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Jerry Jonestown Massacre

FEATURE Aided in part by social media, Fort Worth gangs are still active.

BY LINDA BLACKWELL SIMMONS

METROPOLIS As Panther Island plows forward, some see a power grab.

BY EDWARD BROWN

Now celebrating its seventh year, the local podcast appears to be peaking.

BY SUSIE RAMONE

LAST CALL Bells are ringing now that Liberty Lounge is open.

BY EDWARD BROWN

FALL GALLERY WEEK STARTS THIS WEEKEND.

MUSIC Tired of reading about politics? We’re tired of writing about it.

BY ANTHONY MARIANI

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

Political Playground

Jim Erickson, Circulation Director Edward Brown, Staff Writer Taylor Provost, Proofreader

There’s no getting around left-versus-right when it comes to school reopenings.

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Just in time for the big election comes a Near Southside haunt with inclusion on its mind.

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Ask any number of Tarrant County folks what the Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD) does, and you’ll see at least a few quizzical faces. The TRWD is tasked with providing safe and reliable drinking water to the 2 million residents of Tarrant County and 10 nearby counties. Providing reliable water requires more than servicing pipes, so TRWD engineers and work crews continually maintain aquifers and build new

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The lyrics from the hilarious 2004 musical are true but vary to certain degrees. Doctors, nurses, and teachers are probably a tad more racially tolerant than your local Imperial Cyclops. Most of us probably fall somewhere in the middle. Seeing the clamor for in-person school by mostly white, mostly affluent parents, reportedly, forces me into a defensive posture. A cardcarrying progressive, I’m automatically “triggered” into thinking there’s a racist component to them. There’s a racist component to just about every political football. School reopenings, history tells me, should be no different.

Actually, there’s no clear answer unless we poll every pro-reopening parent and adjust for error. Assumptions appear to be running the rhetoric. They go

pipelines to ensure that every time one of its customer’s faucets is turned on, potable water from one of the forks of the Trinity River effortlessly pours out.

Were the TRWD’s projects only faucet-related, the governmental group and its roughly $150 million annual budget would probably garner far fewer pages in, and attention from, the Weekly and other publications. It’s TRWD’s other responsibility, flood control, that has placed the water district’s five-member board in charge of a flood control/development project that promises to transform part of Fort Worth’s North Side into a massive waterside development. Panther Island may one day cater to locals and tourists alike. Fort Worth stands to gain considerably from the development — if TRWD manages to work through significant losses of funding.

Congress has authorized but not prioritized $526 million in federal funds for the project, although Panther Island communications director Matt Oliver said federal funds have by no means dried up.

In August, when the TRWD board proposed significant changes to its general ordinance (which regulates land and water under TRWD’s control) and commercial facilities ordinance (which sets guidelines and standards for facilities on TRWD property), many took notice. After TRWD officials met with Fort Worth City Council in late August and heard mostly reservations and concerns, TRWD directors decided

a little something like this. White + rich = Republican, and “Republican” equals kowtowing to Dear Leader, who has been frothily ranting for school reopenings since at least 50,000 COVID-racked corpses ago. On the other side, Black/brown = poor and Democrat, and because they’re poor, they probably live with other, older generations who are particularly susceptible to the ravages of the virus. Since most impoverished people work primarily in service and construction, they simply can’t WFH. Naturally, they want their children to go to school in person, though they don’t want Little Johnny or Little Suzie bringing back anything that can kill Grandma or Grandpa. As many school districts are quickly finding out, a COVID-free campus is next to impossible.

I’m still trying to come up with a good reason for in-person instruction during a pandemic. All of the pro arguments (see: my last 50 columns on the subject) are flimsy at best. As the largest school district in a county with thousands of cases and numerous deaths, Fort Worth will discuss possibly extending remote learning on Sep 15. In a private conversation with a fellow Weekly writer, a trustee expressed the school board’s desire to stand up to the small group of vocal parents (allegedly rich, allegedly white, allegedly

Cour tesy of Panther Island

Progress Coming to Panther Island?

METROPOLIS Encore Panther Island will give the first glimpse of a signature feature of Panther Island — waterway channels that provide reliable drainage and a “river walk” experience similar to San Antonio’s.

to delay their mid-September vote until at least November 30. City officials wanted more time to mull over the potential impact of the changes, which expand powers to TWRD’s general manager James Oliver, and TRWD staff realized that public awareness over the proposal wasn’t where it needed to be.

David Cooke, Fort Worth city manager, said in a memo to city councilmembers that “the revised ordinances would greatly

expand the authority of the district to regulate development in Fort Worth and surrounding cities and counties.”

The proposed revisions, if passed in their current form, will give Oliver expanded flexibility to revise existing ordinances.

One new addition says, “The general manager of the district may, from time to time, adopt or amend any rules, codes, policies, or other standards governing” the construction or maintenance of properties or

ReTrumplican) who have been marching for in-person school now!

I’m not saying that every rich white family is happy and contented and free of problems or serious issues. It’s just a simple fact that nearly every rich white family enjoys a distinct advantage over every other type of family, namely easy and affordable access to health care. A recent study led by the University of Pennsylvania found that about half of the country’s low-income communities do not have any ICU beds, zero, and since many poor patients lack decent insurance, the cost of their care often goes well beyond what their insurance companies are willing to cover, creating even more undue financial pressure on the most financially vulnerable. Wealthy white folk needn’t worry because as one Silicon Valley jagoff told Vanity Fair, COVID-19 is a “poor people’s virus.”

