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FEATURE What a beatdown this election has been.

Now it’s time to move on.

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METROPOLIS A recently released document details numerous offenses by Fort Worth police officers.

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STUFF The Cowboys pulled it off: embarrassing but not beating the Steelers to retain a Top 3 pick. Hallelujah!

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SCREEN That’s a wrap. The Lone Star Film Festival was a couch-locked delight, especially the shorts.

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Nearly 40 pages of police incidents raise questions about officer transparency and accountability.

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This past summer, as protests against police violence erupted across the country, local grassroots groups took a multifaceted approach to creating transparency within city politics and the Fort Worth police department. Petitions were signed that demanded participatory budgeting from Fort Worth leaders, police budgets were dissected like never before, and, in August, members of No Sleep Until Justice DFW, a police reform-minded group, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

Static Leaders from the city and Fort Worth police department recently took steps to present a friendlier, less militarized-looking budget for the Crime Control and Prevention District (CCPD) ahead of the passage of Fort Worth’s 2021 budget. Fort Worth formed its crime control district in 1995 in response to what the city said were high crime rates. The district is funded by a half-cent sales tax and adds around $80 million in discretionary funds to the police budget.

While violent crime across the country has fallen by more than 50% since the early 1990s, according to the Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization, Fort Worth’s CCPD budget has only grown since its creation. The 2021 CCPD budget is $86.5 million, according to the city. In response to a robust but unsuccessful campaign to vote down the CCPD this past July, Police Chief Ed Kraus said his department “would expand on some successful programs and create new opportunities.”

Specifically, Fort Worth police department is shifting SWAT and “enhanced enforcement” funding from the CCPD to the department’s regular budget while using the CCPD to expand the department’s crisis intervention team to handle situations that involve nonviolent individuals experiencing a mental health crisis.

One new initiative, the Community Service Professional Program, consists of 10 civilians who will respond to nonemergency calls.

Those steps, experts say, lower the risk of police shooting unarmed civilians while freeing officers to respond to actual crimes.

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The request, said the grassroots group’s leader, Thomas Moore, sought incident reports and documented infractions committed by active Fort Worth police officers. The Fort Worth Secretary’s Office responded with a bill for $1,731 to cover the labor of compiling the information, which prompted a successful fundraising effort. Blue Lives Matter supporters soon heard of the request and made their opinions known via the Facebook group The Blue Wave.

“There is a current open records request being filed with the City of Fort Worth requesting personnel files and all information on ALL FWPD Officers,” the Facebook post read.

Send the activists to Guantanamo Bay, one woman replied.

Moore said his group received the 37page document in late October. The unredacted ledger contains the names of 334 active officers who have at least one incident report of an allegation of misconduct: intoxication while off duty, weapon use violation, sexual harassment, illegal arrest, false arrest, and assault, among many others.

The number of officers whose incident reports fill nearly an entire page is alarm-

ing. One officer tallied 25 offenses, including sleeping on duty, neglect of duty, intoxication while off duty, unnecessary force, and multiple accidents that set the police department back $25,000 to $30,000 in damages. The document does not state whether the offending officers faced criminal charges for assaulting civilians or stealing.

The president of the Fort Worth Police Officers Association (FWPOA), Manny Ramirez, said the list is proof that Fort Worth officers are held accountable for their actions.

“It’s a big list,” he said. “What it shows is that we don’t sweep things under the rug. … [Every incident] is investigated, and officers are disciplined. Fort Worth police department does a good job of holding people accountable.”

The report does not list what disciplinary steps were taken, though. Police officers are seldom held criminally accountable for the very actions that send tens of thousands of Tarrant County residents to jail every year.

In 2019, 48,945 criminal cases were filed in Tarrant County, according to the local district attorney’s office. That’s roughly the combined populations of Benbrook, Crowley, and White Settlement.

While Fort Worth’s CCPD became the target of public backlash this past summer following the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of a white police officer, many Texas cities use crime control districts to supplement local law enforcement budgets with little to no controversy. What sets Fort Worth’s CCPD apart is the lack of independent oversight on how the $86.5 million in taxpayer funds are used.

“We are looking for applicants to sit on the CCPD board!” reads a message on the City of Argyle’s website. “Please click HERE for an application! Check Crime Control & Prevention District as the board type on the form.”

You can almost hear the Leslie Knopelevels of enthusiasm Argyle has for civic engagement. Haltom City, Southlake, Trophy Club — they all have independent oversight (non-police, non-elected official) of their CCPD budgets. Now, enter the Fort Worth Way. In 2010, the Weekly covered the gutting of independent oversight of the city’s CCPD board (“Crime Control District Board Dissolved by City Council,” Feb. 2010).

“On Tuesday, the Fort Worth City Council voted unanimously to dissolve the 14-year Crime Control and Prevention District board and replace the appointed members with — who else? — themselves,” Staff Writer Betty Brink wrote at the time. “The move was being pushed by Mayor Mike Moncrief, according to Councilmember Joel Burns, who voted for the change.”

Moncrief, whose actions as mayor demonstrated that he was not a fan of transparency, accountability, or the Weekly, pushed for the disbandment of the independent board so CCPD funds could be used for shore up city budget shortfalls as needed, a CCPD board member

said at the time. Fort Worth City Council has maintained absolute control over the CCPD since then.

Whether under the leadership of a Democratic mayor, as Moncrief was, or the city’s current Republican leader, Betsy Price, Fort Worth has long suffered from deliberate efforts to erode oversight and accountability on the part of our elected officials. Last December, City Council (with one no-vote from Ann Zadeh) gutted its ethics review commission and replaced it with a business-friendly sham of an oversight group (“Ethics Review? What Ethics Review?” Nov. 2019).

Placing city councilmembers in charge of the CCPD is fraught with ethical conflicts.

As is common practice across the country, Fort Worth’s police union is a major donor in local elections. A cursory glance at recent campaign finance disclosures shows that the police union donated $15,000 to Price and Councilmember Cary Moon in 2019 and $17,000 (listed as “in-kind”) to Councilmember Carlos Flores in 2017 — and they are far from the only beneficiary of union funds.

Recent CCPD board meetings last as few as 14 minutes and are held every three months, according to archived recordings. This past February, City Council voted to approve items on the CCPD agenda without discussion within the first minute (no joke) of the meeting.

“We have a motion to second,” Price said after calling the meeting to order. “Motion carries. I think you had a chance to look at the written report. No questions? We’ll move to staff presentations.”

Trusting city councilmembers whose political careers are partly bankrolled by Fort Worth’s police union to be good stewards of CCPD funds is naive at best, and many cities

A 2020 article by The New York Times noted that, “It remains notoriously difficult in the United States to hold officers accountable, in part because of the political clout of police unions; the reluctance of investigators, prosecutors, and juries to second-guess an officer’s split-second decision; and the wide latitude the law gives police officers to use force.”

