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to Fort Worth The local filmmaker behind No Ordinary Love steps into the spotlight this weekend.

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FEATURE When politics threatens to destroy the family, staying or leaving aren’t the only options.

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NEWS If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that teachers are heroes.

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STAGE The Cliburn is bringing a classical performance to an actual venue this weekend.

BY EDWARD BROWN

MUSIC Inspired by a solo cross-country journey here in the States, Ryan Hamilton’s Nowhere to Go but Everywhere is climbing the charts 5,000 miles away.

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A group of local activists is fighting against a possible cargo of hazardous material heading our way.

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The thing to do with loved ones on the wrong side of history is embrace them.

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Nuclear Waste Heading to Cowtown?

Activists are sounding the alarm about potentially dangerous transit of radioactive material through Fort Worth.

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Like most large U.S. cities, Fort Worth is intersected by multiple rail lines that were first laid well over a century ago. Trains do much of the heavy lifting in this country, and that work sometimes requires carrying hazardous materials that (if released through an accident or leak) could contaminate the surrounding environment with potentially costly and deadly results.

Static Try to strike up a conversation about Fort Worth public school reopenings, and you’re likely to be booed out of the room. Many parents are understandably at wit’s end after guiding their children through virtual learning courses several weeks into the beginning of fall classes.

Nothing about this year has been normal since COVID-19 swept across the globe this past March and never left.

Protests for and against reopening classes, heated school board meetings, and private Facebook group trash talking have done nothing to bring diverging views toward consensus, but a new online effort is showing one way forward by providing teachers much-needed school supplies. The idea behind the private Facebook group FWISD-Bridging the Gap Together is simple. Teachers introduce themselves and share a link to an Amazon Wish List.

“Hi all!,” one Fort Worth school teacher said. “This year will look very different. I will not get to use my incredible art room or my materials and instead will have to push a cart to see all 700 of my kiddos. That being said, I need a cart! Thank you to this incredible community. Anything helps! So proud to be FWISD strong!”

Parents soon responded with uplifting messages and confirmations that orders had been sent.

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One such fiery derailment occurred last year in Fort Worth when tankers carrying ethanol derailed during heavy rainfall and created a fire that incinerated three horses holed up in a nearby barn. The potential transportation of highly radioactive waste through Fort Worth as part of a proposal by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has alarmed local environmental and civic activists who fear

that the transit of radioactive materials through Cowtown isn’t worth the risk.

According to the NRC, the proposal would allow transportation of spent nuclear fuel, which is highly radioactive and potentially deadly, from East Coast nuclear power plants to Andrews County, which is located in West Texas near Odessa. The commission recently closed the public comment portion of the proposal, and a document

“FWISD is so, so incredibly lucky to have you share your talent with so many students!” one mother responded.

Teachers have unfortunately been the target of recent attacks, especially when they express health-related concerns over returning to classrooms amid a pandemic. First-hand accounts by local teachers have drawn cringe-worthy comments on the Weekly’s Facebook page.

“Now is time to get rid of the teachers union,” one man replied. “Hire outside private firms. Pay teachers on performance.”

Another popular proposal on the thread and others like it was to immediately fire teachers who don’t heed Donald Trump’s call to reopen classrooms.

After a lot of back and forth at school district board meetings, Fort Worth began reopening classrooms for in-person learning earlier this month. By no means will every student be jumping back into classes anytime soon. School district polls released at recent board meetings show that parents are split over the question of when to reopen classes, and one teacher who recently resigned over COVID concerns said only a small fraction of her students are willing to return to class immediately.

The next several weeks, unfortunately, will still be messy and fuel for arguments and anecdotal hand grenades lobbed on Facebook threads. The FWISD-Bridging the Gap Together Facebook initiative is the type of community activism that may well pull this

city through one of its most trying times, and it’s based on the simple notion that when you unconditionally support teachers, you are supporting Fort Worth’s children.

Instagram Meltdown In the eyes of many of our Instagram followers, all of the social justice reporting in the world couldn’t stand up to one ad by a Watauga-based retailer. Two weeks ago, a kindly woman stopped by our office to place an ad for her Trump Store. *record scratch* She had no qualms with our leftleaning columns, according to the Weekly salesperson who handled the woman’s ad request. As with all other reputable publications, sales and editorial (reporting) decisions at the Weekly are strictly separated. Sales staffers don’t know what Edit is doing, and Edit has no idea what Sales is up to, which is the way it should be to prevent undue influence. The advertisement ran last week in print. No backlash.

No angry messages on our social media inboxes (a rarity, we assure you). Depending on what type of promotion deal was made, ads can go any number of places: website, Facebook, Twitter, newsletters, or Instagram.

A Saturday morning ad posting on our Instagram account (@FortWorthWeekly) swiftly drew jeers and accusations that Fort Worth’s alt-weekly had sold out. There’s a lot of anger out there over a xenophobic president who will

released by the NRC said a final decision would be released by May of next year.

To draw attention to the potential transportation of nuclear waste through Fort Worth, several environmental and civic activists recently held a press conference at Rogers Roundhouse, located north of Fort Worth Zoo and near Davidson Yard, where 50 miles of tracks handle about 1,800 cars a day.

not denounce right-wing extremists and deplorables of all types while offering no praise for great and honorable giants like John Lewis. We get it, and we’ve gone further than any other 817 publication in calling out the Donald when needed.

Trump’s ignorant rhetoric is a symptom of a broader problem that has plagued the United States since it was founded 244 years ago on a power structure beholden to rich white men.

In the pages of this humble rag, you’ll find stories that look behind the injustices that affect Fort Worth and dive into the economics of racism — who benefits from that system and who suffers under it. Through conversations with civil rights groups, local lawyers, and other folks who bring first-hand insights to issues like voter suppression and mass incarceration, we’re telling those stories.

Had we writers/reporters/editors known a Trump store ad was coming, we definitely would have said, “Um, maybe that’s not the best idea right now.” That we didn’t is no one’s fault. As we said, Sales and Edit are completely separate entities. We only wish we did. Now we know. Thank you for your continued support of our mission to tell the stories no one else is in a way that honors civil and environmental justice.

