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Obstructing Justice?

Rampant judicial corruption should be just as troublesome as the delays in former cop Aaron Dean’s trial for killing Atatiana Jefferson.

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It’s considerably likely that a fair trial for Atatiana Jefferson will be impossible in Tarrant County. That’s because Thursday’s hearing on whether to recuse the judge currently assigned to the case will be fraught with constitutional issues that may lead to the reversal of any final verdict.

Last week, attorneys for former police officer Aaron Dean filed a Motion to Recuse, in which they argued why Judge David Hagerman should be removed, and it was met by shock and anger on the part of a public that remains mistrustful of pretty much everyone involved in the trial. Successful prosecutions of police who kill unarmed civilians like Jefferson are exceedingly rare. Even as police kill an average of 1,000 men, women, and youths a year, based on data from the nonprofit Mapping Police Violence going back 11 years, only 10 to 20 police are successfully prosecuted per year.

Why? Because police unions here and across the country spare no expense when hiring attorneys to defend murderous members of the Thin Blue Line.

Dean’s attorneys argued that Hagerman was hostile to their defense team and had rushed the proceedings, among other accusations. Hagerman, paradoxically, has delayed the trial multiple times while publicly saying there should be no more delays.

The trial is now on indefinite pause while Visiting Retired Judge Lee Gabriel, who was recently assigned by Administrative Judge David Evans, weighs the merits of the Motion to Recuse, and it’s anyone’s guess

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As Tarrant County’s criminal justice system continues to botch any attempt to hold a former police officer accountable for killing unarmed civilian Atatiana Jefferson, locals are losing patience.

which judge would want to preside over a trial that may lead to civil unrest no matter the final verdict.

The lynchpins of Tarrant County’s judiciary have ever so slowly loosened to the point where the whole system has buckled.

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Now, locals have the opportunity to demand that Dean’s trial be removed from Tarrant County and away from corrupt judges who, by their actions, have proven to be untrustworthy. Judges like Hagerman, based on our extensive research, are too busy extorting taxpayers and padding the pockets of fellow judges who have retired and refuse to take the Oath of Office before new assignments as required by law. Taking the

oath would automatically stop retirement payments for his retired judge friends who double-dip on public funds by filling in for Hagerman on cases that can pay $500 a day while earning retirement.

Although our reporting did not set out to investigate judges tied to Dean’s trial, their names continually surfaced as we examined botched paperwork filed by a local visiting retired judge, Daryl Coffey, who was never qualified to preside as a type of judicial officer known as a senior judge but still did. Coffey has ruled — without legal authority — on around 200 cases since 2015, the time of his retirement.

Hagerman apparently cares so much about the merits of Dean’s trial that he

scheduled a four-day visit to San Antonio last week to attend the Rusty Duncan Conference, based on our review of judicial records through a request called Rule 12. Held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, the June event boasts parties, golf outings, luncheons, and, yes, a few educational classes.

Hagerman requested Coffey to fill in for him more than a dozen times since 2015, even though Coffey was a longtime misdemeanor judge and Hagerman’s court oversees felonies. Does a career of ruling on DWIs qualify someone for cases involving homicides? Probably not. But it does in Tarrant County. We do not know if Hagerman knew that Coffey was not statutorily or concontinued on page 5

The lynchpins of Tarrant County’s judiciary have ever so slowly loosened to the point where the whole system has buckled.

Dean’s trial and Evans’ history of falsely assigning Coffey as a senior judge, we do not foresee Gov. Greg Abbott renewing the appointment of Evans, the administrative judge.

Judge George Gallagher, the administrator for Tarrant County’s 11 felony judges, made the decision to delay Dean’s trial while Visiting Retired Judge Gabriel reviews the Motion to Recuse. Gallagher has a history of leaning on constitutionally unqualified retired judges to preside over important crimi-

nal cases. Our Rule 12 requests revealed that he recently requested Visiting Retired Judge Robert Brotherton to oversee the murder trial of James Floyd, a Black man who faced aggravated assault charges tied to a 2017 burglary. Gallagher filed seven Request for Assignment forms requesting Brotherton, who failed to file his Oath of Office throughout the criminal proceedings that recently led to a guilty verdict for Floyd. Gallagher, who earns upwards of $160,000 a year, requested the constitutionally unqualified

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stitutionally qualified to preside over any cases, cases that all should be null and void, because Hagerman ignored our request for comment.

Judge Evans falsely assigned Coffey to more than 200 cases as a senior judge. That unraveling scandal could cause blowback for Dean’s trial if Evans is disciplined or criminally charged for falsifying 200-plus government documents as a possible favor to Coffey.

The local judiciary may be preparing to assign a constitutionally unqualified visiting retired judge to preside over Dean’s eventual trial as a means of insulating active judges from a controversial case. Our statewide examination of visiting retired judges has found that they are frequently assigned to controversial cases whose verdicts can lead to public uproar. One confidential source who closely follows the unlawful rulings of visiting retired judges alleges that they rule as the “state wants them to.”

Another confidential source who asked to remain anonymous to protect their privacy told us the State Commission on Judicial Conduct possesses a sworn complaint related to Evans’ history of assigning the unqualified judge, Coffey. Evans’ four-year term ends today, and amid the mess surrounding

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judge because the case was “legally complicated,” a possible cop-out to let a personal friend make money (up to $500 per day, remember) by doing Gallagher’s work.

Many of Tarrant County’s criminal judges are every bit as crooked and corrupt as the defendants they preside over. The collective effort of visiting retired judges to dodge taking their Oath of Office connotes an effort to skirt state law en masse as a means of avoiding accountability. The system that allows judges to request visiting retired judges who are personal friends reeks of good-ol’-boy favoritism and is a betrayal of any semblance of judicial ethics.

With the Motion to Recuse scheduled for Thursday, state law requires Gabriel to file an anti-bribery oath by Wednesday at the latest and to file her Oath of Office by Thursday morning before she reviews the motion. If Gabriel fails to take either step, her rulings on the matter will be null and void. We will let you know which path she chooses. l

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Visiting retired judges across Texas preside over cases without taking the mandated Oath of Office allegedly to double-dip, but an appeals court case may soon end that practice.

