrant County Jail refuses to feed me according to my religious diet of Kosher.

This has been an ongoing problem with Tarrant County Jail and their anti-Semitic standards. Tarrant County Jail has been vengeful and has retaliated against me for writing grievances. Please notify my family that, if Tarrant County Jail murders me by starving me to death, this isn’t a suicide.

I take my faith seriously to the point of martyrdom. I am fully aware of the 17 deaths that occurred here in 2020. The only places

Yesterday, words were exchanged between the officers and my husband. They asked him which bunk was his. My husband then pointed to which one was his. After the shake-down, my husband went to his bunk and noticed that my private photographs in my panties were spread out in his bunk and left out for the whole pod to see. The photographs of our kids were neatly still in his envelopes. He asked to talk to someone higher in rank, and the officers just laughed.

This is not the first time I had to contact this facility due to their non-professional acts.

These men are humans, not animals.

Signed, S., 1/10/21 Texas Commission on Jail Standards, This jail needs your assistance. Please send in a neutral entity to test all inmates at this location. I woke up with a headache and sweats one day. After three days and numerous times with a quarantine sign on our 22-man pod, I was told by different nurses that “I’m not here to see you.”

At first, I thought I might be getting a cold. I finally managed to get my blood pressure checked, which turned out to be stroke-level. My symptoms kept getting worse. For eight days I thought I was going to die. I could only eat orange slices from a fellow inmate celebrating Ramadan. I could not get the attention from the medical staff.

All they would do is take my temperature.

One night, I could not breathe. I was able to call to my [daughter] and tell her that I loved her and that I felt like I may not wake up the next morning. I felt as if a truck was parked on my chest. The nurse told me to “calm down” and that I was “overexcited.”

I got so bad I actually wanted to die.

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can stand and say what is to be expected on how a personal coronavirus diagnosis makes a person feel, but, until you have it and you feel it inside of you trying to kill you, it is indescribable. It is even difficult to describe today. This virus brought me to my knees in every way imaginable. I was begging God to take me away from what I was feeling inside, and nobody seemed to care at all. At times, I felt like I was already dead but my body and mind were still here on Earth.

I did not think I would ever see my girl again, never get a chance to speak with my daughter, see my home, or play with my dog. I’ve always had adversity in my life and faced it head-on, never believing in my life that something like this virus would cause me to feel like this.

Signed, B., 5/20/20 Good morning Texas Commission on Jail Standards,

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We received an unusual phone call on 8/12/20 from an individual named [redacted] who is undergoing competency restoration at the North TX State Hospital in Wichita Falls. Mr. [redacted] informed us that a staff member at [Texas Health and Human Services Commission] had urged him to contact us. Mr. [redacted] detailed his

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warrant [for violating the rules of the court]. The charge was dropped by the DA last Wednesday. I flew from St. Louis last Friday thinking I was picking her up and found out when I got there her parole date has now been moved to February 14. My daughter is also eight months pregnant, and it is urgent that I get her released before she has her baby. She finally saw a doctor today who gave her some sort of an injection that they said would prevent whooping cough in a baby. I’ve never heard of such a thing nor have I ever heard of someone eight months pregnant being given any kind of vaccination. This is another concern.

Texas Commission on Jail Standards,

Signed, B., 2/5/2020

Around the end of August, I was removed from my cell, taken to the shower, and pepper-sprayed. I did nothing to provoke this attack and did not resist the officers’ commands in any way. I have been incarcerated for a Class A Misdemeanor for four months and have not been to court or talked to an attorney. Thank you for your attention to this serious matter. I am in great fear of further retaliation.

To whom it may concern,

around 11/9/2019.

From [redacted]: I am petrified, petrified, petrified. I am petrified to go back to that jail. Is there anything you can do to help me stay here at the hospital until my court date?

I cannot go back to that jail. I am not just afraid for my life. I am petrified. I have no family, no one to advocate for me. You can pull the video from the incident, and you can look at my medical reports to see how badly they hurt me. Please, don’t let me go back to that jail.

The Fort Worth police department is part of a broader criminal justice system that funnels bodies into Tarrant County’s jail.

experiences at Tarrant County Jail from where he was transferred on or around the second of July.

