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Much of Fort Worth’s North Side is struggling, but the tight-knit, predominantly Hispanic community is banding together in new ways, according to two longtime Northside residents. Esmeralda Morales said the retail shop Not Just Soccer (her main source of income) closed under the shelter-in-place order. With modest savings, help from relatives, and occasional sales of custom woodcrafts through her personal business, H&E Wood Customs (@hande_woodcustoms), Morales said she and her family are able to scrape by. Drives past area pantry lines show that many families are not as fortunate, she said.

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Finally, Gov. Greg Abbott did something right. After teasing last week that he wanted to reopen Texas ASAP, the governor changed his mind. On Sunday, he announced an extension of the state’s shelterat-home order. As much as I don’t want to admit it, we have to give some credit to Donald Trump. There’s no doubt that he is as much afraid of the spike in cases that’s been forecasted as we –– and Abbott –– are. We are fearful of getting sick or watching our loved ones and neighbors become ill. Trump is worried about pissing off rural America, a large swath of the country

whose inhabitants love him and who have been spared from the virus so far –– but who won’t be soon. Experts believe rural communities will be hit much harder than urban areas have been. Not only are country folk not practicing social distancing (the virus is a liberal hoax to them, after all), but most of their towns lack the kind of healthcare infrastructure necessary to treat lots of terribly ill people in a reasonable amount of time. It’s going to get messy real fast. Businesses will be extremely slow to start up in the Heartland. Businesses here might be back online in a couple of months if not sooner. Unlike the feds, Texas leaders have begun working on a plan. North Texas has been especially active. Local county judges and healthcare experts are trying to establish guidelines for travel and business after the coronavirus pandemic passes or the curve dips down considerably. Mike Eastland, direc-

Arnoldo Hurtado frequently shares maps through his Northside Community Facebook group that detail crime hotspots.

you doing OK? Do you need baby essentials?’ It has been a blessing in our neighborhood. Sometimes, they are helping complete strangers.” The Facebook group Northside Community was created by Hurtado a few years ago and now serves as a hub for voicing concerns and offering advice during the tor of the 16-county North Central Texas Council of Governments, said he hopes a unified approach will allow North Texans to return to normal all around the same time. One phase could be allowing bars and restaurants to open at half capacity. Another option could include requiring stores to screen customers for fever, and yet another could demand that employees wear masks and gloves. Though the plan is nascent, it begs a lot of interesting questions, especially since the slowing of the pandemic for most places is at least a month away. If the state plan does not jibe with the federal one, who are travelers and businesses to trust, local or federal leaders? And if North Texas employees do not feel comfortable returning to work at bars and restaurants, even at half-capacity, do these employees have any legal protection from being fired?

shelter-in-place order. Morales recently posted a picture of her car. Her neighborhood does not have elevated street curbs, and the gravel that separates the street from private properties can make discerning property lines unclear. A Fort Worth police officer recently cited Morales’ truck for being parked on her front yard. Abbott, correctly, believes that social distancing is working. Though he recently said Texas hasn’t hit its peak number of cases, the number of days it takes for confirmed COVID-19 cases to increase or possibly even double has slowed. As of Monday, according to the state Department of Health Services, there are nearly 14,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 after more than 133,200 Texans have been tested. Nearly 300 people have died, and more than 2,200 have recovered. Much more testing needs to be done, nationally and here in our state. Even Greg Abbott knows this. His shelter-at-home order lasts through the end of the month. And it will probably linger until May. Or longer. –– Anthony Mariani The Weekly welcomes editorial submissions from all political persuasions. Please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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Stay-at-home orders are crushing local economies, especially fragile ones like on the North Side.

“Some people are going to every church that offers food pantries,” she said. Those churches are “offering essential items. We don’t hear a lot of people asking for [help publically]. It might be due to a sense of pride. We do see packed drive-through lines at Victory Church. It’s unreal how many people need help right now. We see a lot of those vehicles go back to our area.” As Morales and community organizer Arnoldo Hurtado told me, the realities of being working class and Hispanic place extra burdens and stresses that leave many Northside residents choosing between safety and feeding their family during the COVID-19 pandemic. As recently reported in Vice, just 16.2 percent of Hispanic workers are able to work from home, compared to 30 percent of whites and 37 percent of Asian Americans. The “telework disparity” is just another example of how economic downturns disproportionately hurt minority communities, the article said. For the North Side’s undocumented community, talk of federal stimulus checks is meaningless, Morales said. To fill the economic shortfall, Northside residents have taken to checking in with neighbors, Morales said. “I’ve always been proud of how our community comes together in a time of need,” she said. “People are asking, ‘Are

