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A Texas filmmaker shoots a sports drama where it took place: Fort Worth. B Y

METROPOLIS In a new lawsuit, a homeless man claims Fort Worth police attacked him. BY EDWARD BROWN

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NEWS Will Fort Worth start whitesplaining history in classrooms, too? BY S TAT I C

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STUFF Luka just can’t do it alone, MFFL’ers.

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MUSIC Garage rockers Ashes promise more shoegaze on their new record, Texas Space Rock. BY CHLOE WALDEN

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INSIDE The Fort Worth police face a lawsuit. By Edward Brown

The Mitey Ones

Fort Worth is the setting of this new major motion picture. By Kristian Lin

Lee Newquist, Publisher Bob Niehoff, General Manager Ryan Burger, Art Director Jim Erickson, Circulation Director Edward Brown, Staff Writer

All the Way to 97 West

Taylor Provost, Proofreader Michael Newquist, Regional Sales Director Jennifer Bovee, Marketing Director

In the Stockyards, this new kitchen is producing some fine upscale comfort food.

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By Kristian Lin

Anthony Mariani, Editor

Julie Strehl, Account Executive Tony Diaz, Account Executive Wyatt Newquist, Digital Coordinator Clintastic, Brand Ambassador

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The Me-Thinks, a party on Race Street, and Ryker Hall lead this week’s hit parade. By Anthony Mariani

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During the Great Depressions, a youth football team — the Mighty Mites Sunday — composed of kids from an orphanage in Fort Worth went to the Texas state championships. Starring Luke Wilson, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen, the new movie 12 Mighty Orphans — in theaters this weekend — showcases this compelling true story. Magnolia at The Modern — inside the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St, 866-824-5566) — is screening the film at $10 per person from Fri thru Sun, Jun 20, at various times. However, if you pick noon Sun, the viewing is half price. You know what to do.

Local indie rockers The Troumatics are hosting a free Health Care Thursday Appreciation Happy Hour at Magnolia Motor Lounge (3005 Morton St, Fort Worth, 817-332-3344) from 5pm to 7pm with Nathan Walker and special guest MC Kenn Scott (who played Raphael in the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie franchise). Drink specials will be available for health care workers who want to relax and for those who want to show their appreciation. #VodkaStat

From 5pm to 7pm every Friday thru Aug 26, the Kimbell Cafe — inside Friday the Kimbell Art Museum (3333 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-332-8451) — will be the place to be. Summer Happy Hours at Kimbell Cafe will feature musicians from the Allegro Guitar Society. These events are free to attend. Beer, wine, and light snacks are available for purchase, and Kimbell members receive a 10% discount.

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From noon to 6pm, head to Pride Market Crawl and shop for a cause. Local Saturday vendors will be at four Near Southside venues, including The Bearded Lady (1229 7th Av, 817-349-9832), Broadstone South Side Apartments (200 W Daggett Av, 817-618-8200), Nickel City (212 S Main St, Ste 100, @NickelCityFWTX), and Tulips FTW (112 St Louis Av, 817367-9798). Along with the shopping opportunities, there will be contests and giveaways, plus a portion of the proceeds will

From 7pm to 8pm on the third Wednesday of the month thru Dec 15, head to Liberty Lounge (515 S Jennings Av, Fort Worth, @LibertyLoungeFWTX) for Beer Flight Night. Sample local beers while experts school you on all things beer-related. There is no cost to attend. Just bring your beer money for imbibing beyond the samples. Wednesday

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From Tue to Thu at 7:30pm and Fri and Sat at 8pm thru Sat, Jun 26, see A Solitary Man: The Music of Neil Diamond at Casa Manana. This production features Hamilton star Darnell Abraham and American Idol winner Nick Fradiani performing their renditions of Neil Diamond standards like “America” and “Sweet Caroline” while intertwining stories about the artist. Tickets start at $65 at TicketMaster.com. Tuesday

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At 7pm, the Fort Worth Public Library presents Monday Africa to Texas: A Juneteenth Journey via Zoom at FortWorthTexas.gov. Join James Beard Award-winning culinary historian Michael W. Twitty as he discusses the African roots of Texas cooking and the culinary practices of Juneteenth. This virtual event is free to attend.

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Lorenzo Thomas’ first memory after waking up in John Peter Smith Hospital (JPS) was hearing a Fort Worth police officer talking to a nearby medical worker. “We did one chest compression” on him, Thomas alleges officer Daniel Hafer told the medical worker.

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“A must-attend event!” reads a recent Facebook post by Granbury school district trustee Dr. Paula McDonald. The topic? Critical Race Theory (CRT), the concept that developed from academic scholarship in the 1970s through the late 1980s as a means of understanding the relationship between race and power and the role history played in shaping them. CRT is now a leading theory used by teachers, professors, and anyone who cares to understand why wealth is largely a function of race in the United States (“Bridging America’s Wealth Divide,” Aug 2020) and other not-so-fun facts of American life. The Facebook post urges folks to learn about the “extremely important topic from a leading expert,” Carole Hayes, on Wed, June 16, at 2504 James Rd in Granbury. One school district trustee gunning for an expert to speak on CRT wouldn’t catch our attention were it not for the fact that Hayes appears to be bat-shit crazy. “They intend for America to become part of a New World Order under their control,” Hayes writes about CRT on her blog. “Big Tech leaders are pushing Critical Race Theory into their elite private schools and executive boardrooms because that’s their comfort zone with easy access.”

