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Mark Cuban cried on television. It was 2018, and he was being interviewed by ESPN’s Rachel Nichols on the Mavericks’ rampant sexual harassment charges and apparent toxic work environment that his team’s business side had created for women. “I have no excuse,” he whimpered as his bottom lip quivered for the camera. This was all coming at the height of the #MeToo movement, and the man-child billionaire — who had forged a reputation as a trailblazing squeaky wheel determined to shake the NBA out of its stodgy complacency — was in the crosshairs of a media frenzy that was ending careers. He pledged to do better, and, to his credit, he hired Cynthia Marshall to be the team’s new CEO. In her opening press conference, the former AT&T executive told the world that she would remake the culture of the business side of Cube’s operation. As far as we know, she has. Three years later, Cuban has hired noted wife-beater and notorious bad person Jason Kidd to be the coach of his team. The incident that netted Kidd his first mugshot may have occurred 20 years ago, but he’s built a solid track record of rubbing people the wrong way ever since. It’s worth noting, Cuban hired Kidd before settling on a general manager — former Nike executive Nico Harrison reportedly signed off on the move before accepting the position — despite the fact the owner had promised to allow to the new GM to play a role in that search. The newly anointed coach landed the gig on the suggestion of special advisor Dirk Nowitzki and VP of basketball operations Michael Finley. Putting aside that meaningful turn — Dirk is perfect in every way — Kidd’s hiring feels like a betrayal of those tearful promises made under glaring scrutiny.

• In December 2007, Kidd suffered a mysterious migraine and missed a game against the Knicks. Media referred to the incident as “Kidd going on strike.” He asked out of the Garden State and was traded back to the Mavs. • Just after agreeing to a contract and then spurning the Mavs, Kidd joined the Knicks. A week after switching teams yet again, he wrapped his SUV around a utility pole and was arrested for driving while intoxicated. He was later suspended for his first two regular season games as a head coach. Only a couple of his offenses rise to the level of “crime,” but there’s a discernable pattern of him morphing into a douche nozzle every time he doesn’t get his way. He also shows all the loyalty of a backalley gigolo. Given the owner’s penchant for his own petulant tantrums, the working relationship between Kidd and the veryhands-on Cuban already appears to be a powder keg before Game 1. As the ’90s Cowboys taught us, winning masks a lot of off-the-field issues. So surely Kidd’s on-the-court success must be sterling to carry around this long of a rap sheet, right? His overall record as a coach is a few points below .500. You could argue that he took the helm of two floundering teams (the Nets and Bucks, respectively) and led them to the playoffs. I would point out that he accomplished that feat in the Eastern Conference, where a team can still make the playoffs from a buried casket. As an Xs and Os guy, there’s not much we can glean from tape. He’s a players’ coach who doesn’t meddle or micromanage in the style that made former head man Rick Carlisle notorious. Kidd is most known for his creativity on offense (with the Bucks, he famously made 7-footer Giannis Antetokounmpo point guard) and developing players in the film room. In the (most of) two games I watched, his teams looked for mismatches

Noted wife-beater and all-around POS Jason Kidd is now the head coach of your Dallas Mavericks.

on offense and switched everything on defense. He’s hardly a mad scientist, but he’s certainly not a liability in the mold of Avery Johnson. So what’s the appeal? A documented crap bag with a meh record as a head coach? Players love him. During his recent stint as an assistant with the Lakers, noted narcissist and receding hairline enthusiast LeBron James conceded that Kidd was his “basketball IQ equal.” After Kidd was dismissed from the Bucks, his star player Antetokounmpo was willing to fight for Kidd’s job. “He’s a big part of my success in the league,” Antetokounmpo told NBA.com. “I’m loyal to the people I work with. I love him as a person. I care about him as a person.” That’s significant. The hiring of both Kidd and Harrison points to one factor: Luka. Carlisle could not connect with the young superstar, and — despite the fact the Slovenian phenom is set to sign a five-year extension with the team — Cuban is already panicked over imagining life without him. Kidd’s ability to connect with egomaniac superstars (takes one to know one, amirite?) is Reason 1-10 Cubes pulled the trigger on bringing

in his former championship point guard. Reason No. 11? A Kidd-Harrison welcoming committee will almost certainly do a better job luring big-name free agents to Dallas — one of the biggest failures of the prior administration. As we’ve seen after two years of first-round playoff exits, not even Luka can win by himself. The team’s roster is in shambles and needs new blood. While those two factors are enormous and potentially game-changing, the hiring of Kidd wreaks of a ploy by an owner looking for the polar-opposite personality of his past relationship. Kidd is the tattedout bad boy whom Cuban sought out after suffering years of relative stability with a man so strait-laced he once considered a game of ping-pong a little too edgy. It’s fair to ask, could the Mavs have found the same qualities in another coach who doesn’t have the rap sheet of Jason Kidd? Probably. But to Cuban, the optics of hiring a convicted abuser and frequent POS doesn’t matter as much as keeping his product relevant and profitable. Just remember that the next time you’re tempted to take your wife or daughter to a Mavs game. l

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• In 2004, playing for the Nets, Kidd chased off Byron Scott after screaming at the head coach during a locker room tantrum.

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• In the mid-1990s, Kidd forced his way out of Dallas because he couldn’t get along with, well, anyone.

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• As a freshman at Cal, Kidd led a mutiny that ended head coach Lou Campanelli’s tenure there.

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ESPN Brooklyn pieced together a list of the many times Jason Kidd was a piece of human garbage. The domestic abuse case is by far the worst item on his ledger, but there’s plenty of grist for the shit-mill. Below are some of the highlights.

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ust hours after the Weekly published a leaked email online, staff videographer Wyatt Newquist left a voicemail on my cellphone. “Two police officers stopped by asking for you,” Newquist said. I immediately called our office and was given the phone number of one of the officers. The detective told me that I was the lead suspect in the theft of a document and that the two detectives needed to speak with me the following day at their Northside headquarters. The detectives were seeking the source of a leaked email that was originally sent to Fort Worth school board trustee Tobi Jackson from her lawyer in 2016. Multiple media outlets, including the Weekly, had reported that Jackson’s employment at the time with SPARC, a local nonprofit, conflicted with her school board dealings with a prominent law firm, Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, due to the fact that a Linebarger partner was an active board member (effectively a donor) at SPARC.