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“I was already stressed out that day,” Morales recalled. “I had just rushed to the bank to deposit some money. We are a corner home. We put our vehicles where we can see them, or they will get hit. We don’t have a designated driveway. People are out of jobs, us included. We thought we should have been given a warning. If we contest it, we will have to leave our home to go to court” and risk becoming ill. The post garnered dozens of supportive comments. Mistrust of police is high in her neighborhood for a variety of reasons, Morales said. Soon after the viral Facebook post, a community officer from the Fort Worth police department stopped by to discuss the matter with Morales. The officer was sympathetic to Morales’ grievances and said he would bring up the issue with Fort Worth City Council and police leadership. Both Morales and Hurtado agreed that policing should be focused on more serious crimes like human trafficking, prostitution, and gang-related violence. Hurtado continues to map out criminal hotspots, even though he’s currently stranded in Spain. The founder of the grassroots group Comunidad 27 said via email that the “North Side was already suffering from negligence, predatory behavior, and organized crime as far” back as he could remember, but “Northside people are resilient, and, over the last several years, people have been demonstrating that we are ready for change, and we are putting in the work.” The Facebook group has taken on new importance due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he added. “With more people relying on the internet to read, connect, and stay informed and engaged, the audience of this group and people’s attention has increased,” he wrote. “There are posts about preventive measures, such as the types of masks to wear to protect yourself and a loved one from COVID-19. “Someone posted a link that shows a simulation of how droplets spread when someone coughs in a supermarket,” Hurtado continued. “There are posts from local institutions like the North-Tri-Ethnic Community Center announcing activities to look forward to once we are all able to move around freely. A huge transition has been made to online activity for information, communication, work, entertainment, classes, and hanging out with friends.” The Facebook group is not simply an online forum for chatting. As the group administrator, Hurtado steers conversations toward solutions. Off-the-grid game rooms are sprouting up in homes, Northside residents have told Hurtado. Game rooms offer casino-themed machines and are legal in Fort Worth when city and county ordinances are followed. Critics of the rooms say that they attract organized criminal behavior. Using information gathered from

Esmeralda Morales was recently ticketed for parking on her yard. Many homes on the North Side do not have clearly defined curbs.

Northside residents, Hurtado, an artist by profession, has created maps that detail the locations of potentially illegal game rooms. That data is being added to known human trafficking drop-off spots and areas with high concentrations of drug dealers. “This is where we formulate a plan using existing successful community crime prevention models, such as community cultural programming, strategic block parties (National Night Out), and more strategic revitalization efforts to bring attention to and crash game room parties,” he said. “These crime hubs hate attention, and they thrive on lack of healthy street activity and community engagement.” The Northside community has banded together during the ongoing health and economic crisis, Hurtado said. The shelter-in-place order has hit many area families particularly hard because they do not have savings. “If we stay inside, we starve because there is no food, due to lack of money,” he said. “We’ve learned that it has to be we the people who stop relying on the big messy political and institutional departments who are only looking out for themselves and their interests (money).” Morales said many families in her neighborhood are not in the best situation, financially speaking, but they are doing what they can to help others in any way they can. How long the Northside community can hold out under the current economic restraints? “I’m sure people will start breaking down because depression rates have gone up,” she said. “Maybe we could make it through the summer. For us, it has been a challenge, but we have a support system. Many people are in a worse-off financial situation.” l

Get Comfy Here’s a useful guide for talking to your family about the coronavirus pandemic.

created for the purpose — on the science of the COVID-19 pandemic to over a dozen people in my extended family. Just the facts in a judgment-free tone. And I recommend that everyone who is following the situation closely do the same with their families. Folks can take or leave the information, of course, but at least they have it. For example, yesterday, I sent out the following note. “So this time out, I thought I would address an idea that’s out there that the coronavirus is no worse than influenza — which, in a typical year, kills 34,00064,000 people in the U.S. Bad enough, but COVID-19 is expected to be far worse because no one on Earth has immunity to it — unless they get it and live. Yet many more people won’t live if they get it because no one has immunity to it, which is why the death rate from the coronavirus is expected to be about 1% of those who get it. Top epidemiologists are saying that we can therefore expect around 2.2 million deaths in the U.S. over the next 18-24 months