The debate over CRT is ramping up in Fort Worth, the entire state, and several other conservative backwaters. In May, a few dozen parents attended a Fort Worth school board meeting to decry the teaching of CRT in Fort Worth classrooms, even though CRT is not taught in Fort Worth public schools. The school district’s website does state that teachers can voluntarily elect to take a “flex credit” course on CRT. Surrounded by placards that read, “STOP RACISM, STOP HATE, STOP CRITICAL RACE THEORY,” one young Hispanic man said that America is not a racist country. If it were, he reasoned, half the school board members who are non-white would not be in their volunteer positions. It’s the same argument that I-have-a-lot-of-Black-friends racists have been using for years: If America were racist, Barack Obama wouldn’t have won the popular vote twice, LeBron James would be shooting hoops at the park, and, I guess, Drake would be a karaoke-night fave, nothing more. The thought that these geniuses thrived despite enduring racism never occurs to folks like our Hispanic friend, whose sole purpose in life apparently is to be white-adjacent. (News flash: Most whites still hate you.) House Bill 3979 recently passed as a partisan measure to restrict the teaching of CRT tenets in Texas public schools. The bill includes mandates that students not be taught that an individual’s race is “inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.”

Thomas was eventually taken to Tarrant County Jail by an unidentified Black police officer for allegedly resisting arrest earlier that day. Thomas believes Cagel and Hefer left after dropping him off at JPS to change their uniforms, which were likely covered in pepper spray. During the medical screening process, Thomas said he was separated from the general jail population, possibly because

he appeared to be having a mental health crisis due to the trauma of his arrest and hospitalization. “The whole time, I was kept naked,” Thomas alleges. “I hadn’t had a shower. The chemical agents ran down my body and onto my private area. I had to lay on the floor that had a vent because that was the only comfort I could get.”

That legislative edict is based on the false assumption on the part of conservative Texas legislators that CRT is designed to teach white children that they are somehow to blame for racial inequities in the United States. Texas lawmakers and other who?-me? racists claim this form of instruction is racist … against white people. Calling you a “cracker” or instituting Affirmative Action programs to remedy decades of bias against Black students and job seekers may make you sad, and angry *grumpy face*, but neither has the power to damage the socioeconomic or political privilege with which you were born as a white person. “Racism has nothing to do with feelings,” The Root said in 2018. “It is a measurable reality that white people are not subject to, regardless of their income or status.” The Republican-led whitesplaining of American history also bans the teaching that “the advent of slavery in the territory that is now the United States constituted the true founding of the United States,” a not-so-subtle reference by Texas Republican legislators to The New York Times’ 1619 Project. Aiming to reframe American’s founding to 1619, the long-form endeavor traces the country’s history to when an English privateer ship brought the first enslaved men and women to the Colony of Virginia. This year alone, nearly a dozen states introduced Republican-backed bills that seek to limit what can and cannot be taught about the role slavery played and continues to play in shaping this country.

Erica Gillum, a parent with a son and nephew in the Granbury school district, told us she came across the June 16 event via Facebook. Carole Hayes’ public school advocacy “swims in a cesspool of Christian nationalism,” Gillum said. “Everyone who is paying attention knows that CRT has been banned from the public education curriculum in Texas. I believe that sends us backwards. CRT is a potentially important tool for emancipation and for securing racial equality. It can be easily misunderstood and misapplied, especially when you invite the wrong person to speak to a small, predominately white community. I have lived here [in Granbury] for the majority of my life, and I can tell you firsthand, we don’t need any more whitewashing. I don’t appreciate Dr. McDonald’s invitation to bring this to our community, and, frankly, we need to do better vetting before voting these types of people into office.” Conservatives with no academic or scholarly qualifications are quick to denounce CRT and to misrepresent its aims. Kimberlé Crenshaw, one of the founders of Critical Race Theory, recently spoke to CNN about the misinformation campaign surrounding CRT. “Critical Race Theory says let’s pay attention to what has happened to this country,” she said, “so we can become the country that we say we are. We believe in the promises of equality, and we know we can’t get there if we can’t confront and talk honestly about inequality.”

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Thomas alleges that local law enforcement officers have been tasked with pushing Fort Worth’s unhoused population away from downtown.

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A recently filed lawsuit alleges that three Fort Worth police officers unlawfully arrested and assaulted an unhoused Black man in mid-2019.

Thomas’ arrest and hospitalization in mid-2019 are the subjects of a civil lawsuit that he recently filed against two Fort Worth police officers: Bike Patrol Unit members Michael Cagel and Hafer. Thomas, a selfdescribed asthmatic, doesn’t remember the moment when he lost consciousness that day, but he believes the officers’ use of pepper spray impeded his breathing and led to the need for emergency medical care. Thomas said he was handcuffed to the hospital bed and unable to open his eyes due to the large quantities of pepper spray that were allegedly used during an altercation he had with Cagel, Hafer, and an unidentified third officer on August 15, 2019. “The pepper spray was all running down my face,” Thomas recalled. “They finally wiped my face off. I was still in fear of what [Cagel and Hafer] would do to me. I didn’t want to leave with those officers.” When reached for comment, the Fort Worth police department’s media team requested that all questions go through an open records request. The police did not answer my questions filed through the Texas Public Information Act by the time this story went to print. Numerous media stories list Cagel as retired as of 2020.

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POWER OF GIVING BACK Sandra Garcia thanks her Right Tribe by giving to others. Sandra Maria Garcia is the product of the Power 9 principle of Right Tribe: people who rallied around her when she was young. Garcia, the State Chair-elect of the Hispanic Women’s Network of Texas (HWNT) came to Fort Worth from Durango, Mexico when she was seven. A church took her family and others in, and the nuns got her ready for the transition to school and a regular classroom. “I was one of the first undocumented students to be admitted,” Garcia says. Garcia was a beneficiary of the Immigration Reform and Control Act, signed by then-president Ronald Reagan in 1986, which allowed a pathway to citizenship. She became a citizen in 1998. In her work with the HWNT, Garcia sees high school and college students who are facing challenges because they have immigrant parents or they themselves are immigrants. As the chair-elect of the HWNT, she is in training to manage seven chapters state-wide, including the Fort Worth chapter, where she’s been a member since 2009. Garcia says that she found her Purpose, another Power 9 principle, in Latinas in Progress (LIP), a mentoring and education program for young Hispanic women which, she’s chaired at her Fort Worth chapter. A long-time City of Fort Worth employee, Garcia is currently a budget analyst. She’s been a city employee since 1985, through a partnership the city had with her high school to provide vocational training for students. “I worked there summers and part-time during the school year for credit,” she says. She attended TCU, TCC, then Texas Wesleyan University. “It took me 12 years but I finished, she says. “It doesn’t matter how long you take to get that piece of paper,” she says. She later returned to TWU to get a Master’s in Management. Garcia became involved with Blue Zones Project on behalf of her employer. As a diabetic, Garcia understands the need to Move Naturally, which she says has been difficult during COVID. But she says she’s been “getting back in the groove” as more places open up. Last year, she was able to give back to her Right Tribe through social action. “My Zip code had the worst COVID numbers in Tarrant County,” she says. “We applied for free masks, sanitizer, and gloves everywhere we could and had pop up giveaways” using the LIP students to help with distribution. “People needed bread and meat and beans.” The gift of hope to the area where she was raised is a large part of Garcia’s Purpose.