There’s another difference between white and Black/brown kids in the classroom. Unless it’s stealing a couple mill from a charity for sick children, most wealthy white kids do not have behavioral problems. Most wealthy white kids have full bellies and don’t live in bad parts of town. What I’m saying is that most wealthy white kids don’t face the kinds of barriers to education that poor, minority

children do. To rich white kids, school is a great place. To many poor, minority children, school is a stressful, anxiety-fueled test of survival. Forcing them back into classrooms during a pandemic will only set these kids back further. Not only do they have to worry about the regular stuff — mainly food insecurity and the stress from home staying with them throughout the day, leading to discipline issues — but poor, minority kids also would have to worry about catching a deadly virus, one that seems to be targeting them. Now herding these children back to an undoubtedly unsanitary place so their parents can clock in on time means nothing to the oligarchy as Big Business receives another multibillion-dollar bailout and as the stock market surges.

Dear Leader is only partly to blame for the COVID disaster. Republicanand Democrat-led states reopened way too soon. We will soon find out whether schools reopened too early, too. I hope I’m wrong. — Anthony Mariani The Weekly welcomes submissions from all political persuasions. Please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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restaurants, apartments, and nightlife attractions, Matt Oliver said.

Federal funding for the project, he continued, was never meant to be given in one lump sum, and the fact that requests for government funds have not been approved in recent years does not mean that Uncle Sam won’t come through next year. Or the next.

“There have been years when we didn’t get what we asked for,” he said, referring to formal requests by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on behalf of TRWD. “When the bridges are done, that’s when the big money can come in to build the channel” that will effectively make the development an island.

Rather than waiting for the federal government, Matt Oliver said his team is conducting environmental cleanups and other projects to ensure that the infrastructure is in place to properly handle the heaviest and most costly stages of Panther Island construction.

As Panther Island overshadows much of the work TRWD does, Buhman said his days are focused on ensuring that Fort Worth has reliable and safe drinking water for years and decades to come. The discussions between city councilmembers and TRWD directors has shown that both groups are committed to providing clean drinking water that is free of pollution and contaminants to Fort Worth residents, he said.

“I used to live in Brazil,” Buhman said. “I lived in a city where we got water a couple times a week. That city was always struggling. That’s why I feel passionate about this. As our population has grown, we’ve realized that we needed to add more capacity.”

TRWD has run models that account for a 1,000-year drought, meaning the worst possible scenario that could theoretically arise in a millennium, and Fort Worth’s water supply could service residents through that hypothetical worst-case scenario, he said. Preparing for future droughts requires replenishing aquifers and creating wetlands.

Where some see a boondoggle, Buhman, Matt Oliver, and other TWRD directors see opportunity. Panther Island will provide flood protections that could potentially prevent $2.4 billion in property damage, according to Panther Island documents. The developments and housing within Panther Island will create jobs and a broadened tax base for Fort Worth, project proponents say.

Buhman said his group will continue educating the public about the proposed changes. They are accepting public comments (which can be emailed to PublicComments@trwd.com) until November 30. There is currently no set deadline for a TRWD board vote on the changes.

Kelleher said increased media attention over TRWD board dealings has made it harder for TRWD to peddle financially burdensome projects in Tarrant County.

She worries that the new changes may effectively relinquish important powers from the board.

“The board was the only safeguard” against James Oliver, she said. “The only hope that people have is the media shining the light on what TRWD does.” l

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facilities located on or under TRWD land or water. The water board has long been dogged with accusations that the Panther Island project is unnecessary (“Unleashing a Flood of Questions,” June 2011) and a poor use of public spending (“Troubled Waters,” Dec. 2006).

So are the ordinance changes a power grab meant to open the floodgates (metaphorically speaking) on Panther Island expansion?

“Not at all,” said Dan Buhman, TRWD deputy general manager. “The Panther Island project was not a driver in the changes to the ordinance. Over the years, we encountered different situations around our reservoirs in our jurisdiction. When we see something that needs to be updated, [we log those needed changes]. It’s been nine or 10 years since the last ordinance revision.

Some of [the changes] have to do with language about drones, which weren’t around 10 years ago. A lot of it is just updates. We wanted to ensure the general ordinance followed the stormwater quality guidelines that we adopted in 2018.”

Former TRWD board member Mary Kelleher, who served from 2013 to 2017, sees two goals behind the ordinance proposals: more power and more money. During Kelleher’s tenure, she pushed for greater transparency over Panther Island dealings.

“I think they are hurting financially,” she said. “I think this would be an opportunity to make some money.”

Buhman denies any profiteering motives behind the proposals, although language in the proposal does give Oliver newfound and sole power to create, set, and collect fees.

Kelleher believes the vague language of the document is concealing some ulterior motive behind the proposals.

“There has to be something else behind it,” Kelleher said.

Being on the hook for unmaterialized Panther Island funds does technically leave TRWD in financial trouble, but the water district saw a significant boost in its revenue between 2019 and 2020 — from $134,798,174 to $154,772,294, according to TRWD numbers. But those funds are quickly gobbled by costs related to servicing those 2 million customers and new water preservation projects. TRWD is currently working on a 2,000-acre wetland project along with a $2.2 billion integrated pipeline project that will ensure reliable water sources for Fort Worthians for decades to come.