He begged us to find a way to let him stay at the hospital until his court date. He alleged that on February 28th he was beaten up by Tarrant County jailers so badly that he has permanent injuries on his ear, neck, and back. He says his x-ray for the injuries says “blunt force trauma.” He also claims that, between May 28-30th, jailers entered his cell and confiscated all copies of his grievances that he had filed since his booking on or

Signed, B., 10/3/20 Texas Commission on Jail Standards, My daughter B. has been in Tarrant County Jail since early last week on a bench

I am writing this letter in hopes that one voice is heard and listened to about the extremely deplorable and unsanitary conditions at Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth. For the past three weekends, I have had to spend weekend jail at this facility. Inmates are being treated with lack for human compassion and forced to spend time near bodily fluids from other inmates.

The second weekend, I was held [in] the holding area for over 25 hours due to overcrowding. We were forced to endure blood on the floor from another inmate.

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eight people held 28. People were forced to sit on the floor in the blood. We had no way of drinking water or going to the restroom. Several of the ladies informed the [commanding officers], but they just shrugged their shoulders and walked away.

We were moved next door to where the toilets had just [flooded], and there was urine, used toilet paper, and feces left on the floor.

In February, I was forced to wait 17 hours before I was able to express breast milk, which caused extreme pain and trauma. I was given a hand pump to express [breast milk] but officer G. removed the bottle and refused to give another one back. I became extremely engorged. Since I had just given birth, I was on pain medication for my surgery during my stay. I also submitted my antidepressants and informed MHMR [My Health, My Resources] that I was on them daily. I never once received my medication for depression or pain.

Tarrant County Jail is in need of major attention and reform. Everyone is frustrated, including the employees who work there, and they take it out on the people there. I understand that jail is punishment for a crime committed, but no one should be exposed to or treated like what the people at Tarrant County are.

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Signed, M., 8/24/2020 County Jail Complaints,

A recently released member of Tarrant County Jail’s population leaves the facility.

Texas Commission on Jail Standards, An inmate fell on 10/11/2020 and has both a broken arm and sprained wrist. He has yet to be taken to an ortho doctor. Inmate has twice been grabbed by the arm that is broken. He is 69 years old. The inmate was told by the supervisor that they could hit him, kick him, punch him, and do whatever they want with no consequences.

This inmate is pretrial, not convicted of

My son [redacted] was incarcerated for a misdemeanor and put in solitary confinement for over two weeks. MHMR said he was under their care. He was extremely upset. He said they gave him a paper bag to use instead of toilet paper. He begged me to get him out of there! He has a drug problem, and he had thrown a rock in the window of a hospital. They enhanced this to a felony! He only gets to call about twice a week, and they make him hang up in about one minute! He says he is always hungry. I know they broke the law, but they are still human beings and we treat them like animals. For that matter, we treat animals better. Please help them.

Sincerely, M., 5/2/2020 To whom this may concern, First off, my husband is a mental patient.

He was discharged from John Peter Smith mental hospital on August 20, 2019. Tarrant County had warrants for him for some of the things that had happened while he was off his meds. Tarrant County picked him up straight out of the mental hospital on

10/20/2019. He was back on his meds and doing great.

He was transferred to Lon Evans Jail.

On 10/8/2019, I went to visit with him. I began my visit and I could clearly see he was shaking violently. He was talking out of his head. He kept insisting he was in Oklahoma.

Every visit is by monitor at Lon Evans Jail.

The next morning, I called to see if anyone had checked on him. He had been taken to the hospital, and I couldn’t see him for five days. I was desperately worried! I called the hospital. They didn’t show any record of him being there. I called the jail every day.

On 10/14/19, Chaplain M. from Tarrant County Jail called me around 3:30 p.m.

He told me I needed to get to the hospital.

[Redacted] was in ICU. The chaplain told me his kidney had failed but didn’t have any more details. My husband had been in critical condition all this time, and I wasn’t notified for five days. I was devastated.

There were several doctors and a chaplain in his room when I got there.

He was brought in nonresponsive with a 106-degree temperature and seizures. I was hurt, angry, and scared. The doctor told me that every organ had taken a hit from the high temperature and they weren’t sure if he would pull through. My husband is 61-years-old.

On 10/15/19, I proceeded to call Chief R. He would not talk to me. He told the lady to have me call internal affairs. I wanted

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received anything at the Tarrant County Jail.

My complaint is with the Tarrant County Jail that did not provide the medications or send information to the halfway house. If they had, none of this would have happened.

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Data provided by TCJS describes Tarrant County Jail’s ranking compared to other large Texas county jails. Last December, inmates in Tarrant and Bexar county jails each sent six complaints to TCJS. Clay (11), Smith (10), and Dallas (8) round out the top offenders that month. That month, two of Tarrant’s complaints required a response.