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leash and wrapped it around my ankles and tied it to the floorboard. Then they tightened the seatbelt so I couldn’t move. At this point, I’m yelling. They stopped the car again. Hafer sprayed me with mace. I guess they forgot that they have my legs anchored down [to the floor]. They kept pulling me. I got slammed to the ground. At that point, all I remember is waking up” at JPS. Having lived on the streets in Fort Worth for the past few years before recently returning to his hometown in Ohio, Thomas has seen how some areas of the city are protected more than others when it comes to local policing habits. After stints on the South Side and East Lancaster Avenue, Thomas noticed that repeated interactions with Fort Worth police only began when he moved downtown. He believes that Fort Worth’s power brokers see the local unhoused population as a blight that needs removed. Thomas shared a cellphone video taken by his then-girlfriend as an example of homeless treatment by police. The video shows Thomas sitting against the public library downtown as a police officer accuses him of blocking the sidewalk — a potential Class C misdemeanor for “making personal use of a sidewalk,” according to a Fort Worth police department spokesperson who was not commenting specifically on our story. In 2017, Fort Worth City Council unanimously approved a tougher ordinance that bans panhandling on all public property and private properties under certain circumstances. Supporters of the ordinance and similar measures point to ample charitable services that are available for those who are struggling financially. Thomas said he doesn’t engage in panhandling, but he believes the ordinance and selective policing habits in Fort Worth effectively criminalize poverty and encourage harassment of the local unhoused population. A 2019 report by Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, a research and advocacy nonprofit, found that “homelessness and justice system involvement are inextricably linked. People experiencing homelessness are 11 times more likely to face incarceration when compared to the general population, and formerly incarcerated individuals are almost 10 times more likely to be homeless than the general public.” According to the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, nearly 50,000 people a year enter homeless shelters directly following release from correctional facilities. Thomas is requesting body camera footage from the police named in his lawsuit and a trial by jury. Due to the “malice, evil intent, and reckless or callous indifference” of the officers named in the suit, Thomas is seeking “punitive damages, reasonable attorney’s fees, and costs of court,” according to the lawsuit. l

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Retired police officer Cagel called a local rightwing talk show to voice support for a racist cop.

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The episode, and the events leading to his hospitalization, still haunt Thomas, whose voice trembled when he recalled the more traumatic moments of his arrest. The pending lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas on May 27, alleges that “in August 2019, Lorenzo Thomas was illegally arrested and pepper sprayed in retaliation for filming and protesting the misconduct and the mistreatment of the homeless living downtown by the Fort Worth Police Department (FWPD).” Thomas, a Black man, was part of Fort Worth’s unhoused population at the time, and he frequently and vocally criticized the Fort Worth police officers who came to Fort Worth’s downtown public library to allegedly intimidate the homeless population who slept and lived outside of the building. According to court documents filed by Thomas and a 25-minute cellphone video that I reviewed, officers Cagel, Hafer, and an unidentified third male officer, darkskinned but non-Black, approached Thomas on April 15, 2019, at the downtown public library. The officers informed Thomas, who was seated during most of the video, that he had an outstanding warrant in Arkansas. Thomas said the original charge was for possession of two pounds of marijuana. Cagel, who was indicted for embezzling up to $150,000 from a local charity in December, according to the Star-Telegram, told Thomas that they were going to take him to Arkansas and that the Fort Worth police was going to pay the transportation bill. The idea of three on-duty officers driving possibly hundreds of miles to turn Thomas over to Arkansas authorities who had not requested extradition struck Thomas as alarming and possibly a ruse to harm or kill him. Cagel’s past public support for rogue cops has furthered Thomas’ belief that he was targeted both for being Black and homeless. Last fall, Cagel called WBAP, a local right-wing talk radio station, to voice support for Roger Ballard, a white Fort Worth police officer who was fired last October after posting a meme on Facebook of a Black man in a coffin with the caption, “THE FACE YOU MAKE WHEN YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND STOP RESISTING.” “This is all about not having our back,” Cagle said on-air. “They’re bowing down to all these protesters.” The three officers handcuffed Thomas, drove him past nearby Tarrant County Jail, and parked at a Fort Worth police department substation, where the officers transferred him to another vehicle, one that was not logged for use that day, as Thomas alleges in the suit. “Using a patrol vehicle that isn’t signed out would allow an officer to travel without being detected or his location being tracked,” the lawsuit alleges. “Thomas felt he was at imminent risk of serious harm or loss of life.” Thomas said his only recourse was to make as much of a scene as he could before the three officers left Fort Worth. He repeatedly banged his head on the plexiglass divider that separated the front and rear compartments. “Cagel says, ‘If he continues to do it, spray him,’ ” Thomas alleges. “They took a

A Texas filmmaker shoots a sports drama where it took place: Fort Worth. B Y

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both offense and defense, started upsetting the established powerhouses of Texas high school football and captured the attention of a nation. Luke Wilson portrays Rusty and Martin Sheen Doc, and they were standing in a Fort Worth field when they delivered those lines.

