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A critical care physician says COVID-19 vaccines mark the “beginning of the end” to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Static Democracy Prevails, Barely

Every morning, first thing, I take the dog for a walk. In fall, we wade through dead leaves, a downside of living in the older tree-lined hood of Riverside. When the wind is blowing, it’s truly a sight to behold. Leaves tumble in a blizzard of orange, red, and yellow. On my slate-gray street, dead leaves come back to life, and leap like a corps de ballet — spin, double, even triple pliés, pirouetting on one stem.

One morning, after watching this wind-powered dance recital, I had a hunch and turned down a street. The dog was agreeable, as she always is to anything that lengthens our walks. I had something more in mind, and, sure enough, one of my Trumpster neighbors had finally taken down his Trump flag. This was after the safe harbor day, so, at least, for one Trump supporter, sanity prevailed.

After I got home, I checked an old high school chum’s Facebook page, and amid his usual COVID-is-a-hoax garbage were posts of YouTube videos proving that

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Wednesday’s COVID-19 vaccine felt like “hope in a bottle,” said Dr. Kerim Razack, partner with Texas Pulmonary & Critical Care Consultants at Texas Health Southwest.

As one of three critical care doctors at his southwest Fort Worth hospital, Dr. Razack has worked six weeks straight. Since March, he estimates that his critical care team has seen upwards of 100 local residents die from COVID-19, often after struggling for up to several weeks on ventilators.

Hospitalized patients are now treated with steroids, convalescent plasma (taken from patients who have recovered from COVID-19), and the antiviral treatment remdesivir, he said. Patients who continue to decline are placed on ventilators as a last resort.

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Resident nurse Susan Trumps gives a COVID-19 vaccine to a health care worker at Texas Health Southwest Fort Worth.

“If we are putting someone on a ventilator, they are extremely sick,” Dr. Razack said. “If you are bad enough to need the ventilator, your chances of dying are 90 to 95%.

That’s why the mood in the ICU is so grim.

Everybody knows that as soon as this patient ends up on the ventilator, in two, three, or six weeks, they will likely die from this. If they survive, it could take months to learn how to walk and eat again.”

Given the high mortality rate, some severely ill patients are declining to be placed on life support to avoid prolonging death once the disease has reached advanced stages, he added.

After nine months of treating patients for a disease that has claimed the lives of 319,000 Americans, Dr. Razack sees the COVID-19 vaccine rollout as the “beginning of the end” to the worst pandemic the world has seen in a century. The physician said he felt no symptoms for several hours after receiving the Pfizer vaccine.

“At about eight hours, my arm was a little sore, and I felt a little achy, kinda like when you are starting to get the flu,” he said.

The next morning, “I woke up feeling fine.”

Last week, 5,850 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine arrived at Texas Health Resources’ central pharmacy. As of Monday, the net-

evil commie Demoncrats had stolen the election from Sir Donald Grifter of the Golf Courses.

This viejo amigo and I go way back.

In 1976, we traveled in an old Chevrolet pickup from Houston to Alaska, driving the Alcan Highway before it was paved.

During a Canadian summer blizzard, these two boys from Texas who had hardly ever seen snow skidded on icy mud, barely dodging the semis that had crashed into snowbanks and survived.

After Alaska, I’d seen him only once, but a few months ago, we reconnected via Facebook. At first, it was nice. We caught up with each other, sharing both the good and the bad of the past decades. Unfortunately, my old friend wouldn’t stop sending me links to every crazy conspiracy theory imaginable. After I asked him nicely to stop, he ranted that I should be more open-minded. Sadly, like many of us, I had to unfriend someone on social media because of their hyper-partisanship.

It’s not just old friends who’ve been lost. One of my relatives who helped raise me called me a “nut” on a Facebook thread for not wanting to support Trump. This is a woman who taught me a love of books

and libraries and, ironically, manners. It’s beyond me what causes otherwise good people to reject their friends and even relatives because of their political leanings.

Both my relative and my old high school chum have something in common besides a misplaced fealty to a man who totally botched his most important job, protecting the American people, by politicizing mask wearing. They’re both conservative Christian evangelicals who have convinced themselves that the other side is the total embodiment of evil, calling us communists and even pedophiles.

This past year, like thousands of others, I volunteered to defeat Trump. I wrote letters, gave money, helped with voter registration, and greeted at the polls. I did all the above because I was scared for our democracy and still am.

Friends of mine overuse the word “fascist” to describe the other side.

While I don’t use that term, I have to admit there’s something authoritarian and deeply anti-democratic that runs through the worldview of the right. How else can you explain the majority of Republicans believing, despite all evidence to the contrary, that Trump, the loser by more than

work of 28 hospitals has more than 6,400 doses of the vaccine, including more than 500 at its southwest Fort Worth location, a Texas Health Resources spokesperson said.

Small boxes containing the inoculations are stored at -94 degrees Fahrenheit as required by the manufacturer. Before shots are administered, the vaccine must be thawed and then diluted, the spokesperson said.

Barclay Berdan, Texas Health CEO, said his “team members are exhausted from nine months of providing intensive care to seriously ill patients with COVID-19, but despite that weariness, [Texas Health frontline workers] continue to care for patients and their families each day. The vaccine will help protect [the workers] as they continue to serve the people in our communities.”

On December 11, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the first emergency use authorization for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said the authorization “follows an open and transparent review process that included input from independent scientific and public health experts and a thorough evaluation by the agency’s career scientists to ensure this vaccine met FDA’s rigorous, scientific standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality needed to support emergency use authorization.”

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) said 224,250 doses were released to 110 providers across the state as part of last week’s initial vaccine distribution effort. This week, DSHS said in a public statement that “620,400 doses of COVID-19 vaccine [were] distributed to more than 1,100 providers in 185 Texas counties in

7 million votes, actually won the election?

