Fort Worth Weekly // June 28-July 4, 2023

Culture Vultures

Latte-toting, felt hat-wearing Hillsong wannabes claiming the Near Southside as new “territory” may have stepped into a turf war.

BY STATIC

JULY FOURTH

All of North Texas will be poppin’ Tuesday while Willie will be in Austin for his annual Picnic.

BY JENNIFER BOVEE

EATS & DRINKS

On Race Street, Calisience does birria and ramen expertly.

BY LAURIE JAMES

SCREEN

Indiana Jones is back

— and hasn’t aged a bit.

BY KRISTIAN LIN

MUSIC

With the help of a steady backing band, Cory Cross’ honky-tonk comes to electric life.

BY PATRICK HIGGINS

INSIDE

Fairmount Fuckwads

They’re stylish, they’re outwardly humble, they’re #blessed — the Mercy Culture cult invades the Near Southside.

By Static

Indy Rocks

Too bad the flick doesn’t live up to the GGI on ol’ boy’s face.

Kristian Lin

Good Chemistry

On Race Street, Calisience is serving up some mouthwatering birria tacos and ramen.

By Laurie James

By Steve Steward

STAFF

Anthony Mariani, Editor

Lee Newquist, Publisher

Bob Niehoff, General Manager

Ryan Burger, Art Director

Jim Erickson, Circulation Director

Edward Brown, Staff Writer

Emmy Smith, Proofreader

Michael Newquist, Regional Sales Director

Jennifer Bovee, Marketing Director

Stacey Hammons, Senior Account Executive

Julie Strehl, Account Executive

Tony Diaz, Account Executive

Wyatt Newquist, Digital Coordinator

Clintastic, Brand Ambassador

CONTRIBUTORS

Christina Berger, E.R. Bills, Jason Brimmer, Buck D. Elliott, Juan R. Govea, Patrick Higgins, Laurie James, Kristian Lin, Vishal Malhotra, Cody Neathery, Wyatt Newquist, Madison Simmons, Steve Steward, Teri Webster, Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue, Cole Williams

EDITORIAL BOARD

Anthony Mariani, Edward Brown, Emmy Smith

STAGE

Building Upon a Rich Legacy

Fort Worth Opera enters its 78th season with new leadership and a new vision.

BY EDWARD BROWN

Visiting her grandparents in Graham, Texas, in the 1980s, Angela Turner Wilson said they would all take road trips to Fort Worth to shop and sightsee. While Wilson did not attend concerts by Fort Worth Opera (FWO) at the time, her grandparents were avid fans of the company.

Her grandparents told her, “Maybe someday you’ll sing at the Fort Worth Opera,” Wilson recalled.

She trained and did just that, performing with Fort Worth’s resident opera company and singing in many of the most prominent concert halls in the country. Last August, after the abrupt departure of FWO general director Afton Battle, the company board approached Wilson to fill the vacated role.

Wilson had just stepped down as chair of TCU’s vocal studies program but was still committed to teaching.

Joining FWO was “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” she said, “especially to have the option of staying close to my family in Dallas and be a part of the opera community on a level that so few have the privilege to experience.”

With the new season beginning in a few months, Wilson will have her first year of full creative control over the group. Her current title of general director and artistic director is unique for an organization this large, but given her past career at TCU and as a performer, it makes sense for now.

Wilson said she will endeavor to maintain the progressive visions of her two immediate predecessors. In Battle’s two years, she labored to diversify the company’s programming and audiences before resigning last fall, expressing frustration with working in a conservative state as a Black woman, and Darren Woods, who served from 2001 to 2017 before the board fired him (citing a need for a “fresh perspective”), championed contemporary opera and living composers.

Maintaining continuity between her own goals for FWO and its past leadership is a challenge.

“Both of those amazing people brought their passion projects to the front” of their roles, she said. “I see the incredible value of both, and I want to continue both of those.”

Wilson said she also feels compelled to balance “what our community wants to see. Younger generations have very strong ideas about what they want and how they want to be spending their money and time. How do you reach every community, every group, who has not been approached and made to feel welcome at our events? What do they want to see? We need to find that out. It’s a matter of opening yourself up and being in conversation with what this community needs.”

FWO’s 78th season offers a regional premiere, a nationwide Spanish-language premiere, community concerts, and a return to Bass Performance Hall after 2022’s La Traviata.

The season opens with three runs of La Médium at the Rose Marine Theater on the North Side. The work by Gian Menotti tells the story of Madame Flora, a psychic who willfully tricks clients into believing her predictions until one evening they start coming true.

“We are the first company to do a Spanish translation in the States,” Wilson said of

the show. “It’s a great show for the [Halloween] season. Someone gets murdered. It’s going to be spooky.”

December brings Menotti’s version of Amahl and the Night Visitors at BRIT (Botanical Research Institute of Texas). The oneact opera recounts the story of a crippled boy visited by three kings on their way to the newborn Jesus.

The company closes 2023 with Wintersong: A Musical Holiday Celebration, featuring resident artists. Singalongs of carols, holiday favorites, and opera classics will be a large part of this free concert at a to-be-determined venue.

In February, FWO puts on the regional premiere of dwb (Driving While Black). Presented in collaboration with the Kimbell Art Museum and TCU, the work by composer Susan Kander and librettist Roberta Gumbel is a montage of the ups and downs of Black mothers as they raise children in a society where policing practices routinely endanger the safety and lives of Black drivers and passengers.

“The set is the interior of a car,” Wilson said, and the show takes viewers “through the thought process of a Black mother with a teenage driver. I have two [white] sons, 20 and 16. I don’t have to have that conversation [about police shootings] with my sons. When people stop talking about these problems, the conversion dies. Art should inspire dialogue.”

The 2023-2024 season finishes at Bass Hall, where two performances of La Bohème will showcase the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (FWSO) onstage.

“We asked, and people love seeing the musicians” who are normally offstage, Wilson said. “Since we are bringing the musicians out, we are taking out the pit so the singers can go out to the audience.”

Fort Worth’s major performing arts groups have benefited from long-term leadership: Cliburn CEO Jacques Marquis, Texas Ballet Theater’s artistic director Ben Stevenson, FWSO’s former music director Miguel Harth-Bedoya (2000 to 2020). If FWO’s leadership and audiences are supportive, Wilson said she has big ambitions for the city’s resident opera company.