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or most of us who have paid close attention to the progress of the coronavirus pandemic over the last three months, talking to our families about how to stay safe and healthy can be difficult. People don’t want to hear that the way they’ve lived their lives up to now is no longer the way they need to live their lives for the next couple of years. Which is completely understandable. But if we love them, we have to do our best to give them the information they need to protect themselves from the virus. Without getting into unproductive and pointless fights with them over it. I’m happy to report that my own mother has been doing a good job of following social distancing edicts for over two weeks to protect both herself and our society, but she’s on the phone daily with relatives around my area (Boston, Massachusetts) who aren’t taking the coronavirus threat quite as seriously as they should. I’ve taken to giving little updates — via a social media group I

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until the virus is brought under control or burns out — mostly older people but also too many younger people — if we don’t continue the kinds of social distancing measures we’ve started across the country. And even if we do, we’ll still see far more deaths than a typical influenza season. One other important thing to understand is scientists haven’t yet developed a way to figure out who will get the mild form of COVID-19 and who will get the severe form. This is why it’s very important to stay a minimum of six feet away from anyone — including children — who you are not already living with. Every person you interact closely with that isn’t already living with you is the equivalent of putting a loaded gun to your head and the heads of your immediate family — if they are sick and infect you, you won’t know if you will get the mild form of the coronavirus or the severe form of the coronavirus until you are sick yourself. This situation is unprecedented in modern times, so I encourage you all to take it seriously. It will be over a year until we will have a widely available vaccine — and until we have that and new treatments that might be available by next fall, we have no protection from the coronavirus.” Today, I decided it would be worth making a COVID-19 pandemic Q&A for my extended family, based on weeks of

reading the best information I can find as a working journalist, to cover more ground than I can in shorter notes. For the sake of space, I’ll skip most issues I addressed above, but those of you who want to run my Q&A by your own families should feel

free to add that info back in. Good luck talking to your people if you decide to give it a shot. I think you’ll find it’s worth the effort.

What is COVID-19? It’s a virus like influenza, but it spreads faster. And it’s new, so no one on Earth has immunity to it until they’ve gotten infected and recovered. About 80% will

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Some scientists say at least 10 minutes in an enclosed space, but others say that even brief periods close to an infected person in any setting could be risky.

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Also known as physical distancing, it’s a combination of practices that include staying home as much as possible and keeping at least 6 feet apart from people you don’t live with when you’re out of the house to avoid spreading the coronavirus to other people — or catching it yourself.

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What is social distancing?

cough or sneeze without covering their face with their elbow or a tissue. The virus can live in droplets people have coughed, sneezed, or breathed into the air for up to about three hours, according to some scientific studies, so it’s potentially more dangerous to breathe air in an enclosed space (like an apartment building hallway or a store or market) for at least an hour after an infected person has passed. The coronavirus may also be spread by touching a surface that an infected person coughed or sneezed on and then touching your hands to your face — particularly your eyes, nose, or mouth. The virus can live on hard surfaces like metal (except for copper) and plastics for up to a few days. And on surfaces like cardboard for about a day.

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get the mild version of the coronavirus infection. And about 20% will get the severe version — many of whom will have to be hospitalized, while a number of those will need a ventilator to survive. Of that last group, some will die. The only way to reduce the number of severe cases and deaths long enough for scientists to develop a vaccine to protect us is by social distancing.

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How can I tell if someone is infected with the coronavirus? You can’t always tell by looking at someone. It takes five to six days for infected people to show symptoms. But some take up to 14 days. And at least one scientific study indicated that it could take even longer for a smaller group of people. Can people spread the coronavirus when they are infected but don’t show symptoms?

you all started staying home together, then any of you can infect everyone else in your home. Once you’ve been isolating yourselves at home for more than a couple of weeks, then you’re probably OK. However, every time any of you goes anywhere that you can potentially be exposed to infected people, any of you can become infected and bring it back home. And you won’t know until you’ve been isolated at home together for more than a couple of weeks — after each time any of you are exposed to other people. Can I visit friends and family in person

Yes, in fact some people spread more during the early phase of their infection than later. What are symptoms of COVID-19? Early in the pandemic, it was thought that a dry cough and a fever over 100 degrees were the main symptoms, but as the virus has spread worldwide, many other symptoms have appeared — diarrhea and abdominal pain have been showing up in significant numbers of patients in New York City as first symptoms.