Oliver said steady progress on the project is being made across multiple fronts.

One of three large bridges, the White Settlement Bridge, is scheduled to open by year’s end, and the remaining Henderson and Main street bridges are set to open by the end of 2021. Encore Panther Island, the 300-unit apartment located near Panther Island Brewing Company, will welcome tenants next spring, he said. The development will give the first glimpse of a signature feature of Panther Island — waterway channels that provide reliable drainage and a “river walk” experience similar to San Antonio’s.

The channels will one day meander throughout Panther Island, providing a beautiful centerpiece that will be lined with

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Zay: “I know now that you don’t have to in a gang to be loved.”

Gang activity ebbs and flows, but it’s still hard to be free after joining.

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ecently, while attending a housing meeting on the East Side, I overheard a conversation between two residents, one of whom appeared to be a minister. According to him, gang activity still existed, but it was subtle now, not so easy to recognize.

Was this true? I wondered, and if so, why?

With help from some locals, I met with two members of the Bloods, one older, one younger, both of whom consider themselves ex-gang members.

Gracious but cautious, they spoke about their gang years. Neither placed blamed on outsiders for the life he chose early on, and by “outsiders,” I mean wealthier Fort Worth residents. Instead, both spoke about the lack of a positive male figure in their youth, early-on violence within their family unit, who they hung with, and drugs — always drugs. Neither COVID-19 nor the more recent racial unrest was mentioned as causing the change in gang crime.

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for underground crime — one that is harder to track.

Cavile Place, a series of low-income housing apartments in Stop Six, has been home to KDawg, 43, his entire life.

Growing up, he lived with his grandmother, graduated from Dunbar High School, and attended Tarleton State College, where he played baseball for a short time. After this, life took a turn.

“These streets will eat you up,” he said, “turn good kids from worse to worst.”

KDawg is a founder of the Truman Street Bloods, a gang that formed on the East Side in the late 1980s. “We was organized in my day, about the time crack cocaine hit the area. We did things old school, face-to-face back then. … I’m not really an active member now, but I still carry rank with the young guys. They come to me for advice on what to do — should they retaliate against another gang member, or do this or that. I’m still the only OG [or ‘original gangster’] whose hair hasn’t turned gray.”

KDawg has been to prison three times, most recently in 2010.

Zay: My grandmother “let us park on her property but wouldn’t let us come in. I have forgiven her for that, but I can’t forget how hard it was.”

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“A cop pulled me over right here in Stop Six,” he said. “I was pushing heroin back then, and he knew I had a stashbox filled with cash in the car, but he couldn’t find it.

He got mad, got me out of the car, and forced my face into the hood. It was summertime, and that hood was hot. Then I got mad and turned and started beating him. He hit his panic button, and then all hell broke loose with cop cars surrounding us. That’s when they spotted my gun in the car, and then they found the trapdoor where the cash was hid.”

A district attorney wanted to give KDawg 45 years for aggravated assault against a police officer, but his grandmother hired a Dallas lawyer who was successful in lowering the time to 10 years. Two were spent in Tarrant County Jail and the rest in the Ferguson unit in Midway, a maximumsecurity facility.

“Prison was hell,” KDawg recalled.

“It’s all red brick, and gray clouds. I was in seg [or ‘segregated’] for two years. You go in one way. You come out another. My heart turned to stone a long time ago.”

Upon his release from prison, KDawg returned to his grandmother, the one

stable adult in his life, but she died shortly after his homecoming.

“I was shot this past New Year’s Eve over by the park on Liberty Street,” he said. “A group of us was standing around, drinking and having fun. I didn’t even know I was shot until I looked down. The bullet went in and out. One of the guys took me to [John Peter Smith Hospital], but the cop on duty came in and kept asking me about my gang activity. I just got up and walked out. Still don’t know who put the bullet in me.”

I asked KDawg if anyone called the police when he was shot.

“No, it’s a gang rule. You don’t call the police on nobody. They come and park their patrol cars here in Stop Six. It’s crazy.

I’ve lived in Cavile all my life, and they still pull up beside me and ask me what I’m doing here.”

KDawg tells of one police officer he will never forget, one who retired a few years ago.

“He respected us,” KDawg said.

“We was more than just gang members.

Brought the kids food. If he caught us with drugs, he would order us to throw it on the ground and crush it, but he would not take us in. His only request was: ‘Don’t ever run from me.’ ” Today, KDawg said, the Bloods deal in black tar, heroin that is not cut, not diluted. KDawg said that if he is going to sell it, it is going to be the good stuff. The problem is that users may not realize that

A Fort Worth police officer said the old gang members have mostly lost their beef with each other, but “the younger guys still spark animosity among the various groups.”

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Zay, 23, another Eastside Blood, also grew up in Stop Six. He joined the Bloods at 15, considering it a rite of passage, a way to be respected. His older brother encouraged him, telling him he would let him in, but first he had to prove himself.