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very morning, Donna Thomson takes in the mountainous Colorado landscape to calm her nerves before diving into what she knows will be an arduous legal battle. The former Bastrop County Justice of the Peace said she moved to the Centennial State two years ago to clear her mind and physically protect herself from being targeted by certain Texas judges. She alleges they were becoming increasingly retaliatory toward her because she openly questioned their actions and rulings.

Although she believes Texas’ judiciary needs to be completely reformed, her main

focus is ending the statewide practice of allowing constitutionally unqualified visiting retired judges who fail to file their Oath of Office with the Texas Secretary of State to preside over family, civil, and criminal cases.

In 2019, Thomson’s attorney sent Bastrop County officials a letter demanding $4.25 million due to the county clerk’s alleged failure to require two visiting retired judges who presided over cases involving Thomson to file their Oath of Office.

Unlike elected and appointed officials who take the oath at the beginning of political office, visiting retired judges have no home court and so are required to take the oath on the first day of each new assignment.

“The district clerk has a duty to ensure that [the Oaths of Office] for judges in its county of responsibility are on file and reported to the Texas Secretary of State,” the attorney said.

In the letter, Thomson’s lawyer targets two visiting retired judges: David Squier and J.D. Langley.

Bastrop County officials scoffed at the demand, the former JP told me. Thomson added that her attorney’s letter was never about money but rather about sending a message that county leaders should be held

accountable for failing to follow state laws.

In 2017, Visiting Retired Judge Squier sentenced Thomson to 15 days in jail after the JP allegedly failed to return several firearms to her ex-husband as part of a divorce agreement, and Langley presided over a case that found Thomson guilty of hitting an unattended car and leaving, a Class C Misdemeanor conviction that Thomson describes as baseless. Thomson is preparing to appeal this conviction through Texas’ Third Court of Appeals in Austin.

Defendants who seek the reversal of rulings by constitutionally unqualified judges face substantial barriers. The former JP knows the relevant case law well. She brought up the issue of Langley’s missing Oath of Office during her misdemeanor trial. If her appeal is successful, the rulings of hundreds of visiting retired judges who failed to take a new Oath of Office with every new case as required by state law could be overturned.

Chapter 25 of the Texas Government Code reads, “A person who is a retired or former judge shall, before accepting an assignment as a visiting judge of a statutory probate court, take the oath of office required by the constitution and file the oath with

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the presiding judge of the statutory probate courts. A retired or former judge may be assigned as a visiting judge of a statutory probate court only if the judge has filed with the presiding judge an oath of office as required by this section.”

Based on documents from the Secretary of State’s office, Langley has not filed the Oath of Office since 2014, the year he retired, but has filed his anti-bribery oath four times since then because judges need to file this oath before taking their constitutional Oath of Office. Plus, his most recent anti-bribery oaths (filed in 2018 and 2019) are based on an outdated form that was voided in 2001. Judge Langley did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

These decisions are not little. They involve life and death. In 2019, Langley signed the execution order of Larry Swearingen, a Black man sentenced to death in 2000 for the 1998 rape and murder of Melissa Trotter.

Swearingen’s legal team sought to overturn his conviction based on the Department of Public Safety’s acknowledgment that one of its officers provided inaccurate testimony at Swearingen’s trial. Attorneys with the Innocence Project, a nonprofit that works to overturn wrongful convictions, filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to stay his execution, but the court denied the request and Swearingen was executed in mid-2019.

“It is unconscionable that Mr. Swearingen or anyone else should be executed based on science known to be false,” one of Swearingen’s attorneys told reporters at the time. continued on page 7

Appellate attorneys seeking to overturn criminal convictions rely on rulings by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to argue their case. The 1941 ruling in Enloe v. State establishes the requirement that a judge’s ruling is valid only if he or she has filed the current Oath of Office. In early 1940, Judge C.H. Cain presided over the indictment of a defendant listed only by his last name, Enloe. Cain did not retake the oath that was revised in 1938, and due to that error, the Court of Criminal Appeals overturned Enloe’s murder conviction.

In 1951, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals again ruled in Brown v. State that judges must use the current constitutional oath, or their rulings are void. District attorneys across the state closely follow rulings that can overturn criminal convictions.

For the past few decades, district attorneys across the state have relied on private online forums to share legal insights and advice. On one such forum managed by the Texas District and County Attorneys Association, a DA listed only as Eric queried his colleagues on the issue of expired Oaths of Office.

“If a judge fails to take the constitutional Oath of Office, has everything that occurred in that court been rendered a nullity?” Eric asked in 2002.

“Look at Prieto Bail Bonds v. State,” user John R responded, referring to the 1999 decision by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that said retired visiting judges cannot rely on expired oaths of office and so must renew their oaths after retirement before each assignment.

In 1993, Visiting Retired Judge Jerry Woodard of El Paso County ordered bondsmen with Prieto Bail Bonds to forfeit $40,000 because a defendant who held a bond with the company had failed to appear in court when Woodard called roll. Attorneys representing Prieto Bail Bonds appealed the ruling to the nine justices of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, whose 1999 decision overturned multiple lower court rulings and found that Woodard’s actions in 1993 were void because the visiting retired judge had not taken the oath after retiring. The ruling forced the county court to return the forfeited $40,000 to Prieto.

“Because Judge Woodard was required to take the constitutional oaths but did not do so, all judicial actions taken by him in the case below were without authority,” the court’s opinion reads. continued on page 8

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There is no honest judiciary within Texas’ system for assigning judges, said David Fisher, a government watchdog with a statewide reputation for investigating and toppling judges who fail to meet their offices’ constitutional or statutory requirements.

A recent Tarrant County criminal case is now being appealed based on a visiting retired judge’s failure to file his Oath of Office.

In February, a jury found former Tarrant County JP Jacquelyn Wright guilty of three counts of tampering with a government document in a case presided over by Visiting Retired Judge Daryl Coffey, a longtime Tarrant County misdemeanor judge. The state’s constitution required Coffey to file his oath for that trial with the Texas Secretary of State and a spokesperson with that office said Coffey did not file his oath on the first day of Wright’s trial as required by state law.

Coffey is far from the only Tarrant County judge who has failed to file the requisite oath before each new case following retirement.