The open records release comes at a time when the police department is battling growing public mistrust and outside scrutiny from an independent review panel that is in the early stages of a comprehensive examination of Fort Worth policing practices. Preliminary results from the panel found that Fort Worth police officers too frequently engage in verbal attacks and heavy-handed policing practices.

It has been just over one year since Aaron Dean, a white Fort Worth police officer, shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson, a Black woman, while she was inside her mother’s home. Dean was quickly fired and remains free on bail. His trial date is yet to be scheduled. Calls for justice for Jefferson and her family have become a weekly feature of City Council meetings.

In response to public uproar, Police

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Activists from every part of the political spectrum met this past summer to discuss ways of adding accountability to Fort Worth’s CCPD.

avoid those glaring conflicts of interest by seeking volunteer board members who represent taxpayers, not unions.

The 10-year-old power grab by Moncrief is part of a long list of dubious decisions made by the former oil-and-gas-loving mayor, but it shouldn’t shape our city’s present or its future.

Fully one-third of voters recently opted to not renew the CCPD. A leading criticism of the district, according to numerous individuals from a wide swath of political persuasions, was the lack of independent oversight.

Placing citizens in charge of the district could go a long way toward rebuilding trust in law enforcement, and it could be a symbolic step away from Fort Worth’s long history of pandering to private business and union interests at the expense of transparency and accountability.

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

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Chief Ed Kraus announced several reform initiatives in recent months. They include an expansion of the police department’s Mental Health Crisis Intervention Team and a yet-tobe activated team that will address 911 calls that do not require a response from armed police officers.

Moore said Fort Worth police department lacks credible lines of accountability.

His group’s position is that the “Fort Worth police department does not hold their officers accountable in an appropriate manner, which undermines the public trust in police, wastes taxpayer money, and keeps everyone less safe. The City of Fort Worth must have a community oversight board with sufficient authority and oversight to ensure the trust of its citizens.”

Earlier this year, Fort Worth leaders hired two police monitors to field civilian complaints of police misconduct. Ramirez said the monitors have done an “amazing job” of using their first several months at work to learn how the Fort Worth police department operates.

Whether the monitors’ work has resulted in any level of police accountability remains to be seen. Recent requests by the Weekly for a list of disciplinary actions resulting from police monitor investigations have so far been blocked. Fort Worth’s Secretary Office is seeking a legal brief — a maneuver that potentially allows important public information to be kept private through FOIA caveats — from the State Attorney General’s office.

Moore said Fort Worth’s police union has grown too strong and politically influential. FWPOA is holding the city hostage, he said.

“Nearly every city councilmember has taken significant political donations from the FWPOA and then turned around and ruled in favor of the FWPOA’s requests,” he added, referring to typically noncontroversial City Council votes approving massive police budgets (around one-third of the city’s total budget) year after year.

Ramirez said campaign donations have nothing to do with controlling local politicians and everything to do with public safety.

Homicide rates in Fort Worth are up 60% from this time last year, he said.

“Without a safe society, you won’t have a prosperous society,” he said. “We know that from the business and socioeconomic lens.

Everything hinges on making sure we can protect our citizens.”

FWPOA is a substantial donor in local politics, as are members of the Bass family and other elite families and groups who understand the influence that campaign contributions garner. FWPOA frequently divvies out checks of $15,000 or more in local elections, according to recent campaign finance disclosures.

“Public servants should not be allowed to unionize without accountability, and they should not be trusted to hold themselves accountable,” Moore said.

Police Chief Kraus has stated that he will retire at the end of this year. Ramirez said the call for new police chief applicants recently ended. Disciplining officers is an important part of any chief ’s job, Ramirez said, but the priority of any new police department head will be “reducing crime.” l

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Ultra Mandate Though the election is over, decisively, the division will linger like a stale beer.

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knew we were going to fight about it.

“It’s one o’clock, Anth,” my wife said. “You’re drinking already?”

You’re damn right I’m drinking, lady, I said to myself in my head (and only in my head). Standing in the kitchen with an unopened Ultra sweating in my hand, I wanted to shout that I had been waiting four years for kindness, decency, and strength to return to the highest office in the land, and now that it was almost here, got dang it, there will be a beer, or five, on my lips, woman!

“I’m just a little stressed” was what I actually said sheepishly, guiltily returning the bottle to the fridge. “The election, this holding pattern, nothing to do …”

“Work out,” D. shot back. “Go for a walk. You don’t have to drink.”

Oh, but how wrong you are. I do. I do have to drink. After four years of complete and utter bullshit, after four years of misogynism, racism, nepotism, cronyism, rascalism, the list goes on, on this Friday afternoon after Election Day, I was about to join more than 75 million other Americans and the rest of the developed world in welcoming a new era. Do you know, I thought, how nice it’s going to be waking up every morning and not having to worry about something dumb or false that your president said the night before while he was on the shitter? Do you know how sweet it’s going to be knowing that science and data will dictate our nation’s actions, not conspiracy theories and biased hackery masquerading as fact gathering?

Do you know how wonderful it’s going to be seeing men and women work to reunite more than 600 missing children with their parents who were separated at the border by racist policy? Answer: It’s gonna be great!

You lily-livered sad sacks can sit there and be all mopey and bitter because President-elect Joe Biden isn’t progressive enough. You can warn me all you want

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about the gridlock in Congress to come.

You can even say someone cleverer and younger from the right will come along in 2024 to take Donald Trump’s place at the helm of the S.S. SS. Me? I’m going to partay.

My joy is especially sweet. Both of my hometowns went blue. Biden won Tarrant County thanks to Fort Worth, where I live now, and he also scored big in Pittsburgh, where I was born and raised. Seeing the map of Pennsylvania on TV Saturday morning, I couldn’t help but allow the Holy Spirit to move me into taking a pic — and promptly sending it to two of my Steelers-hating friends here in the Fort.

“Next time you hate on the Stillers,” I texted, “remember …”

“I love Pitt,” one wrote back. The other said, “I might have just converted.”

Though Donald Trump did not win Tarrant County, he took home Texas with about the same percentage of the vote that he whipped up in 2016. The good news, for us vile, baby-eating Satanists, is that Democrats managed to flip some Republican voters in the cities and suburbs. There’s still a ton of one-light towns spread across our great republic between Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. These lovely pee stops will forever remain beyond the reach of Democrats. If Texas ever turns blue, or even purple, it will be because Dems focused on the kinds of progressive policies that cities and suburbs care about as opposed to leaning toward the center a la Uncle Joe. I’m talking crazy, wild, offthe-chart things like paying workers a living wage, and offering everyone health care no matter their employment status, and treating everyone like a human being instead of like a cog in a machine or a possession. Y’know, regular pinko-

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commie-bastard stuff straight outta China which we’ve come to believe is abnormal because late-stage capitalism has corrupted most of us and all of our politicians completely.