“All complaints received by this agency are reviewed to determine if the complaint is regarding a facility under the purview of the Jail Commission and/or alleges a violation of minimum jail standards,” a TCJS spokesperson said in an email. “If the review indicates a possible violation of minimum jail standards, the complaint will be forwarded to the county for a response and corresponding documentation to the allegation. If the complaint involves a facility not under the purview of the Jail Commission or does not involve a possible violation of minimum jail standards, the complainant shall be notified in writing of this fact and no further action may be taken.”

Allegations that describe criminal acts on the part of jail staff or inmates are forwarded to “appropriate law enforcement agencies” that could include the Texas Rangers and FBI, the spokesperson said.

“If it is determined a violation of minimum jail standards occurred, a notice of noncompliance may be issued,” the spokesperson said.

Included in my questions for TCJS was a request for the number of times TCJS staff took action as the result of a complaint from a member of Tarrant County Jail’s population.

“There is not a way to see how many times a county was given technical assistance or placed in noncompliance as a result of a complaint,” the agency replied. l

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medication for the following: epilepsy, bipolar disorder, and PTSD. At Tarrant County Jail, they provided the meds. However, when he was transferred to the halfway house, his meds were not sent with him.

He has been without meds for two-plus weeks. When released early last week to come live with me, he went off the deep end and did not arrive in Fort Worth. He called me Friday night and said he was trying to come home but was seeing people following him, chasing him, who he thinks are federal agents. He is delusional. I told him when he gets to Fort Worth, go to the hospital and get mental help. He was arrested late last night and is back at Tarrant County Jail.

He contacted me this morning and has not

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background, and he was an honest and hardworking man. I hope this brings some light on what these inmates and their families have to go through. Even though these people are in custody, they are still human and not to be treated like cows on their way to slaughter.

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to press charges on every officer and nurse that was on my husband’s floor the night of 10/8/2019 for neglect.

For the next five days, they kept him in ICU. He was still very confused. On 10/20/2019, the officer that was in his room told me that when he works the floors at the jail, if the inmates are cursing and screaming at him and need something, [the jailers] would lay there and die before [they] would help them. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. But, after the way they did my husband, I’m not surprised. This kind of behavior goes on more than we know.

No one should have to go through what he has been through and continues to go through. My husband has no criminal

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Tickets for Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience went on sale long before Thursday the venue was announced. I was suspicious. But now that this 360-degree digital exhibition exploring the Dutch artist’s life, his works, and (supposedly) his secrets starts today at Globe Life Park (1090 Ballpark Way, Arlington, 817-533-1972), I’m all in.

Enjoy this atmospheric light and sound show 10am-8pm Mon-Fri thru Sun, Nov 28. (On holidays, the hours will be 9am-9pm.) Tickets are $19-54.80 at VanGoghExpo.com..

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Are you familiar with glammetal rockers SteelHeart?

Along with hearing them Friday on the soundtrack to the film Rock Star starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston or their 1991 one-hitwonder track “I’ll Never Let You Go” in heavy rotation on commercial radio, you may also have seen a story in the news about a very painful stage nosedive taken by singer Miljenko Matijevic when they opened for Slaughter in Colorado on Halloween of 1992.

(Ouch. You should google that.) Currently, the band has launched a 30th-anniversary tour and will be playing at 9pm at the Glass Cactus at the Gaylord Texan Hotel (1501 Gaylord Trl, Grapevine, 817-778-2805). In-person tickets are $10 at Tickets.GaylordTexan.com. The band will also be livestreaming its show for $19.99 at SteelHeart.com.

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It’s Sing-Along Saturday at the Palace Theatre inside the Palace Arts Center (300 Saturday S Main St, Grapevine, 817410-3100) at 4pm during the PG-13 movie Mamma Mia and at 7:30pm during PGrated film Grease. The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her birth father, Mamma Mia is told through hit songs by ABBA. Made in the ’70s, Grease is the story of good-girl Sandy and greaser Danny who fall in love over a summer in the 1950s and then come fall, they discover they are attending the same high school.

Will they be able to rekindle their romance?

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From 7pm to 11pm today — and every Monday moving forward — head to Tulips Monday FTW (112 St. Louis Av, Fort Worth, 817-367-9798) for Soul’d Out Mondays.