After driving around town, they ended up at Hulen Mall, where Zay’s brother handed him a 45 Glock, telling him to snatch a woman’s purse in the mall parking lot. Zay spotted his victim and attempted to grab her bag, but the woman fought him. He pointed his gun at her and pulled the trigger, not realizing that his brother had intentionally removed the

clip. The police never caught him for the attempted robbery.

“I was young and dumb, and I felt guilty after that and so lucky I didn’t shoot her,” Zay said. “My life would have ended there if that clip had been in. I knew by the time I was 17 or 18 that I didn’t want to live like that. Getting in a gang is easy, but getting out is hard.”

Zay has seven siblings. The youngest is his 9-year-old sister.

“I have to watch out for them and take care of my mama,” he said. “I got arrested for assaulting the daddy of my mama’s two youngest kids. He was beating her. He didn’t like me. He thought I was the black sheep of the family. While I was in Tarrant

County Jail, [Child Protective Services] took the two kids for a time.”

Zay was shot in his leg outside his mom’s Cavile apartment last October.

“I fell, and then noticed I couldn’t get up,” he recalled. “Someone took me to the hospital. They said I would be in there for a month, but I started walking before long. I left after about 10 days. No one reported it to the cops. My mama and me and her two youngest lived in our car at my grandmother’s over by [East] Berry [Street] and Clotell [Drive] for a while. She let us park on her property but wouldn’t let us come in. I have forgiven her for that, but I can’t forget how hard it was.”

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KDawg: “The bullet went in and out. One of the guys took me to [John Peter Smith Hospital], but the cop on duty came in and kept asking me about my gang activity. I just got up and walked out. Still don’t know who put the bullet in me.”

be a Blood. He sees it as family, as a group who will protect him, perhaps love him.

“I know now that you don’t have to in a gang to be loved,” Zay said. “I try to tell him that.”

Both KDawg and Zay have recently moved from Stop Six. Zay is working parttime now but searching for a more stable position. With a federal grant, plans are to demolish Cavile Place and over the next several years revitalize the entire Stop Six area — including erecting new housing and recreational facilities and landscaping a common green space. It remains unclear whether KDawg and Zay will return to the home they have known so long.

“Everybody wants to be part of something,” said Charles Rogers, 46, one of four officers in Fort Worth police’s Gang Intervention Prevention unit.

Today, communicating is conducted via social media — Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook, and many times underground sites like Backpage.

“Gang activity tends to ebb and peak,” he said. “Right now, it’s down. It’s difficult to always know the reason why. Part of it may be due to the virus. You no longer see gang members standing on the street corner wearing their bandannas, making the B or C letter with their hands. And you no longer see them hanging out at mom and pop stores flying their colors.

“Gangs are mostly comprised of men,” he said. “Women can be members, too, but it is typically because of a man they hang with. The old guys have mostly lost their beef with each other, but the younger guys

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KDawg: “Prison was hell. … You go in one way.

You come out another. My heart turned to stone a long time ago.”

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still spark animosity among the various groups.”

The Bloods occupy Stop Six while Como and Polytechnic Heights are Crip territory. It is difficult to determine exact numbers, but Rogers said the Crips outnumber the Bloods. The North Side and South Side are home to several Hispanic gangs, including Sur 13.

Rogers also grew up in Stop Six with a mother who encouraged him to move on to better opportunities. After graduating from Eastern Hills High School, he attended college in Kansas. He began his career with the Fort Worth police 13 years ago in the gang enforcement unit working the streets for five years, identifying gang activity, issuing warrants, and adding names to the gang unit file. Now, in the intervention unit, he visits schools and speaks of consequences, his talks aimed at kids who are at-risk and on the verge of entering a gang.

Pointing to his cell phone, Rogers said, “Everyone has one of these, even kids as young as third and fourth grade. If they can locate WiFi, they can find just about anything they want. I see elementary kids using weed they have found online.”

Rogers also conducts seminars in criminal justice classes at TCU and UTA, educating counselors and teachers on the definition of a gang and how to recognize gang behavior.

“A gang is three or more persons with a common identifying sign or symbol or an identifiable leadership which regularly associates in the commission of criminal activities,” Rogers said.

Once someone is stamped a gang member, any crime he may commit receives a harsher penalty than it would otherwise.

“Kids mimic what they see,” he said.

“It’s generational. The grandfather was a gang member, the father joined, and now the grandson follows. Kids do what is expected of them.”

Rogers is typically the first one to arrive at his office (he was not comfortable sharing the location), where he starts his day by reading his Bible. Then he determines where he is most needed, at a school that has requested his presence, or perhaps being proactive, he seeks a venue where he believes he can make a difference. Rogers is part of Gang Resistance Education and Training. GREAT decides the topic, and students are encouraged to express themselves on emotions, communications, how to give and receive respect, and how to respond to conflict.

When asked to describe the best day he remembers, Rogers recalls a little boy in fourth grade coming up to him after he spoke to the class.

“He told me I had made a difference and he would remember what I said, that he wanted to do better,” Rogers said.

“Prevention is the key. You plant a tree today so someone else can benefit from the shade tomorrow.” l

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Twice a year, the Fort Worth Art Dealers Association (FWADA) invites you to take in the visual arts and our community’s unique cultural richness during Gallery Night ™ in Fort Worth. Most participants are open. Come take a stroll through participating galleries, museums, retail businesses, and area restaurants, and enjoy the many artists featured during this community event. Check our Member page to view each venue’s website.