Brian Byrd’s mayoral campaign promised honest and transparent City Hall dealings even as his campaign contributions raised serious ethical concerns.

with an independent judiciary but those with an independent press, publishing information the government does not want to reveal.” I called my source, local political consultant Travis Parmer, about the investigation, and he agreed to meet with the officers and to out himself as the person who leaked the document. The next day during my questioning, I had the impression that the beat officers would rather be doing anything else than looking for the source of an allegedly stolen email. While making small talk, I learned that the officers were tasked with solving auto theft and other property thefts. I answered their questions and gave them Parmer’s phone number. Parmer never explicitly told me how he found the email, but in my eight years of experience as a reporter, I know that public information officers occasionally release confidential documents by accident and that embarrassing or incriminating documents are not infrequently leaked to the press by whistleblowers. The idea that someone physically broke into Jackson’s office and stole the document defied belief. I saw the entire exercise as an act of intimidation on the part of Jackson and a reminder that law enforcement remains a potent tool of the well-connected. A 2019 report by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP), a nonprofit that provides news organizations with free legal advice, outlined 50 pages of perils faced by journalists and media outlets. Prior restraint, the practice of preemptively banning the publication of information, is on the rise, even though the U.S. Supreme Court has consistently struck down such unconstitutional orders, reads part of the RCFP report. There

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have been detained or jailed for not releasing the identity of their sources. “Declaring no one to be above the law, a federal judge sent The New York Times reporter Judith Miller to jail yesterday for refusing to divulge a confidential source to a grand jury investigating the disclosure of a CIA agent’s identity,” reads a 2005 article in the Baltimore Sun. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Miller spent 85 days in jail before finally agreeing to testify. Following initial detention, Miller told the federal court that “the freest and fairest societies are not only those

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Jackson maintained that she had a legal opinion that stated there was no conflict. The school board trustee refused to release that legal opinion, and, once we received the legal memo, it became clear why (“School Board Ethics,” April 2019). The lawyer did not explicitly state that there was no conflict of interest but rather that Jackson “may choose to abstain to avoid the appearance of any impropriety.” Newspapers and journalists are honor-bound to not disclose the identity of confidential sources. Even with the broad protections afforded the press under the First Amendment, American journalists

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Physical attacks on journalists, media outlet subpoenas, and whistleblower prosecutions are just a few of the dangers faced by members of the press these days.

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Protecting the Right to Publish

Proponents of gun rights often speak of “exercising their Constitutional rights” to carry firearms under the Second

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The murky inner dealings of Tarrant’s appraisal district were the focus of a recent cover story.

Amendment. The idea is that the right to bear arms must be protected by continually asserting that right through the open or concealed carry of guns in public. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s tested the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment as Black men and women asserted their right to vote or use segregated public and private spaces like restaurants and the front end of city buses. Those efforts, while ultimately successful, were often met with violence in the South. Newspaper and online media outlets similarly protect the broad press freedoms afforded under the First Amendment by publishing information that is culled through state and federal public information acts, confidential sources, and

the scouring of publicly available data. Sometimes, newsworthy information is readily accessible but missing context. The recent mayoral race led local media outlets to sleuth campaign contributions. Most articles tallied war chest numbers and provided context on which groups were backing whom. By going several steps further — connecting donor names with business entities, then searching for city contracts awarded to those businesses — the Weekly found a consistent pattern of campaign contributions being followed by the awarding of tens of millions in city contracts to former city councilmember Brian Byrd (“City Contracts Worth Tens of Millions Tied to Brian Byrd Campaign Contributions,” April 20). While no single city councilmember

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were seven documented instances of prior restraint placed on media outlets in 2019, a sharp rise from one such incident in 2017 and five in 2018. “Courts often issue these orders when a court or a litigant inadvertently discloses documents to the press and then tries to claw them back,” the report read, even though leaked documents are perfectly legal to publish if they are newsworthy. Reporters also face a rising trend of court-ordered subpoenas, which require journalists to testify in court or to hand over documents. RCFP’s reporting found that 2017, 2018, and 2019 saw eight, 25, and 27 subpoenas issued to journalists, respectively. “This increase is notable because subpoenas can impose a significant financial, emotional, and professional burden on journalists and news outlets,” RCFP said. “If a journalist refuses to comply with a subpoena to protect a source or sensitive work product, he or she can risk jail time or hefty fines. Troublingly, several journalists and news outlets reported that they believed, based on the circumstances, that they were subpoenaed as a form of retaliation or harassment in response to critical reporting or the filing of a court access or public records lawsuit.” The possibility of libel suits, court subpoenas, and the targeting of confidential sources hasn’t stopped media outlets like the Weekly and many others from performing that most important of journalistic functions — publishing embarrassing or compromising documents that government officials and special interests would otherwise hide from the general public.

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holds the power to award contracts that are vetted by city staff before being voted on by nine councilmembers (if the contracts are valued over $50,000), the consistent link, over four years, between campaign contributions and contract awards meant that there was a compelling public interest in having those connections published. Unethical campaign contribution dealings rarely violate the state’s lax ethics rules, as I was recently told by an individual with intimate knowledge of ethics laws. Often, the only accountability comes from the publication of information detailing campaign contributions and kickbacks, he said. Our recent reporting on the cozy relationship between Tarrant County’s tax assessor-collector, Wendy Burgess, and Linebarger (“Keeping Tabs on TAD,” Jan. 6) caught the attention of Daniel “Joe” Bennett, who unsuccessfully ran for one of five seats on the board of the Tarrant Appraisal District (TAD) in 2017. Around the time Bennet was running for the board opening, which is voted on by taxing entities and not the general public, he received a nondescript package. “I paid no attention to it at the time,” he recalled. “A couple of weeks later, I opened it, and it is from a whistleblower. I kept getting whistleblower letters. I received nine of them.” The TAD whistleblower letter outlined alleged inter-office affairs between high-ranking TAD staff and subordinates, workplace harassment, accusations that one TAD leader lied to a state senate panel, and one documented instance of a TAD staffer telling employees to hide software problems from the general public (“Shining a Light on TAD,” June 2). Those software glitches were later widely reported in the press as tens of thousands of Tarrant County residents began receiving irregular property tax billing statements. Bennett had the whistleblower letter

in his possession when he asked TAD for their copy via an open records request. The request was a test of TAD’s commitment to openness and transparency, Bennett said. The appraisal district responded by appealing to the state attorney general’s office, seeking to withhold the document. When that failed, the district sued the AG. The litigation went on for several months, costing Tarrant County taxpayers at least $15,000 in legal fees, before the suit was dropped in late 2018, according to court documents. Bennett closely follows TAD dealings, and he estimates that roughly 90% of the details in the whistleblower letter were credible. To this day, he doesn’t know whether the anonymous public informant is male, female, one person, or a group of people, although he believes, based on the wide range of sensitive information, the leaked information came from multiple departments within TAD. There are any number of reasons why a current or former employee may turn to the media to leak sensitive information. If the place of employment has a toxic work culture, approaching the human resources department can lead to professional consequences for the whistleblower. That often leaves local media as the only safe and effective source for publicizing alleged indifference toward COVID-19 during a pandemic (“COVID Concerns,” Oct. 2020) or audio recordings of a local high school principal directing teachers to fudge grades (“Slowing the COVID Slide,” Mar. 2021). Whistleblowers and confidential