As severe a rebuke as the 2020 election was for Trump, a backward-facing-ringfingered slap in the face essentially, Biden’s construction of a broad antiTrump coalition cost Dems seats in the House and possibly/probably the Senate.

The risk for Uncle Joe just must have been too great. Many Republicans, clearly, were fine with voting against DT. That still didn’t mean they wanted to turn over the rest of Washington to us blood-drinking, suggestively gyrating, mud-smearing-onour-bellies Democrats.

We Dems sure did expect a better return on Texas. Our wish for more voters was certainly granted. Turnout was massive, the biggest it’s been since 1990, and Dems have always said that since Texas is a nonvoting state, allegedly, mobilizing voters would easily translate into a sea of blue from Beaumont to El Paso.

That didn’t happen. In Texas, Trump received 52% of the vote to Biden’s 46%.

There’s still a lot of work to do.

I often wonder if my Republican family members and friends feel as if they’re surrounded by liberals, because I feel like 90% of the people I know in this town and back home are right-wingers.

The older couple who stopped my wife at Kroger Sunday morning seemed nice.

“Ya think they’re gonna win?” the old lady asked D., who was wearing a bedazzled Steelers T-shirt because of course she was.

“I hope so,” my wife replied. “You know it’s sometimes the worst team that beats the best one.”

“I hope so, too,” the old man said.

“We need something good to happen this week.”

D. simply curled her lips and walked away. Smart move, I would later tell her.

I could just see the headline: “Awkward Brawl Erupts on Aisle 5 Over Politics.”

This election was especially significant for my family. Our now-9-year-old son is Black, and even though Trump has disavowed white supremacists publicly, he’s still acting as if he supports them — and as one of my old college football coaches used to say, “Your actions are so loud, I can’t hear a word you’re saying.”

A political expert (read: a doofus who reads a lot out of nervousness), I found myself embroiled in a very important, very significant debate the other day about Trump’s responsibilities to minorities.

(Read: I was in a flamewar with at least one other person on Facebook.)

My temp was rising like Jesus on the third day since Fort Worth police cruisers recently materialized calmly alongside a Trump caravan as it motored with its embarrassing flags through a historically Black neighborhood as residents marched peacefully to the polls. The Stop Sixers were not having it. They shouted down the Trumpers, forcing them to tuck their little baby tortoise tails between their little baby tortoise legs and turn around. The Monday after the incident, Fort Worth police released a statement saying officers were on the scene only to protect the integrity of the polls, not to “escort,” as some observers had said, Trump rowdies on their way to intimidate voters.

“On Oct. 30, 2020,” FWPD said, “Fort Worth police officers were asked to be present near various polling sites due to complaints of possible voter intimidation.

A caravan of vehicles approached a polling site near Miller Street and was surrounded by a large crowd on foot. In an effort to de-escalate the situation, officers entered the crowd to allow the surrounded vehicles to exit the area without any

people would vote for Hitler reincarnated if he were the only pro-embryo candidate on the ballot.

There’s a clear correlation between this summer’s marches and the increased number of Black registered voters. The Democratic data services firm Targetsmart said, “In May and June, when Dem voter registration had bottomed out due to the pandemic and GOPs were out-registering Dems, it was the George Floyd/[Black Lives Matter] demonstrations that created a huge Dem voter reg spike.”

The protests over police violence were a factor in about nine out of every 10 voters, according to preliminary data from A.P. VoteCast. The survey of more than 140,000 voters by NORC at the University of Chicago found that more than threefourths considered the protests a major factor. A slight majority elected to rise against racist, violent policing. The rest went in the opposite direction, spurred on by the minimal looting and rioting that was blown out of proportion by Fox “News” and other right-wing media outlets. About 53 percent of NORC’s respondents voted for Biden. Forty-six percent said Trump was their man.

“Many Black voters,” The New York Times wrote, viewed the protests “through the lens of police violence threatening their lives, while many conservative white

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further altercations. At no time were Fort Worth police officers escorting vehicles into any areas to allow any type of voter intimidation. Our goal is to keep everyone safe, including from fear and intimidation, while exercising their First Amendment rights.”

I support the police, in general, but even the coolest, most “woke” cops should be able to see why they are a source of mistrust here. Here is where I would insert the reems of data about police violence against unarmed Black men and women.

I’m not because it makes me sick.

Biden won Black voters by an eyepopping 75-point margin, transforming key battleground states blue despite the massive turnout of Trumpers, who also were energized to pOwN dA LiBs. Biden won more Black and Latinx votes than any other candidate in history, including former president and current Black guy Barack Obama.

Whatever little appeal Trump may present to African Americans has to be based in the womb. Eighty-three percent of Blacks identify as Christian, and a September Gallup poll revealed that while Blacks have become “more liberal on abortion rights” over the past decade, they’re still less liberal than Democrats on the issue. As I’ve said of my beloved older brother L. before in these very pages, some

voters saw unrest encroaching on their communities.”

The idea of the Black male Trump voter was “a mirage,” political scientist Marcus H. Johnson said. “The old rappers,” meaning Trumpers like Kanye West and Ice Cube, “were irrelevant. Black voters did their job.”

They did it especially in Detroit and Atlanta, putting Biden over the top in both Michigan and Georgia. Minorities overall performed triple lindies in suits of armor to ensure the incumbent lost. In Arizona and Nevada, Latinx and Indigenous

Americans flooded the polls.

“Pay attention, Democrats,” Wajahat Ali wrote. “Appreciate and acknowledge your base. Center them.”

What the New York Times contributor means is that the United States’ complexion is undergoing a massive overhaul. Trump, the Bushes, and Ronald Reagan all received about 58% of the white vote.

“What’s changing,” wrote political strategist Cornell Belcher, “are the demographics.”

Also, Biden-voting counties,

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according to the bipartisan think tank the Brookings Institution, equal 70% of the nation’s economy.

In DT’s cheap reluctance to pack up his shit and go, he sure has done well to say that Atlanta, Detroit, and Philadelphia can’t be trusted to determine the fate of democracy or, in his case, that Hot-lanta, Detroit, and Philly are not honorable enough to be where his white-powerfueled wannabe dictatorship dies in an avalanche of ballots. Just another dog whistle. Just like continuing to separate migrant children from their parents at the border. Just like issuing a Columbus Day

proclamation while the rest of the planet is clamoring for Indigenous Peoples Day. Just like the “Muslim ban.” Loud actions, these are. Very loud.