Virologists, epidemiologists, and other scientists aren’t sure, but it’s expected that we all need to practice social distancing for at least two or three months to start. Then the experts may tell politicians it’s OK to relax social distancing for another month or so until the coronavirus cases start increasing again. Then we may have to keep going like that — two or three months on and one or so months off — until a vaccine is developed that can protect people from the virus. How long is it going to take to develop a safe vaccine and start getting everyone a dose? For the general population, experts are saying 12 to 18 months. Front line health providers may start getting a vaccine by next fall. And people with preexisting conditions that make infection with the coronavirus more dangerous may start getting it by early next year. But these are estimates. It could take longer to develop a vaccine — though it could possibly take less time if there’s some breakthrough but not much less time because safely deploying a vaccine takes human testing and that can’t be rushed.

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How long do I have to do social distancing?

Can I get COVID-19 from the people I’m living with? Yes, if any of you became infected before

at their homes during social distancing periods? No, that’s not safe. And won’t be safe until we have a vaccine. You can meet people outside their homes and stay at least 6 feet away from each other. The safest way to stay in touch with people is online via video chat or via a simple phone call.

and from everyone else in the park. If the park looks too crowded, you should look for another one. Can I play contact sports with people I’m not living with? No, it’s not safe. Can children get the coronavirus?

Can I go to parks and meet other people I’m not living with? Yes, as long as you can all stay at least 6 feet apart from the people you’re meeting

Yes, all humans can get the coronavirus and spread it. Can my children go visit relatives and

vegetables that you can peel. Bananas, oranges, carrots, and other fruits and vegetables with peels should be safe to handle and eat after peeled, but be sure to wash your hands after peeling them and rinse them off before using.

play with other children during the social distancing periods? Absolutely not. It won’t be safe for them to do so until we have a vaccine. If they happen to be infected, they can infect whoever they come into close contact with even if they have no visible symptoms. Or the relatives and friends could infect them.

Can I get the coronavirus from eating food? Supposedly not, but the absence of scientific proof doesn’t mean that studies have been done to see if every kind of

What’s the safest way to get groceries and other supplies?

avoid it. On the other, they say that masks aren’t necessary unless you’re a healthcare provider working with infected people. Some scientists are also concerned about coronavirus droplets from infected people remaining in air they walked through in enclosed spaces like buildings for up to three hours after they pass — with the time of highest risk being the first hour. I think people who live in apartments (when they’re leaving their apartment and exiting their building) and anyone going shopping in markets should definitely wear some kind

Should I let delivery people into my home? No, that’s not safe. Especially if they’re not wearing face masks. You should let delivery people drop supplies right in front of your home. If you need to interact with them to give them a tip or sign a receipt, you should either have one person put down what the other person needs between you both and then back away or do a quick handoff while keeping your distance, then back away.

Is it safe to use public transportation or rideshares or cabs or carpools? Not really. For the same reasons I mentioned about going into stores and markets. Driving with anyone other than the people you live with — assuming they’re not already infected — isn’t safe. Can I bring my friends and family groceries and other supplies?

Should I let anyone into my home? No, it’s not safe. You should meet anyone who is not living with you already online, by phone, or outside (keeping at least 6 feet between you). Obviously, though, if you have to let someone in, you have to let them in. Just try to wear a mask and keep a distance from people in your home and try to make sure they leave within 10 minutes if at all possible.

Yes, with the caveats already mentioned taken as given. And assuming that you drop the supplies outside your friend’s and family’s homes and stay 6 feet away from them at all times. Do not enter their homes.

Should I wear a face mask or other face protection like a scarf or bandana when going outside my home? Not clear. Again, there are contradictory messages coming from scientists. On the one hand, they say that you shouldn’t be within 6 feet of infected people if you can

of face covering. Particularly in elevators. Always take the stairs if you can. Also keep in mind that while regular surgical or dust masks are thought to provide more protection than going without any face protection, scarves and bandanas offer less protection. The best protection is provided by N95 masks, but given the bad shortages of such masks and of respirator systems that don’t use outside air at all, most people will never have access to them. And, regardless, it’s most important that front line medical workers and other workers like food market employees who have to deal with potentially infected and definitely infected people have access to the best protection first and always. If our medical providers and food handlers get sick, it’s worse for all of us. Is it safe to go into stores and markets? Not really. You will encounter more people in smaller enclosed spaces when you do. If