These past few weeks, we’ve come closer to a coup than we may realize. If the election had been closer, would Republican officials in Georgia or Michigan have sided with the president? Would the Supremes have pulled another Bush v.

Gore? Fortunately, we’ll never know, for sure. Even so, we should celebrate. After January 20 at noon, Trump will no longer be president, and that is a great win for our country. Also, once deep red Tarrant turned ever so slightly blue due to the hard work of many. And our democracy held, barely.

After this wretched COVID-year of isolation and fear, we should hope for miracles — dead leaves coming back to life, a Trump supporter who concedes, a democracy that works. Or, perhaps, we shouldn’t be too greedy and be happy it wasn’t much, much worse. — Ken WheatcroftPardue The Weekly welcomes submissions from all political persuasions. Please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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Week 2 of vaccine distribution. The [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] will deliver 460,500 doses of the vaccine manufactured by Moderna and 159,900 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to continue to vaccinate frontline health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities.”

The FDA approved the Moderna vaccine on Friday, making the vaccine the second to see mass distribution in the United States. Unlike the Pfizer vaccine, Moderna’s preventative treatments can be stored in normal freezers, which will allow for easier distribution to rural areas in Texas.

The arrival of the first batches of vaccines comes at a time when North Texas and the state are experiencing a surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths. Texas now has 1,413,684 confirmed COVID-19 cases, according to DSHS. Tarrant County has 114,617 confirmed cases and 1,276 COVID19-related deaths.

As of Monday, 2,000 frontline workers received COVID-19 vaccines at Cook Children’s, a hospital spokesperson said. The initial recipients included “doctors and nurses who work with COVID-19 patients as well as employees who may be in close contact with patients and families such as environmental service workers, members of Cook Children’s Teddy Bear Transport Team, security, lab, and food and nutrition employees.”

The day was “emotional,” said Debbie Boudreaux, assistant vice president of nursing at Cook Children’s, “because we’ve waited so long for this pandemic to end. This has been a team effort from the very beginning, with our COVID-19 Command Center working tirelessly to adapt to all the changes we’ve had to make to keep our employees, patients, and families safe.”

Jason Reese, a respiratory therapist at Cook Children’s, said he took the vaccine for personal and medical reasons.

“The reason why I’m taking the vaccine today is because my step-dad passed away last week from COVID complications, and it is super-important to me, to my family, and to the community to get this vaccine,” he said.

A spokesperson for Medical City Fort Worth said the 320-bed facility recently received vaccines. Medical City, which has 184 hospitals in the United States and England, received 6,825 vaccines Thursday and thousands more are expected “in coming days.”

Brian Murnahan, a spokesperson for Tarrant County Public Health, said TCPH has not received COVID-19 vaccines because the treatments are going to frontline health care workers, meaning hospitals are prioritized over government agencies.

DSHS allocation principles outline state priorities for vaccine administration, he said.

Health care workers, particularly those on the front lines, are prioritized. Residents of long-term care facilities and hospice workers are also included in the state’s first phase of vaccine rollouts.

In light of the ongoing vaccination efforts, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s go-to official on infectious diseases, said the United States could see the early stages of herd immunity by as early as late spring. Gov. Greg Abbott said Texans can expect to see widespread distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine by March. l

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Attacked for Speaking Up A former Fort Worth teacher says school district administrators chose retaliation over protecting children.

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s a young boy welcomed me into the home of Alfred Ramirez, a black Labrador sized me up before scampering away. Ramirez, speaking from his kitchen, offered me a cup of coffee.

“Try the honey,” he suggested, adding that he substitutes refined sugar when possible on account of his chronic diabetes.

Ramirez, a professional chef by training and retired Marine, guided me toward a back room where a large pile of documents and more than two hours of conversing awaited. In March, Ramirez was notified by Fort Worth school district administrators that, after three years of teaching culinary skills at O.D. Wyatt High School, he was recommended for termination. One misstep, and Ramirez would be fired.

“I got the message,” Ramirez said.

After two years of filing complaints and trying to hold school officials and two campus officers responsible for what he said was a failure to protect students from taunting, threats, and harassment, Ramirez was not surprised that school leadership had begun taking steps to fire him. He was told the termination was for poor performance. Ramirez said it was payback for whistleblowing.

Ramirez said retaliation and threats from school administrators and Fort Worth police officers eventually forced him to move to Hillsboro. His current home, which he says offers a semblance of security, is surrounded by fields that are home to a dozen cattle and not much else. The incidents of the past two years stirred up in him bouts of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), he said. The former Marine served in Iraq in 1998 during Operation Desert Fox and later

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As the longtime chef prepares for his next venture, the restaurant Fat People Eat First, he still does what he can to raise awareness of what he said was misconduct

by O.D. Wyatt leadership. One YouTube video describing his experiences that he recently uploaded has been viewed more than 20,000 times.

Longtime Fort Worth school district teacher Rhonda Jennings said Ramirez’ firing was typical of a school district that she believes is corrupt. Jennings has fought her own battles with school leadership over resource allocation for her special education class.

The handling of bullying at O.D. Wyatt “is pretty typical,” she said. “The culture [in this school district] is [to] treat the teachers like garbage. Administrators have no accountability.”

Multiple individuals who have intimate knowledge of the inner workings at O.D. Wyatt spoke to us on condition of anonymity to protect their privacy.

According to the sources, the high school lacks competent leadership. Poor teacher performance is overlooked in some quarters of the school while other individuals are targeted for retaliation, depending on the personal biases of the school’s current principal and certain vice principals.

One year before Ramirez began working at O.D. Wyatt, doctors had told the husband and father of four that he may never walk again. Complications related to his undertreated diabetes had led to a week-long coma followed by paralysis

after regaining consciousness.

“I was basically crippled,” he recalled.

