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FEATURE Ever wonder why it sometimes takes 20 minutes to go two miles in town? We may have some answers.

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Judges are rightfully held to high ethical standards. The State Commission on Judicial Conduct frequently publicly or privately sanctions Texas county judges for commenting on the social media pages of candidates for public office. Such comments show favoritism or political leanings, the reasoning goes.

So when two Tarrant County judges, Republicans Josh Burgess and Susan McCoy, ruled favorably for the plaintiff of an ongoing lawsuit against Carroll school district, most news outlets saw nothing untoward about the decision. The lawsuit alleges that school board members broke Texas Open Meetings Act laws when discussing the Cultural Competence Action Plan (CCAP), the school district’s proposed diversity and inclusion roadmap.

School board members Bob Todd Carlton and Michelle Moore allegedly texted each other about the plan. Open meetings laws here and across the country demand public settings for discussions about official matters.

In November, Burgess signed a temporary restraining order that effectively

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Keeping Safe

As I drop off my 9-year-old son at school, I am filled with worry more than excitement. He is one of the few kids wearing a mask in his school, where even the teachers are not. He is too young to be vaccinated, and he is surrounded by others who are in a similar situation.

Now that the delta variant of COVID is here, it feels like everyone wants

Tim O’Hare, second from the left, and Judge Susan McCoy, second from the right, pose for photos before “valiant sponsor” DA Sharen Wilson during a Tarrant County Republican Party fundraiser late last year.

bars the school board from discussing race-related matters. The school district is appealing that decision. The following month, McCoy signed an order that forced the school district to release documents and communications related to CCAP. Both judges have ties to a close-knit group of Republican donors who are bankrolling Southlake Families, the political action committee that is underwriting the civil suit. PAC financial disclosures show multiple payments made to the two law firms behind the lawsuit. The PAC’s founder, Tim O’Hare, is a former Tarrant Republican chair and current candidate for county judge.

Playing politics appears to be a trend in Southlake, the mostly white, largely affluent suburb in northeast Tarrant County. The April indictments of Carlton and

Moore for allegedly violating the Texas Open Meetings Act (“Conservative Cronyism,” Aug 25) were sought by a district attorney’s office that has historically ignored similar complaints.

The ongoing criminal charges opened a second front against an embattled school board that has been targeted by white, wealthy, conservative parents who buy into debunked conspiracies about Critical Race Theory, the academic framework that, somewhat ironically, seeks to explain the role that white supremacy plays in cities like Southlake. Lawsuits are costly. The Weekly has requested information about the legal fees that the school district has incurred as the result of the ongoing litigation but has not heard back.

The Weekly’s investigation into Southlake cronyism recently turned to the

to pretend it’s not happening. Many Texans still refuse to get vaccinated or wear masks. Even though many of those same people eventually get sick and fill our hospitals. The hardest part is seeing the kids get COVID when their parents made that choice for them.

Last year I fought for my son to be safe. This year I am hesitant because I feel that speaking up will put a target on my son. I don’t want that for him because he is already standing out for wearing a mask and is also having to get used to being back in regular school.

But the truth is that while we all fight, people keep getting sick. Those who are afraid of vaccines wish they had gotten them too late. It is not about politics.

It is about science. I feel if you can trust doctors and hospitals to save you from COVID, then you can also trust that the vaccines are safe and worth getting.

All these thoughts race through my mind as I walk back to my car. I look up to see a rainbow after the storm. It reminds me that there can be something beautiful after darkness. We just need to practice empathy and do our part to help others who cannot help themselves.

We do that by wearing our masks and getting vaccinated.

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The litigation and prosecution of Carroll school district’s board looks like a Republican ploy to appease wealthy donors.

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Buying Judicial Influence?

ongoing civil suit that is supported and financed by powerful and well-connected families who have a long history of generously donating to DA Sharen Wilson and the very judges who are now deciding the fate of diversity training in Southlake.

“Keep Our Republican Judges,” read an October 2020 Facebook fundraiser event page. Red scribbles under “Republican” emphasized the operative word. The Southlake fundraiser, held at the home of former Southlake mayor and prominent Fort Worth lawyer Andy Wambsganss, a known supporter of the Southlake PAC, benefited several Republican judges, including Burgess and McCoy, according to the Facebook event page.

Texas judges are chosen through partisan elections. Winning elections requires campaign funds, meaning there is nothing illegal or explicitly unethical about judges attending partisan fundraisers. The annual fundraisers held by the Wambsganss family differ from typical judicial fundraisers in Tarrant County, said one former Southlake elected official and lawyer who asked not to be named to protect his privacy.

“Lawyers give money to judges, and lawyers who hold fundraisers for judges and invite people who aren’t lawyers, those are superstar supporters,” the confidential source told us. “Southlake has consistently had fundraisers for Tarrant County judges, Tarrant County elected officials, and anyone who is a Republican. These parties at the Wambsganss’ home are primarily for judges because Wambsganss is a lawyer.

He wants all these [county] judges to know that he is raising money for them. He and his wife perceive themselves as being in the power-and-money game.”

The Southlake Families PAC, according to campaign finance report disclosures that we reviewed in full, is supported by donors who attended the 2020 Southlake event that raised funds for Burgess, McCoy, and several other conservative judges.

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Carroll school board member Hannah Smith has financially and publicly supported a lawsuit that has targeted her school district for ideological and largely baseless reasons.

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ging Kristin Garcia, the lawsuit’s plaintiff.

“Today, the judge hears argument in several motions in the Garcia litigation,” Smith wrote. “Please cover them in prayer!

Our legal team could use YOUR prayers too!”

More disturbing than the invocation of God into petty dealings on the part of a powerful group of affluent white parents is the fact that Smith, through her statement, connects herself to the very suit that has damaged the school district she now represents. By describing the lawsuit plaintiff as “our legal team,” Carroll school board member Smith may have implicated herself in an egregious conflict of interest.

The Weekly requested copies of ethics disclosures from Carroll school district which would reveal whether Smith disclosed her connections to Southlake Families.

“We do not have any conflict-of-interest documents by Ms. Smith,” a school district spokesperson responded.

Southlake didn’t used to be politically divisive, the confidential source said. The bipartisan nature of local politics changed following the rise of the Tea Party, the conservative grassroots movement that mobilized in reaction to perceived threats from President Barack Obama’s administration.

“Northwest Tarrant Tea Party’s inaugural event was held at Southlake Town Square,” the source told us. “I walked down there to see it. That was when things became divisive.”

The Wambsganss’ annual events are easily one of the more lucrative fundraisers for Republican judges in Tarrant County, the former Southlake public office holder added.

“It’s hard to raise money as a district judge,” the source continued, referring to the importance of the Southlake fundraiser that had ties to backers of the Southlake Families lawsuit. “When you attend an event that gives you thousands of dollars, you remember that. Most humans would know who paid them money.”

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Documents from the Texas Ethics Commission (TEC) show that Southlake Families PAC has been active for at least a decade. A 2012 TEC document shows that the PAC was fined $1,300 for violating state disclosure laws by mailing flyers that urged Southlake voters to oppose a 2011 city proposal to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages in Southlake, the document read. Terry Orr is listed as the treasurer of the PAC at that time.

Among the 33 Southlake fundraiser guests or couples who paid $1,000 or more for their host-level tickets last year were Paul Spain, Darrin Winn, and Southlake Families PAC founder O’Hare. Southlake Families’ fundraising disclosures show that Winn contributed $10,000 to the PAC on March 31, 2021, while Spain donated $500 around the same time. Andy Wambsganss’ wife, Leigh Wambsganss, loaned the PAC $258.80 in May. “If you were VIP,” the source said, “you gave more [than the hosts], and I’m sure once you got there, they asked for more.”