I’m surprised my phone hasn’t turned into a dishrag by now. By Friday, I had been wearing its ass out since Election Day, going and back and forth from my Apple News app to Twitter to the New York Times app and CNN, desperate for some definitive good news. I largely avoided Facebook. One of the first posts I saw

when I reluctantly opened my news feed on Thursday morning was about a “coup d’etat,” and I just couldn’t. You just can’t with these people. As one woman I agree with tweeted the other day, “Why are you still cleaning Trump supporters out of your life is what I would like to know after four years.” Unfollowing has been great, smooth and easy. Unfollowing family is a little less inconspicuous and way harder to pull off.

Avoidance has been key for me right now. My older brother L. and I text constantly, mostly about football, hockey, and family but occasionally about politics.

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I just can’t with him right now, either. My comeback, burning all aglow, awaits in my quiver: “So, if I understand you correctly, all of the downballot votes count, and Lindsey Graham’s votes count, and Mitch McConnell’s count, but none of the ones for Joe Biden do? Even though they’re all on the same ballot?! Got it. Makes perfect sense. How could I be so stupid. Please forgive me.”

I just need to hold on to what little remains of my respect for the Trumpers in my life because while presidential administrations last only a few years, family and friends go on forever. A good brother, a good son-in-law, a good friend, I need to be there for them to shepherd them through their disillusionment and, frankly, their madness. As the presidentelect said, “I’m a big proponent of mental health.” And so am I. I’m still dying to gloat. I won’t, because like I said, I’m an awesome person and, to L., a kickass bro. However, I cannot guarantee a “new president” or “Inauguration Day” is not going to slip out like a rusty shiv in our text threads.

What we should be doing is logging off Facebook for good and petitioning Jack Dorsey to do an even better job of reining in misinformation on his platform. Twitter has flagged numerous bullshit tweets from Trump since the vote. The reason you may be seeing so many friends and family members talk about dramatically exiting to something called Parler is because it’s apparently right wing-friendly. So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, good night.

I’m not saying I’m not worried that some rabblerousers may have infiltrated the voting system to sink Trump. All it would take is one tiny slipup for the right wing commentariat to pretend it’s something bigger, something it’s definitely not. There would be gunfire for sure. In both directions. The echo chamber into which some of my friends and family are trapped is a kind of disease. I’m here to hold their hands through it. Not sure they would do the same for me, but here we are.

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I still have no idea how any of us managed to sleep. For me, maybe it was the Molson Goldens, my bleeding heart seeking fortitude and good vibes from our kinder, gentler, smarter — and less COVIDwracked — neighbors to the north. Maybe it was the exhaustion of another Tuesdaynight deadline lingering through the rest of the week. Maybe it was John King’s soothing, history-professor-with-the-flu voice. Whatever the reason, I slept a little.

More than shitting my pants over the fate of democracy, I had to be up at 7 every morning to help my third grader learn remotely.

It happened before I knew what hit me.

I had been sitting out on the back patio working, also checking my phone every other minute for some sort of real, good news, and then I set down my laptop and popped inside to refill my water bottle.

That’s when I saw D. standing in front of the TV with her phone in her hand.

Scrolling across the top of the screen was

“Joe Biden Elected 46th President.”

“Is this for real?” I asked her.

“They just called P-A,” she answered, awestruck.

And at that moment, I felt as if I had been fed a heaping spoonful of vomit. He’s not gonna concede, I thought. That son of a bitch is going to drag this out until the United States Marines physically remove him from the White House, and in the interim, he’s going to whip his base into a frenzy with false information and dishonesty. And they will gobble it up because they are suckers. No offense, folks. You may be smart and Christlike, but when your only source of information is the guy who’s committing the crimes and his enablers on TV, you’re being sold something. Just glance at the Times every now and then, for fuck’s sake. Or even this rag occasionally. We’re all here to help.

This moment was when I took that picture of the TV. Allegheny County was smiling back at me as a ragged squaretriangle thingie of deep blue surrounded by bright red.

This was also when I thought about cracking open a celebratory cold one. I didn’t because I figured A.’s piano teacher probably wouldn’t appreciate the kid’s father showing up to the studio buzzing.

I did have my share of suds later, and after five days of waking up with a throbbing head — not only from the Molsons but from staring at a tiny screen constantly and the stress, oy vey, the stress — I greeted Sunday morning ready to, I dunno, work out, go for a walk. l

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solid leadership at the top. Donald Trump failed us, and he failed, in particular, nearly 240,000 dearly departed souls and climbing and their families. Only some of us comprehend this. Some of the places hardest hit by COVID in this country voted for Trump. It almost goes against my excellent upbringing to say, “What are they smokin’?”

Dan Rather put it rather nicely when he recently said, “I won’t minimize the challenges or dangers before us, but I believe America is more broken in politics than in heart. There’s ugliness and hate — systemic and historical — but I think we can find common ground on important issues if we could get tribal politics out of the way.”

I’m sorry, but as far as I can see, “tribal politics” is a one-way street, and it’s headed right. The disease of the echo chamber is particularly acute among Fox “News” watchers and Washington Examiner (?) readers. As long as you’re willing and able to save one — a beloved older brother perhaps or an in-law — you’re doing the Lord’s work, and God bless you.

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facing precisely 26 credible sexual assault accusations, the guy who bankrupted a casino, a place where money literally flies around. There are actually 70 million people who want more of that, more division, more us-versus-them, more fear, more incompetence. And if you’re like me, you know and love a lot of them.

It’s telling that a united country is not important to them. What is? Shutting out poor asylum seekers and separating them from their children? Protecting the unborn at the cost of letting born children and their parents die of poverty? Mostly because of the non-white color of their skin? An unwillingness to spread the wealth, despite knowing that everyone needs to pay their fair share of taxes to keep taxes from getting out of control?

I just feel spent. And I know I’m not alone.

“Mute your mics,” A.’s teacher is snarling. “Mute your mics. Mute. Your.

Mics!”

Our son has been shining in remote learning. Regular school was terrible. A., who battles anxiety, spent more time in the principal’s office than his classroom.

With remote learning, he’s a star, and we couldn’t be prouder of him. So that’s one reason why D. and I do not want to send him back to in-person learning. Another is that we don’t want him to catch the COVID. It’s gotten so bad that Tarrant County is about to shut down sports, and there’s a chance that Gov. Greg Abbott may institute another lockdown. What everyone needs to understand is that we would not be in this position if we had

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“Deserts are the driest place on Earth!” A.’s teacher was saying to the class Friday morning. “It has nothing to do with eating!”

And I needed to doomscroll. I love/ hate my doomscrolling.

Things were looking pretty sketchy there Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, when that “red mirage” that we all read about but still did not believe began to spread, well, like COVID across our oddly yet beautifully shaped nation.