Early into his recovery, Ramirez learned that O.D. Wyatt had an opening at its culinary institute. The job and prospect of having his student loans forgiven by teaching at an underserved public school interested Ramirez. Recovering from the coma and regaining the ability to walk were arduous.

The doctors “told me I was going to be a cripple and in a wheelchair,” he said. “I told myself, ‘No way.’ I started relearning how to walk from the bed to the bathroom by myself. My wife helped me at first. I could barely use my legs. I had to relearn how to talk. A wheelchair was ordered but never came, so my wife helped me walk from the couch. Then I learned to walk from my bedroom to the living room, then to the mailbox and back. Finally, I started walking in the neighborhood.”

Following his recovery, Ramirez applied for the high school position and began teaching in August of 2016.

The culinary institute was more than an elective course. The lessons taught by Ramirez prepared students for careers in the food industry. One goal the new teacher had for his pupils was to prep them to pass the ServeSafe certification program, which trains food-service candidates about state and city food safety regulations.

“One of my things was to teach the kids how to cook mass production,” Ramirez recalled. “When you can cook really fast, you get better at what you are doing.”

The new teacher offered opportunities outside of class, including volunteering at a ministry that fed the homeless and competing in barbecue contests. That first year, Ramirez said, his class won first place in the school spirit category. That first year at O.D. Wyatt also came with challenges. Student behavior was an issue, but Ramirez (“Chef ” to his students) said he loved working with the teenagers. His second year of teaching would take a stark turn for the worse.

When asked about Ramirez’ forced retirement, one school administrator who asked not to be named said Ramirez’ job performance was not the reason for the administrative action.

The following account is based on interviews between Ramirez and me, emails shared by Ramirez, and multiple corroborating conversations with Fort Worth school district teachers and one former elected official. The names of the students, who were minors at the time, are pseudonyms.

In early November 2017, Ramirez was teaching culinary skills when Sara slapped the shoulder of Joe. The boy had dug through Sara’s purse looking for a piece of gum. After being slapped, Joe said something that caused Sara to

become visibly disturbed. “ ‘You’re going to be like that, then I’m going to show that video,’ ” Ramirez recalled Joe saying. “It couldn’t have been good. My teacher instinct kicked in, and I pulled her aside.”

The video, Ramirez was told, showed explicit sexual content between Sara and another boy, Billy. Sara said she did not know the video existed, and now Billy, Joe, and other students were widely distributing it. In Texas, knowingly or intentionally possessing visual material that depicts a child younger than 18 engaging in sexual conduct is illegal. The state law does not make exceptions for individuals in possession of illicit images or videos who are themselves under the age of 18.

Knowing that he had witnessed potentially felonious actions, Ramirez told Sara to speak with the vice principal, Corey Shepard. Sara returned to class and allegedly told Ramirez that Shepard said he would “take care of it,” which she later learned simply meant that Shepard had told Billy to delete the video off his phone.

Ramirez believed that Shepard would follow Texas Education Agency (TEA) guidelines by immediately calling Child Protective Services (CPS).

“Any teacher who hears something about a student, they have to notify CPS immediately,” Ramirez said, referring to common teacher protocols. “Every teacher knows that. They would rather you call and be wrong than not call and that child is dead.”

The Fort Worth school district did not respond to questions about Shepard.

Ramirez then told Sara to speak to O.D. Wyatt’s two campus officers who work for the Fort Worth police department.

“I told [Sara] to go to the police officers and to make a report,” Ramirez said. “That was child porn. You can’t have it passing around to students. I don’t play around with that.”

Sara was allegedly told by the officers that Shepard had spoken to them.

“I’m thinking [the officers] are doing the right thing and making a report,” Ramirez said. Follow-ups with Shepard and the campus officers revealed that CPS had not been called and a police report had not been made. Meanwhile, Ramirez witnessed Sara continue to be harassed and verbally taunted by Billy, Joe, and other classmates. Ramirez believed that school leadership and the campus officers were not going to address the possible proliferation of child pornography, which he feared would soon end up in the hands of non-minors. After calling then-police chief Joel Fitzgerald, complaining to the Fort Worth police about his interaction with campus police, and filing reports to CPS, Ramirez believes the school district retaliated against him. In mid-

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One individual who worked at O.D. Wyatt at the time of these events said Ramirez’ treatment by school leadership appeared to be whistleblower retaliation. If job performance was really the issue, there were many employees — especially among the coaching staff — who should have been fired long before Ramirez, the anonymous source said.

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November, Ramirez alleged the officers entered his office and confronted him in a threatening manner.

“Both the officers came with their hands on their guns and said, ‘Why the fuck are you calling downtown?’ ” Ramirez said.

The teacher replied that if the officers did their “fucking job,” there wouldn’t have been a need to take the issue above them.

“I’ve been to war,” the retired Marine said. “I’ve been trained to deal with having a gun put in my face. I was in the Baghdad hotel when it was bombed with 50 missiles. I carried a lady who had her arm blown off down from the fourth floor.

Her arm was dangling by a tendon. The police behavior just angered me.”

Fort Worth police department did not respond to numerous questions for comment. Ramirez said the incident of what he described as police intimidation was captured on one officer’s bodycam.

I have requested, and have so far been denied, access to that recording.

When fellow teacher Jennings learned from Ramirez about the lack of protection afforded Sara, she called CPS to report the incident. The special education teacher at Morningside Middle School did not reach out to Fort Worth police, but she said an officer called her shortly after she called CPS. “I was worried that the child abuse

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In late 2018, Ramirez alleged school leadership again failed to protect students from exploitation. This time, a teenage girl had logged onto her YouTube account on a school computer, and when Ramirez accessed the computer later that same day, the girl’s explicit videos and photos (including images of other O.D. Wyatt students) appeared. Ramirez found a colleague to watch his class while he

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never got reported,” Jennings said. “Out of the blue, one month after COVID started, I get this phone call. The officer said he was with Fort Worth police.”

