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SCREEN There are lots of Christmas movies and lots of LGBTQ films, but an LGBTQ Christmas movie? It’s (finally) here.

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STAFF Anthony Mariani, Editor Lee Newquist, Publisher Bob Niehoff, General Manager Ryan Burger, Art Director

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Jim Erickson, Circulation Director Edward Brown, Staff Writer

Thanks to lots of convenient loopholes, most government officials don’t have to say jack.

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All of the usual suspects and more are down to gobble gruel this year, the 2020 edition.

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Paseo to Heaven

Clint Niosi’s latest album is a love letter to fellow creatives caught up in the struggle.

This food hall taqueria is serving up tacos right.

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By controlling the flow of information, bureaucrats can keep a lid on subterfuge (um, not good for democracy).

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Government accountability is impossible without transparency. The single most powerful tool for fighting governmental corruption, nepotism, and waste at the local and state levels is the Texas Public Information Act, which compels government departments to release a wide range of documents upon request. In Fort Worth, public information requests (also known as open records requests) are on the rise. In 2017, 9,513 public information requests were filed in Fort Worth. So far this year alone, the city said it has received 14,868 open records requests.

While requests through the public information act are enforceable by state law, the Secretary’s Office of Fort Worth, which handles open records, and the Fort Worth police department have several means of keeping important public information out of the hands of civic-minded locals and journalists. Electronic information can be deleted, for example. Fort Worth police department deletes an officer’s emails upon retirement. Less information for the public or the press means less liability (and accountability) for police.

Many open records requests are sent for the purpose of gathering information that would be embarrassing or even incriminating for elected officials or government employees. Recent examples include open records requests for the locations of publicly viewable police cameras and a list of all “incidents and infractions committed

by Fort Worth police officers.” The former was sent by local criminal defense lawyer Leon Reed (“Public Safety or Over-Policing?” Nov. 19) and the latter by the grassroots group No Sleep Until Justice (“Public Disservice?”

Nov. 11).

Both requests were initially met with a request from the secretary’s office for a legal brief from the state attorney general. In short, city staffers state which loophole in the public information act allows the city to withhold all or part of the requested information. Those letters are sent via snail mail and can take months to resolve.

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Local criminal defense attorney Leon Reed is still waiting to hear back about police cameras in Como.

In response to Reed’s request, the city argued that revealing the locations of cameras that are left in plain sight could compromise police work. The AG agreed, and Reed is refiling his request. The AG did not agree with the city’s request to block the release of active officers who committed offenses. Thomas Moore, president of No Sleep Until Justice, said he received a bill for around $1,800 and a demand that half the fee be paid within one week to cover the cost of compiling the information. Moore’s group eventually received a $213.75 refund after paying the request in full.

Even after the names of offending officers were released one month ago, Moore remains uncertain if the list is complete. The process of following the ping pong of legal arguments between city lawyers and AG staff makes the process convoluted, he said. We agree. When the AG does reply (again, via snail mail), the responsive documents are obscured in jargon, references to past court cases, and legalese that would leave any non-lawyer’s head spinning.

Of open records requests received between 2017 and 2020, Fort Worth’s secretary’s office requested legal briefs for 11%, 12%, 9%, and 9% respectively. Although the percentage of open records that are blocked every year has gone down over four years, the total number of requests that are appealed to the AG has increased due to the growing number of requests the city receives. Based on our experience filing open records requests and feedback from reform-minded locals, the requests that are flagged for legal briefs are often the most critical for holding police and city officials accountable to the citizens of Fort Worth.

The most recent comprehensive look into Texas’ open records practices was undertaken by the Associated Press in 2017.

The number of open records “denials has been soar-

ing,” reporter Terri Langford said. “In the fiscal year that ended in August 2001, governments forwarded about 5,000 denied record requests to the attorney general’s office for review. That number had jumped to more than 27,000 in 2016. Much of the increase has occurred in the last decade. The overall number of denials is actually larger than the data indicate. More than 80 agencies and local governments have gotten permission from the attorney general to automatically deny certain kinds of requests, such as those that reveal a person’s birthdate.”

The state’s top legal authority, indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton, heads an office that is tasked with resolving disputes over open records requests. Reporting from a slew of prominent publications has documented an attorney general who doubles down on lies while engaging in whistleblower retaliation. Already facing felony charges of securities fraud, Paxton recently fired two top aides, David Maxwell and Mark Penley. Claiming they’re the victims of whistleblower retaliation, they are suing.

On Nov. 2, Maxwell and Penley reported that they were subjected to hours of “irregularities, harassment, and retaliation” under Paxton’s leadership. The aides said they were pressured to resign. They refused and were subsequently fired.

City leaders across Texas are increasingly willing to disregard the spirit of the state’s public information act by placing personal interests above the common welfare.

There’s no help coming from the top, where a self-destructing Paxton is more worried about fighting culture wars than fulfilling the duties of his office. Until government leaders make good faith efforts to release information, even when it may be embarrassing, reporting on bogus open records rejections may need to become a focus of this paper and others. l

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e’re not saying we don’t make mistakes. We all do, even the most “woke” among us, even us “lapdog liberals” here at the Weekly. Unlike most public figures, voices of authority, or elected officials, though, we typically apologize if necessary and move on. Many of them don’t even suffer a nasty comment.

