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A TAD OBLIQUE Shenanigans at the appraisal district reach new lows with the attack on a local Realtor.

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Attempts by one TAD leader to intimidate a local Realtor are being met with a unified front calling for accountability.

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As a large line of local homeowners began chanting to be let into the Eastside headquarters of the Tarrant Appraisal District (TAD), Realtor Chandler Crouch, calm and upbeat, slowly made his way through the crowd. He thanked the homeowners for showing up Thursday morning for a special meeting and chatted with them about the importance of fair and transparent operations at TAD. Inside the building, Crouch was the topic of debate for the appraisal district’s five board members plus chief appraiser Jeff Law. At issue was a May letter sent by Crouch’s attorney that said TAD was violating Crouch’s First Amendment rights TAD has a problem with the Realtor because, for the past couple of years, he has been volunteering his time helping thousands of Tarrant County residents protest their property valuations. Between 2015 and 2019, the number of formal protests in Tarrant County rose by 170%, based on TAD data, and local protest rates were far higher in Tarrant County than in other large Texas counties.

Last fall and winter, TAD’s director of residential appraisal, Randy Armstrong, filed four complaints against Crouch with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR). As the regulating licensing authority in Texas, TDLR could potentially revoke Crouch’s Realtor’s license if an investigation by TDLR validates Armstrong’s allegations. In early June, TAD’s five board members, without voting, assigned Chief Appraiser Law to investigate whether Armstrong’s complaints against Crouch violated any of TAD’s policies.

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One vocal critic of TAD held a sign that called for liars at TAD to be fired.

In Armstrong’s complaints, he argues that Crouch acted inappropriately when helping residents. Armstrong sent the letters from TAD’s headquarters and referenced sensitive information that would be accessible only to a TAD employee. If Armstrong sent complaints outside of his official capacity as director of residential appraisal, then he potentially violated multiple Texas administrative codes.

Several Fort Worth police officers and Sheriff ’s Department deputies barred several credentialed members of the press, myself included, from entering the building during the Thursday meeting.

Former TAD board member Gary Losada sat near the main entrance, resting his hip that he said will require surgery this fall. He stood up, gesturing his hand toward the long line of Crouch’s supporters to make

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Members of the media were barred from entering the meeting.

his point. TAD leaders are violating the Texas Open Meetings Act, he said.

“Nobody is able to participate,” Losada said. “They could have held the meeting in the regular board meeting room that holds 50 to 60 people. Instead, they hold it in a room that holds 20. How do you make people wait in the heat? This is part of a pattern of cover-ups.”

Shortly after Losada’s statement, TAD staffers lowered several window blinds, effectively blacking out TAD’s headquarters.

Before Thursday’s meeting, one confidential source provided me with a copy of a new TDLR complaint, this one filed by former and current elected officials in Tarrant County who allege that Armstrong and Law violated several sections of the Texas Occupations Code when they went after Crouch last fall. Chief Appraiser Law has publicly stated that he did not know about the TDLR complaints against Crouch, but one email published by the statewide blog Texas Scorecard shows that Crouch described the complaints to Law last November.

The new TDLR complaint, signed by River Oaks Mayor Joe Ashton, Colleyville City Councilmember George Dodson, Haslet Mayor Gary Hulsey, Losada, and Grapevine-Colleyville school district board member Tammy Nakamura quotes an occupation code violation that prohibits board members from acting in an unprofessional manner.

“It is a violation for the TAD [board] to instruct Chief Appraiser Jeff Law to investigate” Armstrong because that creates a conflict of interest, part of the new complaint reads, referring to Law’s longstanding personal and professional relationship with Armstrong. “TAD’s board should conduct an independent investigation.”

In the letter, the public officials list six codes that restrict individuals from misusing their government title or public resources for private purposes.

Law faces allegations from the group of public officials that he broke several sections of the administrative code that deal with public officials engaging in acts that are “dishonest, misleading, fraudulent, or deceptive.”

In the letter, the public officials go on to allege that Law has known about the TDLR complaints against Crouch since October but failed to notify the board, which became continued on page 5

TAD’s five board members are elected by Tarrant County taxing entities, the term that refers to cities, school districts, and other governmental groups that are partly funded through property taxes. He said that system effectively means that the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, and Fort Worth and

Arlington school districts can easily outvote small municipalities and school districts when installing board members who may not serve the interests of every taxing entity.

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Dozens of Crouch’s supporters stood in the sun for several hours while waiting for their turn to address TAD’s board.

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aware of the complaints only when the letter from Crouch’s attorney was emailed to board members on May 12. Former board member Losada alleges that Law has a history of hiding embarrassing information from board members. In mid-2020, Losada overheard a conversation between Law and former TAD board member Michael O’Donnel in which Law suggested that a letter sent from a state senator should be hidden from board members. In her letter, Sen. Jane Nelson described her concern over the high number of protests filed by Tarrant County property owners (“Culture of Deception,” June 16).

Colleyville’s Nakamura said her reason for seeking public office was to ensure that government is transparent and accountable.

“For the last several years, Colleyville has been a driving force in many attempts to increase just that, transparency and accountability, from the Tarrant Appraisal District to the public and taxing entities they serve,” she said. “As an elected official, with all the attempts to better the management, I felt it necessary to join in this complaint.”

Colleyville Councilmember Dodson said in a phone interview there are several areas where TAD has lost the public’s trust.

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“What he did was put the TAD organization in a position of them blaming Mr. Crouch for” allegedly inappropriate activities, he continued. Armstrong “used all kinds of internal information to make those claims. This appears to have been approved by the chief appraiser.”

TAD has a long history of failing to be transparent with the public, Dodson said, adding that he hopes the new complaint leads to significant operational changes at the appraisal district.

The new TDLR letter concludes with the group alleging that Armstrong used public resources for private gain.