The Weekly welcomes submissions from all political persuasions. Please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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“If there were any kind of a leak, people within half a mile are in danger.”

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Susybelle Gosslee with the League of Women Voters of Texas, a nonpartisan civic organization, said Fort Worth has nothing to gain and everything to lose by allowing radioactive waste to pass near hospitals, schools, families, and children.

“If there were any kind of a leak, people within half a mile are in danger,” she said. Fort Worth’s “fire department may not be prepared or have the resources to deal with this. If there was an accident, it can shut down distribution to the city. Our railroads are so necessary.”

Burnam said the realities of using nuclear power plants means that the spent fuel needs to be stored somewhere. Hardened On-Site Storage (HOSS) is one such possibility, he said. The concept allows nuclear waste to be removed from potentially vulnerable areas that are prone to flooding or direct impacts by hurricanes.

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Lon Burnam, former District 90 State Representative, noted that Gov. Greg Abbott has recently spoken out against storing dangerous nuclear waste in Texas. Burnam believes the governor is interested in protecting West Texas for oil exploration, but the point still stands that, among Texas politicians, there isn’t much support for storing nuclear waste in the Lone Star State. The problem, Burnam added, is that the general public knows little about the NRC’s plans. As trains blared deafening alerts just a few dozen yards away, Burnam described what he fears could happen next year.

“We have too many crossings where people will end up sitting on the road when this thing passes by,” he said. “The trains stay in this railyard for 24 or 40 hours at a time. We don’t want them sitting there just emitting” radiation.

NRC maintains that the proposal would have a “small cumulative impact to public and occupational health.”

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I was on my way to my open garage after a passeggiata, or after-dinner walk, with my wife and young son. R. was finishing up yardwork.

Shadows were collapsing intrusively all around us.

“What?” I replied.

“I said,” R. answered, his twangy voice a pitch-black bowling bowl aimed straight at my head, “ ‘You trying to keep away Trump supporters?’ ” I suppose he was referring to the toddler hockey stick in my hand. “No,” I wheezed, leaning the thin piece of plastic against the garage wall. “Just stray dogs.”

“That’s good, because you don’t need it!,” he roared, anger radiating from his thick frame. “We’re not violent. Not like that BLM!” It was a long day. I did not want to get involved, especially with this guy, a sixtysomething father and grandfather whom I’ve liked and respected since first moving in next to him 12 years ago.

“It’s only a couple of knuckleheads,” I said sheepishly.

“No, it’s not,” R. growled, marching toward his front door, his eyes firmly on it and not me. “It’s all of them.”

I only hoped my wife had already gone inside our house. D. would have mixed it up for sure, and for me, for someone who likes to act as the glue in fragile, potentially explosive situations, I knew that any sort of rift between us and R.’s family would have had me concocting all sorts of remedies well into as many sleepless nights as it would have taken. D. does not give one 0.0001th of a fuck. This is a person who wears her Black Lives Matter (BLM) T-shirt everywhere. Kroger,

our kid’s piano class, the liquor store, back to Kroger, back to the liquor store, and to all two other places we go these days (Walgreens, the bike trails) because we’re not risking catching COVID. Wherever we go, if there’s a chance my wife is going to be out in public, she is going to be wearing her BLM shirt. D. believes it is our job to let other, similarly minded people know that they’re not alone. I am in awe of her.

I wear mine only to keep up. A 210-pound former college football player, I am an easy target for vitriol or worse from bigger and badder — and way angrier — men. We’d like to think that no one would accost a normally sized woman over a togged political statement. We’d like to think that.

I haven’t talked with R. since, and in the meantime, I’ve been dreaming up all sorts of chummy conversation starters for our next run-in. “How’s OU doing this year?” “Dove season yet?” “How ’bout dem Cowboys?”

I don’t want to be too chummy. R. is still in mourning.

This election tension isn’t limited to my homey little spot in a sparkling white North Fort Worth neighborhood. Over in the U.K., The Guardian says the results will “define the [United States] for a generation. These are perilous times. …

The country is at a crossroads.”

The tension is even being stoked by one of the presidential candidates. The one not named Joe Biden says he won’t accept the results unless they’re for him, and some of his cultlike followers are already preparing to arm themselves and

swarm the nation’s capital to ensure he remains in power. (Good luck taking on the Marines, guys.) The violence may not stop at Washington’s doorstep. In many ways, it’s already going on under some people’s roofs.

I’m glad that D. and I are on the same side. I know other couples who aren’t as united, politically, and I feel for them. I guess I just don’t understand why anyone would vote against equality and against science and, most importantly, why anyone would vote against love. I simply don’t get why a lot of my family and friends are voting the (wrong) way. How I reconcile their hostility toward unity with my love for some of them is a battle I fight every day. For months now, my wife has been composing in her head her “see ya” masstext to our family and friends. I just don’t think more division is the answer. I think I have a better plan.

After my exchange with R., I lugged myself back inside my house just in time for a text from them. It’s always them. My three best friends back home and I really don’t know how one another is doing because our convos are limited to only a few stereotypically male, stereotypically American, stereotypically straight subjects: sports, music, and family, kids specifically, struggling with having kids even more commonly. Venting about the current presidential administration from one of the guys and me, and mostly only us two, brings only silence from the others. I have my suspicions that the other two are on our side. I can only suppose that our beloved Steelers and Penguins — and Led

Zep, Van Halen, and The Doors — are more important to them. And at any other time, I would agree.

“Taylor Hall to the Sabres,” the text read.

At any other time, though, the fate of American democracy isn’t suspended by a strand of wispy blond hair over a gaping chasm of lava, puke, and crushedAdderall-laced snot.

I had to text back. “He deserves it, but why go from one basement dweller to another?”

The reply was immediate. “$8M reasons why.”