Thankfully, we are here to “award” these scofflaws some anti-tasty bird. Dished out annually to the most deserving public figures, voices of authority, and elected officials in Fort Worth and beyond for dumb or hateful things said or done, our angry little blurbs of disdain and mad disrespect cover all the usual suspects (Abbott, Patrick, Waybourn, even Price this year) and more. Sit down at the table, stay a while, and see for yourself. Like a fresh slice of pumpkin pie, we think you’ll enjoy it. — Anthony Mariani

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Some Tanglewood residents may need to hire a PR firm to revamp their community’s image after the chickenshit stunts they pulled this year. Or they may just need to learn to keep their beaks shut when it comes to matters of public health.

This past summer, a small but boisterous contingent of wealthy white parents made their stance on school reopenings clear — well-to-do public schools must open now! Following a mid-

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July decision by Tarrant County Public Health directors to delay public school reopenings until September 28, a few dozen wealthy parents (largely from the Tanglewood neighborhood) approached county head Glenn Whitley to discuss this “overreach” by trained public health professionals who were taking steps to promote, ya know, public health.

When school boards were given the authority to reopen campuses days later, the same parents began squawking at Fort Worth school board meetings. Through public comments and asinine posts on the Facebook group Back in School-Back to Safety, the white parents cast mistrust over county public health officials and school district trustees while simultaneously feigning concern for Fort Worth’s minority communities.

If the schools don’t reopen, their selfserving argument went, then colored folk would be disadvantaged. The privileged parents were right about one thing.

Minority communities do suffer from school closings. Those communities also suffer from lopsided PTA funds that lavish resources on Lily B Clayton and Tanglewood Elementary while schools on the East Side rely on bootstrapped public school budgets. Schools in predominantly minority neighborhoods suffer from that bedrock of American society, systemic racism, that continues to divert development toward urban core districts

Parler Pie

According to the National Wildlife Federation, turkeys are more agile than they might seem and can achieve surprisingly quick and speedy flight for such large birds. However, the turkey is not built for endurance, and most flights are short in duration, so congratulations to everyone who temporarily abandoned mainstream social media for right-wing centered Parler and MeWe. We missed you turkeys for those entire two days you fled following your unsolicited announcements you’d be logging onto greener pastures. You yearned for an environment where fake news wouldn’t gather pesky warnings identifying it as, ya know, fake. Apparently, Facebook and Twitter weren’t efficient enough with their cutting-edge algorithms to craft a cozy and finely appointed enough echo chamber for you. The majority of reasonable nonTrumpers offended you to such an extent

that you required a non-challenging safe space (dawww). Unfortunately, you and many others found out these platforms are garbage. Parler serves as the personal Twatter feeds of people such as Ted “Insult My Wife, Please!” Cruz, Sean Hannity, and the grandfather from that Duck Dynasty show, who are all featured in an impressively anti-diverse list of suggested people to follow when signing up for the platform. We tried briefly to engage with these new sites but discovered quickly that all the people we knew who’d dramatically exited post-election had returned to their big-tech roots to share family photos interspersed with unproven voter fraud allegations and reassurances that the 2020 election won’t be legitimate unless the Cheeto in Chief serves another four years.

We’re confident no one will be offended by our assessment of Parler, because we’re just the lamestream media, and unless you’re reading this on Newsmax or OAN, it’s all lies anyway.

Pricey Poultry

The pandemic has exposed where folks stand on the role of medical science, law enforcement, and public school teachers.

On a September 21 Facebook Live conversation with Mayor Betsy Price and two doctors from Cook Children’s, the mayor said as people return to work, they need childcare and that schools provide it. Public schools provide child-care-like services, but during a deadly pandemic, Price’s statements seemed cold and out of touch. Through the Weekly and other local media outlets, public school teachers let it be known that they were downright terrified to return to classes, especially given the minimal PPE that the district was giving teachers. Around that time, Price sent a letter to the Fort Worth school district, urging that classes reopen. The mayor’s public statements were curiously in line with those of many parents in the wealthy Tanglewood neighborhoods.

We’re not done yet. Last month, the family of Atatiana Jefferson commemorated the one-year anniversary of Jefferson’s killing by organizing a parade and vigil. Jefferson, a young Black woman, was killed by Aaron Dean, a white police officer, at Jefferson’s mom’s home.

Turkey Bill

Earlier this month, when commuters headed east from downtown, they passed a campaign billboard with Bill Waybourn’s unsmiling visage, looking like an aging Marlboro Man giving them the once-over as they picked up speed going downhill, but that paper likeness of the sheriff ’s unswerving gaze never quite made it a mile west to the Tarrant County Jail, where shenanigans of all kinds have taken place this past year.

With his cowboy hat and boots and his weather-beaten look, Waybourn seems like the ideal Texas sheriff, though perhaps not a 21st-century one. Like most of us, he’s had a tough 2020, even recently testing positive for COVID-19 while the Tarrant County Jail, which he’s tasked with managing, has bounced from one scandal to the next all year long. In April, an inmate committed suicide. After investigating, state regulators learned guards weren’t doing their required cell checks and found Waybourn’s jail out of compliance with minimum jail standards.

In May, a woman delivered her baby, with no help, inside her jail cell. Unsurprisingly, a short time later, the baby died. Then three county detention officers beat up an inmate, collapsing the prisoner’s lung and, for good measure, fracturing his ribs and cheekbone. In the melee, one of the officers had the forethought to body-block the security camera. Another detention officer later admitted that beatings like that were a “normal thing” at the Tarrant County Jail. And if that’s not enough of a horror show for you, in 2020 so far, a dozen prisoners have died in jail, a drastic increase over past years.