“Jeff Law took no action with the employee, nor did he inform Chandler Crouch or the TAD board of [Armstrong’s] TDLR violations,” the letter says. “Jeff Law has a legal, ethical, and TDLR obligation to report knowledge or belief that a crime has been committed at TAD to the proper judicial authorities. Jeff Law has failed to report the activity of Randall Armstrong utilizing public resources for private gain to the district attorney’s office.”

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Cutting In

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A whistleblower alleges that Tarrant County’s former ME openly violated the law and, in doing so, potentially invalidated numerous criminal court rulings.

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Five days after we published a story about disgraced former Tarrant County medical examiner Nizam Peerwani (“Examining the Evidence,” Mar. 3), an anonymous letter full of accusations about him landed in our office. The sender, going by the name Johnny Hacker, left a nonexistent return address and no documentation to support his claims, but we were able to verify several accusations, either through subsequent open records requests or past reporting.

Enclosed were two typed pages packed with intimate details about the inner workings of Tarrant County’s ME office, which is staffed by seven board-certified forensic pathologists who identify the cause of death in homicide cases, unattended deaths, and other situations where the reasons for the demise are unknown.

“Somebody needs to help with the Tarrant County coroner’s office,” the letter opens. “Dr. [Peerwani] is out of control, and things are falling apart. We can’t complain when he does something wrong. Peerwani is really getting senile, and he makes mistakes all the time.”

In the early March story that piqued Johnny Hacker’s interest, we examined government documents tied to Peerwani and found that he may have practiced medicine without a license early in his career before working as an appointed judge — the judicial title afforded to medical examiners by Texas’ Code of Criminal Procedures — even though he was not a U.S. citizen, contrary to rules set by Texas’ constitution. Our research that was aided by veteran watchdog David Fisher delved decades into the past

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A whistleblower alleges that Dr. Nizam Peerwani falsified autopsy reports favoring prosecutors.

to examine Peerwani’s documented pattern of skirting state law, but Johnny Hacker described more recent allegations against the ME who retired late last year.

The Star-Telegram recently reported that a California family is suing the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office because an employee shipped the wrong body from Tarrant County to the Golden State in 2020.

Family members of Jose Gonzalez, according to the article, were horrified to see a stranger’s body in their loved one’s casket.

Such incidents, the whistleblower alleges, were commonplace under Peerwani.

“They released at least two bodies to the wrong families, and one was cremated,” part of the letter reads, possibly referring to the event that led to the recent lawsuit. The whistleblower alleges that Peerwani, to cov-

er for mistaken cremations, frequently falsified cremation request forms from funeral home directors.

Whistleblower Hacker alleges that Peerwani’s daughter used her position at the Tarrant County District Attorney’s office to help and protect her father. ME Peerwani, who was born in Pakistan, frequently invited female students from the Middle East to study at the county’s crime lab, Hacker alleges. On at least one occasion, Hacker claims, the ME used his daughter’s position to prevent visiting students from being prosecuted for shoplifting.

In trying to untangle the family connection, our open records requests found that daughter Sarah Peerwani interned at the ME office in mid-2004. She then worked for the DA’s office between 2011 and 2014. One

of two referrals for the DA gig came from current Tarrant County DA Sharen Wilson, who worked as a county criminal court judge in 2011.

In our March story, Fisher alleged that the DA’s office has a history of covering up criminal acts by Peerwani over the course of the ME’s 42-year career. In 1996, based on one Star-Telegram article, assistant district attorneys blocked the release of ME office salaries that would reveal the ME’s exorbitant earnings from the county and surrounding counties that contracted with the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s office. By the end of his career, our reporting found that ME Peerwani earned around $3 million a year through his various contacts with surrounding counties.

In the letter, whistleblower Hacker notes that Peerwani’s staffers worked for him and not the county — something our recent investigation found to be true. Based on Peerwani’s government contracts approved by the DA’s office, Tarrant County leaders paid his professional association — in this case, an incorporated business partnership — rather than Peerwani. That arrangement supported by county leadership for decades violates the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure that mandates all MEs to be an appointed person, not a company.

“All the doctors work for Peerwani and not county employees,” the letter reads.

“How is this not a conflict of interest? He pays them. They do what he says no matter what. We can’t complain when he does something wrong.”

Whistleblower Hacker further alleges that Peerwani falsified autopsy records related to the 2019 police shooting of JaQuavion Slaton. Based on a Star-Telegram article from the time, several police officers surrounded assault suspect Slaton, a young Black man held up inside his vehicle. Slaton suffered seven gunshot wounds, including six fired by three officers, according to media reports at the time.

“There is no evidence to suggest that [one self-inflicted] shot was fired from a police weapon,” Peerwani said in a statement at the time, meaning he believed it was a suicide when a suicide finding would insulate Fort Worth police from repercussion.

The whistleblower alleges that Deputy Medical Examiner Dr. Marc Krouse ruled Slaton’s death a homicide but that Peerwani changed the ruling to suicide. continued on page 7

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In a system where MEs are paid by the same county officials who fund district attorney offices, there’s an inherent conflict of interest that may pressure MEs across the Lone Star State to falsify evidence in favor of county prosecutors, who subsist on guilty pleas.

Last year, a Tarrant County district judge found that Peerwani gave false testimony in a 2006 murder case that sent one man to death row, where he remains to this day.

The case involved Tilon Lashon Carter, who was convicted for the murder of 89-year-old James Tomlin. Prosecutors relied heavily on Peerwani’s testimony. The ME testified that Tomlin suffocated but failed to disclose that the victim had a pacemaker.

Pulling favors for prosecutors is apparently a thing in Tarrant County, according to whistleblower Hacker.

“The doctors have a meeting every other Wednesday, and sometimes they disagree on how to make a ruling on a homicide case,” Hacker alleges. “Sometimes, a doctor or two don’t want to call it a homicide, but [Peerwani] makes them do it anyway. But he never tells anybody that.”