Finding a legal professional willing to go on the record about the consistent failure of visiting retired judges to take their Oath of Office proved a near-impossible task.

The Tarrant County Bar Association, SMU School of Law, the local district attorney’s office, and the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct either ignored my request for comment or said that commenting would constitute giving “legal advice.”

Fisher thinks he knows why few if any legal professionals will acknowledge this flagrant violation of state law and constitutional precedent.

“If defense attorneys speak up, they will not get another court-appointed case,” he alleges, referring to an important source of income for many defense attorneys. “That is the state of Texas, and Texas has an imperial judiciary.”

A possible reason why judges are skipping their Oath of Office may be greed.

The retirement system for judges, based on Chapter 837 of the government code, stops paying them once they file the Oath of Office after retirement. Filing sworn affidavits and anti-bribery oaths, which visiting retired judges do readily file, does not halt retirement payments.

“The retirement system shall suspend annuity payments to a retiree [who] takes the Oath of Office,” the government code reads. “Before a retiree takes the Oath of Office for a position as a judicial officer … the retiree shall notify the retirement system in writing of the resumption of office and the projected dates of service.”

Visiting retired judges earn around $500 a day while serving on assignment, so the government code is designed to prevent

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retired judges from double-dipping. Visiting retired judges may be defrauding taxpayers of millions per year while depriving thousands of defendants of their constitutional right to due process.

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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is equal in authority to the Supreme Court of Texas, meaning that Prieto Bail Bonds v.

State carries the weight of a ruling by the highest court in the state. Prieto Bail Bonds v. State reiterated previous appeals court rulings that oaths do not survive the end of a term of office.

“We can see no logic whereby a [visiting retired] judge’s oath would survive an expired term of office,” the court ruled.

Although the state government code and past rulings by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals are clear that visiting retired judges must take the Oath of Office on the first day of assignment, Texas’ multiple appeals courts, based on my review of related court opinions, place two barriers that make it all but impossible for defendants to successfully overturn their conviction, even when clear evidence of missing oaths is presented to appellate judges. Defendants must raise the issue during their initial trial, a term judges refer to as presenting arguments “prima facie.” Appellate courts also require defendants to submit the full administrative file — alternatively known as the minutes of the court — during the appeals process.

Following Prieto Bail Bonds v. State,

several high-profile cases were presided over by visiting retired judges who, like Judge Woodard, failed to take their Oath of Office after retirement. In 2014, 41-year-old Jason Walters fatally shot a teen, Christopher Griffin, in Mineola, Texas. Walters was later cleared of criminal charges by a judge who had failed to take his Oath of Office upon appointment to the case, meaning that it has the potential to be overturned. According to news reports at the time, the murder was preceded by an argument between Walters and Dietrich Flournoy inside an EZ Mart.

Walters went to his car, grabbed a pistol, and shot Griffin, possibly mistaking the teen for Flournoy.

Five years later as the trial date was set, District Judge Jeff Fletcher recused himself without disclosing why. Visiting Retired Judge Joe Clayton was assigned to the case, and, in mid-2019, the jury found Walters not guilty. Walters’ defense team never disputed the fact that Walters shot Griffin but argued that the defendant pulled the trigger in self-defense.

The verdict “was wrong,” said Christopher Griffin’s father, James Griffin, to reporters following the verdict. “I do not think justice was served here at all. I pray God will bless this town, this system, and those who want justice for Chris.”

Based on Secretary of State documents, Clayton, who did not reply to my request for

comment, has never filed an Oath of Office before beginning an assignment as a visiting retired judge, including in this case.

In 2018, Clayton, again without taking the mandated Oath of Office, signed the death warrant for Randall Mays for the murder of two Henderson County deputies earlier that year. One year later, Clayton halted that order after Mays was diagnosed with schizophrenia. The U.S. Supreme Court has long ruled that prisoners cannot be executed if they do not understand the reason they are being put to death. In 2020, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted Mays a stay of execution that indefinitely protects him from being executed.

Judge Langley, who presided over the execution of Larry Swearingen, is currently assigned to another high-profile criminal case, that of Rodney Reed.

Reed has spent more than two decades on death row for the alleged 1996 rape and murder of Stacey Stites in Bastrop County.

Reed was set to be executed in late 2019, but the Innocence Project took up his case and filed motions to overturn his conviction.

Administrative Judge Olen Underwood assigned Langley to oversee Reed’s claim of innocence.

Innocence Project attorneys argued that prosecutors involved in Reed’s original trial hid evidence that Reed and Stites were romantically involved and that Stites was

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heard having loud arguments with her fiancé, Jimmy Fennell, a police officer who was the prime suspect in her murder for nearly a year. In 2021 and after hearing two weeks of testimony, Langley denied Reed’s request for a new trial. Innocence Project lawyers took the case to the state Court of Criminal Appeals, where it has yet to be heard.

“Nationally recognized experts have completely debunked the forensic case against Mr. Reed, and even the state’s pathology expert has agreed that central points at trial were false,” the Innocence Project said at the time. “We hope the Court of Criminal Appeals recognizes that he should be given a new trial.”

Reed remains on death row but without an execution date. The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to review when prisoners can enter new DNA evidence into their appeals, a decision that could finally give Reed’s legal team the opportunity to enter new evidence.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has previously ruled that Reed waited too long to seek DNA testing.

Watchdog Fisher said he forwarded evidence of Langley’s expired oaths to attorneys with the Innocence Project, but the nonprofit failed to question Langley’s constitutional qualifications during both Swearingen’s and Reed’s appeals.

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Through her appeal, former JP Wright’s legal team will argue that Visiting Retired Judge Coffey was not statutorily or constitutionally qualified to preside over her case, the former due to his lack of senior judge status and the latter for his failure to file his Oath of Office on the first day of assignment to her case.

“Pursuant to Texas Government Code, the undersigned Presiding Judge assigns the Honorable Daryl Coffey, Senior Judge, to Criminal District Court No. 3,” Tarrant County Judge David Evans wrote on Jan. 19, 2022, even though Coffey has never held or sought the title of senior judge. That distinction can be designated only by Texas Chief Justice Nathan Hecht. A spokesperson for Hecht confirmed that Coffey never sought senior judge status, meaning that, based on rulings by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeal, more than 200 of his decisions since 2015 were without authority.