Since GOP legislators in some key battleground states suspended tabulating mail-in votes until Election Day, Trump appeared to be winning. On this past Monday, some pro-Trump protestors asked CNN where their man’s mail-in ballots were — “We got Joe Biden’s,” the guy growled. “Where are Trump’s?” — believing wrongly that Donald’s mail-in ballots had been trashed by counters or, as seen in a widely debunked viral video, burned. (It’s like a pile of 30. Not 30,000.

Not even 300. Thirty.) What Mr. Trump Guy did not acknowledge was that Dear Leader instructed his followers not to vote by mail and instead to go risk catching the COVID by hitting the polls on Election Day, which is exactly what they did. And they came out in en masse, earning DT a larger amount of votes than in 2016. It just wasn’t enough. Uncle Joe landslided him.

(It’s a word. Now it is.)

Without any deadline pressure, just this story to write, I could only focus on coffee with my wife out back every morning for, if we’re lucky, 15 uninterrupted minutes and helping my son A. as he begins to learn multiplication and, apparently, about deserts. These distractions, they were good, and they were just as big a distraction as checking my phone every other second for some definitive news.

Whatever sleep I nabbed was restless, fitful. As much as I wanted to check my phone for an update every time I turned over, I knew I had to be fresh in the morning. And this knowledge locked me in a kind of techno-hell where my two options — check the phone and stay awake out of shock or not check the phone and stay awake out of the unknown — remained just beyond the grasp of my tiny brain. I still don’t know what the right answer would have been.

What we do know now is the result of the election. We also know that we have never been more divided. Seventy-five million people voted for honesty, decency, and strength, a plus. A minus, more than 70 million others voted for the other guy, the one who cares only about himself and does nothing to unite us, the one who goes out of his way to divide us every day along racial and socioeconomic lines, the one

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Could That Be a Little Hope I See? Despite a fourth straight loss, this one against the dominating Steelers, the Cowboys showed the most fight in a game since Dak went down.

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Considering we are in the midst of a lost season and the floundering Cowboys were scheduled to host the league’s last remaining undefeated team in the Pittsburgh Steelers, one might not have thought there would be much to look forward to in this past Sunday’s game.

Vegas thought so little of the matchup that the burly bois in black and gold came into AT&T Stadium favored by 14 and a half, which stands as the worst line the Cowboys have had at home in decades.

Add in the fact that Dallas was starting Garrett Gilbert, their fourth different quarterback in five games — one signed to the practice squad just three weeks ago

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and who brought with him a vast NFL experience consisting of exactly two career completed passes — and the nationally televised contest appeared it would have about as much competitiveness as a MMA cage match between Dwyane “The Rock” Johnson and Betty White. (The Rock would have zero chance.)

However, instead of a medievalstyle public execution, the Cowboys were actually able to hang with the beloved of the Terrible Towel-twirlers. Though they would come up short of victory on a failed Hail Mary in the final seconds, falling by a score of 24-19, it just might have been the Cowboys’ cleanest game of the season.

In his debut, though his statline was underwhelming (21/38 for 243, one TD and one INT), Gilbert passed the famous “eyeball test,” appearing poised in the pocket, displaying surprising mobility

and an impressive arm. The former Brown looked decidedly better than Ben DiNucci from the previous week and possibly better even than Andy Dalton pre-concussion/ COVID. If not for a few obligatory bad momentum-altering calls by the zebras, Gilbert just might have been able to cap off the comeback.

More encouraging than the QB performance was the execution by the Cowboys defense. Thanks to the D’s gutsy play, Dallas inexplicably maintained a lead over Pittsburgh all the way from their opening drive until nearly the two-minute warning in the fourth quarter when Eric Ebron scored the go-ahead touchdown after a Dallas defensive stand was stalled by penalty. With the youth movement on defense necessitated by poor showings from now former Cowboys players Everson Griffen, Dontari Poe, and Daryl

Worley, rookies Neville Gallimore and Trevon Diggs, and the a resurgent Randy Gregory, absorbed more snaps and flashed throughout the game, pointing for a good trend heading into next year.

Special teams coordinator John Fassel deserves some praise too for his gutsy call of a beautifully designed and executed trick punt return when Cedric Wilson, instead of running with the ball, passed it laterally to C.J. Goodwin, who returned the catch 83 yards. Goodwin deserves an Oscar for his acting abilities to fake a hamstring injury to throw off the coverage team from realizing he wasn’t blocking as he set up to receive the ball.

Obviously, the game was not without the enemies that have plagued Dallas all season: turnovers, bad penalties, injuries (add Trevon Diggs and center Tyler Biadasz to the list of casualties), and some blown assignments. Jaylon Smith continues to be a liability. Regardless, for the second week in a row, overall, the team showed fight, a virtue sorely missing for much of the first half of the year.

In a season as catastrophic as this one has been, I suppose you take your moral victories wherever you can find them, as lame as moral victories are. Could just be that the team is starting to settle.

Hopefully, the progression seen over the last few games continues. But not too much. Sunday’s game was the most perfect game one could hope for as a Cowboy fan. It was entertaining, it showed development, and, most importantly, they lost. Unlike those eagerly climbing upon the clattering treads of Team Tank, I cannot bring myself to actively root for losses. However, if a loss is the result of a game, I’m just as happy with the result as the Tankers are. The Cowboys, who are in third place in their division, have moved into picking in the top three. There will be many quarterbackhungry teams looking to give a nice haul of Top 50 picks in return. If the Joneses could manage to use that draft capital more effectively on the defensive side of the ball than recent history suggests they’re capable, they might just turn this thing around next year. Here’s to a little hope. l

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At 6pm, The Phoenix — an organization on a Wednesday mission to build an active, sober community — hosts a Poetry Night at Sundance Square (SundanceSquare.com/Map, 817-4035977). This arty social event also features a workout element, if that interests you. The activity details and exact meet-up location will be emailed to you upon registration at ThePhoenix.org/Find-A-Class. What is the price of admission? The only cost is 48 hours of sobriety.

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Ask any Grey’s Anatomy fan. They will tell you that COVID-19 may very Thursday well have saved one of the characters. Like many good things in our life, filming stopped abruptly on the Grey’s set in the spring and robbed us of a season finale. Rumors abound that one character was to have been killed off. (In case this is a spoiler alert for you, I will not mention who was about the meet their dark and twisty end.) At 8pm, grab your person and tune in to ABC for the muchanticipated two-hour Season 17 premiere.

Not only will you catch up with your favorite characters, but you will also see how fictional Seattle Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital deals with the pandemic. (Is this a local happening? No. Is anything else important happening this day? No. Only this. Fight me.)