“This is my home,” she said. “If I can help my community and help opera, the passion project of my life, by building upon what [Battle and Woods] set forth, I will be a happy woman.” l

Angela Turner Wilson: “How do you reach every community, every group, who has not been approached and made to feel welcome at our events? We need to find that out.”

Courtesy Fort Worth Opera

Culture Vultures

Latte-toting, felt hatwearing Hillsong wannabes claiming the Near Southside as new “territory” may have stepped into a turf war.

BY STATIC

Growing up conservative, Joe is familiar with the antics of charismatic churchgoers who speak in tongues, worship their pastors as prophets, and — when not serving as online experts in geopolitical relations, the media, and submersibles — lick the cowboy boots of far-right elected officials.

But this? This was just plain weird.

Standing on West Magnolia Avenue on Saturday, Joe watched befuddled as a small group pulled out bottles and began, um, lubing up the sidewalk. One unidentified person, he said, poured what turned out to be olive oil on a stop sign covered with small Pride flags.

Taking to Instagram, Joe commented, “God Bless the Holy Kroger Olive Oil.”

Joe, who wishes to remain anonymous to protect his privacy, had come to this part of

the Near Southside to give Roots Markets a hard time. Recently called out for their bigotry, the weekly open-air mongers of produce, crafts, and coffee maintain close ties to a local megachurch whose members clearly think we’re in the middle of some kind of holy war.

And maybe we are.

That megachurch is Mercy Culture, and its leaders have ambitions to “gain territory” across Fort Worth. The congregants may well be duped into thinking that taking over our fair city is God’s will, but the more likely reason is greed. Mercy Culture’s leaders are either Realtors or maintain real estate connections. Charismatic-church doctrine calls adherents to seek cultural influence, and, with its wealth of popular and critically acclaimed independently owned bars, restaurants, and retailers, no area of Fort Worth is more influential than the Near Southside.

For the past few weeks, Near Southsiders, who overwhelmingly embrace diversity in all its forms, have scrambled to organize a resistance to the unexpected but now obvious influx of the casually stylish, often shaggy, almost always white crucifix-sporting, felt hat-togging hordes.

Prompting the uproar was the early-June snubbing of an openly queer former Roots Markets vendor (“Square Roots,” June 7). Carlie Alaniz, owner of The Lucky Pot Co., recently went public about the private message she received from the markets’ co-owners, who welcome money from the queer community but refuse to allow anyone who isn’t cisgender and straight to sell their stuff at Roots.

“The email said they have Biblical values,” Alaniz told us. “I was shocked. I’ve never been discriminated against.”

Mercy Culture Pastor Landon Schott indulged his narcissism by weighing in

on Instagram, asking members to support Roots Markets and push back on alleged attacks by Alaniz’ supporters. Alaniz, who said she never heard of Mercy Culture before her interactions with Roots, rebukes the idea that Schott’s followers have anything to fear from the queer community.

“It’s unbelievable to me the lengths people will go to ensure their beliefs are the only beliefs,” Alaniz said. “I never said they are not allowed to believe what they believe in. If Roots Markets had those views from the get-go, they should have said that in-

stead of marketing themselves as a fun place to shop.”

Madelaine Klein said she unwittingly participated in the first three Roots Markets events that started in May.

Alaniz “texted me the screenshots and let me know Roots Markets is not supportive of the LGBTQ community,” the 17-yearold told us. “Well, I’m part of the LGBTQ community. I immediately withdrew. I tried to call them multiple times, and they have gone silent.” continued

Pro-LGBTQ protestors have taken to holding rallies near Roots Markets’ weekly events.

Courtesy Facebook

Klein recently launched Magnolia’s Markets (@Magnolias.Markets). All are welcome to participate every Saturday in front of The Usual (1408 W. Magnolia Ave.) from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., she said. LGBTQ members and allies have taken to holding weekly rallies in front of Roots that coincide with the anti-LGBTQ markets’ Saturday afternoon events. Klein hopes her events can restore some of the Near Southside’s inclusivity that she loves.

Several Weekly readers allege Roots Markets does not possess the proper paperwork to operate in Fort Worth. We’ve yet to hear back on our open records request from the state comptroller’s office to confirm whether the markets’ owners registered with Texas as a for-profit business as required by law, but a search of the comptroller’s website found no matches for “Roots Markets.” A city spokesperson said the markets’ owners requested and were given the only form they need from the city, a certificate of “appropriateness,” which insists that outdoor events comply with neighborhood standards.

Just as the election of racist rapist Donald Trump revealed who was OK with voting for absolute trash, Roots Markets shows Near Southsiders which businesses are fine

with discriminating against the queer community. At least one private Facebook group has taken to naming Roots Markets’ co-conspirators and, by extension, Mercy Culture’s.

“Who would be interested in T-shirts to show that we are protesting against the mar-

ket and not for them?” read a recent post in Hate Has NO ROOTS in Fairmount. “Let’s spitball on ideas!”

Another user poked fun at a Roots Markets clothing vendor.

“So, regarding this vendor on Friday,

WTF does ‘clothes stained from encounters’ mean?” the comment read. “Monica Lewinsky, anyone?”

Mercy Culture, if you can believe it, does get a little kinky. Large white letters on continued on page 8

THUNDERING MAGNIFICENCE

TRINITY METRO

Although churches are forbidden to endorse political candidates, County Judge Tim O’Hare and other right-wing asshats regularly grovel for votes from Mercy Culture’s congregation.

Courtesy Instagram

Madelaine Klein said Roots Markets organizers never disclosed their anti-LGBTQ views.

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the blacked-out church building reading, “Holy Spirit Come” have undoubtedly caused double-takes from commuters on nearby I-35 and raised concerns over what Schott means when he calls for God to rain down on us.

In a recent post about the olive oil incident, the jokes continued.

“A little lube ritual as a treat,” someone replied, clearly referring to the meme of gifting your sink with a little olive oil from a used pan. “In honor of Pride Month. Some-

one should let them know olive oil breaks down latex.”

means local municipalities miss out on around $10,000 per year in tax revenues.

Rising 35 stories from the southwest corner of Sundance Square, The Tower offers an impressive view of downtown and beyond, plus a private catering kitchen, club room, and a concierge service. 500 Throckmorton Street is home to many of Fort Worth’s wealthy elite and at least one member of Mercy Culture’s senior leadership.

Based on a 2022 tax statement by the office of the Tarrant County tax assessor-collector, the sixth-floor unit owned by Mercy Culture Church pays zero property taxes. With an appraised value of $362,260, that

“We declare that Fort Worth is yours, Jesus,” Mercy Culture posted on Instagram last year. “We declare your justice and righteousness resound in every part of our city. We declare no other spirit but the holy spirit is seated on the throne of Fort Worth.”

