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COVID at Carswell Activists are fighting for compassionate releases at one of the most infected women’s prisons in the country.

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METROPOLIS Along with opening another new resto, Chef Felipe Armenta is tackling COVID-19 head on.

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STATIC A small group is marching to support the USPS.

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STUFF As the Mavs fizzle utterly, the Stars squander their magic.

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MUSIC Sub Sahara’s new single takes aim at the police.

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Static Willful Neglect or Voter Suppression?

The botched federal response to COVID-19 and diehard anti-maskers have all but ensured that voters will have to cast their November 3 presidential ballots in person amid a deadly pandemic. Two-thirds of U.S. states offer their residents a safe and reliable form of voting that comes with zero risk of contracting the novel coronavirus — mail-in voting. Texas is not one of them. To qualify for absentee voting, eligible Texans must be 65 years or older, disabled, out of the county they are registered in, or confined in jail.

Even with the Lone Star State’s restrictive voting laws, local U.S. Postal Service offices are predicted to receive record numbers of mail-in ballots come November. As the fall election looms closer, the postal service is in its worst shape in recent memory and may not be up to the task of delivering ballots before county-mandated deadlines.

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Felipe Armenta is fighting the pandemic in more ways than one. On the food front, the chef behind Press Café, The Tavern, Pacific Table, and Cork & Pig is taking over a beloved old building to launch a new venture in December. In a more direct way, Armenta is taking on COVID-19 all across North Texas and beyond.

In February, he thought it was crucial to build ViraTech. The new business disinfects and sanitizes restaurants, legal buildings, homes, offices, local schools, and more. The company was created with this question in mind: How can we keep businesses and homes safe?

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ing delivery times that are days or several days later than expected. That means delayed medications, late social security checks, and spoiled food products for millions of Americans.

“It is taking a longer time period for medication to arrive at our home,” said Harold Parkey, a Vietnam veteran. “This is having a very deleterious effect on veterans.”

Parkey and supporters of the postal service gathered at two Fort Worth post offices last Saturday to garner support for government mail delivery. Standing near the intersection of West 7th Street and University Drive, Parkey and three post office supporters held a large yellow banner that read, “Support Our Postal Services.” Parkey said the group plans to hold similar rallies at local post offices every Saturday until the November 3 election.

Some of the postal service’s woes are an inevitable consequence of COVID-19.

Mail revenue is down, and some government employees are understandably refusing to deliver mail for health-related reasons.

U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a major donor to Republicans (including Donald Trump), has taken steps to gut and

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Local celebrity chef Flipe Armenta branches into sanitation with his latest endeavor.

dioxide combined with majority water that kills all virus, germs, bacteria, and fungi and is nontoxic,” Armenta said.

“We wanted to keep our restaurants safe and protect the public and our employees.

It went from spraying the restaurants to spraying for the PGA golf tournament, the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial [Country Club], then helping TCU athletics. That was the beginning, and it morphed into many other areas.”

ViraTech uses ATP testing to provide results to the customer of the before and after.

“The testing equipment was created for hospitals, which have to be below 60 [Relative Light Units], and that’s standard,” Armenta said. “With this solution we use, we’ve gotten some of our restaurant surfaces down to 3 RLUs.” Aaron Grieshaber, ViraTech CEO, said the pH level of his company’s solution is “near neutral, which means it’s very safe and non-corrosive. [Chlorine dioxide] is a very powerful and effective chemical. We dilute it down to 500 parts per million, which makes it very safe. You need very little [chlorine dioxide] for it to be effective against all these viruses and germs.

“We spray the chemical with electrostatic sprayers,” he continued. “What the sprayer does is put the negative charge of the ion on the chemical and makes it 60 to 70 times more powerful than gravity, so it’s really wrapping around surfaces and

A ViraTech associate spays down Malai Kitchen, which has locations in Fort Worth and Dallas.

penetrating cracks and crevasses to spread the chemical. Positive germs are attracted to the negative ions of the chemical, which will bind together and kill the germ.”

Because chlorine dioxide is a gas, Grieshaber continued, “it leaves no residue behind. When it dries, it evaporates with the water. There’s no white or cloudy

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Parkey (second from right) and supporters of the postal service gathered at two Fort Worth postal offices last Saturday to garner support for the postal service.

hamstring the postal service at a time when its services could prove critical to ensuring free and fair elections. DeJoy has cut overtime and removed high-volume mail sorting machines across the country, although he recently said he would temporarily pause that last ill-conceived policy decision.

The postmaster general’s actions could very well jeopardize hundreds of thousands or even millions of mail-in ballots this fall. Voter suppression takes many forms.

Sometimes, being willfully negligent at your job can be just as damaging to democratic elections as any poll tax ever was.

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materials, so there’s no need to wipe down surfaces afterwards. It also doesn’t give off a strong odor, which I think makes our product very attractive. … I think [chlorine dioxide] is the most effective, attractive, eco- and bio-friendly chemical solution on the market, and it’s 95% water.”

Within 15 minutes after ViraTech sprays, people can enter the building and resume everyday life.

“We’ve been growing and growing with great success,” Armenta said. “We feel like ViraTech is something that’s going to be needed for the future for our loved ones.

It’s going to be an essential service needed to make people safe and protected.”

ViraTech is also fighting bacteria in Oklahoma, Nebraska, and California.

Grieshaber said that, between these offices, ViraTech’s solution has provided germ-killing aid in applications such as commercial greenhouse water management, agriculture, food processing, hospitals, art restoration, animal health, and many more.

Another place that’s much closer to home that ViraTech will work with is the site of Armenta’s next culinary venture.

