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Making Their Voices Heard The Fort Worth Community Arts Center is home to an exhibit that’s as powerful as it is culturally relevant.

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FEATURE In a state that loves to defund stuff, why the big ado over the police?

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METROPOLIS Via an antiquated form of bail, Tarrant County continues to disenfranchise the poor.

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On November 3, while much of the news will be gobbled up by presidential election ads and pundits prophesying the end of the world after this or that candidate is elected, Californians will be voting on a measure that could mark a turning point in the effort to end mass incarceration.

While Jim Crow terrorized Black communities through fire bombings, cross burnings, and outright murder, mass incarceration targets poor Black men and women by working within this country’s legal framework, and its most powerful tool for destroying the lives of America’s poor is monetary bail.

Say you are leaving a live music concert where you partook in a small amount of marijuana — the plant that can be legally used for recreational purposes in 11 states with many more states allowing its medical use. You can rip a bong on the steps of California’s state capital and likely draw little attention yet be thrown in jail in Texas for a minimum of 180 days for possession of even a small amount of Mary Jane. Marijuana laws in Texas are effed up.

If you’re pulled over after leaving the show, your next stop is Tarrant County Jail, our county’s unsanitary and putrid detention center where nine inmates have died this year under the watch of the sheriff ’s department. After being stuffed into crowded and possibly COVID-19-contaminated concrete rooms, you’ll eventually find yourself in a small chamber awaiting magistra-

Static Science Shmience. Reopen Schools Now.

Leave it to ’Murica to politicize the debate over schools reopening. As a vast majority of physicians say to limit social gatherings, some parents think it’s just A-OK to send their kids back to the crowded classroom.

I even know and like some of them. The problem is obvious. We are all being forced to ignore science by our elected leaders, our friends and families, and our neighbors.

We’re buying into the trick because we’re bored and sick and tired of this damn lockdown. Too bad COVID-19 doesn’t take any vacations. Scientists are expecting a horrible, virus-infested winter. Gathering in

groups certainly isn’t going to help.

The politicization is just more of the same ol’ same ol’. When the occupant of the highest office in the land will not disavow white supremacists — even after being kindly asked to repeatedly — people who aren’t white supremacists (“most” of us? “some” of us?) are going to be pissed, and they’re going to funnel that anger at said occupant, everything about him, everything he does or doesn’t do, everything he tweets while on the shitter. “REOPEN THE SCHOOLS” over and over invites the politicization, because over half the country hates anything that comes out of his mouth or from his thumbs, so for him to say that (again, over and over) is how the war starts. Implying that COVID is a hoax is all his followers need to clamor to reopen schools yesterday. Who needs science and data when you have Dear Leader

(From left to right) Marilyn Davis, Cynthia Mancha, Pamela Young, and Tara Wilson waited outside the Tarrant County Jail on June 19 to greet 16 freed inmates.

ultimately leaves the fate of SB 10 up to voters. If passed on November 3, the legislation will create three risk levels for detainees: low, medium, and high. Low-level defendants will be released from jail to prepare for court while medium-risk defendants may or may not be. High-risk detainees will be considered a danger to society or a flight risk and will be detained until their trial, although they will have an opportunity to plead for pretrial release before then.

One Tarrant county official recently told us that individuals with PR bonds appear in court at a higher rate than individuals who use monetary bail, so why is the

county clinging onto that antiquated tool of oppression? The United States is one of a few countries that allow private bond companies to profiteer off the criminal justice system to the extent that it is allowed.

A 2017 study by the nonprofit civil rights advocacy group Color of Change and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) found that a handful of companies collectively earn $2 billion in annual profits by bankrolling local bail bond companies, but that alone doesn’t explain why monetary bond is so entrenched in our country’s criminal justice system.

To begin to understand why monetary

to light the way with his bright orange face.

Blind allegiance to anyone, let alone someone who doesn’t think racism is that egregious, is dangerous, and we will all be paying the price soon.

My third grader’s school has already had two confirmed cases, and the doors have been open only about a month and a half. My wife and I are glad he’s learning remotely. We know it’s not for everyone.

Many children have exceptions. The key is that most school districts across the country are doing the right thing by offering remote learning. Is it easy? Hell no. My wife and I spent the first two weeks helping A. become accustomed to the situation. Now he’s cruising, doing even better perhaps than he would be doing in person — like many children, A. is what is so lovingly referred to as “emotionally disturbed.” He

has high anxiety, basically. Remote learning allows him to focus on what matters most: learning. He will learn how to socialize either with his friends via Facetime or once there’s a vaccine. We’re not sending him back to school until it’s safe for not just him but for all of us, including my wife’s 75-year-old parents who visit four or five times a year. The decision wasn’t easy, but it was right. Even the CDC all but assumes that most schools will experience breakouts, and that’s a gamble that my wife and I just aren’t willing to take. That some parents are comfortable taking that risk isn’t going to usher the virus out the door any faster, either. — Anthony Mariani The Weekly welcomes submissions of all political persuasions. Please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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It’s time to end monetary bail in Tarrant County.

tion. There, a Tarrant County magistrate judge who earns $142,000 a year will notify you that you have to pony up $1,000 to leave jail. If you don’t have the resources to pay that bail, you could be looking at several months or much longer in the clink before you reach a plea bargain.

County data gathered through open records requests showed that possession of less than 2 grams of marijuana can lead to bail amounts ranging from $200 to $1,000, based on numbers we obtained from January 1 through January 15 of this year. The average bail set in Tarrant County in 2019 for Class A and B misdemeanors and all felonies, according to the Tarrant County Criminal Court Administrator, was $4,785.09. Bail is posted in full by the defendant (cash bail) or paid through a line of credit issued from a bail bondsman (bail bond). Those bail figures undoubtedly keep many dangerous criminals from committing murder, rape, and other violent crimes, but nonviolent defendants are too frequently caught up in that same system.