The accompanying photo with The Tower in the background was taken from somewhere on nearby South Main Street. Based on his public statements, Schott has continually called for his disciples to “expand territory” by buying properties and homes through Mercy Culture’s elders/Realtors.

Life must be good for the Tower resident or residents who live far removed from

the plight of impoverished Black and brown neighborhoods. Whoever this person is or people are, the move is off brand for a purported Christian.

Jesus is easily one of the most misquoted and misappropriated figures of all time even as his core messages remain clear: Treat others as you would want to be treated and don’t worship money. Historically, Christian factions have been torn between adhering to their savior’s simple guidance and desiring worldly pleasures. Possibly the most dangerous and virulent strain of Christianity gained mass followings over the past few decades, loosely tied by beliefs in living prophets, miracles, and a disregard for the separation of church and state.

Like the leaders of the international megachurch Hillsong, Mercy Culture seeks celebrity status and glamour through highly Instagrammable photos, chic attire, slick video production, social media likes, and other decidedly worldly endeavors. It’s possibly for those reasons that the megachurch’s stooges are drawn to Fairmount — the one part of Fort Worth where artists and other real-world influencers gather to chill, work, and/or run shit.

The Hillside wannabes’ desire to connect with that community is an epic example of misreading the room. The rules of Mercy Culture’s Northside compound do not apply elsewhere and are certainly meaningless in the progressive neighborhood whose inhabitants disdain dogma and the painfully narrow-minded worldview of Mercy Culture’s leaders, who enjoy tax exemptions even while endorsing the self-serving interests of Christian Nationalist politicians and grifting congregants.

Near Southsiders’ mistrust of and open rebellion against Schott’s devotees make for continued on page 9

Mercy Culture recently turned toward acquiring “territory” on the Near Southside. Good luck with that, bozos!

Courtesy Instagram

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more than just a clash of cultures. Bullies are easy to identify in childhood, but brainwashed charismatic churchgoers are deceptively likable. Cutesie Instagram photos with almost always #blessed white couples hugging labradoodles as part of #godsplan never reveal any core beliefs. Things would be much easier if charismatic churchies, like much of our queer community, would just come out already. Congregants at Christ Chapel Bible Church, Gateway Church, and Mercy Culture are unlikely to post #gaysaregoingtohell or #gunsoverkidslives anytime soon, as refreshingly honest as those disclosures would be.

Along with beliefs in magic, charismatic-church adherents inoculate themselves from any understanding of or appreciation for transparency. Roots Markets’ owners hid their bigotry until they realized they had a queer vendor and even then probably thought their email would blow over.

Those miscalculations are not surprising for zombies living in a fantasy world where, out of 8 billion humans, only a small sliver of one religion has favor with the Almighty. Schott has declared as non-Christian Catholics and members of every other

Christian denomination even as his bigotry and idolatry make him more charlatan than pastor.

Several local reverends recently penned an open letter to Roots Markets and Mercy Culture.

“As pastors and deacons who serve open and affirming churches on Fort Worth’s Near Southside, we are concerned that a business in our neighborhood, Roots Markets, ceased working with a vendor upon learning she is part of the LGBTQ+ community,” the letter reads. “Because this action was done in the name of Biblical values, we feel compelled publicly to reemphasize our Christian belief that every person is a precious child of God and should be treated with dignity and respect.”

Although Roots Markets has no shortage of vendors willing to sell crafts, popcorn, and “stained” clothing for the Christian Nationalist cause, several businesses have distanced themselves.

“Hey y’all,” reads a social post by LusterLinks Ft Worth. “Sorry for the last minute notice, but I won’t be participating in the Roots Market tomorrow or in the future. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but I don’t share the same views and am

Hot ’n’ ready. Several Mercy Culture supporters recently lubed up Magnolia.

Courtesy Instagram

choosing to no longer support this market. Everyone has the freedom to find their own happiness, and anyone who stands in the way of supporting that, no matter what that happiness looks like, is no good in my book. It’s 2023. We are better than this.”

Mercy Culture has been and remains a real estate grift. With thousands of potential customers, Schott’s “prophecies” of gaining territory should be seen for what they are — a business plan.

Based on their 2017 articles of incorporation, Mercy Culture’s founders came from far and wide: Cedar Park, Texas (Landon and wife Heather Schott); Peoria, Arizona (Steve Penate); and Stafford, Virginia (Matthew Saville).

Schott has repeatedly said a vision brought him to Fort Worth, probably seeing himself cash in on a booming real estate market. It defies belief that the elders who have or had real estate connections just happened to show up one day in one of the fastest-growing parts of the country by accident.

Where there’s money to be made, opportunism follows, and Mercy Vulture is just the latest grifting operation to hit Fort Worth. While corporate interests at least have the decency to operate under the for-profit label, Schott and his right-wing elders garb themselves in charismatic-church

jargon. It’s a trending fad and one that’s surprisingly if not disturbingly attractive to twenty- and thirtysomethings searching for a spiritual home.

For the past few years, momentum has been with Mercy Culture as the zealots have expanded, opening satellite churches in Waco and Dallas. To the Near Southside’s credit, infiltration by a bigoted market lasted all of three weeks before public backlash and organized resistance ensued. The presence of a church whose leaders and members mock and attack non-Mercy Culture members — and stop signs — has galvanized a

tightknit Near Southside community, whose denizens are fully aware of the consequences of losing a turf war with a well-monied and politically connected Christian Nationalist movement.

Keep hanging those Pride flags, keep calling out the hypocrisy, and keep keeping Fairmount suckafree. l

This column reflects the opinions of the editorial board and not the Fort Worth Weekly To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly. com. He will gently edit it for clarity and concision.

Based on open records, Mercy Culture owns at least one condo at The Tower. Taxes paid there? Zero.

Courtesy Downtown Fort Worth Inc.

Carlie Alaniz: Roots Markets’ email “said they have Biblical

I’ve never been discriminated against.”

Courtesy Carlie Alaniz

May 7–September 3

The exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Kimbell Art Museum. It is supported in part by the William and Catherine Bryce Memorial Fund, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District.

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If I Could Turn Back Time

The real magic in Indiana Jones’ fifth adventure is the CGI fountain of youth.