The timing of the October fundraiser that was followed by political victories for the Southlake Families PAC the following November and December raises questions about the influence of outside money on Tarrant County’s court system. The American Bar Association, which sets rules and standards for practicing lawyers and judges, states that a judge should disqualify himself or herself if the judge has a “personal bias or prejudice concerning a party or a party’s lawyer or personal knowledge of facts that are in dispute in the proceeding.”

McCoy’s December order that forced the school district to release documents and communications related to the civil suit may well be tied to the April indictment of the two school board members.

The PAC’s donations and influence recently placed Hannah Smith, a selfdescribed “religious freedom lawyer,” on Carroll’s school board. Southlake Families’ disclosures list Smith’s campaign as a beneficiary of PAC funds. Before assuming her current elected position, Smith made a $200 contribution to Southlake Families PAC and, during her 2020 school board campaign, posted a message on Facebook which directly ties her to the malicious civil litigation. A screenshot that was shared with the Weekly shows Smith tag-

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The city’s transportation woes grow by the day, but there are some bright spots worth celebrating.

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It started with a missed exit.

No biggie, I told myself. I’ll just take Cherry Street.

After exiting I-30, I headed toward downtown and the West 7th Bridge. I left my home for an interview at the Weekly offices, just north of the Cultural District, with 15 minutes to spare. Plenty of time, I thought. As I topped the bridge, I was forced to an abrupt stop. Construction had closed one of the two westbound lanes.

The backup reached from the bridge to University Drive, almost a mile ahead.

I could only imagine how angry my interviewee was going to be at my lateness.

But I left 15 minutes early!

OK, I’ll just take some backroads, I thought as I turned into Montgomery Plaza’s parking lot. Several backed-up stop signs later, I was once again cruising toward the office. After 20 seconds of smooth sailing, I faced a line of 20 cars waiting to cross University near Austin City Taco Co. I did some quick calculations in my head. Each car would have to wait for both lanes of dense traffic to offer an all-too-rare opening for a Mad Max-level dash across University. That was my first mistake. I should have taken 6th Street because drivers can’t turn left onto University from 6th, only right.

I made a U-turn and hurried toward hopefully better prospects north.

Hamilton Avenue was just as backed up.

One block north at Bristol Road, I finally had access to University and an open route to the office. I was several minutes late.

Our general manager nodded in agreement as I vented an expletive-laden description of my four-block slog through the West 7th Corridor.

West 7th is as packed with trendy restaurants, bars, and entertainment options as ever, and, on weekends, the parking garages and streets servicing the area are equally packed. One recent Fort Worth police proposal to reduce congestion — a ban on cruising — elicited backlash from locals who said banning lowriders and other tricked-out, slow-driving cars was lazy and racist public policy.

The local grassroots group United Fort Worth has been a leading critic of the proposal. On social media, United Fort Worth recently said, “Ticketing ‘cruisers’ won’t minimize traffic congestion, but it will disproportionately put people of color at a greater risk for racial profiling and unwarranted police interactions.

The truth is that the problem of traffic congestion is NOT about cruising. It’s about the failure of city leaders to come up with comprehensive solutions that deal with root causes of traffic congestion and provide REAL funding for public transit.”

A spokesperson with Fort Worth police said in an email that “increased pedestrian and vehicular traffic” in the area has led to traffic issues.

“The [cruising] ordinance was already in existence in the Stockyards and proved to be an effective way to address those similar issues,” the spokesperson said. “It was asked if the ordinance could

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Traffic in and around West 7th Street is a slog, but few people are blaming “cruising” for the problem.

be modified to include the West 7th entertainment district. Bar and restaurant owners in the area” support the proposals.

The aim of the ordinance is to improve traffic flow, lower accidents, and reduce the number of calls for police service, the spokesperson continued. On Aug. 17, a last-minute decision was made to table the proposal, possibly because city officials didn’t want to hear dozens of speakers berate city council over what had quickly become a controversial ordinance proposal.

Recent U.S. Census data confirm what North Texans see daily — explosive population growth. Tarrant County’s population (2.1 million) grew 17% since the last census was taken 10 years ago.

North Texas expanded by 1.2 million residents over the last decade, according to census data, and Fort Worth, the nation’s 12th-largest city by population, is pushing 920,000 residents. In a recent study by

the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, which lumped Dallas and Fort Worth together for a ranking of the top metro areas with the worst traffic, DFW ranked seventh. Drivers in Fort Worth spend around 40 hours a year sitting in traffic, according to the report. Fort Worth drivers who have to make the crawl up I-35 toward Denton easily spend 40 hours per month angrily pumping their brakes to and from work.

The lack of a robust public transportation system is a top complaint our newspaper fields from local residents, but several new programs by the city and partner transit agencies like Trinity Metro are reshaping how people travel in and around Fort Worth. Trinity Metro’s The Dash, a brand-new fleet of all-electric buses, leaves the Fort Worth Central Station every 15 minutes to pick up and drop off passengers throughout downtown, West 7th Street, and the Cultural District.

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Both ZIPZONE rides arrived on time, and the drivers were polite and professional.

True to its name, The Dash keeps a busy schedule moving riders around central Fort Worth.

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On a recent drizzly morning, I downloaded the Trinity Metro ZIPZONE app, which looks and functions similarly to Uber’s.

The closest service area covers the Near Southside and some surrounding neighborhoods, so I made the short drive to West Magnolia Avenue and parked near Avoca Coffee Roasters, which is near the middle of the mile-long stretch of bars, restaurants, and shops. I placed a pin where I was parked and requested a ride.

The app asked me to walk 20 feet to the intersection of 6th Avenue and Magnolia.

The ZIPZONE rides were free that day as part of a promotion that runs through Monday, Sept. 6. After that, the fees return to $1 to $3 per trip, depending on how far you travel. ZIPZONE is basically like Uber but with lower fees and a limited service area.

The app hailed a nearby van, and, three minutes later, I was on my way to Crude Craft Coffee Bar, about a mile to the northeast. The van was pristine inside and out, and the driver wore a facemask, which I appreciated. She apologized for her broken English when I asked some reporterly questions. She did say the ridesharing program was popular. At Crude, I chatted up the coffee bar’s coowner, Corey Bloodworth. I showed him the app and explained that the service was free through Labor Day. He was genuinely impressed and admitted that he wasn’t familiar with ZIPZONE. Public transportation is only useful if the buses, trains, and vans drop off riders within walking distance of their jobs.

Workers who board TEXRail at Grapevine, for example, may not work near T&P Station, the final stop. ZIPZONE makes that final connection possible. The same is true for Trinity Metro’s fleet of buses that connect riders with drop-off points near major roads.

My mother recently found out about TEXRail. It takes about one hour to make the scenic and smooth ride from T&P Station to the airport, and rides leave T&P every half hour or hour, depending on the time of day. One-way trips on the new rail line are $2.50 while all-day passes are $5. A $2.50 TEXRail trip to the airport from downtown beats a $30 Uber or Lyft ride, and the light rail option offers the possibility of working on a device via the free Wi-Fi along the way.

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Another new initiative, ZIPZONE, is a ridesharing service that operates in select areas (basically, the Near Southside, several square miles just below I-20, and swaths of the Alliance area).

The fleet of black vans helps locals make the last leg of their commute once they arrive at a bus stop or hop off the newish TEXRail line that runs from Fort Worth’s T&P Station to DFW International Airport with several stops along the way. The upcoming 2022 bond election could allocate hundreds of millions of dollars toward repairing and upgrading roads and expanding capacity in rapidly growing areas like Alliance.

Mayor Mattie Parker said COVID-19 lowered ridership on The Dash, ZIPZONE, and TEXRail, but those numbers are now trending upward.