Maria’s Mexican Kitchen will open in the South University Drive building formerly occupied by Hoffbrau Steak and Grill House for nearly 40 years. Currently undergoing what Armenta calls a “facelift,” Maria’s will serve as a tribute to the chef ’s mother, who died in 2018, and will be a cross between traditional Mexican food and Tex-Mex. Armenta’s parents had been operating a Mexican restaurant in San Angelo for 27 years.

“I’m doing this in her honor … for being there for me and teaching me how to cook,” Armenta said. “I thought it would be a great tribute to her to open my first Mexican restaurant.”

Armenta’s family was raised in Guanajuato in Central Mexico. “There would be some recipes that my mom would cook that would really bring out the flavors of what I ate growing up,” Armenta said. “I think her dishes were really unique and held traditional flavors. She always had a really good palate and great taste for ingredients. I really want to showcase that.”

Armenta’s mother specialized in a braised red chile shortbread that she would make for holidays and family gatherings. “It reminds me of her so much,” Armenta said.

He plans on featuring a few of her staple items on the restaurant’s menu.

Growing up, Armenta would cook with his mom, so he has all of her recipes memorized.

Armenta says the space will look “totally different” from the former steakhouse. It will be decorated with his mother in mind, using bright colors and incorporating Mexican design.

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Shenita Cleveland, an area activist, believes the Federal Bureau of Prisons is not doing enough to protect inmates from COVID-19 and is dragging its feet to get at-risk inmates placed on home confinement.

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Activists are fighting for compassionate releases at one of the most infected women’s prisons in the country.

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ressed in all black, her hair in long, meticulous braids, Shenita Cleveland stood outside the gates of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) South Central Regional Office in Grand Prairie, holding a large poster over her head with the word “Culprit” written across the top in bold, black letters. The caption was followed by a photo of Juan Baltazar Jr., the regional director of the office. Cleveland, accompanied by about 20 other protesters, had brutal words for Baltazar.

Baltazar, she alleges, should be held responsible for the COVID-19 outbreak racing across area federal prisons, including Federal Medical Center Carswell, a prison that houses female inmates of all security levels who have special medical or mental health needs. More than 500

— or about 40% of Carswell’s 1307 inmates — have tested positive for COVID-19. On August 30, the federal prison system’s website reported that nine Carswell inmates are positive, six have died, and 524 have recovered.

Compared to the rest of the general population, inmates are 5.5 times more likely to catch COVID-19 and about three times more likely to die from the virus, according to a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins and UCLA. The BOP, meanwhile, claims it is aggressively taking steps to prevent the spread of the virus and is working quickly to place qualified inmates on home confinement.

“Mr. Baltazar is the overseer of operations for … 21 BOPs, including Carswell FMC and Seagoville [Federal Correctional Institute], which includes managing employees that are allowed to violate inmates’ rights to

fair and regular treatment during their incarceration among other things,” Cleveland later told me. “Texas is home to the three worst federal prison COVID outbreaks, and all three fall under [Baltazar’s] custody and care and he should be held responsible for misdeeds in the region.”

Cleveland’s appearance at the regional office earlier this month was the latest in a series of protests she has led.

For weeks, she has yelled through a large bullhorn toward the brick walls and razor wire of FMC Carswell, hoping someone will listen more so than hear.

Dozens of impassioned family members, friends, and former inmates follow her, also yelling their grievances into microphones and bullhorns as prison guards and police officers in the background closely watch the protesters. At issue is the activists’ hopes to have some of

Carswell’s six COVID-related deaths include former inmate Sandra Kincaid, 69, who tested positive for COVID-19 on July 6 and died on July 15. She was evaluated at Carswell “for shortness of breath, fatigue, and weakness,” went to a local hospital for further treatment, and was placed on a ventilator before she died, according to the BOP. Another inmate, Veronica Martinez Carrera-Perez, 44, tested positive for

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the inmates released on home confinement or compassionate release, a program that ends incarceration under extreme circumstances, such as a terminal illness or advanced age, for example. Many of the inmates whom Cleveland and her fellow protesters support are nonviolent offenders, she said.

No one is claiming the inmates are innocent, just that they deserve the chance to survive COVID-19.

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To the prison system, the inmates are criminals. But beyond the charges are children, families, and friends who love them. They say the prisons are not doing enough to protect the inmates during the pandemic.

The virus is an added obstacle on the inmates’ road to redemption, a journey already fraught with struggles between two conflicting sides of their lives. One side is the federal prison system, and the other is love, each a powerful force with a will of its own.

Activists allege that the inmates — the family members and friends they love — have been on lockdown for weeks in cramped prison cells, eating sub-par food, living without adequate protective gear against the virus, and also being unable to get outdoors for some fresh air.

“They’re giving them bologna sandwiches for lunch,” a demonstrator yelled at the Grand Prairie protest.

Someone in the crowed added “purple bologna sandwiches,” a reference to the color of the spoiled meat.

“A bologna sandwich?” the first woman yelled. “I don’t even feed these kids out here bologna sandwiches, and we’re broke as fuck.”

Federal prisons receive ample funding, and bologna “costs a dollar,” she added.

Behind alleged conditions are the disturbing numbers. The figures take on an added severity at Carswell, given the poor health of the inmates housed there.

During one of the protests, family members and friends marched outside Carswell and carried signs that read, “Inmates Lives Matter,” “We Want Justice,” “They Are Not the Threat, the Virus Is,” and “Free Yolanda McDow.” McDow is one of the inmates Cleveland is trying to have released from Carswell. Cleveland has already helped to secure the release of four inmates from area federal prisons, she said. Their names are Cynthia Brown, Adan Borrego, Lisa Crowe, and Gerald Shultz.