An internal audit of the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office in 2020, which was spurred by demands from local defense attorneys, found 59 errors in 27 cases.

“The number of bad autopsies [performed under Peerwani’s stewardship] is easily in the thousands, but they were not mistakes,” watchdog Fisher told us. “This was a business built on providing various customers — DAs, federal prisons — what they wanted in the way of autopsy findings.”

Whistleblower Hacker alleges that Peerwani would lie about equipment being broken to be able to order new X-ray machines, diagnostic tools, and medical supplies that he would use for personal business. Our open records requests found several large orders for X-ray equipment by Peerwani over the past several years, but tying a specific order to Hacker’s letter is not possible because the written accusations do not have specific dates.

Peerwani “has taken on cases from Lubbock County to make more money,” reads another whistleblower allegation that we verified.

Peerwani’s current agreement with Lubbock County, based on county documents, afforded a 60% profit share with the remainder going to Tarrant County. Monthly payments to Peerwani’s professional association from that county range from $40,000 to $50,000, according to Lubbock County documents.

“The morgue is a mess because toxicology samples have got mixed up,” the letter reads. “DNA samples have got mixed up.

Histology samples have been mixed up. They released at least two bodies to the wrong families. Peerwani had it covered up and even tried to write a fake cremation request.”

The early-December appointment of Peerwani’s replacement, Dr. Kendall Crowns, continues the county’s history of skirting state laws. Crowns’ appointment may be invalid because Peerwani was still the acting ME when Crowns was sworn in.

In September, the Tarrant County Commissioners Court extended Peerwani’s contract through Dec. 31, 2021. This agreement approved by the DA’s office would invalidate any official who tried to take the oath of office before Jan. 1, 2022.

The oft-cited Crawford v. Saunders established the precedent that elected officials in Texas cannot appoint a judicial officer if there is no vacancy in the office. The 1894 ruling by the Texas Court of Civil Appeals ruled that county commissioners in Frio County could not appoint a justice of the peace to replace the JP who fled the state.

Two officers cannot hold the same office at the same time, the court ruled.

Crowns was not more eligible to assume the position of county ME than Joe Biden would have been to take on the presidency prior to Jan. 1, 2021. Because of that blunder on the part of county leaders, every decision made by Crowns since early December may be null and void.

Law enforcement across the state has been reluctant to prosecute scofflaw MEs, but the recent arrest of two Nueces County medical examiners shows how quickly MEs can stack up felony charges. In April, Nueces County’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Adel Shaker, and former chief deputy medical examiner, Dr. Sandra Lyden, were arrested when law enforcement learned that Shaker hired Lyden knowing she didn’t have a proper medical license. Shaker faces multiple third-degree felony charges while Lyden has been charged with 15 counts of medical malpractice.

Although ME prosecutions remain exceedingly rare in Texas, the recent arrests in Nueces County may signify a new trend in which medical examiners are no longer allowed to operate free from scrutiny and accountability.

Hacker’s letter closes with a desperate plea for help.

“Why won’t anyone investigate him?” they write. “Please, please help. He is a crook, and no one outside of this office will believe us.”

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(LVE) First Town Hall July 28th This meeting is for us to learn what each Department does, and ask questions freely?

GUESTS Kim Neal ................. Police Oversight Monitor Kim Neal, JD, LPEC, CCEP, became Fort Worth’s first independent Police Oversight Monitor

Ward Robertson ....................... Force Analysis Lieutenant Ward Robinson – a 28-year veteran with FWPD and currently assigned as the Use of Force Coordinator for the Fort Worth Police Department.

Keith Morris .............................. CCPD Funds ?

(LVE) has receives information that the CCPD fund are not being use in a proper manner after the city council removed the independent oversight committee of those funds.

We invited Keith Morris to be a guest to speak to this but even though we have called and e-mailed Keith, we are not getting a response. If you would like to ask Keith to join us on July 28 call him (817) 392-4243

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Correcting Texas History

Local author and Weekly contributor donates earnings from two books to fund a scholarship at his alma mater.

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The tricky thing about history? The story depends on who’s holding the pen. And when you have a bunch of white guys holding the pen by default, well, a whole lot of stuff tends to get trimmed, glossed over, or altogether left out.

Local author and Weekly contributor E.R. Bills knows a thing or two about this.

Bills has dedicated much of his career to writing books about less-than-savory, often not widely known portions of American history.

“Texas is known for and likes to think of itself as friendly and all,” he said during a phone call this week, “but some of the stuff that has gone on here and has happened to persons of color, and women, it hasn’t been great.”

Two of his books — Black Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror and The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas — center on atrocities that white Texans committed against Black Texans in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Bills, who is white, felt the need to give back, specifically to others with an interest in history. To that end, he is donating all previous and future profits from those two books to fund the Remembering Slocum Scholarship at his alma mater, Texas State University. The fund will award at least one $729 grant per semester to students in the African American Studies minor program.

The award number was selected to commemorate the date of the Slocum massacre.

“As he says, ‘I’m just this white guy,’ ” said Dr. Dwonna Goldstone, director of the minor program during a phone call with me this week. “He felt the need to give back in a real, tangible way.”

Goldstone recounted the story of a former student she had not heard from in

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E.R. Bills, shown here with Dr. Khalilah Camacho-Ali, Muhammad Ali’s first wife, said, “People need to read more, not less.

They need to know more, not less.”

a while. The student reached out and explained she was working a fast-food job in addition to a full-time job in Austin and had to put school on hold until she had saved a little more money.

“For a student like her,” Goldstone said, “this money is the difference between being able to drop a job and finish this degree and stretching it out for another two semesters.”

The scholarship will not be tied directly to grades or given only to top students, Goldstone said.

Texas State brought Goldstone on board to direct the new African American Studies minor in 2019. Planning for the program began in 2017. She said the students really “demanded” the program.