Kelley Shannon, who heads a nonprofit that encourages government transparency, recently told us that Fort Worth may have abused an outdated AG ruling to avoid fulfilling open records requests during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Local government’s handling of open records requests through the Texas Public Information Act became such an issue for our newspaper that we made public information requests the topic of a recent article (“Open Government or Legal Loopholes?” Nov. 2020) Kelley Shannon, executive director of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, recently told me in a video interview that the City of Fort Worth may have abused outdated Attorney General rulings to delay fulfilling open records requests. As the head of a nonprofit that monitors government compliance with the Texas Public Information Act, Shannon said Fort Worth recently came to her attention. Because of this outdated ruling, cities that stated they were working on a skeleton crew did not have to fulfill open records requests, Shannon said. “Fort Worth was one of the worst offenders,” Shannon said, referring to what her group documented as excessive abuses of the outdated AG ruling. “We had some surveys done, checking around and looking at major governments around the state. Fort Worth was still doing it up until February of this year.” When her nonprofit requested a copy of Fort Worth’s policy on what constituted a skeleton crew, the city’s Secretary’s Office sought to block the release of that information. “That was pretty ironic,” Shannon said. Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department study that chronicled the failed U.S. policy in Vietnam, in The New York Times. Following the publication of the third

installment, the Nixon administration obtained a restraining order that barred subsequent publications of the papers. That order was upheld by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which prompted an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The highest court in the country agreed to hear New York Times Co. v. United States on June 26, 1971, and, in a 6-3 decision, the court dissolved the restraining order and allowed the Times to continue publishing. The lead opinion stated, “Any system of prior restraints comes to this court bearing a heavy presumption against its constitutional validity [and] the government thus carries a heavy burden of showing justification for the imposition of such a restraint.” That Supreme Court ruling is cited as nearly solidifying the right of the press to publish without interference from the government. Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers while working as a U.S. military strategist in 1971, went on trial for espionage, conspiracy, and stealing government property in 1973. The charges were dismissed, partly because the Nixon administration illegally obtained some of the evidence used against Ellsberg. Now 90, Ellsberg lives in California’s Bay Area. His popular quote on patriotism partly explains what drove him to leak the Pentagon Papers 50 years ago. “For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution and the First Amendment,” he said. “The truth is that the policies of the government are sometimes in conflict with that. In our country, patriotism should not be defined as obedience to an authority.” l

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Supporters of the Second Amendment and open carry laws share at least one thing with journalists: a belief that their respective rights to carry arms and publish must be frequently and publicly exercised.

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The Fort Worth police department was founded in 1876, but comprehensive access to documented police infractions was not publicly available until a few months ago. The 37-page ledger that documents incidents of police misconduct was first published in the Weekly in the fall (“Large Document Reveals Misconduct by Fort Worth Police,” Nov. 2020). The police reform-minded grassroots group No Sleep Until Justice requested the data last summer. Fort Worth’s Secretary’s Office responded with a $1,731 bill in August. The city is not obligated to bill folks who request records, and those onerous asks for payment are commonly levied on groups and newspapers seeking embarrassing or potentially incriminating information on city officials or police. Speaking at the time, No Sleep Until Justice president Thomas Moore said, “Fort Worth police department does not hold their officers accountable in an appropriate manner, which undermines the public trust in police, wastes taxpayer money, and keeps everyone less safe.” The 37-page ledger includes infractions from active-duty police officers, and those violations include: false report, weapon violation, neglect of duty, assault, illegal search, rough handling, failure to take action, discourtesy, untruthfulness, and theft, among many other types of violations. At least one officer listed on the ledger works for the Office of Internal Affairs, the office tasked with investigating allegations of police misconduct. The Fort Worth police department’s Public Relations Office routinely denies or delays requests for complaints against police officers that I routinely file as part of my reporting (“Closed Records,” June 16). The city Secretary’s Office filters open records requests to keep embarrassing information from the public, and similar efforts are made by the Tarrant County District Attorney’s office when requests for communications are made for county officials.

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sources are increasingly the target of local and federal aggression and prosecution, according to RCFP. The U.S. Department of Justice sought to prosecute the source of government leaks once in 2017, four times in 2018, and three times in 2019. “The Trump administration has now prosecuted eight people in three years,” the report read. “These prosecutions continued a trend started by the Obama administration, which prosecuted 10 leaks over eight years (mostly in President Obama’s first term, however). The government has typically prosecuted these disclosures by claiming they violate the Espionage Act, a vaguely worded law enacted in 1917 to combat spying that criminalizes the disclosure of government documents and information.”

As baseless conspiracies about Critical Race Theory reach school board meetings across much of the United States, scholars are increasingly speaking out. B Y

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The months leading up to last week’s boisterous Fort Worth school board meeting — where dozens of parents alternatively spoke for and against Critical Race Theory (CRT) — saw a precipitous uptick in the mention of CRT on Fox News. A recent study by Media Matters, a left-leaning media watchdog, counted 1,300 mentions of CRT on Fox News in the last three and a half months alone — a sharp increase, the nonprofit reported. Reporting by Media Matters, NBC News, The Daily Beast, and many other news outlets have cited Fox News as a leading source of misinformation about CRT.

Councilmember Fulfills Pledge to Seek Trial for Dean Calls for justice for Atatiana Jefferson have increasingly focused on the lack of a trial date for the man who murdered her nearly two years ago — former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean. Jefferson was playing video games with her nephew when Dean shot her through the back window of her and her mother’s house. The resumption of criminal trials for officers who shot and killed unarmed Black civilians in other states (most notably the guilty verdict of now-incarcerated former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin) has all but ended any remaining excuses for why Dean should not face trial soon. If Tarrant County Judge David Hagerman and DA Sharen Wilson were under any illusion that Dean’s trial was not on the top of minds of thousands of Fort Worthians, City Councilmember

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While right-wing pundits have taken it upon themselves to misrepresent the academic framework for understanding the role of racism in our country’s past and present institutions, scholars who actually use the theories have ramped up their efforts to rebuke misinformation and outright lies about CRT. Altheria Caldera, who holds a doctorate in education from TCU and uses CRT in her daily research, recently laid out what CRT is used for (“Educator Talks Critical Race Theory and Racism in America,” June 18). “Critical Race Theory is a theory that is designed to help scholars who conduct research,” she recently told me. “I say that specifically because it is often misconstrued to be a teaching practice or a strategy that is taught in K-12 schools, and that is far from the truth. It is used by people who are conducting academic or scholarly research to how race and racism play out in institutions across the country. [People are] distorting this principle that was conceived from the minds of people of color, scholars of color, who are well respected and taking these ideas and using them to avoid real conversations about race and racism.” Scholars like Caldera have voiced alarm at the demonization by conservative politicians and right-wing bloggers of an academic principle that seeks empirical truths about America’s past and present. Texas lawmakers recently made discussions about certain aspects of race and racism verboten in public school classrooms. Recent reporting by Vox, a media website that pioneered explanatory journalism, found that more than two dozen states proposed state bills that aim to limit discussions about race and racism in public schools. Supporters of equity see the moves as a jab against CRT, which has recently