One reason for the rise in deaths has been Waybourn’s stubborn refusal to release nonviolent offenders in the face of the novel coronavirus. No matter what you think about prisoners in the country jail, many of whom haven’t been convicted of any crime but are awaiting trial, none of them deserve to catch a disease that might kill them.

So while multiple scandals have been swirling around his mismanagement of the county sheriff ’s department, what has Sheriff Waybourn been up to? Not much other than strutting his conservative bona

Skip Inviting Skip to Dinner

Football players are human beings, and sometimes human beings have emotional problems. You could understand Dak Prescott experiencing depression after his brother committed suicide this past spring.

You could sympathize with the Dallas Cowboys quarterback for going public with his feelings. You could admire him for trying to use his fame to help others who have suffered in similar fashion.

You could, but then you wouldn’t be Skip Bayless. The national sports media disgrace from here in North Texas blasted Prescott as weak, taking an outdated “manly men don’t talk about their feelings” line. When he predictably was blasted for it, he responded by blaming you and me, saying his comments were “misconstrued by many.” Because this is 2020, Bayless did all this during National Suicide Awareness Month, which was emphasized during a rebuke from his own TV network. For his well-deserved roasting, we present the old fossil with some roasted turkey and the compassion he so clearly lacks. He could use it for the holidays.

Salon Sauce

Most North Texans by now are familiar with the Dallas salon owner who refused to close her business during the state shutdown this spring, a move that could have landed her a $1,000 fine and up to 180 days in jail. She was even sentenced to a week in jail for her violation of the governor’s executive order, but she ended up serving only two days. Why? Because state republicans pressured the Texas Supreme Court to release the salon owner after Gov. Greg Abbott changed his shutdown order by taking jail time off the table for violators.

Would she have received such support if she’d not been a white affluent Republican? No way. And would Sen. Ted Cruz have shown up at her salon later for a photo op? Not a chance. Instead, she became a figurehead for local Trump fans and anti-maskers across the state, appearing at rallies and making a point of tearing up her cease-and-desist letter from local authorities –– much to the glee of right wingers in the crowd.

We have chosen not to name this woman or her business because we know that free publicity is all she wants. After all, she’s since used her ignoble posturing and disregard for public safety as a motivational tool and is running for Texas Senate. She even made the December runoff, because clearly people don’t care that she’s been using the pandemic and the deaths of

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Felipe Gutierrez guesses they forgot the part about loving thy neighbor.

fides around the country: appearing on the right-wing’s chief propaganda outfit, Fox News; jetting to Washington; and, in general, living up to the appellation of “Trump’s favorite Texas sheriff ” to actually do the job he was elected and now, sadly for us, reelected to do.

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Fun fact: Jesus was not an asshole. The messiah was a forgiving, kindly prophet who fought for the poor and downtrodden.

If only there was a book or something about his wondrous works on behalf of the disadvantaged. Hmm. Have to look into that and share it with Stephanie and Daniel Wright.

The co-owners of the Near Southside vintage store W Durable Goods made their views on homosexuality known via a Facebook post in June. Stephanie shared a post by local fundamentalist pastor Jason Stidham that quickly drew backlash from the local community.

“Homosexuality is NOT like any other sin,” the message read. “No other sin claims to love so much yet manifests such hate toward anyone who dare stand against it. The sin seeks to divide and conquer.

The only cure … Jesus.”

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by Daniel to Felipe Gutierrez, an openly gay community leader, and shared with us confirmed that the co-owners feel no remorse for their hateful social media blathering. This country has largely moved past the bigoted notion that loving someone of the same gender could be in any way, shape, or form a bad thing. Our advice for the Wrights and Stidham is to treat others as you’d like to be treated. It’s a rule of thumb so universally accepted that some say it’s golden.

Dean was responding to a nonemergency call that reported the front door of the house had been open all day. Dean shot through a window, striking and killing Jefferson. He posted bond soon after and is currently awaiting trial. Amber Carr, Jefferson’s older sister, recently told us that Price has yet to substantively speak to the Jefferson/Carr family. Not one local elected official attended Jefferson’s memorial, and the crowd took notice. It takes a pretty big turkey to snub Jefferson’s family on the anniversary of her killing by a Fort Worth police officer for playing video games in her mom’s house.

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that are owned by the uber-wealthy while simultaneously over-policing Como, Stop-Six, and Polytechnic Heights. The Tanglewood parents had their way. Fort Worth’s Tanglewood-area elementary schools were the first public schools to reopen, but the self-centered efforts of a small group of white parents to force their agendas on the broader community were a reminder to many that white privilege is alive and well in Fort Worth.

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Cultural appropriations are everywhere, some even unintentional. No, being white and naming items on your restaurant’s menu after hip-hop people and phenomena isn’t inherently racist, especially if you love hip-hop as much as Hot Box Biscuit co-owners Sarah Hooton and Matthew Mobley say they do. It’s when someone asks you about the “Pimpento” cheese and the “Puff Daddies” and the “Miso Corny” and you essentially blow them off that’s the problem, which is what happened to a local woman when she messaged the owners of the popular brunch spot to inquire about their cultural appropriations during a time of so much racial injustice. A simple “thank you for writing, and we will give it some thought” from Hooton and Mobley would have worked just fine, and we probably wouldn’t even be talking about this.