“Donald Trump’s [2016] election really encouraged students to rethink what it means to live in this country,” she said.

The shifting political landscape is what led Bills to start the scholarship program.

He said he has been particularly offended by conservatives pushing to ban certain types of books in schools.

“I thought this was crazy,” he said. “I mean, people need to read more, not less.

They need to know more, not less. I don’t want these sorts of discussions and these sorts of history ignored. It needs to be promoted.

“It really just struck a chord, and I thought, ‘What can I do to combat that?

What can I do to promote this type of history?

What can I do to promote this discussion?’ ” For Bills, his first exposure to the unsanitized version of history came from classes at Texas State.

Goldstone said she finds it rewarding to watch her white students’ minds open as they learn more in history classes.

“I always tell them, ‘I want you to advocate for me when I’m not in the room,’ ” she said. l

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There have been 10 deaths tied to COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic at the Tarrant County Jail. Sheriff Bill Waybourn’s method of mitigating the spread of the disease within his jail was issuing half a bar of soap every other Friday to the entire population of people in jail custody. Throughout the course of his tenure as sheriff, Waybourn has repeatedly made headlines because of the abuses against people in his jail. Most recently, community members have called for his resignation over the incident involving Kelly Masten, a 38-year-old who suffers from a seizure disorder. In April, Masten was hospitalized for injuries incurred from seizures that Masten’s relatives allege resulted from inadequate medical care by Tarrant County jailers.

People are rallying around the common theme that Waybourn is failing at his job of upholding public safety in Tarrant County.

Now, as the country’s infectious disease experts warn of another round of COVID-19 infections on the horizon this summer, community members are once again urging the sheriff to initiate policies of decarceration to help stop the spread of COVID-19 within his jail. The sheriff has tried six different methods of slowing the spread. All of them have failed. Therefore, the one method that he has repeatedly refused to try, which is decarceration, must be at the forefront of his priorities.

Due to the overcrowded nature of county jails, worldwide disease experts have repeatedly called for decarceral policies to create more space for social distancing within facilities. Failure to conduct decarceration inevitably leads to the rapid spread of infectious diseases within facilities and, eventually, outside of facilities due to guards, staff members, and recently released people leaving jail and entering back into their communities. Sheriff Waybourn’s refusal to initiate carceral policies and decision to carry on with “business as usual” have caused 10 reported in-custody deaths due to COVID-19 and, at its highest, 176 cases of COVID-19 among its population during the Omicron surge.

Over the past two years, I have been following the spread of the pandemic within Tarrant County Jail through the filing of dozens of open records requests. I have found that the Tarrant County Sheriff ’s Department has primarily used the following six methods to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among its incarcerated population:

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Jail’s incarcerated population, I have determined the above six practices to have proven ineffective because they have failed to prevent any of the four surges of COVID-19 cases among its incarcerated population since the beginning of the pandemic. In fact, during the highly infectious Omicron surge, which caused the record-high 176 cases of COVID-19 among the jail’s in-custody population, five out of six of the aforementioned practices were in place, along with the COVID-19 vaccine, yet levels of infection continued to rise. The only practice that was not in place at this time was the half-bar-ofsoap practice, which was discontinued because of “limited supplies.” Much hope was centered on the introduction of the vaccine, and according to much research, it has saved countless lives. It has not stopped the spread of COVID-19 within carceral facilities. In fact, according to open records, the Tarrant County Sheriff ’s Office is not even making an effort to track which detention officers are currently vaccinated.

The call for decarceration is, of course, a matter of being morally just, and it is also a matter of public health. According to Neal Marquez, a researcher with the UCLA School of Law’s COVID Behind Bars Data Project, “Jail cycling has been shown to contribute to community spread in previous research.

In Tarrant County, we see a pattern that is in line with such spreading where outbreaks in the jail precede outbreaks in the community. While we cannot definitively say that this process is occurring in Tarrant County, the patterns do warrant further investigation.”

We cannot say for certain that policies related to decarceration will prove effective in curbing future outbreaks within the Tarrant County Jail because it has never been tried.

We have substantial evidence from other institutions throughout the nation to support our claim here. Since the six practices adopted by the Tarrant County Sheriff ’s Office already failed to keep incarcerated people safe, one can only help but wonder, “Why not try decarceration?” In fact, Tarrant County Sheriff ’s Office has experienced a surplus of people in its custody that has exceeded its capacity. In response, law enforcement in Tarrant County has adopted temporary practices to limit the amount of people arrested and brought into Tarrant County’s jail. On some levels, decarceral policies have already been tried in Tarrant County. Why not make them permanent? It may just prevent more senseless in-custody deaths.

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SCREEN This Fort Worth company’s debut short The Mystery Murder is making the film festival rounds — and racking up awards.

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Filmed at the Alexander Mansion in Dallas in February 2020, right before the world shut down, The Mystery Murder is a 15-minute horror/comedy short with a pretty wild and fun — and demented — twist at the end. Coffee Pot Films’ debut work premiered at the Flatland Film Festival in Lubbock last September and has traveled to nine festivals since then, racking up awards at every stop. All that’s left is an OK from the San Antonio International Film Festival in August, and then the company’s two chief creatives — Anthony Milton and Ian McKenyon — will release The Mystery Murder on Coffee Pot’s YouTube channel and move on to more wild and wacky work.

“Considering this is our first short film, we were happy to simply get acceptance, but with nine accepted, so far, out of 31 submissions, along with nine awards, also so far, we feel energized and excited to keep going and push ourselves further,” McKenyon said.

Milton and McKenyon started Coffee Pot Films in Fort Worth in 2010 as a “fun and interesting way,” Milton said, to brand their film company. With experience as production assistants and on various sets, Milton and McKenyon say their skill now comes partially from film school and partially from learning on the go. Coffee Pot now has grown to nearly 10 cinematographers and core members.