The officer allegedly told her that the police department had looked into the case and was satisfied with the results of their investigation.

“It showed [the officer’s personal] phone number,” Jennings said. “Why didn’t he have some sort of identification?

I think they were trying to get me to back off.”

On Feb. 12, 2018, Ramirez spoke before the Fort Worth school board.

After using around a minute to introduce himself and to praise his students’ accomplishments, Ramirez addressed the incidents of bullying and one instance of child pornography at O.D. Wyatt. He was quickly hushed away by school board members, based on a video posted on the district’s website.

In attendance was Stephanie Bordingham, a former Forest Hill city councilmember whom Ramirez had contacted for help weeks earlier. The then-councilmember recalled being surprised to hear about the retaliatory responses by school administrators and police.

“I was not shocked that something like [what happened to Sara] would happen in this day and time with social media, but I was shocked how the school and the security guards handled it,” Bordingham said. “The guards really went after chef instead of handling the student issue. That alarmed me.

“He was treated like an outcast,” she continued. “He felt like no one was listening to him. He was reaching out to anyone in the audience or the school board who would listen.”

Bordingham did what she could to address the situation. After reaching out to several Fort Worth elected officials, she ran into the same roadblocks that Ramirez did, and she thinks she knows why.

“From my experience, there are a lot of ‘good old boy’ situations happening in Fort Worth,” she said. “There are cliques, and people are afraid to lose their positions. That’s how our system is.

They are scared to get involved because they don’t want to be outcasted from the clique.”

Stephanie Bordingham: Ramirez “did everything he was supposed to do, but the system completely failed him.”

notified the vice principal, principal, and the same campus officers who allegedly neglected to help him the first time.

Fort Worth police did not respond to questions that I asked about the campus officers.

Several days later, Ramirez alleged, one of the officers finally spoke to two student witnesses of the explicit YouTube content. Afterward, Ramirez alleged the witnesses returned to warn Ramirez that the officers were “out to get him.”

Fort Worth police eventually sent the computer to a crime lab for investigation, Ramirez said. During the three months it allegedly took to examine the hard drive, Ramirez was placed on administrative leave.

Soon after, the teacher said his PTSD flared up. Long-suppressed combat memories disturbed his sleep.

One recurring nightmare involved the officers breaking into his home and murdering him as he lay in bed. Aware of his war-induced trauma, Ramirez’ wife had forbidden her husband from owning a firearm. The actions of the two peace officers and school leadership finally convinced his wife to allow Ramirez to

buy a firearm for self-defense.

After the police investigation of the hard drive cleared Ramirez of any wrongdoing, meaning he was not found to have generated or saved any of the child pornography, Ramirez returned to work early this year. School leadership was continually critical of his job performance, he said, although the chef maintains that he worked exhaustively to educate his students and prepare them for important certification tests.

“I knew that [Ramirez] was telling the truth,” Bordingham said. “When someone is willing to put everything that they have worked on the line to protect someone, you know that person is telling the truth. People don’t just destroy their whole lives trying to help someone. Chef was so adamant about helping this family, and everyone turned their backs on him.

He did everything he was supposed to do, but the system completely failed him.”

During Spring Break 2020, as COVID-19 dominated the news, Ramirez received a not unexpected email.

“The principal said he needed to have a special Zoom meeting with me,” Ramirez recalled.

The meeting was organized by the principal and two administrators, including one staffer from the school district’s human resources department.

The message was simple. Due to COVID, school leaders could not outright fire Ramirez for poor performance because terminations of employee contracts can be completed only during school board meetings, which were all canceled due to the pandemic. Instead, the teacher was informed that he would be recommended for termination.

School district spokesperson Clint Bond said in an email that Mr. Ramirez “resigned and was not fired. The district investigated Mr. Ramirez’ allegations, and appropriate actions were taken regarding students and staff. The district has also responded to Mr. Ramirez’ complaints and allegations to outside agencies and has shared Mr. Ramirez’ concerns with the Fort Worth police department. The district is not aware of any allegations that warranted a report to CPS in this matter.”

One individual who worked at O.D. Wyatt at the time of these events said Ramirez’ treatment by school leadership appeared to be whistleblower retaliation.

If job performance was really the issue, there were many employees — especially among the coaching staff — who should have been fired long before Ramirez, the anonymous source said.

Another confidential source said the chef ’s experience was just part of a broader problematic culture at the high school which persists to this day. She said she observed O.D. Wyatt students being left inside of classrooms without teacher supervision for long periods of times.

Coaches regularly ask teachers to change student grades, she alleges, and students with failing grades are commonly allowed to participate in sports, a violation of University Interscholastic League (UIL) rules.

After taking steps to protect children from having explicit photos and videos of themselves being freely spread among students and elsewhere, Ramirez remains astonished that he was punished for his actions. The propagation of the video made Sara the unfair target of bullying, Ramirez said. The former teacher said vice principal Shepard should have been terminated for not protecting his students. Fellow teacher Jennings echoes much of Ramirez’ frustrations.

Sara was being bullied and abused, Jennings said. “The principal and assistant principal should have brought everything at a standstill and addressed the problem. I would have gathered the facts and then called Mom. I’m a parent, too. If they knew that had happened and didn’t tell me, I would have been so mad.”

Children need to feel protected, she continued.

Sara needed to be helped “from a place of helping and kindness. Any adult

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who was a part of that should have been put on unpaid leave. When you find out that they are guilty, fire their ass.

There are no second chances with child abuse. Those boys should have gotten in trouble. Whoever filmed it could possibly have gone to jail.”

By allowing the same boys who were tormenting Sara to remain in class with her was itself a form of child abuse, Jennings said.

Even after his experience with the two campus officers, Ramirez said police officers are still needed on certain public school campuses, especially ones that have a history of students bringing firearms into classrooms and committing other dangerous and potentially deadly acts.