BY KRISTIAN LIN

The most remarkable thing about Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny happens right at the beginning. In an extended prologue set during the last days of World War II, the Nazis capture Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) as he tries to pilfer a powerful relic from them. They bring him into an interrogation room and take the bag off his head to reveal… Indy in his late 30s.

Maybe you’ve grown used to CGI de-aging since The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but this is the best example of it I’ve ever seen. Much of the prologue does have Indy hiding in shadows and fighting on top of a train at night, but he’s sitting in that chair long enough for you to note the seamlessness of the digital cosmetic surgery. If I didn’t know better, I’d have sworn that the filmmakers found deleted scenes that Ford shot in the 1980s and inserted them into the movie. We’re rapidly approaching a point when it scarcely matters what actors actually look like because the computers have become that good. Benjamin Button seems hopelessly crude now.

Ah, if only the rest of the film lived up to that prologue. I expected it to, because James Mangold has taken over the director’s chair from Steven Spielberg after doing such a beautiful job of concluding the story of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in Logan This movie isn’t in that league, nor does it measure up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the way that film ended Han Solo’s narrative. I’m not saying that this movie needed to copy those sequels and make Indiana Jones sacrifice himself heroically like Logan or fall victim to a domestic tragedy like Han, but as it leads Indy to his last adventure, does it have to feel so rote?

The bulk of the story is set in August 1969, when Indiana Jones is feeling increasingly obsolete. His college is ushering him toward retirement, Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) is filing for divorce from him, and astronauts are about to land on the Moon and make archaeology look really old. At this point, his British goddaughter Helena Shaw (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) resurfaces with her own archaeology degree and the

news that she’s located the Dial of Destiny, the time travel-enabling artifact that Indy’s ex-colleague (Toby Jones) died looking for with her dad. The two travel all over Morocco, Italy, and Greece to keep the doohickey away from unreconstructed Nazis and end Dr. Jones’ career on a high note.

The film boasts a lengthy tuk-tuk chase through the streets of Tangier that’s crisply executed without ever raising your heart rate or a laugh. Maybe you’d expect WallerBridge to compensate in the humor department, but no such luck — this movie casts her as another swashbuckling heroine, and while she does it capably, the part sands away everything that makes her interesting. Our adventurers are saddled with yet another cute kid (Ethann Isidore, who, judging by Ke Huy Quan’s career arc, should be winning an Oscar in 2062), and it’s one cynical move among many. Sallah (John Rhys-Davies) reappears in the series after 42 years, and the move is just empty fan service. Antonio Banderas is particularly ill-used as a scuba diving expert, and a revelation about

the sad fate of Indy’s son fails to pull any heartstrings.

The one bolt of inspiration comes during the climax, when the Nazi villain (Mads Mikkelsen, looking bored) uses the dial, and it doesn’t go quite as he planned. This is a crazy plot development that should energize the movie more than it does. The place where everybody winds up is cleanly rendered by the special effects, and yet we don’t share Indy’s wonder at being in a time he never thought he’d see up close. Dial of Destiny is meant to be a valedictory to Indiana Jones, but it comes off as listless as the retirement party that his fellow faculty members throw for him, complete with a sheet cake. The guy who once made millions of kids want a whip and a fedora deserved a better sendoff. l

The computers upstage Harrison Ford by making him young again in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Starring Harrison Ford and Phoebe WallerBridge. Directed by James Mangold. Written by Jez Butterworth, John Henry Butterworth, David Koepp, and James Mangold. Rated PG-13.

From arts and culture to sporting events and everything in between, there’s something special to do all the time in Downtown Arlington, including these upcoming events. Visitors like you help us Light Up Arlington on the daily. (See what we did there?) Join us in July, won’t you?

Austin-based singer-songwriter Bob Schneider, former frontman of The Ugly Americans and The Scabs, has become one of the most celebrated musicians in the state. His catalog is both uplifting and sober, unafraid to tackle powerful subjects like alienation, drug addiction, and lost romance, in addition to celebrating life’s joys. He has released more than a dozen albums, written over 1,000 songs, and is a published author who doesn’t plan on slowing down anytime soon. In fact, he’s doing a free show at Levitt Pavilion (100 W Abram St, 817-543-4308) on Sunday. For more info, visit DowntownArlington.org/do/free-concert-bob-schneider.

Join us for an evening of free family fun at Light Up Arlington at 6pm. This year’s celebration includes some of the top musical acts in the North Texas region, food trucks, vendors, and more. Bands will play on four stages starting at 6pm outside the Arlington Music Hall (224 N Center St) and Grease Monkey (200 N Mesquite St), 6:30pm outside of City Tower (101 S Mesquite St), and 7pm at Levitt Pavilion (100 W Abram St). Then, a 20-minute fireworks display will begin at 9:50pm set to music on 95.9 The Ranch FM.

Light Up Arlington isn’t the only way to celebrate Independence Day. Head on back to Downtown on Tuesday morning for the beloved Arlington Independence Day Parade! Started in 1965, it is one of the largest 4th of July parades in Texas, so be sure to arrive early. The parade kicks off at 9 am. Line up to see colorful floats, antique cars, marching bands, unicyclists, and other parade entries wind through Downtown. For more info about Monday night and Tuesday morning

activities, visit DowntownArlington.org/ events/light-up-arlington.

Actor Major Attaway of New York’s famed New Amsterdam Theatre is back for two nights. See The Genie’s Jukebox 8pm Fri-Sat, Jul 7-8 at Theatre Arlington (305 W Main St, 817275-7661). Attaway is here to grant all your musical wishes, “My quest to Agrabah has been nothing short of extraordinary, I’ll be posting the most magical moment!” Tickets are $25 at TheatreArlington.org.

Join Arlington Yoga Center, The Sanford House Inn & Spa, and Restaurant506 for a morning that promises to feel and taste good! At the Brunch x Yoga event from 9am to 11am, you will enjoy an outdoor practice with plenty of room to social distance in the lush and green Grand Courtyard of the Sanford House Inn (506 N Center St, 817861-2129). It starts with an all-level, outdoor practice followed by delicious brunch noms from Restaurant506. Tickets are $20 on Eventbrite.com and include an hour of yoga, a free mimosa, and 10% off brunch at the Sanford House. BYOM (Bring your own mat) and water. Be sure to call in for a reservation at Restaurant 506 to ensure a table right after yoga. Tickets are limited, so pre-registration IS required.

The absolute best trivia on Wednesdays is held by Pub Guys Trivia at Division Brewing (506 E Main St, 682-276-1276). Come compete against and meet some of the smartest people in North Texas in a friendly, welcoming environment with some of the best beer made in Texas.