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For the first time, Fort Worth’s Fall Gallery Night on Sept. 12th kicks off Fall Gallery Week! To encourage smaller crowds and visitor safety, we invite you to explore participating venues from Saturday Sept. 12th – Saturday Sept. 19th 2020.

Check out FWADA’s digital Gallery Guide at www.FWADA.com for more details about participants across Fort Worth and hours of operation. Spaces may offer timed entry, virtual exhibits or open entry. Contact spaces in advance. FWADA is committed to safely supporting the Fort Worth arts community and it’s patrons.

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& NIGHT DAY OPEN Spend a quiet, relaxing day in our spacious, air-conditioned galleries with plenty of room for social distancing. Explore work by nationally and internationally renowned artists, and visit the special exhibition Mark Bradford: End Papers, on view through January 10.

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Between 11am and 5pm, check out Chicanoism.

Wednesday This art exhibit at Artes de la Rosa Cultural Center for the Arts at Rose Marine Theater (1440 N Main St, 817-624-8333) reflects culture, identity, migration, and preservation. “My culture is very important to me,” says participating artist Michael Cruz Flores.

“I have had to fight to have my voice heard due to my upbringing, being made to feel that I am neither here nor there.” See this exhibit by appointment Tue-Fri thru Sep 25. Social distancing and masks are required. Admission is free. To reserve a time slot, email Info@ArtesdelaRosa.org.

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At 6:30pm on the second Thu every month, special needs people of all ages Thursday can attend All Abilities Art Night at Central Arts (362 E Pipeline Rd, Hurst, 817-510-6099) for an evening of creativity. Family members are also welcome. Tickets are $6 at Eventbrite.com.

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Just in time for Fort Worth’s annual Gallery Night turned Gallery Week, Sony Pictures’ The

Broken Hearts Gallery opens in theaters.

In this romantic film, art gallery assistant Lucy is inspired to create a pop-up space featuring found items that love has left behind. Among the executive producers is Texas native Selena Gomez, and cast members include Geraldine Viswanathan (Blockers), Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things), Utkarsh Ambudkar (Brittany Runs a Marathon), Molly Gordon (Booksmart, Good Boys), Phillipa Soo (Hamilton), and Arturo Castro (Broad City). At 12:30pm, 3:30pm, 6:30pm, or 9:30pm, you can watch this picture at various theaters in North Texas, including Movie Tavern (4920 S Hulen St, 817-546-7090). Ticket prices vary by theater. Reserve tickets at BrokenHeartsGallery.Movie/Tickets.

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From 2pm to 4pm at Hypnotic Emporium Ice Cream (109 S Main St, Ste Saturday 400, Mansfield, 817-7140703), Mansfield Commission for the Arts is hosting an Arts Around Town painting event. Rather than a canvas –– the usual medium of group painting parties –– artist Diana Pfau from The Basket Case Crafts and attendees will paint ice cream bowls.

The event is free, as is the craft project.

Belenty’s Love Mexican Vegan Restaurant (3516 Bluebonnet Cr, 817-862Tuesday 9008) is hosting ¡Painting Party in Spanish!, an event where you will paint Frida Kahlo on a 12-by-16 canvas while enjoying dinner and drinks.

No experience is needed. The cost is $35 per person for the art supplies. To reserve a seat –– the deadline is Sunday –– email AcrylicsByGris@yahoo.com.

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Painting with a Twist is one of those concepts so simple that we can’t believe we didn’t think of it ourselves. It takes the activity of painting for fun to the next level by combining an entertaining instructor, a classroom full of your friends, and wine –– lots of wine. The result is a souvenir work of art. There are locations in Arlington, Bedford, Granbury, Mansfield, Saginaw, and Weatherford, but the closest one to the Cultural District is Painting with a Twist Fort Worth West (2605 Cherry Ln, 817-886-0515). This week, there are $3545 classes on Wed, Fri, Sat, Mon, and Tue, with painting selections from peace signs to pumpkins. Register at PaintingwithaTwist. com/Studio/FortWorthWest.

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Artspace 111 will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a Texas-sized group show at Fall Gallery Week.

Fall Gallery Week For the first time in history, Fall Gallery Night has been extended.

Taking place Sat thru Sep 19, Fall Gallery Week will give art lovers plenty of time and room to view the exhibitions safely in person.

In celebration of Artspace 111’s 40th anniversary, the gallery at 111 Hampton St presents a new open-ended group exhibition of more than 40 select works “whose collective creative voice defines an institution in contemporary art.”

To 40 More! features established artists who have been the gallery’s support since 1980 and new artists as well.

Admission is free. Attendance is limited to 30 guests per hour.

Social distancing and masks are required. To see the exhibition during Fall Gallery Week, you must make an appointment. Time slots are available 11am-6pm Mon to Wed, Sep 16, and 11am-7pm Thu-Fri, Sep 17-18. Call 817-6923228.

Nearly 30 other galleries and groups will be part of Fall Gallery Week, including Art Tooth (120 S Main St, 817-528-7638), Bee Street Gallery (3000 Landers St, 214-668-2200), McAnthony’s Multicultural Studio & Gallery (3270 Canberra Ct, 817-536-5750), and SiNaCa Studios (1012 W Magnolia Av, 817-899-0024).