As part of recent modest reforms, many first-time offenders in Tarrant County are issued a personal bond, also known as a “personal recognizance” or PR bond.

PR bonds require no cash down and rely on your self-interest in having the charges dismissed to ensure you honor your court appointments. Monetary bail requires some level of cash to be handed to the government as a deposit of sorts that supposedly encourages compliance with court proceedings. Receiving a PR bond is never guaranteed, though, especially if you have a prior criminal record. Tarrant County has taken steps to speed up the process of magistration (“Criminalizing Poverty or Ensuring Justice?” July 8), but that system is still largely based on monetary bail.

The California bill to end monetary bail (SB 10) was passed by the state legislature and signed by the governor in 2018, but lobbyists tied to the bail bond industry successfully forced a veto referendum that

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bond is so hard to abolish requires looking at the machine it feeds and the thousands of locals who earn large salaries operating that machine. Starting at the city level, where arrests are made, around one-third of Fort Worth’s budget is allocated to law enforcement. Fort Worth’s salary schedule for law enforcement is a reminder that public service can pay dividends. Several highranking police positions in Fort Worth pay $200,000 and higher. The next level is the county where defendants are jailed and prosecuted. The county criminal justice system is every bit as profitable when it comes to annual salaries. District attorneys rely on convictions (whether through juried trials or plea bargains) to validate the current prosecutorial system. One defendant put it simply.

The convictions, Kevin Jones said, are based on “bail that you cannot make.”

He was describing his current criminal charges for possession of a small amount of methamphetamines — drugs that he maintains belonged to passengers in his car.

“You begin to get weary of the food and the non-visitations,” he said. “Now, here comes the district attorney’s office, and they offer you a plea bargain deal. There are a lot of cards to be considered. If you do not take the offer, you could be facing a two- to 20-year sentence. They offer 18 months of state jail. If you take this to trial, they will push for 20 years. If you take the plea bargain, you get 18 months. You may not be guilty of this charge, but 18 months sounds a lot better. They get their conviction, and you get the lesser sentence. Everybody is happy with that, supposedly. Well, I’m not happy with that. This district attorney threatened me with 20 years for possession of a controlled substance under one gram.

That’s unheard of.”

Rather than wait for substantive reforms, members of United Fort Worth’s Criminal Justice Action Team are fundraising for the new Tarrant County Community Bail Fund, which frees Black and LatinX inmates who cannot afford to pay bond for nonviolent, petty crimes that too-frequently result from over-policing in Black and poorer neighborhoods.

When asked if monetary bond pressures inmates into pleading guilty on charges they did not commit or committed under circumstances that a jury would potentially empathize with, a spokesperson for the DA said defendants have the option of complaining on “plea paperwork.” It is up to the defendant and his or her attorney to address improper pressure placed by the district attorney’s office during trial or court proceedings, the DA spokesperson said.

The burden of ensuring that the criminal justice system is fair and balanced should not fall on inmates who may not have the financial resources to defend themselves properly. That burden should fall on the state — the institution that, in Tarrant County, too-frequently targets poor minorities for low-level crimes like trespassing, marijuana possession, and other offenses that result from over-policing. California may become the first state to begin addressing that egregious imbalance if voters approve SB 10. We hope they are not the last state to do so. l

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Public services are always on the chopping block in the Lone Star State, so why is defunding law enforcement so controversial?

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An increase in Black votes and Black representation in public offices following the civil rights movement was a major indicator of how effective the protesters of that era were in effecting the kind of change that most Americans now agree were needed.

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othing says “Texas” like rodeos, smoked ’cue, and underfunded government services. When public services are cut, Texas always goes big, and the poor suffer the consequences, so why are Gov. Greg Abbott and other elected officials throwing a fit over the mere idea of defunding law enforcement?

From a symbolic standpoint, it’s great to see the Guv putting his foot down to protect a taxpayer-funded service for once, albeit a system that is understood by many to be unsalvageable in its current form given decades of racially driven policing habits and the too-frequent shootings of unarmed Black men and women. Being pulled over for a DWB (driving while Black) is so commonplace that the term has become cliché. Racist policing habits should not be cliché. Racist policing habits should be abolished, and the officers who perpetrate those acts should be ignominiously fired.

In Texas, law enforcement has avoided cuts while other services like mental health, public schools, and health care services are routinely gutted. The Lone Star State enjoys the dual distinction of being dead last in providing mental health services — 51st when the District of Columbia is included, according to Mental Health America — and a leader (seventh) in incarcerating individuals who suffer from

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Even as crime rates for major offenses drop, incarceration rates are on the rise.

mental illness. The relationship between defunding mental health services and jailing the resulting untreated population is well-known. Taxpayers foot that bill while paying into an incarceration system that preys and profits off the unlawyered poor.

Fort Worth police department created the Mental Health Crisis Intervention Team in 2018, but a police review panel

of personnel who are Crisis Intervention Team-trained. If you add to that the fact that they were only available from 9 to 5, those services may not be available when they are needed by the community.”

The availability of a psychologist or other mental health professional allows for interventions that don’t involve handcuffing, tasing, or other potentially harmful police actions, he added.

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Protesters aligned with Black Lives Matter and other reformers see police forces as an extension of a 244-year-old power structure that cares little for the plight of Black men and women and other marginalized groups.

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recently said that team does not have adequate resources.

“There are cases that police respond to that involve people who are mentally ill and need a critical assessment,” said panel member Alex Del Carmen, a criminologist with decades of experience in training police. “They need someone to take care of them. We feel that in a city the size of Fort Worth, we have a limited number

In the weeks following the release of the police panel’s preliminary results, Fort Worth police department said it began expanding its Mental Health Crisis Intervention Team and training every officer on how to handle interactions with individuals who are experiencing a mental health crisis. Steps are being taken to divert non-police calls to mental health providers, the department said.