“We wanted to make fun videos together in the beginning,” Milton said, adding that he and his compatriots started off as a

Coffee Pot Films has a fire to “keep going.”

sketch comedy troupe “throwing things up on YouTube.”

Over the past few years, Coffee Pot Films has produced several local music videos for Mean Motor Scooter, Phantomelo, and Denver Williams & The Gas Money, and Siamese Hips. That work, along with

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some crowdsourcing online, helped fund The Mystery Murder.

Coffee Pot Films’ core and its “directors,” Milton and McKenyon, share ideas and look at themselves as a group of creatives sharing roles under the Coffee Pot Films umbrella.

“It shows the fun in our group, but we rely on people who want to make it fun on the set,” Milton said.

Coffee Pot Films just wrapped up another video for Mean Motor Scooter, while a vid for Phantomelo’s “Shark Attack” is in production and another for Uncle Toasty is in the works.

Coffee Pot’s ethos is based in dark comedy due to Milton and the crew having a deep and personal relationship to the horror and comedy genres. McKenyon said that it makes sense and that it’s something their group of creatives would want to watch.

“Ultimately,” McKenyon said, “we love to make each other laugh, and if we can make others laugh, that’s just icing on the cake.”

The film has screened at the Orlando Film Festival, the Central Florida Film Festival, and Rome International Film Festival, among others. These mirrored successes, McKenyon said, give Coffee Pot Films “that fire to keep going, to push ourselves, and we are grateful and humbled to get awards, but even getting into film festivals is huge for us. … When it stops being fun, that’s when we stop doing it, but we hope it never stops being fun. That’s our goal.” l

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The laughs keep coming when other gods meet the thunder god.

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woman for Old Spice, but you’ll be happy to know she has kept Old Asgard’s amateur theatricals, with Matt Damon as the way-too-serious Asgardian actor starring in the show. Speaking of her, it turns out that Valkyrie isn’t the only queer character in the saga. While there’s a ton of Guns N’ Roses on the soundtrack, the narration

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she has suddenly acquired his superpowers, his hammer, and a fierce set of biceps. When Gorr kidnaps the children of New Asgard, the two Thors go after them, knowing all the while it’s a trap.

I want to know more about Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) turning New Asgard into an amusement park and becoming a pitch-

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Taika Waititi won an Oscar for his script for Jojo Rabbit, and that sort of acclaim can be death for a comedy writer — look what’s happened to Adam McKay. Lucky for us, Waititi hasn’t lost his bearings as he takes on Thor: Love and Thunder, his second movie about the hammer-wielding superhero.

The New Zealander remains a reliable gag man in a movie that runs deeper than Thor: Ragnarok.

The story picks up with Thor (Chris Hemsworth) having shed the body fat we saw in Avengers: Endgame and hanging out with the Guardians of the Galaxy when he hears about Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), a skeletal warrior with a deicidal sword who has sworn to kill all gods everywhere. Thor goes home to New Asgard and is thunderstruck to find his old ex, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), being more interesting than at any point in the series, because

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session. (It’s not easy to build a running joke around an inanimate object, let alone give it a personality.) One of the most audacious visual strategies in Marvel history comes late, when the movie turns into a black-andwhite film as our heroes approach Gorr’s realm of shadows.

I haven’t even discussed the comic highlight of the movie and perhaps the entire Marvel series, an extended set piece when the protagonists visit the king of gods himself, Zeus (Russell Crowe), in a failed at-

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tempt to ask for his help dealing with Gorr.

Thor is stripped naked in front of an amazed audience, a cute god of Chinese dumplings shows up, and line-for-line, this has more laughs than any single scene in all of Marvel’s superhero sagas. (“Stop! Another word, and you are not invited to the orgy!”) The humor here comes from all directions, but it’s mostly from Crowe, putting on a fruity Greek accent, dissing Asgard and Thor’s powers, tossing his thunderbolt around like it’s a basketball, and being enough of an attention whore to make you wonder why this star hasn’t done more comedy.

The wackiness effectively packages some serious stuff here, as Thor realizes he

Thor: Love and Thunder Starring Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman. Written and directed by Taika Waititi. Rated PG-13.

made a mistake by letting Jane go and Jane is driven by her own desperation — when we first see her here, she’s receiving chemotherapy. Their romance is conducted in front of Valkyrie, who pines into her beer about the woman she loved and lost, while Gorr’s murder spree comes after losing his young daughter after his narcissistic bastard of a god (Simon Russell Beale) failed to save her. It all culminates in a showdown

in front of a magic portal that grants a wish to anyone who reaches it, when Thor convinces the villain that love is a better answer than destruction. (It’s more convincing on the screen than on paper.) This is, in some ways, the most romantic of any of the Marvel films, too, and it shows us something.

Waititi is a filmmaker who writes jokes and engineers sight gags that land, and when he’s at his best, he shows that there’s a core of decency and humanity underneath all that. That’s the case in Hunt for the Wilderpeople and in Thor: Love and Thunder, too.

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National troupe Keith & Margo presents Murder in Sundance Square, an imFriday mersive mystery dinner theatre experience at Aloft Hotel (334 W 3rd St, 817-885-7999) twice monthly, including 7pm-10pm tonight. “Enjoy an evening of delicious cuisine and despicable crime as you help solve a triple homicide, but don’t be surprised if you find yourself at the business end of a comically snarky third-degree interrogation by our hilarious Homicide Detective, ostensibly from the Fort Worth Police Department.” Tickets are $62.95 per person and include an hors d’oeuvre reception, a three-course dinner with your entree

of choice, soft drinks (cash bar available), gratuities, and the live-action show happening all around you. For details and tickets, visit MurderMysteryTexas.com.