McDow, 54, uses a wheelchair and has asthma and high blood pressure, conditions that place her at risk for serious complications if she catches the virus. She was already approved for release to a halfway house in November, but the pandemic has created a greater sense of urgency, family members told me. Since she is unable to work, McDow’s supporters are pushing for her to be released to home confinement instead.

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COVID-19 on July 9 and died August 3. She was diagnosed at Carswell with low oxygen saturation and taken to a local hospital for further treatment and evaluation. Both women had preexisting conditions, according to the prison system.

“We are deeply concerned for the health and welfare of those inmates who are entrusted to our care, and it is our highest priority to continue to do everything we can to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in our facilities,” the BOP wrote in an email.

The BOP has also started a task force for managing pandemics, the email states.

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writes letters to prison officials and has received at least one phone call from Carswell’s warden, Michael Carr, who promised her that McDow’s release is being “worked on,” she said. Family members said they were hopeful when they were given a July 24 deadline for McDow’s possible release, but the day came and went.

McDow already has signed paperwork stating she can be on home release through 2021, Cleveland said.

“I am here to reason with you again,” Cleveland wrote in a recent email to Carr.

“Ms. Yolanda McDow #37471-177 has suffered enough. I believe that you are the answer to Yolanda’s release as previously

approved and stated. The evidence against Ms. McDow is suspect at best. She is not a danger to herself or society. Please allow her family to mend the brokenness this has caused and give Yolanda the proper health care she needs to heal.”

Cleveland continued, “It is my hope that you have compassion. I look forward to giving you that credit.”

The protests at Carswell are intended to put pressure on the prison system, but activists allege it has led to retaliation.

During one of the protests, police set up an observation tower near the

grass where the group typically stands, and “it was manned,” Cleveland said.

A man driving a dark SUV pointed a zoom-lens camera out of the window and snapped their pictures, as shown in photos provided by Cleveland. Several rifle-toting prison guards drove up to the protesters in golfcart-style vehicles.

“It was intimidation,” said Cleveland, who became involved in advocating for the inmates after she heard about what was happening at FMC Fort Worth (a federal men’s prison) and Carswell.

Cleveland and McDow’s other supporters allege that some staff members at Carswell have taunted McDow and told her she’s not going anywhere. At one point,

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she was threatened with being tossed in the “SHU,” a segregated housing unit and a place of punishment in federal prisons where privileges such as phone calls and letter-writing are often limited.

These things happen when inmates “complain to the outside world,” Cleveland alleged. But she continues to boost the volume on her message. Cleveland has bought three bullhorns, each one progressing in size and power. Her latest model can be heard from up to one mile away and has a blaring emergency-style siren, she said.

The protesters’ voices are loud, but responses remain scarce. Carswell is on lockdown, and days sometimes pass before McDow’s family hears from her. A banner across the top of Carswell’s website reads, “All visiting at this facility has been suspended until further notice.” The restriction is in place due to the pandemic, and family members are worried.

McDow’s father, a widower, told me he wants his daughter home, where they can look out for each other. She previously received Social Security disability checks and is not able to work.

“I need her, that’s for sure,” Yolanda’s father, Sam McDow, told me in a phone interview. “I’m 75 years old and live alone.

I just pray every day. I’m very afraid of her catching the virus. I miss her very much.”

Another family member, DeAngela Merida, is McDow’s cousin and one of her best friends.

“We’ve been really close since high school,” said Merida. “That’s when we started to hang out just about every other week or so. Then in my 20s, we always hung out together. We would go out dancing and having a good time, doing all the things girls do.”

McDow’s home became a popular gathering spot after Sunday church services, and family members would watch football, chat, or listen to music, Merida said. She described McDow as “quiet and soft-spoken. She was never the type of girl to be in jail or to be around people who were.”

How did McDow end up in the federal prison system? How does anyone, really?

In McDow’s case, it was a tragedy that caused a devastating life change, followed by a series of poor choices.

McDow’s troubles began after tragedy struck in the late 1990s. Following a car accident, her right leg had to be amputated above the knee. As time went on, she became increasingly withdrawn and depressed, Merida said.

“Sometimes you could talk to her, and other times you couldn’t,” Merida said.

The loss of her leg shattered McDow’s confidence, and she began questioning whether she would ever find love again, Merida said.

McDow was missing her whole leg, and in her mind, she felt that the type of men she would normally date — ones who

Police and prison guards have closely monitored the protesters outside FMC Carswell in Fort Worth, although no physical conflicts have been reported.

During her time at Carswell, Blystone said, the basics were in short supply.

She alleges that inmates must “beg for toilet paper” or are told to buy it on commissary. Ditto for hand sanitizer and cleaning supplies, even after the pandemic hit. Social distancing among inmates is virtually impossible, she said.

“The inmates are living in tight quarters, and the guards also were often not wearing a mask or gloves,” she alleged. “It was an absolute nightmare. We ran short of supplies and never had good cleaning supplies.”

Blystone also alleges that the prison system took away McDow’s prosthetic leg for more than a year under the guise of repairing it, and “when she got it back, it still didn’t fit,” she said. Despite that and having difficulty navigating the prison grounds due to her wheelchair, McDow “was a champ” and never complained, according to Blystone.

“Overall, prison is not a fun place to be in the first place,” Blystone said. “Carswell is called a hospital of horrors. You cannot get any of the medical or dental care you need. I have lupus, and when I went in, I was told, ‘You’re going to get the best medical care.’ Not true.”

Blystone alleges that she has also experienced retaliation for speaking out.