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Texas is slated to receive $1.2 billion that has been allocated to public schools through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) passed

by Congress and Donald Trump last March. Rather than add those funds to school districts that have been burdened with unplanned technology purchases and other COVID-19-related expenses, the state plans to proportionately reduce education funding, effectively freeloading off the federal government.

Speaking to the Austin American Statesman last June, the head of Texans for Public Education, a public-school advocacy group, said the “state is hijacking that money by reducing the state contribution by an equal amount.”

School officials have good reason to fear further cuts under the guise of budget restraints. The appearance of a “broken” public school system provides ammunition for even more gutting of taxpayer funds for Fort Worth classrooms and boosts to that subtler form of publicschool defunding: school vouchers.

Arguments over school funding are inextricably linked to who can afford quality education and who can’t.

Last month, dozens of well-to-do parents, largely from the Tanglewood neighborhood, gathered outside the Fort Worth School District Administration Building to demand the immediate resumption of in-class learning. One male protester — and his message was not the exception that morning — held a sign that read, “ ‘Virtual’ Property Taxe$ 2020.” What he effectively meant was “No In-Person Classes, No Taxes from Us,” forgetting that taxes are intended for the greater public good and not for selfserving private (or, in this case, public) services.

Prompting the rally was a Fort Worth school board decision to postpone in-person classes due to public health concerns. The average home value in Tanglewood is around $600,000, according to Zillow. Maybe the signholding gentleman thought that paying high property taxes entitled him to a disproportionate say when it comes to

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Investments in public schools are an investment in the lives and livelihoods of future generations. After cutting and never fully restoring $5.4 billion in public school funds, Texas took steps to shore up underfunded schools by passing House Bill 3 last year. The $11.6 billion bill provides money for Texas classrooms and boosts teacher pay. The Lone Star State ranks about in the middle (26th) on teacher pay.

That victory may be short-lived, though.

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After publicly stating this past August that any city that defunds their police department risks losing property tax revenue, Gov. Abbott recently doubled down on his push to protect law enforcement budgets by going after protesters.

“Today, we are announcing more legislative proposals to do even more to protect our law enforcement officers as well as do more to keep our community safe,” Abbott said last month before laying out proposed laws that would create felony-level offenses for individuals who destroy property during an event that is deemed a “riot.”

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Understanding the disconnect between Abbott’s love of cutting public services and his ardent desire to maintain bloated city police budgets — typically one-third of city budgets — requires an understanding of what law enforcement means to different groups. Just as segregation and Jim Crow gave racist Southerners a replacement for slavery, “law and order” provided a new system of oppression against Black and LatinX men and women following the end of segregation.

A 26-year-old and recently uncovered interview with Nixon advisor John Ehrlichman describes federal efforts to use law enforcement to target Black men and women at the time.

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people,” Ehrlichman said. “You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public

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Fort Worth school dealings. The sense of entitlement was palpable.

COVID-19 has shown the fragility of Texas’ health care system, especially regarding the uninsured. Among the 50 states, Texas has the highest percentage of residents without health insurance (17.7%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau), partly due to a decision to not accept Medicaid expansion under the Obama administration. By not joining the 39 states that have accepted the federal program that partly relies on state funds, an estimated 1.2 million Texans continue to go without health insurance unnecessarily, according to The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation dedicated to improving the U.S. health care system.

Rankings compiled by U.S. News & World Report placed Texas 37th overall in terms of health care services, 47th in access to health care, 41st in health care quality, and 20th in public health services. The disparity in who has access to medical care in the Lone Star State may explain some unsettling realities of who is stricken and recovers from COVID-19 in this country.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists race as a risk factor for contracting COVID-19. The increased dangers for Black, LatinX, and other minorities are due to “socioeconomic status, access to health care, and increased exposure to the virus due to occupation (i.e., frontline, essential, and critical infrastructure workers),” the CDC says on its website.

Black Americans are more than twice as likely to contract COVID-19 and nearly five times more likely to require hospitalization for COVID-19 than white Americans. LatinX adults are nearly three times more likely to contract the deadly disease than their white counterparts.

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“Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

to associate hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing those heavily, we could disrupt those communities. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Policing habits and prosecutorial efforts that target minorities and the poor have sown distrust among the victims of police brutality. A recent Gallup poll found that 56% of white adults and 19% of Black adults stated they had either “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the police. The gap marks the largest racial divide found on the poll of more than 16 major U.S. institutions.

The American Psychological Association said in a 2014 report that “over the past four decades, the nation’s get-tough-on-crime policies have packed prisons and jails to the bursting point,

largely with poor, uneducated people of color, about half of whom suffer from mental health problems.”

While Fort Worth public schools are scraping by and local nonprofit mental health groups like NAMI of Tarrant County rely on donations to cover services that the state is not providing, life is good — and profitable — for the local law enforcement industry. Earn the title of police chief in Fort Worth, and the salary easily tops out at nearly $250,000 a year.

The highest-paid county official is the district attorney, the apex of a food chain that gobbles thousands of largely poor, largely dark-skinned locals into Tarrant County’s shithole jail every year. If you have any doubt as to the conditions of our tax-funded county jail, the Texas Rangers were recently brought in to investigate the

eighth death in that downtown facility this year.

Private companies like Recovery Monitoring Solutions and others garner tens of thousands of Tarrant County dollars (plus fees from unconvicted defendants) to create a digital jail and hell for individuals who have to maintain the devices and to keep up with monthly payments for pretrial services.

A 2019 article by ProPublica found that “across the country, defendants who have not been convicted of a crime are put on ‘offender funded’ payment plans for monitors that sometimes cost more than their bail. And, unlike bail, they don’t get the payment back even if they’re found innocent.”