Instead, their nonresponse went viral, and the Hot Boxers had to change all of their hip-hop-influenced items to less hip-hoppy and certainly less fun names. Though most folks are on break, there’s always time to learn a good PR lesson.

Squashing Seniors

There are many reasons Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick deserves a Turkey Award, but what concerned us most this year was his gross attempt at pseudo-patriotism in March when he claimed that American seniors “like him” would be willing to risk dying from COVID-19 if it would preserve the economy. His comments were a response to shutdowns designed to keep Americans from spreading the virus.

Patrick received major national criticism for his statement, but instead of backtracking and admitting his claims were tasteless and blatantly false, he doubled down in April. This time he insisted “some things are more important than living, and that’s saving this country for my children and my grandchildren and saving this country for all of us.”

Patrick obviously thinks the value of the nation is measured on its stock market ticker, no matter the cost to the people’s rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” but he was speaking to what is clearly the focus of the modern GOP –– money over matter.

Since Danny Boy is willing to die purely for political points, he surely won’t mind if we don’t slice up his rotten turkey into tiny bites for him.

How racist do you have to be to feel comfortable talking about murdering Black people in the face of everything that happened this summer? While Fort Worth and other places were convulsed by protests against police brutality following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police, Fort Worth police officer Roger Ballard posted on Facebook a picture of a Black man in a coffin with the caption “The face you make when you don’t understand ‘stop resisting.’ ” For this, the 18-year police force veteran was made an ex-cop, and his bosses all

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As the protests and counter-protests in Tarrant County proved, racism is alive and well.

We’ve all made bad jokes at some point in our lives, but while we may (or may not) have been forgiven, what we’ve said lasts forever, especially when said “joke” is racist. Case in point: Lil’ Red’s Longhorn Saloon. In response to the Black Lives Matter protests that pulsed largely peacefully throughout the country this past summer, Red’s owner Craig Copeland posted to Facebook, “We are planning a protest march for HonkyTonk Life Matters at a yet to be determined date. No statue destruction or destroying of police equipment will be tolerated. Keep in mind, this is a protest, and no one has to wear a mask since the Chinese virus can not [sic] be spread by protesters.”

Among the 140-plus comments, many were supportive. “This is nonsense!” one pro-honkytonk-lives person wrote. “They can close down people’s livelihood and let those trashy protesters get away with all of their crap!”

Just as many did not agree with Copeland. One wrote, “You are an establishment owner in my city mocking

says racist words and actions are OK, or you’re ignorant and have no idea what “systemic racism” means. Chances are that if you knew about it, your entire worldview would be turned upside down, and that’s just something too uncomfortable for you to fathom. Someone get you to a safe space with OAN on TV STAT!

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the way up to the mayor made the usual noises about bad apples and isolated incidents. What a load of crap. There’s plenty of evidence here and elsewhere from officers’ own social media accounts that Black lives truly do not matter to the white boys in the blue uniforms. The online hate is just a sign of institutional rot that our publication and many others have found. Addressing that will take a long time, but for now, we’re giving ex-Officer Ballard some white meat, which we’re sure is the only kind he wants.

hundreds of thousands of Americans to her advantage this whole time.

Here’s to hoping she doesn’t make it to the Senate, since the last thing Texans need is more ignorant politicians who will ignore the COVID-19 pandemic for the sake of money.

True patriot Lt. Dan was ready to die for the economy, and he wanted Grandpa and Grandma to join him. Yes, your grandpa and grandma.

the deaths of young Black lives and the pain of the Black minority trying to find peace and justice. Because you do realize that’s precisely what everyone in this city will know was … your intention. It is horrifically racist, insensitive, and you should be ashamed of yourself.”

Copeland eventually said he was only kidding and that no honkytonk “protest” was actually planned. In return, he needs to spend Thanksgiving dinner at the kiddie table and the rest of his life in racial sensitivity training. Plus, “Chinese virus”?

Wonder who let him know it was OK to say that.

Cornu-cop-ia

It’s one thing to “back the blue,” and I think we all do to some extent –– cops have hard, thankless jobs and are liable to be killed anytime a call comes in. We respect that and appreciate their service.

We also know that that “blue lives matter” crap is a bunch of racist bullshit. It’s victim blaming on a high level. It’s the argument that if you just followed the law, you wouldn’t be in trouble, which, as we all know, is a rhetorical device not tethered to reality. Atatiana Jefferson was playing video games in her mom’s house when a white cop shot and killed her.

Breonna Taylor was at her apartment with her boyfriend when police forced their way in. The list goes on. Mostly white cops end up killing mostly Blacks because systemic racism has trapped Blacks in crime-ridden neighborhoods with few conventional means of transcendence. Breaking down systemic racism by providing more, not less, opportunities to the people who live in these environments is a big step toward reversing the trend. Good luck to the politician or police chief who’s going to step up and say as much.

We back the blue, and you should, too.

We don’t back “blue lives matter,” so forgive us for labeling you a racist if you raise one of those obnoxious flags on your small-peter truck. It’s one of two things. You’re either racist and don’t care who knows anymore because the guy soiling the White House

Not only was it dangerous for Trump supporters to surround the Biden/Harris campaign bus on I-35, it was also proof that the term “snowflake” doesn’t just apply to woke millennials. Texans already look bad on the national political stage.

