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October 2011

C O V E R S T O RY David Pierce doesn’t act like a man who is ready to call himself a composer. “I think I’m moving toward that,” said Pierce, a professional musician who put Denton on the Halloween map two years ago when he wrote and organized Cirque du Horror. The feature-length vaudevillian fest is a carnival fantasia about the day when mere mortals lift the veil between the living and the dead and pretend to be able to laugh at the Great Unknown. Story by Lucinda Breeding

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flag on the play It was onstage last year at the

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the alchemist We’re striking out on the Oregon Trail with the Happy Pilgrim.

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try this at home Cigar-box amp. movies Courtesy art/Bad Sports

work the room Fry Street Public House. the buzz Caffeine, jams and food.

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SATURDAY

OCTOBER 2011 MUSIC at Denton venues

SUNDAY

MUSIC at UNT

MONDAY

MUSIC elsewhere

TUESDAY Rabbit A La Berlin screening, 7 p.m. Free. UNT. “Hidden Voices: Lives of Gay Muslims,” 7 p.m. Free. UNT. Brad Leali Quartet, 7 p.m. Free. Sweetwater Grill & Tavern. Brent Best, Ralph White, Jeffrey Barnes Duo, Dim Locator, 8 p.m. $8. Dan’s Silverleaf. Mister Joe & Friends, Le Not So Hot Klub de Denton, 8 p.m. Free. Banter.

Denton Harvest Festival: Hatch, the Bastard Family Jam, Shebus, David Willingham, etc., 3-10 p.m. Free. The Barn, 368 Parkway St. The Fox and the Bird, Dust Congress, Spooky Folk, 9 p.m. $6. Dan’s Silverleaf. Squidbucket, Big Fiction, Magnum Octopus, Rocket Arm, Spacebeach, 9 p.m. $5$7. Rubber Gloves.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 2 and 7:30 p.m. $7.50-$10. UNT. Ape Machine, 8 p.m. Andy’s Bar. Peter Wolf Crier, Milagres, RTB2, 9 p.m. $10. Dan’s Silverleaf. Katsuk, Interstellar Transmissions, My Wooden Leg, 9 p.m. $10-$12. Lola’s. The Wee-Beasties, Lil Mike and Funny Bone, Darstar, the Tony Cliftons, Yeahdef, 9 p.m. $5-$7. Hailey’s Club. Lucinda Williams, 10:30 p.m. $15-$30. Billy Bob’s Texas.

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WEDNESDAY

FRIDAY Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 7:30 p.m. $7.50-$10. UNT. UNT Baroque Orchestra and Collegium Singers, 8 p.m. $8$10. Winspear Performance Hall. The Ruby Jane Show, 9 p.m. $10. Dan’s Silverleaf. Mind Spiders, Birthday Suits, Free to Kill Again, 9 p.m. $6-$8. Rubber Gloves. Ducado VeGA, the Gypsy Bravado, the Neckties, Retro Run, 9 p.m. $6-9. Andy’s Bar. James McMurtry, 9:30 p.m. $15-$20. Lola’s.

The Script, Hot Chelle Rae, 8 p.m. $29.50. Palladium Ballroom. Cymbals Eat Guitars, Hooray For Earth, 9 p.m. $10-$12. Dan’s Silverleaf.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 2 p.m. $7.50-$10. UNT. Antony and the Tramps, Joseph Messing and the Wisemen, 8 p.m. $3-$6. Andy’s Bar.

11 This Land Is Our Land screen-

12 Friendly Fires, Ishi, 8 p.m.

13 Six O’clock Lab Band, noon.

14 A Lovely Sunday for Creve

15 A Lovely Sunday for Creve

16 A Lovely Sunday for Creve

18 Regretters screening, 7 p.m.

19 Evanescence, the Pretty

20 Seven O’clock Lab Band, noon.

21 Adele, Michael Kiwanuka, 7:30

22 Messer, Arms of the Sun, 7

23 Manchester Orchestra, White

25 Green Brigade Marching Band:

26 Fem Flicks Film Series: Asking

27 Eight O’clock Lab Band, noon.

28 Insidious screening, 2 and 10

29 Cirque du Horror, 6:30 p.m.

Coeur, 2 p.m. $5-$10. TWU.

Denim, the Deer Hunter, Little Hurricane, 8 p.m. $16.50. Palladium Ballroom. Adult Fairy Tales by Fight Boy Theatre. Cost, time TBA. Art Six Coffee House.

Nurses, Dominant Legs, 9 p.m. $9-$12. Dan’s Silverleaf.

ing, 7 p.m. Free. UNT. Meek’s Cutoff screening, 7 p.m. Free. UNT. Sweetwater Jazz Quartet, 7 p.m. Free. Sweetwater Grill & Tavern. The Rapture, Poolside, 7 p.m. $20. Granada Theater. Kevin Devine, An Horse, the Rocketboys, 7 p.m. $11-$13. Dada. Dark Dark Dark, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Pillars & Tongues, 9 p.m. $10-$12. Dan’s Silverleaf.

Free. UNT. Pulp Fiction screening, 7 p.m. Free. UNT. Drew Phelps Group, 7 p.m. Free. Sweetwater Grill & Tavern.

“Sounds of the Stadium,” 7 p.m. $10. UNT Coliseum. Fresh screening, 7 p.m. Free. UNT. Minus the Bear, the Lonely Forest, 8 p.m. $20. Granada Theater. Fred Hamilton Group, 7 p.m. Free. Sweetwater Grill & Tavern.

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Burnt Sienna Trio, Dana Falconberry, Delmore Pilcrow, 10 p.m. $5. Dan’s Silverleaf.

$16. Granada Theater. Supersuckers, Sawed Off Sick, Grant Jones & The Pistol Grip Lassos, 8:30 p.m. $15-$20. Lola’s.

Reckless, Rival Sons, 8 p.m. $39.75. Palladium Ballroom. Senor Fin, Ladyrock, Gusto Ghost Town, 9 p.m. $2. Hailey’s Club.