On one occasion, a priest at Carswell was interrupted in the middle of a Christmas service and berated for not answering his radio, Blystone alleges. An administrator yelled at him so loudly that he made the priest cry, she said.

Blystone complained in a letter to the warden and shortly after was sent to the SHU, the segregated housing unit. She also alleges that the guard followed her around and told her she didn’t want to “go down this road with him.”

Blystone said her main point is that “it’s hard to speak up for your rights or you will get retaliated against.”

Other retaliation crosses into the criminal, Blystone alleges. “As far as physical, sexual things going on — it happens. Inmates get preyed on a lot.”

Her experiences have left her with a desire to help the other inmates. “I’m trying to advocate for the people I left behind.”

McDow is not alone. There are other reports of inmates being promised they would be released, only to have the process

dragged out. One of them is Kimberli Himmel. Another Carswell inmate, the 61-year-old has Stage 2 breast cancer and kidney failure, the Washington Post reported in April.

Himmel told the Post there are about 65 women in her unit and about half of them are 55 or older. Most of them suffer from kidney failure or cancer — or both, the report stated.

Long before the pandemic hit, we reported in 2019 on Barbara Gasich, a Carswell white collar criminal who was terminally ill with cancer. Samy Khalil, a partner with the Houston law firm Gerger Khalil & Hennessey and a former assistant federal public defender, was called in to remove Gasich from Carswell on compassionate release. Khalil is regarded as one of the top white-collar criminal defense attorneys in the nation. He was able to get Gasich out but not without a lot of wrangling.

Before arriving at Carswell, Gasich had a documented medical diagnosis that she was terminally ill. Her family said at the time that they believe her stay in Carswell increased her suffering and shortened her life.

The Fort Worth Weekly has documented many other stories of maltreatment at Carswell as well.

Merida and Cleveland are hoping something similar does not happen to McDow. So is her father. Although McDow was recently given a release date of late November, that’s another three months of having her exposed to the virus, they said. They’re left wondering why McDow has to wait it out inside Carswell with so much at stake.

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Sons and daughters are among the protesters who are pleading that their parents — inmates in area federal prisons — be released to home confinement amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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general’s memo issued on April 3, 2020, asked the BOP to immediately maximize appropriate transfers to home confinement of all appropriate inmates held at Oakdale, Danbury, Elkton, and other similarly situated facilities. That process is ongoing.”

The email goes on to state that the Department of Justice gave the BOP the authority — under the attorney general’s memos — to determine “which home confinement cases are appropriate for review in order to fight the spread of the pandemic. The BOP has been proceeding expeditiously consistent with that confirmation.”

The prison system also insists that case management staffers are “urgently reviewing all inmates to determine which ones meet the criteria.” Further, additional resources are in place to “make appropriate determinations as soon as possible.”

All inmates are being reviewed, but an inmate who believes he or she may be eligible for home confinement can provide a release plan to their case manager.

Additionally, the BOP may contact family members to gather needed information when making decisions concerning home confinement placement.

One former Carswell inmate who was released amid the pandemic is Lea Ann Blystone, a former San Antonio businesswoman who in 2015 was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for her part in a $1.4 million wire fraud scheme.

Her sentence was part of a plea deal she made with the government, according to published reports.

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had something going for themselves — would not want her, Merida explained.

That seemed to change when a new suitor appeared in 2008, but when Tony R. Hewitt started coming around, Merida instantly sensed that something was wrong, she said. “He just didn’t seem like the type of man she would normally date.”

Hewitt is the son of a pastor and a preacher himself, but he ended up being the devil in disguise for McDow, Merida explained. He eventually became one of the leaders of the so-called Scarecrow Bandits, a group of six robbers who hit area banks in 2008. Hewitt was sentenced to 355 years in federal prison for the crimes, and others involved in the robberies also received heavy sentences.

During their brief courtship, Hewitt drew McDow in and convinced her to serve as a lookout person for the bank robberies, Merida said. McDow waited in a getaway car blocks away but did not go inside the banks or participate in the violence leveraged by the criminal gang.

The group’s collective list of criminal activities included discharging a taser on a bank employee, leading police on a high-speed chase, taking an innocent person hostage, holding guns inches away from bank employees’ faces, and carrying assault rifles during the robberies. In all, the bandits committed 21 robberies in the Dallas area from June 2008 to January 2009, according to court records.

McDow cooperated with the FBI and other law enforcement, and her attorney promised to negotiate a plea deal with a five-year prison term, Merida said.

Instead, the deal fell through, and McDow was sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison in 2008. That was 12 years ago.

When asked about McDow’s possible release to home confinement, Carswell administrators referred my questions to the BOP office in Washington, D.C. The first response I received was an email signed “Office of Public Affairs” with no name: “While for privacy reasons we cannot provide you with information pertaining to the conditions of confinement or release plans for any particular inmate, we can provide you with the following information. Given the surge in positive cases at select sites and in response to the attorney general’s directives, the BOP began immediately reviewing all inmates who have COVID-19 risk factors, as described by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) to determine which inmates are suitable for home confinement.”

The BOP, which has 127,242 federal inmates in the facilities it manages, reports on its website that it has placed 7,559 inmates on home confinement.

“The BOP was originally focused on a priority list of inmates in accordance with the attorney general’s guidance to BOP issued March 26, 2020,” the email continues. “However, the attorney

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This much is new: This movie exists Until now. His latest big-budget thriller, Tenet, has defeated me decisively. in the future perfect tense. Everywhere My inability to gain any sort of toehold in the agents look, they find evidence of this film has forced me to draw one of two things that will have happened. The conclusions: Either Nolan has completely whole thing is structured as a palindrome gone up his own ass, or he’s made an avant- (like the movie’s title) centered on a garde masterpiece that is too intelligent shooting that drives our main character and sophisticated for my puny little brain to go through the looking glass and into to comprehend. I’m fully prepared to a world that’s moving backwards while accept the latter scenario if somebody else he moves forwards, or so it looks to him. sorts the movie out for me. As I write this, This leads to some admittedly cool action though, my sneaking suspicion is that the sequences when he fights a masked baddie who appears to defy gravity. The car chase former is closer to the truth.