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From 4pm to 11pm, enjoy Day 1 of River & Blues Fest at Panther Friday Island Pavilion (395 Purcey St, 817-698-0700). Headliner Charley Crockett will be sure to belt out

his appropriately named mid-pandemic hit “Hard Times” at some point in his set that starts at 9:55pm. The concert also features Elaina Kay (4pm), Grady Spencer & The Work (5:10pm), Southern Avenue (5:40pm), and Kody West (8:10pm). Along with this musical experience, a partnership with Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth allows attendees to give back locally. A portion of the proceeds — and $1 guarantee from each ticket sold — goes directly to RMHFW. Tickets are $55 for GA, $160 for VIP, or $300 for Platinum per day. To see the Sat lineup and buy tickets, go to RiverAndBluesFest.com.

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If you are a fan of music memorabilia, art, collectibles, jewelry, and Saturday the like, head to Rail Club Live for the Heavy Metal Hoarders event. The trade show is from noon to 6pm, with live music from 1pm to closing by Fade the Ace, James Norton, and Ribcage. Tickets are $5 for the trade show, $10 for the concerts, or $15 for both at RailClubLive.com.

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From noon to 4pm, go to Rahr & Sons Brewing Co. (701 Galveston Av, Sunday 817-810-9266) for Rahr to the Rescue Holiday Dog Adoption.

Photography by Sheila will be on hand for you and your pup to take a picture with Santa. There will be beer and food for sale. The dogs on hand who are available for adoption come from Forever Family Rescue Foundation. This event is free to attend, but donations are encouraged. Any donations collected will go to support Fort Worth Animal Care.

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Holiday shopping is starting early in the Stockyards. From 10am Monday to 6pm, Maverick Western Wear (100 E Exchange Av, 817-626-1129) hosts a Holiday Trunk Show for Richard Schmidt Jewelry Designs. Vintage Boho Bags will also be on hand, showcasing some authentic Louis Vuitton handbags embellished with a Western flare. This event is free to attend (save your cash for shopping), but an RSVP email is requested to RSVP@MaverickWesternWear.com.

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If you are dissatisfied with the Fletcher’s Corny Dogs being peddled at a certain Tuesday Texas chicken chain and are still craving the State Fair variety you missed this year, then today is your day. From 3pm to 8pm, Fletcher’s is back with a pop-up event at Turning Point Beer (1307 Brown Trl, Bedford, 817-705-8817). Fletcher’s will be on-site serving corny dogs, funnel cakes, and lemonade at the City of Bedford’s request.

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From 9am to 5pm daily thru Dec 12, attend the 4th Annual Small Works Show at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center (1300 Gendy St, 817-738-1938). Presented

by Art Room, this event features art small enough to hold in one’s hand, including drawings, printmaking, photography, and three-dimensional works. More than 100 artists’ entries are on exhibit, suspended together “like pieces in a large community puzzle” for your viewing pleasure. This exhibit is free to attend, but donations are appreciated at FWCAC.com.

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Charley will welcome you to hard times this Friday.

On Memorial Day, we honor our military who lost their lives in the line of duty. On Veterans Day, we honor the living. If you haven’t lately, it’s time to thank a veteran for their service.

Organizations, from nonprofits to restaurants and more, are celebrating in some interesting ways.

For those feeling especially active, there is a Veterans Day Half Marathon on Sat from 7:30am to 12:30pm at Kathrine Rose Memorial Park (3030 N Walnut Creek Dr) in Mansfield. This event is benefiting the Taya & Chris Kyle Foundation and Service Family Strong. Tickets are $30-55 for in-person participation and $30-40 for virtual at RunSignUp.com. Registration includes a custom face covering, finisher medal and patch, and a long-sleeved T-shirt.

If you’d rather watch along the sideline, then perhaps you’d enjoy a parade. At 11am downtown, the Tarrant County Veterans Day Parade will honor the 100 years of service by the Disabled Veterans of America, an organization that helps injured and ill veterans and their families. For details about the parade route and ways that you can volunteer, visit FW2020VetParade.org.

Many restaurants offer a discount for veterans year-round, while others have special promotions just for Veterans Day. On Wed — all day — Hopdoddy Burger Bar (2300 W 7th St, Ste 140, 817270-2337) offers a free Classic Burger or Classic Cheeseburger to all active military service members and veterans with military ID or in uniform. This offer is available for in-store dining or to-go orders.

Thanksgiving includes thankfulness right in the name. What better way to thank a veteran than with a free Thanksgiving dinner? From 3pm to 9pm, Rail Club Live (3101 Joyce Dr, 817386-4309) invites not only all veterans but also those working for the fire and police departments (and their families as well) to enjoy a free meal and meet new friends among the Rail Club “misfits.”

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In a pandemic, our film critic watches the film festival from his couch.

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As I’ve mentioned before, the Lone Star Film Festival went entirely online this past week, so I had the new experience of taking in a festival from home. I didn’t miss the scheduling conflicts and the hurried dinners taken between screenings, but I did miss the big-ticket items and the buzz of the crowds that tend to accompany those. We can only hope that those return to downtown Fort Worth in the near future.

One part of the festival that benefited from being online was the short films.

Festival screenings of shorts tend to be sparsely attended, so you don’t lose much watching the movies by yourself, and if you find yourself at a loose end for five or 10 minutes between scanning the results of the presidential election, you can easily take one in. That’s how I came to Nolan Wilson Goff ’s Bite the Hand, about a teenage mother who prepares to dispose of her recently deceased mother’s house, and while I found it lacking in point, it was a nice showcase for Plano native Liana Liberato as the main character. The same could be said for Noah Weisberg’s Thank You Kindly, which showcases the singing voice of Orange Is the New Black’s Kimiko Glenn as a clerk at a crappy motel in Southern California who yearns to act. This short subject is scored like a 1950s musical, continuously and with

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a full orchestra, which is a luxurious touch. As for the nonfiction shorts, Ben Masters (whose documentary feature The River and the Wall played in our theaters recently) contributes with American Ocelot, tracking the efforts to preserve the species in southeastern Texas. For someone like me who’s intrigued by the smaller big cat species, this was catnip.

Sometimes a short is good for just a joke, like with Colin Babcock and Corey Cook’s Dudes, which starts with a setup familiar to festivalgoers — a pretentious filmmaker at a festival holds a Q&A session for his film — only to turn unexpectedly into an impassioned defense of selfexploration followed by a great punchline.

The Bragg brothers’ A Piece of Cake takes a silly concept and sees it through to a logical end, as a California dad (played

by Mad Men’s Rich Sommer) has his little girl request silver dragées for her birthday cake. His attempt to find the cake decorations that are illegal in California becomes a daylong odyssey into a criminal underground dragée racket.