Born and raised in Kentucky farm country, country artist John Conlee grew up plowing fields, slopping hogs, harvesting grain, raising tobacco and tending cattle. He began his crusade to save the family farm system several years ago, performing a concert in Omaha, Nebraska in June 1985 as a benefit for the National Farmers Organization. So naturally, when Willie Nelson announced his plans for the Farm Aid concerts, Conlee offered his services and over the course of nine different Farm Aid events has helped raise 13 million dollars to aid the family farmer. He is

a gifted entertainer, but would rather spend his “off the road” time working on his 32 acre farm outside of Nashville. But lucky for us, he’s touring and his show is headed to Arlington Music Hall (224 N Center St, 817-226-4400) at 8pm. Tickets are $20-$80 on Eventbrite.com.

Tylor Swift made a major impact during her three-night concert series in Arlington this spring. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Collection at the Arlington Museum of Art (201 W Main St, 817-275-4600) explores Swift as an evolving, boundary-pushing artist. The exhibition will feature original costumes, photographs, videos, and more representing several of her creative periods, or “eras.” The exhibit can be seen 10am-5pm daily thru Sun, Sept 24. Tickets are $20 at ArlingtonMuseum.org.

The folks at Arlington Museum of Art are also presenting Girl in a Country Song: Women of Country Music, featuring rarely-seen photographs of country music legends, including Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Faith Hill, Tanya Tucker, Patsy Cline, and LeAnn Rimes by award-winning celebrity photographer Raeanne Rubenstein. Also, check out the Hometown Harmonies exhibit, featuring personal memorabilia from celebrated musical artists Mickey Guyton, Maren Morris, and Kirstin Maldonado. Admission to Girl in a Country Song and Hometown Harmonies is included in your ticket to see Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Collection. For more info, visit ArlingtonMuseum.org

Broadway performer Major Attaway from Fort Worth, most recently played Genie in Disney’s Aladdin. See him next week at Theatre Arlington.

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Have a Willie Great 4th of July!

BY JENNIFER BOVEE

Fort Worth’s Fourth, one of the largest fireworks shows in the area, will light up the Trinity River at Panther Island Pavilion (395 Purcey St, 817-698-0700) on Tue, Jul 4. General admission is free. For information about activities and times, check out FortWorthFourth.com. Beyond the Fort, there are tons of other things to do.

Arlington hosts its annual Light Up Arlington event on Mon, Jul 3. For a full rundown of everything, turn the page and check out this week’s center spread sponsored by Downtown Arlington Inc. or visit DowtownArlington.org.

For Flower Mound’s Independence Fest 2023 (5pm-10:30pm Tue, Jul 4), the Eli Young Band — famous for “Crazy Girl” and “Drunk Last Night” — will perform at Bakersfield

Park (1201 Duncan Ln, Flower Mound, 972-955-7328). Get there early as there are activities all day long, including a children’s parade, a vintage car show, a shopping area with local vendors, and fireworks at the end. This event is free to attend. For more info, visit Flower-Mound.com/Festival.

Weatherford also has Texas country on the agenda for the town’s annual Spark in the Park event. From 6pm to 10pm Tue, Jul 4, head to Heritage Park (317 Santa Fe Dr, 817598-4124) for a free concert by Pat Green followed by fireworks with choreographed music broadcast on KMQX/102.5 and 88.5 FM.

If you’re looking to get away from the heat — like far, far away — Visit Denver invites you to the Mile High City, where the weather is cooler, for a Fan Expo (comics, sci-fi, and more) FriSun, the Cherry Creek Arts Festival Sat-Sun, and Independence Eve on Mon, Jul 3, at Civic Center Park. For details, visit Denver.org.

And then there’s Willie Nelson

While Dallas does have free fireworks 4:30pm-10pm Tue, Jul 4, at Fair Park (3921 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, 469-945-3247), you should start the party with a concert on Friday. The Outlaw Music Festival begins at 4:35pm at Dos Equis Pavilion (3839 S Fitzhugh Av, 214-421-1111) with Willie Nelson, Flatland Cavalry, Whiskey Myers, Brittney Spencer, and more. Tickets start at $35 at LiveNation.com.

You can also see Willie at the annual Willie Nelson & Family 4th of July Picnic in Austin at 2pm Tue, Jul 4, at Q2 Stadium (10414 Mc Kalla Pl, 512-572-8932). Along with the guest of honor, this 50th-anniversary celebration features special guests Tyler Childers and Dwight Yoakam with Asleep at the Wheel, Sierra Ferrell, Particle Kid, Shakey Graves, and Shane Smith & The Saints. Tickets start at $49 at SeatGeek.com.

If you’ve never seen Willie Nelson live, do it sooner than later. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Willie just turned 90. We have only a few summers left to party with the Red Headed Stranger. Just this month, a concert film celebrating his 90th birthday came out in theaters. For more on that, visit WillieNelson90Experience.com.

Willie Nelson is on the road again and headed to a pavilion near you.

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Since 1973, July Fourth has been synonymous with Willie Nelson. Before his outlaw-image days, Nelson commissioned this piece for his Picnic posters in the 1980s from Danny Garrett.

Courtesy Danny Garrett

With a potential four-day weekend at your disposal, why not be an adventurer? Get out there and explore all the food finds that July Fourth brings. Below are some great options.

1.) See that glorious pie in the picture? If you act fast, you can get your hands on one for this weekend for $38. Preordering the Miss Fourth of July Pie is open thru the end of the day today (Wed, Jun 28) at Sweet Lucy’s Pies (3520 Bluebonnet Cr, Fort Worth, 817-727-6009). This Southern-red buttermilk pie is infused with TX Whiskey, layered with a mixed berry filling, baked in a traditional crust, then decorated with white frosting and blue sprinkles. Place your order at SweetLucysPies.com or call.

2.) The Cleburne Railroaders, an MLB minor league partner team, have six home games coming up at The Depot (1906 Brazzle Blvd, Cleburne, 817-945-8705). Every game has its own special flair. Tonight and Wed, Jul 5, are Dollar Hot Dog Nights. On Thursday, enjoy a $3 Hop & Sting Beer. Friday Night Fireworks happen next, sponsored by La Moderna. Sunday is Military Appreciation Night. Along with military personnel, kids also get in free. Then, there are the Fourth of July fireworks at the end of the game on Tuesday. Tickets start at $18 at ILoveBaseball.com.