After the interview, Ramirez and one of his sons took me out to a backfield to feed around a dozen young cows and bulls. The longtime chef recounted stories of preparing meals for President George W. Bush and Gen. Colin Powell.

His training in the Marines and deep Christian faith guided him to report what he believes were criminal acts and child endangerment.

“It was their job to protect these kids,” Ramirez said. “I’m not afraid of cops. The only one I have to be worried about is God, and I know what I did was right.” l

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You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch, but you do throw Wednesday a heck of a party. At 8pm, put on your best holiday costume and head to Landmark Bar & Kitchen (3008 Bledsoe St, 817-984-1168) for Whoville Idol: A Grinchmas Karaoke Party. There will be drink specials all night, plus $150 in prizes for the karaoke contest winners. In case karaoke isn’t your thing, Landmark has arcade games, more than 30 HD TVs, a huge patio, and a mechanical bull.

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For those of us experiencing sadness, loss, and despair, the holidays Thursday tend to make things worse, not better. Peace Mennonite Church (14325 Proton Rd, Dallas, 214-478-6321) wants to help. From 4pm to 6pm, join PMC on Facebook Live or Zoom for A Holiday Season to Forget: Grief & Blue Feelings Festival. This safe-space, online gathering for “contemplating and nourishing our griefs through word and other arts” — including poetry, visual art, and spoken

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It’s Sunday Night Sports Ball time! At 3:45pm, watch the Cowboys game Sunday on the big screen — a 100foot screen to be exact — at the Miller Tavern Experience at Texas Live! (1650 E Randol Mill Rd, Arlington, 817-8526688). General admission is $10 per person at Eventbrite.com, and each guest receives a food and beverage credit of $40 that can be used toward your check and Miller Lite swag gear.

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Will CSI Mansfield be like CSI Miami, but with no David Caruso? Not quite.

Monday Oliver Nature Park (1650 Matlock Rd, Mansfield, 817-473-1943) hosts an actual event called Wildlife CSI.

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No bones about it. If you work in the service industry right now, boy, Tuesday do you need a drink. Head to Barrel & Bones Craft Bar & Smokehouse (2801 Plano Pkwy, Ste 140, The Colony, 469-353-8810) every Tue from 9pm to midnight for Service Industry Night.

Food and drink specials include premium offerings on Fireball and Jameson, $3 domestic beers, and $2 tacos. DJ Joe Vega and Leo Morales will be spinning tunes throughout the night.

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Not only does Raising Cane’s (1527 S University, 817-882-8722) have delicious chicken strips, but it also does a lot for the community. Thru Jan 3, buy Raising Cane’s plush puppy-shaped toy, Cozy Cane, for $8.99 with proceeds benefiting Patriot Paws nationally and Operation Kindness locally with their mission to get cats and dogs out of the shelters and into “furever” homes. For more information, participating locations, and a picture of the plush pup, go to RaisingCanes.com/ PlushPuppy.

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Once the packages are opened and Christmas dinner is done, you may Friday need a break from the family and a strong drink. If this is the case, head to Billy Bob’s Texas (2520 Rodeo Plaza, 817-624-7117) at 10pm for A Donahew Christmas featuring native Texas country artist Casey Donahew.

Doors open at 6pm, and the show starts at 10pm. Tickets are $20-40 at AXS.com.

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Kids ages 5 to 15 years old are encouraged to “use wildlife knowledge to help crack the case” while analyzing “wildlife crime scenes to gather clues and evidence” to identify the perpetrators. An annual membership to the Mansfield Activities Center — $17 for youth on up to $50 for families — is required to participate, along with pre-registration to the event at Facebook.com/MansfieldTxParks/Events.

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As North Texas waves a big goodbye to 2020 — the worst year in recent memory — there are many choices for a night on the town come Thu, Dec 31. There’s something for everyone in all geographic areas, from bars, breweries, and live music to cultural events and fine dining.

Division Brewing 506 E Main St, 682-276-1276 Enjoy Division Brewing’s Fifth Anniversary Celebration on New Year’s Eve. Division serves clean, refreshing light ales, such as blondes, wheats, and hoppy India pale ales, as well as malty amber beers, dark porters, sours, and stouts. It opens at 4pm. No cost to attend.

Stumpy’s Blues Bar 2811 W Division St, 817-275-3231 A New Year’s Eve party featuring 3 Day Bender is what’s happening at Stumpy’s.

Besides having live music every week, there is a full bar, flat-screen TVs, pool tables, and soft- and steel-tip darts here.

Group seating is available for the live shows, as well as an expansive outdoor area.

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Lava Cantina 5805 Grandscape Blvd, 214-618-6893 Straight Tequila Night rings in the New Year at Lava Cantina, with a special guest opener starting at 8:30pm. Champagne toast and party favors are included with your admission. VIP tables are available as well. Tickets/tables are $80-325 at Eventbrite.com.

Reunion Tower & Hyatt Regency 300 Reunion Blvd E, 214-712-7040 Reunion Over the Top 2020 is a Texas-sized event benefiting Children’s Health for the fifth year in a row. The only 360-degree panoramic fireworks spectacular in the central time zone will light up the Dallas sky starting at 11:59pm on Thursday. Exclusive outdoor and socially distanced viewing area available to Hyatt Regency guests only.

Rooms can be booked at Hyatt.com.

HALTOM CITY Haltom Theater 5601 Belknap, 682-250-5678 The Death to 2020 NYE Rock & Metal Party features Alcohol Proof, Beneath the Veils, Coilback, Eva Kora, Hillbilly Orchestra, Raid, and Waja. Doors open at 6pm. Cover is $10.