If you like your jokes creepy, Javier Chavanel’s Smiles has a Spanish man visiting his girlfriend’s family only to discover that they’re all mute and wearing rubber masks with smiley faces painted onto them. My favorite comic short was Charlie Fonville’s The Watchmaker, a mockumentary about a Japanese

timepiece artisan (Hidetoshi Imura) addressing the camera as he prepares to finish nine months of work on a watch for the British royal family. The serious treatment devolves into farce, as the old man goes from uttering koans about his craft and the nature of time to dropping watch parts everywhere and losing his Zen calm.

I will admit to being somewhat underwhelmed by the dramatic features this year. Will Bakke’s The Get Together isn’t bad, but these sprawling Linklateresque comedies about hip young Austinites are starting to bleed together in my mind.

David and Francisco Salazar’s Nowhere suffers from a rushed and haphazard ending as it tells the story of a gay Colombian couple in New York trying to stay in the country. Sevgi Hirschhäuser’s Toprak (the title refers to a specific type of dry soil) has some nice moments about a poor Turkish family trying to make their pomegranate farm profitable. If you’re interested in a throwback Spanish sex farce, Suso Imbernón and Juanjo Moscardó Rios’ Instant Love fits the bill nicely.

The strongest dramatic entry was Joshua Leonard’s Fully Realized Humans.

He and co-star/co-writer Jess Weixler make an assured comedy team as expectant parents, and he engineers some great set pieces. The final scene, when they confront their own parents about the

traumas inflicted on them, gives the film its emotional grounding.

Even so, I had better experiences with the documentary features. Kristin Atwell Ford’s Riders of the Purple Sage: The Making of a Western Opera goes behind the scenes at the 2017 world premiere of Craig Bohmler’s opera version of Zane Grey’s novel, and it would have been better in a movie theater, with the music of the opera filling the space around you. Andrés Sanz Vicente’s The Painting plays like Room 237, except it’s about one of the greatest paintings in existence, Diego Velázquez’ “Las Meninas.” Spanish, American, and British art scholars examine the painting from all angles while the filmmaker breaks up the “talking heads” approach with interludes in stop-motion and computer animation and draws a moving portrait of a painter and his royal patron, both near the end of their lives. David Neptune’s Words Can’t Go There profiles his father, John Kaizan Neptune, a rare Westerner who mastered the Japanese shakuhachi flute. The film takes a deep dive into a corner of music that you probably don’t know, showing how this Californian revolutionized the instrument and taught a new generation of players at the cost of his marriage. For all the frustrations of not experiencing these films in a festival environment, they were quite rewarding on the small screen. l

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Frog futbol and football notch official and unofficial championships during an uplifting weekend.

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Frog fanatics should reminisce on this weekend with pride. First, we should prioritize celebrating a sport in which I still can’t explain an offsides penalty. TCU women’s soccer secured their first Big 12 conference championship in program history with their home victory over West Virginia last Friday night. Muted by the rancor of COVID-college football season are our ladies, who have been dominant. Excluding their tie with Baylor in the opening match of the season, our lady Frogs are unbeaten and have climbed to third in the national rankings. The conclusion of conference play would ordinarily be the time for NCAA tournament seeding and bracket construction, but the Division 1 council has approved the postponement of postseason tournaments until the spring semester at the earliest. There are no definitive reports on how bracket sizes and regions might be modified.

If you’ve never had the pleasure of attending a collegiate soccer match, it resembles men’s football more than one might imagine. The most notable difference is the men are protected from angry elbows to the nose.

TCU’s second championship was solidified on Saturday evening by Gary Patterson’s footballers. Wait, what!? These Frogs have won only three games and those have been in frustrating fustication. Patterson’s boys hadn’t won a home game before beating Tech in more than a calendar year, yet they are champions of Texas Big 12 football mediocrity.

The Longhorns, Bears, and now Red Raiders have fallen to our Frogs. In a season where there may not be much more to celebrate, I’m going to officially christen this a championship all its own. Maybe this should be a yearly tradition in which a giant Texas-shaped waffle iron is awarded. Patterson also celebrated a milestone as he rode home on the West Texas Championship Saddle Trophy during his 200th win as head coach of the Frogs.

I didn’t have much confidence in our boys moving into this game. Not surprisingly, none of my Red Raider frenemies did either. I engaged in more than one Saturday morning conversation where the debate centered on whose team was less consistent. Honestly, the whole game was a bit of a shit show. TCU’s defensive line must have started reading their own press clippings because in the first half, they played like a pissed-off hornets’ nest.

Ochaun Mathis (#32), who possesses the strength to bull rush blockers complemented by his closing speed, had been mostly quiet this season before ripping through the Tech line for three first-half sacks. After stonewalling Tech on their opening drive, Max Duggan (#15) was picked off in the endzone when he attempted

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The defensive line improvement was none too soon, as TCU is calling on their third-string cornerbacks in some cases as injuries mount in a secondary that was supposed to anchor the team.

There’s definitive hope for these Frogs to finish with a winning record with three games remaining, two of them against lower-tier Big 12 squads. Patterson and compadres visit West Virginia for a Saturday morning spat this weekend. The Mountaineers narrowly fell to the Longhorns last week but have one more win in the left column than our Frogs thanks to an opening-season victory against their paid opponent, Eastern Kentucky. The couch burners’ marquee win occurred two weeks ago when they trounced visiting Kansas State 3710 but have fallen to both UT and Tech and required overtime to outlast Baylor. That said, I encourage fans to approach the upcoming matchup with skeptical optimism. (That’s a thing, I think.) West Virginia, like in the past, will anchor their offense with a vaunted passing attack. Redshirt junior quarterback Jarret Doege (#2) — a native of Lubbock — is a talented system passer who’ll attempt between 40 and 50 passes. If the D-line we witnessed last week can return in Northern Appalachia, then good things can happen. If Patterson’s corners are abandoned on islands and Doege is awarded time in the pocket, then the potential for a somber afternoon in coal country awaits. l

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a deep pass on the first play. In fact, Duggan didn’t complete many passes or look especially comfortable in the passing game at all. His habit of overthrowing and bulleting passes too tall for receivers has returned and is something the sophomore will need to exterminate to reach the level Funkytowners hope he can. That said, Duggan is hereby exempted from any wind sprints and should be the first person selected if picking teams for a playground-style relay race.

The Redhead Rocket proved himself faster than any Raider secondary defender on Saturday.

Duggan’s hat trick of rushing touchdowns included a 48-yard TD sprint to start the second half and an 81-yard dash to paydirt when Tech looked to be clawing themselves back into the game during the fourth quarter. With only 73 passing yards on 11 completions, Offensive Coordinator Sonny Cumbie might be better served to adopt the playstyle of the military service academies to better utilize the Hydra of rushers pounding the rock. Duggan, redshirt freshman running back Darwin Barlow (#24), and true freshman Zach Evans (#6) combined for 39 rushes and 253 yards, though Duggan himself accounted for 154 of them.