Midland native Ty Roberts shot the film in Fort Worth and the surrounding areas in late 2019, hoping to screen it at South by Southwest in 2020 and have the film distributed in time for football season that year. Of course, the coronavirus pandemic canceled the festival and forced

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In Twelve Mighty Orphans, author Jim Dent writes of football coach Harvey “Rusty” Russell arriving at the Fort Worth Masonic Home for Orphans in 1927 and being told by E.P. “Doc” Hall that the football field is used for grazing goats. “Doc, I’ve been around sheep and goats all my life,” Rusty says as he looks at the barren field. “I’ve never known goats that like to eat rocks.” “These are Fort Worth goats,” Doc says. “Fort Worth goats are different.” This exchange shows up in the film 12 Mighty Orphans, which is based on Dent’s book about how the cash-strapped team of orphan boys nicknamed the Mighty Mites, who could field a team of only 12 players and thus had all of them playing

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Mayor Betsy Price (left) hosts a panel discussion with Luke Wilson, Ty Roberts and Carslon Young at the Fort Worth Masonic Temple.

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Luke Wilson (beige coat) and Martin Sheen (black coat) lead a team of underdogs.

the filmmakers to sit on their finished product. “I’ve been doing a lot of writing and catching up on old movies,” said Lane Garrison, a screenwriter and actor on the film speaking from his home. “It’s almost like going back to school.” This past January came the announcement that longtime indie film distributor Sony Pictures Classics had picked up the movie for distribution. This week, the movie comes to Texas multiplexes a week before the rest of the country has a chance to see it. Said Roberts, “Now it feels like there’s light at the end of the tunnel.”

The film has been more than a decade in its journey to the big screen. Back in 2011, retired investment banker Russell Morton, who was also the grandson of Rusty Russell, had taken Dent’s book and started casting it into screenplay form with an eye toward a feature film, as the Weekly detailed in a profile (“Mighty Orphans Await Kickoff,” Feb. 16, 2011). Collaborating with Matt Barr and Ryan

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Martin Sheen gives Jacob Lofland some advice in 12 Mighty Orphans.

Worth, though it was filmed in Austin. “All the members of [our production company] 12 Productions knew [the filmmakers] understood Texas in the 1930s, knew they did a wonderful job with a period piece,” Morton said. “It just seemed like a natural fit. Plus, they felt drawn to filming it locally, and I loved that idea.” For the 47-year-old Roberts, the story dates to his childhood, when he saw Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and found holes in the story’s logic. “I could never focus on one thing I wanted to do,” he said. “As a writerdirector, I realized I could switch topics.

Director Ty Roberts (shown here with Houston Hill): “Now it feels like there’s light at the end of the tunnel.”

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Ross, he purchased the movie rights to the book and compiled numerous hours of interviews with people who had been at Fort Worth Masonic Home and known the main personages in the story. “We completed our own version of a screenplay,” Morton said recently. “It was just very difficult to cover all those seasons, all those people and their stories. I wanted everyone’s story told, and you couldn’t do that in two hours or less.” What persuaded him to hand off the screenplay to Roberts, Garrison, and company was a viewing of Roberts’ 2018 feature film debut The Iron Orchard, an oilindustry drama that is set in 1930s Fort

It fits very well with my being a jack of all trades.” Descended from an oil family, Roberts was in Argentina working as a consultant in the early 2000s when he made the lateral move into filmmaking, as his familiarity with the region allowed him to work on a documentary on the Andean condor. From there, a friend contacted him to scout locations for Disney’s Chronicles of Narnia films, as the studio was looking for wild country similar to the New Zealand backdrops that did so well for Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies. Disney then tapped him directly to do similar work on a documentary about Patagonia’s wildlife, which allowed Roberts to travel all over the country and meet the woman who is now his wife. He met Garrison when he cast him in The Iron Orchard. Prior to that, Garrison had moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting after a troubled childhood and received his big break portraying David “Tweener” Apolskis on Fox’s drama Prison Break. He had promised his ailing mother to succeed well enough to allow her to move to Hollywood with him, but she passed away before he could fulfill that promise. As a former high school football player himself, Garrison immediately knew the world that Dent’s book depicted. “He reminded me of a young James Cagney,” Roberts said. “We had written scenes together for The Iron Orchard. We have low-key, well-managed egos. We’re willing to let someone rewrite a scene. I just brought him in as a consultant. Next thing we knew, we were on a daily schedule. I called [producer] Houston [Hill] and said, ‘We need to do this together.’ ” Garrison said that he and director Roberts immediately clicked. “I’ve been part of some big studio movies that would fall to pieces because of ego,” Garrison said. Roberts, he continued, “spoke to who I wanted to be as a man and a father.” It was Hill who negotiated Morton’s group handing artistic control over to

Roberts. Morton, Hill said, “let us make our movie. He knows this is a movie, not a documentary. His mother is 95, and he wanted to make the movie while she was still alive.” Roberts added that Morton was on set almost every day and available to answer questions. How did Betty Morton react when she saw the finished cut of the film and seeing herself portrayed as a child by Josie and Lilly Fink? “She got the biggest thrill seeing those little girls play her,” Morton said. “She was just so touched at seeing [Wilson] and Vinessa [Shaw] play her parents. She said, ‘I looked up and saw my parents right there in front of me.’ ”

For the sake of drama, the film compresses the events of several years into the first season that Rusty takes over the team and has trouble gaining access to basic equipment yet still takes the team within

Lane Garrison in costume as his character: “We want to focus more on emotions and scenes.”