FORT WORTH cultural events Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Will Rogers Memorial Center 3401 W Lancaster Av, 817-665-6000 Travel through time, back to the dark cabarets and speakeasies of New York, Paris, and Berlin, and experience the 1920s in all its decadence: Prohibition, gangsters, ingénues, and intrigue at the FWSO’s Prohibition: A New Year’s Eve Celebration. The vintage imagery and video will take you on a musical journey through the works of musicians Rudy Valée, Josephine Baker, Kurt Weill, and King Oliver. The decade’s top hits will be authentically arranged for orchestra by Grammy winner Jeff Tyzik and performed by three stellar vocalists. Tickets are $4499 at FWSymphony.org.

Unity Fort Worth 5051 Trail Lake Dr, 817-423-2965 Come together to release the old and welcome the new with Unity’s annual Burning Bowl ceremony on Sunday. Write what you wish to release and let the burning bowl’s flames help transform that energy. Then jot down what you want to affirm and create for the New Year and take it with you. This ceremony is a parking-lot event with FM transmission. (Tune into 89.9 on your car’s stereo.) Attendees may stay in their vehicle, congregate inside their designated space on the driver’s side of their parking space, or visit the Peace Garden while wearing a mask and observing social distancing.

FORT WORTH eats & drinks Amber Room/Wishbone + Flynt 334 Bryan Av, 817-945-2433 Chef Stefon Rishel is serving a four-course dinner starting at 5pm on Thursday for his Farewell 2020 Celebration. Pricing for the multicourse is $150 per person and includes complimentary wine pairings with each course. There are also $75 tickets available that include three complimentary drinks and late-night bites. For those looking for the complete NYE experience, guests can enjoy the Wine Dinner at Wishbone + Flynt for $225 per person, followed by complimentary craft cocktails, late-night bites, and exclusive access to the Amber Room to ring in the New Year. Tickets at Prekindle.com.

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B&B Butchers 5212 Marathon Av, 817-737-5212 Goodbye, 2020. Hello, 2021! Head to B&B on Thursday for a fun, festive evening of delicious food, drinks, and 2021 swag.

There is no ticket fee or prix-fixe menu.

Guests order off the regular dinner menu.

(The restaurant will also be open for lunch on Thursday from 11am to 3pm.)

Reservations are required. Call to RSVP or book through OpenTable.com.

City Works Eatery & Pour House 5288 Monahans Av, 682-207-1500 Those looking to get out of the house can have a safe New Year’s Eve celebration with chef ’s specials and more than 90 craft beers on draft at the City Works Brew Year’s Eve in Fort Worth and Frisco. (Read more online at FWWeekly.com/Blotch.)

FORT WORTH live music Billy Bob’s Texas 2520 Rodeo Plaza, 817-624-7117 Time Marches on NYE Bash featuring the Tracy Lawrence: Made in America Tour hits Billy Bob’s. The nonprofit Mission Impossible will receive $1 from each ticket sold. Doors open at 6pm. The house band starts playing at 8pm, and then the headliner goes on at 10pm. Tickets are $80 at BillyBobsTexas.com.

Tulip’s Fort Worth 112 St. Louis Av, 817-247-2518 Tulip’s is excited to celebrate its very first New Year’s Eve with two shows by Grady Spencer & The Work. Doors open at 6 pm.

The first show is at 7pm, and the second show is at 10:30pm. Tickets are $35-75 at TuplipsFTW.com/Calendar.

T’s Bar & Grill 1305 S Hwy 121, 972-219-1654 Party out with Sunset Strip and get our fix of ’80s music while ringing in the New Year on Thursday at 10pm. Besides live bands on Friday nights, other themed nights include DJ dance nights, open-mic nights, karaoke nights, drink specials, and signature drinks inside the venue and outside on the large covered patio area.

MANSFIELD Fat Daddy’s Sports & Spirits 781 W Debbie Ln, 817-453-0188 It’s ’80s Night with the M80s. Cover after 8pm is $13 and comes with a $5 food coupon. All-day specials include Who’s Your Daddy Cocktails ($6), Frito Pie ($7), and the Fender Burger with Fries ($9).

Reserve a table at FatDaddysLive.com/ Reservations.

VIRTUAL Fort Worth Public Library Youtube.com/FWLibrary or FWTV Charter Channel 190 Starting at 9:30pm, join the Fort Worth Public Library for a free NYE show featuring Amplify 817 artists, including Big Heaven, Frenchie’s Blues Destroyers, Grady Spencer & The Work, GRANT, Louie Thesinger, Mean Motor Scooter, and Yokyo. Lou CharLe$ and Tom Martens host this event.

Sportsradio 96.7-FM/1310-AM, The Ticket From 9pm to midnight on Christmas Eve, Robert Wilonsky will host his 12th annual Holiday Music Spectacular on The Ticket.

(There will also be an encore presentation from noon to 3pm before the NFL game on Christmas Day on The Ticket.)

To submit listings, email Jennifer@fwweekly. com.

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Christmas Wishes The truth sets Wonder Woman free in this retro sequel.

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For the sequel to Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins finds a hook that she didn’t have for the previous film. The director makes Wonder Woman 1984 as much like a 1980s film as possible. In an early scene at a shopping mall, she goes beyond the leg warmers and the big hair and the retail brands that no longer exist. Jenkins stages the action with as many practical effects as possible while Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) disarms the would-be robbers of a jewelry store and saves the civilians from harm in comedic ways that would have appealed to directors from that decade if they’d made a movie about the comic-book heroine. That’s one of the distinctive touches in this uneven film that nevertheless improves considerably on the previous DC comic book movies.

The Me Decade finds Diana Prince keeping a low profile as a cultural anthropologist at the Smithsonian and still grieving over the death of Steve Trevor (Chris Pine). That foiled jewel heist uncovers a mysterious stone that grants people their wishes. Diana wishes Steve back with her and — hey, presto! — he’s back and marveling at the technological wonders of the 1980s. This comes at the cost of her superpowers being greatly diminished. Others are willing to pay their own price to use the magic thingy, such as failing oil magnate Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) and Diana’s new colleague Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig).