Wright faced three charges of tampering with a government document. Conversely, the former JP claims she merely failed to update the homestead exemption on one of her homes, something that had never been prosecuted as a crime in Tarrant County.

Representing Tarrant County, prosecutors Tommy Brown and Lloyd Whelchel argued that Wright, by not updating her homestead exemption, had tampered with the form used by the Tarrant Appraisal District, meaning prosecutors paradoxically argued that she tampered with something without touching it. The jury found Wright, who had no previous criminal record, guilty of two misdemeanor charges and one felony. The retired JP maintains that she was targeted by the district attorney’s office for purely political reasons. Wright told me that her appeal, like Thomson’s, aims to compel judges to follow the law.

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visiting retired judge, J. Manuel Bañales, is currently presiding over a case involving three defendants accused of murdering Breanna Wood in Nueces County in 2016.

Bañales has only two anti-bribery oaths on file (dated 2015 and 2021) and no Oath of Office on file since he retired in 2010. Plus, neither anti-bribery oath matches the constitutionally required language adopted by state Congress in 2001. Specifically, the two documents are missing this: “Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have read the foregoing statement and that the facts stated therein are true.”

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rant County Clerk recorded zero oaths filed

by Coffey from 2014 to the present. Coffey’s signed Statement of Officer, commonly referred to as the anti-bribery oath, was not signed on the correct form.

A missing Oath of Office may also void rulings by Robert Brotherton, a local visiting retired judge who has filed only one of two constitutionally required oaths, the anti-bribery one, since Dec. 31, 2018, when he retired. Brotherton, based on documents from the Texas Secretary of State, also requested senior status while still serving as an active judge, which goes against Chapter 75 of the Texas Government Code. Retiring judges have a 90-day window after retirement to request senior judge status from Chief Justice Hecht, who may have disregarded state law when awarding Brotherton the title of senior judge regardless. Brotherton maintains a fairly active schedule as a visiting retired judge.

The appeals process is draining, both financially and emotionally, Thomson told me. The former JP dipped into her retirement to be able to afford legal counsel as she pushes forward with a case that may finally compel visiting retired judges to file the anti-bribery oath and Oath of Office before presiding over civil, family, and criminal court cases.

“If you can solve the oath issue, people will put more faith in the judicial system,” Thomson said. “This is the very system that is supposed to protect your constitutional rights, and judges are choosing visiting judges based on politics and who is friends with whom. It’s a buddy system.”

Lawyers and the general public need to be taught about the importance of the Oath of Office, the former JP continued.

“The more people are educated, the more they can educate their attorneys,” she said. “Or they put the judge on notice. ‘Hey judge, I’m watching you. I’m watching everything you do. Do you have an oath on file? No? Please step down. I need someone who has oaths on file.’ ” Although the issue of visiting retired judges dodging their oaths hasn’t made statewide news, one day Thomson v. State may be cited by defendants seeking to overturn rulings by judges who were never constitutionally qualified to rule on a case.

Thomson said there are defendants who have exhausted their appeals, not knowing that the retired judge who found them guilty had no authority to preside in the first place.

“They are exhausting their appeals,” Thomson said. “Well, they haven’t really exhausted them because they had visiting judges, so they will be starting over again.

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Our hometown piano competition provokes non-musical thoughts.

Here I was, ready to unleash all my spleen at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for inviting Russian and Belarusian pianists to compete without any acknowledgment beyond a flimsy press release that those countries had invaded Ukraine. Then, just before the awards ceremony that concluded the contest, Vadym Kholodenko, the Ukrainian pianist and gold medalist from the 2013 competition, took the stage and played the Ukrainian national anthem while a screen above him displayed the lyrics in Cyrillic script as well as an English translation.

All right, fine. This article won’t be so splenetic because the organizers demonstrated they weren’t completely oblivious.

You can’t keep culture sealed off from the outside world unless you’re in a dictatorship. And yet I couldn’t help feeling that much of the preceding 16 days of piano performances had been ruled by the whole idea that music transcends all boundaries. Bullshit. To begin with, there are multiple rich traditions of Indian classical music that the Van Cliburn does not address. (Why East Asians have embraced Western music while South Asians have not is a topic for someone with broader expertise than me.)

More to the point, contestants in the current edition of the Cliburn hailed from countries on both sides of the conflict in

Instead of national flags, the lobby of Bass Hall had banners celebrating past winners.

Eastern Europe. It was impossible for them to ignore, yet it was still possible for us to ignore it when we walked the halls of the new Van Cliburn Concert Hall at TCU and Bass Performance Hall. Since 2001, the first time Bass Hall hosted the competition, the venue’s lobby has been decorated with the flags of the countries that the various pianists represented. This year, the lobby instead sported banners with photos of the competition’s previous gold medalists. While clearly the banners had been commissioned prior to the Russian invasion in March, it still seemed like an attempt by the competition to help the audience shut their ears to the war. I mean, even some of this paper’s coverage seemed like an attempt at musicwashing.

Our cover story for June 1 was headlined “A Message of Unity.” Do we want unity with the people bombing churches and children’s hospitals? I shouted, “Slava Ukraini!” for competitor Dmytro Choni because I wanted him to know someone in that audience was thinking about the people having the bombs dropped on them because some autocrat with a Napoleon complex decides their country is rightfully his. (Also, I felt like being a bit of a disturbance.)

The New York Times reported that the Cliburn had privately advised its Russian and Belarusian contestants that any expressions of support for Vladimir Putin or his war of aggression would be grounds for disqualification and/or revocation of prizes. I’m glad

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Lim Yun-chan receives the trophy as the gold medalist of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition, with bronze medalist Dmytro Choni.

that the competition shut off this possibility — a Russian pianist winning gold and then dedicating the victory to the effort to crush the Ukrainian people would have been a veritable PR nightmare for the Cliburn. Yet it was still disingenuous allowing the Russians in to begin with. Had Dmytro Choni won another gold for his native Ukraine, it would have meant something beyond the world of music. Had Clayton Stephenson become the first-ever Black medalist (on Juneteenth weekend, no less), it would have meant something, too. It’s naive in the extreme to pretend that a Russian lifting the trophy this year would have meant nothing or that it wouldn’t have been used by the state-controlled Russian press to bolster Putin and his war.