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I haven’t belonged to a book club since the first Harry Potter hit the Monday shelves. It may be time again. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is starting the Modern Members Book Club. Join the club for its first meeting at 7pm. Terry Thornton, curator of education, will lead this discussion of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. The event is free to attend. Bring your copy of the book. To sign up for the book club, become a member by emailing Membership@ TheModern.org. To participate, members need to send an email, too.

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A new tradition has begun in this year’s playoff run for the Dallas Stars: After each victory, a giant Flavor Flav-style medallion depicting the team logo, hanging from a heavy 4-foot length of trailer chain, is given to the game’s standout player. The previous recipient hands it over to him. This past Friday afternoon, that chain was bestowed upon 24-year-old Finnish rookie Joel Kiviranta after his Game 7 hat trick performance, which included the overtime gamewinner. Pressed by cheers and chants of “Speech!” by his teammates, Kiviranta stood bashfully, donning the chain, and

the No. 1 seed Vegas Golden Knights, the Stars appeared to slide way back into the Cup-winning Ken Hitchcock era, pulling out a vintage neutral zone trap that frustrated the Knights’ forecheck all game. Anton Khudobin, cemented now as the goalie Dallas will ride the rest of the way, stopped all 25 Knights shots, making his first career playoff shutout look fairly routine and spotting the Stars a 1-0 series lead. Dobby even received the medallion from Kivi after the game.

Despite their first place Western Conference finish, in a sense, Vegas may rank third with respect to the difficulty of

the Stars’ opponents so far. Dallas’ team size matches up better with the bigger Knights than it did against either of the smaller, speedier Flames or Avs. I by no means am predicting Dallas’ first trip to the Stanley Cup finals in 20 years, but with their Game 1 win, they can do no worse than tied after two games. (Game 2 will happen as the paper is going to press.) I’m certainly no longer resigned to an inevitable defeat. That heavy logo medallion is going to be passed to another Stars player, or two, or four. I can’t wait to see how far those players will carry the team. l

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In keeping with this season’s theme of wild, up-and-down swings, the Stars manage to extend their playoff run into the conference finals for the first time in 12 years.

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then simply proclaimed, “We’re not going home!”

The breathtaking Game 7 finale against the Colorado Avalanche, much like the series in general, was a microcosm of sorts for the entire Stars’ season so far.

It was far from perfect — a gloomy sense of impending doom hung over most of it, momentum swung wildly back and forth, and just when you thought the door was being slammed shut on their season, the boys in Victory Green™ improbably pried it back open.

After initially storming out to a 3-1 series lead, the Stars slogged through two consecutive duds, allowing the Avs to crawl back into the driver’s seat to force Friday’s Game 7. In that game, after falling down 2-1 halfway through the first period, led by right winger and perennial winner for Best 19th-Century Whaling Vessel Harpooneer Lookalike Alexander Radulov, and the aforementioned Kiviranta, the Stars would come back to tie the game three separate times, including Kiviranta’s second goal of the afternoon just 10 seconds after Colorado’s Vladislav Namestnikov was briefly thought to have put the proverbial dagger in the hearts of the Stars faithful with his go-ahead goal late in the third. Dallas would hang on to force overtime, where Kiviranta would ultimately net the trick seven minutes into the extra frame, sending the teams for handshakes at center ice.

With fans’ necks in traction from such a whiplash-inducing season that began nearly an entire calendar year ago, making the conference finals is an achievement most would have felt was impossible, but, as Dallas has done time and again, they demonstrated fans’ lack of faith to be based as much or more on the decade of mediocrity that has preceded than on the team bursting with heart and fight that’s been taking the ice all year.

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whimsy logo outside, the bright colors, they convey that this is where you can relax.”

The recent loosening of TABC laws now allows certain bars, like Liberty Lounge, to reopen if they offer food. On a recent visit, the parking lot was full, and, although capacity was strictly limited, I gained a sense of what Liberty Lounge is all about.

“I’m glad you got here in time to see the leak,” Hill-Higgs said with a laugh as a small-but-steady pour of water from an AC unit streamed into two trashcans in the middle of the room.

Hills-Higgs was busy. As she poured several mixed drinks, I asked her how she felt. Her reply, an unbridled laugh, captured the mix of joy, fatigue, and anxiety that understandably accompanies any bar opening during a pandemic.

“I want to make sure everyone is safe,” she said as she cobbled the shot glasses together and brought them to the back patio.

I ordered the Liberty Lounge Punch, a frothy mix of orange-flavored vodka that’s blended with cranberry and pineapple juice and served on the rocks. The cocktail B Y E D W A R D B R O W N was smooth and mildly sweet, highlighted Monday marked the grand opening of by pineapple and no discernable trace of Liberty Lounge and the beginning of a vodka.