Chris Nettles used Monday morning to send a reminder. “I send this letter to you today asking you to do what’s right — not just morally right but lawfully right,” read the statement from Nettles’ office. “We are approaching two years since Atatiana’s murder, and the man indicted for her murder remains free. It is time for Aaron Dean to have his day in court.” The letter, sent via email and certified letter to Hagerman and Wilson, was followed by an in-person visit by Nettles, who made seeking justice for Jefferson a pillar of his recent city council campaign. Nettles brought copies of the letters to the fourth floor of the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center, where Wilson works. After delivering one letter to Wilson’s receptionist, Nettles told me that a trial date “will help the community heal so we can move forward.” On the fifth floor, Judge Hagerman refused to see Nettles or to send any staff member to formally accept the letter. The only interaction Nettles had with the court was with Hagerman’s bailiff. After 30 minutes, Nettles left for other appoint-

The proliferation of misinformation around CRT may be spreading due to national broadcasts by Fox News.

become a political boogeyman for conservatives. Last week, hundreds packed the Fort Worth school district’s administrative building to speak during open comments at the beginning of the school board meeting. Several current and recent school district students spoke in favor of allowing free and open discussions on race relations in school curriculum. Dozens of parents alterna-

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Misinformation Machine Ramping Up?

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One of Councilmember Chris Nettles’ first actions in office was to fulfill a campaign pledge to call for a trial for former police officer Aaron Dean.

ments, undaunted. “I’ve been informed that the judge has received the email,” Nettles said. “We wanted to hand-deliver the copy and maybe have a small conversation. I’m not against Sharen Wilson. I’m not against the

judge. We respect them. The only thing we are asking for is a trial date. We support their office. We are just speaking on behalf of the community.”

ments, many of which falsely stated that CRT was being used in Fort Worth schools to brainwash children. Ashley Paz, who served as Fort Worth school board trustee until recently, said,

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force children to see themselves as either an oppressor or a victim.” A subsequent board meeting summary on the Weekly’s Instagram page (@FortWorthWeekly) drew 161 com-

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Republican lawmakers in more than two dozen states have tried to restrict conversations on race and racism in public schools.

“It is unfortunate that people who do not have the best interest of our schools at the center of their actions have misinformed so many good-natured people. Everything from the facts being presented around student achievement in Fort Worth ISD to what we are teaching in our schools have been grossly misrepresented.” When it comes to academic success, the school board has a long way to go, she added, but CRT is not the culprit. “The reality is that Fort Worth school district’s equity work has nothing to do with CRT, which is a graduate-level framework, and it has everything to do with giving marginalized students access that have previously not been available,” she said. Many of the scholars who developed and refined CRT during the 1970s and ’80s have spoken out against efforts by conservative lawmakers to knowingly misrepresent CRT to constituents. Speaking to Vox, legal scholar and founding critical race theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw said that the controversy surrounding CRT is squashing discussions about racism when they are needed more than ever. “When you’re really serious about addressing a problem, the last thing you do is punish people for building the tools to see the problem, to analyze the problem, and to develop the capacity to remove the problem,” she said. “You can’t fix a problem that you can’t name. Racism is a problem in the United States, and conservatives don’t want us to name it because they are uncomfortable with it.” l

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From noon to 6pm, head to Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios (411 E Saturday Sycamore St, Denton, @ RubberGlovesDentonTX) for the Denton Community Bazaar hosted by Strawbeary QT + Friendz. This free event features more than 20 vendors selling art, ceramics, clothing, food, jewelry, and more. There will be DJ sets by Kaspy and Eve.ning. Then from 8pm to 2am, stick around for the Patio Dance Party with Blixaboy, Cygnus, and Jordan Williams.

If you are looking to celebrate Independence Day in a big way with Sunday fireworks and all, check out this week’s Big Ticket column. If you’re the type that likes it nice and quiet, you are in league with thousands of area animals. This weekend, please be on the lookout for lost, frightened pets who think that World War III just broke out. If fireworks do spook your pets, you might try CBD

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Today is the federal holiday celebrating Independence Day rather than the actual Monday Fourth of July, and many people are not working. (Me. I’m people.) This fact makes it the perfect day to take yourself to the ballgame. Head to Globe Life Field (1000 Ballpark Way, Arlington, 817-273-5222) and see a Major League Baseball game live and in-person when the Texas Rangers battle the Detroit Tigers at 7:05pm. For more info and to begin your ticket search, visit MLB.com/Rangers.

From 11am to 5pm thru Sat, Sep 4, head to the Patterson-Appleton Arts Tuesday Center (400 E Hickory St, Denton, 940-382-2787) and the Meadows Museum (5900 Bishop Blvd, Dallas, 214-768-2516) for Soul Art Renewal. This multi-gallery/multimedia exhibit will showcase artists’ responses to the pandemic and other events of 2020-2021 and is focused on healing, hope, and the resilience of community. Along with the general exhibits, local muralists’ work will be featured, and there will be a poetry exhibit.

From 9pm to 11pm, it’s Ladies’ Night at Your Mom’s House (3005 Wednesday Bledsoe St, Fort Worth, 817-386-0972) with Fifty Shades: The Live Show. This two-hour extravaganza combines music, theatrics, and highenergy dance moves by male dancers. (Think: Magic Mike.) Tickets are $30 on Eventbrite.com.

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For many people in America, freedom means an escape from human Thursday trafficking. Calyan Wax Co. (7901 Valcasi Dr, Ste 300, Arlington, 817733-8992) — an eco-friendly manufacturer of soy candles headquartered in North Texas — is on a mission to help young people coming out of human trafficking by raising funds through its sales. (Trusted and vetted nonprofits receive 5% of all revenue.) Along with visiting the company store, you can also find Calyan products at many area locations, including Whole Foods (all Texas locations). However, today thru Monday, you may want to shop online. Calyan is offering a buy-two-get-one-free discount at CalyanWaxCo.com only in honor of Independence Day. Enter code 4THOFJULY at check out.

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After a long year of not being able to party together, Wild Acre Brewing (1734 E El Paso St, Ste 190, 817-882-9453) is hosting its 4th + 5th Anniversary Palooza featuring beer, food, and live music by the swamp-rocking Quaker City Night Hawks at 5pm Sat. Tickets are $35 plus parking on Prekindle.com. At 6pm Sun, enjoy Fort Worth’s Fourth along the Trinity River at Panther Island Pavilion (395 Purcey St, 817-6980700), featuring one of the largest July Fourth ﬁreworks shows in North Texas. General Admission is free. For more information, visit FortWorthsFourth.com. As an ode to the country’s perseverance through the past year, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra will host a special socially distanced America Strong concert at Dickies Arena (1911 Montgomery St, 817-402-9000) at 7pm Sun. The one-night-only performance will feature more than 60 minutes of music from the highly regarded FWSO and world-renowned opera singers, all conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Tickets are $25-35 at Ticketmaster.com.