In opening one of the subsequent texts, I saw in my history a thread between me and my oldest brother, L. My older brother, I should say. The brother between us killed himself two years ago. L. and I, and our mother and sister, are still in a lot of pain and probably will be for the rest of our lives. I will always ask myself if I could have done more, and the answer will always be the same: Yes. Yes, I could have done more — a lot. I didn’t because I am selfish and because I was so wrapped up in my own problems that I couldn’t see the pain crippling him. My dear brother.

As my life will never be the same, I don’t want to lose my only other brother, my hero growing up who willed himself into Harvard Business School, who read comic books with me as a child, and who turned me on to Genesis and Heatwave. And KISS. I’m not afraid of losing him to suicide.

I don’t want Donald Trump to take him.

“This why I don’t trust the media,” L. had texted me with a link to a CNN story about Nicholas Sandmann, the high school student who stood right in front of a chanting Indigenous American while

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smiling and wearing a red “Make America Great Again” ball cap. The Washington Post had published a scorching editorial about the 17-year-old before additional footage surfaced that showed that he had adopted his calm, smiling visage after a fringe group, the Black Hebrew Israelites, had begun taunting everyone in the vicinity, including the Indigenous Americans. The terms of the settlement between the WaPo and Sandmann, and CNN and Sandmann, have not been disclosed.

“One story wrong,” I had texted L. back. “How many right? Oh, that’s right.

ALL OF THEM.” I believe that after that point, I stopped following the thread. I would click on L.’s responses, maybe two or three total, and simply not read them. All I wanted was for that red numeric notification to go away.

That OCD of mine, hard at work.

As I hope he is of himself, I am proud of me for mostly ignoring our convo. L. is beyond saving. He will vote for whomever runs as a Republican, no matter what. L. is pro-embryo, and that’s all the matters to him. I told him he would vote for Hitler if Hitler were the only pro-embryo candidate in any given election. L. said he would. “Abortion is the greatest genocide in the history of mankind,” he had said to me once a while back. I know for sure his position hasn’t changed.

“Glad you baggied all that sperm you dumped during adolescence!,” I replied

We cannot disagree about racism or sexism or bigotry at any level. before ignoring the thread altogether. What my wife and I try to do is simply avoid, avoid, avoid because we’re outnumbered and because I have some serious anger issues.

There was a time when I thought L. was seeing reason. It was last year at our sister V.’s house. My son and I were staying with V., and the remaining family — Grandma, L. and his wife, V. and her husband, and my son A. and me — had come together for some food and apparently some Fox News. Christ.

I think my son started it. After His Orangeness had appeared on the TV after dinner, A. made a disparaging remark that I, as an adult in charge of a then-8-yearold, fully and full-throatedly endorsed.

V. shook her head. “Donald Trump’s done more for Black people than any other president,” she whined softly from a recliner in the basement-slash-game room where we had been noshing.

“That’s a myth,” I said, marching A. up the stairs to the living quarters and ultimately to bed. “Let’s see, he was sued by the federal government for not renting to Black people, and settled, he said [President Barack] Obama was born in Africa, he took out an ad calling for the execution of five innocent Black boys, he didn’t want Black guys working on his buildings or dealing in his casinos, the list goes on. The guy hates Black people. Case closed.”

This was nearly a year before Trump refused to disavow support from white supremacists on national TV. I could say I was being clairvoyant, but Donald’s white sheet has been showing his whole life. On the campaign trail, he implied all Mexican immigrants are criminals and rapists, he proposed a ban on all Muslims entering the country, and in 2017 he said there were “very fine people” on both sides of the Charlottesville protests. One of those sides

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“That’s not true,” V.’s husband retorted. “I guess you believe that Russian hoax, too,” referring to the Reds’ meddling in the 2016 presidential election to favor Trump, as confirmed last year by a Republican-led senate committee.

“Oh, OK,” I replied, trying to cover A.’s ears with my hands — my voice was rising like a rocket with a grudge. “I suppose every other newspaper, magazine, and TV station on the entire planet is wrong and only Fox News is right.”

The husband put his hands in his pockets. “Well, yeah.”

This, he said with a straight face.

Nick Sandmann needs to realize that what was working against him was his hat. The person represented by that red piece of fabric has done more to tear this country apart along racial lines than any other entity since the KKK in the early 20th Century, and by wearing that garment, people are saying that only white lives matter. We can disagree about which Eddie Van Halen riff is best (“Unchained”) or which NHL’er is the greatest of all time (Mario Lemieux). We cannot disagree about racism or sexism or bigotry at any level. There’s only one side. There’s only one right answer.

I’m not saying Nick Sandmann is punishably racist. I don’t know whether he is or not, and I don’t want him to sue me and become a multi-multimillionaire

for white America’s guns and daughters.

It’s a few knuckleheads, nothing more, mostly idiotic kids and part-time Islamic extremists taking advantage of a fraught situation. We all know this.

“The news sections — not the op-ed pages but the news sections — of The AP, The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and nearly every other major print publication are duty-bound to tell only the truth or be sued for libel.

Some libel suits are in the millions of dollars. The men and women writing the news for these organizations must not make any mistakes. No newspaper can afford that kind of legal exposure. You need to trust these people. Their lives

and livelihoods are on the line, and their reportage is unbiased (though there are some exceptions, of course).

“The real problem in this country is cops killing unarmed, innocent people: Black, brown, AND white (but 3.5-times more Black than white and 3-times more Black than brown). Elijah McClain was buying an iced tea for his brother back home. Breonna Taylor was asleep in her house. Atatiana Jefferson was playing video games with her nephew in her [mom’s] house. The list goes on. Honestly, I couldn’t care less about statues and cop cars. I care about police murdering innocent people and not facing any sort of penalty. No wonder people are pissed. The

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The tension that has existed since 2016 became more pronounced since a white police officer murdered George Floyd, a Black man, in Minneapolis several months ago. Many “friends” and friends, and family members and, of course, R., began complaining to me about the resulting protests. The protests. The problem wasn’t that yet another white cop killed yet another Black person. The problem was that Black people were upset about it and dared to gather in public to express their displeasure. According to my trusty peeps, Black people and their supporters are trying to overthrow the government. In actuality, more than 90% of the near 10,600 protests across the country have been peaceful, according to a nonprofit that studies armed conflicts internationally, and that uncooperative 10%, the organization says, were influenced either by counterprotesters or the police or both. You don’t need to wonder where my relations obtained their misinformation.