No, it really doesn’t. New viruses arise all the time, all over the planet, including here in the U.S. Once they do, it’s up to all nations to stop them from spreading and harming the entire population. If nations fail to do that, as has been the case with the coronavirus pandemic, then we all need to band together to find a safe vaccine and get it to everyone as fast as possible. Until then, we need to help each other get through the crisis as one unified species. Fighting over where the virus started is worse than pointless. It’s dangerous because it takes time and resources away from stopping something that’s killing lots of fellow humans. And could kill any of us. l Jason Pramas is executive director of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and executive editor and associate publisher of DigBoston. A version of this story originally appeared in BINJ’s media outlets.

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cooked and raw food is safe to eat if an infected person has coughed or sneezed on them. The thinking is that any virus you eat or drink will be killed by the acid in your stomach, but if any virus gets through your stomach, there are receptors in your intestines that the coronavirus can use to infect you. Which is unlikely but still a possibility. There’s also a contradiction in that scientists tell us to keep our hands away from our face — and avoid sticking our fingers in our mouths — but then say that food should be safe to eat even if someone has coughed on it.

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Does it matter where the coronavirus came from?

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Not necessarily. You don’t know who has been around groceries and supplies before they got to you. If anyone coughed or sneezed on them before you get them, there could be live coronavirus on them. When you’re putting away your groceries and supplies, try to wipe down bottles and cans made of plastic or metal with disinfectant or soap and water on a paper towel. Take off cardboard outer boxes when possible and throw them away. In general, when you’re handling anything you bought outside, for days afterward be sure to wash your hands before handling anything else or touching your face. And clean your kitchen and food storage areas regularly with disinfectant or soap and water. Any fruits, vegetables, meat, and fish that weren’t packaged at a factory are inherently less safe, because shoppers and market staff can cough or sneeze on them before you get them, so plan to cook everything but fruits and

Is it safe to go to work? Not really. For the same reasons I mentioned about going into stores and markets. But again, if you have to go, you have to go. You might consider organizing with your fellow workers to demand that your bosses allow you work from home where possible.

Delivery. Many supermarkets offer delivery online for a generally reasonable fee.

Are groceries and supplies safe to handle in my home?

you wear some kind of face covering and gloves, then wash your hands or use hand sanitizer after you leave the store. That will help. But it’s not enough protection to really make you safe. Delivery is better. But if you have to go to stores and markets, then protect yourself as best you can, minimize your time in those places, and get out as fast as you can. Take a shower when you get home too.

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Fort Works Art: No Commission Fort Worth owes a cultural debt to gallery stalwarts William Campbell Contemporary Art and Artspace 111, and enough can’t be said about their online efforts to place thought-provoking art into local homes. A comparatively newer gallery, Fort Works Art, is putting commissions largely on hold with the stated goal of funneling cash into the pockets of bootstrapped artists. The first $1,600 of all online art sales via Fortworksart.com/shop through May 31 will go directly to the artist,

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Fort Worth arts groups are accustomed to reinvention. Before COVID-19 derailed Spring Gallery Night and assorted show openings, venerable museums like the Amon Carter Museum of American Art were reimagining what an established museum could do outside of its walls through robust outreach programs. In not-so-past years, the Fort Worth Community Arts Center was booked with vanity shows that were geared more toward private groups than the public at large. This year’s FWCAC resident arts group, House of Iconoclasts, is staffed with unapologetically progressive artists whose mantra — Fuck Your Art Degree — says it all. Fort Worth’s arts scene is on the ascendency, and a slew of creative online ventures has shown that not even a pandemic is going to slow that wave.

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commission-free. The offerings include, among many others, selections from sculptor Austin Fields’ Touch series at $600 apiece. The elegantly bulbous centerpieces come in his and hers blue and pinkish hues that will softly blend in or stand out in what probably feels like an ever-shrinking abode. Other works include dripping sculptures by Dan Lam, brash paintings of woodland scenes by Erika Duque, nocturnal photographs of Near Southside haunts by Walt Burns, and pop-culturecritiquing graphs by Shasta Haubrich, among others. Many of us are collectively spending more time in our home environment. A new work of art can go a long way in making quarantine a bit more tolerable. The Kimbell and Modern Go Online Fort Worth’s art museums have pivoted to online learning courses that are a great resource for stuck-at-home kiddos and lifelong learners. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has created a new