(Please refer to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Sen. Ted Cruz for further reading.) We don’t need the help of Trumpanzees with their dumb flags mounted to their vehicles trying to run people off the road. So it goes in the age of Trump, when bully tactics and small-mindedness have been the flavors of the day the last four years. In that context, what happened to the Biden/Harris bus in October perhaps wasn’t surprising. Still, it was shameful and pathetic, so welcome to the Hall of Shame, ladies and gentlemen of the Toupee Troupe! We don’t have a plaque for you, so instead please accept this proverbial middle finger –– may your beer always be lukewarm and your turkey undercooked. It’s the least you deserve.

Crying Fowl on the Guv

Gov. Greg Abbott has gobbled a record number of Turkey Awards over the years.

This past summer when Black Lives Matter protests erupted across Texas and the nation, it didn’t take long for the Guv to remind Texans that corporate profits and the status quo matter more to him than reforms. Speaking at a prominent Fort Worth police department headquarters this past August, Abbott launched his rebuke of Black Lives Matter leaders, who were calling for reforms such as ending the over-policing of Black communities and implementing policies that would reduce the killings of unarmed Black men and women by police officers. As Mayor Betsy Price stood nearby, Abbott announced that “any city in the state of Texas that defunds law enforcement will have their property tax revenue frozen as of that time.” The gubernatorial admonition was directed at supporters of police defunding. The childish threat may be bluster, or it may become a priority during the 2021 Texas legislative session.

Abbott again came to the rescue of deep-pocketed police departments two months ago when he proposed harsher criminal penalties for protesting.

Speaking at a Dallas press conference, Abbott proposed felony-level offenses with mandatory jail time for individuals who engaged in activity deemed to be a riot. Who does Abbott trust to make that call? The police. The same uniformed officers who were on the receiving ends

of boisterous chants of “Fuck the racistass police” throughout much of this past summer would be given leeway to hand out felony charges like candy if Abbott has his way. Texas and the nation need greater police accountability and transparency — not the police state that Abbott wants.

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A Red-Bearded Turkey in Dodger Blue

The World Series at Globe Life Park could have gone worse: At least those lying, cheating Houston Astros didn’t win the title on our turf. The Los Angeles Dodgers finally breaking through after 32 years should have been a great feel-good story for baseball, and it was, until third baseman Justin Turner violated quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 and went onto the field to celebrate after his team won. Look, we don’t begrudge the 36-year-old player his happiness for becoming a World Series winner, and Major League Baseball made a bush-league move covering up its own shortcomings over the incident. (Why didn’t he receive his positive test result until the game had already started?) Even so, the former AllStar not only made headlines for the wrong

reason during the Dodgers’ history, but he also put people in danger. Five other team members tested positive for the virus after he did, and who knows whether he might have spread the disease to people in the Arlington area? For his reckless behavior, we present him some virus-ridden turkey with bacon and avocado, the way they like it on the West Coast.

Takeout Order

Shane Carruth filmed both of his highly regarded feature films (Primer and Upstream Color) in the Dallas area. The 48-year-old director and actor has said that he’s retiring after his unspecified next project, which may or may not have something to do with the restraining order taken out against him by his fellow filmmaker, sometime co-star, and exgirlfriend Amy Seimetz, who alleged that he had strangled her and threatened to kill her. Whether he’s actually guilty of these things or not, it sure was a dick move tweeting a picture of said order shortly before Seimetz came out with her own film this past summer. (It’s She Dies Tomorrow, if you’re interested.) Nor did he help himself by repeatedly interrupting the judge on Zoom during an August court hearing that made the order permanent.

All this made him come off like a creep, and now is a particularly bad moment to be a creep who directs movies, even if they still seem to appreciate those in France.

We send Carruth off with some barbecue turkey to remind him of his Texas roots as he sails off into retirement.

Rolls for the Rambler

The elevated pub fare, deep craft beer offerings, and spacious patio at the Southside Rambler will be missed.

The Near Southside restaurant had a good thing going before the business was abruptly closed this past July after numerous female employees accused one male manager of sexual harassment.

Leading up to that dramatic moment — most of the female staff walked out en masse to protest the dangerous workplace environment — the Rambler suffered from months of racist social media posts by one of the co-owners. Near Southsiders are tolerant of pretty much anything except intolerance. Screenshots of the coowner’s Facebook posts (including memes equating quarantines to the Holocaust and images describing sagging pants as a sign of past incarceration) soon made the rounds online. The restaurant’s battered public image, accusations of workplace harassment, and reputation for not enforcing social distancing made eating at the Rambler just too much to stomach. The Magnolia location is now home to Maggie’s R&R and hopefully new ownership who understand that even the best food can’t save a business from a poor reputation. l

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Anyone who doubts the medical effectiveness of face masks should defer to every U.S. surgeon since the 1920s who has uniformly used the devices. A recent study published in Nature found that the “wearing of surgical masks or KN95 respirators, even without fit-testing, substantially reduce the number of particles emitted from breathing, talking, and coughing.”

Masks slow the spread of COVID-19, but the preventative steps are effective only when widely used. Enter: Texas, where self-serving misinterpretations of liberty, a great disdain of science, and dumb tweets by the guy loitering at the White House have led to heated public comments about mask-wearing rules at Tarrant County Commissioners Court meetings and at antimask rallies in Austin. During the midJune protests when several hundred Fort Worthians marched daily against police brutality, few Fort Worth police officers wore face masks. Public shaming from protesters eventually pressured police into following that most basic of public health measures.