This curated jam session/residency by Gino “LockJohnson” Iglehart will feature one guest artist per week performing with the house band — today’s event features local R&B/neosoul/soul musician Taylor Pace — followed by an open soul jam session. Iglehart is a music industry veteran best known for his work with Erykah Badu and being an accomplished musician in his own right. He refers to these sessions as a “musical sandbox” to curate his favorite acts and champion emerging artists.

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11am-5pm Tue-Fri thru Sat, Sep 25, visit the Annex Gallery at Rose Marine Tuesday Theater (1440 N Main St, Fort Worth, 817-624-8333) to view Agridulce featuring works by Sheryl Ananya and Fogolmam Sincs with works by Erika Nina Suarez. Anaya is a Puerto Rican artist and educator based in Fort Worth who examines the disconnect and detachment from place and home through a series of collected images.

Suarez is a visual artist currently residing in Fort Worth exploring generational connections, multicultural upbringing, and identity by revisiting decades of family photos. For tickets, go to ArtesDeLaRosa.org, click “buy tickets,” and make a donation of any amount.

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While I do occasionally read the Star-T articles, I pick it up on the weekends Wednesday expressly for the inserts of manufacturers’ coupons and grocery stores’ circulars. From 1pm to 7pm, attend a Free Coupon Webinar hosted by coupon expert Jen Morris, who will show you secrets and techniques for using these coupons to cut your grocery bill in half and save hundreds of dollars. Attendees will also receive the Budget Master, a pro tool for mastering your household budget. Register to attend at FtForth.SuperSaverClass.com.

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Screenings will be held in the auditorium.

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While I realize we just talked about back to school in this column recently — head to FWWeekly.com and find Big Ticket in the Calendar drop-down — it’s a big endeavor, so here we are again. From college (#WelcomeHomeTCU) down to kindergarten, there is a lot to cover.

Now thru Friday and then again Mon-Fri, Aug 27, Social House (840 Currie St, Fort Worth, 817-820-1510) is showing its gratitude by offering Teacher Appreciation Week(s). School teachers can bring a school ID, enjoy 25% off their food purchase, and pay $1 for their first drink. (And we know you need that stiff one!) #ThankYouTeachers This Fri-Sun, it’s Back-to-School Family Weekend at North Texas Jellystone Park (2301 S Burleson Blvd, Burleson, 817-426-5037). Yogi Bear — this is his world after all — will help you forget about academics for one more weekend with activities that include Are You Smarter than the Average Bear Trivia, contests to win free school supplies, paintball, and a scavenger hunt. Weekend staycations start at $101.54 per night for a tent site for a family of four, but RV spots and cabins are also available. To make reservations or to check out potential add-on costs, visit NorthTexasJellystone. com/Whats-Included-Stay.

From noon to 1:30pm Mon, TCU is having its Welcome Home Celebration near the steps of the Mary Couts Burnett Library (2905 S University Dr, Fort Worth, 817-257-7117). Enjoy activities, music, and yard games; pose for pictures in front of giant letters that spell “home”; and participate in the Welcome Home

Photo Mosaic Booth. Treats are available for purchase from Kona Ice, PokeyO’s, and Steel City Pops. At 12:45pm, Chancellor Victor Boschini will kick off the semester by honoring some of the faculty/staff and the winners of the Chancellor’s Staff Award and the Ferrari Award. #GoFrogs At 10am Tue, Goodwill Dallas (3020 N Westmoreland, Dallas, 214-678-1071) is hosting a Back-to-School Job Fair.

At least 20 employers will be on hand offering job opportunities in the $1025 per hour range. As a benefit of being a Google partner, Goodwill also offers digital skills training at no cost to you thru the Goodwill Digital Career Accelerator series of classes that help develop essential computer skills in Microsoft CompTIA A+, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Dates are available at the Dallas location above, in Lewisville (919 W Main St, 972-436-3681), and in a few other North Texas locations. For more info, visit GoodwillDallas.org.

And now for the big pink elephant in the (class-)room.

In an effort called Back to School, Back to Friends, the City of Fort Worth has extended its free COVID-19 vaccination clinics thru Saturday.

This clinic will allow all people ages 12 years and older to be vaccinated for the start of in-person school, sports, or other activities. The clinic is open daily from 9am to 4pm at the Bob Bolen Public Safety Complex (505 W Felix St, 817-392-4200). Other family members can get vaccinated, too. There is no insurance requirement, and no appointments are needed. The process is quick, safe, and easy.