website (Themodern.org/online-learningprograms) that includes an online gallery, YouTube chats with artists, lectures, podcasts, and art assignments. A cursory glance at the art assignments shows educational videos, quizzes, and activities that can be easily printed out at home. The Kimbell from Home (Kimbellart. org/kimbell-from-home) offers family art activities, audio tours, videos, and collection highlights. The educational programs include guided drawing exercises. It’s not every day that you see cute doodles of rabbits and frogs next to Michelangelo’s “The Torment of Saint Anthony.” Blind Alley Longtime Modern educational director Terri Thornton, with the help of sculptor Cam Schoepp, is moving ahead with the launch of a new multipurpose space for two- and three-dimensional artworks and installations called Blind Alley. New works by Francisco Josué Alvarado Araujo and other artists will be available for streetside

viewing (preferably from inside cars and not in groups) at 3317 W 4th St beginning Saturday. Cliburn at Home If you follow the Van Cliburn Foundation on Instagram (@thecliburn), you may have caught a grinning and affable ShieldsCollins Bray leading a video that teaches musical concepts. It’s part of a new venture called Cliburn at Home, and, like the Cliburn’s more traditional programming, it’s masterfully done. New online programs like Cliburn Watch Party, and Cliburn Amateur Spotlight are accessible via Cliburn.org/ cliburn-at-home. “Music is providing an invaluable respite to a world in quarantine,” one Cliburn statement read. “We join our classical music community worldwide in providing new opportunities to connect through the artform we love in a safe and joyful space for us all, no matter what your age, culture, or physical location.” l

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What do you get when you take the “live” out of live theater? In normal circumstances, you might say you lose the danger of real-time performance, but right now, it’s far more dangerous sitting in a room full of strangers. Our coronavirusparalyzed economy has hit theater as hard as any sector of the performing arts, with Broadway being shuttered for the foreseeable future. Fort Worth’s venues are similarly idle as well, but the Stage West folks have been the first to follow Broadway’s example and put their current show online for us to see. Some of this is down to fortuitous timing, as the troupe had been able to put on a weekend’s worth of the regional premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s 2016 play The Children before the shutdown. With those involved knowing those would be the only shows, North Texas media company Shiny Box Pictures committed one last performance to video in an empty theater. Between now and April 22, you can log on to Stage West’s Vimeo page and watch the play from the comfort of your own computer. The apocalyptic British farce is worth a

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CJ Critt and Bob Hess remember old times during the postapocalypse in Stage West’s The Children.

look, and you can support this venerable company during a tough time. What is it like watching a theatrical performance at home? I found it a somewhat disjointed experience, which I’m partly chalking up to the aged Chromebook I saw the play on rather than the streaming platform. The rest of it, I regret to say, is the fault of Shiny Box. They filmed the production with two cameras in Stage West’s seats, one more or less dead center for close-up shots and the other one at stage left to take in the entirety of the set depicting a remote cottage on England’s seacoast. There’s nothing wrong with this setup, except that the camera switches on seemingly every single line in this play, imposing an artificial rhythm to a drama that was doing just fine without it. The least a filmed version of a stage play can do

You may quail at the $40 cost of streaming, but that’s not much more expensive than the best seats for a live show.

is not distract you from the action on the but to me, it seems like this is what human beings tend to do once a state of stage. This is a distraction. I can hear you asking, but what about emergency has passed — they adjust to the play itself? It’s set in a near-future the new normal and go back to their petty Britain, some years after a Fukushima-like squabbles and jealousies. Whether it’s the disaster of earthquake plus tsunami plus cast or the direction, the performances nuclear meltdown. The three characters don’t suffer from being filmed. Critt has are all physicists in their 60s: Rose (CJ the best English accent and gives the best Critt) decamped for America four decades performance as a woman who has made ago but has returned to meet two of her peace with her aging body and solitary life but not quite with her former colleagues from envy of Hazel, the thinner the nuclear plant, Robin and prettier colleague who and Hazel (Bob Hess and The Children won the man in the end. Lisa Fairchild), a married Thru Apr 22. Online. $40. You may quail at the couple of retirees who are 817-784-9378. $40 cost of streaming, now living at a distant but that’s not much relative’s seaside cottage, more expensive than the their previous home close to the plant now rendered unlivable. Amid best seats for a live show, and if you’re the catching up and the small talk about quarantining with three people who also stain removers and coping with periodic want to see the play, that price tag suddenly power outages, the play takes the whole becomes a bargain. In the end, Kirkwood’s first act to address why Rose is back in choice of a title is cannily double-edged England, and the payoff is a rather slender — while Robin and Hazel are thinking of their four fully grown children who hook to hang the rest of the drama on. The play is rather a difficult piece to are living elsewhere, Rose is motivated find the right tone for, and if director Kara- by the nation’s children, specifically the Lynn Vaeni struggles with that at times, young scientists at the meltdown site who she does well with the comic interludes, as are exposing themselves to radiation to Robin and Hazel banter in the somewhat contain the fallout. If this show makes you hostile way that some married couples do. think about the overworked and underpaid It may seem outrageous that the characters delivery and supermarket workers who are busy themselves relitigating a love affair risking their own health to keep the rest of that ended 38 years before against the us alive right now, so much the better. l backdrop of a national catastrophe,