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Every second Saturday 4pm-6pm thru Dec 10, join Liberty Lounge (515 S JenSaturday nings Av, @LibertyLoungeFWTX) for Lit Liberty Book Club. Today’s discussion will be about Chicken Sisters

by KJ Dell’Antonia. Tired of being caught in the middle of a feud between two family-owned fried chicken restaurants, heroine Amanda desperately sends a letter to a reality-TV food competition, launching “both families out of the frying pan and directly into the fire.”

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We don’t have a gossip column, but if we did, that’s where we’d tell you that Jim Monday Austin’s son, Chris Austin, will be a cast member on the upcoming 19th season of The Bachelorette. Jim Austin is hosting a premiere watch party 7pm-9pm at The Warehouse (1125 E Berry St, 817-9239305). This free event features a cash bar, food vendors, and door prizes. Registration is requested at BacheloretteChrisWatchParty.Eventbrite.com. To learn more about Chris Austin, visit ABC.com/Shows/ The-Bachelorette/Cast/Chris-2022.

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In celebration of the show’s 50th anniversary, Bass Performance Hall presents Jesus Christ Superstar at

Have an animal adventure at the Arlington Public Library Wednesday.

7:30pm Tue-Fri, 1:30pm and 7:30pm Sat, and 1:30pm and 6:30pm Sun thru Sun, Jul 17. This is the production that won the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival, paying homage to the 1971 Billboard Album of the Year while “creating a modern, theatrical world that is uniquely fresh and inspiring.”

Tickets start at $55 at BassHall.com/Superstar.

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If you think it’s too hot to go to the zoo right now, you’re not Wednesday wrong. That’s why the Dallas Zoo will meet you and the kids at the Arlington Public Library Southwest Branch (3311 SW Green Oaks Blvd, 817459-6900) for an indoor experience 2:15pm3pm. Animal Adventures with the Dallas Zoo features ambassador animals, including birds, mammals, and reptiles. This 45-minute educational program is free to the public.

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Some people hike at national parks while others do yoga at the museum. If you like Sunday to take your wellness routine along while seeing the sights, you might enjoy Sound Bath & Chill at the Arlington Museum of Art (201 W Main St, Arlington, 817-275-4600), hosted by Arlington Yoga Center. This event is an “immersive experience, combining the tranquility of an art museum with the contemplative practice of sound healing and gentle movement.” The class is held in the museum’s exhibit hall, and your ticket includes admission to the current exhibit, Disney Art from Private Collections. Bring your own mat and relaxation supplies, including blankets, essential oils, eye cover, water, and more. Tickets are $25 on Eventbrite.com.

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At the Denton Road Show Buying Event 10am-6pm daily thru Fri or 10am-3pm Sat at the Hilton Garden Inn (3110 Colorado Blvd, Denton, 419-203-3720), experts will be on hand to evaluate your items. This event is free to attend, but registration is requested via Eventbrite.com. For more info on the items sought, visit PremierGoldSilverandCoin.com.

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I’m not fancy in the slightest.

Granted, my mom dressed me like my collection of porcelain dolls as a child, and, sure, I attended cotillion like everyone else in my junior high class, but I eventually rebelled against those velvety frocks and frilly socks — and we preteens fumbled through the foxtrot to Justin Timberlake’s absolute banger “Rock Your Body” on repeat — so

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The duck leg and breast meat, marinated in a sort of curried sauce, were tender and succulent.

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Garnished with thin peach slices, pecans, and fennel and drizzled with olive oil, the burrata was melt-in-your-mouth good.

it’s an unimpeachable historical fact that I didn’t learn much about being fancy either at home or at Bruce Lea Dance Factory.

So, when I glimpsed the menu at The Beast & Company, I chuckled to mask the panic bubbling to the surface. Worse, my companion on this particular outing subsists on a strict diet of red meat, sweet tea, and sour candy. Read: He’s the pickiest eater I know over the age of 5.

“Did I just bring you to a place where you can’t eat anything?”

We laughed about it, but even my eyes cartoonishly popped at some of the offerings,

like the chicken liver paté, grilled cobia loin, and pan-roasted stingray. Admittedly, this was an adventure for us both.

And what an adventure! The unique concept created by Owner Dustin Lee and Executive Chef Michael Arlt brings global flavors to Southern dishes, and I gotta say, the food delivered. An evening that could have ended at a drive-thru turned out to be a culinary journey that gave me a newfound appreciation for the finer foods in life — thanks to some of the most flavorful fare to grace my plebeian lips.

The restaurant, which opened in April

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after extensive renovations caused several delays, resides in the spot on West Magnolia Avenue which once housed Mamma Mia. Before that, actor and comedian Jerry Van Dyke established the space as a ’40s Soda Shoppe and Guesthouse. In a nod to the building’s history, the caboose of the train that ran along the ceiling of the shop is now perched atop The Beast’s wine rack.

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While the dinner options may have been “giving fancy,” as the kids say, we detected no air of pretension. Rather, The Beast’s ambiance felt approachable, and the hip music and amicable staff added to its warmth and liveliness. I didn’t even need to brush off my limited knowledge of formal place settings.

The decor was cozily Modern with Western accents and some remarkable features, including a chic black- and brick-

walled bar and what appeared to be a reupholstered church pew that served as bench seating for several tables.

Oh, but the food! The two of us indulged in a three-course meal we won’t soon forget. Every time our waiter came around to ask how everything was, my mouth was embarrassingly stuffed to the brim. All I could do was throw an enthusiastic thumbs up and stop myself from miming an O face.

We started with drinks and a complimentary amuse bouche: an airy ball of cheddar and gruyere the waiter described as a “French cheese puff.” My refreshing Hummin’ Bird cocktail, made with Blackland gin, elderflower liqueur, rosé, and lemon

and decorated with a hibiscus bloom, tingled the tasters.

