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Van Darien

The Nashville-based Fort Worth native releases Levee, her Americana debut full-length.

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METROPOLIS Nonprofits are working overtime trying to protect the highly vulnerable homeless population from COVID-19.

FEATURE The Boiled Owl, MASS, The Usual, and The Local are just a few popular bars waiting to reopen — cautiously.

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EATS Z’s Cafe looks outward, toward the food insecure, to keep on cooking.

STATIC Thanks to social media, and us, The Basement Bar is going to ring up a lot of sales soon.

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FITNESS & BEAUTY The Bar Method 5277 Monahans FWTX www.BarMethod.com Bar Method Fort Worth is providing your favorite barre exercise from the comfort of your own home! Our instructors are teaching live stream classes 7 days a week on our live stream instagram account @ barmethodftwlivestream. Not a member of our studio? Not a problem! Purchase our Virtual Access Package for granted access to our live stream classes AND 30 days of Bar Online.

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All of us made this otherwise quaint Stockyards bar popular.

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Madison Reed Color Bar 3000 S Hulen St #156, FWTX www.Madison-Reed.com Our Color Bars are temporarily closed during this time. But don’t worry...the hair color we use in our Color Bar is the exact same salon-quality color we sell online, delivered to your door. If this is the first time ordering online, we will send you a box and ship it to you free!

Happy Hours

Texas bar-bars may open soon. Are the big local ones ready?

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Where Water and Metal Meet

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Lola’s, MASS, and The Moon say livestreaming is here to stay.

Van Darien’s rootsy debut album gets deep.

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SLOW DAY FOR tSOME c h REOPENED RESTAURANTS

Miss Botox Fort Worth 1327 Hemphill, FWTX, 817528-9899 MissBotoxFortWorth.com During the covid crisis, we are not seeing our aesthetic patients in office. In lieu of Botox and filles we are currently Smoothing lines and providing skinhealth by ZO Skincare line.

We are treating acne, rosacea, hyperpigmentation, age spots and sun damage among other conditions. Call for virtual visit or order through on-line store.

Power BAR Women’s Fitness Arlington & Haltom City TX www.PowerBarFit.com Our pole dance studios are closed for the time being.

However, we are offering online tutorials for pole and dance enthusiasts who would like to continue – or start their training.

Stockyards Salon & Spa 112 NW 24th #116, FWTX, 817-965-8107 No need to show roots!

Custom Hair Color kits made just for you. Delivered for free to your door (in Fort Worth).

Our Color experts will create your Custom Kit after a phone consultation. Pamper yourself by adding Professional Hair care and Skin care products to your basket. Shampoo, Conditioners and even Moisturizing Face Masks.

Urban Yoga 1706 8th Ave, FWTX, 817-908-3569 www.UrbanYogaFW.com

Urban Yoga is bringing the community Facebook Live classes and / or YouTube video and a streaming service via Zoom / Mind Body. For the latest updates, follow us on Facebook or subscribe to our newsletter by emailing InfoUrbanYoga@gmail.com HEALTH & WELLNESS Mothers Milk Bank of North Texas www.TexasMilkBank.org We are currently experiencing an increased need for donor milk in North Texas NICn Us. For important COVID-19 information related to breastfeeding and milk bank safety, click the link on our home page at www. texasmilkbank.org.

Fort Worth Dental Arts 2421 W. 7th St, FWTX www.FortWorthDentalArts.com We are creating a safe space for our patients by seeing one patient at a time and sanitizing every surface, as always! Dr. Hoyt is here for our patients and any dental emergencies that arise. Stay Strong Fort Worth.

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Virtual Tarot Class Sat 4/25 @ 5:30pm, Hearth Wisdom Store Facebook.com/ HearthWisdomStore Due to changes in operations, we are going to host our monthly tarot class virtually!

This month, as we celebrate the Pink/Hare moon, we will explore how pregnancy and fertility shows up in tarot.

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SHOPPING Arlington Camera 544 W Randol Mill, Arlington, TX, 817-261-8131 www.ArlingtonCamera.com We are offering curbside / no contact pick up beginning this Friday 4/24 at 10AM. This includes our amazing inventory of new and used photo gear, our full service digital photo lab and our complete rental department. Please prepay your purchase by calling 817261-8131 or by emailing support@arlingtoncamera.com.

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METROPOLIS Sheltering from a Pandemic

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Static Packing the Basement Thanks to social media, other news outlets, and undoubtedly me, The Basement Bar is sure to be packed whenever Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas bars are allowed to open their doors again. “Mid-May” is when he said he would like bar-bars to reopen, along with barbershops, hair salons, and gyms. The guv approved restaurants, retail stores, malls, movie theaters, and museums at 25% capacity a week ago. The humble little dive and sometimes venue at 105 W Exchange Av has become Ground Zero for the reopen-yesterday contingent.

Across the country.

It all started a couple of weeks ago when the Stockyards watering hole posted on its Facebook page that the beer and shots would start flowing inside on May 1. May 1 came and went and no booze at the bar was served but not before social media saw about a million comments and news stories, including one in these pages (“Basement Bar Doubles Down on Opening May 1 Amid Pandemic,” April 22).

The Basement Bar’s likes jumped. The detractors gnashed their teeth and beat their breasts as loudly as if speaking directly to Donald J. Trump himself. And the firestorm indeed had become political, with conservative commenters claiming it was their right to become exposed to a deadly virus and with the left saying, essentially, “It’s not you we’re worried about. It’s the people you’re going to infect that’s the

problem.” The battle is still raging.

The drama about Michael Rapaport was the next evolutionary step. While the actor from Boston Public and Once Upon a Time in Queens claims he was hoodwinked into giving a video shoutout to the Basement Bar on April 30, the bar says otherwise. Later that day on Facebook, the bar said, “Thank you everyone for the support. We love all you guys and our City!

Edit: Mikey Rapaport is being a pussy now cause all the dumbfuck haters conned him into believing the bar was opening illegally. Nope, the bar never said that. The post in question was posted a week before [Abbott’s] new orders. Bar posted it was opening AFTER the shutdown expires.

Mike was told everything. Either way he’s one of the funniest humans on the planet and being cussed out by him is a honor.”

Fort Worth chef Damien Grober sided with the bar, posting the Rapaport video and saying, “This guy is rude. And he turned on a Fort Worth local business.”

Nearly 100 Facebook users had opinions on that. Most of them against Grober, but some for him, including someone named Amy: “This is totally bullshit. I can’t believe you guys are buying into this.

No one was lied to. [Rapaport] knew exactly what he was getting into. In the end this will probably help the bar out and this POS will still be sitting on his couch waiting for the next bone to be thrown!

He disrespected the Bar, Ft Worth, and most of all our Country. Just my opinion.”

A user named Nick was having none of Amy’s opinion, replying (perhaps in the spirit of May the 4th): “ignorant bullshit

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Fort Worth’s homeless face two dire and potentially deadly risk factors for the COVID-19 disease. The chronically homeless are largely advanced in age, and they disproportionately suffer from chronic illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes, according to multiple offi-

Actor Michael Rapaport shouted out to the Basement Bar on April 30 but later redacted his support after allegedly learning the bar allegedly wanted to open before it was legal.

is strong in you, ain’t it.”

“Nick,” Amy wrote back, “your [sic] definitely a special kind of stupid!!!”

As evidenced by the soldiers of fortune populating Exchange on the day of the Basement Bar’s purported opening –– the bar says it simply mistakenly assumed Abbott would include bars like theirs among the establishments able to reopen –– the Basement Bar is going to be packed with a certain kind of customer from now until November 2020. And, undoubtedly, beyond. The Basement Bar ended one post

quoting someone saying, “#Trump2020.”

–– Anthony Mariani

Clarification

There was some confusion related to last week’s Metropolis (“Proceed with Caution”). To clarify, I am saying patronize restaurants but be safe about it. No need to take a selfie with a dozen other people or go around hugging friends you bump into. The restaurants will make sure their environs are spotless and the employees are dutifully hygienic. You can count on that. — A.M.