The international community showed its disapproval of the invasion by barring Russian athletes from competitions, severing ties with Putin-connected musicians and dancers, and resigning from jobs or canceling performances within Russia. The Van Cliburn had a chance to join them as the biggest piano competition in the world, and it would have been noticed because Vladimir Putin cares about the Cliburn the same way he cares about the Olympics and the World Cup as opportunities for his nation to shine on the world stage. Instead, our competition gave the dictator a free pass.

(People asked me if Chinese pianists should be disqualified because of that country’s human rights record. I say if China ever invades Taiwan, then — hell, yeah — kick out their musicians.)

I held all these thoughts in my head as I evaluated these players, some of whom I found wonderful and others less so. I would have liked spending this article talking about the excellent acoustics in Van Cliburn Concert Hall, Marin Alsop’s conducting and the great achievement of bringing her to town (during Pride Month, too), Clayton Stephenson making my wish come true of hearing Gershwin at this competition, and Lim Yun-chan winning a second straight gold for South Korea even though I think the kid is too green. Had there been no Russian pianists here, that’s exactly what this article would have done. Their presence prevented me from concentrating solely on the music, though I still endeavored to judge them on their own merits. I found Sergey Tanin, a Russian who was eliminated in the first round, a more interesting musician than many who moved on to later rounds.

We media types cover sports and arts and entertainment because they’re fun, but many of us also do it because it’s more rewarding than politics. Our colleagues in hard news mostly write up human failures while we mostly write about human achievements. Having said that, I don’t think it makes you a better critic or a better human being to shut out what the hard news people report. I appreciate that the Cliburn needed to avoid making its Russian and Belarusian competitors uncomfortable, but then, who invited those musicians in the first place?

Too often it seemed like the Cliburn was trying to be this floating bubble where art was pure and the war couldn’t penetrate. It was possible to believe that when some of these pianists were playing. The problem is, at some point the music always stops. l

Trinity Pride Fest Saturday The event returns, though its mission is here to stay all year long.

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After a couple of years of pandemic-related disruptions, Trinity Pride is back to in-person celebrations this year and on a bigger scale than ever.

The gem in a crown of events throughout Pride Month, Trinity Pride Fest is 3-10pm Sat at Magnolia Green Park (1201 Lipscomb St) on the Near Southside.

“It’s really a day of celebration,” said Tyler Long, Trinity Pride director. “We have lots of other concerns in our community all year long, so we’re really trying to take this day and just celebrate.”

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ket by Wandering Roots, and music from local bands.

Drag pageant queen and 2020 Miss Gay Texas America Kylee O’Hara Fatale will emcee the event.

People are welcome to bring chairs and pets. Free parking is available at 1201 Alston Av. No outside food or drink is allowed.

Frank Kent Cadillac is the event’s title sponsor, and Long said support from local businesses has proved instrumental in growing his grassroots organization.

This year, Trinity Pride can now boast a year-round presence. The group has been working on its website, which Long hopes will be a resource for all LGBTQ+ folks in Fort Worth. TrinityPrideFW.org offers a calendar of local events as well as an in-depth directory of local resources. Fort Worth has a strong and vibrant queer community, Long said. People just don’t always know how to find it.

“Trinity Pride is trying to be the centering force for the queer community,” Long said. “We can connect people to the queer community, to their health-care resources, to a social organization if people haven’t felt included. That’s what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to be that beacon.”

Right now, Trinity Pride has seven board members and another 25 people working in various committees to uplift queer voices in Fort Worth.

Pride month, Long said, acts as a catalyst for the rest of the year.

“It’s so important to have a dedicated day and a pride month,” Long said, “because if we don’t take that yearly reminder to raise up queer voices and celebrate our community, we’ve learned that they will be drowned out, they will be forgotten, they will be overshadowed and written out of history. We deserve to live our lives at peace and be safe.”

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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Cowboys this weekend at John Wayne: An American Experience.

After two years of virtual events, Trinity Pride Festival is back with a Saturday one-day, in-person, family-friendly celebration 3pm-10pm Sat at Magnolia Green Park (1201 Lipscomb St, @TrinityPrideFW), featuring artisan vendors, food trucks, and live music from local queer artists and bands, plus interactive programming for youth in the cooling tent. There is no cost to attend.

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At 8:30pm Thu thru tonight, Ballet Concerto presents its 40th Annual Sunday Summer Dance Concert at The Shops at Clearfork (5188 Monahans Av, Fort Worth, 817-985-3773). “See

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Mimir Chamber Music Festival runs Mon, Jun 27, thru Thu, Jul 7, at TCU’s PepsiCo Recital Hall, 2800 S University Dr, 817-257-7232, and the Renzo Piano Pavilion at the Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817332-8451. $10-35. MimirFestival.org.

Curt Thompson (second from right): “This is as much a family reunion as anything else.”

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store in the Stockyards, is celebrating with a three-day festival that includes two days of outdoor screenings with proceeds benefiting the John Wayne Cancer Foundation.

Directed by Mark Rydell, The Cowboys is “a gritty coming-of-age Western” about a rancher (Wayne) forced to hire schoolboys to help drive his herd to market more than 400 miles away while being trailed by a gang of rustlers. The film will be screened on the lawn of the Livestock Exchange Building (131 E Exchange Av, 817-8225219) tonight and 8:15pm Sat with live music before each screening by Red Iron Push Friday and Aurora Bleu Saturday.

Adult tickets are $20, and children’s are $10 at JohnWayne.com/Experience.

The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s Concerts in the Garden continThursday ues this week at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (3220 Botanic Garden Blvd, 817-463-4160) 8:15pm ThuSun. Shows include Classical Mystery Tour tonight, the music of Pink Floyd Fri, and Star Wars & Beyond Sat-Sun. Tickets start at $25 at FWSymphony.org/CITG.

Now thru Sun, Sep 4, see Disney Art from Private Collections 10am-5pm Tuesday Tue-Sat and 1pm-5pm Sun at the Arlington Museum of Art (201 W Main St, 817-275-4600). The walls will be filled with the worlds and characters of three of Walt Disney Animation Studio’s “most talented and prolific artists”: Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, and Andreas Deja. There’ll be more than 80 years of “original and historic animation sketches, character studies, and concept drawings from Disney classics and deep cuts,” including Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Lion King, The Princess and the Frog, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Rescuers, The Little Mermaid, and many more. Tickets start at $5 at ArlingtonMuseum.org.