The Weekly recently reviewed county documents related to a local defendant who was arrested three times due to technical problems related to his ankle bracelet and the resulting false alarms.

Reforming state-sanctioned human rights violations requires strong leadership from the top. Austin’s Travis County recently elected José Garza to the position of district attorney in a landslide victory and symbolic win for the types of criminal justice reforms that are nonexistent in Tarrant County. When Garza takes office in 2021, his top goals are to treat users of illegal drugs instead of incarcerating them and to bring all police shootings and a greater portion of police misconduct cases before a grand jury.

The debates for and against defunding the police and other areas of law enforcement — which is not the same as disbanding — is not, at its core, about budgets. Behind the dollar signs are two diametrically opposed worldviews on the function of policing and why it exists.

Abbott’s actions and statements as governor have shown that his interests lie with protecting the status quo for the benefit of his donors and the broader business community. Protesters aligned with Black Lives Matter and other reformers see police forces as an extension of a 244-year-old power structure that cares little for the plight of Black men and women and other marginalized groups.

Neither group appears ready to budge on their views of how policing habits should change or not.

An increase in Black votes and Black representation in public offices following the civil rights movement was a major indicator of how effective the protesters of that era were in effecting the kind of change that most Americans now agree were needed. Police accountability and moves to end mass incarceration will likely be the measure for the success of today’s generation of reform-minded Americans. l The Weekly welcomes submissions of all political persuasions. Please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly. com.

If the vice presidential debate is anything like the Wednesday presidential debate, it’s time for a drinking game.

Join the Tarrant County Democratic Party at 7pm for a Virtual Pep Rally that includes speakers and trivia, plus short video clips from cheerleading squads, dance and drill teams, drum corps, and marching bands.

The event is presented via Facebook.com/ TarrantDemocraticParty.

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What’s pho dinner?

This creative question will be answered by The Thursday Table (120 St Louis Av, Ste 103B, 682-703-1092). At 5pm, join a Virtual Cooking Class via Facebook Live and learn to make pho for a party of four.

The ingredient kit is $30 at TinyUrl.com/ PhoDinKit.

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Haltom Theater (5601 E Belknap St, Haltom City, 682-250-5678) already Friday had a small cafe inside the venue, so transitioning to a food and beverage license came easy for them. They have reopened just in time for their second annual Haltom Metal Fest. Fri and Sat at 8pm to closing time, see metal acts like Bull by the Horn, Cutthroat Conspiracy, Novakain, Protest, and more. The cover is $10 per night. Food and drinks are

available starting at 5pm. The music room opens at 7pm. Parking is free.

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Reverend Horton Heat is embarking on its first van tour since 1993. One Saturday stop on their Back-to-theVan Tour is Oscar’s Bar & Grill (1581 SW Wilshire St, Ste 101, Burleson, 817-4477232). Hear the Rev’s new stripped-down sound at 8pm. The cover is $20.

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Voto Latino and March for Science are partnering to Sunday present a live table reading of the script from the 1993 Texas-filmed hit movie Dazed and Confused. Most of the cast –– including Texas native Mathew McConaughey –– will be in attendance.

This livestreamed event will raise money for Texas’ mail-in voting efforts. Those contributing $25 or more at ActBlue.com will be emailed the event’s access link before the film screens at 7:30pm.

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If you are reading this column in Dallas, Happy Indigenous People’s Day. Monday For those of us in other local cities, today is still Columbus Day. In the length of a calendar blurb, we won’t get into all the reasons this is a hot topic.

If you are interested in this change being

made in your area of town, start by signing Andrew Teeter’s petition on Change.org.

The easiest way to find it is to search for “Indigenous People’s Day in Tarrant County.”

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From 6:30 to 9pm, bring your camera to Joe T. Garcia’s (2201 N Tuesday Commerce St, 817-6264356) for the Fort Worth Foto Fest: Foto Folklorico, sponsored by Tamron and Fort Worth Camera. Tickets are $50 per person and include dinner with special seating, photo access to and entertainment

by Ballet Folklorico Dance Troupe & Mariachi band, and optional Tamron lenses to use with your Canon, Nikon, or Sony cameras at the event.

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From 10am to 9pm daily thru Oct 18, you can enjoy the State Fair of Texas from Home. The curated virtual events celebrating Texas include new digital and video content and downloadable fair activities for kids, a.k.a. “Little Lone Stars.”

Visit BigTex.com/Fair-FromHome.

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According to the City of Fort Worth, Hispanic and LatinX Americans make up nearly one-fifth of the U.S. population. They have been influential in every part of the nation’s history, from art to politics to business to the military.

Celebrated from mid-September to mid-October, Hispanic Heritage Month honors these contributions.

The Hispanic influence on our culinary culture in Fort Worth was abundantly clear in our Best Of 2020 edition in stands on Sep 23 and now online. Beyond the categories for Mexican food and Tex-Mex cuisine, and the fact that there are so many great tacos we had to make a Top 5 winners list, Chef Kevin Martinez of Tokyo Cafe won Best Pandemic Hero for his contribution to the community. He asked businesses, chefs, and fellow restaurateurs to donate food, then created bundles and gave them away on Sundays.

If you’re still not going out places, perhaps it’s time to do some online shopping and check out new books

by Hispanic authors. CLASP –– the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs –– and the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress recently hosted their virtual America’s Awards.

Between Us and Abuela: A Family Story from the Border by Mitali Perkins, The Moon Within by Aida Salazar, and My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quinter were among the winning books.

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ART The Fort Worth Community Arts Center is home to an exhibit that’s as powerful as it is culturally relevant.