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A multifaceted effort is underway to protect Fort Worth’s vulnerable homeless population from COVID-19.

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cials we spoke with who are now providing that vulnerable population with sanitary shelter space, food, and daily medical care.

Federal guidelines released last month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) outlined how homeless individuals should be housed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Fort Worth’s homeless shelters were told that beds needed to be spaced 6 feet apart.

“That left 355 folks without a bed,” recalled Tara Perez, program manager for Directions Home, the city’s plan to address homelessness. She and her team worked with a large team of governmental groups, nonprofits, and JPS Health Network to provide emergency shelter inside the Fort Worth Convention Center.

Since opening on March 18, the temporary overflow shelter has housed 15,768 visitors with an average nightly occupancy of 329 guests, according to the city. To ensure homeless individuals outside the shelter systems are receiving help, the Tarrant County Homeless Coalition and JPS are tending to the needs of unsheltered individuals through outreach teams that provide COVID-19 screenings and hygiene supplies.

The main convention floor is now designated as a “wellness area,” said Bruce Frankel, executive director of the DRC (formerly Day Resource Center), a nonprofit that focuses on housing homeless individuals.

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Latte Da Dairy Locally grown produce isn’t the only thing you’ll find at the Cowtown Farmers Market.

Fresh cheeses from the area are also available year-round. And not just any cheeses, but locally produced goat cheese from Latte Da Dairy! Every batch is lovingly hand-made with milk from Nubian and LaMancha dairy goats raised on a small farmstead dairy located in Flower Mound, Texas. In addition to multiple cheese awards, Latte Da Dairy’s accomplished herd of goats have won numerous championship titles. The dairy can proudly say it produces “awardwinning cheeses from award-winning goats.”

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(Benbrook Traffic Circle) cowtownmarket.com SNAP acceptance made possible in partnership with The Cowtown Farmers Market remains open as an approved outlet for fresh produce and healthy food.

The emergency shelter operates daily from 4 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. All people who enter the building (guests and staff) are screened for symptoms of COVID-19 by JPS medical professionals.

“If you have no temperature, you are cleared to go and check in to a cot in the wellness center,” Frankel said. “If you do have a temperature, you are monitored in a secure area. If you appear to be sick, you are placed under observation for 14 days. If you are really sick, there are RVs in various areas that are secure where you can go for observation and testing.”

As of May 5, a city spokesperson said there is one person who is isolated for observation and no one is currently being isolated in an RV. Anytime you have large groups of people gathered in one area, there’s an increased risk of spreading infections, Frankel said.

Emergency shelter staffers provide guests with face masks. There are also sanitation stations readily accessible throughout the convention center.

After breakfast is served and homeless guests clear out for the day, Frankel said a crew thoroughly cleans every surface that someone may have come into physical contact with that day.

“We are working around the clock to keep the infection rates this low,” he said.

Perez said there hasn’t been an observed increase in the homeless population that can be traced to the COVID-19 outbreak. The economic fallout of the current crisis may take months to manifest as new numbers at homeless shelters. The county has not tracked the number of homeless people who have contracted COVID-19, according to Tarrant County Public Health.

The convention center is not a permanent solution. Perez said city officials are developing a plan to phase out the current emergency shelter as other housing/shelter options become available. We reached out to the city for details about that plan but have not heard back yet.

Perez said federal funds and new COVID-19-related federal funds will provide new resources for rapid rehousing efforts. If the CDC revises its spacing guidelines for beds in shelters, that may allow for the return of additional homeless individuals to other shelters like Presbyterian Night Shelter.

A city spokesperson said that city staffers are “working with the Tarrant County Homeless Coalition, along with other partners, to develop a safe and effective demobilization plan for the overflow shelter. Because of the fluid nature of this emergency, the plan is continually being reevaluated and adjusted.

For now, we are continuing the operation as previously discussed.”

From what she has observed, Perez said, the city and county reacted quickly to protect the vulnerable homeless population.

“The city has a huge chain [of employees] working through our joint operation center,” she said. “To get everything in place with contracts, security, and food service, it was amazing how fast that was able to happen.” l

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TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS AND PARTIES: Oldcastle Infrastructure, Inc., has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for renewal of Registration No. 46822, for an Air Quality Standard Permit for Concrete Batch Plants, which would authorize continued operation of the Concrete Batch Plant located at 1100 Heritage Parkway, Mansfield, Tarrant County, Texas 76063. Additional information concerning this application is contained in the public notice section of this newspaper.

Local Bars Ready to Roll If the governor says they can, many Fort Worth watering holes will swing open their doors.

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ith restaurants, retail stores, malls, and movie theaters reopening at 25% capacity as of last Friday, remaining businesses have been left waiting for Phase 2 of Gov. Greg Abbott’s incremental plan to reopen Texas. While the governor just okayed the reopenings of hair salons, barbershops, gyms, wedding ceremonies, swimming pools, and formerly nonessential manufacturing services as soon as now and as late as May 18, he conspicuously left out bars, though “mid-May,” as he said on April 27, was his target date for them. Seems Texas watering holes may have to wait a little while longer. A call to the governor’s office was not returned by press time.

Local bars are still preparing for go time. After over a month of self-mixed and -poured cocktails in our living rooms, we have been wondering which popular Fort Worth drinking establishments are going to open once Abbott says it’s OK. And if any won’t.

Poag Mahone’s and Thompson’s Bookstore plan to reopen their doors as soon as it’s legal and learn how to operate with their employees wearing the proper protective wear.

“We’ll power-wash and clean everything from top to bottom,” said Glen Keely, who co-owns the Irish pub in the West 7th corridor and the downtown cocktail lounge.

The forthcoming Tarantula Tiki Lounge specializing in exotic drinks and equally exotic vibe is eyeing a soft opening in May.

He plans to set up sanitizer stations at the front and back doors, in front of the bathroom doors, and behind the bars for their bartenders to actively use.

“I hope people come out,” Keely said. “Everyone has a different idea of safety, and that’s OK. You do what you

feel you should do.

“Unfortunately,” Keely continued, “we lost money in sales, but me and my partner, Will Wells, left a lot of money in the business, so we’ve been able to ride that.

We’ve kept our managers on the payroll and furloughed

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says,’ because we’re going to have to look at things and see where everything is at and see what the best thing is to do for the safety of our employees and our guests.

Information changes every single day and every single hour.”

Usual staff is currently working on a plan to implement safety precautions.

“We’ve got to see where everything is when it comes time to actually reopen,” Pollard said, “but we’ve been talking with other bars about the steps that they’re taking. We plan do to everything that’s recommended by the state, plus whatever else we can.

“I haven’t seen any recommendations for bars specifically,” he continued, “just what they’re doing for dining rooms, which is removing tables, keeping a safe distance, and sanitizing surfaces. I know a bunch of people are putting up sanitizer stations so people can sanitize their hands more frequently.

“We’re committed to coming back and being as strong as ever, whenever we can do that safely,” Pollard continued. “We are trying to utilize whatever resources we can and look at different ways we can structure the business going forward, because we can do that — we can come back stronger.

We’ve got a great team. I think that’s what I’m missing the most right now, being out there seeing people and being able to be out there with my team.”

In response to the continuation of restaurants selling to-go alcohol, Pollard said, “We have to make our voices heard

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all of our bartenders. We have reserves that we were saving for rainy days. We were thinking that rainy day was slow business.

We never expected anything like this, but luckily we’ll be able to get through it.

We’re almost to the other side.”

What “pisses” off Keely, he said, are to-go alcohol sales.

“It’s not offered for bars,” he said.

“It’s only for restaurants. And now they’re talking about letting it stay. Bars and restaurants operate very similarly in the way they run, yet one of them is allowed to do it and the other one isn’t?

I called the [Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission] and said, ‘I know we don’t have a large kitchen, but we could order pre-packaged meals from Sysco to serve it with our alcohol to go.’ They told us no. The bars are opening later than most restaurants, which doesn’t make any sense when you talk about the spread of disease, but the bigger [issue] is the to-go alcohol.