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You may remember the late, funky, soul-driven Buttons Restaurant fondly, although a lot of the heart of the joint left when Chef Keith Hicks departed several years ago. I’d heard he had landed at The Rim, a family-owned restaurant in Burleson, a year or so ago, but I never made it down I-35 South to see firsthand what he did to the cuisine at the then 2-yearold eatery. Earlier this year, The Rim took over the space in Waterside vacated by Taco Diner, and Hicks fans are likely to be pleased with the menu, which merges the original owners’ retro vibe with Hicks’ groovy soul love.

The Bloody Mary Breakfast is one of those things you have to try once, assuming you like Bloody Marys. Even if you don’t, the extra-large extravaganza served at brunch essentially comes with the entire appetizer menu on a large stick impaled in the drink: one sublime curly sidewinder fry, a bacon-wrapped pretzel, seasoned boiled shrimp, a tiny pickle, an asparagus spear, a chonky andouille sausage bit, and Hicks’ signature chicken wang. If you had no plans of ordering the

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At The Rim, the Bloody Marys can come with a sampling of the entire appetizer menu on a stir.

delicious fries, the chewy, salty pretzel, or the oversized chicken wing, the appetizer skewer was a great way to have a little taste of everything. The single shrimp was perfectly seasoned, although the heat of the andouille sausage needed taming with a big slug of the spicy, vodka-infused tomato juice. The drink was plenty strong and more than enough to share.

The diner at my table of three who ordered the giant booze-fest opted for the mushroom toast to supplement the snacks. Mushroom toast is the slightly funky fungi answer to avocado toast, and here it’s not a vegan option. A good amount of savory sauteed wild mushrooms came plated on top of creamy ricotta that adorned three average pieces of toast. The

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plate was completed by a field green salad tossed in a delectably pungent smoky balsamic dressing, adorned with pork belly “croutons.” The bites were better separated than all together –– I preferred the mushrooms on top of the salad, with the ricotta toast as a slightly sweet treat to be eaten apart from the savory ’shrooms.

If your brunch heart desires biscuits and gravy, you’ll find a generous serving here. Ground beef subbed in for the traditional sausage in the creamy, peppery gravy, which covered two biscuits, a couple of sausages, your choice of eggs, and half of the home fries on the plate. The light flour biscuits would have been enough, but then the crispy, slightly mealy breakfast fries were also exceptionally good, and the gravy was salty perfection. If you’re set for a carb overload with leftovers to spare, this might be your ideal meal.

Stuffed French toast implies a decent amount of filling (in this case, sweetened cream cheese and a mixed berry coulis) sort of embedded into the egg-battered bread.

In this case, it was more of a fruity, creamy shmear between two pieces of French toast laid one on top of the other. Once expectations were modified, there wasn’t a thing wrong with the meal, and adding a side of applewood smoked bacon made for a nice contrast to cut the sweetness of the filling.

Because these are Keith Hicks’ recipes, we ordered a side of collard greens for the table. If you like your greens strong, soft, and salty, you’ll love them here.

The Rim’s décor is an over-the-top mishmash homage to all different types of music and showbiz personalities, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Our table was set under pictures of Freddie Mercury, and we enjoyed eating under his benevolent, bemused smirk. There’s a carousel horse decorating the back –– you’re not imagining it, and it’s not because of the strong Bloody Mary, either.

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1.) For its first course for DFW Restaurant Week, B&B Butchers & Restaurant (5212 Marathon Av, 817-737-5212) is offering your choice of Mr. G.’s classic Caesar salad; an iceberg wedge with blue cheese dressing and crumbles; B&B “steak” house salad (with filet mignon, onion jam, tomatoes, blue cheese crumbles, and balsamic vinaigrette); sizzling thick-cut bacon; B&B meatballs (with red sauce, whipped ricotta with basil oil, Sicilian oregano, and grilled pita); or San Daniele prosciutto and burrata (with a basil leaf and olive oil). Second-course choices include steak à la berg (sliced sirloin over hash browns); a Snake River Farms house-smoked pork chop (with pineapple barbecue sauce and glazed Granny Smith apples); chicken shank (with natural juices, grilled lemon, and Cipollini onions); pan-seared salmon (with wild mushrooms, snow peas, and baby kale with citrus beurre blanc sauce); surf and turf (with filet medallions and bacon-wrapped crab-stuffed shrimp); B&B “veg” house salad (with a portabello filet, onion jam, tomatoes, crumbled blue cheese, and balsamic vinaigrette); or rigatoni a la vodka (with tomatoes, cream, smoked bacon, and a splash of vodka). For the third course, have your choice of New York cheesecake, chocolate cake, or classic crème brûlée. For the lunch menu and add-on options, visit BBButchers.com/ Happenings-Ft-Worth.