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Luke Wilson: “For a story this important, I was happy to be in Fort Worth.”

one play short of a state title, an honor that eluded Rusty Russell during his coaching career. The narrative suffers from too much voiceover narration from Sheen’s character explaining how the Fort Worth team gave hope to a nation buckling under the Great Depression. The dean, Frank Wynn (played by Wayne Knight), is shown taking pleasure in paddling the orphans when they step out of line, which is in keeping with the way he’s depicted in Dent’s book. However, the filmmakers change his history, as the real-life Frank Wynn came to a dramatic end by drowning in the Trinity River during a swimming expedition with some of the boys. Garrison cited the film’s PG-13 rating as a reason for changing the historical events. “We felt that Frank Wynn’s death was going to be too harsh,” he said. Roberts “came up with the idea of how we could serve his character justice without killing him.” Once the script was finished, the onscreen talent had to be assembled. Roberts had already contacted Wilson, unsuccessfully trying to contract him as the lead in his short film, then working as a crew member on The Wendell Baker Story, a feature that Wilson starred in and codirected with his brother Andrew Wilson. “Once we got Luke [Wilson], it opened things up to us,” Roberts said. “The more people signed on, the more people got interested.” At a recent event, Wilson said, “Somehow I missed the book. I learned about Rusty through the script. [Roberts] sent it to me. [Rusty] was a remarkable guy, and I was lucky enough to be hired.” Robert Duvall portrays a composite character meant to embody the various donors who gave their resources to the school. He and Sheen play scenes opposite each other, the first time they’ve appeared onscreen since 1979’s Apocalypse Now. “It was awesome for me,” said Garrison, who was on set portraying Luther Scarborough, the villainous coach

Rusty Russell is the subject of 12 Mighty Orphans.

of Fort Worth Poly High School who tries to have the Masonic Home’s team banned from competition. “I was on the 50-yard line and looked over, and [Roberts] was leaning over giving Duvall direction. He got back behind camera and yelled, ‘Action!’ and had this great smile on his face. I’ll never forget it.” “That was probably the 102-degree fever,” joked Roberts on the same conference call. “You answer their questions, but you don’t direct [actors of that stature]. You just give them ideas to develop.” More of a challenge was directing the local actors portraying the orphans on the team, most of whom had little experience either with acting or with football. Before the shoot, Garrison ran a two-week football camp for them until they were calling their own plays. Still, the filmmakers were more concerned with the action off the field than the games, which look as ragged as you’d expect a 1930s high school game to look. “We can watch football any time,” Garrison said. “We don’t want this to be a football movie. We want this to show how football teaches these boys to overcome adversity. Shooting football is timeconsuming and intensive, and we want to focus more on emotions and scenes.” The filmmakers had used Austin as a location for filming the Fort Worth-set Iron Orchardbecause they needed ranch houses with wooden frames, something the state capital had more of. However, this story required local sites such as the Fort Worth Masonic Temple, in which Treat Williams filmed scenes portraying Amon Carter. The locker-room scenes were shot at Farrington Field, where the reallife Mites played their home games. The inside of the Masonic Home had recently been renovated, so Texas Pythian Home in Weatherford stood in for the place the orphans called home. “There’s something that happens to

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Thief and are thinking of expanding 12 Mighty Orphans into a TV show to do justice to the many children who passed through the Masonic Home during Rusty Russell’s time there. They’re also thinking of switching sports to make a movie about the longest Little League World Series game in history, which a Fort Worth team lost in 11 innings in 2002. Whatever they do, they are certain of wanting to return to North Texas. “We love shooting there,” Roberts said. “The community is so great.” l

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country to see the movie succeed in Texas and become interested in it that way.” Another piece of cross-promotion can be found at the National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame, which is holding an exhibit of props and behind-the-scenes photos from the film, the latter taken by Laura Wilson, who is Luke Wilson’s mother and also a recent inductee of the Hall of Fame. After the film is released, Roberts, Garrison, and Hill have no plans to stop now that the world is opening back up. They have optioned the rights to Joshua Hammer’s detective novel The Falcon

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filmmakers when you shoot in the place where it happened,” Garrison said. “We could have shot this in Oklahoma and saved a pretty penny, but we had extras that went to the Masonic Home, that played with or against the Mites. You won’t get that truth if you don’t have the actual location.” “I’m shooting a movie in Atlanta now, and it’s supposed to be Nebraska,” Wilson said. “You’re not always lucky enough to shoot in the place where it happened. For a story this important, I was happy to be in Fort Worth.” The Mites’ homefield had to be recreated at Gateway Park, with the filmmakers building a stand for fans and using CGI effects to complete the illusion of a Fort Worth stadium from the time period. “These days, every Texas high school football program worth its weight has a modern stadium with turf,” Roberts said. “Those old stadiums are pretty nonexistent.” In addition, the filmmakers could count on local investors such as George Young Jr., who is credited as an executive producer on the film. “I’ve heard ‘I’ve got a financier’ for 20 years in L.A., and it never means anything,” Garrison said. “We met George, and he wrote a check in 48 hours.” Wilson added, “We couldn’t have done this without him.”

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Squandering a 2-0 series lead to fall to the Clippers, the Mavericks prove again that in the playoffs, lack of depth on a team can be a killer — especially when that team is exactly one player deep.

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When the Mavs drew the Los Angeles Clippers in their first-round playoff matchup, my anxiety was already high. Just a year removed from Kawhi and Co. sticking a dagger in MFFL’s hearts, the wounds were still healing. Being so conditioned, I didn’t really give Dallas much of a chance going in, yet somehow after what I originally felt was inevitable ultimately played out — with LA advancing, winning the series 4-3 — the sting is a little sharper than I had imagined it would be. My frustration doesn’t necessarily stem from the fact that the Mavs blew a 2-0 series lead, a rarity so extreme it happens just 7% of the time. (Although the phenomenon is becoming exceedingly less rare — teams have overcome 2-0 deficits in eight of the last 10 years in the NBA.) No, despite the hope that soared through my soul after the first two games and which came crashing down to the molten core of the earth after the next two, the cleft in the ol’ ticker comes more from what the series revealed about Dallas as a team than the loss itself. It demonstrated