John David Washington plays our on the freeway outside Tallinn features nameless protagonist, a CIA agent who is overturned cars that right themselves and pursue the agents in captured while foiling a reverse. (Whatever they terrorist plot in Ukraine. paid the stunt drivers, When he chooses suicide Tenet Starring John David it wasn’t enough.) It all rather than give up his Washington, Robert culminates in a massive colleagues, the whole Pattinson, and Elizabeth raid on a Siberian operation is revealed Debicki. Written and directed by Christopher compound, with soldiers to be an elaborate test Nolan. Rated PG-13. in red armbands charging that he passes so that in alongside soldiers in a spymaster (Martin blue armbands, who are Donovan) can brief him on a highly classified case called Tenet. running backwards while dead soldiers Objects that move backward in time have spring back up and bullets fly back into started making their way into our forward- their guns. Nolan’s movies always look

good, and here he creates set pieces like we haven’t seen before, set against locations that haven’t been overexposed in movies.

Having our anonymous man go back through the parts of the story he experienced fills in some gaps and otherwise inexplicable bits in the first half.

Even so, considering how Nolan makes everything fit together so snugly in his narratives, there are a suspicious number of loose ends hanging here, like the business with a fake Goya sketch or a British spy chief (Michael Caine) whose presence appears to be ornamental. So much energy has been devoted to the idea behind the story that the actors have been swallowed up. The only one who registers is Branagh, a menacing bulldog-like villain whose eyes are black with rage as he carefully loops a belt around his knuckles and makes sure to stick his cufflinks in the punch holes so that they do additional damage when he hits his wife with it. His tall wife towers over him, yet you still understand why she’s terrified of him.

Nolan’s best films mix human pathos with their jumbo-sized brainteasers: an amnesiac’s doomed revenge quest in Memento; a cop lost in his own corruption in Insomnia; a father trying to reunite with his children in Inception. That’s missing here. One character advises our leading man not to bother understanding the time displacement, just to feel it. It would be better if Tenet gave us more to feel. That would make it easier to absorb all the confusion that this thriller sows. l

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This past weekend, I heard that Chadwick Boseman had passed away at the age of 43, after a four-year battle with colon cancer that he had kept from the public. I’m still not going to say that 2020 sucks, but this news certainly does.

All the obituaries are leading with the fact that he starred in Black Panther, and it’s true, if he had done nothing else as an actor, his role as T’Challa in four of the Marvel films would be enough to build a legacy on. Looking back, it doesn’t seem like an accident that he’s the first resurrected Avenger we see at the climax of Avengers: Endgame — the moment when he and Wakanda’s women walk through the portal behind Captain America wouldn’t have had the same impact had that been given to Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange or Chris Pratt’s Star-Lord or even Tom Holland’s Spider-Man. Boseman was the one who insisted on T’Challa and the other Wakandans speak in African accents, even though the studio wanted an American or European accent. That choice improved the film, showing Wakanda giving its own people a top-level education instead of sending its elites overseas.

When I reviewed Black Panther, I didn’t have space to mention the affection that T’Challa showed to Letitia Wright’s Shuri or the easy rapport he displayed with Danai Gurira’s Okoye. Along with that, Boseman found the gravity of a man awakened to the injustice suffered by Black people outside his country’s borders, something he had been shielded from as a prince.

All this came from the lead actor. Also, as his hosting stint on Saturday Night Live proved, he could play T’Challa’s straightarrow nature for laughs, too.

Of course, that was not the only role he took on. The athleticism that got him cast in Black Panther also made him a fit for playing professional athletes. In 42, his Jackie Robinson silently taunts opposing pitchers once he gets on base, taking leads off first with an energy that says, “You know I’m going to steal second, but you don’t know when.” (Incidentally, Boseman died on Jackie Robinson Day, because death is stupid.) The best part of Draft Day was the expression on his face as an Ohio State linebacker who is — spoiler alert — picked first overall by the Cleveland Browns at the NFL draft. Skip to 2:30 of this clip if you’d rather not see Roger Goodell announce the pick.

Boseman was already 36 when he played a recent college graduate in that film. Throughout his career, his youthful looks combined with his advanced age made him seem wise beyond his years. In one scene from last fall’s 21 Bridges (which, regrettably, I can’t find on YouTube), his NYPD detective is in a hostage standoff with a criminal suspected of murdering eight cops. There, the actor’s athleticism counted for little, but he still owned the scene of a cop trying to talk down a gunman, as Boseman kept the rhythms of his speech even and calm, doing everything to bring in an African-American suspect alive whom all the other cops wanted dead.

My personal favorite of his performances is his turn as James Brown in Get On Up. Boseman may have been only lip-syncing to the Godfather of Soul’s recordings, but he perfectly mimicked Brown’s dancing and captured the electric presence that he exuded on stage, as well as showing how Brown’s harsh childhood taught him to rely on no one and drive away everyone close to him. At the time, I thought the performance merited an Oscar nomination. You might say, rightly, that Get On Up is not a good movie, even with

him. Then again, Bohemian Rhapsody is a worse movie, and Rami Malek won an Oscar for a similar turn in that film. I put off writing this piece until I saw Boseman in Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, and while Boseman does not receive much screen time in that Vietnam War drama, he makes an outsize impression in the flashback sequences as the charismatic natural leader of his platoon of soldiers before he’s killed in action. You easily comprehend how his forceful character continues to loom large in the lives of the comrades who survived him.