This past July, The March for America

could have been mistaken for an anti-mask rally given the dearth of protective masks visible at the “nonpartisan” event. The push by wealthy white parents to reopen schools last July and August drew many unmasked supporters. If concerns over contracting or spreading COVID-19 aren’t enough to convince you to wear a face mask in public, understand that, in the eyes of many, not wearing a protective mask without a medical excuse is akin to carrying a sign that reads, “Hey, everybody! Look!

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This past Sunday saw your Dallas Cowboys travel to frigid Minneapolis to face the Vikings in a regionally broadcast afternoon tilt as the B card opposite the Colts/Packers as Fox’s NFL Game of the Week. Coming off their bye, the Cowboys entered the game as 7-point dogs against the Vikes. However, in front of the great purple tarps covering the empty seats in the dizzyingly asymmetrical U.S. Bank Stadium — a monstrosity of glass and steel which looks as if it were designed by a novice architect suffering from an inflated sense of genius as a result of reading The Fountainhead too many times in grad school — the ’Boys managed to steal one, barely squeaking out a surprising 31-28 win over the Horned Helmets.

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it has been pointing 180 degrees the wrong direction, the best most fans could likely have hoped for going in was another game like their last against the mighty Steelers: continue the recent progress, show some fight, and make it at least an entertaining loss. Yet, as has been this team’s M.O. for more than 10 years — for good or ill — once you think they’re dead, they spring back to life like Michael Myers for one last jump scare. Sunday’s win is their first since Week 5 against the lowly Giants and is actually their first road win since they played the Lions … on Nov. 11 … 2019!

Despite Minnesota’s uninspiring record, they are, in fact, a pretty bad mismatch for Dallas. They field a Top 10 offense, and it’s no longer debatable that the Cowboys are currently suffering from a historically terrible defense. The Vikings boast the league’s leading rusher in Dalvin Cook (stopping the run is a particular weakness for the Dallas D) and a pair of dynamic receivers in Adam Thielen and Justin Jefferson. Though Dallas defenders gave up four touchdowns (three on consecutive drives in the

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After a nasty concussion and a bout of COVID, QB2 Andy Dalton was back under center, and under his command, the offense looked pretty good as well. The Red Rifle threw for three touchdowns, including a bad overthrow that resulted in maybe the most acrobatic catch I’ve ever seen by CeeDee Lamb. Zeke Elliott rumbled for his first 100-yard game of the season and settled into a nice new-look one-two punch with Tony Pollard, who ripped off a dazzling 42-yard TD run.

Overall, it was a solid full-team effort and was very refreshing to see.

The last few weeks have seemed to show the caterwauling Cowboys get their wheels back on. At the same time, the team currently ahead of them in the division, the Eagles — led by the mightily struggling Carson Wentz — seem to

be spinning further out of control. As a result, in what is sure to irritate the weirdos riding the Tank Train, Sunday’s win puts Dallas in position to compete for taking over first place of the NFC East (at least temporarily) when they face off against the Washington Football Team on Thanksgiving Day. I, for one, am here for it. Whatever gene is required to succumb to the bizarre temptation to actively root against your favorite team in the off chance that better draft position translates into higher future championship odds is thankfully absent in me. Watching competitive, meaningful football is exponentially better than slogging through another lost season. If you’re in it, try to win it, draft position, be damned.

The Patriots have picked in the 30s or later in nine of the last 12 years yet somehow have managed to win their division 11 times in that span, not to mention appear in the Super Bowl five times. Inversely, the Miami Dolphins have picked in the teens or better in 14 of the last 16 years. In that decade and a half, they’ve made the playoffs only twice and each time as a wild card. A decent front office should be able to find quality players anywhere in the Top 100. Let’s not forget that the current Cowboys franchise record holder for most catches as a rookie, one Cedarius Lamb, was taken earlier this year all the way down at 17, about where Dallas would likely pick if they do end up taking the division from Philadelphia.

Considering the Eagles’ six remaining opponents are a combined 3426 and feature four current playoff-bound teams and Dallas’ six are a combined 21-37-2 and consist of only one surefire postseason attendee, that possibility, regardless of the Cowboys currently having only three wins, is hilariously increasing by the week. So fuggit. Let’s win this damn thing! Why not? Bring on another first-round bounce. I don’t care. It’s far better than watching tape of college players in the hopes for a maybe better next year. l

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Gay people have many movies to call their own but not a Christmas movie. When you consider that Lifetime, Hallmark, and Netflix put out about 70,000 such films every November, it seems incredible that only this year have they started making holiday entries aimed at gays. The cable and streaming channels dawdled so long that a major Hollywood studio has nipped them at the line with Happiest Season, which has a lesbian director and a charismatic gay star. Queering such a hoary and traditionalist genre is a radical move that only works if Happiest Season is actually funny. I’m delighted to say that in this barren year for comedy films, this is one of the funniest things I’ve seen.