2.) The first course at Bonnell’s (4259 Bryant Irvin Rd, 817-738-5489) includes your choice of Bonnell’s house salad (with mixed greens, baby heirloom tomatoes, and jalapeño-garlic vinaigrette) or queso fresco

3.) At City Works Eatery & Pour House (5288 Monahans Av, 682-207-1500), firstcourse options for DFW Restaurant Week include your choice of 1871 chili (made with Angus steak, milk stout, and chipotle peppers, then topped with sour cream and red onion and served with a cornbread muffin); the Secret Sauce crispy-fried smoked wings and drumettes — a featured dish from sister ghost kitchen Secret Sauce Barbecue — served with your choice of Carolina mustard barbecue sauce, buffalo sauce, or Nashville hot sauce; or a Caesar salad (with chopped romaine lettuce leaves, hard-boiled eggs, Kalamata olives, parmesan cheese, garlic-brioche croutons, and Caesar dressing). Second-course options include Secret Sauce southern mac ’n’ cheese (with hand-pulled housesmoked pork shoulder, pimento cheese, sauce, cornbread crumble, and cavatappi); a full rack of hardwood-smoked barbecue ribs (with house-made sauce, spicy maplebacon baked beans, and mascarpone creamed corn); or pan-seared salmon (with butternut squash puree, olive oil-poached fingerling potatoes, salsa verde, and succotash made with grilled corn, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, butternut squash, and grape tomatoes). For dessert, enjoy your choice of a chocolate-chip baked cookie (with caramel, chocolate sauce, vanilla bean ice cream, and whipped cream); S’more Dip (with Hershey’s chocolate, marshmallows, and graham crackers); or a

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As we mentioned last week, now thru Sun, Sep 5, DFW Restaurant Week has been extended to a whole month for 2021.

Participating restaurants offer threecourse prix fixe dinners for either $39 or $49, with 20% of proceeds benefiting Fort Worth-based children’s mental health nonprofit Lena Pope. Select restaurants are also offering two-course lunches for $19. Here are eight more choices, all of them in Fort Worth.

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slice of peanut-butter Snickers pie (with an Oreo cookie crust, peanut butter mousse, whipped cream, snickers, chocolate, and caramel sauce). For the lunch options and more info, visit CityWorksRestaurant. com/Fortworth.

4.) For DFW Restaurant Week, the starter choices at Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse (812 Main St, 817-877-3999) include a classic Caesar salad (with crisp Romaine lettuce leaves, shaved parmesan, Texas croutons, and Caesar dressing); a blue cheese wedge salad (with hickorysmoked bacon crumbles, tomatoes, and blue cheese dressing); or a seasonal salad (with cherry tomatoes, blue cheese crumbles, croutons, shaved red onions, and balsamic vinaigrette dressing). Entree choices include roasted chicken (with arugula, heirloom tomato vinaigrette, and black garlic-olive tapenade); a filet medallion duo (with mushroom bordelaise and béarnaise, château mashed potatoes, and thin green beans); North Atlantic salmon (with shaved broccoli and kale slaw, caper-herb sauce, and blistered tomatoes); or a 6-oz filet mignon (with château mashed potatoes). For dessert, enjoy cheesecake (with strawberry sauce on a pecan crust) or Belgian chocolate mousse (with salted caramel-chocolate fudge). To see the entree add-ons, enhancements, and featured beverages, find Fort Worth at DelFriscos.com/Location and click

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5.) At Fixture Kitchen & Social Lounge (401 W Magnolia Av, 817-708-2663), the first-course choices for DFW Restaurant Week are a wedge salad (with house-made buttermilk dressing, hickory bacon, grape tomatoes, green onions, and cheddar cheese) or a steak eggroll (with thinly shaved ribeye, Asian slaw, and honey-soy mayo). Second-course selections are a grilled chicken adobo (with slow-cooked chicken breast, chipotle adobo sauce, sautéed julienned vegetables, and rice); a pan-seared salmon (with braised farro sautéed with kale, tomato, asparagus, sweet peppers, white wine, and pickled red onions); or an 8-oz filet mignon (with roasted garlic mashed potatoes, green peppercorn demi-glace, and grilled asparagus). For dessert, have your choice of a chocolate mousse chiffon cake (topped with chocolate ganache and pearls) or salted caramel bread pudding. For wine pairings and more info, visit FixtureFW. com.