Wiig’s presence here helps the film surpass the original at incorporating comic relief into the proceedings. Gadot also looks more comfortable here than at any previous point in the DC Comics

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Gal Gadot swings through a D.C. shopping mall in Wonder Woman 1984.

movies, especially with the comedy successful retro exercise than Ready as she talks Steve through this world Player One or the recent musical remake that’s new to him. Maxwell is a con of Valley Girl.

Having said all this, I can’t ignore man with a thatch of fake hair whose business is a pyramid scheme and who the last half hour of the movie being a uses his wish and his native charms to near-total disaster. The climactic fight wreak havoc on world geopolitics and between Wonder Woman and Barbara, whom the stone has inspire cult-like devotion turned into the Cheetah, among his followers.

Wonder Woman 1984 is drowned in CGI, and Sound familiar? The Starring Gal Gadot and Chris you don’t have to look parallels with our soonPine. Directed by Patty Jenkins. Written by Patty any further than their to-be-former president Jenkins, Geoff Johns, and initial fight in the halls are well-managed Dave Callaham. Rated of the White House to enough not to wear out PG-13. see a combat scene with their welcome, but, much cleaner execution. unexpectedly, the more compelling villain is Wiig as a mousy, (That’s a more complex sequence, preyed-upon woman who has a taste of too, with Steve and the two women all Wonder Woman’s power and goes insane needing to fight off armed Secret Service with lust for more. Tying it together is agents.) Jenkins loses the handle on the the director’s devotion to re-creating the global chaos that results when Maxwell decade cinematically, which includes an grants wishes to everyone in the world, extended car chase through the Egyptian and Wonder Woman’s reversal of it all is desert that’s straight out of Raiders of just so much soggy melodrama. There’s the Lost Ark. This goes down as a more simply too much fat in this 151-minute

film and not enough action sequences.

Even so, there’s a neat theme running through this about mendacity, set off by a prologue taking place on Themyscira, where little Diana (Lilly Aspell) is prevented from winning an athletic contest because she cheats. Who better to battle a pathological liar — to say nothing of another villain called the Cheetah — than someone whose golden lasso carries the power of truth that’s on her side? Diana isn’t immune to the seductive lie that she can have Steve back with her, but she knows she has to leave that behind if she’s going to save the world. Future film scholars will look back on Wonder Woman 1984 and see it correctly as the product of our benighted last four years. Right now, this piece of popcorn balances out its flaws with inspired touches like the cameo appearance in the middle of the closing credits. To use the language of the decade, that’s, like, totally tubular. l

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Tabletop Plants: Aleppo Pine, Italian Stone Pine, lavender, Leyland Cypress, and Rosemary are available in the floral department.

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Along a quiet stretch of road among a mixture of commercial structures and a middle-class neighborhood near the Naval air station is where you’ll find a unique drinking establishment that would be more fitting in someplace hip and trendy like Austin.

However, this is where married coowners Casey and Kelsy Smith decided to plant their newest venture, McFly’s Pub, a Back to the Future-themed bar that collectively gathers from all things eclectic and eccentric, location be damned. And as Emmett “Doc” Brown proclaimed to Marty McFly after traveling into the future, “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”

Like many bar owners, the Smiths were set back in time pertaining to their opening date and ultimately softly opened in August.

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Marty McFly is ready to greet you to this Westside outpost.

which shares space with a mannequin that, Back to the Future poster, and tables in the if you squint like Clint Eastwood, somewhat middle of the room, the bar is decked out resembles Marty. Murals painted by Fort with many more movie references.

Worth/New York City artist Jay Wilkinson Searching for them is best enjoyed round out the exterior, everything relating with a cocktail, and the Great Scott is an to the Back to the Future trilogy, which, in appropriate starting point. Titled after Doc this author’s opinion, is the Brown’s catchphrase, it’s greatest trilogy of all time. a smooth drink, albeit not McFly’s Pub That’s heavy. But do not spirit-forward.

Johnnie 6104 Lt. JG Barnett Rd, FW. allow this theme to form Walker Black is glossed over 817-7448-272. your only opinion as the with simple syrup before entire bar embraces several being joined by orange juice, decades of pure vintage eye candy. limes, and lemons. Pulling back on the Stepping into the teal-colored amount of these acidic varietals would allow building triggers a little sensory overload. the scotch’s objective to be more pronounced Opposite the bar on the right, a chandelier and be complementary to the overall drink. hangs over a stage anchored by three vinyl No matter. While turning this upholstered booths. Along the wall behind beverage up, the ample number of clocks them are painted portraits of characters lining the ceiling beams comes into view. from the movie franchise. If this appears This is an important callback to Back familiar, it is due to the resemblance to the to the Future as the opening scene of Part fictional ’50s-era diner named Lou’s Cafe 1 is filled with differing clocks. Hung featured in the movies. With a massive antique suitcases and trunks counter the painting of Doc Brown, a giant framed timepieces as a nod to traveling.

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When you are ready for your next cocktail, admire the custom-made tables with the McFly’s logo etched in them.

Those familiar with the Smiths know they own a company that specializes in the restoration and renovation of historic properties around Fort Worth, primarily on the Near Southside. Being their handiwork, these tables show the power of love that went into designing the entire bar — even down to the upholstered bar stools and personal photographs taken by Casey bordering the walls.

The Lorraine, another cocktail that borrows its title from a character by the same name, eases on the side of tropicalia.

Rum and guava make for a good pairing with orange and lime before a splash of Topo Chico. If the weather cooperates, this is best enjoyed on the expansive patio, which, along with the inside, is dogfriendly. Fanned palm trees are potted throughout with a covered sitting area lit by crisscrossed party bulbs.