“There are several exciting transit projects coming our way in the near future, both big and small,” Parker continued.

“I’m glad to see a neighborhood focus in the 2022 bond proposal where we plan to put millions into the sidewalks and streets in our neighborhoods.”

The controversial cruising ordinance has once again made public transportation a popular topic of discussion, so how is public transit shaping up, and what new programs can we expect in the coming years?

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My 3-year-old still asks when she can go on the “choo choo” again.

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Riding a bike can be therapeutic, said longtime Weekly writer Steve Steward.

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I rode TEXRail to the airport and back soon after it launched in early 2019. The sleek train offers a quiet and incredibly bump-free ride. There are ample tables that commuters use to catch up on work as they glide from the Near Southside to the Stockyards, North Richland Hills, and downtown Grapevine. I wish TexRail would connect with the light rail system in Dallas. Trinity Metro’s double-decker TRE runs on a parallel route as the TEXTrail but with a final stop at American Airlines Center in Dallas.

Fort Worth Central Station was bustling when I set out to hop on The Dash. The station is a hub for Trinity Metro and Greyhound buses, TEXRail, and other commuter rail lines. As a dozen Trinity Metro buses pulled up, I didn’t see the bright red Dash. The all-electric buses stop by every 15 minutes at the far end of the platform, as I was told indoor by a Trinity Metro attendant. As I reached the south end of the bus station, a bright red bus came around the corner. One woman stepped off as an older gentleman and I stepped on.

The bus made little discernible noise, and a sign in front of my seat read “Free Wi-Fi.” The driver said weekdays typically have fewer commuters but things pick up on weekends. My single trip to a downtown stop set me back $2. Day passes are $5.

Lots of folks know about The Dash, the friendly driver told me. Like ZIPZONE, the public transit experience was prompt, clean, and on time.

“Thank you,” I told the driver as I hopped off, adding that she’ll see me using the service again.

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Fort Worth’s future transit options will depend on highway projects managed by the Texas Department of Transportation;

high-speed transit options; city- and county-funded road expansions and repairs; public transportation options from Trinity Metro; and active transportation.

Active transportation encompasses walking, biking, and other non-motorized forms of getting around. Fort Worth City Council adopted the Fort Worth Active Transportation Plan in April 2019, and the top goal is to create a seamless network of on- and off-street bicycle and pedestrian options for locals of “all ages and abilities.”

The plan also calls for “prioritizing funding and projects that include equity, health, safety, economic development, and access.”

The Fort Worth Bike Share program launched in 2013 with 30 stations and 300 rentable bicycles. The next year, 15 stations and 50 bikes were added, and 50 electric-assist bikes were added in 2019.

Early last year, Weekly writer Steve Steward described his experience biking through town (“Steve’s Big Adventure,” Feb. 2020).

“Riding the Clear Fork section of the Trinity Trails on that jolly red beast of a bicycle revived a place and time in my mind that I had once physically inhabited,” Steward wrote. “The effect was therapeutic. When you zone out on a bike over personally important geography, you have some moments to replay the past, both recent and not, and then you have to surface to call out, ‘On your left!’ at a couple walking a dog.”

A recent press release from the city describes an ongoing high-speed transportation study by the Regional Transportation Council, the independent transportation policy body composed of elected or appointed officials from across North Texas. High-speed rail and hyperloop are being examined as possible transit options that could one day shuttle passengers to and from Dallas and Fort Worth at speeds of more than 200 miles per

A, which calls for the issuing of $400 million in bonds for constructing and rehabilitating streets, roads, highways, and bridges in Tarrant County. Mayor Parker said city staffers are planning years and decades into the future to ensure Fort Worthians have effective and equitable access to a variety of transit options.

“I’m proud of the strides Fort Worth has made in regards to mobility and transit opportunities,” Parker said. “We are recognizing that this city is in a phase that deserves a renewed emphasis on how we are meeting our infrastructure and transportation challenges,” Parker said.

“As the second fastest growing big city in the nation, we cannot ignore the challenges

created by population growth, and we must partner with the many brilliant, innovative groups and experts in this field to find and implement innovative solutions that meet the needs of generations to come.”

From my initial slog through West 7th-area traffic to my discovery of Trinity Metro’s new initiatives and the city’s upcoming bond proposal, I learned that providing transit options for a large city can seem like an uneven process, even with long-term planning.

The city’s “progress” depends partly on where one lives and how often one takes advantage of new services as they come online. New butts on public transit seats allow city leaders to justify further

investment in infrastructure that can reduce pedestrian and auto accidents while slowing Climate Change.

After a recent visit with my parents, my 3-year-old daughter took the train back with her grandmother. Standing at the Fort Worth station, she jumped then laughed at an unexpected whoosh from a nearby train.

“Did you enjoy the train ride?” I asked as I lifted her up.

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hour. Hyperloop, which remains on the fringes of technology, places riders in a pod that is propelled through a large vacuum tube at speeds that could theoretically reach hundreds of miles per hour.

“The purpose of Phase 2 is to gain federal environmental approval of the preferred alignment and technology for the project,” read a public statement from the transportation council. “This includes conceptual and preliminary engineering and financial and project management plans.”

Fort Worth’s Master Thoroughfare Plan (MTP) provides a general outline for the city’s goals for constructing and maintaining thoroughfares, which the city defines as roadways that are used for “moderate length to long trips and moderate to high traffic volumes.”

According to the city, the pillars of the MTP include mobility (increasing connectivity and capacity), safety (lowering automobile speeds near pedestrians and bicyclists), and opportunity (by serving “planned growth” areas).

Earlier this year, city staffers identified $400 million in transportation construction and upgrade costs and created a bond program proposal to fund the projects through direct contributions and cost-matching agreements with the county. The city currently plans to fund just over $200 million of the project as part of a larger $500 million bond proposal.

Heading the proposal is Roger Venables, aviation director for the city. It’s an old job title that Venables fancied and decided to keep, he told me recently at a summer open house. The community meetings offered a chance for locals to shake hands with city leaders and staffers and to learn about upcoming programs like the 2022 city bond program, which Fort Worthians will vote on in May. In November, all of Tarrant County will vote on the county bond package.

“We have a number of transportation projects” that will be funded by the bond, Venables said. “These are streets that have been failing over time. One criterion that we used when gauging these projects is equity. We have some majority-minority areas out here that have faced significant challenges in terms of infrastructure. We are going to make sure this bond program addresses that. We have a number of projects that are related to capacity, so we are trying to ease traffic and congestion.

The majority of that traffic is going to occur in the north end of town that has experienced the most growth.”

Venables said city staffers are closely watching whether Tarrant County voters pass the November bond.

“We are trying to get $200 million from the county,” he said. “Depending on which projects they move forward with, it may change our projects.”

The Nov. 2 ballot will allow Tarrant County residents to support Proposition

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TAKE A BREAK TO SEE & BUY ORIGINAL ARTWORKS BY 60 LOCAL ARTISTS PARTY WITH THE ARTISTS: $100 per person for HFW members, $150 per person for others WHEN? Thursday, September 9th, 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Appetizers, beverages, and fun WHERE? In two galleries on the lowest level of the First on 7th building at 500 West 7th Street.

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FREE to the PUBLIC: WHEN? 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Friday, September 10 WHEN? 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 11 (Open late for Gallery Night)

The majority of the proceeds of each sold artwork goes to the artist, with the remainder benefiting Historic Fort Worth, Inc., a 501(c)(3) charity.

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STUFF Your week-to-week guide to the best — or most interesting — high school football matchups around North Texas.