6.) For the first course at Silver Fox Steakhouse (1651 S University Dr, 817332-9060), have your choice of the III Forks Salad (with Granny Smith apples, Danish blue cheese, toasted pecans, and maple vinaigrette) or the wedge salad (iceberg lettuce, applewood smoked bacon lardons, house-dried tomatoes, and blue

cheese dressing). For your entree, choose from the sliced tenderloin Oscar (with blue crabmeat, scallion hollandaise sauce, and asparagus); honey-glazed Atlantic salmon (with molasses-bourbon butter); or a prime pork chop (with peach serrano glaze). For dessert, enjoy cheesecake (topped with Maker’s Mark bourbon-pecan sauce) or chocolate ganache cake (with fresh strawberries). See the suggested wine pairings and specialty cocktails available at SilverfoxCafe.com/Menu.

7.) The folks at Texas de Brazil (101 N Houston St, 817-882-9500) are keeping it simple for DFW Restaurant Week.

Your dinner-only experience will start with lobster bisque soup. Then enjoy unlimited salad from the 50-item salad area that includes authentic side dishes, cheeses and charcuterie, various salads and dressings, and fresh grilled vegetables. For the main course, enjoy unlimited portions of the usual Texas de Brazil meats served tableside, including seasoned and grilled chicken breast with bacon, flank steak, leg of lamb, picanha, herb-marinated pork loin and ribs, parmesan pork loin, and Brazilian sausage. Be sure and mention “DFW Restaurant Week” to your server upon arrival.

8.) For one of the best deals of DFW Restaurant week, head to Wicked Butcher (513 Main St, 817-601-4621). First-course

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There’s something special about Magnolia Motor Lounge to Dustin Massey. The comfy Cultural District’s garage-turnedvenue was the spot where the singersongwriter initially discovered Fort Worth’s burgeoning music scene after he moved back to Texas from Colorado.

Watching acts like the Quaker City Night Hawks and Johnathan Taylor & The Northern Lights was a revelation for him.

Something about seeing these artists on MML’s modest but homey stage brought live music into a form of obtainable reality to him, a change from the abstract and otherworldly make-believe fantasy space it had previously occupied in his mind. Seeing shows there was seminal in Massey’s late turn toward his own music career. It seems only natural that that stage would be the one he chose to celebrate the release of his debut album.

“I absolutely love ‘Mags,’ ” Massey said of the beloved club. “It’s my favorite stage to play. It’s like coming home in a way. The crazy thing is, with all that’s been going on, it will be by far the smallest stage we’ve played in the last six months.”

That “all that’s been going on” he’s referring to is the rigorous touring

schedule he’s been on since the release of (The Strays, Paul Cauthen). Opening his first single, “Pretty OK,” in March. with a wall of feedback from the raucous, An artist only three years into his career, fuzzed-out blues burner “Bad Love,” Massey guesses he’s played fewer than 60 the album demonstrates that Massey is shows total, but more than half of them no twang-addled country crooner. His have been in the last six months alone. sound is more rock and blues-based than In that span he’s played some honored your average Pat Green impersonator. stages and with some revered artists — Distorted guitars, beefy organ, and like performing at the legendary Gruene screaming pentatonic runs are employed Hall with his heroes Quaker City in June in heavy doses. Massey also showcases — but it’s returning to the slick glass bays his tender side with a handful of ballads. of Magnolia that he’s most excited about. The heartfelt “Run” got a bit of a boost “To say that I’m even a tiny speck as it was written under the mentorship in the Texas music scene would be an of Fort Worth singer and The Voice fan embellishment or complete hyperbole,” favorite Luke Wade. But it’s the album he said. “I’m nobody, but when we come closer, “Woman Like You,” that Massey home to Fort Worth to play, for those is most excited about finally being heard.

Built around a line 60 or 90 minutes, he started toying it’s almost just with while on a enough to feel like Dustin Massey album release date with his now somebody. I almost 7pm Sat w/Austin Upchurch at Magnolia Motor Lounge, 3005 Morton St, FW. girlfriend — “I get a tear in my eye 817-332-3344. want to be the man just thinking about that’s wanted by a it.” woman like that” On Saturday, Massey will mark the release of Matter of — the tune fittingly caps the album’s Time. Recorded at Modern Electric Sound themes of growth and resilience and love.