Fox News and Facebook go together like shit and stink.

“Have you seen this about Austin in FW?” D.’s dad, P.B., emailed me in the summer with a link to a blog post — a blog post by a self-described Christian soldier — about “riots” in Austin, near where P.B. lives with D.’s mom. “Anything similar happening in D/FW? Pretty scary! If this kind of momentum continues unchecked — I don’t have a good idea here — it will metastasize, and there will be violence.

This is not spontaneous but is organized and funded with the purpose of destroying to effect change. I can’t think of a precedent where this kind of action brought about a satisfactory outcome.”

The “story” was about some graffiti on cop cars, one that was pictured, more that were only referenced. Apparently, George Soros and his evil pedophilic minions are funneling millions of dollars into all

50 Antifa members across the country to “effect change” by, I’m not sure, tagging some cop cars?

“While we can all agree that the destruction of property is dumb,” I replied, “this [story] is pure right-wing propaganda. Please don’t fall for it, the incendiary, incredible words and pictures of a right-wing blogger clearly itching for a reason to own semiautomatic rifles.

Antifa is a joke. There’s no leader, no group organization, no ‘meetings.’ It’s just a way of resisting authority that scares white people, and Fox News, to increase ratings, continues whipping up viewers and, apparently, bloggers into believing Antifa is some sort of boogeyman coming

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instead of just a multi-multimillionaireplus-122?-123?-bucks. What I do know is that my older brother, L., is not racist.

At least I think so, though I know enough about life to know that … aren’t we all a little bit racist?

“Everyone’s a little bit / Racist sometimes. / Doesn’t mean we go around committing / Hate crimes. / Look around and / You will find / No one’s really / Colorblind. / Maybe it’s a fact / We all should face. / Everyone makes / Judgments / Based on race.”

These lyrics from the comedy musical Avenue Q are really kind of hard to argue with. If you’re being honest. And as the father of a Black boy, I know that even I have work to do to break down any preconceived notions I have about groups of people different from me. It’s work I’m willing to take on. It’s work I must take on.

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cops get off every single time.

“The playing field has been titled against African Americans since 1619, and that includes your sweet, innocent, beloved grandson. I have to follow him to [his best friend] Emmy’s house now because five young Black men were recently found lynched. IN THIS COUNTRY. How do you think that makes me feel? How do you think that makes your daughter feel?”

I never heard back from him.

Though I wouldn’t know, because I only watch sports, it appears that the chief driver of the violent-BLM storyline has been Tucker Carlson. This is the same Fox News talking head who recently escaped a slander lawsuit by claiming that he cannot be trusted to tell the truth on TV. In a federal court, Tucker Carlson’s lawyers actually argued that their bro is never “stating actual facts” and that he instead engages in “exaggeration” and “nonliteral commentary.” And yet there he is, still on the air, still in primetime, still peddling #fakenews that most of his viewers not only don’t care to fact-check but don’t want to. He gives them what they want, and what they apparently want is more racist conspiracies, more anti-immigration rhetoric, and more pro-Trump blather.

My dear Republican people, you need to wonder whether voting for the guy supported by white supremacists and Tucker Carlson is the right guy for this country.

Avoid, avoid, avoid has been the way.

The only time I broached the subject with D.’s father was right after the 2016 election. After seeing one too many states on the map turn red on Nov. 9, I stormed out of my house into the rudely beautiful evening, the phone trembling in my hands.

“Can you please explain to me what just happened?” I texted P.B., the white, straight seventysomething retired Air Force colonel and proud Texas Fightin’ Aggie.

You could see the excitement burning in his thumbs as he anti-grammatically tore through a litany of reasons why Trump would be the best president ever.

From what I recall, the word “jobs” was used about a million times. I deleted the thread immediately out of pure disgust.

Seeing “jobs” mentioned again by conservatives all around me, I’m left to surmise that maybe these “jobs” are a kind of aegis beneath which Donald Trump is advancing to be able to foist more anti-immigration policy on us. His job numbers are only about average. Factor in the lockdown brought on by the pandemic, a lockdown precipitated by a still-vague federal response, and his job numbers are the worst of any president since World War II (when job numbers were first kept).

Since Trump took office in January 2017, the U.S. economy has shed 4.7 million jobs, according to the Labor Department.

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the nonpartisan think tank the Brookings Institution, immigration into the United States fell by almost half, to about 600,000 people per year.

The last time levels were that low, malls were a thing and Duran Duran topped the charts. It’s almost as if Donald Trump hates immigrants, which is highly unusual for a guy who’s married to one.

My father-in-law does not hate immigrants. This much, I know. He is the best grandfather to my 9-year-old Black son. I do not believe P.B. is racist.

I don’t know if I can say the same for some other Trumpers I love.

I had shaken R.’s hand earlier. I had shaken it after he had come to drop off the slow cooker that D. and I had loaned him.

We were one of dozens of couples who had signed up to cook a dinner for R.’s family during their mourning. I didn’t need to shake his hand at the funeral. I wish I did.

I just didn’t.

I paid my respects at his son’s casket. I had hugged R.’s wife and told her that their boy was a solid young man and that they had done well with him. I should know. I lived next to him the past 12 years. He was a kind soul, always wisecracking, always sweet. I eyed R. across the funeral home.

He wasn’t wearing a mask. There were about 50 people there, everyone masked up. Not R. But he had on his Trump hat.

He has not been seen without it since long before his son’s death. I doubt that will change anytime soon.

I told myself that the reason I didn’t shake his hand, a second time, is that he was engaged in conversation with a couple other mourners, which he was. I knew it was because I’m always so wrapped up in my own shit (parenting, work) that I don’t dare to care. It’s also because I feel as if I’m so important that my presence requires a special kind of consideration of some sort.

In truth, it’s just embarrassing for me to express pain. Always has been, always will be. It’s part of my overall selfish character.

I need to work on that, too.