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just how far away they really still are. Based on the performance offered by any player not wearing No. 77 down the stretch of the series, the Mavericks are not really a playoff-worthy team. If it wasn’t for our little Slovenian superhero gathering up the rest of the roster and carrying them on his nerve-pinched shoulders like a mama scorpion, the Mavericks wouldn’t have made it to seven games. Hell, without Luka Magic™️, they could have ended the regular season looking up at the lowly Rockets in the standings. Luka had to carry the team even more through the seven games against LA. Averaging nearly 36 points and eight assists in the seven games, Dončić had a hand in roughly three quarters of all the points the Mavs could manage in the series. The 22-year-old’s performance in Game 7 alone was MVP-worthy, with 46 points and 14 assists that could have easily been 25 if any other player in blue

and green could do anything besides clank one off the rim after he passed to them. But one man is not enough. By comparison, the Mavs’ highest paid player, Kristaps Porziņģis, averaged just 13 points a game. (How’s that 30-mila-year contract look now?) I’m starting to understand that the reason they call him “The Unicorn” is that his reputation as a great player is very much like a unicorn — a myth. It was a nice experiment, and one I fully supported at the time, but the KP trade is going to be an anchor dragging this team down for years. Dallas’ third best shooter in Tim Hardaway Jr. continued his feast or famine tendency, choosing Game 7 in LA to have his worst game of the playoffs. Dorian Finney-Smith was the only other player who appeared to leave it all on the floor, but he can’t be your No. 2 since scoring 25 a game is certainly not his forte. Maxi Kleber, Willie CauleyStein, and Jalen Brunson were complete

non-factors. When Boban (God love him) is your answer to mid-series coaching adjustments, you’re probably in deep trouble. By contrast, in addition to Kawhi Leonard and Paul George being themselves, the rest of the Clipper rotation contributed in big and timely ways and were the difference in both Game 7 and the series. LA’s bench outscored Dallas’ 26-6 on Sunday alone. Big 3-pointers by Marcus Morris and dagger second-chance shots by Nicolas Batum under the rim only highlighted Dallas’ lack of depth by comparison. So that’s what we’ve got: Luka — a top-five (-three?) player in the world — and then basically nothing. As a fan of DFW sports, I’m fairly accustomed to mediocrity. While not exactly Hot-lanta — that Deep South sauna, thanks mostly to Tom Brady, has seen exactly one championship parade from one of the major four in the last 64 years! — we don’t exactly have ring manufacturers on speed dial either. The last trophy hoisted in these parts was 10 years ago when the Little Mavericks took down Big Bad King James and his little dog D-Wade. Back when I had a considerably lower non-graying hairline. But that doesn’t make it hurt any less. Being the last team standing in any sport at the end of a season is never easy. It takes more work, determination, and grit than any mere mortal frittering away their days staring at screens in 4-foot cubicles could comprehend. But it also takes help. Individual world-class talents can’t do it by themselves. As amazing as Dirk was in that 2011 playoff run, or Mike Modano was for the Stars in ’99, they still had Jason Kidd and Jet Terry or Joe Nieuwendyk and Eddie Belfour behind them. It would have been a travesty for Dirk or Mo — maybe the two greatest DFW athletes ever (with all due respect to Roger Staubach) — to have played their entire careers and never win it all. Yet this is the norm for individual athletes around here. The list of greats to have donned the uniforms of local teams who’ve never secured a title is depressingly long: Pudge Rodriguez and Michael Young, Tony Romo and Jason Witten, Ro Blackman and Steve Nash, Jaime Benn and Marty Turco, the list goes on. And if the Mavs continue on their current trajectory and can’t find a way to surround Luka with impactful players, you can add him to it. More than likely, though, the Slovenian Splasher will go on to win multiple championships. But if the Mavs can’t figure out how to get him some help, it won’t be for Dallas. l

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The chairs at 97 West Kitchen & Bar all have leather and hide backings. The paneling underneath the bar has hide on it, too. The napkins are made of blue cloth that’s meant to recall the denim from blue jeans, and the walls are festooned with paintings of bucking broncos. In another

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chewing on that morsel for some minutes. Even so, to make game meat that tasty and juicy was something of a triumph for the kitchen. I ordered brûléed stone fruit for dessert, which in my case was pear. I only had a spoon to cut it with, and this job was made somewhat difficult by the hardness of the winter fruit. I suspect that if I had been eating a peach (which the kitchen uses for this dessert when it’s in season), this wouldn’t have been an issue. In any case, the show was stolen by the honey basil ice cream served alongside, as the menthol note from the herb set off the ice cream’s sweetness in a new way. The whiskey glaze underneath, which was as thick and stringy as honey itself would have been, also bore a welcome flavor of ginger. Where the Texas-ness of the place came in really handy was during the fixedprice all-you-can-eat brunch, which is served on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Most of the dishes are familiar: salad, scrambled eggs, bacon, ham, biscuits. The skillet potatoes came out melt-in-

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your-mouth tender, not bad considering how large the chunks of spuds were. The refreshing bit of this venue’s brunch was a taco bar, with pulled pork and brisket kept warm in big metal drums. The toppings were fairly standard, so you won’t be able to concoct anything as novel as, say, the tacos at Torchy’s. Nevertheless, the corn tortillas were as fresh as if they’d been house-made. (They aren’t, but I was unable to find out where the hotel got them from.) I’ll admit I generally prefer the texture of flour tortillas, but the corn flatbreads were flavorful enough to swing me over to their side. The restaurant’s Stockyards location means that unless you’re actually staying at the hotel, you’ll have to pony up for parking. That’s something to take into consideration, especially since the menu’s price point isn’t exactly cheap. Still, the test of any hotel restaurant is whether it’s good enough for the locals to visit. If you’re planning a special evening on the North Side, this place will give you something memorable. l