“It’s 100% autobiographical,” Massey Recorders in the winter of late 2019/ early 2020, the 10 tracks were helmed said of the lyrical content. “The meat of by acclaimed producer Beau Bedford the sandwich of this record is made up of (Leon Bridges, Texas Gentlemen) and songs about getting over the past, getting with engineering help from Jeff Saenz over bad loves, songs about life in general.

It’s about letting go and finding a way to believe in yourself, to follow your dreams, and to live the life you want — to just do it.”

With the album about to be heard in full, Massey said it’s a moment he’s been dreaming of for most of his life. Finally taking a chance on music after focusing on straight careers for most of adulthood has been as inspiring as it has been humbling for him. The childlike excitement and humility he has for the precious time he’s experiencing right now rolls off him in waves. It’s infectious. It’s the sort of enthusiasm and appreciation for pursuit of a dream that if you could bottle and drink from, they’d likely live forever.

“So many people have helped me keep going to get to this show on Saturday,” he said, “to help me follow this dream wherever it leads. I don’t know what’s in store after this. I don’t know if I’ll just be this Fort Worth dude that plays every once in a while or somewhere in the Texas music scene. I have no idea, and I’m not really worried about it. The album release is the end of the first chapter of whatever this is. Everything after is just icing on the cake because I already feel like I’m on borrowed time.” l

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Massey: “I’m nobody, but when we come home to Fort Worth to play, for those 60 or 90 minutes, it’s almost just enough to feel like somebody. I almost get a tear in my eye just thinking about it.”

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Though the two women who make up Genini (like “Gemini” or “Jen and I”) are separate by a few states, there’s still work to be done.

Katie Robertson (Chucho) and Jennifer Rux (Year the Bear, The Fibs) started the psychedelic electronic project not long before the pandemic and managed to play a few shows — while also doing some serious recording.

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released video for “The Funk.” All of the material is off the duo’s eponymous debut EP, which came out July 23 on Dreamy Life Records (Ting Tang Tina, Sub-Sahara, hot knife), the Fort Worth label that Rux co-founded with husband Robby Rux along with Cameron Smith (Sur Duda, War Party) and Jim Vallee seven years ago. It’s also the label that Rux and Robby are continuing to run after relocating to Seattle just recently.

“We have a handful of songs we’re working on, and it feels good that we still have some things in the works,” Rux said. “My plan is to keep it going on the Texas front, fly in and play some strategic shows, and try to get Katie to fly in here, too. We want to try to do both fronts.”

The pandemic could be to blame

for Fort Worth losing two of its most significant music minds. Rux said she needed a break from the added-on stress of owning a studio, Cloudland Recordings, during a tough economy.

Not too long ago, she and Robby sold it to two hungry, talented young locals, Rebekah Elizabeth and Joe Tacke (Mean Motor Scooter, Uncle Toasty).

Instead of playing SXSW 2020 as Genini was scheduled to, Rux and Robertson just jammed together, always being sure to hit the “record” button.

Robertson and Rux said their sound comes from spontaneity, going straight to tape with vintage delays and analog beats mixing bass and a Casio keyboard.

Rux calls it “electronic soul.”

Friday’s release is sentimental due to the time and circumstances in

which it was recorded. Last year, the art community mourned the death of muralist and painter Jeremy Joel.

“Our songs just kind of happen,” Rux said, “but right before we went into the studio, our dear friend Jeremy Joel died, and we weren’t really sure if we could have gone into the studio. Jeremy was a big impact on Katie and I. He lived art and always encouraged Katie and I to play or make art. It’s been a year now, and we hope this song puts some light and positive vibes out there.”

The EP was recorded and mixed by Robby Rux and Joel Raif at Cloudland and Niles City Sound (Leon Bridges, Vincent Neil Emerson, Frank Turner) and mastered by Jordan Richardson (Son of Stan, Ben Harper & The Relentless 7, White Denim).

Rux is trying to figure out the best way to make Genini work long-distance, especially during a pandemic. “There’s been a rumor of show offers towards the end of the year, but who knows.” — Juan R. Govea

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Reinhausen provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Reinhausen complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Reinhausen expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Reinhausen’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

Reinhausen has a very competitive total rewards package including a generous 410k plan, PTO, a PPO medical plan with a generous Health Savings Account, Health Reimbursement Account, Dental, Vision and Life.

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