For It: The Ethics and Erotics of Sexual Consent, 4 p.m. Free. UNT. Warren Jackson Hearne, Adler & Hearne, 8 p.m. Simone Lounge. Paper Robot, Gash Cat, 8 p.m. $6. Dan’s Silverleaf. Drew Grow and the Pastors Wives, 10 p.m. $6-$8. Lola’s.

Five O’clock Lab Band, noon. Free. UNT Union. Granada’s 7th anniversary party: Blind Pilot, Dan Mangan, 7 p.m. $14. Granada Theater. Thursday Night Music on the Square, 7 p.m. Free. UNT on the Square. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 7:30 p.m. $7.50-$10. UNT. Sarah Jaffe: The Way Sound Leaves a Room, 8:30 p.m. $7. Dan’s Silverleaf.

Free. UNT Union. A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, 4 p.m. $5-$10. TWU. Thursday Night Music on the Square, 7 p.m. Free. UNT on the Square. Maria Tyler, Big Harp, Dead Fingers, 7 p.m. $10$12. Dan’s Silverleaf. Dawes, Blitzen Trapper, Smoke Fairies, 8 p.m. $16.50-$20. Dada. Who Brought the Contras?, 8 p.m. Andy’s Bar. Adult Fairy Tales by Fight Boy Theatre. Cost/time TBA. Art Six Coffee House.

Free. UNT Union. Thursday Night Music on the Square, 7 p.m. Free. UNT on the Square. The Naked and Famous, The Chain Gang of 1974, White Arrows, 8 p.m. $16. Granada Theater. Colbie Caillat, 8 p.m. $27.50$40. House of Blues. When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, 9 p.m. $5-$7. Hailey’s Club.

Free. UNT Union. Thursday Night Music on the Square, 7 p.m. Free. UNT on the Square. Fine Arts Series: The Cats of Mirkitani screening, 7 p.m. Free-$10. UNT. UNT Symphonic Band, 7:30 p.m. $8-$10. Winspear Performance Hall. Blue Canyon Boys, 8 p.m. $10. Dan’s Silverleaf.

Coeur, 8 p.m. $5-$10. TWU. NRBQ, 9 p.m. $15. Dan’s Silverleaf. Adult Fairy Tales by Fight Boy Theatre. Cost/ time TBA. Art Six Coffee House.

p.m. $39.50-$89.50. Verizon Theatre. Ishi, Burning Hotels, Roy Robertson, Ethereal and the Queer Show, 8 p.m. $5-$7. Hailey’s Club. Astronautalis, 9 p.m. $10-$12. Rubber Gloves. Ryan Thomas Becker and Last Joke (LP release), 10 p.m. $7. Dan’s Silverleaf. Adult Fairy Tales by Fight Boy Theatre. Cost/time TBA. Art Six Coffee House.

p.m. Free. UNT. Concrete Blonde, Menkena, 7 p.m. $35. Granada Theater. Zola Jesus, Xanopticon, 9 p.m. $12. Dan’s Silverleaf. Aids Wolf, Henry & Hazel Slaughter, 9 p.m. $8-$10. Rubber Gloves. Huey Lewis and the News, 10:30 p.m. $15-$40. Billy Bob’s Texas.

Coeur, 2 and 8 p.m. $5-$10. TWU. The Avett Brothers, David Mayfield Parade, 9 p.m. $35. Palladium Ballroom. Jamey Johnson, 10:30 p.m. $15-$30. Billy Bob’s Texas. Adult Fairy Tales by Fight Boy Theatre. Cost/time TBA. Art Six Coffee House.

p.m. $10-$12. Hailey’s Club. Jack’s Mannequin, Motion City Soundtrack, Company of Thieves, 7:30 p.m. $29.50-$37. Palladium Ballroom. Raised By Tigers, Dove Hunter, 9 p.m. $6-$8. Rubber Gloves. Adult Fairy Tales by Fight Boy Theatre. Cost/time TBA. Art Six Coffee House.

Dan’s Silverleaf. The Manzarek-Rogers Band, RTB2, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, 7 p.m. $21-$42. Granada Theater. Ghostland Observatory, 9 p.m. $31.75. Palladium Ballroom. Telegraph Canyon; Bravo, Max!; Possessed by Paul James, 10 p.m. $20. Kessler Theater.

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Street Hellraisers, 8 p.m. Free. Banter. Bassnectar, Ana Sia, SuperDre, 9 p.m. $27.50. Palladium Ballroom.

Halloween October 2011

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Oh, the horror

n the late 1990s, the Denton RecordChronicle covered Halloween differently than it does now. Most of our Halloween-related stories had to do with events that reminded people that the pagan holiday has sinister roots. There was a “heaven house” in Corinth — where adorable tots learned about Christian salvation, ate candy and signed their names in a “book of life.” Churches hosted fall festivals with costume parades. A local Baptist church appropriated the jump-scares of popular Dallas-Fort Worth gore houses, only the horrors were about sin and hell. A genuine celebration of Halloween was conspicuously absent until 2009. That’s when local musician David Pierce packed Dan’s Silverleaf with Cirque du Horror, playing to a crowd eager for chill bumps, some spookiness and costumes. All were delighted when Pierce provided a score played to soundtrack-style perfection by an orchestra of skeletons. “I always loved Halloween,” Pierce said

over coffee in ’09. “I think people like to be scared, and they like to laugh at themselves for being scared.” Hell houses are fine, and harvest fests in the church hall are all well and good. But come Oct. 29, Industrial Street will host Denton’s Day of the Dead. You’re free to adore Halloween in all its macabre glory. We can have a playful stab at evil by imitating monsters, vampires and zombies. You definitely won’t forget Pierce’s music. — Lucinda Breeding

Contributors J. EVAN is a recovering musician and as far as he knows he is the only male left in Denton without a beard. He spends his days working at the Record-Chronicle in a production capacity, although not even he knows what his title is. He hopes to one day learn how to draw well. His attempt can be seen on Page 9.