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College and professional football seasons are upon us and are both expensive to attend in person. Both are more and more removed from the purity of the game with each passing year. I’m not suggesting you abandon your preferred college or sports team, but if you crave unfiltered amateur football, Friday nights are when you should be drinking in the grit and pageantry.

North Texas is a hotbed for football, but there hasn’t been a lot of championshipcaliber play at the college or pro level in years. For a good time, return to your roots by following my roadmap to the best high school football matchups remaining this season.

Week 2 pick: Rockwall-Heath vs.

Southlake Carroll (7:30pm Thu) An early non-district matchup between two of the heavy-hitting 6A schools in our region. The Dragons proved in Week 1 they don’t necessarily need top-national pick Quinn Ewers — who left early for Ohio State — to be dangerous. They routed the similarly privileged Highland Park Scots 45-21 in the battle of the bankrolls. Rockwall-Heath won, however unimpressively, against Keller Timber Creek, but this remains an intriguing early-season matchup between two teams ranked in the Top 10 statewide.

Alternate: Frisco Lone Star vs. Aledo (7pm) Week 3 pick: Waxahachie vs. Ennis (7:30pm Fri 9/10) I know, there’s no reason to go that far South of Dallas unless you’re attending Scarborough Renaissance Festival, but

you’ll have the chance to experience some smaller-town football as second-ranked 5A-division-1 Ennis tries to punch above their weight class against 6A Waxahachie in what will probably be a tight matchup between two teams who play polar opposite styles of football.

Alternate: Aledo vs. Arlington Heights (7pm) Week 4 pick: Desoto vs. Duncanville (7pm Fri 9/17) District matchup between two neighboring DFW perennial powers. Only the Panthers are expected to plunge deep into the playoffs this season, but this game is a good ol’ track meet of South Dallas pride.

Duncanville started their year shellacked 47-3 by Mater Dei — the top-ranked team in the nation, out of Santa Anna, California — and Desoto lost a one-touchdown thriller to Judson, the top-ranked squad in the San Antonio metro area. Both will fight all season to erase the memory of uncharacteristic early losses.

Alternate: Southlake Carroll vs. Martin (7pm) Week 5 pick: Arlington v. ArlingtonMartin (7pm Fri 9/24) Sometimes the environment trumps competitiveness. I’m not going to say you can throw out the record books in this game — the Warriors from Martin are far more formidable — but the Colts have improved over the last several seasons and will be eager to prove themselves against their fellow Arlingtonians.

Alternate: Lewisville vs. Plano West (7pm)

Week 6 pick: Rio Vista vs. Itasca (7pm Fri 10/1) This one may seem like a strange pick, but hear me out. If you don’t know, Rio Vista is just south of Cleburne, and this game will be like stepping into a different world for DFW dwellers. You’re not likely to see more than 25 players suited for either squad — because neither school has more than 225 students — in this battle of 2A District 7. I’m not promising the level of play will be impressive, but you can expect guts and grit from the small-town matchup between two low-ranked opponents.

An added bonus: Itasca’s mascot is the Wampus Cats. How great is that?

Alternate: South Hills vs. Trimble Tech (7pm Thu 9/30) Week 7 pick: Highland Park vs. Longview (7pm Fri 10/8) A district matchup that will determine the first and second spot out of 5A District 7.

Both the Scots and Lobos had their clocks cleaned by superior opponents in Week 1, but you can expect a lively atmosphere watching uppity Park dwellers intermingle with Piney-woods people. Just drive your best vehicle so HP’s finest don’t bother you, though I’ve heard the University Park jail serves artisan bagels every morning.

Alternate: Southwest vs. Grapevine (7pm) Week 8 pick: All Saints Episcopal vs.

Nolan Catholic (7pm Fri 10/15) I’d be remiss not to show some private school love, though it can be hard to track down a game since most of the known locals compete in different leagues. I’m going to call a walloping right now as the

Vikings played competitively with the Argyle Eagles — who are top ranked in UIL’s 4A — in Week 1.

Alternate: Aledo vs.

Mansfield Timberview (7pm) Week 9 pick: Argyle vs. Terrell (7:30pm Fri 10/22) Argyle is ranked in the Top 15 statewide of any team despite being 4A and with a small student body compared to others. The Eagles look as strong as ever embarking to defend their state title. The Tigers will have an uphill battle but represent one of the stronger teams in this district.

Alternate: Brock vs. Boyd (7:30pm) Week 10 pick: Eastern Hills vs. Western Hills (7pm Fri 10/29) Show some compassion to the hometown teams as this crosstown rivalry commences between the Highlanders and Cougars.

Neither team has any hope of catapulting themselves past the first round of the state playoffs should either of them even advance that far. Purely pride on the line in the penultimate week for most teams.

Alternate: Allen vs. Prosper (7pm) Week 11 pick: Frisco Lone Star vs.

Denton Ryan (7pm Fri 11/5) A district shootout between the current first- and second-ranked teams in 5A. Ryan will be vying to defend their state championship, but they’ll have to win their district first by beating a team who’ll also be expected to play past Thanksgiving.

This game is a playoff game delivered early, and you don’t want to miss it.

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Denton’s Ryan High School is top-ranked in 5A this year and started its season by pummeling 6th-ranked Longview 40-7 at The Ford Center in Frisco on Saturday.

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Here’s the extraordinary thing about Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: The Chinese have been trying to make this movie for the past decade or so. Or rather, a movie like this rather than an adaptation of the Marvel comic series that it’s based on.

You see, unlike the Harry Potter and Star Wars movies, the Marvel films have been wildly popular with Chinese audiences.

Why is a subject for another time, but Chinese culture is filled with stories of heroes possessing superhuman powers, and their audiences are not averse to treating these myths with irreverent humor the way Marvel does, so they’ve been making Marvel-like big-budget films based on their own superhero stories, with varying degrees of success. Yet for all the vast resources and

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here.) Maybe he just needed to film a car chase to rediscover his groove. He gracefully integrates the flashbacks recounting ShangChi’s unhappy childhood, and he brings innovation and fluidity to the action sequences, particularly one where the hero and Katy face bad guys on the scaffolding outside a skyscraper, swinging on the bars and continuing the fight on different levels.

As you’d expect, Awkwafina brings much comic relief here, but the filmmakers inject their own with a random Twitch streamer livestreaming Shang-Chi’s bus fight, as well as The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) hilariously reappearing as a house pet for the mob boss, who says disgustedly, “He had America terrified of an orange.”

This comes with visual beauty that the Marvel films seldom give us.

Cinematographer Bill Pope’s saturated colors recall King Hu’s verdant 1960s

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Michelle Yeoh and Simu Liu spar for practice in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

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Marvel meets the Middle Kingdom in another strong superhero saga.

swordfighting epics, though Hu could only have dreamed of making water droplets freeze in midair and fall to the ground to form a map, as happens here. Ta Lo’s wildlife of nine-tailed foxes and longma (dragon horses) have never been rendered so well in Chinese films, and when Shang-Chi’s longlost aunt (Michelle Yeoh) makes blades of grass sway with her kung fu movements, the film’s lyricism approaches ballet.

The Chinese-Canadian star Liu displays a clever sense of humor in English to go with his martial-arts skills — his fight against a mute henchman wearing a Peking opera mask (Andy Le) moves at blinding speed. Where he’s lacking is a sense of the psychic damage Shang-Chi has taken as a result of witnessing his mother murdered as a 7-year-old and then being forced to witness his father taking brutal revenge on the gangsters responsible. The only actor who does justice to this family drama is Leung, the great Hong Kong star whose mournful, haunted face alone keeps this villain from becoming one-dimensional.