Once it gets too cold for outdoor revelry, there’s plenty of gaming entertainment to keep you occupied. A pool table is available along with three arcade games and a couple of TVs, although they’re unnecessary when the décor offers much more conversational pieces. The jukebox isn’t too darn loud as The Cramps, The Sonics, and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins produce a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack vibe. Sipping a rye-based Martini McFly on the plush Victorian couches under the shimmer of the chandelier, with an original Nintendo console and controllers beside you, is the kind of whimsy that makes this place downright fun.

There isn’t much to dislike about McFly’s. In fact, nothing was found to be disliked. The cocktail menu will hopefully continue to evolve, finding the same balance of concentrated cool seen throughout the bar. Already adding more funk to Funkytown, in lightning time will this destination become as enchanting as the Enchantment Under the … well, go watch the movie, then head to McFly’s in your DeLorean. Time’s a-tickin’. l Contact Last Call at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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ALG’s new album is the sound of the band “working together.” That’s according to multi-instrumentalist Austin Gardea (Squeezebox Bandits). Oh, K is the instrumental prog rockers’ fourth studio album since forming in 2018, and, as with the group’s discography, other local musicians have added to the team effort, Gardea said. Along with two permanent members, drummer Tim Cowdin (Sally Majestic) and guitarist Alex Hunter, Gardea was joined by a bunch of friends, he said, including Pete Alvidrez on synths and Squeezebox Bandits frontman Abel Casillas on squeezebox.

HearSay Save Our Stages Comes Through

Local venues will be receiving some muchneeded financial assistance. With the passage of the $900 billion federal stimulus package, they will receive $19 billion along with theatrical producers or live performing arts organization operators, museum operators, motion picture theater operators, and talent representatives.

The disbursement could take weeks if not months. If the monies are unleashed around the time the COVID-19 vaccines begin to work their magic, the parties could be epic.

Lola’s Trailer Park, MASS, The Post, and a handful of other 817 spots and promoters are in line to receive some of that phat, phat federal largesse. To qualify, a venue or promoter must have suffered at least a 25% drop in revenue since the state-ordered lockdowns. Brian Forella is cautiously optimistic that he meets that criterion.

“Hopefully, I qualify,” Lola’s owner said, noting that his revenue appears to be down by nearly 70%. “Hopefully, we meet all the requirements. Business has really slowed down with the jump in [new

COVID] cases and colder weather.”

Having read over the bill, I believe Lola’s, MASS, The Post, Magnolia Motor Lounge, Filthy McNasty’s, and all of the other local locales will qualify. Disbursed amounts will be 45% of earned revenue from April 1, 2019, through December 31, 2019, up to $10 million per entity, according to the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA), the nonprofit that formed after the pandemic to lobby for federal help via the social media campaign Save Our Stages.

“I’m not sure how the money will be distributed,” said Ryan Higgs, co-owner of MASS. “The money will be used to keep the doors open, staff paid, and hopefully a few improvements. The next steps will probably be to fill out an application and wait for the approval.”

Another hopeful operator is The Post’s Brooks Kendall, who said that his River East venue might not have survived without money from the Payroll Protection Program (PPP, the federal campaign geared toward small businesses) and a Preserve the Fort grant, administered by the City of Fort Worth.

“In theory,” Kendall said, the Save Our Stages money is “a great thing and will help in a big way. Hopefully, the execution of the program will be efficient and fair.”

Let’s hope. As Kendall intimates, the bill has some weird, loosey-goosey criteria.

ALG is excited to be back on the boards.

Gardea is excited to be able to play live again soon after gigging regularly at spots like Doc’s Records & Vintage, Deep Ellum Art Co., and the briefly reopened Moon Bar. The group plans to perform more livestreams until things get back to normal.

COVID delayed the recording process and therefore delayed the release date, but

the band is proud to be able to finish and release the album before the year ended.

ALG is “sticking to the goal of at least one album per year,” Gardea said.

“We had a few shows canceled. Right now, we’ve started working on the next project and definitely looking forward to playing live again because it’s great jamming and improvising over our songs.” l

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The Post is one of several 817 venues hoping to receive help from the feds soon.

One of them is that an entity can have a maximum of 500 employees. Sounds like a pretty, pretty major company to me.

Another is that at least $2 billion will be reserved for places with fewer than 50 employees — which is easily every venue in Fort Worth and every other similar place across the country — making me wonder what sorts of 50-plus-employee arts businesses (dance companies? major museums?) will be divvying up

that leftover $13 billion. I guess certain provisions needed to be made to direct some help toward the ones who need it most. Like, uh, music venues.

Higgs said he’s “really happy” for all of the places and people who receive aid.

And so am I. For now. — Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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After a year and a half of on-again/offagain recording due to the pandemic, the 11-song recording hit digital airwaves last week. Visit ALGband.com for more.

Oh, K starts off with heavy riffage paced by Cowdin’s funky percussion.

The rest is mostly jam band-y but fun, alternating between extended grooveoriented passages and short bursts of solos. The title track is almost romantic sounding.

Recorded at The Cove in Arlington, the tracks were engineered by Gardea with help from Billy Herzig (Zig Productions) and mastered by Chris Raspante.

“A lot of friends have checked out [Oh, K] and said they enjoyed it,” Gardea said.

“When I put out the previous releases, they’re weren’t getting a lot of listeners, but we did a better job at hyping up [Oh, K], and people are enjoying it.”

To “hype up” the release, Gardea tried to record as much of the tracking process as possible for social media and sent demos out to friends and fans throughout recording. Along with Oh, K, ALG’s 2019 live album, The Cove Session, is also available digitally.

Gardea talked about the album art of a house on floating land.

“The album cover and album kind of represent feeling safe in our own little bubble, but if we don’t take a step back and look at the big picture, we could be in some trouble,” he said, “hence the house providing shelter, but the land is floating away.”

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