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The tunes While you’re sipping, listen to these artists: Mariachi Quetzal (festive, bright), Mount Righteous (large-scale folk-pop served family-style), Danny Rush and the Designated Drivers (forays into country heaped high with nostalgia).

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but please don’t sue me

by cody robinson

Transform a cigar box into an amplifier

f all of the projects I have taken on in the past, my favorites have always been the ones involving homemade musical instruments. Single-string diddley bows from a plank of wood and a couple of soda bottles, shakers made from a little gravel and a tin can, even microphones made from old rotary telephones. As a musician I have always been fascinated with the process of converting my own physical movements into electricity (usually via electric guitar) as well as the process by which that electricity is converted into sound. I’ve often found myself thinking about how complicated that process can get, and as I explored that aspect of making music I have also discovered just how elegantly simple it can be. There is an entire subculture rooted in building instruments out of cigar boxes, inspired heavily by the pioneers of American blues. Men and women with little money and even less access to “proper” instruments were so driven to empty their heads of the songs that haunted them that they turned cigar boxes, fence planks and scraps of wire into instruments as soulful as the hands that played them. Those early explorers already knew what we modern musicians struggle to learn — you don’t have to spend your life chasing down a particular instrument. Just reach out and grab the one right in front of you, and make it your own. With that thought in mind, I did a little exploring of my own. You see, my own roots may reach back to the blues and bluegrass of the East Texas woods, but anyone who knows me can tell you they’re just as deep in the grungy distorted sounds of the Pacific Northwest. I wanted to find an amplifier that fit into that world. Something simple, easy to build, and, let’s be honest … gritty as hell. I finally found that in a community of DIY amp and pedal builders in an amp circuit called the “Little Gem,” simply credited to a website called runoffgroove.com. After a little practice with a soldering iron and about $10 in electronic parts, I robbed a speaker from an old computer, drilled a few holes in a cigar box for the knobs and switches, and after a couple of hours I had built my first amplifier. My builds have since gotten far more complicated, but this simple amp has always 10

The finished amp, made from a cigar box

been my favorite. Since this amp design has been around for so long, I’ll leave it to you to look it up on Run Off Groove or a similar website for instructions. (Hey, print is expensive.) I will, however, leave you with this thought: As you’re learning how to make something, think about why you’re doing it.

And think about what drove those who came before you. If you do decide to build this (or anything you may see in this column), feel free to contact me at the e-mail address below. I may not always have all of the answers, but I’m pretty sure I’ve made enough mistakes to help you avoid a few.

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CODY ROBINSON is the production director at the Denton Record-Chronicle as well as a local musician. He's never met a power tool he couldn't use or a warranty he couldn't void. His e-mail address is cbrobinson@dentonrc. com.

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avid Pierce doesn’t act like a man who is ready to call himself a composer. “I think I’m moving toward that,” said Pierce, a professional musician who put Denton on the Halloween map two years ago when he wrote and organized Cirque du Horror. The featurelength vaudevillian fest is a carnival fantasia about the day when mere mortals lift the veil between the living and the dead and pretend to be able to laugh at the Great Unknown. Pierce slashed his conductor’s baton through the reflected stage lights at Dan’s Silverleaf, leading the Orchestra of the Undead through a score that crept, sneaked and jumped out to startle a jam-packed house all dressed up for a night of trick-or-treating. Pierce conducted in red face, with graphic novel-esque horns sprouting from his head. His tux and tails getup? Victorian in trim and the color of the worn Denton streets. “I don’t know if I’d say I was a composer,” he said. “It’s obviously a term of some reverence for me.” Pierce got the same halting start in music that tens of thousands of children have had. He took piano lessons as a tot — age “4 or 5,” he said. “I never took to the discipline part of it,” he said. “I was one of those kids who liked to play by ear. I remember going to my grandmother’s house — she had a piano — and I told her I wanted to write a song. And I did.” >> Continued on 14

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Continued from 13 >> Pierce grew up in Corpus Christi. He was a seventh-grader when he picked up the trombone, his principal instrument to this day. “I didn’t have a choice,” he said. “My band director went around the room and decided who would play what. By the time he got to me, all that was left was the trombone.” He took to the instrument. While still in the seventh grade, Pierce tried his hand at arranging “Mack the Knife” from The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht for the school band. In high school, he arranged a medley of songs from the popular 1992 film The Mambo Kings for the band. “Playing by ear, there is a fair amount of pleasure that you can play what you’re

Pierce still writes music for school bands led by his friends and contemporaries. “I’ve been slowly getting away from the teaching,” he said. “My private studio is dwindling year by year because I think my time would be best spent writing.” When Pierce decided to write a Halloween show for Denton in 2009, he saw a wealth of music for Christmas. And yet he knew a lot of people who spend more time and energy preparing for and celebrating Halloween. Cirque du Horror was an immediate success, and not just because Pierce recruited respected musicians like Paul Slavens, Joe Cripps, Bubba Turner and dancer-choreographer Karen MacIntyre. The songs were like a trove of music that would make Tim Burton go crazy — in a good way. Pierce employed a palette of sound to suggest skeletons dancing with

doing it for, I know you have to respect the original, and yet I always like to do something that will make it uniquely mine.” Pierce said there’s a theory that trombone players have a talent for arranging and composing — because they sit in the middle of the orchestra pit and hear all the sections, the theory goes. Those who crack wise about trombone players say that the musicians spend a lot of time not playing while in the pit. “With composing, you do everything,” Pierce said. “You write all the sections, you determine how loud the musicians play, how long they hold a note. Good musicians can look at it one time and make it sound like they know it. So much of what I do when I’m writing is knowing the expectations, the skill level. “But I also look at Duke Ellington. He

project. He plays regularly with Dallas big-band crooner Ricki Derek. A few hours after the interview, he was headed to WinStar World Casino to play with 1950s pop star Frankie Valli. Cirque du Horror fueled Pierce’s creative ambitions. The anchor song “Those Creepy, Crawly, Spooky Things” will likely always be a part of the show, which Pierce aims to change every year. “It would be really hard to say goodbye to ‘The Ogre Song,’ or to Ricki Derek in drag doing the gypsy number. There are some numbers I don’t ever want to see go away.” This year, the show is the cherry on top of a daylong carnival, Denton’s Day of the Dead, all along Industrial Street on Oct. 29. “I can’t remember who said it, but art is not getting people to see what you see,”