If Shang-Chi isn’t as all-encompassing an achievement as Black Panther, it is up to the standard of quality set by the other Marvel films, and its ties to Asian folklore and traditions of filmmaking set it apart from the rest of that canon. Another reason the Chinese couldn’t make this film is that they wouldn’t think to set one of their martial-arts sagas outside their country’s borders. Hollywood has no such qualms, so they’ve come out with the better movie. l

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ambition behind those films, Shang-Chi improves on all of them. There are many reasons for this, but you’ll note that it was made in an environment where artists have creative freedom.

Simu Liu stars as Shaun, a parking valet in San Francisco who keeps a low profile until the day he and his childhood friend Katy (Awkwafina) are assaulted on a crowded bus by a group of thugs armed with swords who are after the jade pendant that his mother gave him. When she sees him fighting them off with kung fu skills she didn’t know he had, he’s forced to come clean: He’s Xu Shang-Chi, the son of a murderous Chinese mob boss (Tony Leung) who derives his power and longevity from 10 mysterious bracelets that he uses as weapons. He trained Shang-Chi as a killer since childhood, but the boy ran away to America to escape that life. Now his dad has plucked both him and his estranged sister Xialing (Zhang Meng’er) out of their respective adult lives, thinking that their deceased mother is alive and being kept prisoner in a secret Chinese village called Ta Lo. He’s sending an army there, and Shaun, Katy, and Xialing decide to reach Ta Lo first and warn the people about what’s coming.

Director/co-writer Destin Daniel Cretton is an American of Filipino extraction whose debut feature was the dazzling Short Term 12, although his subsequent dramas The Glass Castle and Just Mercy repaid diminishing returns. (All those films had Brie Larson in them. That streak continues

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this week’s Torah portion is Parashat Nitzavim, which will be chanted by Hazzan Weber at 6:55am and 6pm Thu and can be viewed in person in the sanctuary and virtually on Facebook Live and via Zoom at AhavathSholom. org/Religious-Life/Minyan.

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Today is a great day to see Buddha, Shiva, Lotus, Dragon at the Kimbell Saturday Art Museum (3333 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-332-8451).

Tomorrow is your very last chance, in fact, because it ends Sunday. Tickets are $18 at KimbellArt.org. This exhibit of nearly 70 Asian artworks from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller is small but mighty. Earlier in the summer, Jennifer Casler Price, the Kimbell’s curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American Art, gave the Weekly a tour. If you’d like a preview before visiting in person, you can find the video at FWWeekly.com (search for “Guided Tour of Buddha, Shiva, Lotus, Dragon”) or our Instagram Page (@ FortWorthWeekly).

Here’s to a great run. Eleven Hundred Springs says “farewell” in The Colony Thu.

Having first started Eleven Hundred Springs in 1998, singer/guitarist Thursday Matt Hillyer and bassist Steven Berg have made 11 albums and helped establish alt-country. Now, they are calling it quits but not before gracing the stage at Lava Cantina (5805 Grandscape Blvd, The Colony, 214-6186893). Doors are at 7pm, and the Eleven Hundred Springs Farewell Party will be one of your last opportunities to see

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the band play live together. Tickets are $10-85 on Eventbrite.com.

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Monday is not just Labor Day. It is also Rosh HaShana, the Friday beginning of the Jewish high holiday season. At Congregation Ahavath Sholom (4050 S Hulen St, Fort Worth, 817-731-4721), there will be a candle lighting at 7:33pm Fri, and then Havhalah will be at 8:25pm Sat. Also,

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Double-headliners Willy & Cody Braun and Cody Canada, along with Sunday opening act Jonathan Tyler, are starring in an intimate, private concert called Cowtown Unplugged: A Songwriter’s Showcase at the Omni Hotel (1300 Houston St, Fort Worth, 817-535-6664) at 8pm. Hotel packages start at $299. The Omni promises luxurious accommodations, two tickets to the concert, and breakfast for two in its Fort Worth Ballroom the morning of departure with your package. (Note: Guests must book one of the Cowtown Unplugged hotel packages to attend the event. Concert-only tickets are not being sold to the public at this time.) A portion of the proceeds from each stay at the Omni goes to Feeding America, a nationwide network of food banks providing meals for hungry kids. To

book your room, visit Facebook.com/ OmniFortWorth.

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This weekend is when you can make your pilgrimage to Canton Monday for First Monday Trade Days (801 1st Monday Ln, Canton, 903-567-6556), which happens monthly Thu-Sun before the first Monday of the month. (Get it?) The bad news is that nothing actually happens on Monday.

The good news is that you’re off work on Monday, so this is now your recovery day after browsing, shopping, and trading your way across 450 acres of vendors in Canton from dawn to dusk. I need a nap just thinking about it.

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Tashlich — a Hebrew word that means “casting” — is a ceremony Tuesday held at the beginning of the Jewish holiday Rosh HaShanah in which sins are symbolically cast into the “seas of forgetfulness.” From 1:30pm to 4pm, Sar Shalom Synagogue (200 Bluebonnet St, Saginaw, 940-2101962) hosts its Tashlich Ceremony and picnic-style Oneg Shabbat at Trinity River Park (Pavilion 4, 2401 University Dr, Fort Worth, 817-871-7698) with the service starting at 3pm.

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Today is as good a day as any to vote for your favorite local businesses Wednesday for Best Of 2021. Our ballot can be easily found at FWWeekly. com. (As it’s our 25th Best Of issue, it looks like 1996 vomited all over our website.) For those who need more guidance, go to our Magazines dropdown, and it’s the first choice. Why am I bringing this up now? The final day to cast your ballot is Sun, Sep 12. That’s only four days from today!

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Closing September 5, 2021

Buddha Shiva Lotus Dragon

This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

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The Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society

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With everything else going on surrounding the start of school — like vaccines, tuition, and books — decorating dorm spaces may have been the last thing on your mind. Well, the time is now. Here are a few ideas.

If #GoFrogs is a normal part of your hashtag life, you may want to check out your local Goodwill North Central Texas store. With locations from Arlington to White Settlement and all points in between, the stores under the North Central Texas umbrella have a new goods section in every store. (Not familiar with that name? Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth recently rebranded.)

Before a recent festival at Haltom Theater (5601 E Belknap St, Haltom City, 682-250-5678) with Ripper Owen — yes, you missed a great show — I popped into the Goodwill around the corner (3147 Denton Hwy, Haltom City, 817-8314949). Along with candle holders and

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kitchen implements, I found some TCUthemed home goods in the new section.

For $14.95 and $10 respectively, I spotted a 46-by-62-inch embroidered collegiate quilt and throw pillow. Both items have a purple base with the letters TCU in white. Quantities are limited, so head to Goodwill now. (Why are you still here?)

Regardless of which school you are attending, finding ways to minimize clutter while adding a splash of color to your space is a good idea. Goodwill has no shortage of office supplies and storage cubes for the perfect solutions to clutter and various materials for repurposing (#DIY). Texas Wesleyan student Hope Allison recently decorated her dorm for less than $100. See her video at GoodwillNorthCentralTexas.org/ Decorate-A-Dorm-Throwback.

Another excellent source for collegiate decorating supplies is Half Price Books. With 14 locations in North Texas, including two in Fort Worth (475 Sherry Ln, 817-732-4111 and 5417 S Hulen St, 817-294-1166), Half Price stocks an array of vinyl albums, posters, and pop-culture collectibles, plus coffeetable books and encyclopedia sets. Every day thru Sun, go to HalfPriceBooks. com and participate in the Dorm Decor Giveaway, in which you can win a $25 gift card and a large, wooden crate crafted by the HPB Woodshoppe.

Texas Wesleyan student Hope Allison and her roommate recently hit some Goodwill stores in search of dorm decor.

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Morgan’s Ice Cream

With dazzling flavor combinations, this newish South Main creamery is definitely a destination.