3.) Don’t forget your #FurryFriends this weekend. Three Dog Bakery in Arlington (817 E Lamar Blvd, 817-795-3165) and Mansfield (3300 E Broad St, Ste 142, 817592-3531) have Inde-Paw-Dence Day Meals for dogs that have been taste-tested by a Corgi named Violet. For $17.76 per meal, your pup can enjoy a corndog, “pawtato” fries, a flag cookie, apple pie, and a personalized bone cookie. Call to order in advance. Pickup days will be Sat-Tue. For more details, follow Facebook.com/3DogArlington.

4.) The Stockyards are celebrating America’s birthday now thru Tuesday. On Mon, Jul 3, and Tue, Jul 4, enjoy free flags and $4 Shiners. Events include the PBR Stockyards Showcase 7:30pm Thu, Stockyards Championship Rodeo 7:30pm Fri and 1:30pm SatSun, and the Bullfighters Only Showdown II 8pm Sat at the Cowtown Coliseum (121 E Exchange Av, Fort Worth, 817-625-1025). There’s also music by Salt Creek, Proud

Country, Monty Dawson, and DJ Luv FriMon.

5.) Many Friday nights throughout the year, the Palace Theatre (300 S Main St, Grapevine, 817-410-3100), a restored 1940s-era cinema, shows a variety of classic films. The First Friday Film Series features blockbusters and fan favorites. Just in time to get out of the heat, the original Jurassic Park screens at 7:30pm Fri for $6. There is much to see and do near the theater, including eating at some great restaurants. If you bring a sameday receipt to the Palace from any Grapevine restaurant, you will receive complimentary popcorn at the concession stand. For more info on this and other July Fourth weekend festivities, visit GrapevineTexasUSA.com.

6.) Klyde Warren Park (2012 Woodall Rodgers Fwy, Dallas, 214-716-4500) is celebrating Independence Day 7pm-10pm Sat. Along with the family-fun games, live music from Angel White with Prophets & Outlaws, and citywide pyrotechnic display synced to a curated playlist by Dallas native DJ Lucy Wrubel, there will be a ton of food trucks. The event is free to attend, but bring some cash to try The Butcher’s Son, Cone Creamery, Fletcher’s Original Corny Dogs, Greek Lover, Halal Mother Truckers, Palmer’s Hot Chicken, Serious Salads, Sushi Dojo, Taste of Cuba, What’s the Flava, or Yummy Pizza. For more information, visit KlydeWarrenPark.org.

7.) On Sat, Jul 8, from 8am to 4pm, the 38th Annual Parker County Peach Festival sweetens up Historic Downtown Weatherford. Along with 200-plus activities, arts and crafts opportunities, and food-but-notpeaches vendors, there are tons of peaches to try. Get your fill of homemade peach cobbler, ice cream, pie, smoothies, and fresh peaches. Tickets are $10 at PeachFestivalTX.com.

8.) Above all else, spend the holiday with family and friends at the many local, independent businesses around North Texas. That’s what we Weeklyteers will be up to Mon-Tue. Not working. Nope. Not doing it. Like many of you, we will enjoy a four-day weekend, then tumble into the workweek early Wednesday. (Translation: The Weekly offices will be closed for the holiday. Next week’s paper will be put to bed a day late and

By Jennifer Bovee

Order the Miss Fourth of July Pie from Sweet Lucy’s ASAP.

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EATS & drinks

Blinded by Calisience

Now in a brick-andmortar, this Tex-Mex/ ramen spot still sizzles.

Calisience, 2707 Race St, FW. 817-386-5287. 4-8pm Mon, 11am-8pm Tue-Sat. Credit cards only.

BY LAURIE JAMES

Earlier this year, Calisience maven Jacqueline Anaya moved her recipes from her old food truck on Belknap Street into a revamped restaurant in the Six Points Urban Village, the area that encompasses Race Street and the eastern part of the Trinity River. The building formerly housed Dino’s Sports Bar, and it’s cavernous, with enough room to host 100 or more. Anaya has kept things simple with the unfussy wood furnishings and has focused on what got her where she is: the birria.

Birria de res is cooked low and slow for about 12 hours, yet unlike barbecue, the meat simmers in a complexly layered, warmly spicy broth on a stove rather than on a smoker. Anaya’s recipe is a secret from her abuela, but I tasted hints of cinnamon and a really mild pepper.

Tacos Dorados, three corn tortillas filled with slow-cooked beef and mild Monterrey Jack cheese, are seared to order on a flat top. Remember that your order isn’t sitting under a heat lamp and will take a few minutes to arrive piping hot and crispy. If you’ve lived under a rock for the last three years or more, birria tacos are a marriage of quesadilla and taco, deliciously stuffed with moist beef. They’re like the perfect grilled cheese, but instead of dipping the yumminess in

tomato soup, you have both the hearty consommé and a creamy, spicy green salsa. The salsa actually cut the beefy, cheesy heaviness of the second taco beautifully. A small bowl of chopped onion, radish, and cilantro provided a customizable touch.

At Calisience, consommé flavors everything from the tacos to bowls of ramen with a scoop of beef on top. After considering the noodles, my dining companion opted for the burrito. The giant, perfectly grilled flour

tortilla came filled with all the good things, including beef, rice, cheese, silky beans, and, if you want it, cilantro. Unfortunately, what makes the birria tacos extraordinary makes the burrito gummy and a little soggy.

Horchata, ordered as an afterthought on the way out, was a perfect dessert-like treat. The plain version wasn’t overly sweet, and on the day we visited, a strawberry version was also on offer.

Despite opening recently, Calisience still can’t sell you an alcoholic beverage in the restaurant. The presence of the giant bar in the new space is part hopeful and part sad reality that smaller owner-operators have to jump through an inordinate number of hoops for the TABC’s blessings. As of this continued on page 22

In the old Dino’s space, Calisience is wide and welcoming.

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The brisket elotes are new.

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writing, the restaurant is still BYOB. Call to check before you go, or consult Calisience’s social media –– often the restaurant closes for private events. Unusually, they won’t take your cash. It’s credit card only here.