Too often overlooked, but almost impossible to on Saturday, are special teams.

Placekicker Griffin Kell (#39) wasn’t perfect, but he was good enough to split the uprights in two of his three field goal attempts while adding four extra points to reach double digits.

Junior Derius Davis (#12) is continuing a great tradition of electric kick returners at TCU. Davis, who returned a punt for a touchdown in his first collegiate game in 2018, should inspire future opponents to punt the ball to the boundary or face the consequences.

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KatsüK got the idea for his new album the way most artists do: touring New Zealand.

Around the time of the veteran singer-songwriter’s quest to insert his song “There and Back Again” onto the soundtrack of The Return of the King, a Lord of the Rings movie being filmed in Kiwi Country, he was approached by a woman from the Travel Network asking him to write a theme song for a documentary.

“It was like every two months, people started asking me for a song,” KatsüK said. “My greatest joy is writing music and being the one to help say what people want to say.”

The result of these commissions and a handful of previously unreleased or unheralded KatsüK originals make up Commissions & Recommissions, Vol. 1.

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by the multi-instrumentalist at his home studio, the 11 mostly soothing tracks are “very personal,” he said, not only to him but to those who asked him to write a song for them. Vol. 1 will be available Wednesday at Katsuk.com/Store.

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As we transition from stress-drinking over the election to baseline levels of day drinking, several events are lined up, and they’re all outdoors.

The Post at River East (2925 Race St, 817-945-8890), weather permitting, boasts an amazing open-air courtyard. The single large room (sans ceiling) blends the acoustical benefits of four walls with an outdoor experience. For folks who are worried about COVID-19 cases, which are on the rise across the country, the space offers ample natural air circulation. Fort Worth singer-songwriter Jacob Furr heads up “Furrsty Furrsdays” every Thursday

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of the album. I tell people every cell and atom in your body is vibrating a chord.

My goal is to help people find their voice, writing these songs. The recommission side of it were old songs I found recently.

My friend found a hard drive of songs that were lost for 15 years, so I wanted to put them out there.”

KatsüK is well-respected not only in North Texas but around the world. Along with also performing in his eponymous band, Spoonfed Tribe, the Skin & Bones Drum Cult, and A-hummin’ Acoustical Acupuncture, he has shared stages with Colin Hay (Men at Work), Los Lonely Boys, Cas Haley, Cowboy Mouth, Guy Forsyth, Brave Combo, Ian Moore, and many others, and his eponymous band’s most recent albums, Ecstasy and Labyrinth, were both nominated for Native American Music Awards.

For Vol. 1, KatsüK, who played a variety of instruments and sang, received KatsüK: “On behalf of us, we just wanted to say thank you for supporting our brothers and sisters in contributions from Rich Stitzel (drums), the music industry.”

Justin Pate (keys), Sam Stroheker (percussion, bass, guitar, flute), Andrew Robin (ukulele, guitar, flute, keys), Evan Jones (guitar), and SteveO Liscomb (guitar, sorts anchored by soft acoustic strumming rock side of KatsüK, but … Commissions bass, keys). For KatsüK’s upcoming full- and flute. & Recommissions … is our way of tapping band performances, he will be joined “Born of myth and legend and into a different part of the music we love.

by Liscomb on bass and keys, Robin on shooting stars,” he sings in his bright, It is nothing like we have ever done before, violin, and Andy Weaver on drums. sweet voice. “Spirit incantations on sandy as each album has its own personality KatsüK sifted through more than 400 bars / A world wild and unknown of different from any of our previous albums. songs to come up his original contributions tales untamed / How I feel so at home on This one is special to me because it was to Vol. 1. roads unpaved. / To castles of stone from such a creative joy to be able to put into “Not a lot of bands can play out, so forests to see / We’ll travel along to where song, what others have always wanted to it seemed to be a good time to put out an fairytales lead / To glimmering isles of / say but didn’t know how.” album,” KatsüK said. “It feels like the Monsters and nymphs / To the pyres of KatsüK said artists have been “one of words and lyrics in it will love that burn within.” the hardest hardest-hit professions,” but hopefully bring peace and KatsüK said his goal “as always, we will find a creative way to KatsüK solace to give people a place with Vol. 1 was “to give let art live, and the support of our fans has 6pm Sat at American of sovereignty and stillness our fans the softer, more kept us alive in a myriad of ways. We are Revelry, 279 W Hidden Creek Pkwy, Burleson. Free. with what people are going acoustic side of what we all being pushed into becoming something 817-484-6553. through right now but also do. It is what I have heard new, and we are praying that what emerges gets people moving.” many ask for for so long, is something better for all of us than we Though KatsüK’s so this is our way of giving could have ever imagined. On behalf of music is normally tribal, dramatic, and something more soothing for these times us, we just wanted to say thank you for jam band-y with heavy rock tones and we’re in. SteveO, Andy, Andrew, and I are supporting our brothers and sisters in the reverb-drenched vocals, the sounds on Vol. very excited about the fire and potency music industry, and hopefully we’ll all be 1 are decidedly more chill. Opener “Myth of the next album, which will address dancing in tight spaces again, drenched in and Legends” is a spiritual awakening of many social issues and is also the funky sweaty ecstasy.” l here, so come, um, furrsty. Seriously, the cocktails are superlative, and bar manager Garrett Maupin has a fun backstory for every drink she slings.

If you were wondering why Keys Lounge’s Facebook page only posts Lola’s Trailer Park events, it’s because the lounge is no mas. The heart and soul of the local blues scene has transplanted to Lola’s (2735 W 5th St, 817-759-9100), where the Thursday Night Blues Jam lives on. Starting at 7pm, guitarist Buddy Whittington and the house band from the Keys welcome anyone to jam. A food truck will be on hand.

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and Friends, the Friday night concert at MASS (1002 S Main St, 682-707-7774) starts at 9pm. Looking for a pre-concert drink? Newly opened Liberty Lounge (515 S Jennings Av, 682- 730-0915) is owned by Jenna Hill-Higgs, wife of MASS proprietor Ryan Higgs. Jenna created the bar to be a welcoming and safe place for folks from all walks of life. Karma plays a role in the venture. Even during these lean times, Liberty Lounge is supporting a rotating number of charities.

The River and Blues Festival offers a lineup as diverse as that greatest of American artforms, the blues. Starting 4pm Friday at Panther Island Pavilion (395 Purcey St, 325-864-6999), headlining troubadour Charley Crockett will be preceded by, among others, Dentonite

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Thank god the Mag Melt and live music are a thing again. Magnolia Motor Lounge (3005 Morton St, 817-332-3344) is hosting several performances this month.

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