We don’t operate any different than a restaurant, other than we’re not serving food. Same service and procedures. Why are we unable to do that? I feel like a second-class citizen.”

When asked if The Usual will open if Abbott initiates Phase 2, Jason Pollard, a managing partner at the Near Southside cocktail lounge, said, “I think the plan right now is we’re trying to make the best decision with the best information that we can. I don’t want to say, ‘Yes, we are going to officially reopen when Abbott

Proper’s Little-Adams: “We’re monitoring the situation and will make a plan as it gets closer. The health and safety of our guests and employees are important, and we won’t be doing anything reckless.”

on that one. I’ve been talking with other people around the state about really trying to find a singular voice where all of us can say, ‘Hey, we contribute to the economy as well. Let’s try to bring some reason to these to-go laws.’ ” In a Facebook message, Lisa LittleAdams said her Near Southside cocktail lounge Proper will open “probably, depending on conditions.

We’re monitoring the situation and will make a plan as it gets closer. The health and safety

of our guests and employees are important, and we won’t be doing anything reckless.”

Proper is currently selling nonalcoholic drinks.

She added, “#BeKindToEachOther and #BeProper.”

A co-owner of The Boiled Owl Tavern on the Near Southside, Autumn Brackeen feels it’s too soon to make a decision about reopening. “We are closely following the numbers in Tarrant County, and we’re definitely going to check in with our staff a little bit closer, just to see where everyone is and how they feel about returning to work,” Brackeen said. “We’re not strictly going by any announcement. We will make the decision on our own based on our comfort level.”

In a situation so foreign to us all, it’s hard to know what is best. We only know what feels best for the individual and for each individual business.

The Owl will be using plastic drinkware for the foreseeable future, installing hand sanitizers, and improving upon their standard operating procedure for daily and deep cleaning, Brackeen said.

“There will probably be more precautions taken as we figure out the new normal for the time being,” she said. “I think it will return to normal eventually.

We have an outstanding customer base, who are also our friends. Everyone has been so supportive of our decisions so far.”

Brackeen had plans to stage a soft opening for her forthcoming bar, Tarantula Tiki Lounge, on March 27. “Obviously, the

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MASS’ Higgs: “It doesn’t seem like the right time, but you have to do what you have to do to keep your business going. I think everyone will reopen, and I think everyone will take all of the necessary precautions.”

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inability to open doors, and still have bills to pay, has been a struggle, but we know people are going to come out and support us when the time is right,” Brackeen said.

“People have been so incredibly kind, donating to the Owl staff and buying gift cards for the Tarantula.”

The name of the tiki lounge came from the episode of The Brady Bunch in which the family vacationed to Hawaii.

“We wanted to do something different from the Owl,” said Steve Steward, the Tarantula’s “director of vibe” and a Weekly contributor. “We want it to be distinctive, low lighting, with a genre of music playing called exotica.”

“Exotica” can be described as musical impressions of travel destinations, such as Hawaii, the Caribbean, and the Amazon.

It is mixed with bird songs and evokes a tropical energy. “You could almost film a movie in the bar,” Steward said.

“We’re not going to reopen Tarantula Tiki Lounge until we’re comfortable,” he added. “We want our staff to feel safe. It all depends on what the experts say. As long as the doctors and scientists say it’s cool, we’ll open the doors for a soft opening in May.” The Local plans to open as soon as bars are allowed. When asked what safety precautions will be implemented at the West 7th bar, owner Morgan Roberts responded, “Not sure how we’re going to handle it yet. As we get closer to an opening date, we’ll have a full staff meeting and figure it out from there.”

When asked how the bar’s future will be affected by the pandemic, Roberts said, “No one really knows as of yet. Obviously, as a bar owner, we hope customers will return, which I personally think will happen. I guess time will tell.”

And he couldn’t be more right.

“If and when they give us the all clear, we are prepared to do so,” said Chris Maunder, who owns the music venue and bar-bar The Moon by TCU. “We’re excited about it. I’m sure there’s a lot of people against it, but we’re the ones taking all this risk. I can understand their apprehension, and I respect that. We have a couple staff who aren’t sure that they’re ready to get back into public, and that’s totally understandable. Aside from those two, my employees are ready to come back to work.”

The Moon staff plans to follow every guideline available. “From restaurant association to the state to the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], if there’s a guideline for operating safely, we obviously want to make sure we’re doing that,” Maunder said.

When asked how the bar’s future will be affected by the pandemic, he responded, “That’s a really good question, and I think that’s something that all of us have in our heads: ‘What does that look like? What can we expect?’ Obviously, we’re not in the same boat as some of the larger restaurants

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can open up so we can have air moving throughout the space all the time,” he added. “When they say 25% capacity, we’ll click that many people in, but having this much space outside, it makes sense for people to come out. We can practice social distancing. In times like this, it’s a blessing.”

Maunder said that if the lockdown would have happened while he was running The Moon at its previous location, near the intersection of West Berry Street and University Boulevard, his situation would have been much more dire. The old Moon was only 1,500 square feet of enclosed space.

Though MASS co-owner Ryan Higgs cares about the health and safety of his employees and customers, he feels if rent and bills reactivate, then, “Maybe we’ll have to open.”

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and bars in town — our staffing has always been minimal and our expenses are a lot less. I don’t know how much it will impact us. We were open only four months or so prior to closing. If anything, this gave us the opportunity to take a step back and see what we can do better. Hopefully, as things start to roll out, we’ll continue to see our sales go in the direction we were looking for. We have almost an entire acre behind our brick and mortar, so we look forward to utilizing that space the way we envisioned. That might be down the road, but in the meantime, we’ll use what we have available to us to keep moving forward.”

In addition to the Moon’s ample backyard, Maunder purchased a 28-foot Airstream right before the outbreak. He plans to turn it into a satellite bar out back.

“We’ve got three big garage doors we

The Moon’s Maunder: “When they say 25% capacity, we’ll click that many people in, but having this much space outside, it makes sense for people to come out. We can practice social 8 distancing. In times like this, it’s a blessing.”

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Poag Mahone’s and Thompson’s Keely: “I hope people come out. Everyone has a different idea of safety, and that’s OK. You do what you feel you should do.”

He mentioned that the day before a lot of businesses reopened on Friday, Tarrant County turned in its second-highest numbers.

“It doesn’t seem like the right time,” Higgs said, “but you have to do what you have to do to keep your business going. I think everyone will reopen, and I think everyone will take all of the necessary precautions.”

Higgs said he will encourage his employees to wear masks.

“It’s strange with bars, because the first thing we have to do is I.D. these people, so if there’s patrons coming in with masks, we have to tell them to take it down so we can make sure they’re 21,” Higgs said. “I’ll encourage my staff to be as careful as possible. We’ll have hand sanitizing bottles or stations. One thing we started doing was moving to plastic, which I believe is a little bit safer only because it’s one touch. The bartender still has to make the drink, but there’s no washing it or worrying about the water not being right in your sink and somehow [the virus] survived the sink and you pass it on to the next person. I’m sure they’ll come up with some ideas for us that we’ll have to follow.

We’re not all bar owners — not everyone’s going to know what to do. They should give us some guidelines just like they do for other businesses.”

Higgs, whose venue has been hosting successful livestreamed performances (the Social Distancing Concert series), believes live music is going to “struggle a bit, especially if they decide to reopen with the 25 or 50% capacity. That’s not the business of live music. It’s to get as many people in there as you can. If you take it down to 25% capacity, well, that might be three bands with four members, two bartenders, a sound man, a door man, before you can even let anybody in. And then I walk in

to oversee things, and you’ve got 17 people there. How many people can I let in there?

It’s not ideal, but none of this has been.”

Until life turns back to normal, Higgs said he and wife Jenna Hill are working on her new bar. Liberty Lounge is slated to open eight blocks from MASS at 515 S. Jennings Ave. “It’s pretty much set up to where we can open two weeks after we receive the license,” Higgs said. “We’re in no rush at this point. If they open bars, let’s say May 18, and we have our license by then, we’ll open two weeks later.”