In the spring of 2021, Anaya was included in a Texas Monthly article about women-owned taco shops. At that point, she had pivoted as much as she could, from cooking in her house to running an older food truck right through the heart of the COVID closures, reopenings, and supply-chain chaos. The menu in the brickand-mortar has been pared perfectly to maximize the success that Anaya already has. I’d rather have fewer choices of food homemade with love from a family recipe than see an extravagant number of semi-homemade options courtesy of Sysco. Just as great as the food itself is that you don’t have to wait outside on Belknap Street for a few hours for your birria fix and you won’t slop the consommé in your car — unless you can’t wait to dig into your takeout on the way home. l

Tacos Dorado, or perfect mini grilled cheeses on tortillas with slow-simmered beef, await at Calisience.

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came filled with all the good burrito things, including beef, rice, cheese, silky beans, and, if you want it, cilantro.

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LYCHEE’S CHICHIS

Taking Up The Burden

Now with a “badass” backing band, country crooner Cory Cross captures the group’s energetic honky-tonk flair on their new EP.

BY PATRICK HIGGINS

In the world of country music, especially when an artist is just coming up, a solo singer with an acoustic guitar is the most common performance model. In addition

to recalling the tradition of the genre all the way back to its Appalachian origins, playing solo is cheap. Hiring other players can often be cost prohibitive, not to mention incredibly difficult to coordinate as most musicians-for-hire routinely play in countless other acts. When an artist does manage to put a full band together for a show, it can make for an uncommonly special event.

There’s something to be said, however, about the chemistry that develops when a band is able to play together consistently. When a lineup is set, and they perform several three-hour sets a week, say, a backing band really solidifies. They can elevate an erstwhile singer-songwriter’s craft into something new and exciting, imbuing energy and dynamism into the songs. This is certainly how Cory Cross sees it. He feels the influence of his new backing band, The Burden, has completely changed the trajectory of the music he makes.

“I kind of always saw myself as a songwriter’s songwriter,” he explained. “I was doing mostly solo shows or duos, doing a lot of listening rooms and coffee shops. That was fine, but the music I listened to was always the honky-tonk stuff the stuff that I always thought was so badass. I never thought that that could be something I could do.”

Last Friday, Cory Cross & The Burden released a four-song EP intent on capturing the new life the group has infused into Cross’ music. Live at Tomahawk Studios is a spry and peppy document of a honky-tonk band applying its best dance hall- focused craft.

“We play places mostly where people go and they want to dance,” Cross said. “They continued on page 25

Now backed by The Burden, Cory Cross is living his honky-tonk dream.

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want the high-energy country sound. [For this EP], we picked the songs that go over the best for the crowds that we’re playing to these days. They’re also the songs that I’m most proud of that we’re creating together.”

Cross said he can’t overstate the influence that drummer Austin Choate and bassist Kyle Farley have had on the group’s sound, a sound that the trio along with a rotating cast of leads like guitarist Logan Hall (Nick Brumley, Presley Haile) and pedal steel player Burton Lee (Eleven Hundred Springs, Vincent Neil Emerson) have developed over the last year playing several nights a week.

“A lot of these songs I’ve been playing and performing for over a decade,” he said. “My writing process is usually me sitting in my living room with an acoustic guitar, and for the most part I never really imagined the songs much beyond that. [Choate and Farley] started bringing things into these songs that I never could have imagined, creating this space where so much more could happen beyond just playing the chords.”

In making the record, Cross was initially approached about contributing a song to Austin Artist Spotlight, a YouTube channel featuring live performances of country artists filmed in Austin’s Tomahawk Studios by engineer James Epp. Cross managed to push the session to include the four songs, and the tracks were mixed and mastered to release as an album, purposefully recorded live in the moment.

“The thought process behind it was that we wanted to capture our live sound,” Cross said. “Up until two years ago, I never really had a steady band, but as we’ve been playing more full-band shows, the sound has really changed. It’s taken my songs and really evolved them into something unique. We wanted to capture that in the studio. I wanted to get some live recordings of what exactly me and The Burden could do.”

Cross said he enjoyed the experience of tracking the way they did and feels it faithfully captures what the experience of seeing the band is like.

“I definitely enjoy recording live way more,” Cross said, rather than each musician recording their parts separately, one at a time. “I get that there’s an art to that approach and you have more control, but personally I just like going in there and the energy of a live performance.”

That’s not to say they’re opposed to more conventional recording techniques. In fact, the group is currently gauging studio options for what will be The Burden’s first album to be produced by Choate this fall.

Last weekend, two singles, “The Highway” and “Done Being Good (for Good),” preceded the EP’s release, which was celebrated with a barnburner at The Post at River East on Race Street with Dallas’ Ottoman Turks and the wit and humor of local troubadour Tommy Luke. l

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gonna take her shot.

BY STEVE STEWARD

If you’re looking for your 15 minutes of fame, you could do a lot worse than audition for America’s Got Talent. The show, part of the Got Talent franchise owned by notoriously testy talent assessor and record executive Simon Cowell, is a series of entertainment competitions in which the winning contestants take home a large monetary prize and a chance to headline a show on the Vegas strip. Because of the program’s variety show format, contestants come from a wide swath of genres. From singers and dancers to comedians, magicians, and a bevy of burp artists, puppeteers, and sword-swallowers in between, AGT has something for everyone, and it was this spirit of inclusivity — that contestants’ backgrounds were far less important than their actual talents — that inspired local singer and vocal coach Lachuné to shoot her shot. In April, she traveled to California and auditioned for the show. On Tuesday night, audiences will get to see what happens.

When this story goes to press on Wed., June 28, the world will know the outcome, but at present, Lachuné has to remain coy about it. Whether or not she advances in the competition, she’ll have the chance to share her voice with a lot of people. For Lachuné, that’s what matters most.

Lachuné was born and raised in South Carolina’s rural Low Country. Her parents farmed tobacco, and her father was a preacher.

“I grew up singing in church,” she said. “Back then, it was just something mundane that everyone did. I didn’t feel like I had something special until it came time to decide what you were gonna do with your life.”

After high school, she enrolled at a technical college, intending to go into the nursing field. A music appreciation class would steer her in a different direction. Her music teacher at the tech school introduced her to classical composers, and from there, her world changed.

“She opened up my world to a lot more music,” Lachuné said. “From there, I got accepted to a music program at North Green-

ville University, and that’s when I thought I could make singing a profession.”

After finishing her undergraduate studies, she wanted to further develop her voice but also grow spiritually, to answer the philosophical questions that danced in her head. She enrolled in the master’s program in music at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth and moved here in 2019.