The Black Lives Matter movement has made diversity and social justice an imperative for local fine arts groups that purport to support racial equality and social justice. Economic justice — the notion that societies are just when pay is fair — may be harder to come by, though.

While a young person may be content earning subsistence hourly wages at a local museum, the top earner at that same institution can garner $600,000 a year.

Those disparities are becoming harder (if not impossible) to justify.

As discussions about social justice become the norm in private and public conversations, artists are making their voices heard, and Fort Worth now flowers with murals depicting victims of systems of oppression. A mural of Atatiana Jefferson watches over a corner of Evans Avenue on the East Side, and, although she wasn’t local, Vanessa Guillen’s visage has become a feature of Fort Worth’s landscape, thanks to two recent murals by Juan Velazquez.

Our Faces, Our Voices, showing at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center through Saturday, Nov. 7, is the most recent addition to a line of artist responses to police shootings and a president whose tweets and public statements too-frequently give comfort to white supremacists. The self-portraits by 15 minority artists tell 15 stories through honest and visually captivating means.

The show connects artists with given his reputation for masterful portraits of Black men and women. “Truth Is” viewers through printed quotes.

“I chose to be an artist because I didn’t features Holloway glancing toward the left see artwork that looked like me,” Stacie side of the canvas, like an inverted penny.

Monday writes as a preface for “The Mark (Abraham Lincoln’s visage stares straight onto the right side of the one-cent piece.) of Monday,” a bold painting.

Nearby, a confident Black female face Other allusions to that humblest of coins with her eyes turned toward the viewer include a bronze color scheme, the word held my attention for several minutes. “Glory” (which hinted to “Battle Hymn The detailed facial features and frock of of the Republic”), and a miniature coin outlined hair redirected my gaze back to resting behind Holloway’s head.

Jerry Lynn’s “His Story” superimposes her eyes. A small cutout near her mouth that reads, “Post Card” pointed toward an Black Lives Matter marchers over a highly inner narrative without revealing much detailed rendering of his head, which gazes unemotionally toward the right of more.

LatinX artists are well-represented. the canvas. A stream of sunlight bathes Armando Sebastian describes his love the protesters in golden hues. Forming of Mexican folk art and the lively colors the base of the work are less descript Black men and women whose associated with that thick black outlines lend tradition. Nature plays a graphic novel feel to prominently in his selfOur Face, Our Voices Thru Nov 7 at Fort Worth the lower third of the portrait (“Mestizo, I Know Community Arts Center, painting. Lynn shows a Who I Am”) as brightly 1300 Gendy St, FW. Free. knack for creating artistic colored birds perch on 817-738-1938. layers that are distinct yet flowering branches just complementary, blending inches from his stoically heavy thematic imagery poised body. Floating petals and the placement of his upper torso with forceful colors and varied textural and relaxed gaze portray a young man elements.

Each self-portrait is as unique as the who is at home with himself and his dual connections to Mexico and the United personality that crafted it. The widely spaced paintings allow for ample social States.

Lauded North Texas artist Riley distancing. Through its promotional Holloway was a natural fit for the show, material, the exhibit makes no secret of

its aim: to reverse underrepresentation of minority artists on gallery and museum walls.

Many of Fort Worth’s artists and directors at local galleries and museums are well-aware of the stark whiteness of top leadership at our artistic institutions. It doesn’t take a culture vulture to notice that the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and Fort Worth Community Arts Center have all taken steps to improve diversity among the artists and subjects that are shown and promoted.

The Carter Community Artists outreach program, for example, has done a commendable job of selecting brilliant artists who reflect the diversity of the communities served by the museum ambassadors. We can only hope that those same cultural institutions are beginning to have discussions on how to break systems that have historically allowed only white men and, to a lesser degree, white women to reach six-figure salaries and higher. Our Faces, Our Voices has shown that powerful artistic narratives can reach wide audiences when the artists work in solidarity toward a just and beautifully presented cause. l

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Bar food, am I right? Just an endless parade of the same burgers, nachos, and wings that you’d get at the local Chili’s or Applebee’s to soak up whatever mass-market lager you’re drinking. Berry Street Ice House, a new establishment at the corner of Berry Street and 8th Avenue where the reopened Moon Bar used to be, would seem to promise more of the same, but it has a few twists on its menu that distinguish it from the crowd of TCU hangouts. If only it had more.

The roomy interior has TVs on which you can watch the big game, but if (like me) you’re not comfortable with inside dining just yet, the establishment also has plentiful outside seating on unvarnished wood tables and benches, with cornhole boards and other outdoor bar entertainment. The traffic noise from the street didn’t bother me — what did was the extensive amount of bro country playing over the speakers.

You could seriously sit through an entire meal without hearing a single female voice.

That’ll wear your ears out.

Among the appetizers, the quesadillas were mostly forgettable, while Mama G’s nachos were made with Doritos, which came with so much melted pepper jack cheese and pickled jalapeños on top that the Doritos taste got lost. They might as well have been made with regular tortilla chips. Speaking of which, the kitchen’s house-made chips are the best app it has

to offer, because of the accompanying sauces. The standard fire-roasted salsa was unusually heavy on the lime juice, which I found I quite liked. For an additional $3, you can order their guacamole or queso with the chips, though my favorite was the addictive Prairie Fire bean dip, so named because habaneros give it a kick without melting your face. I don’t usually go in for bean dip, but I’d eagerly order this again.

Salads are often just pro forma in places like these, and the Berry Street Caesar I ordered was no exception to that.

(Might have been better if there had been actual berries in it.) The wings came in the flavors you’d expect, but I received a welcome curveball from the Cajun coffeerub variety. Typically, you find coffee rubs on steak, but the rub’s earthy notes worked on the wings, introducing a new twist to the overly familiar Cajun mix.