Higgs described Liberty Lounge as your neighborhood bar — a place you’ll probably know who’s serving you behind the counter. With plenty of outdoor seating on the patio and Pizza Bar None across the street willing to deliver to customers, Liberty Lounge has potential.

“I’ve been in the restaurant/bar business my whole life,” Higgs said. “I’ve always told everybody it’s recession-proof.

And it is. People are happy, they drink.

People are sad, they drink. I never really expected a pandemic. A restaurant is not built to run at 25% capacity. They’re staffed to be full. I feel for the ones that have to be open because they just have bills to pay. Some can afford to stay closed. It’s the right thing to do if you can afford it, but I guarantee the ones that are open are because they can’t afford to be closed. I’m saying that because I know that all of us bar guys are waiting for opening day. We’re not going to feel great about it, but if that’s when all the bills are in, if it’s time to go, it’s time to go. If the governor says we can open, then people expect you to.”

Brian Forella, owner of perhaps the most popular original live music venue in Fort Worth, Lola’s Saloon, declined to be interviewed for this story. l

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At 10am, Urban Yoga is offering its weekly virtual Hatha and Meditation Sunday practice. Up to 99 people can participate, so it could be your next non-group activity. Leading the sessions will be Lou Chapman, a well-known yoga instructor who teaches in Fort Worth, Aledo, and Arlington. Along with creating a student account at UrbanYogaFW.com, you’ll also need a free Zoom account.

Zoom. Ever heard of it? Hmm, sounds familiar. Call 817- 908-3569.

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See Mariangela Vacatello at the Cliburn Global Watch Party.

An Americana quintet from the Fort, Invisible Riverside will perform a Wednesday livestreamed concert at 8pm as part of Live at the Hop. The new series at HopFusion Ale Works will take place every Wednesday and feature artists who have performed at the space before. The proceeds will benefit a charity of the artist’s choice. Visit Facebook.com/HopFusion.

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Downtown Arlington Roots, an audiovisual podcast about the history Thursday of the area, goes live at 4pm. In the six-week-long series, different guest speakers drop in to share their expert opinions and tell tales of the Arlington of yesteryear. Tune in via iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, and Facebook. com/DowntownArlingtonTexas.

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At 5pm, it will be time to pick up your dumplings.

Hao and Dixya are doing a Friday Dumpling Pickup Popup at The Table (120 St. Louis Av, Ste 103B, 682-703-1092). Choices are beef pho or the vegan curried potato. It’s curbside, but you will need to preorder. Visit Facebook.com/ HaoDixya.

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Live music of every genre, shape, and form has been cancelled. Thanks, Rona.

Saturday One concert that got the ax was the quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

It will return in 2021. At 2pm, though, you can join a Global Watch Party at Facebook. com/TheCliburn. There you can hear a few words from 2009 Cliburn Audience Award Winner Mariangela Vacatello and view her Cliburn Competition preliminary round recital (originally broadcast May 24, 2009).

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Every Monday at 12:30pm, Arlington Charities provides a Monday mobile food pantry at 811 Secretary Dr. Everyone is welcome. No appointment. No ID or proof of address. Hungry visitors receive free frozen meat and fresh produce until it’s gone for the day. Due to social distancing, it is drive-through only and you must stay in your car. Pop your trunk before you arrive. They will put the junk in your trunk and send you on your way. Call 817275-1511.

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By now, we should have known which restaurant in Tarrant County serves Tuesday the best taco. Alas, our annual El Fuerte Taco Fest, slated for the first weekend of May, was cancelled in the wake of COVID-19. In celebration of Taco Tuesdays everywhere, we honor those who would have competed this year. At noon or later, try lunch at Del Norte Tacos, Los Vaqueros, Pepe’s Taqueria, or Smokin’ Cactus. They coulda been a contendah! For future rescheduling updates, visit FWTacoFest.com.

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Coyote Drive-In’s a Go

Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest order means that retailers, malls, restaurants, museums, and movie theaters can reopen at 25% capacity. For the most part, movie theaters said thanks, but no thanks.

Texas-based Alamo Drafthouse, known for providing the damn-nearperfect movie-watching experience, is remaining closed. North Texas-based Cinemark is as well. With safety a concern and a lack of new releases, this is not unexpected. The socialdistancing answer? Coyote Drive-In. It has reopened.

The pavilion and grassy areas are off-limits and shows are single features of previously released movies, though you are safe inside your own vehicle.

Last weekend through this Thursday, the drive-in featured Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Sonic the Hedgehog, Trolls World Tour, and The Fast and the Furious.

Screenings at Coyote Drive-In, 223 NE 4th St, FW. Tickets are free-$6. Call 817-7177767.

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KULTURE Hard Times

I am the face of the coronavirus, and it does not feel good.

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along with my two grandkids, Taylor Rain and Teigan Grey, have not been here either since I left the hospital a couple of weeks ago. I am used to seeing them a lot and miss them enormously. Sarah called the other day and asked for a couple of dozen eggs from our coop — including a halfdozen fresh organic duck eggs — and I had to leave them on the front porch for her to pick them up.

I am not looking for sympathy here.

Things are what they are. A lot of people are in much rougher spots than I am. Deaths are beginning to mount here in Texas. The daily list of hospital rooms, intensive care rooms, and ventilators being used in the Dallas area hospitals go up most days and are considerably higher than two or three weeks ago.

And now we’re in the process of reopening Texas. The restaurants in

I am the perfect age and currently dealing with several severe conditions that make me the perfect candidate for this illness. Should I get it, I don’t know if I will survive.

Burleson, several of them, are open for indoor dining. Masks, never much in use at my local supermarkets, are apparently disappearing. The local Goodwill had more than four dozen cars in its lot on Saturday. I suppose it simply has not hit hard enough here for everyone to understand that this is no joke. But what do they imagine will happen given our reopening? Do they believe that Gov. Greg Abbott and President Donald Trump saying everything is OK makes it OK? Or do people think like Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick that “there are worse things than dying”?

Perhaps the people pushing to open things up don’t have friends or family in New York or Michigan who are either front-line health workers or people suffering from this virus. Perhaps they think that because they don’t know anyone who has died from this that the deaths are not really happening. Here’s a clue: This ain’t the flu. By the time this goes to press, we’ll have had more than 70,000 of us — yes, us in the United States — dead in just about six weeks. And it could get a lot worse in a heartbeat if we don’t maintain sensible precautions.

Make no mistake. This is a huge issue, everyone. I hope you all make it through. l The Weekly welcomes editorial submissions from all political persuasions.

Please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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Matthew H., with whom I am writing a musical, is in touch with people and over at the house several times a week. We wash, we clean, but we’re not perfect. My younger son Marco comes over to hug me and eat dinner a couple of times a week.

And then I have doctor’s appointments and a home nurse and physical therapist, both of whom, until two weeks ago, were here several times a week.

You get the picture. I try, but life goes on, even if mostly in quarantine. You avoid what you can, but you don’t roll up and sit in a fetal position. At least I don’t.

What I miss most are the other members of my family. My ex-wife, generally over for coffee most mornings, is afraid to come and expose me to infection.

Her two young daughters have not been here since I’ve been out of the hospital.

My oldest son, Italo, and his wife Sarah,

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I am Peter Gorman. I have been writing for the Fort Worth Weekly since 2004, not long after I moved from New York City to Texas for family reasons. I am 69 years old. Not too long ago, I was released from Huguley Hospital after a 13-day stay. It was my sixth time in the hospital in four years, all of the stays due to issues that cropped up from my second job, which is as a guide and medicinal plant collector in the Peruvian Amazon jungle. Those recent stays included time for dealing with flesh-eating bacteria that attacked my legs, a ruptured intestine, and, most recently, sepsis when my kidneys failed, among a host of less life-threatening problems.

It is just the way things are for me and I have not changed over the last 35 years and probably won’t. I love the Amazon jungle, even though it will finally get me. I live with that.