The songs were like a trove of music that would make Tim Burton go crazy — in a good way. Pierce employed a palette of sound to suggest skeletons dancing with nothing but wood floors beneath their bony feet. He charged through a pumpkin patch after a freaked-out squash who didn’t care to be carved into a menacing grimace. He drew in humid clouds to shroud a witch’s flight. In Pierce’s score, the listener could sense spiders lurking and, late in the debut show, madness dooming a pathetic soul to pull out his own eyes. hearing while you’re listening to a record,” Pierce said. “I could do that. I’d listen to a recording, and because I could pick out which instrument was playing what, I could do that, and there was something satisfying about that.” Pierce earned a music education degree from the University of North Texas. He said he looked at it as a safety net. He studied with Vern Kagarice and played with the Three O’clock Lab Band. He said he planned to earn a master’s degree in jazz performance. Then he got a band directing job in Southlake. “I walked into a good situation there,” he said. “They needed a band director, and I ended up with the whole program.” Leading a band program with freshmen to seniors studying the instruments sharpened Pierce’s arranging ear, and the association with other band directors stocked his network with musicians who like to add new literature to their band programs. Though he’s no longer teaching, 14

nothing but wood floors beneath their bony feet. He charged through a pumpkin patch after a freaked-out squash who didn’t care to be carved into a menacing grimace. He drew in humid clouds to shroud a witch’s flight. In Pierce’s score, the listener could sense spiders lurking and, late in the debut show, madness dooming a pathetic soul to pull out his own eyes. Arranging and composing share some skills. When Pierce arranges a piece, he works within the structure of the existing song. He bends the rules, changing the style, the mood or the time signatures. Often, arranging means taking an orchestral piece — or conversely, the solo part of a concerto — and writing a version for a small ensemble. “Transcribing is part of arranging, writing the music for a different instrument or putting it in a completely different kind of musical context. Like I hear the Cure’s ‘Why Can’t I Be You?’ arranged as a salsa piece — and it worked,” he said. “When I arrange a piece, depending on who I’m

wrote for people, not instruments. He wrote for his tenor sax player. A lot of the time I’m writing, I have someone in mind who could play the piece.” He also puts himself in the musician’s place. “It’s the stuff I’d like to play if I were playing the instruments. Some artists might think that’s ridiculous and your art should be above it all,” he said. “But I want them to feel like, ‘Man, I can’t read this just once.’ I want to push them to the edge of their skill level. Don’t misunderstand me. You judge a piece by how it sounds, not how hard it is to play. I’m always thinking of the sound. But as a musician, I feel good when I do something that stretches me.” Pierce has an ear for poetry, too, and a keen sense of humor. He’s written a lot of the lyrics in Cirque du Horror. Pierce still plays professionally. He plays with Mi Son, Mi Son, Mi Son, a local group that specializes in Cuban music. He’s playing with Bubba Turner’s new

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Pierce said. “Art is getting people to see what they want to see.” The quote — “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see” — is from 19th-century French painter Edgar Degas. Even if he can’t recall Degas off the cuff, Pierce makes music that speaks in assertive strokes. “That makes sense to me,” he said, still musing over the wisdom of a painter who died decades before Pierce was born. “I think there’s a lot to that.” LUCINDA BREEDING can be reached at 940-566-6877 or cbreeding@dentonrc.com.

October 2011

bad sports

by rachel watts

Foul play Troublemaking trio Bad Sports bring their ‘A’ game in quest to rule the weekend

t was on stage last year at the Dallas Observer Music Awards that a rowdy threesome pissed off a few middleclass white gentlemen. After Bad Sports lead singer Orville Neeley squirted a bottle of mustard over the crowd, an angry man retaliated by slapping him in the face. Moments later, another man threw his overpriced beer at the band. Both were escorted out by security, leaving the band in good spirits and the audience cheering for more. It appears those three troublemakers are back to rule your weekend. Released on Portland-based Dirtnap Records in August, Bad Sports’ new album Kings of the Weekend packs a punch. It has the correct alchemy of a good punk album: loud guitars, tonguein-cheek lyrics and bad attitudes. “We are the kings of the weekend,” bassist Daniel Fried said. “We’re the kings of everything.” This album is the band’s second, following the self-titled LP released in November 2009, about two years after the Denton band formed. Bad Sports toured this summer in support of Kings. “[This album] is better,” Fried said. “The recording sounds better, the songs are more well written and the artwork looks cooler.” With the new album comes a new jadedness, particularly shown on the track “Denton Days.” Guitarist Neeley describes the track as indicative of a small college town with “not enough to do and not enough girls.” Kings of the Weekend can be purchased online at www.greennoiserecords.com or bought locally at Mad World Records, located at 115 W. Hickory St. in Denton, where Bad Sports bassist Daniel Fried currently works.

Courtesy photo/Tim Song Bad Sports performs at Atlanta’s Club 529 in April. The band is Daniel Fried, left, on bass guitar, Gregory Rutherford on drums and Orville Neeley on lead guitar and vocals.

Track for track: Bad Sports DAYS OF DENTON

CAN’T STAY

An upbeat punk tune riddled with undertones of apathy toward college, girls and minimum-wage jobs.

An early Joan Jett-esque, drum-driven song that outlines a well-known Denton scenario: the couch surfer who won’t get out of your apartment and out of your life.

RACHEL WATTS is a UNT journalism student who lives in Denton. She enjoys participating in the local music scene and co-owns a small independent record label called I Love Math Records.