The sandwiches could use a similar tweak. I ordered one of the kitchen’s highlighted entrees, the Frog burger, and found that the use of duck fat and white cheddar cheese didn’t do all that much to make this stand out from the herd of burgers. The dish came with a toothpick that went through the top sesame and poppy seed bun and the two patties, but it wasn’t long enough to reach the bottom bun. What’s the point of a toothpick if it can’t hold the sandwich together so you can pick it up? Accompanying the burger were

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waffle fries that were so heavily seasoned with paprika that I initially thought the server had brought me sweet potato fries by mistake. They were still fried up crispy the way I like them.

It really was a mistake when I was initially served the restaurant’s Chicago dog, which stood on my table just long enough for me to notice the artful presentation of the pickles, peppers, and relish atop the meat. I actually ordered the Michigan Coney Island dog, which I’m told is a tribute to the chef ’s Detroit roots. I’m ashamed to say I was previously unaware of the extensive variety of hot dogs created inside the borders of the Wolverine State. The kitchen’s version of the Michigan Coney is closest to the Motor City’s, with a Coney Island “sauce” that’s a layer of dry chili meat topped with yellow mustard and finely grated onion.

Served inside thick toasted bread instead of a bun, this is a different take on the hot dog experience that you’ll be hard pressed to find elsewhere in our parts.

The bar has a decent selection of rotating craft beer on tap, and out back is the Berry Street Dessert Trailer, which is technically a separate business but is located on the property and keeps the bar’s hours. To compensate for the kitchen’s lack of desserts, you can go back to the trailer and order soft-serve ice cream as well as Sno-Cones and milkshakes that can be spiked with liquor for a more adult sweet. All this makes Berry Street Ice House a nice place to gather, with prices that college students can easily afford. A little more innovation would make it a great place. l

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Eagle’s Nest Sports Restaurant

Best Sports Bar, Best Of 2009 (8455 Boat Club Rd, Fort Worth) "...The Nest’s happy hour always comes in handy. Sometimes two-handy." This sports restaurant with a wrap-around patio has live

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Best Pizza, Best Of 2020 (3501 Hulen St, Fort Worth) Dine-in and watch any TCU football game at Zoli's and take advantage of the TCU Game Special which includes a $10 round cheese pizza and $15 buckets of certain beers. Zoli's has plenty of outdoor space and neighboring Cow Tipping Creamery offers purple dipped cones on game days.

Park in the garage across the way, bring us your voucher and we’ll validate it for you. Four hour limit.

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HearSay Cool New Local Tunes Maren Morris’ “Better Than We Found It” Not gonna lie, this made me tear up a little. As part of the video for her new single, former Arlingtonian and current international superstar Maren Morris allows disenfranchised voices to tell their stories in their own words. The song, “Better Than We Found It,” is inspiring enough, but letting her subjects speak — Dreamers about to be kicked out of our country after spending their entire lives here, a Black family of a victim of police violence, and two do-gooding teens — represents a step that most artists, especially country artists, are just too afraid to take. Tiny and unimposing, Morris stands like a giant among them.

And with some of them. More and more white country artists (is “white country artist” a redundancy?) are coming forward to promote social justice causes.

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The Mammal Virus started out years ago as a psychedelic rock band playing all the usual haunts here (Lola’s Saloon, the Wreck Room, The Cellar) and in Dallas (Curtain Club, Three Links, Double Wide). From that time, frontman and chief songwriter Lance Sanders developed a bad alcohol addiction that sidelined the group seemingly permanently.

“It took me 38 years to become the man I respect,” Sanders said. “I grew up in [prison]. When I got there, I looked around, and I’m around guys that are murderers.

It was really difficult. I made my first parole. When I got out, I had some issues I had to deal with personally.”

Sanders didn’t have much hope for rekindling the group, but after meeting new bassist Zachary Zanetich, the frontman said he was inspired. While Sanders said he still writes the same way, his subject matter has changed,

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They’re certainly not “bro country,” but they’re still under the same red, white, and blue umbrella. Working in a genre geared toward red-state America, these singersongwriters are sacrificing thousands if not millions of dollars by standing up for what is right. Morris isn’t only forfeiting stacks of Benjamins. She’s generating it.

In this case, a portion of proceeds from the sale of “Better Than We Found It” will be donated to the Black Women’s Health Imperative, the first nonprofit created by Black women to “help protect and advance the health and wellness of Black women and girls.” Visit BWHI.org.

The best part is that the song is simply great. It’s catchy and heartfelt without seeming derivative or maudlin. And when it comes to political art, the thing that shuts up all the naysayers is a quality product, and “Better Than We Found It” is a quality product of the highest order.

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has become more personal and heartfelt. Along with a new track called “Pandemic,” he’s also written “Foot on the Past,” about going all in on sobriety. The Mammal Virus’ new album, Nine Years of Medicine, will be feted at a soldout release party this weekend at MASS. In 2017 and after another nine months of hiatus in recovery, Sanders joined with Siamese Hips members and former Mammal Virus members Caleb Ditzenberger (lead guitar), Deven Kampenhout (keys), Rob Owens (bass), and Ray Villarreal (drums) recorded an unreleased five songs with Sanders carrying lead vocals and rhythm guitar. The songs were produced by Todd Pipes (Deep Blue Something, Flickerstick, Drowning Pool). Sanders said that in the songs he expresses his battle with alcohol after unfortunately having to spend a lot of time reflecting on his life and how he would get sobriety right.

Sanders is stoked about his new direction. Along with Zanetich, drummer Reggie Fine and guitarist Rodney Stoffer make up the rest of The Mammal Virus.

“I feel that this band is better than I’ve ever had,” he said. “I’m more happy than I’ve ever been in my entire life.”

After Zanetich posted that he wanted to play in a new group, Sanders reached out to him a year ago this October.