For 25 years, the Mimir Chamber Music Festival has brought world-class ensembles to TCU for two weeks of performances and educational programs. After two years of virtual programming due to COVID-19, Mimir returns with in-person recitals at TCU’s PepsiCo Recital Hall and the Kimbell Art Museum.

“This is a big year for us,” said Curt Thompson, Mimir co-founder and executive director. “We are opening up with some new artists. We’ve added a concert and now have six faculty concerts planned.”

The Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet and renowned pianist Alessio Bax headline the opening week of concerts. The donor-supported Mimir Emerging Artist program will feature three student ensembles who will be given the chance to perform during the festival and who will receive intensive coaching sessions by guest artists.

Guest artists this year include New York City’s Horszowski Trio, concert pianist John Novacek, and Nashville Symphony concertmaster Jun Iwasaki, in addition to Pacifica and Bax. “From the very beginning of this festival in the summer of 1998, we have had a balanced mission of bringing the finest chamber music performances to Fort Worth alongside an educational component of equal caliber,” Thompson said. “This is as much a family reunion as anything else.” — Edward Brown

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In celebration of its upcoming anniversary, Dan’s Silverleaf (103 Industrial Monday St, Denton, 940-808-0008) is serving up a two-day 20th Anniversary Throwdown featuring a who’s who of artists who have shaped the club’s vibe over the years. The lineup starting at noon on Sunday includes 2BC, Centro-matic (who will also livestream their show), the Baptist Generals, Isaac Hosking & The Glass Mountain Orchestra, Record Hop, RTB2, Slobberbone, and Turdells. Tickets are $30 at Prekindle.com. Then tonight, starting at 7pm, see Daniel Markham, Pinebox Serenade, and Spooky Folk. Tickets are $15 at Prekindle.com.

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the magic of Luis Montero’s Bolero come to life in a performance that blends ballet and flamenco dance.” Admission is free, but reserved seating is available. Single table seats are $50, and tables for four or eight are $250 or $550, respectively, at BalletConcerto.com.

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Hopefully, the Modern’s new exhibit sets a precedent for the Cultural District — and beyond.

María Berrío’s “Wildflowers” and Hayv Kahraman’s “The Tower” exemplify how great art creates a narrative.

in the work and perspective, the exhibition features women from 13 countries of various ages and races. Lines blur between decades as you follow clear coupling of past and present work.

Selfhood — States of Being includes several standouts that demanded extra attention from me. In the incredibly detailed oil painting “Yayoi: Arrangement in Yellow Lake and Vermillion Clair,” Christiane Lyons fuses together images of three women, including a photo pulled from a fashion magazine of Lupita Nyong’o and Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette from Sofia Coppola’s film of the same name. Evenly placed dots referencing Yayoi Kusama cover a background taken from the movie. In the same section, from the Modern’s permanent collection, Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s “Dwell:

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Me, We” elevates collage. Layers of paper combined, including images of familiar faces like Angela Davis, Colin Kaepernick, and Ava DuVernay, serve as a foundation for an acrylic self-portrait that fluidly incorporates different styles.

Within the smallest section, Nature Personified, female form contorts in ways that seem almost (as you may glean from the title) like landscapes. Two pieces drew me into the spacious area: María Berrío’s “Wildflowers” and Hayv Kahraman’s “The Tower.”

These works exemplify how great art creates a narrative. Elaborate layers of people, animals, and flowers face the simplistic imagery of a pattern of several figures, demonstrating two unique ways to tell a story.

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When the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth announced the exhibit Women Painting Women, art fans and artists in my circle collectively rejoiced. In a historically male-dominated field, an all-women show seemed like a revelation. Interestingly, in Fort Worth, women oversee most major arts institutions such as Fort Worth Public Art, Fort Worth Opera, Fort Works Art, Performing Arts Fort Worth, and Artspace 111.

At the Modern, two women currently hold the top leadership positions — Marla Price as director and Andrea Karnes as the recently appointed chief curator. So, it seems like the perfect time for a Fort Worth exhibit that puts women artists in the spotlight.

The exhibit includes approximately 60 pieces from 46 painters. The most globally recognizable artist in the show is Amy Sherald, who created Michelle Obama’s iconic portrait for the National Portrait Gallery.

Sherald’s piece, “A Midsummer Afternoon Dream,” depicting a woman and her dog taking a break from a bicycle ride, greets viewers at the top of the grand staircase.

The almost-superhuman details of the dog’s hair blowing in the wind transported me to a lovely summer day, antithetical to the oppressive Texas heat nearby.

Clear categories divide the exhibit.

These divisions act as a guide, telling viewers what aspects unite the pieces in each category, beginning with Color as Portrait.

Large portraits created with bold blues and reds fill this space. The shock of vibrant colors felt like a zap to my senses. Suddenly, the foggy brain of a lazy Sunday lifted, and my excitement was reignited.

Three more categories separate the rest of the show: Selfhood — States of Being; Nature Personified; and The Body — Political, Sexual, and In the Flesh. Each distinctive collection brings to order a veritable wonderland of art created by women. Sizes range from a 20-foot-tall tryptic that fills the space to an 8-inch piece that pulls you close to see its detail. Art styles vary from abstract to absurdist. To ensure diversity

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Amy Sherald’s “A Midsummer Afternoon Dream” happily greets viewers at the top of the Modern’s grand staircase.

the Flesh, bringing an exploration of women’s figures to an apex. It prompted me to contemplate why women wouldn’t use their bodies as material for their work. These artists reinvent the standard for art usually measured by the male gaze, focusing attention on what women see. Considering the current political climate for women, especially in Texas, it feels powerful to see women take full ownership of how they depict their bodies, a stark contrast to the modern American woman’s continually threatened loss of autonomy.

The edges of the exhibition reveal a few pieces that don’t quite fit the established categories. Nancy Frank’s sinister and surrealist “Up the Stairs” includes a lifelike image of a snake that will truly haunt me in my dreams. Although I don’t subscribe to the concept that to enjoy art is to “get” it, Dana Schutz’s pieces seem like stereotypically modernist head-scratchers that make little sense.