What I did not expect to live with was the coronavirus. I am the perfect age and currently dealing with several severe conditions that make me the perfect candidate for this illness. Should I get it, I don’t know if I will survive. It would be awful to die of COVID-19 after I’ve survived the jungle for so long, but the reality is there to deal with daily. On the other hand, I can only run so much.

I scrub my hands. I wash canned and packaged goods before I use them. I go to the store with a friend daily but stay in the car and listen to music while he fills my shopping list for dinner. And I make spectacular dinners daily — the only job I’m permitted to do. Well, that and cleaning the kitchen.

But my friend Devon is still in touch with people in the supermarket. And with my daughter Madeleina’s friends: Adrian, a fast-food delivery guy, and Patrick, who will return to work at Target. My friend

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With public and corporate events cancelled for over a month, catering companies have struggled to stay alive. Among them is Z’s Cafe & Catering, a family-owned business that regularly catered large parties along with corporate and private events around the city before the COVID-19 lockdown.

Today their already small staff of 10 has been cut to four, and business is down 90 percent. Most of their paying customers are first-responders and healthcare workers ordering curbside pickup.

Before COVID-19, Z’s staffers would spend their mornings prepping for lunch service at the Women’s Club of Fort Worth, where Z’s would usually seat 150 people each day. Then staffers would prepare for the next day, and so on. They had steady work and a regular catering schedule before COVID-19 prompted businesses and organizations across the world to cancel events. With nobody to serve, head chef Janet Capua and her son, co-owner Carlo Capua, had to find a way to stay in business.

While this is a difficult time for any small business, the Capuas said they decided early into the pandemic to adapt their business model to meet the community’s changing food needs.

They said they wanted to give back to the community that had encouraged them and their business to grow, and now Z’s was in a position to do that.

“We ended up changing our business model where now we find different people in the community –– either individuals or families or businesses –– to sponsor meals for food-insecure citizens,” Carlo said.

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Every Sunday, Crisis Meal Project volunteers prepare boxed meals and deliver them to highneed families based on guidance from United Way.

Project, a partnership with United Way of Tarrant County and the Tarrant Area Food Bank (TAFB) to provide prepared meals for children and families struggling with food insecurity.

“We’re doing probably a couplethousand meals a week now,” Carlo said.

After COVID-19 forced schools to close campuses and move to online coursework, many low-income families had to turn to nonprofits such as TAFB for help. However, some families can’t travel to food distributors such as food pantry sites.

“The hardships we’ve endured is nothing compared to the people we’re servicing right now,” Janet said.

Every Sunday, Crisis Meal Project volunteers prepare boxed meals and deliver them to high-need families based on guidance from United Way. “The response from the community has been unbelievable,” she said. “They have turned around and supported us. …

It’s mindboggling.”

The project is funded by monetary and food donations. According to the campaign page on the Z’s Cafe website, a $280 donation feeds a family of four for a week.

TAFB CEO Julie Butner said food distribution went up 60% at the start of the pandemic, signaling an increased need for food. Their operations are now up 80%.

Z’s Cafe & Catering has provided culinary training at the food bank in the past, so Butner was already familiar with their business when Carlo suggested they form a partnership.

“I think that Carlo has a servant’s heart and he’s interested in the good of the

community,” Butner said. “I think he was trying to figure out a way to keep his team employed and busy and figure out a way to make a contribution to his community.”

Several restaurants in the area have donated their excess product to the food bank, but Butner said the Capuas motivated local businesses to become involved in fighting food insecurity.

Carlo said the biggest challenge facing Z’s Cafe is not knowing when they’ll be able to return to “normal” service. Even events that weren’t cancelled have been postponed indefinitely and Janet said the majority of their business usually comes from catering for large groups –– gatherings that will likely remain banned for a while, even after the state reopens nonessential businesses.

Meanwhile, food insecure families will still struggle, and Carlo said keeping the Crisis Meal Project alive relies on donors staying regularly involved.

“Honestly, I don’t know how many more donors we’re going to be able to find,” Carlo said. “We take meals over on Mondays and Sundays, so after we do these meals on Mondays, I’ve got to find another sponsor so we can do meals [next] Sunday. … These families are depending on us, and we can’t let them down.”

Despite this challenge, the Capuas sound cheerful when they talk about their new project. Janet said that as long as people need them, Z’s Cafe will find a way to help. After all, they get to support others while doing what they love most –– cooking.

“For us personally, God has always shown us the way,” she said. “It’s a journey of faith and food.” l

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5 AM Drip Coffee Roasters 1201 Evans Ave #101, FWTX SquareUp.com/Store/5am-drip-dallasfort-worth-texas We are doing Curbside Pickup, Uber Eats and Grub Hub. Hours are Monday to Friday 7am to 2pm and Saturday and Sunday 8am to 2pm.

Chimy’s 1053 Foch St, FWTX, 817-348-8888 www.Chimys.com Do y’all need lunch for homeschooling? Or dinner for the family? We now offer familysized fajita packs. Available for 4, 8, or 12 at $12 per person. For to-go procedures and delivery instructions (2pm-5pm only), please visit Chimys.com. Margarita delivery? Gotcha covered on that too.

Please call 817-348-8888.

Cowtown Brewing 1301 E Belknap, FWTC, 817 489-5800 www.CowtownBrewco.com Order a meal to go and 4-pack of your favorite Cowtown Brew and receive 15% off your total bill. Call and place your order today. Curbside Pickup Available. “Please support your local Breweries by purchasing Beer to go.” -Shawn Kidwell, Cowtown Brewing Co.

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Fat Daddy’s Mansfield 781 W Debbie, Mansfield TX, 817-4530188 www.FatDaddysLive.com/Dinner We will be serving the community by providing convenient TO-GO ORDERS. Make yours by calling 817-453-0188 from 11am-8pm and we’ll take care of the rest.

For updates on packages, to-go meals, drinks and more, visit us at Facebook. com/FatDaddysLive Funky Picnic Brewery & Café 401 Bryan Ave #117, FWTX, 817-7082739 www.FunkyPicnicBrewery.com We also have daily specials, call for details.

Carryout, curbside or home delivery available. We also have 32oz Canned Crowlers of Beer-To-Go available. Cheers, stay safe and support local!

Flying Saucer 111 E 3rd St, FWTX, 817-336-7470 BeerKnurd.com/Stores/FortWorth Our hours are Sunday to Thursday 11-9 and Fridays and Saturdays 11-11. For specials and updates, follow us at Facebook.com/FlyingSaucerFortWorth.

Juice Junkies 925 Foch Street, FWTX, 817-885-7775 www.JuiceJunkies.com Juice Junkies has a bounty of superfoods,

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Legal Draft Beer Co 500 E Division, Arlington TX, 817-9622210 www.LegalDraftBeer.com At a time like this, it’s always great to relax with a cold beer or two. We love seeing your smiling faces relaxing in our taproom, but that’s not possible right now. We’ve heard you asking whether we’re going to sell beer to go, and the answer is YESSS!!

Details at www.LegalDraftBeer.com/ Curbside Locust Cider & Brewing Co 701 S Main, FWTX LocustCider.com/TapRooms/Fort-Worth Now offering Delivery through DoorDash for hard cider (six packs, growlers, grunts) and craft beer (growlers and grunts). Still offering TO GO during limited hours (Wednesday-Sunday Noon-8pm) as well as gift cards and merchandise. Online ordering on Squareup for pick up in our taproom or curbside.

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From all of us at Taps & Caps,Thank you and we love you! We are open daily.

The Post At River East 2925 Race St, FWTX, 817-945-8890 www.ThePostAtRiverEast.com Cocktail delivery still available. These 32 oz carafes of house made cocktails will yield roughly 6 drinks when poured over ice, and you can get them delivered to your door for only $20! Our Full Menu, including Cocktails, Beer, and Wine is available for Take-Out or Delivery. To place an order call 817.945.8890.

Roots Coffeehouse 400 Bryan Ave #101, FWTX, 817-3498059 9101 Blvd 26 #101, NRH TX, 817-5037344 www.Facebook.com/RootsCoffeehouse Open reduced hours for now for Take Out and Curbside Pick Up. Find our hours by visiting our social media channels @ rootscoffeehouse.