“I wanted to work with people who are on the same level as me,” Sanders said.

Sanders’ entirely new backing members pounded out two more EPs: The Vax in 2014 and Audio Ambulance in 2016.

“I consider this band to be a very versatile rock band,” Sanders said. “We’re not genre-specific. I don’t want to be tied down to any labels with the music I play but a Southern approach with psychedelic undertones and a straight rock ’n’ roll band.”

Nine Years of Medicine is a nine-track collection of some older material originally recorded by Ty Whaley at The Rechordium at EMP in Arlington and several new songs recorded at Cloudland Studios with Robby Rux (Ting Tang Tina, The Fibs, Big Heaven), with all the songs doctored and mastered with Pipes.

“I personally think these songs recorded with Robby are some of the best,” Sanders said. “Robby Rux was the best person I’ve ever worked with. He was the best music

Sanders (top left): “I grew up in [prison]. When I got there, I looked around, and I’m around guys that are murderers. It was really difficult.”

producer and music engineer I’ve ever worked with in 25 years.”

Bringing in new backing members all the time was inspired by Doug Marsh, who recruits new people for every Built to Spill album. As of now, the newly remade group is scheduled to record new material next month with Taylor Tatsch (Maren Morris, Summer Lane Emerson, Cut Throat Finches). The Mammal Virus hopes to release that EP by the new year.

“The songs are different lyrically,” Sanders said.

“My songs aren’t filled with so much hate. It’s more of a powerful message from someone whose been to hell and back and made it on the right side of things.” l

metallic stripe. I guess when reaching for the stars, bands think movers and shakers will notice “Dallas” way more easily than “Fort Worth” on promo sheets. And for another reason, cock rock is unnecessarily maligned. Sure, it’s associated with tough white guys, but that musicianship has to count for something. Right?

Sonar Lights does cock rock one better by standing for something. Good.

Percolating beneath original audio of George Orwell reading his famous quote about dictatorships, the trio’s thundering, Tool-esque riffage and rhythms conjure a hellscape, maybe/possibly one where the religiously righteous “law and order” contingent has assumed total control. The black-and-white art accompanying “Brink of Failure” by Basilisk Studios is of several silhouetted figures in front videoing Lady Liberty as she is consumed by smoke. Visit SonarLights.bandcamp.com.

Fort Worth. The colorful, evocative lyrics and Matthew Broyles’ strong yet friendly voice make “The Lake Worth Monster” one of the best tracks written about our fair burgh ever. Recorded with Taylor Tatsch (Maren Morris, Summer Lane Emerson, Cut Throat Finches), the song couldn’t be any prettier and thoughtful, though Broyles is clearly suffering, maybe a little bit life, definitely a lotta bit Music-witha-capital-M. “Now I’m driving up tollways / With polite little trees / And I’m driving up Northside / Past cemeteries / That remind me of how little / Time that I’ve got left to be / Whatever I’ll be / And I want to love all / Of the people I love / And I want to drink life / From a big Showdown cup / And I don’t want to leave all / Of this damage I leave / And the rent keeps on rising / I wonder how long I can be / A part of this big tapestry.”

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At the risk of sounding cliché, it was a nice little Saturday. TCU beat Texas with the help of a late turnover. Baylor burned to West Virginia in overtime, and Iowa State flipped the Sooner Schooner for the second consecutive year. It’s somewhat unbelievable there was enough time left to enjoy anything after the almost five-hour flag fest that was Gary Patterson’s posse visiting Austin.

The foreshadowing suggested from the beginning that this game would be slow and arduous. The kickoff required three attempts before the teams could proceed without incident to the rest of the game.

By the end, 26 penalties were assessed for slightly more than 200 yards. I’m not even mad, just impressed. Even Coach P got in on the action with a sideline interference call when a side judge went tumbling to the turf after colliding with Patterson during a play. Unfortunately, those 15 yards helped propel the Bevos to a touchdown on that drive.

All kidding aside, the Horned Frogs looked like a completely different offense from last week’s bummer against the Cyclones. Sonny Cumbie crafted an offensive game plan emphasizing the running attack that was dead on arrival the week before. Eight purple players were involved with 50 attempts on the ground, netting an improved 226 rushing yards. Quarterback Max Duggan (#15) started and played every snap. The sophomore slinger completed 20 of his 30 passes for 231 yards to complement his status as leading rusher. Duggan sprinted for two touchdowns, and freshman running back Darwin Barlow (#24) punched in the other. Frog kicker Griffin Kell (#39) earned his keep, hitting all four of his field goals in addition to three extra points to crown him as the leading purple scorer. Kell also collected Big 12 honors as the conference special

teams player of the week. The offensive frustration resided in the red zone on Saturday for Duggan and company, who moved the ball steadily in the open field only to stall repeatedly deep in Longhorn territory. Fans shouldn’t be surprised by this shortcoming as it was as common as COVID last season. As the field shrinks, defenses usually become more efficient while defending less grass. Spectators should be mostly pleased with how the offensive unit is trending. Expect Duggan to start making more deep throws and taking downfield chances in the coming weeks as his confidence and feel improve.

For as fresh as the offense looked, Patterson’s defense looked fairly similar to last week. The Frog scheme is not a

“bend but don’t break” system. The schematic nature is somewhat similar to a dammed river. When everything goes to plan, not a drop escapes, but a hole in the wrong place might wash the entire damn thing away. Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger (#11) passed for four touchdowns with the help of his talented receiving corps. If there is blame to assign — and there is — it rests squarely on the TCU (lack of) pass rush. “That guy” doesn’t exist on the defensive line right now. These Frog linemen are not making conference quarterbacks uncomfortable.