ARLINGTON Globe Life Field (734 Stadium Dr, 817533-1972) is hosting Family Field Day from 4 to 9pm Sat. Activities include playing catch in the field, becoming a wiffleball home-run champion, taking a self-guided tour, and attending a meetand-greet with the Rangers’ mascot, Captain. Tickets are $50 per adult and $35 for youth at TexasRangers.com/Tours. Head to Downtown Arlington at 9am Mon for the annual Independence Day Parade. Spectators are invited to line the streets to enjoy dozens of floats, marching bands, and other patriotic entries. The theme for this year’s parade is Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Visit Arlington4th.com for more details.

BEDFORD At 10pm Sun, the City of Bedford will

put on its annual fireworks display at Generations Park at Boys Ranch (2801 Forest Ridge Dr, 817-952-2300). The crew will be shooting 200 feet higher than usual so the display will be visible beyond the park at many locations around town. City facility parking lots will be open and free of charge, including City Hall (2000 Forest Ridge), the library (2424 Forest Ridge), and Old Bedford School (2400 School Ln).

BURLESON At 9pm Sat in Old Town Burleson, the Lions Club hosts its 17th annual 4th of July Parade. The route starts at Burleson Collegiate High School (517 SW Johnson) and winds throughout the area. For the entire parade route, visit BurlesonLions. org. Bring your blankets, lawn chairs, and picnic to enjoy the City of Burleson’s free annual 4th of July Concert & Fireworks Show on Sun at Chisenhall Sports Complex (500 Chisenhall Park Ln, 817-426-9112). Gates open at 4pm, and fireworks start at 9:20pm. In between, there will be live music by Suzy & The Sissies and headline act The Dolan Band. No pop-ups or stakes will be allowed inground. No alcohol, glass bottles, pets, or tents are permitted in the park.

THE COLONY Snoop Dogg is in the house, y’all! Oh, excuse me, I mean DJ Snoopadelic. The aforementioned rapper is doing a special DJ set at the Fourth of July Party at Lava Cantina (5805 Grandscape Blvd, 214-6186893), spinning all kinds of tunes and singing a few songs of his own throughout the set. Tickets are $20-225 at Eventbrite.com.

DENTON The Independence Day celebration starts a day early in Denton this year. On Saturday, participate in the Liberty Run at 7:30am, watch the Yankee Doodle Parade at 9am, enjoy some free family fun at July Jubilee from 10am to noon, and watch a

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Hotdog Eating Contest at 11:30am. It’s all happening at the Denton Civic Center (321 E McKinney St, 940-349-7275).

Lewisville will celebrate freedom on Tuesday at Wayne Ferguson Plaza (150 W Church St, 972-219-3401) during its weekly Sounds of Lewisville concert series. There will be musical performances by Jade Nickol and Desperado (an Eagles tribute), followed by fireworks at 9:30pm with accompaniment by the Lewisville High School Orchestra. Food vendors will include Chicago’s Taste, Eggstand, Fletchers’s Original Corny Dogs, Pop’s Kettle Corn, Slappy Smalls Cheesecake, and more, plus bar service by Vizcarra Hospitality. Castle Hills Village Shops (2520 King Arthur Blvd, 972-899-7500) hosts its annual July 4th Freedom Festival on Sun at 5:30pm. This free event features bounce houses, carnival games, music, and a fireworks show at dusk. Concessions will be available for purchase from several food trucks, shops, and restaurants. Blankets, coolers, and chairs are allowed.

GRANBURY Granbury’s proud tradition of celebrating Independence Day returns as a multi-day event this year called 4th of July Freedom & Fireworks. Festivities are happening Fri-Sun in Historic Granbury Square (201 E Pearl St, 817-573-1622). All three days, there will be vendors. At 10am Sat, there is a parade, and at 9:45pm Sun, Extreme Pyrotechnics will launch a fireworks show that can be viewed around most of the county.

GRAND PRAIRIE The City of Grand Prairie and Lone Star Park (1000 Lone Star Pkwy, 972-263-7223) presents Lone Stars & Stripes Fireworks Celebration. After the last horse race, there will be a 20-minute fireworks show choreographed to music. On the Courtyard of Champions Stage, hear live music featuring Vegas stars from 3pm to 9pm. Tickets are $5-30 at LoneStarPark.com. Epic Waters (2970 Epic Pl, 972-3373131) — the largest indoor waterpark in Texas — will be open 10am-9pm Sun.

Bring your kiddos on their bikes, trikes, or wagons to the Children’s Parade in Flower Mound on Saturday.

Along with the usual water fun, free activities and entertainment are planned, and chili cheese dogs will be available for purchase all day long.

GRAPEVINE Fireworks begin at 9:30pm Sun at the 39th Annual July 4th Fireworks Extravaganza with fireworks set to patriotic music. While a complete list of viewing locations at the city’s lakeside parks can be found online, the viewing area with the most parking available is Oak Grove Park (2520 Oak Grove Loop S, 817-410-3450). Parking or entry fees may apply. For exact details, visit GrapevineTexasUSA.com. Make your way to the garage at Gaylord Texan Resort (1501 Gaylord Trl, 817-778-1000) from 6pm to 10pm Sun for the 4th of July Spark the Lot, where the deck has been transformed to the ultimate Fourth of July party. Dance and sing with All-American — an interactive DJ and band — enjoy food and drinks, and get an airbrush tattoo. End the night with the best viewing spot for Grapevine’s Annual July Fourth Fireworks Extravaganza (see: above). Tickets are $10 per person at Tickets.GaylordTexan.com.

HALTOM CITY & NRH At 9:30pm Sun, the Northeast Tarrant Chamber (6351 Boulevard 26, 817-2819376) invites the community to its free annual Family 4th Fireworks Show. The

fireworks can be viewed from the parking lots of the Wiley G. Thomas Coliseum (6108 Broadway Av) and the BISD Plaza (6351 Boulevard 26). Parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

HUDSON OAKS From 6pm to 11pm Sun, head to Boomin’ 4th at Gene L Voyles Park (210 Hudson Oaks Dr, 682-229-2400) for dynamic low and high aerial fireworks, live music, and a kids’ zone. This event is free for the community.

HURST At 5pm Sat, Peace Lutheran Church (941 W Bedford-Euless Rd) hosts its annual Patriotic Salute. This free event honors veterans and first responders with a familyfriendly evening featuring activities, games, and a North Texas Caledonian Pipes and Drums concert. You can attend in person or livestream on Facebook or YouTube.

IRVING At 8pm Sun, grab a lawn chair and head to Texas Lottery Plaza (316 Las Colinas Blvd W, 214-525-7000) for Red, White, and Brave, a free Independence Day celebration presented by KLUV in recognition of essential workers and first responders. Gates open at 7pm, live music by The Rockaholics starts at 8pm, and the fireworks begin at 9:30pm.

MANSFIELD Bring a blanket and a picnic basket filled with food to Mansfield’s Great American Picnic 2pm-11pm Sat at The Lot Downtown (110 S Main St). There will be music by the Texas All-Star Youth Jazz Orchestra and The Texas Bluesmen: Ultimate Blues Brothers Experience, plus a live simulcast of the legendary Mansfield Rocks! fireworks show.