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by lucinda breeding

Courtesy photo/Sundown Collaborative Theatre

Heads or tails In company’s fall show, story and character up for grabs

ashina Richardson can’t tell you much about Sundown Collaborative Theatre’s upcoming show. It has an eight-member cast and is rehearsing, but she isn’t sure if the show will have music, dance or a typical narrative. She only knows the working title: Cafe des Artistes. “The concept behind the show is that I want to explore the process of an artist, and not only how it affects the artist but the people around the artist,” Richardson said. “Part of the idea for me is that the best theater is the theater where you can see the process, and how it has formed the end result.” Sundown is young Denton theater company that splits its time between staging new and original work, and in making a show out of nothing but the ideas that bubble up between director and troupe. It’s called “devised theater,” Richardson said, and it isn’t new to Denton. Texas Woman’s University has produced two devised plays in a global collaboration with the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. Students and director spent an intense week in movement exercises and play. Photographs of devised images were October 2011

CAFE DES ARTISTES 8 p.m. Nov. 10-20 and Nov. 17-20 at the Green Space Arts Collective, 529 Malone St. $10 for adults, $8 for students and senior citizens. Seating is general admission. Purchase tickets at the door or by emailing tiffanyhillan@sundowntheatre.org. Visit sundowntheatre.org.

given to a playwright, who then chose the images that worked on a gut level and created a story around them. Richardson is taking a different approach using some of the same methods. Right now, the cast is using play to explore ideas about how artists are inspired. “What we’re talking about in rehearsals is how do you make this idea, which is esoteric, more readable to audiences?” she said. “The angle we’re taking with this is that we’re delving into musicians and dancers, not just actors. All of our actors have these other talents, and we want to explore all of that.” If the process is the goal, how can Richardson and her performers be sure that they’ll get a product that means something to audiences? Richardson doesn’t know if there will be a traditional story with a beginning, middle and an end

or even if there will be stock characters, like the ingenue, the juvenile, the wise woman or the villain. They will create some kind of tension that engages people, however. “We do think about that. We have to think about that,” Richardson said. “Even if you don’t get every little thing, there should be something there you can connect with on some level.” Richardson isn’t new to the form. She’s been in devised plays and directed (il)logical for Sundown. The devised theater piece was based on text from a poem that was in the public domain — which means the company didn’t have to pay for performance rights. The company collaborated to turn the text into meaning and mystery. Richardson and the company recently went to the New York International Fringe Festival, a big event celebrating new and emerging performance from all over the country. The company was invited to perform its original play Happily Ever After. The ensemble weathered Hurricane Irene and the players got to sample new shows. “We got to see about six shows while we were there,” Richardson said. “There was this one show that revolved around the idea of an open-mic performance. It was

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pretty much a lot of open-mic performances but you also got to see what was happening behind the scenes. It didn’t end up being the strongest show I saw, but you could tell there was a lot of passion that went into it.” Devised theater can shake a performer out of formulaic processes and attitudes, and collaboration is even good for scripted shows, she said. “I think when I picked up directing in general it made me a better, smarter performer in general, but with something like this, because there is so much more discussion, you learn even more. It’s different than how you normally come into a script. You have to be aware that people have different methods of acting.” Richardson said she knows her ideas about the final product might die on the vine. “But I’m OK with that. I am petrified, but I’m OK with that,” she said. LUCINDA BREEDING can be reached at 940-566-6877 or cbreeding@dentonrc.com.

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the red 100’s

by lucinda breeding

Rock-ness monster The Red 100’s lay it all on the altar of rock with high-energy ‘Live Off the Floor’

he very air around Kyle Scheumack, Robbie D. Love and Raul Mercado radiates a hyper-masculine pulse. The electricity around Scheumack, Love (nee Robert Grinage) and Mercado is a little surprising. It’s like all switches are set to “go” when the men behind the Dallas-Denton band the Red 100’s sit down on a Friday night at Jupiter House. And this is on a night when a puny man waltzed into the cafe and ordered a cuppa while dressed as Spider-Man. Mask included. For Love, a charmer who tempers his leer with something like genuine appreciation, the energy is the band’s fuel. “We consider ourselves a live band,” Love said. “We play constantly.” And when they plunge into their live set, the musicians said it’s with a take-noprisoners mentality. “We got this song, ‘Kill Switch,’ and that song is like: ‘Listen up, folks. If you want a gut-wrenching, you-spit-on-me, just raw, raw, raw, sweat and blood kinda stuff? We’re gonna give it to you,’” Love said. “This might sound weird and all, but when I’m up there playing? A man on the brink of his death will do some crazy shit to save his life. That’s me, man. I’ve been working on this inner primal scream kinda thing.” Sounds, well, caffeinated, yes? Or maybe it sounds more like a prowling, red-blooded male on methamphetamines. Somehow, the Red 100’s EP, Live Off the Floor, captures that high-strung thing Love talks about. It’s not just idle talk from a group of guys who do the music thing to get chicks (though it’s safe to say they don’t do too badly). Live Off the Floor delivers. The rock ’n’ roll is a wild banshee out for blood. Love and Mercado pour their predatory instincts into high-pitched riffs that sing and squeal while Scheumack beats out a tribal sort of pounding when the song calls for it. Yet, the Red 100’s aren’t just about volume or intensity. There’s a reason the group made the Dallas Observer’s annual music award nominations. That reason is skill. Love, Mercado and Scheumack make a fluent kind of rock ’n’ roll, the kind October 2011

Courtesy photo The Red 100’s are Raul Mercado, left, Kyle Scheumack and Robbie D. Love.

THEY’RE WITH THE BAND Robbie D. Love — bass, guitar and vocals Raul Mercado — guitar and vocals Kyle Scheumack — drums

SOUNDS LIKE The pissed-off ghost of Jimi Hendrix kicked over the money changers’ tables in the music industry temple. Screaming, red-hot love — the kind that turns you inside out and remakes you into a new creature — is the only currency you need, man.