Maybe most importantly, the South Carolina native and Howard University graduate appeared to be as conscientious and down-to-earth as the heroes he so often played, maybe because Boseman’s acting career didn’t really take off until after he had turned 30. I wish I could have seen him play something other than a hero.

If Denzel Washington’s acting career had stopped when he was 43, we never would have seen him as the villain in Training Day, the alcoholic antihero in Flight, or the terribly flawed father in Fences. That perhaps gives you a sense of what we’ve lost in Boseman’s death at such a young age. (If it doesn’t, perhaps his performance as a tragic figure in the upcoming Netflix adaptation of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom might do the job.) Even so, as many other writers are now noting, playing a string of heroes and making them seem human rather than turning them into cardboard saints is a difficult thing for an actor to do, and Boseman never made it look like work.

How many other actors headline a film that inspires a global cultural movement?

There will be no public memorial for him in these pandemic-straitened times, so he’s currently receiving the social media equivalent of Tony Stark’s funeral. It’s no less than what he deserves. This post is my contribution. l

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In a matinee Game 6, the Little Mavericks continued their first-round playoff series against the Los Angeles Clippers. Sadly, it would prove to be the last time we’ll see the Mavs in action until the beginning of next season (whenever that will be — 2021?) as Luka and the boys fell to L.A.’s league-best defense by a score of 111-97, ultimately relinquishing the series, four games to two.

The effort managed by the good guys was exponentially better than the dismantling suffered in Game 5 (a ghastly 154-111 public shaming) — with a gap as narrow as a six-point Clipper lead in the fourth quarter — but one never really had the feeling the Mavs were in much of a position for a Game 4 redux. The stunning buzzer-beating come-from-behind victory from the weekend before just might have exhausted all of the remaining magical fairy dust left in Dallas’ enchanted drawstring sack, and without it, they plummeted back to cold hard ground. Having lost their second-best player in Kristaps Porzingis for the series, the ramshackle cast of career journeymen and undrafted bench players just couldn’t provide enough support for second-year star Luka Dončić.

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exactly how you want to begin a potential elimination game.

Question marks started floating over Stars fans’ heads when word came down shortly before puck drop that Ben Bishop would start in goal. To say that Bish, who has borne the mysterious injury designation of “unfit to play” since Game 2 of the previous series, against the Calgary Flames, was shaky in his return is an understatement. He let in four shots in just 2:36, one tick shy of an NHL playoff record for fastest four-goal span. Anton Khudobin would then allow a goal on the first shot he faced once Bishop was chased back to the bench after less than 14 minutes of work. A 5-0 deficit in the first is a tough hole to climb out of.

The goaltending was terrible, but the play in front of the netminders was no better. The Stars got into penalty trouble quickly and then couldn’t sustain any offensive zone pressure, managing just nine shots at Avs third-string goalie Michael Hutchison — who was forced to start due to injuries — at the midpoint of the game.

Instead of sending Colorado home, Dallas just may well have let them back in what was once a one-sided series. Statistics show that a team up 3-1 in a best of seven in the Stanley Cup playoffs goes on to win the series 91% of the time. Let’s hope Dallas doesn’t find themselves as part of the 9% that don’t. l

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into next year, with Dončić — who has yet to even test the heights of his ceiling and already looks like a perennial MVP candidate going forward — a healthy Porzingis (while it lasts), and the returns of Dwight Powell and Jalen Brunson, Dallas should help push its depth players back into the roles and limited minutes best suited for them. There are definitely some pieces to build around for the next 10-plus years. There is no doubt Luka will win championships. Somewhere. It’s up to the front office to ensure that it’s in Dallas.

Just as the Mavericks and Clippers were bro-hugging their goodbyes on Sunday, the Stars entered the first of back-to-back games against the Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference semifinals.

The game was over half-way through the first period as the Stars charged out to a fast 3-0 lead, holding Colorado without a single shot on goal until the period’s final minutes. The Avs would ultimately make it interesting, potting three of their own goals throughout the second and third, but Dallas managed to hang on, winning 5-4 and taking what at the time looked to be a commanding 3-1 series lead.

Unfortunately, this is where the fun and yucks for the Dallas faithful ended.

Little more than 24 hours later, the Avs saw the Stars’ fast 3-0 start from the night before and raised them two more, scoring five unanswered goals and holding Dallas to just four shots in the first period. Not

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Danni & Kris are more than just Fleetwood Mac-y singer-songwriters.

Wednesday As Prism, they’re electro dance artists, too. But for the duo’s 7pm gig at BoomerJack’s Grill & Bar (6701 Fossil Bluff Dr, 817-232-9627), they will be good ol’ Danni & Kris. Specials include $2 domestic beers, $3 house wine, and $6 boneless wings (1/2 lb).

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At 8:15pm Thu-Sun thru Sep 27, see the Prism Movement Theatre Thursday production of Everything Will Be Fine. Presented by Stage West, this show will be a drive-in experience. As the heroine of our story learns to deal with a new world, so will we. When you arrive at 1205 Wesleyan St, remain in your car while the performance takes place in the parking lot right in front of you with instructions and musical accompaniment coming over your radio on station 101.3-AM. Tickets are $40 per vehicle at StageWest.SecureForce. com/Ticket. Call 817-784-9378.