For some work, the vignette quality of the corridors leads to an enhanced experience. As you step into the area housing Lorna Simpson’s “Black Darkness” and “Murmur,” the intense and rich blue shade envelops you and brings a quiet solace to the space.

Simpson’s pieces are two of a handful of permanent collection works weaved into the exhibit. Karnes’ inclusion of these familiar works highlights the Modern’s efforts to bring attention to women artists, especially Black women artists.

The show successfully tells the story of women’s art from the 1960s to the current day with approximately one piece per year: a monumental effort! I hope that Karnes created this show to set a precedent for an equitable spotlight in future exhibits at the Modern and throughout the Cultural District. As for this small-town gal, I felt grateful for the chance to see this inspiring work without traveling outside of the place I now call home.

Shasta Haubrich is a Fort Worth artist and executive director of Art Tooth, a nonprofit dedicated to creating opportunities for artists in North Texas. l

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In the wilds of North Richland Hills, Golden Crown serves up some posh cookies, mochi donuts, and bubble tea.

Golden Crown, 8700 N Tarrant Pkwy, Ste 103, North Richland Hills. 817-849-2370. 8am-8pm Mon-Fri, 9am-8pm Sat. S T O R Y A N D P H O T O S B Y M A D I S O N S I M M O N S

Min Cha makes the mochi donuts at Golden Crown, all with a classic mochi base. A variety of toppings, from ube to Fruity Pebbles, adds zing to the pretty treats.

On paper, Golden Crown sells cookies, mochi donuts, and bubble tea from a stylish, highly Instagrammable strip mall storefront in North Richland Hills.

But really? Actually? Golden Crown sells delight.

The place opened two months ago, but the married ownership team of David and Min Cha know the scene. They owned a donut shop in Keller for 13 years but wanted to trade in the up-before-the-sun schedule for something a little more family-friendly.

David wanted to sell cookies — big, fancifully flavored, delicious cookies. Min wanted to sell mochi donuts — social media darlings that have finally caught on in Texas

after creating a buzz in Hawaii and L.A. The Chas compromised and decided to open up a shop with both. For extra flair, they added bubble tea to the menu.

Gazing into the case of brightly colored, elaborately decorated donuts and cookies, I was high with anticipation.

Much thought went into my selections.

The flavors change out weekly and always feature a mixture of classics and more experimental offerings.

For cookies, I went with a classic, chocolate chip, plus tiramisu and strawberry cream cheese, the last two ordered based on aesthetics alone. The tiramisu had a stylish

Now to comprehend mochi donuts, please first erase all donut-related memories and expectations from your mind. Mochi donuts are shaped in a ring and fried but otherwise have little in common with their traditional counterparts. The rice flour lends them an unusual texture — soft, yes, but also pleasantly chewy. As far as flavor, they are lightly, faintly sweet. If donuts are a smothering bear hug of sweetness, mochi donuts are a warm smile.

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cocoa dusting, and the strawberry cream cheese was deep red with a creamy-looking center.

For donuts, I picked ube (purple yam), lemon, and coffee, letting the bright colors guide my choices. All of the selections had a different glaze but the same plain mochi base. I added a matcha bubble tea for good measure.

David said the teas pair particularly well with the donuts, and he was correct.

Mine was creamy and not too sweet with just enough of that grassy, nutty green-tea flavor.

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of flavor that has you finishing one faster than you would have expected and reaching for another. They are not encased in a glaze.

Instead, the top is dunked into the icing, adding a bright little layer of flavor. Of the three varieties, the coffee stood out the most, hitting the right balance of bitter and sweet.

The cookies are massive, palm-sized affairs. The chocolate chip had just the right amount of crisp exterior, contrasting with a center that was chewy and (delightfully) a little bit gooey. The chocolate was high quality, bittersweet, and plentiful.

I was suspicious of the more fanciful flavor combinations. When it comes to desserts, my palate shies away from the overly sweet. Well, Golden Crown has the cookies for me, complex and thoughtful and just sweet enough.

The strawberry was appropriately fruit-forward. The filling was rich with just enough bite from the cream cheese. The tiramisu? Well, the phrase “masterfully made” comes to mind. The cocoa powder-dusted exterior lent a needed bitter note to offset the chocolate, and the custard-y center was perfectly set.

Where does the shop get its name? David said he likes wordplay. You bake cookies and fry donuts until they reach a golden brown, hence golden “crown.” On the menu, the cookies and donuts are referred to as “Crowns,” and you can order by the single, three, half dozen, or dozen.

The shop itself is beautiful. The same attention to detail that goes into the food informs the decor. The outlines of mochi donuts and cookies, some wearing jaunty little crowns, dance along one wall in a whimsical gold pattern. The same crown logo adorns

David Cha focuses on the cookies at Golden Crown, coming up with a dizzying array of flavors, from classic chocolate chip to apple pie.

A lot of different bubble teas are available at Golden Crown in North Richland Hills.

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6.) Saturday afternoons are Moonstruck Drag Bingo time at Red Goose Saloon (306 N Houston St, 817-332-4745). Hosted by Salem Moon 3:30pm-5:30pm Sat with 10 games of bingo and a drag show, Moonstruck features a rotating cast of performers and lots of prizes. Food and a full bar are available. Tickets are $20 on Eventbrite.com.

7.) Lazy Daisy Coffee (6475 Camp Bowie Blvd, 682-265-0097) wants “to see coffee lovers come together to share knowledge and ideas in a space dedicated to the craft.” So, it’s opening the doors to four (not so) latenight events, including Books & Beans, Coffee Lab, Garden Club, and Open Mic Night.

The first open-mic is hosted by local musician Ryan Winters of Annie Void 5:30pm7:30pm Wed, Jun 29, featuring music and poetry. There’s no cover, and it is BYOB for those who want more than coffee.

8.) Fans of 105.3 The Fan know that GBag Nation has a Brew Crew that tours area breweries.

Starting at 1pm on Sat, Jul 2, the Brew Crew Tour lands at HopFusion Ale Works (200 E Broadway Av, 682-841-1721), where they will pass out free pint glasses while they last.