Salsa Limon Multiple DFW Locations www.SalsaLimon.com Open for To-Go, Curbside pickup & Delivery through Doordash or Favor. Salsa Limon, one of Fort Worth’s originals is here to serve you and your family during this crisis.

We also have to go offerings of Beers, Ritas,Wine, Micheladas & Mimosas..

Please download our app on any of your devices for ordering and keep your eye out for our Trucks servicing certain areas throughout Fort Worth.

Shaw’s Patio Bar & Grill 1051 W. Magnolia Ave, FWTX, 817-9262116 www.ShawsBurgers.com Shaw’s offers Counter Pick-up, Curbside Pick-up and Delivery thru Favor, Grub Hub, Door Dash & Caviar. “Shaw’s will continue Curbside & Delivery options. We will NOT open our Dining Room this Friday.

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Food and chooses to sit on our patio or would like to purchase Food and sit at the Bar to order a drink…we will be happy to accommodate them. We will follow the guidelines set forth observing the 25% occupancy BUT we are not open and seating diners in the restaurant at this time.” –Ann. Southside Cellar 125 S. Main St, FWTX, 682-703-2184 www.SouthsideBeerCellar.com Trying times call for good beer and Southside Cellar has got you covered!

Their retail space is fully stocked and ready for you to run in and grab a few brews. The huge Tap Wall is ready for your discerning tastes and you can take a Growler or Crowler with you to enjoy from the comforts of home! Don’t forget about Gift Cards which will come in handy too once all of this blows over!

Thirty Eight & Vine 212 Carroll St #130, FWTX, 682-7031887 www.ThirtyEightAndVine.com Thirty Eight & Vine is following the CDC very closely and at this time we are remaining open. We are providing free wine delivery within a 20 mile radius. 6 bottle minimum requirement.

Winslow’s Wine Café 4101 Camp Bowie, FWTX, 817-546-6843 www.WinslowsWineCafe.com We are committed to the health and safety of our patrons and staff. During this time, we are OPEN and will proudly offer Curbside To-Go. Give us a call and let us know how we can be of service.

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Putting out an album in the middle of a pandemic likely can’t help but feel a bit anticlimactic. The many months (or years) of work spent writing, recording, planning, and conceptualizing the marketing and promotion which are involved in an upcoming release usually culminate in a rash of celebratory activity. Live performances, the courting of radio to spin the carefully chosen singles or an on-air appearance, seeing physical copies on shelves in stores, and even interviews with challenged but no less dogged and unwaveringly determined local alternative weekly publications (a’hem) ––

HearSay Livin’ la Video Local The in-person live music experience isn’t going anywhere. Don’t worry. The only thing about it that’s going to change moving forward is its shape, from bigger to smaller. The extent of the decrease will depend on the square footage of the venue.

For forward-thinking music spaces, square footage can become an afterthought thanks to livestreaming.

“I think people are getting used to the idea of live and virtual streaming,” a furloughed Paradigm agent recently told Rolling Stone. “Right now, the idea of going to a 300-cap venue and pushing through some asshole crowd of kids to pay for an $18 beer, just to stand in a corner and nod my head to some music that is never as good as the record, seems just like hell to me. Maybe I’m the only one. Maybe I’m jaded, but I don’t think live music will be as important as it once was for a while.”

He’s probably just jaded. The in-person experience is always going to be important, the degree to which varying by shades in cycles like every other artistic medium.

Now that in-person’s luster may be waning a little due to social distancing and the bright, shiny, intoxicating newness of livestreaming, venue owners all over the world are getting creative. Leading the way locally during the lockdown has been MASS, offering its Social Distancing Concert Series.

Brandin Lea, The Unlikely Candidates, and the Quaker City Night Hawks’ Sam Anderson are just some of the big timers whose performances have been livestreamed from the Near Southside venue’s stage. Is livestreaming a legit option moving forward?

“I believe livestreaming will be/has become a viable medium for musicians,” said MASS co-owner Ryan Higgs in a text message. “However, the main source of income for artists is touring. The venues/ bars need the bodies to sell booze and to stay open. The bands need that in-person energy that only comes from being there. The trick as a venue is to find if both streaming and live shows can exist together. I’m not forgetting people who have reasons to stay home during this pandemic and even after restrictions are lifted. The chance to see live music will hopefully be available.”

Lola’s Saloon owner Brian Forella believes livestreaming is “totally legit,” he told me. What he may like most about it is that it brings together his two worlds: his Fort Worth family and his extended family in Florida and New Jersey. For performances by two Lola’s bartenders, Blake Parish and Kris Luther, Forella pitches them especially hard to his out-of-town kin: “Now I can just go, ‘Wednesday at 10, Blake and Luther are on Facebook Live. ... You guys aren’t in town, but they’re my buddies.’ [My family] couldn’t see them play before. Now they can. ... They can drop them 20, 30, 50 bucks: ‘That’s badass. Here’s 50 bucks.’ ” Owner of the TCU-area venue The

Moon, Chris Maunder isn’t quite sure if livestreaming is here to stay but definitely spies an opportunity: “Um, I don’t know about the definition of ‘legit,’ but I always felt like this was something coming, and I’m really interested to see how it progresses.”

Maunder believes that livestreaming is especially advantageous to touring and/ or major-label artists: “It’s a really good outlet for fans of bands with a wide-ranging fan base. They don’t always come to town, and you can’t always see them, so for those bands, it’s a really good option. On the local, smaller side, I just don’t know.”

About the big artists, he’s right.

Livestreaming services such as StageIT and LiveXLive are reportedly fielding more inquiries now than ever. LiveXLive has created its own content, a departure from livestreaming only major festivals such as Electric Daisy and Lollapalooza. The company expects to air at least 75 episodes of My Home to Yours over the next year, up from 40 the year before, the CEO told Rolling Stone. “Livestreaming is just exploding,” he said. “We’re beefing up our production team.”

Forella is beefing up his, too. Working with audiovisual producer/engineer/ musician Nick Choate, Lola’s owner imagines ticketing to be as simple as perhaps posting an image of your purchase or paying to be part of a special group specific to the livestreaming platform, like Facebook.

“Maybe pay 20 bucks at the door, and when it’s sold out, it’s sold out,” Forella said.

“Just do a small show inside,” he continued,

differentiating between Lola’s Saloon and the much more spacious adjacent space, Lola’s Trailer Park, “because the days of 150 people inside Lola’s [Saloon] are not coming back anytime soon.”

Maunder is prepared to embrace livestreaming, too, though cautiously. He said that he has watched it go locally from super-successful to routine in just a few short weeks, which gives him pause: “My guess is that it has to do with the repetition, how often the smaller, local bands are playing. The same issue that we have of bands playing live all the time [locally] is what we’re having online now. Now, if it’s something very special, I can see a bigger group of people watching. I’m definitely excited about that direction, and for small clubs, it’s always good to have an outlet like that. Whether we’re charging or it’s a livestream, it’s a good opportunity.”

The music industry at large appears to be weakening. Touring revenue seems to be the only avenue by which most artists earn any real income — revenue from product sales is next to negligible, and the payout from streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora is minuscule for most.

Livestreaming may be the way to move forward, especially locally.

“Streaming is a viable way to get through the next frickin’ year,” Forella said.

“Everyone’s going to have to adapt. You gotta move and shake, or it’s not going to happen.”

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The Nashville-based Fort Worth native releases Levee, her Americana debut full-length.

friend reminded her of a line from one of her favorite songs. In the outlaw country classic “Highwayman” by the legendary country supergroup The Highwaymen, Waylon Jennings describes a place “where steel and water did collide.” With a “levee” being just such a place, Darien found her theme.

As well as Cooper’s fingerprints all over the album, Darien enlisted singer-songwriter Owen Beverly to perform the duet on “The Sparrow & the Sea,” and former Arlington native Maren Morris receives co-writer credits for “Twisted Metal” and the Tom Waits-ian “Low Road.” Perhaps the most surprising co-writer credit goes to Darien’s father, who penned the opening verse to one of the album’s singles, “American Steel.”