ON THE WEB facebook.com/thered100s?sk=wall

usually mentioned with names like Kravitz, Townshend and Hendrix. There are just six tracks on Live. Scheumack said the music comes from jam sessions; the Red 100’s don’t write charts or do notation. “It’s like the soundtrack of a lifestyle,” he said. “Everything comes from our psy-

ches.” “It’s all in our fingers,” Love added. “Hey, it’s occasionally from a hip bone,” said Mercado, the trio’s Denton connection. You could say that much of songs like “Kill Switch” come from the pelvis and clog up in the biceps. When everything in “Kill Switch” winds up tight like a cornered snake, Love lets go with a roar that just has to grate his soft palate to pulp. “Ain’t No” is a slower number, and “Route 66” is influenced by the Stooges. “Coffee at Midnight” is a gentle song, the guitar singing nice and easy, like Ike and Tina Turner’s sweet preamble to mayhem in “Proud Mary.” And all hell does break loose in the tune. Hey, when you drink coffee at midnight, it takes a bit for the chemicals to give you that jolt. It’s another instrumental that doesn’t need lyrics to clue you in to its narrative. “When we started working on this record, I guess we’d been playing these songs for, what, a year before we went into

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the studio,” Mercado said. “We wanted to be comfortable with the songs before we went into the studio. You want it to be where you know what you’re doing enough to play around.” Love mourns the death of rock, and seems sure the culture killed it after the 1980s popularized recording for CDs. The Red 100’s think in terms of the classic rock posture — loud but nuanced. “I think that’s the fun of this, the rockness, you know?” Scheumack said. “It’s fun to get everything down to guitar, bass and drums and just rock.” And Love? He’s looking at a bigger picture. “It’s my personal mission to save rock ’n’ roll. Even if rock ’n’ roll is dead, that’s OK,” Love said. “We’re gonna play it anyway.” LUCINDA BREEDING can be reached at 940-566-6877 or cbreeding@dentonrc.com.

october releases

October 7

October 21

A Bird of the Air Brighton Rock Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life The Human Centipede II The Ides of March Margaret Real Steel The Way

Paranormal Activity 3 The Three Musketeers Margin Call Red State Take Shelter Texas Killing Fields The Tree

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October 28

In Time The Rum Diary Anonymous Johnny English Reborn Sleeping Beauty To Hell and Back Again

Footloose The Big Year Trespass Sholem Aleichem Toast Gun Hill Road

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fry street public house

by dawn cobb

A house away from home Fry Street Public House serves up an eclectic mix of food and music

t the corner of Avenue A and Mulberry Street, across from the University of North Texas, Fry Street Public House pulls in the crowds with its eclectic mix of DJs, jukebox music and live bands on its roomy back patio. J. Riley, general manager at the combo eatery/music hangout, prides himself on making sure anyone and everyone who stops in enjoys themselves. “You’re going to feel good when you come in,” said Riley, who started at the Public House as a bartender last year before being promoted by owner Byron Crain. The venue’s big-screen TV, Mean Green game nights and special delivery and takeout options tell customers their needs are most important. On the busiest nights Thursday through Saturday, Riley pulls in extra staff — from the 10 bartenders scattered both inside and on the patio to 13 security personnel and three in the kitchen, not to mention waiters — to make sure customers get their food and drink orders quickly. “I make sure everyone who comes in leaves with a smile,” he said. “We offer an ability to be diverse in a diverse town — an eclectic town, if you will.” On a recent afternoon, Frank Sinatra’s voice filled the air as a few customers sat down to a late lunch. One of the Public House’s recent additions is a $5 menu, priced for college students on a tight budget. What’s available for five bucks? Street tacos, a BLT, a beef and cheddar sandwich, a cheeseburger, chicken tenders and a buffalo chicken sandwich. The $5 menu updates an already packed offering, including appetizers such as cheese mushrooms, fried pickles, spinach artichoke dip, calamari, cheese fries and chips and salsa to entrees such as fajitas, blackened chicken Alfredo, Caesar salad and the venue’s signature macaroni and cheese. As for nightlife, customers could check out a show by a local band or someone as well known as rapper Coolio. Come often enough, and you’ll probably see up-andcomer Ben Cina, a Denton original now based in Austin, who’s returning to the October 2011

Fry Street Public House also has joined forces with its neighbors, the Garage and the Fry Street Tavern, to produce an annual Arts, Beats and Eats event showcasing local artists, music and food. FRY STREET PUBLIC HOUSE 125 Ave. A. Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Sunday. Text ordering is available by calling 940-257-5950. Visit publichousedenton.com or the pub’s Facebook page.

Public House at least five times this semester. Fry Street Public House also has joined forces with its neighbors, the Garage and the Fry Street Tavern, to produce an annual Arts, Beats and Eats event showcasing local artists, music and food. “It’s about being able to be a venue for local artists to help them make their name,” Riley said. At Public House, service is key. “The name says it all,” Riley says. “Public House — it’s what you want it to be.” DAWN COBB can be reached at 940-5666879 or dcobb@dentonrc.com.

Courtesy photo Rapper Coolio stopped by Fry Street Public House in May.

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Parkway Pearl McKinney

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Oak

Hickory

Mulberry

Bell Ave.

Locust

Austin

Elm

Carroll Blvd.