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context, I’d say that this is all too much. However, this new restaurant serving Texas cuisine is inside the new Hotel Drover in the Stockyards, so the guests there may well want a reminder that they’re in the Lone Star State. In that light, well, it’s still a bit much. At least the menu has enough modern accents to keep things interesting. For starters, there’s the chickenfried Texas oysters, which come coated in enough breadcrumbs that you almost lose the shellfish. You definitely lose the pickled mango pico and the cumin, but the morsels are undeniably tasty, crisp in texture with a richness and kick from the chipotle butter that they’re served in. Even better eating came from the Broken Arrow Ranch antelope, where the medallions of meat were not fork-tender but close to it. Smoky and rich with flavor, they were accompanied by goat cheese grits, which had the sweetness and creaminess that you’d associate with Italian polenta, as well as chunks of tasso ham infusing the side dish with its meatiness. The drizzle of elderberry marmalade spiked with balsamic vinegar was also a welcome sharp and fruity counterpoint to the meat. If you do want to cut the medallions smaller, just remember to slice against the grain. I sliced one with the grain and wound up

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3.) At 8pm Fri, Jun 25, hear stories from LGBTQ people at Lessons From Our Community: Stories About the Fight for Equality at Liberty Lounge (515 S Jennings Av, Fort Worth, LibertyLoungeFW.com). This event is free to attend. 4.) After a year’s absence, the Devine Miss Diva Show is making its triumphant return to Club Changes (2637 E Lancaster Av, Fort Worth, 817-413-2332) at 10:30pm Fri, Jun 25, with the All-Star Drag Salute to Worldwide Pride. There is no cover charge.

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5.) Trinity Pride Fest is back for 2021 with the free streaming event Virtual Trinity

As we mentioned last week, some great events are happening around town in June for Pride Month. While a good amount of the LGBTQ+ action will occur at the Urban Cowboy Saloon (2620 E Lancaster Av, Fort Worth, 682-707-5663), there are many other places in the mix. Here are eight more events to check out.

Pride Fest: A Community Rebounds. Log in from 7pm to 8:15pm on Sat, Jun 26, at Facebook.com/TrinityPrideFW. Then at 8:30pm, Trinity Pride Fest continues in person at MASS (1002 S Main St, Fort Worth, MASSFW.com) for $5 in advance or $8 at the door. Annie Void (10:45pm), Small Town (10pm), Lorelei K (9:15pm), and Gollay (8:30pm) will perform. 6.) Flow, rave, dance, and drag at Pride Night Lights: A Neon Light Show at 9pm on Sat, Jun 26, at the Urban Cowboy Saloon. This 21+ event presented by Patrick Mikyles features Circuit Tops Apparel and DJ MNDO. Tickets are $20 at PrideNightLights.EventBrite.com.

7.) Wall of Food: Charity Drag Show at 6pm Sun, Jun 27, at the Urban Cowboy gives drag a chance to give back. For details, keep an eye on Facebook.com/ TheUrbanCowboySaloon. 8.) At 8pm Mon, Jun 28, at the Urban Cowboy, you can attend a public screening of the Raid of the Rainbow Lounge, a documentary film about the controversial raid of the famous Fort Worth gay bar in 2009. (This movie is also available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.) To submit your Pride Month events or any other fun things to do, email Jennifer@fwweekly.com.

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1). Radical Roots — a Portland-based arts collective with local ties — will host its inaugural art show at 7-10pm Fri at 715 W Magnolia Av (in the space formerly known as Grandma’s) in Fort Worth. Glass art, visual arts, and merchandise designed by area artists will be available for purchase with a portion of the proceeds benefiting LGBTQ Saves, a nonprofit for at-risk youth in North Texas. Performances will include comedy, music, and spoken word. This event is free to attend. For more information, contact RadicalRoortsAC@ gmail.com.

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2.) Grab your doggo and head to Homegrown Hounds Dog Deli & Bakery (5260 N O’Conner Blvd, Ste 176, Irving, HgHDogs.com) for the Pride PAWty Yappy Hour & Pride Parade on Sun from 2pm to 4pm. There will be mini pride flags for all, plus mimosas and snacks for the humans. This BYOB event is free to attend.

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Bastards of Soul 7/10: Ridglea Theater (Fort Worth TX). Blue Oyster Cult 7/4: Heritage Park (Weatherford TX). Danni & Kris 6/16: AC Hotel (Dallas TX). 6/18: Ritz Carlton (Dallas TX). 6/24: The Adolphus (Dallas TX). 6/26: Wild Acre Brewing (Fort Worth TX). Dustin Massey 6/10: The Rustic (Dallas TX). 6/11: Tulips (Fort Worth TX). 6/12: Pacific Yard House (Conroe TX). Iron Jaw 6/11: Haltom Theater (Haltom City TX). Josh Weathers 7/30: Billy Bob’s Texas (Fort Worth TX). Lillian Axe 6/17: Scout Bar (Houston TX). 6/18: Trees (Dallas TX). 6/19: The Junkyard (Monroe LA).

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Warrant & Firehouse 6/24: Lava Cantina (The Colony TX).

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The Toadies 6/10: Vaden Todd Lewis (solo) at Legacy Hall (Plano TX). 8/28: Bat Fest (Austin TX).

Vandoliers 6/24: Henry County Fair (Cambridge IL). 6/25: Summer Solstice Indie Music Fest (Online). 6/26: Bourbon Theatre (Lincoln NE). 7/25: Tulips FW.

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Let’s play a word association game. When I say “surf rock,” what comes to mind? You’re thinking California, Brian Wilson, the ‘60s, maybe Dick Dale, right? I’m willing to bet you’re humming “Wipeout.” Point is, you’re likely not picturing two twentysomething dudes from Fort Worth, donned in tie-dyed and Zeppelin T-shirts. This is exactly how brothers Brett and Braden Reddell appeared to me recently, perched on a plastic bench outside a coffee shop off Magnolia Ave. As Ashes, the brothers have been making music together for over four years, and the pair told me that from the

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Thanks to President Biden’s vaccination program, we’re now free to move about the cabin, though masks are still highly encouraged. If it’s been a long time since you’ve rock ’n’ rollllled, let the balmy weather and this little list be your Sherpas.