Morgan’s Ice Cream, 321 S Main St, FW. 817615-9999. Noon-10pm Sun, 4pm-9pm Tue-Thu, 2pm-10pm Fri, noon-10pm Sat.

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Strawberry and buttercake, cinnamon and oatmeal cookie crumbles, vanilla and honey — these are just some of the flavor combinations being churned out

by Morgan’s Ice Cream, owned by the same couple who created the Dwell Coffee and Biscuits chain. The former home of Gypsy Scoops has been renovated by Jeff and Stephanie Brannon to operate as an independent creamery specializing in outof-this-world ice cream.

Upon entering the establishment on South Main Street, I was greeted by friendly staffers who were so helpful in explaining their most popular flavors.

Like a child, I excitedly peered over the wooden partition to see through the clear glass separating me from the interesting assortment of all of Morgan’s flavors.

Thankfully, the ingredients were written out on the wall above the serving area.

I was amused by the names, which were very fitting considering how innovative and crafty the recipes are.

Immediately a bright blue color caught my attention. This was not the first time I had seen this shade of blue in a creamery, as Marble Slab’s Cookies N’ Creamed Stuffed Ice Cream is similarly hued. However, Morgan’s features not only Oreos in its Cookie Monster flavor but chocolate chip cookie crumbles mixed

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Morgan’s year-round Cookie Monster is created with a natural dye to resemble the color of the beloved eponymous character from Sesame Street. The bottom scoop, Sassy Grandma, is also offered year-round and uniquely made with streusel crumbs. You can order your ice cream in a homemade waffle cone for just a small upcharge.

in as well. The base of yellow cake sweetcream ice cream made for a delicious creation.

It didn’t take me long for my dessert radar to find the most chocolaty flavor offered. Fudged-Up Brownie included chocolate sweet-cream ice cream with small pieces of fudge brownies scattered within. Though it was as rich as I had hoped, my serving lacked the desired amount of brownie pieces.

The sweetest flavor I experienced was the gluten-free Honey, Not So Vanilla. Had I not read that many of these flavors were gluten-free and vegan, my taste buds would have never known. The enjoyable taste of honey overpowered the vanilla bean sweetcream ice cream base, making me feel like I was sampling the rich nectar of nature.

For those who don’t prefer toppings, this one is for you.

I could smell the sweet spice of cinnamon when licking the Wookies Cookies. Containing chocolate shavings and scattered oatmeal cookie crumbles throughout, this flavor was the least notable of my samplings. Only devout oatmeal cookie eaters would appreciate this scoop.

At this point, my favorite of all my tastings was Strawberry Magic. Unfairly, my expectations were low because this ice cream lover rarely orders strawberry, especially when there always seems to be more decadent options available. I felt the joy of a good surprise when my spoon broke through the scoop’s soft, creamy exterior and revealed a treasure trove of buttercake pieces.

Strawberry Magic really was magic. Now you see toppings, now you don’t. The cakefilled center was simultaneously crunchy and chewy, creating a strawberry ice cream that is much more than meets the eye.

The most aesthetically pleasing flavor was the bright and beautiful Sassy Grandma. The mild lemon ice cream encompassed blueberry swirls and soft ribbons of streusel crumbs hidden throughout. I found multiple whole blueberries in my single scoop, but they were so tender that I didn’t even have to chew them. Don’t be afraid of fruit in your ice cream. If I were an unbiased customer entering Morgan’s for the first time, based on the fruity description of the Sassy Grandma, I would understand the hesitation. But after eating several servings, this flavor was the one that truly amazed my taste buds. It was like I was biting into a cold homemade pie. The Sassy Grandma was the most ingenious flavor I’ve ever encountered. After finishing it in a soft yet crunchy homemade waffle cone, I realized with certainty that I’d be back.

Thankfully, Morgan’s offered indoor seating for me to wolf down each sample.

And by “sample,” I mean full-sized scoops.

Though space was minimal inside, three benches were available for guests wanting to beat the heat, as well as a small standing bar posted in the center of the room.

Though other ice cream shops may be much more conveniently located, I enjoyed my experience so much that I went back for Rounds 2 and 3 later that week.

Keeping things interesting, Morgan’s rotates four new homemade flavors every month while maintaining several permanent flavors, including Wookies Cookies, Strawberry Magic, Cookies and Cream, Sassy Grandma, gluten-free Honey

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Morgan’s Ice Cream One scoop .................................................. $4 Additional scoop ....................................... $2 In sugar cone additional........................... $0.50 In homemade waffle cone additional ...... $1

Not So Vanilla, Cookie Monster, FudgedUp Brownie, Banana Pudding, and glutenfree and vegan Fudged-Up Cookie Dough.

It’s not a true Texas dessert experience without the option of Morgan’s rotating dairy-free and gluten-free flavor, Not Your Grandma’s Banana Pudding. Being someone who always finishes her barbecue meals with this Southern dessert, I did not hesitate to try this delicacy. Like most, I’m in it for the wafers, and, thankfully, I was not disappointed. The vanilla wafer cookies were folded into the bright yellow ice cream base. The taste of banana did not come on too strong, and banana chunks were nonexistent. I was able to enjoy each bite with a mild taste of banana and was ecstatic each time I unearthed smooth pieces of wafer within.

In my first bite of my next rotating flavor, the gluten-free Buttered-Up Cookie Dough, I immediately tasted the unmistakable richness of butter. The light and smooth finish of brown butter ice cream provided the perfect base to contain ample globs of homemade gluten-free cookie dough found heavily throughout.

Starting Wednesday, Sep. 1, Morgan’s will feature new rotating flavors. The Pumpkin Spice Up Your Life is made with mild pumpkin-spice ice cream filled with pumpkin bread. Morgan’s will also sell a maple bourbon pecan flavor, made with real bourbon. Additionally, there will also be a vegan, gluten-free golden milk ice cream filled with snickerdoodle cookie dough pieces. Shout out to this underappreciated cookie!

Make sure to ask about Morgan’s other treats. In addition to ice cream, there are ice cream chocolate chip cookie sandwiches, milkshakes, floats, and handpacked pints. Morgan’s also sells a cold brew affogato, which allows your choice of ice cream mixed with cold brew coffee.

Keep your fingers crossed, as Morgan’s Ice Creams desires to one day sell their homemade ice cream in grocery stores.

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Party featuring DJ Twisted E and DJ Reese. A “trendy/stylish/sexy” dress code is requested, and no athletic attire will be permitted. Admission is free before 4pm, and tickets and table reservations are $10200 at DayTrippin2021.Eventbrite.com.

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6.) For a post-weekend celebration held on the actual federal holiday, head to Social House (840 Currie St, Fort Worth, 817-820-1510) for Labor Day Brunch 11am-4pm Mon. Reservations can be made at https://bit.ly/SocialHouseFW. For brunch prices and menu items, visit SocialHouseFortWorth.com and click on the word “menu.”

Plano, 972-846-4255). Enjoy live hula and fire dancers, a limbo contest, and a traditional Kalua pig roast with live music

by Jimmy Buffet tribute act Buffett Beach and Kenny Chesney tribute band Barefoot Nation. Tickets are $15-60 per person and $250-300 for group table seating for six to nine guests on Eventbrite.com. For ticket details, drink specials, and dinner add-on options, visit Facebook.com/ LegacyFoodHall.

Weekend Party 11am-8pm Sun at The Lakehouse Waterfront Lounge (221 Las Colinas Blvd, Irving, 972-556-0800). Live entertainment will be provided by DJ SC and Party Machine. Cocktails and freshoff-the-grill menu items will be available for purchase. There is no cost for entry, but if you want to be poolside, you’ll need to purchase a $25 per person resort day pass at ResortPass.com/Hotels/Omni-LasColinas-Hotel.