The funeral was before R. accused me of carrying a child’s hockey stick to “keep away Trump supporters.” I wonder if he was upset that I didn’t shake his hand again. I still wonder.

R. and I have had some very lively and never angry conversations about politics and race over the years. I just don’t suspect he’s in the mood for fun anymore. I’m of the heart that all that’s going to cure his pain is a Trump victory.

I don’t want to be around when that doesn’t happen, honestly. I had a dream in which R. asked me to vote for Trump, that it would be one way I could help. I believe their son had to be of the same persuasion.

dumping Trump supporters. A clear, obvious touchdown had been called back by a phantom offensive pass interference call. D. was getting antsy waiting for me to blow the heck up. I simply smoothed back my Ancient Aliens-guy hair, sat back down with my arms on my knees, and said, “I’m not gonna let these lousy refs come between me and my favorite sport.”

Much in the same way, I’m not going to let Donald J. Trump come between me and my loved ones, people with whom I have a lot of history and many fond memories, people who support me and whom I support. All I can do is help them.

All I can do is “politicare” for them. They certainly need it.

In P.B.’s retirement neighborhood near Austin, either a Biden/Harris or Trump/Pence sign looms over every yard.

(There are more Biden/Harris ones than you might think.) There’s only one sign in my neighborhood. And it’s not outside R.’s house. In front of his abode is a pumpkin on a stick emblazoned with some sort of “blessings” greeting. I noticed it the other day when I was pulling up and saw R. walking with his lunchbox toward his front door, wearing his Trump hat, always wearing that damn hat. I waved. He waved back. l

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“liars,” “bigots” — I wonder if my family and friends have read my words. I wonder if that’s why R. gave me the business out front the other day. If that’s the case, I’m sorry, not because many Trump supporters aren’t blind followers of a cult leader but because, man, there has to be a better way to win an argument than by name-calling.

If you can’t make your point without libeling someone else or calling them a derogatory name, maybe your point is weak. And I would know. I’m a weak, tinysouled man who would rather hide behind his laptop than be confronted by someone who disagrees with me (including — especially — my wife). I need to be better. I don’t blame R. at all. I’m just a chickenshit name-caller. I wouldn’t talk to me, either.

All I can do is say I’m sorry. My arguments are better than my rage.

The main question is, “By voting for him, are Trump supporters as bad as he is?”

I would say no. First of all, no one is as horrible as he is. Secondly, some Trump supporters are actually concerned about jobs. Not jobs in double quote marks, actual jobs. I know a few of these folks.

How do we reach them? I can only be nice to them because that’s the way I would want to be treated if I continued making poor choices and believed in a conman.

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This election is the most important one of our lifetimes. Along with donating to good causes and writing as many awesome columns as I can for this very fine print publication, I’ve taken to proselytizing the right way: by being sympathetic.

I know now might not seem like the right time for that. I understand that the playing field has been slanted away from progressivism by right-wingers who

think we still want their ideas despite the numbers to the contrary. California’s population is about as big as nearly two dozen other, smaller states combined but still is represented by only two senators. It’s time for a change. In the current senate, the Republican “majority” represents 15 million fewer people than the Democratic “majority.” It’s time for a change. Republicans have made most of the Supreme Court picks since forever.

It’s time for a change. Gerrymandering continues to allow Republican lawmakers to win elections unfairly. It’s time for a change.

The patriarchy is on its way out, and these power grabs are last-ditch efforts to remain relevant and in charge. My (white, straight) family members and friends are not bad people. Quite the opposite. And like all good people, like L., P.B., and R., they deserve my care in their time of need. I don’t want to call it “pity,” because it’s not coming from a place of anger or resentment. I say it’s care because I love them, my older brother and older sister, my father-in-law, even my neighbor, and I love probably more people than I’m even aware of who have bought in to the current federal “leadership.” It’s political care I’m advocating for. Let’s get super-corny and call it “politicare.” #cringingonyourbehalf I have said some horrible things in the past about Trump followers.

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Even before I knew what blue lives matter was, R.’s son had planted two blue lives flags in the back of his souped-up black pickup truck and drove them around town.

This was before D. and I had brought our son home from West Africa. I wonder if our boy’s presence had done something to change that pro-cop attitude.

I still see him, R.’s son. I still see that handsome young man lying motionless in a coffin for making a mistake on a motorcycle. His pickup still sits in the driveway next door with its odd, motorsports stickers, I’m assuming, and his IG handle on a side window. I imagine it’s waiting for him, his truck. I can feel the weight of the eternity of that duration, and it’s heavy, dark, the way I wait to hear from my dead brother.

R.’s son died only about a mile from his house, I’d later heard. He was almost home.

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Back in the day, when our annual Music Awards festival would take over Sunday pre-Trailer-Park Lola’s and The Grotto (R.I.P., old friend), we could also be found at the parking lot at Fellowship Church (508 Carroll St, 827258-6300), which provided free parking for the event. Now your kids can take over that lot for Super Sweet Sunday. From 10am to 2:30pm, Fellowship Kids is hosting its annual trunk-or-treat event after Sunday services. The event is free to attend.

No, not that Ricky Bobby.

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At 7pm, come to a free parking lot screening of the ’90s hit The Addams Thursday Family at Funky Picnic Brewery & Cafe (401 Bryan Av, 927-7082739). Tables are limited, so you might want to bring your camping chair. Food and drinks are available from Funky Picnic or neighboring Black Cat Pizza.

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You could stay home and watch Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

On the other hand, you could go to Tumbleweeds Bar (1008 NE Loop 820, 817-626-5225) and join local sidekicks Ricky and Bobby for darts, karaoke, pool, and a few drinks. Recently reopened with a food/beverage permit, Tumbleweeds will now be serving tasty treats. Sandwiches behind the bar will be for sale, plus the Ol’ South Food Truck will be parked out front.

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The Final Countdown –– an alternate-history SF war film from 1980 –– Saturday features more than Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen. Three aircraft from the movie have a home right here at the Fort Worth Aviation Museum (3300 Ross, 855-733-8627). At 7pm, watch this movie with other aviation enthusiasts and check out the aircraft under the stars. Bring your blankets, chairs, and snacks. Movie Night tickets are $5 at ShopFortWorthAviationMuseum.com.