THE ABBEY INN RESTAURANT & PUB 101 W. Hickory St. 940-566-5483. THE ABBEY UNDERGROUND 100 W. Walnut St. 940-565-5478. facebook.com/ theabbeyunderground ANDAMAN THAI RESTAURANT 221 E. Hickory St. 940-591-8790. andamanthai restaurant.com ANDY’S BAR 122 N. Locust St. 940-5655400. reverbnation.com/venue/andysbar BANTER 219 W. Oak St. 940-5651638. dentonbanter.com BETH MARIE’S OLD-FASHIONED ICE CREAM AND SODA FOUNTAIN 117 W. Hickory St. 940-384-1818. (second location at Unicorn Lake, 2900 Wind River Lane) bethmaries.com CASA GALAVIZ 508 S. Elm St. 940-3872675. CELLAR 22 219 E. Hickory St. 940-4350149. thecellar22.com CRAZY HORSE SALOON 508 S. Elm St. 940-591-0586. THE CHESTNUT TREE 107 W. Hickory St. 940-591-9475. chestnuttearoom. com THE CUPBOARD 200 W. Congress St. 940-387-5386. cupboardnaturalfoods.com DAN’S SILVERLEAF 103 Industrial St. 940-320-2000. danssilverleaf.com DENTON SQUARE DONUTS 208 W Oak St. 940-220-9447. dentonsquaredonuts. com EL CHAPARRAL GRILLE 324 E. McKinney St., Suite 102. 940-243-1313. EL GUAPO’S 419 S. Elm St. 940-5665575. elguapos.com THE GREENHOUSE 600 N. Locust St. 940-484-1349. greenhouserestaurant denton.com HAILEY’S CLUB 122 W. Mulberry St. 940-323-1160. haileysclub.com HANNAH’S OFF THE SQUARE 111 W. Mulberry St. 940-566-1110. J&J’S PIZZA 118 W. Oak St. 940-3827769. jandjpizzadenton.com JUPITER HOUSE 106 N. Locust St. 940-387-7100. jupiterhousecoffee.net KEIICHI SUSHI 500 N. Elm St. 940-3827505. THE LABB 218 W. Oak St. 940-2934240. thelabbdenton.com LA MEXICANA 619 S. Locust St. 940483-8019. LOCO CAFE 603 N. Locust St. 940387-1413. locodenton.com THE LOOPHOLE 119 W. Hickory St. 940-565-0770. loopholepub.com

food/drink in denton Austin

Around downtown

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LOVE SHACK 115 E. Hickory St. 940442-6834. loveburgershack.com MAD WORLD RECORDS 115 W. Hickory St. 940-591-3001. MI CASITA 110 N. Carroll Blvd. 940-8911932. (Mi Casita Express at 905 W. University Drive) RAMEN REPUBLIC 210 E. Hickory St. 940-387-3757. ramenrepublic.biz RAVELIN BAKERY 416 S. Elm St. 940-382-8561. ROOSTER’S ROADHOUSE 113 Industrial St. 940-382-4227. roosters-roadhouse.com RUBBER GLOVES REHEARSAL STUDIOS 411 E. Sycamore St. 940-3877781. rubberglovesdentontx.com SIAM OFF THE SQUARE 209 W. Hickory St., Suite 104. 940-382-5118. siamoffthesquare.com SIMONE LOUNGE 222 W. Hickory St., Suite 104. 940-387-7240. facebook.com/ simonelounge SWEETWATER GRILL & TAVERN 115 S. Elm St. 940-484-2888. VERONICA’S CAFE 803 E. McKinney St. 940-565-9809. VIGNE 222 W. Hickory St., Suite 103. 940566-1010. WEINBERGER’S DELI 311 E. Hickory St., Suite 110. 940-566-5900. weinbergers denton.com WINE SQUARED 110 W. Oak St. 940384-9463. winetimeswine.com YOGURT FUSION 209 W. Hickory St. 940-597-6367. yofusion.com ZERA COFFEE CO. 420 E. McKinney St., Suite 106. 940-239-8002.

BURGER TIME MACHINE 301 W. University Drive. 940-384-1133. CAFE DU LUXE 3101 Unicorn Lake Blvd. 940-382-7070. cafeduluxe.com CAFE CHINA 2900 Wind River Lane, Suite 130. 940-320-8888. CAFE GARIBALDI 1813 N. Elm St. 940591-1131. cafegaribaldi.com CHINATOWN CAFE 2317 W. University Drive. 940-382-8797. FREEBIRDS WORLD BURRITO 2700 W. University Drive. 940-565-5400. freebirds. com GOLDEN CHINA 717 I-35E, Suite 100. 940-566-5588. GREEN ZATAR 609 Sunset St. 940-3832051. internationalfoodofdenton.com I LOVE SUSHI 917 Sunset St. 940-8916060. ilovesushidenton.com JUPITER HOUSE EUROPA 503 W. University Drive. 940-566-2891. jupiterhouse coffee.net LA MILPA MEXICAN RESTAURANT 820 S. I-35E, Suite 101. 940-382-8470. LUIGI’S PIZZA ITALIAN RESTAURANT 2317 W. University Drive. 940-591-1988. MAZATLAN MEXICAN RESTAURANT 1928 N. Ruddell St. 940-566-1718.

METZLER’S BAR-B-Q 628 Londonderry Lane. 940-591-1652. MR. FROSTY 1002 Fort Worth Drive. 940-387-5449. NEW YORK SUB-WAY 305 W. University Drive. 940-566-1823. POURHOUSE SPORTS GRILL 3350 Unicorn Lake Blvd. 940-484-7455. ROCKY’S SPORTS BAR 2000 W. University Drive. 940-382-6090. ROYAL EAST 1622A W. University Drive. 940-383-7633. RT’S NEIGHBORHOOD BAR 1100 Dallas Drive, Suite 124. 940-381-2277. THE SMOKEHOUSE 1123 Fort Worth Drive. 940-566-3073. smokehousedentontx. com SUKHOTHAI II RESTAURANT 1502 W. Hickory St. 940-382-2888. SWEET BASIL THAI BISTRO 1800 S. Loop 288, Suite 224. 940-484-6080. thesweetbasil.com SWEET Y CAFE 511 Robertson St. 940323-2301. sweet-y-cafe.com THAI OCHA 1509 Malone St. 940-5666018. II CHARLIES BAR & GRILL 809 Sunset St. 940-891-1100. YUMMY’S GREEK RESTAURANT 210 W. University Drive. 940-383-2441.

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Greater Denton

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BAGHERI’S 1125 E. University Drive, Suite A. 940-382-4442. BOCHY’S BISTRO 2430 I-35E, Suite 136. 940-387-3354. bochys.com

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Congress

Scripture

W. Oak

Carroll Blvd.