3.) Hang loose at the Labor Day Weekend Luau 2pm-10pm Sun at the Box Garden at Legacy Food Hall (7800 Windrose Av,

4.) The Omni Las Colinas invites guests to enjoy one last hurrah at the Life at the Lakehouse Outdoor Labor Day

5.) From 3pm to 8pm Sat, Seven Lounge (3017 W 7th St, Ste 500, Fort Worth, 817881-1843) hosts Day Trippin Rooftop

8.) From 11am to 6pm Sun, head to Wild Acre Brewing Company (1734 E El Paso St, Ste 190, Fort Worth, 817-8829453) for the Pre-Labor Day Luau in the beer garden with live music by The Roomsounds starting at 3pm. The kitchen will be serving its usual burritos, burrito bowls, nachos, and tacos, plus a few surprises. This event is free to attend. Just bring your beer (and food) money!

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2.) One of the biggest car shows of the summer is 6:30pm-9:30pm Sun at Fat Daddy’s Sports & Spirits (781 W Debbie Ln, Mansfield, 817-453-0188). Admission to the Labor Day Weekend Car Show is free for spectators, and there will be food and drink specials available. To enter a car, visit SHClassicVintageCarClub.com.

Preregistration is $20 and day-of-show registration is $25. Trophy categories include classic cars and trucks, modern vehicles, motorcycles, uniques, square bodies, and street rods.

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1.) At 9pm Sun, head to Curfew Bar (350 W 5th St, Fort Worth, 817-728-7534) for the Labor Day Black & White Party.

Admission is free. Black and white attire is not required but following COVID-19 guidelines is. There will be entertainment

by Gregory Harrington and DJ Trikky The BombRadio. For food and drink special announcements, follow the club at Facebook.com/SpeakEasyFortWorth.

7.) If cigars and old-school R&B are your thing, head to Southfork Ranch (3700 Hogge Dr, Parker, 972-442-7800) 3:30pm11pm Sat for the Garchella Cigar Music Festival featuring Tony! Toni! Tone! with Cupid, Don Diego, Front Cover Band, Go DJ Batman, Keke Wyatt, and Ro James, with comedian D. Elli$ as the host. This outdoor event will include a bar for purchasing drinks, food vendors, and retail shopping vendors, plus contests and giveaways with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the America Helping Veterans organization. Tickets are $44-70 at Garchella.com.

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Just when you think you’ve heard it all, along comes a country-fueled electronica track.

“Tarrant County” is the brainchild of Fort Worth composer G.W. Childs IV with John Fryer (Nine Inch Nails, Stabbing Westward, Gravity Kills) and Christian Petke, owner of COP International, the label through which Childs is releasing “Tarrant County” with Fort Worth’s Dreamy Life Records (Ting Tang Tina, Sub-Sahara, Sur Duda).

The video, produced by Fryer and directed and edited by Childs, just dropped.

Childs said, “I wanted to do something that showed off my family’s heritage, my lineage, and that, in the end, wasn’t just a music video for me but also a real family movie.”

Childs, who grew up shoveling manure on a ranch in Fort Worth, said he was inspired to write “Tarrant County” by his namesake father, the third. “That’s part of what I wanted to show off is my dad. I don’t know how he maintains at this age. He’s still a cowboy, though. Nothing stops him. A horse even destroyed both his knees years ago, yet he had them replaced and got back out there as soon as he could.”

Childs said the video meant a lot to him and his father, who helped with the videography and makes an appearance.

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“I get to do it now with, ironically, the guy that produced every album I was ever into at 11 years old, living on a ranch having to have my parents drive me to record shops,” Childs said. “It’s like working with the Wizard of Oz, man.”

Childs met Fryer through Petke, who had invited Childs to one of Fryer’s performances in Los Angeles. Childs said meeting Fryer was a big deal. “There’s nothing he hasn’t produced that I haven’t been in love with even before I knew he produced them.”

Childs, Fryer, and Petke, who have been working as a team for the past couple of years, said the message of the song is unity. “After the pandemic, we wanted to do something that uplifted and showed solidarity, something that uplifts the spirit.

There’s a lot of dark music out there, movies, TV shows. People are more divided than ever. I come from a conservative family but lived in San Francisco for years.

Showing that we can be different people but still love one another, I think, is one of the most important messages we could bring to the table. Writing songs again, like we did in the Depression, just gives you something to sing around the campfire to flame your spirit. That’s how we built a civilization in the first place.”

Tarrant County was one of “a lot” of songs Childs sent producer Fryer. The track, Fryer said, “kinda stuck out with the country vibe I could hear in the song.

Then I talked to [Childs] about giving it a more country element to it, bringing in the banjos and the slide guitar and taking it down that route.”

Childs is set to release another, similar video, this one for the track “Country Shades.” l

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Childs’ electronic musical influences as a youngster included Clan of Xymox, which Fryer helped produce in the late 1980. Childs said that Xymox played a life-changing role for him as a musician.

“Clan of Xymox’s Medusa was the first album I had ever heard that merged a few styles that I was in to. Xymox fused that wiry, weird sci-fun sound with rock and guitars. It gave me hope. It made me think a weirdo like me would maybe be able to fuse my sound in a way, one day, where it might draw a bigger crowd.”

After playing in mostly punk bands all throughout high school, Childs joined the Army at 18 and then moved to California, working as a film editor and then working for the Star Wars games with Lucas Films as well as acting. Making music with some of the biggest names in Hollywood also helps, he said.

For Childs, working with Fryer has been a dream.

(From left to right) Jimmy Owens, Steve Jordan, Oscar Villareal, and Stefan Prigmore made quite a racket as Whiskey Jack back in the day.

music and humility, and I’m blessed to have known him.”

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On Friday, singer-songwriter Stefan Prigmore is digitally releasing some old tracks recorded with his old band, Whiskey Jack. Officially, Prigmore is dropping them under his own name, as Whiskey Jack no longer exists, but given that their release is in memoriam of Jimmy Owens, Whiskey Jack’s dearly departed lead guitarist, Prigmore wants to give his friend and former bandmate his due regards, showcasing Owens’ heart and talent in his favorite form of expression.

Owens died in 2015 from liver and kidney failure, a tragedy made all the more disheartening since he had cut alcohol out of his life by then. Prigmore said that he and Owens “used to go pretty hard, booze-wise” but that Owens had completely quit drinking by 2010. Six of the songs on Whiskey Jack’s self-titled release come from 2009, and if you were there for when these tunes were new, you can probably picture Owens slaying the solos, nearing the end of his time with the proverbial bottle. I have no idea what state of mind he was in when Whiskey Jack recorded, but the tracks bolster

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the idea that the now-defunct band fell solidly in that raucous, countrified genre of bluesy bar blasters leaning deep into rock ’n’ roll. They sound like the inner soundtrack to a shitfaced West Texas uncle hanging onto a jukebox, seeing double yet trying triply hard to input whatever combo of numbers activates “Highway to Hell,” accidentally firing up “Whiskey Bent and Hellbound” in the process. If you’ve ever seen a rowdy bar band in a rowdy bar, you know this genre, right down to the soul in Prigmore’s raspy voice and the telepathic rhythm team of bassist Steve Jordan and drummer Oscar Villareal.

The demos are raw, both sonically and lyrically, dealing with the loneliness, loss, and finality parceled into addiction and incarceration, the kind of anthems over which people pour beers out in tribute to the fallen. Sadly, we must pour one out for Owens but not without a grin, because his touch is all over these songs, scribbling licks over Prigmore’s tales of hard luck and hard living like an ’80s metalhead scratching a perfect Thin Lizzy logo in a detention hall desk.