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Brave Combo was the first band ever to grace the stage of Levitt Friday Pavilion (100 W Abram St, Arlington, 817-543-4308) when it opened in 2008. It’s fitting that the Texasbased group is back to lend a hand for

this installment of Levitt’s Living Room Series. Sometimes classified as polka, the Denton quintet plays it all. World Music is a more accurate label if you have to give them one, but their groove-infused songs cross every line. They were the band at David Byrne’s wedding. Nuff said. This is a free virtual event, but donations are appreciated. At 8pm, go to Facebook.com/ LevittPavilionArlington.

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Are you looking for some end-of-summer fun? Want to have your family tested Saturday for COVID-19? You can do both at NRH20 Family Waterpark (9001 Blvd 26, NRH, 817-427-6500). From 8am to 2pm this Sat and the two following, you can have a self-administered mouth-swab test in the NRH20 parking lot, which now doubles as a COVID-19 testing site. For the free testing, book an appointment online at Texas.CurativeInc.com. Waterpark admission? You are on your own.

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Fat Daddy’s Sports & Spirits (781 W Debbie Ln, 817-453-0188) was Sunday recently approved for a food and beverage license from TABC and have reopened. Along with their tributefocused live shows that started back this week, Fat Daddy’s is kicking things off big this weekend with a car show. At 6pm,

America Gardens (2833 Morton St, 817-4399660) has a Backyard Monday Brunch every Sat and Sun from 11am to 4pm. The brand-new all-American menu includes the Big Tex Breakfast, biscuit sandwiches, breakfast shots, mimosa towers, and waffles. In celebration of Labor Day, brunch is on for Mon, too.

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At 7pm, join a Virtual Conversation at Winspear Opera House with Jenna Tuesday Bush Hager, daughter of President George W. Bush and current Today Show co-host, about her No. 1 New York Times bestselling book Everything Beautiful in its Time. Hager will take you inside her world, from growing up in the White House to life behind the scenes at a popular TV show. Passes are $42 and include access to the talk and a copy of the book shipped to your home. Tickets and logon information are at Cadenza.TV/ Hub/Jenna-Bush-Hager.

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While Coyote Drive-In Theater has been with us all along and Alamo Drafthouse has recently re-opened, Cinemark Alliance Town Center (9228 Sage Meadow Tr, 817750-0560) has an even better idea. Why not have your own personal watch party?

For $99-175 (prices vary based on the exact movie and location), your screening will include up to 20 guests in a private auditorium. Choose from classic movies and new releases. Concession items are discounted for your party. A large popcorn is $5, a large fountain drink or ICEE is $3.50, and candy is $2.50. Book online at Cinemark.com/Private-Watch-Party.

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There are so many questions about vote-by-mail right now. Tarrant County Elections Office would like to help answer them. From obtaining the application to what to do with it, Heider Garcia, elections administrator for Tarrant County, will teach you all about it at Vote-by-Mail Townhall Meeting at 6pm Wed on Zoom.

Garcia will also address the need for election workers this November. The townhall is free to attend. Information on how to preregister and submit questions are at Facebook.com/ TarrantDemocraticParty.

As for the art attached to this story, “This Machine Kills Fascists” was the slogan that folk/protest singer Woodie Guthrie famously painted on his guitar.

His place in the history of the protest movement is honored to this day at the Woodie Guthrie Center in his hometown of Tulsa. Guthrie once wrote a song called “Mail Myself to You,” so he would be especially hip to this new pro-USPS take on the old slogan.

The center has partnered with the original artist behind this viral image, Mike Shine, so you can buy a T-shirt emblazoned with the image while supporting the museum at the same time for $25 at WoodyGuthrieCenterStore.

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Coyote Drive-In Theater 223 NE 4th St, Fort Worth CoyoteDrive-In.com/FortWorth/Tickets Gates open at 7pm every day. Arrive at least 60 minutes early to avoid lines, get a good spot, relax with some food and a drink before the shows, and watch the sunset. For weekends, blockbuster movies, and holidays, lines can be long, so you should plan on arriving at least 90 minutes before your showtime. Labor Day showings on

Monday, Sept 7 include Bill & Ted Face the Music (8:40pm), New Mutants (8:45pm), Sonic the Hedgehog (8:15pm), and Tenet (8:15pm).

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The Herd Experience 123 E Exchange Av, Fort Worth (East of Livestock Exchange Building) Facebook.com/FortWorthHerd Sept 5 to Sept 7. Visitors can hear about the history of cattle drives and see the steers and drovers of the Fort Worth Herd. Two 15-minute sessions (1:30pm to 1:45pm or 2:30pm to 2:45pm) on the observation deck and along the fence.

Labor Day Paintball Bash Fun-On-The-Run Paintball 2621 Robers Cut Off Rd, Fort Worth Facebook.com/FunOnTheRunPaintball Monday, Sept 7 from 10am to 4pm.

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The life of a studio musician, in the right market and with the right connections, can offer financial stability that can be hard find in the gigging world. Lawyer Eric Zukoski, who has 40 years of experience as a session musician, said his 40-year career in freelance recording studio work has been rewarding.

“Studio work [as a session musician] is much less speculative and more certain, but the prize is not as big,” he said, referring to the decision many musicians make to not seek risky solo careers. “It’s not as hard to get recording gigs as it is to get a record deal.”

While the up-front fees can support a musician’s freelance career, many studio artists do not know they can also earn royalties through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Before Congress passed the act in 2000, royalties were reserved exclusively for songwriters and publishers. With the passage of the act, union and nonunion musos are entitled to digital session royalties that are earned through streams on satellite radio, the internet, and digital cable (the music-only stations found on channels 700 and up).