Kristen Stewart plays Abby, a doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon University who used to hate Christmas until she fell hard for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Harper (Mackenzie Davis) at a

holiday party. A year later, when Harper dark and morbid on her tour group and impulsively invites her along to her wealthy Abby and Harper catching another couple parents’ small-town home for the festive in some kinky Christmas cosplay. Director season, Abby secretly buys an engagement Clea DuVall and her writing partner Mary ring and plans to pop the question while Holland (they acted together on TV’s they’re there. Then Harper confesses that Veep) mine some rich stuff from the family she hasn’t come out to her family, nor is dysfunction that Abby is stepping into, as she ready to. Cue several days of everyone Harper’s parents (Victor Garber and Mary Steenburgen) overtly treat pretending to be hetero and Happiest Season her as their favorite child, Abby observing different Starring Kristen Stewart and much to the displeasure of sides of her girlfriend in her Mackenzie Davis. Directed oldest sister Sloane (Alison uptight, hyper-competitive

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The film’s final shot is of Abby and Harper blissfully happy as they settle into their seats at a movie theater. This made me sad, because you won’t be seeing it in a theater, since Sony offloaded the film to Hulu last month. I understand the studio’s decision — it’s not as if you could release this movie in the spring. Even so, Happiest Season is a historic achievement (something I don’t say lightly), and the experience of taking it in with a crowd and being surrounded by their laughter would have meant something. This ruthless plague around us has taken that away, much as it has taken away big family gatherings like the one that the film depicts. Nothing will replace that this holiday season, but having this film, and having it be good, is a big measure of good cheer. Who couldn’t use that this year? l

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“Bourbon County Stout boasts a unique blend of flavors such as fudge, vanilla, and caramel — topped off with a rich, complex mouthfeel.” The tasting is free for those of age. Brunch is on you.

In honor of Shop Small Saturday, make a visit to Race Street from 11am Saturday to 6pm. Along with an art pop-up by Creative Collections (Facebook. com/CreativeCollections2907), there will be food, live music, and guest vendors — 20 total. This street event is free to attend.

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Once you’ve grown tired of turkey — and shopping — head to Fort Worth’s Sunday largest LBGTQ nightclub for something different. From noon to 4pm, Urban Cowboy Saloon’s Turkey Day Drag Brunch features Chanel Lemasters, Raquel Blake, Onyx Anderson, and Jada Pinkett Fox. Tickets are $25 at Eventbrite.com

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Each brewery is releasing its own limited-edition NTXBTF beer. A festival ticket gains you early access to these exclusive brews on Fri in celebration of Black Friday. If possible, your first stop of the triangle should be Denton County Brewing, as this is where your “Survival Pack” is located. (What’s that? Keep reading.)

As this is an adventure-/travelthemed event named after the Bermuda Triangle, your ticket has the creative name of Standby Ticket. For the cost of $20, you’ll receive full access to the virtual festival with more than 12 hours of comedy, music, and commentary/ entertainment by various beer folk.

There are also two ticket upgrades available. Round Trip tickets are $90 per person and include $20 gift cards to each brewery and a survival pack. Liquid Gold tickets are $65 per person and consist of gift cards but no survival pack. (The gift cards allow you access to purchase festival 4-packs.)

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Fort Worth’s newest taco joint opened about a month ago in Crockett Hall (formerly known as the Food Hall at Crockett Row). Taco Paseo boasts a large taco-centric menu that includes appetizers, margaritas, and two types of tacos: traditional and special.

The space, which occupies one corner of the food hall, was filled with disco hits on a recent visit. The brick walls are nondescript, and six four-seat tables sit on the ornate black-and-white tile flooring.

The restaurant served up my hibiscus margarita quickly. Arriving with a rock salt-lined rim and fresh lime wedge, the frozen mixed drink was bright pink and not overly sweet, and it had a pleasant floral profile with hints of pomegranate.

Next out were two appetizers. The Latin street corn was freshly sliced and clung together in long roasted slivers.

The elote was dressed in clumps of Cotija cheese that added a perfect tinge of salt to liven everything up. A generous drizzle of a spicy chipotle sauce nicely amped up the heat. The chile toreados (three roasted jalapenos) were an exercise in simplicity. The grilled peppers, lightly oiled, were flavorful without being offputtingly spicy.

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Traditional or special, this Crockett Hall newcomer doesn’t disappoint.

Taco Paseo offers a wide range of traditional and fusion options, including this juicy and flavorpacked barbacoa taco.

barbacoa taco matched the quality of fare offered at Juanito’s Taqueria or any other famed local joint. The buttery meat was fragrant and only lightly oily. The toasted corn tortillas, freshly chopped onions, and cilantro enhanced the succulent and generously filled morsels. Delicious as they were, the diminutively sized items were far from filling.

The two fusion tacos earned high marks for creativity. While most tacos served at the restaurant come with corn tortillas, the octopus taco was wrapped in a single flour tortilla, presumably to not detract from the mild-flavored mollusk.

Within the large wrap, the contents of the taco were delicious but underwhelming.

The octopus had a firm but easy-tochew texture and nicely charred skin.

Taco Paseo Hibiscus margarita ..................................$8.50 Barbacoa taco ..........................................$4.75 Latin street corn ......................................$4.50 Chile toreados ..........................................$4.75 Grilled octopus .........................................$5.75 Peking Duck .............................................$5.25

The single sliver of avocado and slices of pickled red onions almost filled out the taco but fell short.

The Peking Duck was a home run.

The generous mound of bird came to life in the company of a drizzle of sweet and salty hoisin sauce. Slices of jícama added a crispy texture, while bits of cilantro — the herb that binds so many culinary traditions together — tied the Chinese cuisine-inspired taco to the ample Latin dishes offered.

The service that evening was polite and prompt. Taco Paseo is a welcome addition to an already diverse spread of local taquerias. Saying Fort Worth has reached its taqueria limits is like telling a musician he or she has exhausted the sonic possibilities of the 12-bar blues.