“He was well loved by everyone who knew him and one of the finest musicians to grace a Fort Worth stage,” Prigmore said. “His death was a difficult shock for everyone who knew him.”

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Reinhausen Manufacturing, a world leader the Electrical Power Engineering industry has an opening for Environmental Health and Safety Manager. This is a remote position with a home base near Charlotte, NC and near Fort Worth TX . Travel is required at least 50% of the time.The EHS Services Manager must ensure a safe working environment in each service facility and client work sites located primarily throughout the US though some are located in Canada, Mexico and Europe.

ADDITIONAL NOTICE. TCEQ’s Executive Director has determined the application is administratively complete and will conduct a technical review of the application. After technical review of the application is complete, the Executive Director may prepare a draft permit and will issue a preliminary decision on the application. Notice of the Application and Preliminary Decision will be published and mailed to those who are on the county-wide mailing list and to those who are on the mailing list for this application. That notice will contain the deadline for submitting public comments.

PUBLIC COMMENT / PUBLIC MEETING. You may submit public comments or request a public meeting on this application. The purpose of a public meeting is to provide the opportunity to submit comments or to ask questions about the application. TCEQ will hold a public meeting if the Executive Director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not a contested case hearing.

OPPORTUNITY FOR A CONTESTED CASE HEARING. After the deadline for submitting public comments, the Executive Director will consider all timely comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material, or significant public comments. Unless the application is directly referred for a contested case hearing, the response to comments, and the Executive Director’s decision on the application, will be mailed to everyone who submitted public comments and to those persons who are on the mailing list for this application. If comments are received, the mailing will also provide instructions for requesting reconsideration of the Executive Director’s decision and for requesting a contested case hearing. A contested case hearing is a legal proceeding similar to a civil trial in state district court.

TO REQUEST A CONTESTED CASE HEARING, YOU MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING ITEMS IN YOUR REQUEST: your name, address, phone number; applicant's name and proposed permit number; the location and distance of your property/activities relative to the proposed facility; a specific description of how you would be adversely affected by the facility in a way not common to the general public; a list of all disputed issues of fact that you submit during the comment period and, the statement "[I/we] request a contested case hearing." If the request for contested case hearing is filed on behalf of a group or association, the request must designate the group’s representative for receiving future correspondence; identify by name and physical address an individual member of the group who would be adversely affected by the proposed facility or activity; provide the information discussed above regarding the affected member’s location and distance from the facility or activity; explain how and why the member would be affected; and explain how the interests the group seeks to protect are relevant to the group’s purpose.

Following the close of all applicable comment and request periods, the Executive Director will forward the application and any requests for reconsideration or for a contested case hearing to the TCEQ Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled Commission meeting.

The Commission may only grant a request for a contested case hearing on issues the requestor submitted in their timely comments that were not subsequently withdrawn. If a hearing is granted, the subject of a hearing will be limited to disputed issues of fact or mixed questions of fact and law relating to relevant and material water quality concerns submitted during the comment period. TCEQ may act on an application to renew a permit for discharge of wastewater without providing an opportunity for a contested case hearing if certain criteria are met.

MAILING LIST. If you submit public comments, a request for a contested case hearing or a reconsideration of the Executive Director’s decision, you will be added to the mailing list for this specific application to receive future public notices mailed by the Office of the Chief Clerk. In addition, you may request to be placed on: (1) the permanent mailing list for a specific applicant name and permit number; and/or (2) the mailing list for a specific county. If you wish to be placed on the permanent and/or the county mailing list, clearly specify which list(s) and send your request to TCEQ Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below.

INFORMATION AVAILABLE ONLINE. For details about the status of the application, visit the Commissioners’ Integrated Database at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cid. Search the database using the permit number for this application, which is provided at the top of this notice.

AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION. Public comments and requests must be submitted either electronically at https://www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/, or in writing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087. 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. For more information about this permit application or the permitting process, please call the TCEQ Public Education Program, Toll Free, at 1-800-6874040 or visit their website at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/pep. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040.

Further information may also be obtained from Aqua Texas, Inc. at the address stated above or by calling Mr. Abel Bautista at 281-651-0174, Extension 54119.

Issuance Date: August 13, 2021

Summary/Objective: The EHS Services Manager will create, implement and administer the EHS program for the Reinhausen Manufacturing (RM) Service Group. This includes but not limited to worksite safety, client safety collaboration, training, policy creation, Emergency Action Plans (EAP), Office of Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) industry, client and RM compliance. The objective of the EHS Manager is to ensure RM Service provides a safe and healthy work environment.

Essential Functions: · Inspects the Service facilities to identify safety, health, and environmental risks. · Develops and implements inspection policies and procedures, and a schedule of inspections. · Develops health and safety policy and procedures for all areas of the Service Group. · Prepares and schedules training to cover EAP, workplace safety, and other relevant topics. · Monitors compliance with safety procedures and drafts inspection reports to document inspection findings. · Ensures all training and compliance material are immediately available for reference at all RM Service facilities. · Maintains records of discharge of or employee exposure to hazardous waste and/or pollutants, as required. · Visits client locations prior to service technician(s) and during project implementation. · Meet with all Clients Head of Safety or Safety person(s) responsible for safety. · Collaborate with the Fleet Manager to ensure all RM service employees are trained to meet RM, Industry and client requirements. · Must be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on all safety and health matters including Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) · Keep current on OSHA, Department of Transportation (DOT), Department of Labor (DOL), and Center for Disease Control (CDC) compliance changes and advise the Service Management Group accordingly. · Ensures all training and compliance material are immediately available for reference at all RM Service facilities. · Be the focal point for internal and external ISO audits and ISO Safety implementation. · Establish rapport with all internal and external customers including but not limited to OSHA, DOL, DOT and Building Inspectors and be the focal point for all OSHA visits and/or audits. * Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This employee is required to regularly use hands, fingers, operate controls such as computer equipment and is required to communicate clearly with all employees and must be Proficient and current on FirstAid, External Defibrillator (AED), Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), OSHA 30, OSHA 10 hour Electrical OSHA Safety Leadership The Electrical Transmission and Distribution (ET&D) Partnership Safety Leadership in Action (SLIA) Electric Transmission and Distribution (ET&D) Partnership 20-Hour Training or able to complete the above mentioned training within 6 months or by date determined by the SOM. Must be legally authorization to work in the United States.

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.

Please send your resume to Mr. Ric Bates at r.bates@us.reinhausen.com or Jaime Vega at j.vega@us.reinhausen.com. or go to indeed.com to apply No Phone Calls Please

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APPLICATION. Aqua Texas, Inc., 1106 Clayton Lane, Suite 400 West, Austin, Texas 78723, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to renew Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) Permit No. WQ0014910001 (EPA I.D. No. TX0119687) to authorize the discharge of treated wastewater at a volume not to exceed a daily average flow of 450,000 gallons per day. The domestic wastewater treatment facility is located approximately 4.0 mile south/southeast of the intersection of East State Highway 114 and U.S. Highway 81/287, in Wise and Tarrant Counties, Texas 76071. The discharge route is from the plant site to an unnamed tributary; thence to Indian Creek; thence to Eagle Mountain Reservoir.

TCEQ received this application on June 8, 2021. The permit application is available for viewing and copying at the Wise County Records Building, Office of the County Clerk, 200 North Trinity Street, Decatur, in Wise County, Texas and at the John Ed Keeter Public Library, 355 West McLeroy Boulevard, Saginaw, in Tarrant County, Texas. 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 the exact location, refer to the application. https:// tceq.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=db5bac44afbc468bbddd360f8168250f&marker=-97.437777%2C32.991944&level=12

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