Zukoski, who has a special interest in music law, was

HearSay Sub Sahara: “Blue Lives Don’t Matter”

Driving along 35-North the other day, I ended up behind an SUV with a “blue lives matter” bumper sticker. I immediately thought, “Well, there’s no law against supporting police and Black Lives Matter at the same time,” but then I thought about the word choice.

“Back the blue,” I can understand, and I support it. “Blue lives matter,” by its very phraseology, appears to be just one big “eff you” to BLM. What a world we live in when people can just parade around their hatred of Black people without fear of repercussion. It’s one thing to “back the blue” — I would like to think that we all do to some extent — but it’s quite another to be pro-blue to the point of negating a very real, very important movement in support of lives that have been torn apart by systemic racism dating back to 1619.

Man, Nazis are just the worst.

Sub Sahara hates Nazis, too. And cops don’t fare much better in the eyes

of the Dallas quartet, whose new single takes direct aim at blue lives. Recorded in Fort Worth at Cloudland with Robby Rux (Fungi Girls, The Fibs, Year of the Bear) and Joe Tacke (Mean Motor Scooter, I Happy AM), “13-12” — underground code for “All Cops Are Bastards” — is a jolt of electro-laced rock somewhere between New Wave and proto-punk. And it’s angry. Really angry.

“You act like a victim when you’re under fire,” bassist/frontperson Aarón Mireles spits. “A badge and a gun, you’re nothing but a coward / Why do you keep your head under water? / Because let me remind you that blue lives don’t matter.”

As the bass rattles off notes in one direction and a simple guitar figure zigzags in another above a snappy beat, Sub Sahara gets to the chorus and to the point: “There’s no good cops / Only bad cops / Choking you out / Taking your life.”

On the group’s Bandcamp page, they dedicate the song to “all the people who have lost their lives to police brutality and incompetence.”

All proceeds from the name-yourprice sale of the track will go to Not My

Zukoski: “The session musician is not the reason people initially buy the record, but they are a big part of the reason they listen to the record over and over again.”

settlement will eventually benefit millions of session musicians, he added.

“There is an artistry to what they do,” he said. “I don’t know how to define what makes a good studio musician.

Being able to make a singer sound better and having the ability to blend seamlessly and to phrase like the lead singer — there is an artistry to that. The session musician is not the reason people initially buy the record, but they are a big part of the reason they listen to the record over and over again.” l

Son, a North Texas nonprofit dedicated to “bringing the community together through events, rallies, and organized discussions focused on reforming city policies that perpetuate systems of oppression.”

Oh, there’s more.

“How many lives will you take today?” sings guest Paulina Costilla of The Bralettes. “Don’t tell me / A lot / Nothing’s changed, anyway / You better watch, watch, watch, watch, watch your neck / And with all due respect, I hope y’all rot in hell.”

My hope is that “bad cops” end up unemployed or worse when cities finally get around to defunding the police, and while I shouldn’t have to explain this, I have to because of the poor word choice — “defund” does not mean “eliminate,” as so many right-wing pearl-clutchers claim. It means transferring some of those millions of dollars that police receive every year to health-care professionals who can help police on the beat. Look at all that the average cop has to deal with on a daily basis: domestic calls, mental health calls, the homeless, missing persons, traffic,

for Pete’s sake. And this doesn’t even include big responsibilities like catching murderers, rapists, drug czars, and robbers and the little stuff like paperwork and court dates. And what about family?

Blue lives have a lot to deal with 24/7. By directing some of their annual budgetary monies toward social workers, conflictresolution specialists, and other trained health-care professionals, cops can focus on the big issues. That’s all “defund” the police really means. Stop focusing on the poor wording and start discussing the substance of the movement.

I somehow suspect Sub Sahara wants to take it a step further. I don’t believe that all cops are bad the same way I don’t believe all protestors are peaceful, but I applaud the band’s anger. “Defunding” the police will also allow for better training for our men and women in blue, and everyone can benefit from more training, especially Bumper Sticker Nation. Visit Sub-sahara.bandcamp.com. — Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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well aware of the copyright act but never found non-union session artists who benefited from it. A chance conversation with a friend, multi-instrumentalist Paul Harrington, in late 2016 led to a revelation — and subsequent lawsuit — that helped non-union musicians earn their portion of the lucrative $1 billion digital royalty pie.

Harrington said he “performed with some rapper named after a dog,” Zukoski recalled.

The rapper, Grammy winner Pitbull, had hired Harrington to play a hookish line for his hit song “Timber,” which featured singer Ke$ha. The agile harmonica melody features prominently in the No. 1 Billboard hit. Out of curiosity, Zukoski asked a friend who worked at the union-led fund that was tasked with disbursing digital royalties why Harrington never received any money under the 2000 copyright act. Pitbull, the union rep replied, listed himself as playing all the instruments. Harrington jokingly suggested that someone should see if Pitbull could even play the harmonica. The union rep got the point.

Weeks later, Harrington received a large digital royalty check for his one hour in the recording studio. Zukoski figured there were certainly other musicians who were also owed fees from digital streams. After inquiring further with the union-led fund, the lawyer found that digital royalty funds were being divvied up but only to union members.

Zukoski sent letters to the fund’s leaders asking them to rectify the situation. He did not receive a response.

Working with North Texas attorney Roger Mandel, Zukoski filed suit in federal court with the aim of compelling the union-led fund to provide digital royalty fees to non-union members. Zukoski ultimately won the three-year case, and on April 1, 2020, a New York federal court allocated just under $46 million in undistributed royalties to more than 60,000 session musicians. As part of the settlement, the union-led fund agreed to begin a program to promote the still little-known revenue source for studio musicians. Zukoski said the first checks, which range from $10 to tens of thousands of dollars, will be mailed out by the end of the year.

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