WEATHERFORD Legendary rockers Blue Oyster Cult perform at Spark in the Park 2021 6pm-10pm Sun at the Heritage Park Amphitheater (317 Santa Fe Dr, 817-5984124) with opening act Texas Clearwater Revival. This free event will conclude with one of the largest fireworks displays in North Texas.

WICHITA FALLS From 6pm to 10pm Sun, The Fourth in The Falls is happening at MPEC (1000 5th St, 940-716-5500). This free event at the multipurpose events center will include a beer garden, car and truck show, food trucks, live music, a salsa contest, and a vendor row, plus a fireworks show at 9:30pm. Desperado (an Eagles tribute) plays at 6pm, followed by XFactoR (a cover band performing classic Top 40 hits) at 8pm. You are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets.

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Participate in the annual Children’s Parade, where decorated bikes, trikes, wagons, and strollers will march down a short route to Leonard and Helen Johns Park (1800 Timber Creek Rd, 972-874-6300). There will be children’s activities, drinks, free hot dogs served by Summit Club of Flower Mound, and live entertainment. Lineup begins at 9:30am (corner of Eaton and Timber Creek roads), with the parade starting promptly at 10am. The parade is open to all who may wish to take part (non-motorized vehicles only). On Sunday, it’s the Independence Fest at Bakersfield Park (1201 Duncan Ln, 972-955-7328). Admission and parking are free. The festival will include a car show, fireworks, food trucks, a kids’ zone, vendors, and live performances by Le Freak and headliners the Josh Abbott Band. Gates open at 5pm, and the fireworks finale will start around 9:50pm.

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Almost everyone in Fort Worth has a favorite brunch place. Fancy brunch, meet-the-in-laws brunch, drunk brunch, biscuits-and-gravy brunch –– Fort Worth has no shortage of places where you can get a late-ish breakfast/early lunch, with or without booze. But options are scarcer in the rest of the 817. Many of us default to simply driving west, especially if we want a mimosa with our meal. The Egg Bar Brunch & Bar, new to the Arlington Highlands, aims to be a waystation in the eastward-facing part of Tarrant County for those who want a treat after Sunday services, a place to mop up their hangovers, or a spot in which to day drink (but only until about 2:30 p.m.). The Egg Bar looks a little bit like an ivy-covered hippie bistro and a little bit like an eatery off the Vegas strip, where swirls of neon light everything. The menu pays homage to a variety of cuisines and food preferences. A fairly traditionallooking Hawaiian Loco Moco (a white rice base, with a hamburger patty topped with brown gravy and an over-easy egg) shares the bill of fare with Southern comfort staples like biscuits and chunky sausage gravy, some veggie options, a bagel and lox, the de rigueur avocado toast, and more.

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3.) On Sunday, in honor of Independence Day, kids eat free with the purchase of an adult entree at Freebirds World Burrito.

The offer is valid in-store at all 55 locations across Texas and is limited to one free meal with every entree purchase. Kids can choose any of the meals on the Weebirds menu. To find the location nearest you, visit Freebirds.com/Locations.

8.) Parklets — curbside parking spaces converted into active people spaces — are now a permanent part of Magnolia Village on the Near Southside. (Last summer, in response to the limited indoor seating in restaurants during the pandemic, the city launched a pilot parklet program allowing for extended outdoor seating at bars and restaurants.) Next time you’re looking for a patio, check out the parklets at Grand Cru Wine Bar (257 W Magnolia Av, 817-923-1717), The Lazy Moose (1404 W Magnolia Av, 682-708-3822), or Nonna Tata (1400 W Magnolia Av, 817332-0250).

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2.) Nothing says summer like ice cream. One of the newest concepts at the Food Hall at Crockett Row (3000 Crockett St, Fort Worth, 817-885-7331) — Russo’s Sweet Shop — believes that, too. For only $20, Russo’s offers a Handmade Ice Cream Cake encased in from-scratch lady fingers and with custom toppings. Call to order.

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5.) On Sat, Jul 10 from noon to 7pm, head to Historic Downtown McKinney for the annual McKinney Margarita Stroll. Sip, shop, and stroll while supporting local small businesses. For $30 per person, you will receive a Margarita Stroll tasting glass and a map to your 15 sampling stops, plus directions to five bonus stops. All the stops are inside shops, and you’ll hear live music while you stroll between them. For tickets, visit Facebook.com/ DowntownMcKinney.

7.) The new location of the popular Deep Ellum restaurant Serious Pizza may — or may not — be open at 2728 W 7th St (682348-2482). “We’re sort of open. Kind of. Not really. But totally. So come check out our pies and what we mean.” Noted. The pies here are huge, but they do sell by the slice. Specialty pizzas, like my personal favorite The White, are only available as a whole pie. (The White has roasted garlic alfredo sauce, mozzarella, parmesan, ricotta cheese, fresh garlic, basil and oregano, and white truffle oil. So good!)

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1.) Are you in charge of bringing something to a cookout this weekend? Swiss Pastry Shop (3936 W Vickery Blvd, Fort Worth, 817-732-5661) offers a Patriotic Rosette Cake decorated with red, white, and blue frosting layers and fondant stars on top. These round layer cakes can be ordered in a white, chocolate, or strawberry flavor. The small is $35 (feeds eight), the medium is $45 (feeds 12), and the large is $55 (feeds 20). To place your order, call by Fri at 5pm.

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I know live music at lunch is not completely novel — Fred’s has been doing it on weekends for years — but I still love the idea. Oh, yes. I can hear you whining from here. “There’s too much live music in town!” “Every joint with a four-top has live music now!” “Can we please just watch the Rangers game on the TV above the bar in peace?!” But you all need to step back and statazit! For the music-loving parents of small children who want them to experience something other than Fortnite “songs” on iPads, early-bird shows with guitar-action humans are just the ticket. And as if linked directly to my massive, throbbing brain, The Post at River East (2925 Race St, 817-945-8890) presents “Live Lunch.” Instead of forcing you to eat a living creature (as the name may suggest), The Post is bringing you Dallas’ Brother & The Hayes, who will perform their brand of soulful folk/blues/ country from 11:30am to 1:30pm Friday. I doubt there’ll be any cursing, but even if there is, I’d rather have that rock-hard

conversation with my 9-year-old while enjoying art than after overhearing potty mouthery in one of his Lobby calls. (He does not play Fortnite, BTW. Too violent for us. He’s more of a Minecraft guy. His friends still send him the Fortnite music videos. Maybe I should parent better. Maybe I should also will a million dollars into my wallet.) I also doubt there’ll be nudity or fistfights or anything else I need to protect my little man from because the brother/ sister duo of David Bingaman and Jennie Hayes Kurtz focuses mostly on real-life yarns of “travel, joy, and heartache,” as they say. After spending a while working in Nashville, Bingaman and Kurtz returned to Big D in 2017 to develop their own material, culminating in 2019 with their debut album, Tennessee Nights. The Brother & The Hayes show at The Post is free, and, if you couldn’t tell by now, all ages are welcome. See you there, though there’ll probably be a Morricone Hero (ham, pepperoni, hard salami, provolone, greens, Roma tomato, red onion, black olives, pepperoncinis, house vin, mayo on house baguette) in my own potty mouth. Statazit, I’m trying to listen to the music!