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Before the pandemic, comedy troupe Four Day Weekend had the longestrunning live show in the Southwest.

Along with weekly shows at its theaters in Fort Worth (312 Houston St Ste 7404, 817-226-4329) and Dallas (5601 Sears St, 817-226-4329), 4DW has a corporate communications division, an improv training center, and a TV and film department. Their classes have helped many a sales team. Now, they need your help.

COVID-19 meant the closing of both 4DQ theaters. Still offering virtual corporate work and video production, the troupe has survived. With plans to reopen both theaters soon, 4DW needs a helping hand. Says founding partner David Wilk, “We’re doing what we do best: putting on a show.” At 8pm Sat, log on from wherever you are and participate in the Four Day 4Ever virtual benefit performance livestreaming at Facebook.com/FourDayWeekend. The show is free, but donations are much appreciated. Donate at GoFundMe. com/F/FourDay4Ever.

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History is replete with stories of virtuoso pianists entrancing audiences, whether it was Franz Liszt dazzling 19th-century concertgoers with cascades of thunderous octave runs or Van Cliburn mesmerizing Russians (and judges) during the legendary International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958. Those moments were fueled by intimacy and proximity between artist and audience — something that has been missing from the local classical music scene until recently.

Following a couple of socially distanced Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra concerts, the Cliburn is presenting two pop-up concerts this fall, including one Saturday at The Post at River East. Serving a local, national, and international audience during a pandemic has required that the venerable performing arts organization rely on flexibility and an ability to adjust rapidly to changing conditions, said Cliburn president and CEO Jacques Marquis.

“We switched to online content” soon after the pandemic hit, he said, referring to Cliburn at Home, which featured streamed performances of past concerts with new artist intros, spotlight interviews with artists who had already been accepted to the 2020 Amateur Competition, and a new online education program.

Cliburn artistic consultant Buddy Bray and Cliburn staffers created Cliburn Kids this past March as a means of teaching homebound students about music fundamentals and related disciplines like math and history. The new video series will remain part of the

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nonprofit’s programming even after the States have led to many virtuoso artists opting out of performing in the States. To pandemic subsides, Marquis said.

When Cliburn staff surveyed past minimize the need for extensive travel on patrons, the respondents said they wanted the part of the artists, the Cliburn will rely to hear live music but in a safe environment. on regional and national bookings for now, The feedback led to Saturday’s pop-up Marquis said.

In lieu of announcing a 2020-2021 concert, which will be held in the open-air patio at The Post. Seating will be limited, concert season, Cliburn staff recently launched Cliburn and social distancing Essentials, a subscription will be strictly enforced, series that divides the Marquis said. typical concert season into “One key thing is three-month “boxes” that to be relevant to your Cliburn Pop-Up Concert Featuring each offer two exclusive own community,” he Natasha Paremski online experiences said. All our local arts Sat at The Post at River East, (happy hour with the “organizations are trying 2925 Race St, FW. $35.

817-738-6536. always affable Marquis to stay connected to their or a livestream chat people. I like online with a Cliburn artist, for concerts, but nothing example), two in-person beats live concerts. This concerts, and surprise also fulfills our role and mission of giving opportunities for gifts. Since bars and music venues can close without notice for public health reasons, musicians to play for the public.”

While live classical music concerts the details of the winter and spring boxes have cautiously returned to many have not yet been announced.

Pianist Natasha Paremski will perform European concert halls, stubbornly high COVID-19 infection rates in the United two back-to-back concerts as part of the

Cliburn’s first pop-up event. Marquis said the event, first and foremost, will be held with safety in mind.

“It’s going to be fun,” he said. “You can have a drink on the patio. It will be very casual with maybe 60 to 65 people. It is going to be an experience, which is what we are looking for.”

Marquis sees the one-year postponement of the quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (now set for 2022) as an opportunity.

“We will get back to the [original] schedule in 2025,” he said. “Because we announced the postponement early, the pianists knew exactly when the next Cliburn will be, and it’s all about being well-prepared.”

As was true for Liszt and Van, as locals knew him, nothing beats the experience of an in-person piano concert.

“For the Cliburn, the audience is as important as the artists on the stage,” Marquis said. “It’s the exchange between the two of them” that is part of the magic. l

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“When I was a little girl, I used to write scripts and either perform them with my dolls or with my sister and friends on the street,” said Chyna Robinson.

Many filmmakers I’ve profiled over the years have recommended that aspiring filmmakers starting up just pick up the camera and shoot something. However, Robinson says that’s exactly the thing not to do.

“Do as much research as you can,” she said. “If you don’t have the money, log onto free courses. You can learn so much on YouTube. It’s like anything else. You need to know what you’re doing.”

This approach now has the Fort Worth native preparing to show her new feature film, No Ordinary Love, at the Coyote Drive-In this weekend. The drama about a woman trapped in an abusive relationship with a police officer comes to us after screening at a virtual version of the American Black Film Festival (normally held in Miami Beach) and winning an audience award at the Bronzelens Film Festival based in Atlanta. In keeping with the subject matter, the proceeds from the screening will benefit SafeHaven.

Robinson was born in the southwest part of the city — she gives her age as “I’ve been legal for a few years now” — and attended Southwest High School, though she has lived in Keller since 2012. She graduated from TCU with a double major in film and English. Despite her degree, she concentrated her efforts on theater after her graduation, creating dinner theater murder mysteries at the Buttons restaurant locations in Fort Worth and Addison.

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Robinson: “Nobody’s running to the theater to watch a movie about domestic violence.”

script,” she said. “I had a full script with someone to do drone work over Sundance lots of improvisation. We sold out every Square. You need special permits.” show for the run.”