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4.) What will your food options be at Trinity Pride Fest 3-10pm Sat at Magnolia Green Park? Well, glad you asked. There will be healthy lunch-style fare from Carpenter’s, plant-based soul food from Compatible Delights, crazy burgers from Crazy Burger, handheld Mexican by Funky Calavera, gourmet delights from Funky Town Cheese Co., scrumptious shaved ice from Kona Ice, comfort food from Luckey G’s Bistro, eggrolls by David Nguyen-Poe of Yatai, and more. For updates, follow Facebook.com/ TrinityPrideFW.

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3.) Celebrate Pride Month with Pearl’s Cherokee (2607 W Division St, Arlington, 817-275-8211) at the Second Annual LoveWins Party 8pm-11pm Sat, hosted by Tamar “Sweet T” King and friends onstage all night long. “We never have a cover, so there is no reason to miss this!”

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1.) On the fourth Friday of every month from January thru October, Arlington Charities (811 Secretary Dr, 817-275-1511) hosts a Mobile Food Market. All guests — not just Arlington and Tarrant County residents — will receive free supplemental groceries, including bakery, dairy, fruit, produce, protein, shelf-stable items, and more. No appointment is needed, but it is first come, first served 9am-noon Fri while supplies last. As a COVID-19 safety protocol, you are asked to wear a mask, stay in your vehicle, and simply pop the trunk. AC volunteers will load the groceries for you.

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In November 2021, Fort Worth Magazine ran an oral history-style interview with the original members of Flickerstick in conjunction with the then-recent releases of two of the band’s records, a double-album vinyl edition of their 2001 debut Welcoming Home the Astronauts and a new compilation, When We Were Young: Singles, B-Sides & Rarities 1997-2004. Since I was a fan of the band from their packed shows at the now-demolished Aardvark near TCU and then their stint on VH1’s Bands on the Run, the conversation was a fond reminder of Flickerstick’s heyday, but it also conjured the emotional equivalent of a wince, because at the time, their eventual demise was kind of a bummer to observe. The short version is that they ground to a halt in the wake of lineup changes hastened by

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a lot of hard living, long touring, and half of the members’ own desires to move on to other things. Seeing the band together for a photo a dozen years after they had broken up was nice at least, but then, near the end of the story, frontman Brandin Lea provided this quote: “I’ve never given up hope that one day we’ll play again and end it the way it should have ended so many years ago. I love these guys with all my heart. Playing with them again, even just one last show, would mean the world to me.”

This weekend, Lea will get his wish, when the original lineup of himself, guitarist Cory Krieg, bassist Fletcher Lea (Brandin’s brother), drummer Dominic Weir, guitarist Rex Ewing, and drummer Todd Harwell will play two sold-out reunion shows at House of Blues in Dallas.

And then, in the fall, Brandin, Harwell, and Ewing will take the band on the run again, with guitarist Beau Wagener and bassist Fatima Thompson filling in for Krieg and Fletcher. I called Brandin to talk about how he was feeling and how his wish to play another time with his old band finally happened.

“The main reason: It was the Flickerstick Facebook Group page,” he said.

“Over the last couple years, there have just been a lot of people interested in [a Flickerstick reunion], people from all over the country, Canada, Europe. … These fans have been asking for it.”

Started a decade ago by former Colleyville mayor Chris Putnam, the Flickerstick Official Facebook Group boasts some 3,500 members, many of whom regularly post old pictures and videos of the band in their prime.

“The interest has been there for a while,” Brandin said, “and, in fact, there

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was talk of getting together four years ago, but some of us just weren’t ready, weren’t in a spot to do it, but, y’know, I’m 47. Rex and Dom, they’re in their 50s, and with the vinyl edition of Astronauts out last year, we just thought maybe we should do this.

Kind of now or never. You never know what’s going to happen — someone could get sick or whatever — and I’m really happy we’re finally doing it.”

Of course, that the band got together for a photo, let alone any shows at all, was a big surprise. Weir was fired in 2003 over major personality conflicts with the other members. Krieg quit in 2005 when his fiancée got pregnant and he realized supporting a family on a mid-level alt-rock band’s take-home pay was not a viable lifestyle for him. When Harwell, a powerhouse drummer from much-beloved, dearly departed Dallas rockers Doosu, replaced Weir, he was a great fit, as was songwriter/ guitarist Tim Locke (frontman for Calhoun, a Flickerstick contemporary), who quickly absorbed Krieg’s role.

“Todd and Tim really helped us keep it going,” Brandin said. “People forget that we kept it going for almost 10 years after we had that [ordeal] getting our first album back” from Epic Records.

Yet times were changing. As the 2000s neared their end, Fletcher finally quit, leaving Brandin and Ewing as the only original members. In January 2009, Flickerstick announced their breakup on their Myspace page.

“After Cory left,” Brandin said, “he and I didn’t talk for 14 years.”

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Brandin and Cory Krieg were more or less the co-leaders of the band, and as such things go, they butted heads over a million different issues, most minor, some major, and many of them born of a clash of egos. Now, however, the old frustrations and fights have been forgotten and/or forgiven, and the members are on good terms.

Even Ewing, whose only contribution to the Fort Worth Magazine interview was “I’m not interested in talking about any of it,” is all in.

Brandin said that Ewing had maintained that harsh outlook until very recently. “He wasn’t into it. Corey wanted Beau to sub for Rex, and then out of the blue, Rex just changed his mind. I heard he saw some found footage of us that Cory posted. And then he was like, ‘I’m down for whatever.’ ”

By Brandin’s own admission, their two reunion shows are no small feat — half the band has hardly played in 15 years, and two sold-out shows in HOB’s main room with nothing but some rehearsals are not exactly warm-up gigs.

“I’m excited, but also, honestly, I’m pretty nervous,” Brandin said, “but I know how to perform in a rock band, and I know how to put on a good show.”

In his estimation, Flickerstick’s impact is couched in missed expectations but only because the band was that good.

“One thing I’ve heard for years is how Flickerstick was the band that should have been huge,” he said. “Not could’ve been but should’ve been. It’s nice to hear that, but that really is our legacy. And I think that’s cool. I don’t know how things might’ve turned out if this or that had or hadn’t happened, but I know people are excited to see us now, and that means a lot to me.” l

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