Liberty Lounge exudes an effortless new life for owner Jenna Hill-Higgs. After nearly 20 years working as a public school swagger. The front wall boasts a funky teacher, Hill-Higgs decided in early 2020 blue, red, and yellow mural that reads, to renovate the recently shuttered 515 “Wild, Brave, & Free.” Georgie Sinclaire Bar on the Near Southside and transform crafted the bar’s 1970s-esque branding it into a safe and inclusive space. The (think: curvy serif fonts). The artwork governor’s lengthy and ongoing shutdown (prints, photos, paintings) in the reddelayed Liberty Lounge’s opening, but the hued indoor space is tied to Black Lives philosophy behind the bar hasn’t changed. Matter and other progressive or reformminded movements. Creating “I want to create a a sense of community and community,” Hill-Higgs said Liberty Lounge empowering women top Hillseveral weeks ago when I first 515 S Jennings Av, FW. Higgs’ goals for the Near visited the watering hole. 682-730-0915.

Southside business. The bar “This is a place that is safe owner was raised by a loving and where you know that you matter and are heard. There are so many lesbian couple, she told me. Her career in adults who feel lost and disconnected. I public school education has further taught don’t care if you come in and say, ‘Can I her to appreciate the struggles that can hit just get water? I’ve had a crap day.’ The people at any age.

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Hill-Higgs: “I feel like I have a voice here. I want to create the world that I want to live in.”

The bar offerings, the proprietor added, closely resemble those found at MASS, the music venue owned by her husband, Ryan Higgs. Six beer taps, assorted liquor options, and canned beer will round out Liberty Lounge’s offerings.

Nearby Pizza Bar None will offer slices of pie that can be ordered via an iPad, HillHiggs added.

Liberty Lounge also offers contactless payments through the use of a smartphone app that communicates to the bar’s point of sale systems.

“You can download this app onto your phone,” she said. “I’ll come get your order.

Say you are ready to go. You open the app and pay right then. I don’t touch your credit card.”

Once certain financial benchmarks are met, the first-time bar owner said she

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Jerry Jonestown Massacre started the way most good things do: after major hangs at the local tavern.

Matt Stubbs told Dustin Schneider he thought they could produce a podcast around their bar convos.

“I knew we would be good at it, but [Schneider] was iffy,” Stubbs said.

Then Schneider heard a podcast with actor Jason Mewes and director Kevin Smith, they of Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob fame, and “was on fire,” Stubbs recalled, saying, “ ‘Let’s do this.’ ” Seven years and 379 episodes/weeks later, and the Jerry Jonestown Massacre is still going strong.

“I never thought it would last this long,” Schneider said. “It was a temporary thing … . Now that we’re at the seven-year mark, I don’t see anything changing.”

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Well, Congress’ last session came and went, and none of those deadbeats did anything about the crisis facing venues.

With social distancing in place and no alcohol sales, the places where the music happens are barely hanging on. Some, like locals Billy Bob’s and Lola’s Trailer Park, are taking advantage of new TABC rules that permit food sales from trucks or onsite to go toward counteracting that pesky 51% distinction. Others need help. Save Our Stages is the name of a grassroots campaign by the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) to encourage concerned citizens to write their legislators and browbeat them into

passing the bipartisan RESTART Act next time Congress convenes or during a special session, whichever comes first.

The Polydogs are taking a less studious, way louder approach. They’re simply going to melt faces.

Easily the best pure rock band in town, the gritty blues-based quartet is about to embark on a “12-hour tour” inspired by #saveourstages. Playing 10 venues across Fort Worth in a 10-hour timespan on Thu, Sep 17, will dovetail with the Sep 18 release of the band’s new single, “Let Me Live,” a “psychedelickissed … boneshaker,” they say. Though plans are not finalized, some stops include the aforementioned Billy Bob’s and Trailer Park in addition to Shipping & Receiving and The Post, the tour’s final stop. The first note is at 10am. A venue’s

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friend Seth Haynes for the first year or so. Wil Dumke joined for a while as a factchecker extraordinaire.

The hosts broadcast live every Tuesday night at The Temple of the Eye, a backyard shed in North Richland Hills which is named after Schneider and Stubbs’ old band, Eye Was Once Eaten.

JJTM’s listenership has grown from a group of mostly friends and family to 80,000 per month. Everything is fair game.

Local music, politics, sports, you name it, Schneider and Stubbs cover it with their usual mix of intelligence and humor. In podcast terms, seven years is an epoch. No wonder JJTM has won the Weekly’s Best Of award for podcast four years in a row.

It hasn’t always been just Schneider and Stubbs. After Haynes and Dumke left the show, the producer spot became a rotating seat. Richard Hennessy of the local prog-pop band Henry the Archer, Jessi Foster, and even I helped out a little. Most recently, comedian Brian Breckenridge has been onboard, but mostly it’s just Schneider and Stubbs — neither has missed an episode.

Both hosts bring their own gifts to the show. Stubbs can immediately loosen anyone up and make them feel comfortable with a laugh and a wink. Schneider has a seriously wicked sense of humor, big time intellect, and a drive to be successful.

“One thing that got us out there and recognized was that Schneider had an unrelenting drive to have us active in the music community,” Stubbs said. “We needed to go see shows and hang out with these people where we love their music and get them to come on the podcast.”

Over the years, many guests have made their way through the doors of the temple, including the German industrial band KMFDM, comedian Tim Dillon, and dozens of North Texas bands. Some of the locals that really blew away Schneider and Stubbs have been Henry the Archer, The Me-Thinks, The House Harkonnen, Duell,

Schneider and Stubbs have been cracking up each other — and 80,000 monthly listeners — for seven years, an epoch in podcast years.

and Slow Roosevelt (basically anyone on the Do For It record label). Schneider and Stubbs’ favorite show, they said, was with Peter Thomas, the frontman for Slow Roosevelt who’s also a psychologist. His episode addressing suicide in the North Texas music community was picked up by local radio.