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and 2020 releases, Niosi finished tracking the EP in December in anticipation of an East Coast tour later on. During the lockdown, Panorama Avenue grew in Niosi’s home studio to a full-length. He will celebrate the release on Saturday, Dec. 5, with a livestreamed full-band performance from MASS. For his fifth studio effort, the singer-songwriter played guitar, lap steel, bass, drums, and various synthesizers.

“COVID has hit musicmakers very hard,” he said. “Live performance and contact in general have been limited. I count myself as one of the more fortunate.

I have my wife and close friends to lean on and my own studio to disappear into.

Introversion and focus have been my assets.”

Niosi recently released two tracks on Bandcamp, “Dance to the Bottom” and “Alone/Unknown,” and one more is on the way Friday. In addition to CDs, he also plans to release a vinyl version of Panorama Avenue to be sold at local record stores.

B Y J U A N R . G O V E A Panorama Avenue is a mix of synthy COVID doesn’t care about your damn psych-rock and acoustic strumming, music. Clint Niosi knows this firsthand. everything buoyed by Niosi’s gentle vocal The moody singer-songwriter was about delivery.

“I hope that the themes of halfway through production of a new EP when the pandemic stopped him cold. He impermanence and isolation on Panorama readapted and reworked his pre-COVID Avenue resonate and provide some escape,” record into a surreal, abstract, and hopeful Niosi said. ‘This is a hopeful and lonely album, but the main message is to continue album for Dec. 4.

During this time of uncertainty, Niosi having hope.”

In contrast to Niosi’s earlier, Southern said he can relate to other musicians trying Gothic-inspired work, to approach their craft now.

Panorama Avenue is a bit “The tone and the Clint Niosi livestream lighter, a middle finger mood of the album may 9pm Sat via Facebook.com/ to the darkness that’s have an intentional hopeful MASSFW. $10. enshrouded us the past feel to it,” Niosi said. “The several years and several loneliness part of the album is real … . I think that is what everyone months especially. With the album, the artist hopes to connect with other creatives can tune into now.”

Like most musicians planning gigs dealing with many of the same issues he is.

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As we prepare to turn the calendar on yet another, horrible year, I’d like to take a moment to tell you all how much I hate Facebook. And this is coming from someone who embraces his enemies. I really hate it.

Honestly, I want to talk about how grand things were before “the social network” came along and attempted to destroy not only the relationship between artists and the media but democracy itself. The two are intertwined, believe it.

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about Beavis and Butthead, and now they’re stuck in my head.) Of course, you’re welcome to promote your new rockin’ rekkid via social media — it’s your duty to. But to just do that makes no sense, especially when there’s a hyper-local rag an email away (anthony@fwweekly.com) with 2.5 million page views per month and a weekly print circulation of 75,000, especially when said rag is perhaps the only one of its kind on the planet that will take your art seriously and funnel it through the lens of experienced critics and avid music lovers.

What I’m trying to say is that as much as I love scrolling through Facebook for maybe 10 seconds tops every day, I’d really rather not. Since checking out new bands in person isn’t really an option anymore and probably won’t be for a

For the MASS show, Niosi will be joined by drummer Eddie Dunlap (Rage Out Arkestra) and keyboardist Matt Hansen (Boozy Moods). Tickets are available via MASS’ website and Facebook page. l while, I find myself in the uncomfortable position of having to beg for your music.

It’s not that we need it — we will fill these pages regardless. It’s that we want it and, perhaps more importantly, that we want to say “fuck Zuck.” Thanks, jagoff, for all you do to destroy the American experiment for the sake of generating those all-important clicks. Thanks also to the American experiment for being built around consumption rather than participation. Otherwise, those clicks would be meaningless. Otherwise, racist rapists wouldn’t be elected to the highest office in the land. Otherwise, artist and the media would be doing daisy chains together … at least until that first bad review. #bringit — Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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“I guess I would say that I don’t intentionally try to make anything too dark,” he said. “I just try to express my feelings in a song in a way that’s going to relate to other people. I think most music is hopeful.”

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monied group. If getting right wingers elected is Mark Zuckerberg’s goal, and we have every reason to believe it is, no matter how orange or reptilian the candidate, or how rape-y and racist-y he is, the environment of the platform becomes a cesspool. And who wants their art (let alone their kid pics, but that’s another column for another day) mired in all of that crap. For me, the right-wing nonsense has become so loud that I can barely scroll my newsfeed for any longer than about 10 seconds before I’m out, and for someone whose livelihood depends on local artists, that can’t be good.

Here’s a proposition: Say you’re a local artist with a few hundred followers.

Say you’re putting out a new album, one you’ve worked hard on. (Heh-heh. He said “hard on.”) (Sorry, just read something

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The executive director has completed the technical review of the application and prepared a draft permit which, if approved, would establish the conditions under which the facility must operate.

The executive director has made a preliminary decision to issue the permit because it meets all rules and regulations. The permit application, executive director’s preliminary decision, and draft permit will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/ Fort Worth regional office, and at www.powereng.com/public_docs/LFC_Coatings_Public_Viewing_Copy.pdf, beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review at the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Office, 2309 Gravel Drive, Fort Worth, Texas.

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

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INFORMATION AVAILABLE ONLINE. When they become available, the executive director’s response to comments and the final decision on this application will be accessible through the Commission’s Web site at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cid. Once you have access to the CID using the above link, enter the permit number for this application which is provided at the top of this notice. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility’s general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to application. http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/hb610/index.html?lat=32.804907&lng=-97.310897&zoom=13&type=r.

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