While researching the script, Touring as an actor in Oklahoma Robinson was surprised to find out gave her the idea for her first short film, that police officers, airline pilots, and Greenwood, which is set in a single home physicians are most likely to abuse their during the 1921 Tulsa massacre of the domestic partners. “Abuse is about power,” city’s Black population. she said. “These people hold lives in their “They say, ‘Don’t do a historical film hands. With police [as a character in the for your first movie,’ because it’s expensive, film], I was able to introduce weapons into but that’s what I did,” she said. the story.”

She used Zillow to find a house on She talked extensively with abused Rosedale Street to shoot in and found women and, without using specific antique props and costumes in thrift stores, details of their lives, mined their stories as well as a donation from an 84-year-old for emotional nuances to explain why a friend. The funding came from the money woman might be hesitant to leave such a she had earned from her theater work, relationship. and while a broken leg caused her to miss Making the leap from a short film to much of the short’s run at film festivals, a feature proved a challenge for Robinson, Greenwood (which can currently be seen whose weeks-long shoot, she said, threw for free on YouTube) won a prize for the off her eating and sleeping schedules. best film by a first-time director at the Pan “The filming is taxing physically African Film Festival in Los Angeles. and emotionally,” she said. “I get home No Ordinary Love as director and producer, was also shot in Fort I have to make sure that Worth, using locations everything is ready for No Ordinary Love Sat-Sun. Coyote Drive-In, such as Sundance Square, tomorrow and go over 223 NE 4th St, FW. $15.

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Church, the Petroleum was drained, but it was Club, One Safe Place, and such an exhilarating UNT Medical Center. experience.”

While she won’t disclose monetary figures, The experience has proved to be Robinson said she enjoyed the luxury of a worth it. In addition to its awards, the film bigger budget, thanks to private funding has received raves from people who saw without corporate sponsors or investors. it in festivals last year, with fans writing She also had a greater range of tools to on the Internet Movie Database: “Such a work with. powerful feature” and “The subject matter “My husband bought me a drone the is upsetting but deftly handled by a director year before,” she said. “We had to hire who I am going to keep my eye on.”

While Robinson was full of praise for the people she worked with during and after the production, she also ran into local difficulties.

“The film community here is a boys’ club,” she said. “No one ever told me that I should do something else, but I was able to see through experience that it’s much harder to get funding. Different companies in the area would be less willing to work with us.”

Screenings like the one at Coyote Drive-In will help her determine what she wants distribution for her film to be like during these uncertain times for theatrical films. (Nationally, drive-in theaters have become more enterprising in what they show, the pandemic having contributed to an uptick in their business. The Coyote is also showing a performance by Texas Ballet Theatre this week and last August screened Derek Presley’s thriller Whitetail.)

Robinson says that the coronavirus pandemic is part of the urgency to put the film in front of audiences.

“The numbers for domestic violence globally have skyrocketed,” she said, noting that people are trapped inside with abusers and unable to escape. “Nobody’s running to the theater to watch a movie about domestic violence. It was important for me not to write it like a documentary, not to make it heavy the whole way through. I wanted to write it like a romantic thriller. We’ve gotten audience choice awards against stuff that’s now on Netflix and HBO. That means a lot to me as a filmmaker.” l

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Last year, after a divorce, singersongwriter Ryan Hamilton converted his tour van into a makeshift one-person RV, grabbed his guitar and his dog Peaches and headed west on Route 66. Hoping the open road would help clear his head, Hamilton and his pup would drive up and down the highways between Texas and California, staying nights in national parks. He wouldn’t return to his home in Granbury for more than two months. Though he didn’t set out to write a record, out of 30 some odd scratch ideas jotted down into his iPhone while sleeping among

HearSay Submerged Capital: Sounds of Yore

Though it may seem as if Fort Worth music peaked only a couple of years ago, what with Leon Bridges and lots of KXT love directed toward 817 artists, this area has been percolating with stellar sounds since forever, even in the bitter ’90s and the dark days after 9/11, especially in terms of delirious, often aggressive weirdness.

One of the first bands we found out about after gearing our coverage away from Dallas and toward our own backyard in the early aughts was Benway. Loud, mathy, and moody, the long defunct quartet could be said to be a precursor to known postpunk Fort Worth greats like BULLS and Clear Acid. I haven’t listened to Benway in a minute. I was glad to hear them again in the form of some previously unreleased material. Still listening to it. It’s that good.

This is all thanks to Aaron Bartz. The frontman for the trippy O. Deletron and the mathy and rocky Tame … Tame and Quiet has recently been releasing long-thoughtlost or indeed lost material from North Texas’ underground under the imprimatur

of his own Submerged Capital Records. In addition to Benway and Bartz’ bands, the guitarist/singer has also digitally put out previously unreleased or unheralded tracks

by Sonic Death Monkee, Scattergun Reflex, and others. They all rock. This is good music, especially for locavores or other appreciators of Fort Worth music history.

Scattergun Reflex, hailing from the fair burgh of Cleburne, first appeared to Bartz via a compilation CD released by the Arlington record store Laser Trax.

“Being a fan of both instrumental and math-rock bands,” Bartz wrote on Facebook, “the Scattergun track hit me in the good spots.”

Bartz’ Submerged Capital has put out the unreleased Scattergun album Anchors as well as the Laser Trax track, “Chocolate Castle.” Scattergun Reflex’s full-length, Laughing at a Dead Man, is also available on all streaming formats.

The Benway release was natural. Bartz and former Benway guitarist Darren Miller have been playing together in TTXQ since the mid-aughts. Why the Benway material was never released or better received is the big question.

“Benway was as close as our area had to a band like Rodan or June of 44, and I

loved it,” Bartz writes. “The drummer set up with his back to the audience, and the other three lashed out with authentic Fort Worth noise straight at your face. Better yet, they were great dudes.”

Via Submerged Capital, Bartz is releasing Benway’s single “Canary/ Knapsack” and the unreleased full-length Di-Electric Breakdown. They’re both available on all streaming platforms.

With Benway and Scattergun Reflex, you can feel the heavy influence of ’90s post-rock: lots of knotty, twangy, bashing instrumentalism. The instrumental Sonic Death Monkee is something else. The surfy, wavy, arpeggiated organ and pounding drums conjure a ’60s zombie party on acid.