Our appetizers, house breads and burrata, set the tone for the rest of the meal. As my friend put it, “It should be easy to talk about these voluptuous buns” — but some experiences are beyond words. Well, not for me. Otherwise, I’d be out of a job. Sampling the fluffy Japanese milk rolls was akin to eating a cloud, and, when smeared with creamy sea salt butter, the sweet cornbread shaped like petite madeleines went from a 10 to a 15.5, easy.

While I’m oft afflicted with hyperbole, I do not exaggerate when I say I would bathe in that burrata. Piercing through the soft outer casing with the toasted crust was incredibly satisfying as the melt-in-yourmouth burrata, garnished with thin peach slices, pecans, and fennel and drizzled with olive oil, slowly seeped out.

I wasn’t the only one impressed. When my choosy friend took his first bite of the banana-leaf duck breast, his eyes rolled to the back of his head. If that’s not the highest compliment, I’m not sure what is. The leg and breast meat had been marinated in a sort of curried sauce, and he gobbled up every bit — without even the promise of a treat for finishing his dinner. The sliver I nabbed was tender and succulent, so I can understand why.

My jaw dropped as the server carefully poured the coconut sauce in a delicate circular motion around my wide-brimmed

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The refreshing Hummin’ Bird cocktail, made with Blackland gin, elderflower liqueur, rosé, and lemon, tingled the tasters.

bowl of eggplant dumplings. If anything that night could be described as sexy, it was that pearl-clutching moment. With perfectly spongy eggplant and an al dente exterior, the handmade dumplings playfully volleyed between sweet, savory, and a hint of spice.

Dessert began with complimentary carrot cake cutely presented on a mini cutting board and topped with itsy bitsy carrot slices. You could feel the pecans, raisins, and textured batter as the cake fell apart on your tongue. For “second dessert,” enter: the buttermilk tart with peach and Chantilly. The consistency was like sinking your teeth into a crispy cookie that’s delectably mushy within, and the sweet and tart were enhanced by the summer fruit and vanilla cream.

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2.) Into the Dark Blue, a nonprofit group focused on men’s mental health and wellness, hosts gatherings to “pair what it means to be masculine with carefully curated adult beverages.” On the first Thursday of every month, all male-identifying people are invited to the Dark Blue Men’s Group 6pm-9pm at Funky Picnic Brewery & Cafe (401 Bryan Av, Ste 117, 817-708-2739). There is no cost to attend.

Just bring your own beer money.

3.) Head to Historic Downtown Weatherford (401 Fort Worth Hwy, Weatherford, 817-594-3801) 8am-4pm Sat for the 37th Annual Parker County Peach Festival.

Along with food vendors, there will also be arts and crafts, children’s activities, two stages with live music, and more. Tickets are $10 at ParkerCountyPeachFestival.org.

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4.) Sunday marks the first farmers’ market at the new location of Lola’s (2000 W Berry St, 817-759-9100). From 11am-4pm, purchase locally grown/produced food, fresh fruits, and vegetables from more than 30 vendors and food trucks while en-

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joying live music. This family-/pet-friendly event is free to attend and happens on the second Sunday of every month.

5.) A Geek and Her Brush, winner of Best Paint Night in our Best Of 2021 edition, is hosting a painting event at Neutral Ground Brewing (2929 Race St, 682-4996033). Buy tickets at Eventbrite.com by Thursday, then enjoy the Paint & Pints: Paint Your Pet event 2pm-4pm Sun. Tickets are $30 and include all the supplies for your custom painting and your first adult beverage.

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

7.) If you’ve ever watched Sandra Lee on the Food Network, you’ll know what I mean by “tablescape.” Clearfork retailer Sugarboo & Co. (5270 Monahans Av, 682268-4366) hosts a Summer Tablescaping Workshop 6pm-8pm Thu, Jul 14, where you can learn to design, style, and set a memorable tablescape based on the store’s Speckled Ceramics collection. Tickets are

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1.) Need a final fix of crawfish for the season? Shell Shack Arlington (550 Lincoln Sq, 844-588-2722) is having a Crawfish Boil 6pm-9pm Thu. Tickets are $30 in person and include 3 pounds of crawfish, corn, potatoes, sausage, and eggs.

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$27 on Eventbrite.com and include all class materials for a ribbed ceramic speckled soup spoon, speckled ceramic pot, and faux sedum succulent. During the event, attendees receive 15% off all store merchandise.

8.) Apparently, a “glizzy” is a hot dog, and Martin House Brewing Co. (220 S Sylvania Av, Ste 209, 817-222-0177) is throwing a party in its honor. Glizzy Fest, from noon to 5pm on Sat, Jul 16, will feature four food trucks, a hot dog-eating contest, wiener dogs (and a cooling pool just for doggos), craft vendors, and a special selt-

zer launch. There will also be live music

by Texan Fool, a John Cougar Mellencamp cover band, and weird beer. “We’re tapping up a special batch of Best Maid Pickle Mustard Beer, and we’re releasing a hot dog water seltzer called Bun Length.”

There will be around 25 beers on tap. The event is free to attend, but if you’re drinking, then the $15 wristband is the way to go. It covers you on a souvenir “suckin’ on chili dogs” glass and four pours of beer or seltzers.

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MUSIC Comfortably Numb The Novakain boys rewind to where they’ve been for their fourth album and first analog effort.

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And, by all appearances, Novakain is here to stay. Maybe for not for another 12 years but still. This hard-rocking band ain’t

going anywhere anytime soon.

“We just love making and playing music together,” said bassist/vocalist Dylan Kain, who formed the band with older brother and guitarist Kyle and drummer John Bereuter when they were kids decades ago. “We’ve seen a lot of bands come and go, but we’re still here doing what we love, and that’s a great thing.”

After playing their first show in 2010, Novakain established itself as one of the hardest-rocking bands in all of North Texas.

Having performed all around North Texas, they’ve also played a few festivals and shows in Houston, Austin, and some small towns, too. The guys have just released their fourth album, and the all-analog, seven-track The Oh No! Unknown may be their best yet.