Though primarily a welder and a mechanic, her father, she said, has always been creative with language and often writes poetry. She said that the experience of writing with her father is a memory she cherishes and is a particularly poignant example of the inspirations behind the album.

“I think it’s very special to have a song that I wrote with my dad,” she said.

“Especially [because it’s] about things that last –– about things that survive long after we’re gone. This song will still be here long after we’re gone.”

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The album, recorded over several months at Nashville’s Glass Onion Studios, is made up of 10 tonally diverse story songs that blend folk, country, and even indierock flavors. Darien gives credit to her producer/guitarist (and boyfriend of nearly eight years), Steven Cooper, for the way he helped craft and accentuate the tracks emotionally. She puts particular emphasis on his creativity for the broad spectrum of sounds that appear on Levee, like what she calls the “dying dinosaurs” solo on “Twisted Metal” –– sounds that are fairly foreign in most “Americana” music.

“He definitely had all of the say sonically, as far as the direction a song would take,” she said. “When I bring a song to the table, he’s very good about bringing out the emotion [the song is trying to relate]. For example, on ‘The Sparrow & The Sea,’ that’s a very emotional and dramatic song. But every time that solo comes around, somehow it magnifies those emotions even more than I could ever do vocally or lyrically.”

The title of the album is an allusion to Darien’s tendency to consistently reference images of water and metal in her lyrics. With songs like the title track, “American Steel,” and the aforementioned “Twisted Metal” and “The Sparrow & the Sea,” Darien finds herself subconsciously returning to these two seemingly disparate concepts again and again. The actual marrying of those two ideas into a single theme solidified when a

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these represent the flurry of momentum that typically surrounds an artist after the release of new music. Though she knew almost all of the payoff for all the work leading up would be denied, singer-songwriter Van Darien decided she still needed to do it.

It is “definitely strange to say the least –– I really had to think about it for a while,” Darien said of releasing an album while the world is in lockdown. “It’s kind of a selfish feeling because you’re asking people to pay attention to you while people’s lives are at stake. It’s a very conflicting feeling, but after talking to a bunch of people about it, they were like, ‘No, we need the music. We need the distraction. We need something to brighten our day.’ Even though it is a little bit of a somber record, there are things that are very happy about it –– things that take you to another world. I think it’s important to have that right now.”

Devoid of the usual pomp, on April 10, Darien released Levee, her first full-length effort. It joins a now-unavailable album she put out in 2009 and a prior EP (2014’s Silent Sparrow), but she counts Levee as her proper debut. It also represents her first new music since relocating to Nashville from Fort Worth five years ago. Darien said she feels the material on Levee demonstrates her development as an artist, highlighting what she describes as “much more of the writer side of me and [which] tells my story better” than her previous efforts.

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public notice Texas Commission on Environmental Quality EXAMPLE A AMENDED NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF APPLICATION AND INTENT TO OBTAIN AIR QUALITY STANDARD PERMIT REGISTRATION RENEWAL AIR QUALITY REGISTRATION NO. 46822 APPLICATION Oldcastle Infrastructure, Inc., has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for renewal of Registration No. 46822, for an Air Quality Standard Permit for Concrete Batch Plants, which would authorize continued operation of the Concrete Batch Plant located at 1100 Heritage Parkway, Mansfield, Tarrant County, Texas 76063. 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=32.55021&lng=-97.12635&zoom=13&type=r. The existing facility is authorized to emit the following air contaminants: particulate matter including (but not limited to) aggregate, cement, road dust, and particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less.

This application was submitted to the TCEQ on April 6, 2020. The application will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and the Tarrant County Clerk Office, 100 West Weatherford Street, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review in the Dallas/Fort Worth regional office of the TCEQ. The executive director has determined the application is administratively complete and will conduct a technical review of the application. Information in the application indicates that this permit renewal would not result in an increase in allowable emissions and would not result in the emission of an air contaminant not previously emitted. The TCEQ may act on this ap‑ plication without seeking further public comment or providing an opportunity for a contested case hearing if certain criteria are met.

PUBLIC COMMENT You may submit public comments, or a request for a contested case hearing to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below. The TCEQ will consider all public comments in developing a final decision on the application. The deadline to submit public comments is 15 days after the final newspaper notice is published. After the deadline for public comments, the executive director will prepare a response to all relevant and material, or significant public comments.

Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the TCEQ’s jurisdiction to consider in the permit process.

After the technical review is complete the executive director will consider the comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material, or significant public comments. If only comments are received, the response to comments, along with the executive director’s decision on the application, will then be mailed to everyone who submitted public comments or who is on the mailing list for this application, unless the application is directly referred to a contested case hearing.

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OPPORTUNITY FOR A CONTESTED CASE HEARING You may request a contested case hearing. The applicant or the executive director may also request that the application be directly referred to a contested case hearing after technical review of the application. A contested case hearing is a legal proceeding similar to a civil trial in state district court. Unless a written request for a contested case hearing is filed within 15 days from this notice, the executive director may act on the application. If no hearing request is received within this 15‑day period, no further opportunity for hearing will be provided.

According to the Texas Clean Air Act § 382.056(o) a contested case hearing may only be granted if the applicant’s compliance history is in the lowest classification under applicable compliance history requirements and if the hearing request is based on disputed issues of fact that are relevant and material to the Commission’s decision on the application. Further, the Commission may only grant a hearing on those issues submitted during the public comment period and not withdrawn.

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A person who may be affected by emissions of air contaminants from the facility is entitled to request a hearing. If requesting a contested case hearing, you must submit the following: (1) your name (or for a group or association, an official representative), mailing address, daytime phone number; (2) applicant’s name and permit number; (3) the statement “[I/we] request a contested case hearing;” (4) a specific description of how you would be adversely affected by the application and air emissions from the facility in a way not common to the general public; (5) the loca‑ tion and distance of your property relative to the facility; (6) a description of how you use the property which may be impacted by the facility; and (7) a list of all disputed issues of fact that you submit during the comment period. If the request is made by a group or association, one or more members who have standing to request a hearing must be identified by name and physical address. The interests which the group or association seeks to protect must also be identified. You may also submit your proposed adjustments to the application/permit which would satisfy your concerns. Requests for a contested case hearing must be submitted in writing within 15 days following this notice to the Office of the Chief Clerk, at the address below.

Following the close of all applicable comment and request periods, the Executive Director will forward the application and any requests for contested case hearing to the Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled Commission meeting. The Commission may only grant a request for a contested case hearing on issues the requestor submitted in their timely comments that were not subsequently withdrawn. If a hearing is granted, the subject of a hearing will be limited to disputed issues of fact or mixed questions of fact and law relating to relevant and material air quality concerns submitted dur‑ ing the comment period. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the Commission’s jurisdiction to consider in this proceeding.

MAILING LIST In addition to submitting public comments, you may ask to be placed on a mailing list to receive future public notices for this specific application mailed by the Office of the Chief Clerk by sending a written request to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below.

AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION Public comments and requests must be submitted either electronically at www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/, or in writing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087. Please be aware that any contact information you provide, including your name, phone number, email address and physical address will become part of the agency’s public record. For more information about this permit application or the permitting process, please call the Public Education Program toll free at 1-800-687-4040. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040.

Further information may also be obtained from Oldcastle Infrastructure, Inc., 1100 Heritage Pkwy, Mansfield, Texas 760632759 or by calling Mr. Matthew Kiddy, CSP, Director of EH & S, Central Region, at (361) 960-7232.

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Revised Notice of Draft Federal Operating Permit

AIR QUALITY PERMIT NUMBER 160425

This application would authorize continued operation of the Automotive/Transportation Parts Surface Coating and Manufacturing Plant located at 10285 North Freeway, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas 76177. 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=32.924166&lng=-97.320277&zoom=13&type=r. The facility will emit the following contaminants: carbon monoxide, exempt solvents, hazardous air pollutants, nitrogen oxides, organic compounds, particulate matter including particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less, and sulfur dioxide.