although Chill says that one of the major benefits of recording at home is not being restricted to a studio slot. “I had gotten my recording set up at my house, so I could record stuff for people,” he said. “If they didn’t wanna book studio time, I still wanted to be able to give them good-quality drum recordings. It’s better for me because there’s less pressure, and it’s better for them because they aren’t under a time constraint and having to worry about having it done within a couple hours.” Like many musicians adapting to the streaming age, Chill has found that dropping singles several weeks apart is more beneficial to the artist than releasing

7 will churn out reggae staples, reggae B-sides, and some highly rasta originals forged since before most of you lucky-ass 21-year-olds were born. And Joe Vano and the boys still look like they could skateboard all damn day long. The funkyrocking Neptune Locals and Sirron Reid will open. Cover is $7.

Pablo & The Hemphill 7 at MASS? That’s rasta.

Telling invisible readers to shut up in Italian is not rasta, but you know what is? Telling them, “Andiamo, let’s-a go see Pablo a-Friday!” For one of the grooviest, most fun shows you’ll ever experience around these parts, hit MASS (1002 S Main St, 682-707-7774) at 8pm Friday. That’s when Pablo & The Hemphill

Hopefully, at the end of the night at MASS, you will be smelling like a rose, because when you started your weekend on Thursday at Tulips FTW (112 St. Louis Av, 817-367-9798), you inserted some pints of water or bottles of Topo Chico into your schedule of craft beer and/or craft cocktails. It will be hard, I know, because three of the sweetest yet also partyingest musicians in town will take the stage at 6:30pm. Rock singer-songwriter Ansley Dougherty will be preceded by singersongwriter and Bonham-esque drummer Matt Mabe and frontman extraordinairesongwriter Hayden Miller. Best part? It’s all free. And on the weekend we celebrate freedom? Damn Deep State. At it again. — Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at Anthony@FWWeekly.com.

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Chill: Remote recording is “better for me because there’s less pressure, and it’s better for them because they aren’t under a time constraint and having to worry about having it done within a couple hours.”

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an entire album all at once. In a world that moves at a breakneck pace, the need for constant engagement means that if artists want to stay relevant, they’re better off having something to put out every couple of weeks rather than once a year, even if that content drop is relatively smaller. This change in culture has musicians scrambling to find new ways to stand out from the multitudes of artists trying to be great. His “Magnificent” digs deep into what it’s like to observe that greatness in others. “It is about seeing beauty in someone else that may not see it in themselves,” Chill said, “recognizing that beauty that they may not be willing or able to acknowledge.” An army of musicians contributed their talents to “Magnificent.” Apart from the hook, the lyrics and vocals were provided by Taylor Pace. Chet Stevens (a long-time collaborator of Chill’s) contributed backing vocals and rhythm guitar. Other contributors include Tim Macon (percussion), Byron Crenshaw (bass), Cedric Draper (piano), and Jake Rothschild (lead guitar), with mastering by guru Dale Brunson. The single itself has a Peter Gabrielinspired sound that is absolutely tasty and rhythmically dense. It’s ear food. Chill stays busy. He’s looking forward to playing more gigs and cutting more music in the future. “Magnificent” doesn’t have an exact release date yet, he said, but listeners can look for it to come out within the next couple of weeks. l

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than an exception over the last year or so, and the artists who have become adept at this process are reaping the benefits of being flexible to this abrupt transition. They are the pioneers of this era of music production. Chris Hill, a.k.a. Chill, is one such pioneer. I spoke with him over the phone this week about his upcoming single. “Magnificent” was written and recorded entirely remotely and stitched together expertly. To be able to write a cohesive song without even being in the same room as your collaborators is a keen skill, one that songwriter/drummer/producer Chill has mastered. “It was all remote, pretty much the same as with my [previous] EP,” he said. “I did not step foot into any studio. I recorded pretty much everything in my home studio/bedroom. I had the song essentially finished and arranged as far as B Y C H L O E W A L D E N my part goes. Then as I’m finishing a song, The restrictions brought about by the I have artists in mind that I can hear on pandemic have been a thorn in the side it. I’ll reach out to them and see if they’re of every musician. The inability to play interested in playing on it. I’ll send them shows and meet up for practices sent the the track. They’ll record their part and careers of even the bigger national acts to a send it back to me. It’s kind of like putting a bunch of puzzle pieces screeching halt. together and trying to make Chill As cliche as it is to say, Fri w/BJ Stricker at The it sound like we recorded it however, necessity is the Flying Saucer, 111 E 3rd St, all together.” mother of invention, and the FW. 817-336-7470. Recording a song artists and groups that have with other people takes persisted through this hell year are the ones that have found ways to trust. To put a song together remotely adapt and succeed in a world that was more means trusting your fellow artists and isolated and divided than ever. Recording collaborators times 10. “Magnificent” albums remotely and Frankenstein-ing has the organic smoothness of a track put them together has become a rule rather together in the studio in one afternoon,

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THE COLONY Lava Cantina 5805 Grandscape Blvd, 214-618-6893 LavaCantina.com THU 7/1: Cowboy Mouth. FRI 7/2: Jackopierce. SAT 7/3: Back in Black (AC/DC Tribute) with Hi Fi High. SUN 7/4: Fourth of July Party with DJ Snoopadelic. WED 7/7: Etana (Full Band). FRI 7/9: Kozmic Blues starring Michelle Rohl (Janis Joplin Tribute). SAT 7/10: Emerald City. THU 7/15: Shinybones. FRI 7/16: Def Leggend (Def Leppard Tribute) with Rebel Yell (Billy Idol Tribute). SAT 7/17: Desperado (Eagles Tribute). THU 7/22: Carolyn Wonderland. FRI 7/23: Guns N Roses Experience (Tribute). SAT 7/24: The Spazmatics. FRI 7/30: Primadonna (Madonna Tribute) with Toxic (Brittany Spears Tribute).

DALLAS Three Links 2704 Elm St, 214-484-6011 ThreeLinksDeepEllum.com THU 7/1: Joshua Dylan Balis, Sarah Johnson, Jud Block. FRI 7/2: The Flametrick Subs, The Schisms, Primo Danger. SAT 7/3: Psycho 78 (Misfits), Blood & Tears (Danzig). SUN 7/4: So-So Topic, The Grays (as Sly & The Family Stone), Chilldren of Indigo. THU 7/8: Mean Motor Scooter, Withered Blooms, The GO-GO Rillas. FRI 7/9: NITE (Album Release). SUN 7/11: Corkscrew Nosedive, Utter Depravity, Death Before Breakfast. THU 7/15: The Buffalo Ruckus, The Late Great Charlie Borski, Ryan Glenn. FRI, 7/16: SEVIT (Album Release) with Rosegarden Funeral Party, Circle Burn, and DJ Death Church. SAT 7/17: DK Nick Memorial Show. THU 7/22: Scott H Biram. FRI 7/23: Hen and The Cocks (Album Release) with Responsible Johnny, Phantomelo, Sloth Fist. SAT 7/24: Back at it...Punk Rock Karaoke. THU 7/29: Ottoman Turks, Convoy and the Cattlemen, Joshua Fleming. FRI 7/30: Jackie Venson, Jess Garland.