“We’re definitely very happy with this album,” Dylan said. “It’s our best recorded album to date.”

Recorded, mixed, and mastered in Hurst by Jeff Mount at Sessionworks Studios (Chastity, 3Eighty3, Jefferson Colby), The Oh No! Unknown offers a lot of heavy, ’90s-influenced headbangers a la Alice in Chains.

“This album is more sci-fi-/dystopian-themed songs,” Dylan said, “kind of a loose concept album.”

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Live Shows Now thru Early August in North Texas FORT WORTH Billy Bob’s Texas 2520 Rodeo Plaza, 817-624-7117 BillyBobsTexas.com FRI 7/8: Dirty Pool. SAT 7/9: Kaitlin Butts.

FRI 7/15: Dylan Wheeler. SAT 7/16: Jon Stork. FRI 7/22: Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen: Hold My Beer & Watch This. FRI 7/29: Ted Nugent. SAT 7/30: Josh Weathers. FRI-SAT 8/5-8/6: Midland. SAT 8/13: Vince Gill.

Main at Southside 1002 S Main St, 682-707-7774 MASSFW.com SUNDAYS: Fort Songwriters Song Swap.

THU 7/7: Xavier Bernazard ft. Sam Cormier & Byway. FRI 7/8: Celestial L’amour, Pinkhouse, Said the People, Authors of the Air. SAT 7/9: Labretta Suede & The Motel 6, Crooked Bones. SUN 7/10: Secret Keepers, The Static Creatures, The Bloody Knuckles.

WED 7/13: CHANT w/ Apparatus, Distorted Heartbeat, DJ Joe Virus. Stoneburner. THU 7/14: Apt 75, Javailin, JaeBoy, p!xel. FRI 7/15: The Grae, Arenda Light, Trash Puppies. SAT 7/16: Stoneburner w/CHANT, Apparatus, Terror Void Complex, DJ Joe Virus.

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THU 7/21: Death Befre Breakfast, Big Useless Brain. SAT 8/13: Bulls, Abbreviations, Caved Mountains.

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SAT 7/16: The Jon Young Band, James Cook Band. SUN 7/17: Rock ‘n’ Roll Rummage Sale. SAT 7/23: Squeezebox Bandits. WED 7/27: Jesse Daniel, Summer Dean. FRI 8/5: Metalachi.

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The Ridglea 6025 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-738-9500 TheRidglea.com THU 7/14: Mangata (lounge). SAT 7/16: Evolve The Revolution; Reign, Dispositions (room). SAT 7/23:, Near Mirror, Atlas Personality, Mother Gnome (room). SAT 7/30: BFF Music & Laughter featuring K Brosas & Pokwang (theater).

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7/9: Chris Cornell Experience, Kill ‘Em All, Man in The Box. WED 7/12: Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers. FRI 7/15: Le Freak. SAT 7/16: Metal Shop, Three Doors Down. WED 7/20: Topanga. THU 7/21: Jason Boland & The Stragglers. FRI 7/22: Killer Queen.

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HALTOM CITY The Haltom Theater 5601 E Belknap St, 817-677-8243 Facebook.com/HaltomTheater FRI 7/8: Aztec Milk Temple & Friends. SAT/ SUN 7/9-7/10: TXDM FEST XIII w/Prophecy. sat 7/16: Vivid & Vulger. SUN 7/17: Twisted Insane. FRI 7/22: Gutting the Midwest. THU 7/28: Convictions & Earth Groans. MON 8/15: Matriarchs, Living Dead Girl, Circa Arcana.

MANSFIELD Fat Daddy’s 781 W Debbie Ln, 817-453-0188 FatDaddysLive.com THU 7/7: That 70’s Band. FRI 7/8: Def Leggend w/Crüed & Tattooed. SAT 7/9: Mo Jiles Band. THU 7/14: Mid-Night Ranger.

FRI 7/15: Rockaholics. SAT 7/16: Andrew Sevener. THU 7/21: Rebel Yell. FRI 7/22: Le Freak. SAT 7/23: Rush MORE w/ Texas Floyd. THU 7/28: Reflective Soul. FRI 7/29: 80’s Night with M80s.

take for the guys, Dylan said.

“We wanted to do it analog,” he continued, “because we’ve always been about that classic-rock ’70s vibe, and what other way to make it sound like the bands we love then to do it all analog just like they did?”

The guys say Mount approached them after a show and said he really liked their sound. He offered to record them to tape for free, but scheduling conflicts prevented that from happening.

“Once we got the album together,” Dylan said, “we definitely wanted to go record with him and do it the old school way, on tape. It’s cool to record with someone who already digs your music.”

Kyle and Dylan grew up in Grand Prairie, and that’s where Kyle met Bereuter in third grade listening to classic rock. Dylan started writing songs when he was 4 years old.

“It’s always been part of my life,” the frontman said. “I never just sit down to write a song. They just come to me. It’s like this supernatural thing, God or something.

If we can jam and gel together musically, the grooves just start flowing.”

The Novakain guys already have a few songs recorded for their next album and said they’re going to start recording again later this year.

“We have created, like, our own groove,” Kyle said. “We just love what we do. We all have a deep passion with music and our instruments, and we love to make music.”

Dylan said they feel “great” about their longevity.

“Since we were teenagers,” he said, “we first really wanted to be rockstars and start a band. That’s all we really wanted to do. Of course, life hasn’t made it for it to become our full-time jobs — yet,” he laughed. l

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Out in the wilds of Gnarlington, specifically Caves Lounge (900 W Division St, 817-460-5510), Haltom City’s gift to rock ’n’ roll, and its only contribution to rockdom, The Me-Thinks, headline a bill that also includes The Infamists and Good Latimer. Get ready for some loudness. Did you say “loudness”? As in “Loudness”?

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