This application was submitted to the TCEQ on March 6, 2020. The application will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and at https://www.publicnotice.live/ Paramont%20NSR%20Application%20(Regional)%202020-0306.pdf beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review in the Dallas/Fort Worth regional office of the TCEQ. The executive director has determined the application is administratively complete and will conduct a technical review of the application.

PUBLIC COMMENT/PUBLIC MEETING. You may submit public comments, or request a public meeting or a contested case hearing to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below. The TCEQ will consider all public comments in developing a final decision on the application. After the deadline for public comments, the executive director will prepare a response to all public comments.

The purpose of a public meeting is to provide the opportunity to submit comments or ask questions about the application. A public meeting about the application will be held if the executive director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application, if requested by an interested person, or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not a contested case hearing.

After technical review of the application is complete, the executive director may prepare a draft permit and will issue a preliminary decision on the application. Notice of Application and Preliminary Decision for an Air Quality Permit will then be published and mailed to those who made comments, submitted hearing requests or are on the mailing list for this application. That notice will contain the final deadline for submitting public comments.

OPPORTUNITY FOR A CONTESTED CASE HEARING. You may request a contested case hearing. A contested case hearing is a legal proceeding similar to a civil trial in state district court. A contested case hearing will only be granted based on disputed issues of fact that are relevant and material to the Commission’s decision. Further, the Commission will only grant a hearing on those issues submitted during the public comment period and not withdrawn.

The deadline to submit a request for a contested case hearing is 30 days after newspaper notice is published.

If a request is timely filed, the deadline for requesting a contested case hearing will be extended to 30 days after the mailing of the response to comments.

A person who may be affected by emissions of air contaminants from the facility is entitled to request a hearing. If requesting a contested case hearing, you must submit the following: (1) your name (or for a group or association, an official representative), mailing address, and daytime phone number; (2) applicant’s name and permit number; (3) the statement “[I/we] request a contested case hearing”; (4) a specific description of how you would be adversely affected by the application and air emissions from the facility in a way not common to the general public; (5) the location and distance of your property relative to the facility; (6) a description of how you use the property which may be impacted by the facility; and (7) a list of all disputed issues of fact that you submit during the comment period. If the request is made by a group or an association, one or more members who have standing to request a hearing must be identified by name and physical address. The interests the group or association seeks to protect must also be identified. You may also submit your proposed adjustments to the application/permit which would satisfy your concerns.

If a hearing request is timely filed, following the close of all applicable comment and request periods, the Executive Director will forward the application and any requests for contested case hearing to the Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled Commission meeting. The Commission may only grant a request for a contested case hearing on issues the requestor submitted in their timely comments that were not subsequently withdrawn. If a hearing is granted, the subject of a hearing will be limited to disputed issues of fact or mixed questions of fact and law relating to relevant and material air quality concerns submitted during the comment period. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the Commission’s jurisdiction to address in this proceeding.

MAILING LIST. In addition to submitting public comments, you may ask to be placed on a mailing list to receive future public notices for this specific application by sending a written request to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below.

AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION. Public comments and requests must be submitted either electronically at www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/, or in writing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087. Please be aware that any contact information you provide, including your name, phone number, email address and physical address will become part of the agency’s public record. For more information about this permit application or the permitting process, please call the Public Education Program toll free at 1-800-687-4040. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040.

Draft Permit No.: O3457 Application and Draft Permit. Ball Metal Beverage Container Corp., 6600 Will Rogers Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 761406006, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for a significant revision of Federal Operating Permit (herein referred to as Permit) No. O3457, Application No. 29937, to authorize operation of the Ball Metal Beverage Container, a Metal Can Manufacturing facility. The area addressed by the application is located at 6600 Will Rogers Blvd in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas 76140-6006. This application is being processed in an expedited manner, as allowed by the commission’s rules in 30 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 101, Subchapter J. 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 the application. You can find an electronic map of the facility at: https://tceq.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=db5bac44afbc468bbddd360f8168250f&mark er=-97.313333%2C32.648611&level=12. This application was received by the TCEQ on January 13, 2020. The significant revision will result in a change of emissions for the following air pollutant(s): Nitrogen Oxide: Increase, Particulate Matter: Increase, Carbon Monoxide: Increase, Sulfur Dioxide: Increase, Hazardous Air Pollutants: Increase and Volatile Organic Compounds: Increase.

The purpose of a federal operating permit is to improve overall compliance with the rules governing air pollution control by clearly listing all applicable requirements, as defined in Title 30 Texas Administrative Code § 122.10 (30 TAC § 122.10). The draft permit, if approved, will codify the conditions under which the area must operate. The permit will not authorize new construction. The executive director has completed the technical review of the application and has made a preliminary decision to prepare a draft permit for public comment and review. The executive director recommends issuance of this draft permit. The permit application, statement of basis, and draft permit will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ Central Office, 12100 Park 35 Circle, Building E, First Floor, Austin, Texas 78753; the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Office, 2309 Gravel Dr, Fort Worth, Texas 76118-6951; and the Tarrant County Clerk’s Office public notices web site accessible at: http://www.tarrantcounty.com/en/county-clerk/administration/ public-notices.html?linklocation=supermenu&linkname=Public%20Notices, beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The draft permit and statement of basis are available at the TCEQ Website: www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/tvnotice At the TCEQ central and regional offices, relevant supporting materials for the draft permit, as well as the New Source Review permits which have been incorporated by reference, may be reviewed and copied. Any person with difficulties obtaining these materials due to travel constraints may contact the TCEQ central office file room at (512) 239-2900.

Public Comment/Notice and Comment Hearing. Any person may submit written comments on the draft permit. Comments relating to the accuracy, completeness, and appropriateness of the permit conditions may result in changes to the draft permit.

A person who may be affected by the emission of air pollutants from the permitted area may request a notice and comment hearing. The purpose of the notice and comment hearing is to provide an additional opportunity to submit comments on the draft permit. The permit may be changed based on comments pertaining to whether the permit provides for compliance with 30 TAC Chapter 122 (examples may include that the permit does not contain all applicable requirements or the public notice procedures were not satisfied). The TCEQ may grant a notice and comment hearing on the application if a written hearing request is received within 30 days after publication of the newspaper notice. The hearing request must include the basis for the request, including a description of how the person may be affected by the emission of air pollutants from the application area. The request should also specify the conditions of the draft permit that are inappropriate or specify how the preliminary decision to issue or deny the permit is inappropriate. All reasonably ascertainable issues must be raised and all reasonably available arguments must be submitted by the end of the public comment period. If a notice and comment hearing is granted, all individuals that submitted written comments or a hearing request will receive written notice of the hearing. This notice will identify the date, time, and location for the hearing.

Written public comments and/or requests for a notice and comment hearing should be submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 787113087, or electronically at www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/ and be received within 30 days after the date of newspaper publication of this notice. Please be aware that any contact information you provide, including your name, phone number, email address and physical address will become part of the agency’s public record.

A notice of proposed final action that includes a response to comments and identification of any changes to the draft permit will be mailed to everyone who submitted public comments, a hearing request, or requested to be on the mailing list for this application. This mailing will also provide instructions for public petitions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to request that the EPA object to the issuance of the proposed permit.

After receiving a petition, the EPA may only object to the issuance of a permit which is not in compliance with the applicable requirements or the requirements of 30 TAC Chapter 122.

Mailing List. In addition to submitting public comments, a person may ask to be placed on a mailing list for this application by sending a request to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address above. Those on the mailing list will receive copies of future public notices (if any) mailed by the Chief Clerk for this application.

Information. For additional information about this permit application or the permitting process, please contact the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Public Education Program, MC-108, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087 or toll free at 1-800-687-4040. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040.

Further information may also be obtained from Paramont Mfg LLC, 18259 Westinghouse Road, Abingdon, Virginia 24210-7931 or by calling Mr. Steve Ettore, Director of Business Development at (276) 451-0811.

Further information may also be obtained for Ball Metal Beverage Container Corp. by calling Mr. Adam Musulin at (303) 460-5629.

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