The program, she said, “made me value all the things about music I was exposed to when I was a child that I didn’t pay attention to, especially the connection and the beauty people experience from music. When we experience something beautiful, it does something for people, and that philosophical [idea about beauty] gave me the courage to ask questions. I love to sing, but for people who go to concerts, I was just so interested in what they all feel. It fueled me to continue the whole musicianship thing. It gave me the courage to share my voice, and it pointed out all the things about music that I really enjoy: being able to work with all backgrounds, experiencing empathy, the things that make maneuvering in the world so much better.”

For the past few years, Lachuné has divided her time between regular event performances (where she is often accompanied by a pianist) and teaching voice lessons, currently at the Dallas School of Music. In both endeavors, she works in a wide variety of genres and styles — for proof, her Instagram (@lachunek) offers a trove of clips covering the landscapes of pop, R&B, and soul, much of which came from her own musical upbringing.

“The cool thing about growing up in the South, there’s so much music you’re exposed to,” she said. “If you’re listening to early rock ’n’ roll, you find yourself listening to a lot of things that came out of it. How that relates to me? Something I discovered in Fort Worth and studying in my program, I realized I had a lot of context for a lot of different styles of music. Studying the voice, how it fits in those contexts … that freed me up for working with a lot of people … rock singers, musical theater actors, gospel singers. I worked with a rapper who kept losing his voice after his shows, and I showed him techniques to take care of his voice.”

Lachuné said that out of all the music she absorbs, John Coltrane and Etta James are two composers she always comes back to,

as well as multi-instrumentalist and folk musician Rhiannon Giddens. “She is an amazing composer, and I love reading her interviews. She is always talking about the connection between life and art.”

For Lachuné, that connection often boils down to the importance of self-expression. “Some people want voice lessons because someone told them they couldn’t sing when they were 5, so they just stopped, and what I hear is that someone told a little kid they couldn’t express themselves. And I want to get them back to that childlike way of expressing themselves, just making sounds. Kids don’t care. People need to tap into that childlike expression into adulthood.”

Lachuné also loves watching her students build confidence. “It’s not even just singers, either. There are people who might be really good at their job, and what holds them back is that they are not confident in their speaking voice. And I show them things they can do. You have this person who is amazing at their job now feeling confident holding meetings and speaking in front of people. And that’s a good feeling.”

Seeing her students achieve their goals has been its own reward, but Lachuné is still a performer in her heart and soul. And being present to that truth eventually motivated her to put herself out there.

“One of the motivations to pursue the show is that I’m always telling my students to go for it,” she said, “but I got relaxed and wasn’t pursuing it myself, so my audition … is me taking my own advice. Oftentimes the advice we give others is something we should consider for ourselves.”

Talking about the act of putting yourself out there, Lachuné mentions how she became a fan of America’s Got Talent in the first place.

“It was Susan Boyle,” she said. “The show was on, and I wasn’t really paying attention, and then I heard her voice and saw her, and I thought she was really inspiring.”

This would have been in 2009, when the Scottish singer was 48 years old.

“I’m 31 years old singing on a TV show that is open to many backgrounds,” Lachuné said. “I think you just have to encourage people to just try and go for it because you don’t know what is going to happen. I want to get that message out there: Music is for everyone.” l

Lachuné: “I think you just have to encourage people to just try and go for it because you don’t know what is going to happen.”

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EMPLOYMENT

Alcon Vision, LLC has openings for Digital Technical Design Experts for the Fort Worth, Texas office. The Digital Technical Design Expert provides consulting and technical skills to support global cloud base initiatives across Alcon R&D and leverages cloud based technologies to enable the R&D Business and IT design and deliver solutions in an Agile methodology. Job is 40 hours per week. Please send all resumes to Sylvia Cruz, Alcon Vision, LLC, 6201 South Freeway, Fort Worth, TX 76134, Ref. No. MM0623

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Alcon Research, LLC has openings for Senior Package Engineers for the Fort Worth, Texas office. The Senior Package Engineer leads mid-level medical device manufacturing package engineering projects from conceptualization to qualification and commercialization phases and oversees project conception, create user and design specifications, purchase tooling, control and track spending and project progress. Job is 40 hours per week. Please send all resumes to Sylvia Cruz, Alcon Research, LLC, 6201 South Freeway, Fort Worth, TX 76134, Ref. No. SB0623

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Aviation Finance Analyst is needed at Rock Solid Funding LLC in Colleyville, TX at https://www.rocksolidfunding. com/aviation-finance-analyst-job-listing/

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CHIP SPREADER OPERATOR WANTED: Road construction crew. Paid Health insurance and other benefits. Per Diem. EOE. 830-833-4547

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IT and Business Intelligence professionals needed by Vulcan Materials Company in Euless, TX (mult openings). Lead Software Engineer (code: LSE285) Lead full lifecycle software development for web & mobile apps. Work side by side w/ business analysts, product mgrs, & key business stakeholders to quickly deliver solutions in an agile environment. Build web apps from scratch & make architecture decisions. Software Development Engineer (Code: SDE296) Design & develop innovative web & mobile software products. Responsible for full life cycle of software product development incl coding, debugging, testing & troubleshooting. BI & Integration Engineer (code: BIIE300) Develop business intelligence (BI) solutions. Participate in workstream planning process incl inception, technical design, development, testing & delivery of BI solutions. Interested candidates should send resumes to Sharonda Childs Fancher, Attorney, Vulcan Materials Company, 1200 Urban Center Dr, Birmingham, AL 35242. Ref relevant position code (LSE285, SDE296, or BIIE300) in response.

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Now Hiring CDL Drivers with Tanker & Hazmat preferred. Also hiring Laborers. Health Insurance and other benefits. Per diem paid. EOE. 830-833-4547.

EMPLOYMENT

Robinhood Markets, Inc. has an opening in Westlake, TX for (Transaction Monitoring Analyst) (RHSD27). Apply qualitative and quantitative economic analysis to anti-money laundering efforts. Telecommuting permitted. Salary range: $72,321.80 - $ 92,321.80 per year. To apply, please email resume to Dana Cooper at dana.cooper@robinhood.com with reference to the job title (Transaction Monitoring Analyst) and job code (RHSD27).

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HISTORIC RIDGLEA THEATER

THE RIDGLEA is three great venues within one historic Fort Worth landmark. RIDGLEA THEATER has been restored to its authentic allure, recovering unique Spanish-Mediterranean elements. It is ideal for large audiences and special events. RIDGLEA ROOM and RIDGLEA LOUNGE have been making some of their own history, as connected adjuncts to RIDGLEA THEATER, or hosting their own smaller shows and gatherings. More at theRidglea.com

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