North Texas Blvd.

Bonnie Brae

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS

Elm

W. Hickory

Bartender Profile

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Eagle Drive

35E

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Around UNT ART SIX COFFEE HOUSE 424 Bryan St. 940-484-2786. facebook.com/art sixcoffeehouse BIG MIKE’S COFFEE HOUSE 1306 W. Hickory St. 940-383-7478. bigmikescoffee shop.com BULGOGI HOUSE 408 North Texas Blvd. 940-382-8060. CENTRAL GRILL 1005 Ave. C. 940-3239464. COOL BEANS 1210 W. Hickory St. 940-382-7025. facebook.com/coolbeans dentontx CUPS AND CREPES 309 Fry St. 940387-1696. EL PARIENTE 2532 Louise St. 940-3801208. FERA’S 1407 W. Oak St. 940-382-9577. FRY STREET PUBLIC HOUSE 125 Ave. A. 940-323-9800. publichousedenton.com FRY STREET TAVERN 121 Ave. A. 940-383-2337. THE GARAGE 113 Ave. A. 940-3830045. thedentongarage.com HOOYA! 1007 Ave. C. 940-381-0272.

KATZ’S HAMBURGERS 901-A Ave. C. 940-442-6200. LUCKY LOU’S 1207 W. Hickory St. 940484-5550. luckylousdenton.com MR. CHOPSTICKS 1633 Scripture St. 940-382-5437. NARANJA CAFE 906 Ave. C. Suite 100. 940-483-0800. NEW YORK SUB-HUB 906 Ave. C. 940383-3213. RASOI, THE INDIAN KITCHEN 1002 Ave. C. 940-566-6125. dentonindianfood.com RIPROCKS 1211 W. Hickory St. 940-382 3231. ROCKIN’ RODEO 1009 Ave. C. 940565-6611. rockinrodeodenton.com SUKHOTHAI II RESTAURANT 1502 W. Hickory St. 940-382-2888. SUSHI CAFE 1401 W. Oak St. 940-3801030. TJ’S PIZZA WINGS & THINGS 420 S. Carroll Blvd., Suite 102. 940-383-3333. tjspizzadenton.com 299 ORIENTAL EXPRESS 1000 Ave. C. 940-383-2098.

How long have you been a bartender? (You know, “officially.” Pumping the keg at a party doesn’t count.)

4 years.

Where do you currently tend bar? (You DO tend bar, right? Otherwise, who are you and how did you get here?)

Pourhouse Sports Grill.

What do you like best about it? (And don’t say tips...) All the different kinds of people. I’ve learned a lot from my bar guests. It’s a great environment where I feel completely comfortable. I love it and can see myself bartending for a while. I mean, I’m working on my master’s in nutrition at TWU and have paid for it all by slinging drinks.

Bartenders are often treated as stand-in psychologists. Do you have any crazy stories from playing that role? (Well, one you can tell us, anyway?) The things they tell me just blow my mind. I guess they just want an unbiased opinion from someone who doesn’t know their situation.

Do you have any regulars that just come in for your skills? Have you ever juggled bottles while making drinks like Tom Cruise in “Cocktail”? (Do you feel old because you remember that movie?) **Interviewer note** - Kristen had never heard of the movie “Cocktail.” Now who’s feeling old?!?

I have lots and lots of regulars, but I don’t juggle bottles. I don’t do any cool flair or anything. I think they just like my social skills.

What’s your most impressive drink?

Music here, there and everywhere else The Abbey Underground 100 W. Walnut St. 940-565-5478. Andy’s Bar 122 N. Locust St. 940-565-5400. Art Six Coffee House 424 Bryan St. 940-484-2786. Banter 219 W. Oak St. 940-565-1638. Cafe Du Luxe 3101 Unicorn Lake Blvd. 940-382-7070. Cool Beans 1210 W. Hickory St. 940-382-7025. Crazy Horse Saloon 508 S. Elm St. 940-591-0586. Dan’s Silverleaf 103 Industrial St. 940-320-2000. Frilly’s Seafood Bayou Kitchen 1925 Denison St. 940-2432126.

Fry Street Public House 125 Ave. A. 940-323-9800. Fry Street Tavern 121 Ave. A. 940-383-2337. The Garage 113 Ave. A. 940-383-0045. The Greenhouse 600 N. Locust St. 940-484-1349. Hailey’s Club 122 W. Mulberry St. 940-323-1160. J&J’s Pizza 118 W. Oak St. 940-382-7769. The LABB 218 W. Oak St. 940-293-4240. Love Shack 115 E. Hickory St. 940-442-6834. Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair 1125 E. University Drive, Suite 107. 940-566-9910. Mad World Records 115 W. Hickory St. 940-591-3001. Rockin’ Rodeo 1009 Ave. C. 940-565-6611.

October 2011

(Style counts, but we’re not drinking fancy dishwater. I don’t care how many pieces of fruit it has in it.)

Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios 411 E. Sycamore St. 940387-7781.

Simone Lounge 222 W. Hickory St., Suite 104. 940-3877240.

Sweetwater Grill & Tavern 115 S. Elm St. 940-484-2888.

Long Islands. I think my customers just like seeing that they’re getting a drink with a lot of alcohol.

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UNT College of Music music.unt.edu UNT Dance and Theatre danceandtheatre.unt.edu UNT on the Square untonthesquare.unt.edu Winspear Performance Hall, Murchison Performing Arts Center thempac.com Texas Woman’s University Theatre twu.edu/drama Dada, Dallas dadadallas.com Granada Theater, Dallas granadatheater.com House of Blues, Dallas houseofblues.com/dallas Kessler Theater, Dallas thekessler.org Palladium Ballroom, Dallas thepalladiumballroom.com Billy Bob’s Texas, Fort Worth billybobstexas.com Lola’s, Fort Worth lolasfortworth.com

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