Adding safety and corner blitzes were only marginally effective at pressuring Ehlinger. Luckily, an interception just before halftime and a forced fumble on our own half-yard line at the end of the

The foreshadowing suggested from the beginning that this game would be slow and arduous.

game proved enough to elevate the Frogs over UT for the seventh time in the last nine meetings. I’m not a gambler, but I wish I were, because the Longhorns were two-touchdown favorites in Austin and I have a feeling some of our Funkytown friends have some extra cash in their accounts this week. Texas tumbled from their undeserved ninth-place ranking to 22nd. The Austinites were probably going to fall regardless now that voters are starting to include Pac-12 and Big Ten teams in the polls even though those conferences won’t play games for another three weeks.

This means that in the most pandemic-tastic way, Texas-OU weekend will occur during a drive-through-only State Fair and between a barely ranked UT and an unranked Oklahoma squad who each lost conference games in the previous week. How 2020 is that?

TCU hosts their purple counterpart Kansas State on Saturday afternoon.

The Wildcats are fresh off a 10-point victory over the Red Raiders and are corresponding 10-point favorites against our Frogs. If Cumbie and Patterson are able to maintain their rushing momentum and plug the big-play problems in TCU’s defense, then this should be a tight matchup our boys are more than equipped to prevail in. l

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In his post-game presser after the Cleveland Browns hung nearly half a 100 on his defense on Sunday, Cowboys Head Coach Mike McCarthy offered this bit of wisdom in trying to account for the 49-38 loss and the team’s third straight reckless, turnover-filled game. “The focus was on Myles Garrett,” he said. “We could have been better on the two big plays he made.

Obviously, one of them resulted in a turnover, but if ifs and buts were nuts, it’d be Christmas all the time.”

In the return to his hometown, Browns defensive end Garrett — the No. 1 overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft and an Arlington native — definitely made an impression. He mangled Dallas’ makeshift offensive line worse than McCarthy mangled the kitschy catch phrase made famous by former Dallas QB “Dandy” Don Meredith. (“If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas.”)

McCarthy’s garbled misspeak does, however, perfectly encapsulate the Cowboys’ season at the quarter mark. Id est: There is some semblance of a plan going in. The plan is executed very, very poorly. The end result is nonsensical, exasperating, and stupid.

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miscues, allowed at least 38 points, and tried to rely on Dak Prescott and the slim chance for a last-minute miracle for any hope of victory. Not a winning strategy.

Only once has that recipe worked in their favor. No question, this team really should be 0-4.

No matter the oddities, three consecutive performances like this is not random. It’s a trend, and I am far from alone in not knowing how to reverse it. Defensive Coordinator Mike Nolan certainly doesn’t seem to have any better idea. He currently resides at the helm of a historically terrible defense.

The front, aside from Aldon Smith, can generate no pass rush, and it cannot stop the run, or set an edge, or even tackle.

The secondary simply cannot cover.

The defensive backs don’t even appear to know their assignments half the time.

They cannot create their own turnovers or consistently force punts. The lopsided time of possession leaves them on the field too long and keeps them perpetually gassed, which leads to big plays by the other team’s offense, and on and on. It is a perfect hellstorm of injury, poorly designed scheme, and a dismal lack of talent.

It’s that last bit that is the most galling.

There is no talent, and they don’t seem to want to address it. The one true hallmark of the Garrett era was stubbornness. No matter what outside forces invoked their influence, Jerry Jones, Jason Garrett, and his staff refused to adjust. Whether it be

a general offensive strategy (“We run the ball, hell or high water”), a complete lack of in-game adjustments (recall Chaz Green v. Adrian Clayborn?), or a short-sighted and high-dollar devotion to average players because “We like our guys” (Tyrone Crawford, anyone?), it’s always been “Stay the course.” The front office has braided the rope, thrown it over the gallows, and pushed their own necks through the noose like slipping on a cheap necktie for decades.

It is this stubbornness, more than anything, that is responsible for the state of this defense. Look no further than the “We like our guys” mentality for this 1-3 start. There are players no doubt better than the guys currently taking the field stuck sitting on their couches. We don’t even need to mention the former All-Pro Seahawk/Raven who’s been campaigning to come here for the last two years. Don’t think Damon “Snacks” Harrison could help clog up opposing running lanes?

Or that our old pal Ron Leary couldn’t shore up left guard a bit in place of the infinitely bullrushed Connor Williams?

Or that Trumaine Johnson, with his 23 career interceptions, couldn’t bring in a pick or two in place of the perpetually lostlooking Darrell Worley? How could Clay Matthews possibly be any worse than how Jaylon Smith is playing right now?

Mike McCarthy has demonstrated he is not Jason Garrett. When Terrence Steele folded against Myles Garrett, Steele

was sat for Brandon Knight. After the wild touchdown pass from Jarvis Landry to Odell Beckham Jr., Donavan Wilson replaced the mightily struggling Darien Thompson at safety — though Wilson admittedly didn’t fare much better against Baker Mayfield and his receivers.

Point being, McCarthy has proven he doesn’t have the same stubbornness that plagued the former administration (and which still hinders the personnel department). He is willing to adjust. And it’s a disservice to him (not to mention the MVP-caliber play of Dak Prescott) that the Joneses are holding pat.

Two years ago, after seven games of the ineffective “wide receiver by committee” experiment resulted in a 2-5 record, Jurrah pulled a rare, un-Jonesian move: giving up a first-round pick for Amari Cooper. That trade saved the season.

Make no mistake, there are no single player silver bullet moves to be made that could turn around this defense, but it’s an indictment on ownership that they aren’t at least kicking the tires on some of these free agents.

Alas, CEO and destined heir to his father’s headstrong mediocrity, Stephen Jones reiterated this week when questioned about seeking outside defensive help, “We like our guys.”

So, good luck, Mike. Should be plenty more ifs and buts to wish were nuts. Or something. l

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