Three of the Fort’s most righteously and rightfully popular indie-rock acts — Meach Pango, Phantomelo, and Cool Jacket — take over MASS (1002 S Main St, 682-707-7774) at 10pm Fri. Tickets are $7 at Prekindle or $10 at the door.

brothers have been so far known for. “We pulled out these pedals we had never really used before,” said guitarist/ singer Braden. Up until now, most of what the brothers have recorded has been pretty raw and unfiltered, but they’re excited to incorporate more effects and complexity into their sound. Evolving from surfygarage to more of a fuzzy, shoegaze sound is something the Reddells have been looking forward to trying for a while now, and the pair are really proud of how they’ve accomplished that on this record. The two have been hard at work prepping the record for release. anymore! The Race Street Rollick will be sort of like Open Streets on the Near Southside but smaller. And, apparently, more frequent. Vendors will set up along the closed-off av, and there’ll be live music. For announcements, follow @rivereastfw. Race Street’s assorted restaurants will be slinging food and beverages. If you haven’t tried The Post’s black-eyed pea hummus, then Saturday is your day.

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At River East on the same night, The Post Phantomelo will keep the party going at (2925 Race St, 817-945-8890) welcomes MASS Fri along with Meach Pango and Cool local pop-rocker Ryker Hall and his full Jacket. band along with Colby Acuff. Tickets to this all-ages show are $10 via Eventbrite. be the site of a family-friendly street festival that will go on to occur the From 11am to 5pm on Saturday in that second Saturday of every month for not same neighborhood, Race Street will sure how long — no one’s keeping score

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“We’re literally one song away from doing it, and we plan on doing that song within the week,” Brett said, “so as quickly as we can get it mixed and stuff, and manufactured, the release will be then. Before the end of the summer, in our hands, hopefully. That’s the hardest thing. We could release it now, for streaming if we wanted. Because the music is done. It’s just a matter of if we wanna release it to digital first or just really push those vinyls, which is kinda what we’re trying to do.” The duo has been expertly navigating the growing pains that come with being a band that is just breaking into the scene. Right now is arguably one of the most difficult times (at least in my lifetime) make a name as a gigging musician. As everything begins to re-open, most groups are struggling with re-integrating into the slowly recovering Fort Worth music scene, and that’s certainly something that Ashes is feeling. “I think the next thing is just to get playing live again,” Brett said. “We would love to play some shows to just get another under our belt. We’ve been writing, we’ve been making albums, and we can always do that. The next thing is just to play a couple of live shows.” “We have sort of a newspaper philosophy,” Braden added. “You know, in an ideal world, new music would come out every week, like the newspaper. We’re always writing. We’d love to be able to find a way to do that.” The two are cautiously optimistic about the release of Texas Space Rock. Sonically, it will be different from their earlier releases, but they’re excited to introduce listeners to the new era of Ashes. l

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beginning, it’s always just been the two of them. When asked why they chose to forgo adding a bass player and conforming to the garage-rock standard power trio, drummer Brett laughed and replied, “We didn’t have a third brother. “We never really met anyone else that we wanted to play with,” he continued. “We had a lot of people ask, and we always said no, no. It was nothing personal. We just knew what we wanted to do and what we wanted to accomplish, and we didn’t need anybody else.” The brothers are set to release their new album, Texas Space Rock, by midsummer. This will be their first record on vinyl, something the pair of avid vinyl collectors are beyond stoked about. To them, putting an album to vinyl was the next step in becoming a more legitimate, professional band. The two have been also honing their personal skills as musicians and pushing themselves to improve as a band. “We started as a garage band, and that’s an energy we still keep with us,” Brett said. “On this record, I feel like I’m advancing, though, crawling up the ladder a little bit as a drummer.” As with everything else Ashes has released since the band’s inception, Texas Space Rock was recorded and engineered by only the brothers themselves, at their home. The entire project is as grassroots and organic as it gets, and by now the brothers are experts at producing DIY rock music in their bedrooms. Texas Space Rock is a bit of a deviation from the raw, more surfy sound the

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Application and Draft Permit. Fort Dearborn Company, 4601 Pylon St, Fort Worth, TX 76106-1918, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for an initial issuance of Federal Operating Permit (herein referred to as Permit) No. O4281, Application No. 31261, to authorize operation of the Fort Dearborn, a Printing facility. The area addressed by the application is located at 4601 Pylon St in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas 76106-1918. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility’s general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to the application. You can find an electronic map of the facility at: http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/hb610/index.html?lat=32.825555&lng=-97.344722&zoom=13&type=r. This application was received by the TCEQ on September 28, 2020. The purpose of a federal operating permit is to improve overall compliance with the rules governing air pollution control by clearly listing all applicable requirements, as defined in Title 30 Texas Administrative Code § 122.10 (30 TAC § 122.10). The draft permit, if approved, will codify the conditions under which the area must operate. The permit will not authorize new construction. The executive director has completed the technical review of the application and has made a preliminary decision to prepare a draft permit for public comment and review. The executive director recommends issuance of this draft permit. The permit application, statement of basis, and draft permit will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ Central Office, 12100 Park 35 Circle, Building E, First Floor, Austin, Texas 78753; the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Office, 2309 Gravel Dr, Fort Worth, Texas 76118-6951; and the Fort Worth Public Library, 1300 NE 35th St, Fort Worth, Texas 76106-4552, beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The draft permit and statement of basis are available at the TCEQ Website: www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/tvnotice At the TCEQ central and regional offices, relevant supporting materials for the draft permit, as well as the New Source Review permits which have been incorporated by reference, may be reviewed and copied. Any person with difficulties obtaining these materials due to travel constraints may contact the TCEQ central office file room at (512) 239-2900. Public Comment/Notice and Comment Hearing. Any person may submit written comments on the draft permit. Comments relating to the accuracy, completeness, and appropriateness of the permit conditions may result in changes to the draft permit.

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