(Hosting a socially distanced Halloween party? SDM is your jam — at least to mix in among some Los Straitjackets, “Tubular Bells,” and Ghost.)

“If you ever had a chance to see the brother duo of Eric and Michael Reyes from Fort Worth play in the early 2000s,” Bartz writes, “you know why this is special.

With their frantic, prog video-game sound, it was always captivating. I saw them play the first time at Trinity Park for a … benefit show. I immediately asked if I could record them and me and [bandmate]

Patrick Higgins tried our best to make this recording. We hope you enjoy this mostly undiscovered gem.”

Sonic Death Monkee recorded a second album, and “the boys gave CDRs to some of you,” Bartz writes. “By now, they’ve surely been stolen or deteriorated by our toxic environment. Originally titled Muy Terrible, after further review, it’s not terrible at all!”

Bartz told me he considers himself “fortunate enough to get to know and play with a special group of talented bands from this area over the last 20 or so years, who never got the recognition I felt they deserved. I collected all the stuff I could from them, because I enjoyed it, and I thought they should have an audience, no matter how far removed from the scene they were/are.”

Bartz adds that Submerged Capital has “some other exciting releases in the works.”

This is the kind of important curatorship that helps scenes retain a sense of all that’s come before and provide a roadmap for all that’s left to achieve. There isn’t much, but there’s enough. — Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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Inspired by a solo crosscountry journey here in the States, Ryan Hamilton’s Nowhere to Go but Everywhere is climbing the charts 5,000 miles away.

among Britons. As was the case with the band’s 2019 debut, This Is the Sound, which won Album of the Year at last year’s Independent Music Awards, the Ghosts’ sophomore effort, led by the single “Jesus and John Lennon,” has found itself charting in the U.K., sandwiched between the likes of Neil Young and Taylor Swift.

Though he fronted some regionally popular outfits in the last decade here at home, such as the indie-pop duo Smile Smile and Ryan Hamilton and the Traitors, he’s not quite been able to duplicate the same success stateside as he has accomplished on his bandmates’ home turf.

“It’s interesting that in the U.K., we’ll play to hundreds or thousands of people in nice venues and midsize theaters,” he said, “but we’re lucky to get 50 people out to the DoubleWide [in Dallas] when we play here.”

He’s become at peace with the disparity. After he was able to bring his parents on tour with him in the U.K. and they were actually able to see just how successful his band was, he no longer felt he needed to prove anything to anyone.

“It’s just crazy, when I was younger, bands like The Toadies, Tripping Daisy, they were heroes, legends almost,” he said.

“And somehow I’ve found success in a place that’s never heard of them.”

Though he’s come to accept the strange intercontinental divide, he does hope that Nowhere begins to change it.

Here is home, and he said he’d love to be as well received as he is an ocean away.

“Maybe now that the Fort Worth Weekly is calling, I’ll be able to get my name out there a little bit,” he joked. l

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the mountains and deserts “People always seem to cringe when I mention my of the Great Southwest, 11 divorce,” he said, “but we would be developed and now should be able to talk about it compose the material on just like we should be able to Nowhere to Go but Everywhere, talk about things like mental Hamilton’s latest album, health. They’re things we released last month on New York’s Wicked Cool Records. should certainly be more comfortable [addressing]. I If the title of the album didn’t want my divorce to be sounds familiar, it’s because a marketing tool, but when I it’s a nod to a line from Jack Hamilton: “People always showed everyone the songs, Kerouac, a hero of Hamilton’s seem to cringe when I they were basically, ‘You just (he claims to actually own a mention my divorce, but we need to make this record for belt that belonged to the Beat should be able to talk about icon), and the phrase helps it just like we should be able you.’ ” In addition to the album, solidify his new LP’s theme. to talk about things like Hamilton recorded many of It’s one surrounding the mental health.” his experiences on the trip catharsis and purgation that can be achieved by endlessly rolling under with still photos and videos that have been big skies and through the red dust and compiled into a mini-documentary to gravel of long Southwestern straightaways. accompany the album’s release.

Nowhere is Hamilton’s second “I just hit the road,” Hamilton said over the phone. “I just pointed in a album featuring the Harlequin Ghosts, direction and went. I just felt like I needed a unique transatlantic collaboration that that windshield time, some time by myself began five years ago. It’s not often you to think about what had gone wrong in my find a singer-songwriter living in Texas marriage and my life. I had no intention fronting a band based in England, but of making a record, but writing songs has Hamilton said that after a few career false always been therapy for me. And some of starts, despite the distance, his current group of cohorts is the best he’s ever those songs wind up on records.”

After the trip, Hamilton presented worked with.

“I love that they just come at it from a the tracks he’d fleshed out in the RV to his U.K.-based backing band, The Harlequin different point of view,” he said. “There are Ghosts, and his producer Dave Draper so many bands that are huge in England (Ginger Wildheart, The Professionals). that I’d never heard of, so their frame of Leery of being seen like he was exploiting reference includes so much I don’t know or capitalizing on the pain of his divorce, he about and it definitely finds its way” in the said he felt trepidation about tackling such a music.

The results are evident. Their blend personal and emotional subject so directly, a of Americana and indie has caught on topic that found its way into the tunes.

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Shaw’s Patio Bar & Grill 1051 W Magnolia If you’re craving a burger ‘n’ shake, Shaw’s is your place -- the menu includes bison, lamb, and mushroom burgers in addition to the classic half-pound bacon cheeseburger. The shakes are old-school, served in a parfait glass and topped with whipped cream and a cherry. And yes, you can get fries with that - regular, sweet potato, or waffle-cut. Shaw’s has made a commitment to reopen responsibly. More info at FortWorth.com/Health-and-Safety.

The Bearded Lady 300 S Main Located in the thriving Fort Worth Near Southside neighborhood on South Main Street, The Bearded Lady will be one of your favorite new spots to grab a quick lunch or dinner and enjoy a refreshing craft beer. Bearded Lady has made a commitment to reopen responsibly. More info at FortWorth.com/Health-and-Safety.

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