But the most rewarding thing about JJTM, the hosts said, has been their friendships with local artists.

What makes JJTM so much fun?

Schneider said that besides being super-relatable to the average listener, their show has a secret sauce: whiskey.

No, seriously, they have found that people really open up after about an hour and a couple of drinks — hence the two-hour format and the open bar cart and everready fridge full of beer. They typically will spend the first hour shootin’ the shit, catching up with each other and their guest, talking about whatever is the hot topic of the week, and then in the second hour, the hosts and their guest dig into the meat of the episode.

When asked if they have a favorite, they both quickly said they have a lot, but they really enjoy when it ends up being just the two of them because it is then that

they have some good discussions.

“We just enjoy each other’s company,” Schneider said. “It’s fun. I have fun” with Stubbs.

There is no denying Schneider and Stubbs have an on-air chemistry and will go on some epic rants. And the guys crack each other up.

“We have some crazy shit that happened in Iowa that nobody is even talking about,” Stubbs said on a recent episode.

“What?” Schneider deadpanned.

“Did Slipknot come out with another new album?”

When asked about where the podcast is headed with COVID-19 throwing a kink into their regular rotation of bands coming on to promote their releases and shows, Schneider said that no matter what, it was important to keep doing the show together, in person at the Temple, for a sense of normalcy. Stubbs added that he felt they “needed to come together and do what we always do … and stay 6 feet apart.”

You can catch the Jerry Jonestown Massacre live on Mixlr and YouTube 8-10 p.m. every Tuesday. After that, shows are posted and archived to JerryJonestownMassacre.com l

normal business hours will determine the presence of fans or not, and every show will be livestreamed on the band’s various social media channels.

“In this most unusual of times,” the Dogs continue, “the band knew they needed to do something unusual, not only to elevate the awareness of their latest release but also to focus public attention on the struggles of the stages [the band] used to frequent — in a recent past that’s begun to seem already distant.”

What NIVA is arguing for is longterm support for businesses like venues and theaters that can benefit from the Paycheck Protection Program for only so long before the lack of income stifles any progress. Due to safety concerns posed by large gatherings, the live event industry will experience more than 90% revenue

loss well into 2021, NIVA says. Without support from Congress, at least 90% of NIVA’s hundreds of members will close forever. The toll on the economy would be bad enough. A recent Chicago study said that every $1 spent at an independent venue resulted in $12 of economic activity at nearby restaurants, hotels, and retailers.

The impact on a city’s soul would be incalculable. Live music says a lot about how smart and progressive your city is, and based on the sheer number of stellar artists calling the 817 home, Fort Worth is a lot sturdier and more diverse than its politics would have you believe. — Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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PROJECT MANAGER Reinhausen Manufacturing, a world leader in the Electrical Power Engineering Industry has an opening for 1 Project Manager for one of our Facilities in Chandler, AZ. The Project Manager will be directly responsible for our transformer clients throughout the U.S.

Essential Functions:

• Customer visits as related to increased service sales activity per Targets • Managers multiple concurrent projects, and provides guidance to other project managers and service coordinators • Develops project plan to establish scope/deliverables, schedule, budget, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project • Develops the project proposal during business development phase, including technical approach, scope/assumptions, schedule, cost, staffing • Confers with project staff to outline work plan and to assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority • Maintains accountability of project success and quality assurance. Directs and coordinates activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget, and informs project personnel and senior management in a timely manner of variances from plan.

• Develops, creates, owns and manages the MR Change Order Process • Reviews deliverables prepared by project personnel and modifies schedules or plans as required • Establishes and maintains project filing systems, tracking tools and databases • Tracks and analyzes project financial results including revenue and cost data and projections. Prepares project reports and presents results to management. Confers with project team and other management personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems • Proactively manages client expectations within limits of established scope, schedule, and cost. Effectively negotiates change orders and builds client relationships to achieve growth.

• Manages any project subcontractor relationships. Initiates purchases orders and approves vendor invoices, and coordinates payments with Accounts Payable • Prepares invoice requests for issuance by Accounts Receivable • Prepares project closeout and Performance Incentive Reports • Other tasks as assigned by Supervisor • Must be able to travel up to 50% domestically. Travel may vary depending on location of clients and which home office is assigned upon hiring. * Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or specific work history in line with Business Needs and/or a suitable combination of years of experience plus education in transformers, power plant maintenance and service business area required • 3 + years’ experience in Project Management leading a team of transformer technicians • 5+ years’ experience in technical engineering and in large Power Transformer installations, maintenance & testing preferred • 3+ years’ experience wiring of electrical systems preferred • Metal Fabrication experience a plus • PMP Certification strongly desired Reinhausen provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Reinhausen complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

Reinhausen Manufacturing enforces the Drug-Free Workplace Act; hence drug testing will be conducted as a condition of employment. In addition- random drug tests are performed in accordance with our policy.

Please send your resume to: Mr. Ric Bates r.bates@us.reinhausen.com or Jaime Vega at j.vega@us.reinhausen.com No Phone calls and no third parties please.

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