SUN 7/4: All Kanye Everything. FRI 7/9: J Stone. SAT 7/10: Crobot. THU 7/22: Jake "The Snake" Roberts. SUN 7/25: Devotional (Depeche Mode Tribute). FRI 7/30: Yngwie Malmsteen.

FORT WORTH Lola's Trailerpark 2735 W 5th St, 817-759-9100 LolasFW.com THURSDAYS: Blues Jam with Playtown & Guest. FRI 7/9: Big Mike's Box of Rocks with Katsuk & Pablo & Hemphill. SAT 7/10: Dana Deathridge with Kendi Jean (During Daynes BBQ). SAT 7/17: Tommy Luke & Gary Grammer (During Dayne's BBQ), then Jason Elmore & HooDoo Witch (PM). FRI 7/23: KatsuK Band with Pablo & The Hemphill 7. SAT 7/24: Ryan Hager (During Daynes BBQ), then Greenbeard (PM). SAT 7/31: The Mammal Virus (EP Release Party).

Main at Southside 1002 S Main St, 682-707-7774 MASSFW.com FRI 7/2: Pablo & The Hemphill 7, Neptune Locals, Sirron Reid. WED 7/7: Fishing In Japan, Ego Jones. THU 7/8: Ryan & Denver. SUN 7/11: Josh Johnson & Bad Bitch Bingo. THU 7/29: The Love Starved Dogs. FRI 7/30: Glare, Trauma Ray, Downward, Grivo. SAT 7/31: Hen and The Cocks (Album Release) with The Dangits and B.U.B.

Rail Club Live 3101 Joyce Dr, 817-386-4309 RailClubLive.com FRI 7/2: Spice. SAT 7/3: Epic ShXt Only Presents: Independent’s Day. FRI 7/9: Nyro the MadMan. SUN 7/11: Return Of The BoomBap Tour. MON 7/12: King 810. FRI 7/16: Puddle Of Mudd. SAT 7/17: DFW Domination Fest. WED 7/21: Faster Pussycat with Enuff Z Enuff. THU 7/22: Comedy Night with Average Joey. FRI 7/23: Wildstreet. SAT 7/24: Eric Martin with Trixter. SUN 7/25: Anti-Mortem wiwht Scattered Hamlet. FRI 7/30: Tantric. SAT 7/31: K Camp.

The Ridglea 6025 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-738-9500 TheRidglea.com FRI 7/2: Cedars & Velvet Skyline (room); Where’s Harry (theater). SAT 7/3: Sushi Greenberg a Tribute to Phish

SAT 7/17: The Toni Braxton & Friends Jazz Series featuring Cindy Bradley.

HALTOM CITY The Haltom Theater 5601 E Belknap St, 817-677-8243 HaltomTheater.com THU 7/1: No Hand Outs Live. FRI 7/2: Astyanax (Album Release). SAT 7/3: Cryptic Wisdom X Jay Influential. SUN 7/4: Summer Bash. WED 7/7: Sunshine Emery. FRI 7/9: Perseus, Nothing for You, Last of the Sane, Crushpoint, Paralyzed Torture, Crocodylinae. SAT 7/10: TXDM FEST XII: Prophecy. SUN 7/11: Vibeshow 2k21 featuring E Smith. WED 7/14: Summertime Nightmare Tour with Pigweed and Transient. THU 7/15: Gifted Summer Jam. FRI 7/16: I am Destruction, Empty Shell, Cathexis, Coprolalia, Transcendent Reticulum. SAT 7/17: System 6, Maleficus, Eva Kora, Little Green Men, Midnight Murder Show. SUN 7/18: Tops Off! Variety! Shh Oh! WED 7/21: Dylan Hoffman. FRI 7/23: Asylum (Album Release). SAT 7/24: Wrecking Ball Metal Madness Live. SUN 7/25: End Of Summer Bash. SAT 7/31: Hot Summer Love, Love Sick Drug, Fly Above Fire, Waja, Dark Avenue.

MANSFIELD Fat Daddy's 781 W Debbie Ln, 817-453-0188 FatDaddysLive.com THU 7/1: Rebel Yell (Billy Idol Tribute). FRI, 7/2: That 70's Band. SAT 7/3: 80's Night with M80s. THU, 7/8: Texas Flood. FRI 7/9: Live 80s The Ultimate 80's Experience. SAT 7/10: Double Vision (Foreigner Tribute) with The Blackbird Mafia. THU 7/15: In Halen (Van Halen Tribute). FRI 7/16: Ashmore. SAT 7/17: Incognito. THU 7/22: Local Yoakam.. FRI 7/23: Ever the Essence with Cole Rogers. SAT 7/24: Rockaholics. THU 7/29: Crushin" It (Brad Paisley Tribute). FRI 7/30: Le Freak. SAT 7/31: Blake Nation with Gunpowder & Lead.

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FRI 7/2: Unglued (Stone Temple Pilots Tribute) with Lost Boys. SAT 7/3: Primadonna (Madonna Tribute) with We Bop (Cyndi Lauper Tribute). FRI 7/9: San Antonio Lights. SAT 7/10: Go Ask Alice (Alice In Chains Tribute) with Nevermind (Nirvana Tribute). FRI 7/16: Incognito. SAT 7/17: Mid Night Ranger (Night Ranger Tribute) with Mental Health (Quiet Riot Tribute). THU 7/22: Andrew Sevener (Acoustic). FRI 7/23: Chastity with Smokin Steady's. SAT 7/24: Radio Kaos. FRI 7/30: Fleetwood X (Fleetwood Mac Tribute). SAT 7/31: Little Skynyrd (Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute) with ZZ Tex (ZZ Top Tribute).

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WELDER Position Summary: Fit and weld natural gas delivery products built from raw materials according to blue print specifications in accordance with API 1104 certification standards and procedures. -Receive project raw materials and match to corresponding blue prints/drawings -Fit and weld project in accordance to blue print/drawing specification and API 1104 standards -Responsible to maintain production schedule to ensure minimum ‘reworks’ so that product is delivered to the client on time -Accurately maintain required records and documentation for each project as outlined by Fabrication -Foreman and/or Manager -Maintain a clean and safe work area -Report any maintenance requirements needed for equipment in your work area timely so that production schedule is not affected -Follow ALL corporate safety requirements and standards including but not limited to welder safety equipment, protective clothing, protective lenses/goggles, steel toed boots, etc. -Safely operate a forklift

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