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Roots Coffeehouse 400 Bryan Ave #101, FWTX, 817-349-8059 9101 Blvd 26 #101, NRH TX, 817-503-7344 www.Facebook.com/ RootsCoffeehouse Open reduced hours for now for Take Out with Curbside Pick UP available by end of the week. Find our hours by visiting our social media channels @ rootscoffeehouse. Our order ahead / curbside pick-up link is https:// rootscoffeehouse.square.site/ Saffron Sky Mediterranean Bakery Café 449 N. Beach St. FWTX, 682-708-3901 www.saffronsky.net We are open Mon- Fri 11-5:30 & Sat 11-3. We offer take-out & delivery through Uber Eats & GrubHub. If you would like curbside service, just call it in & let us know. Savor in Klyde Warren Park 2000 Woodall Rodgers, Dallas TX, 214-306-5597 www.SavorInKlydeWarrenPark.com We are offering CURBSIDE PICKUP! diners can just call Savor directly and in less than 30 minutes, you can have a hot meal brought straight to your car! Such an easy and delicious option right now that doesn’t involve cooking!! And, this is available for both lunch and dinner! Savor’s current hours of operation for curbside pickup are 12-1:30pm and 6-7:30pm. Smokeys BBQ 5300 East Lancaster, FWTX www.Facebook.com/SmokeysBBQTX We are open from Monday thru Wed 11am to 3pm and Thursday thru Saturday 11am to 6pm. Smokeys has Curbside service using Door Dash. We use GrubHub, Ubereats and Doordash for Delivery. Spazzios Italian Cantina 2500 NE Green Oaks #106, Arlington TX, 817- 633-0830 www.SpazziosArlington.com Open for Take Out and Delivery The Table Market & Culinary Studio 120 St Louis #103B, FWTX, 682-703-1092 www.TheTableMarket.com The Table is your neighborhood bodega

Thirty Eight & Vine 212 Carroll St #130, FWTX, 682-703-1887 www.ThirtyEightAndVine.com Thirty Eight & Vine is following the CDC very closely and at this time we are remaining open. We are offering curbside and delivery. We no longer have a bottle minimum. Waters Restaurant 301 Main St, FWTX, 817- 984-1110 www.WatersTexas.com We are serving Curbside meals only at this time. Pickup for dinners that feed 4 people are available on a first come, first served basis for a cost of $40, beginning at 4:00 every night. Beer, wine, liquor and many other add-on products are available and change daily. We are also selling pints of MELT Ice Cream as well. Credit cards and cash welcome. No preorders, no reservations, just line up. See Jon Bonnell’s Facebook page for the menu each day. It typically gets posted before 11:00. Zero Degrees Fort Worth 2401 7th St, FWTX, 817-420-6017 www.ZeroDegreesCompany.com Zero Degrees Fort Worth is offering take-out and FREE DELIVERY to all our amazing customers! Simply call our store directly using the number listed above for Curbside Pickup and Delivery. Orders can also be placed over the phone for In-store Pickup as well. We thank you for your continued support. Z’s Café and Catering 1316 Pennsylvania Avenue, FWTX (Inside the Woman’s Club of FW) www.ZsCafe.com We have all our boxed lunches, plus our famous chicken salad by the pint and quart available on UberEats and Favor, or call us and we’ll deliver or bring it to you curbside. “We can still do hot entrees from our catering menu – www. ZsCafe.com.”

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committed against persons of color and indigenous peoples throughout American history, but he concluded that it would never absolve them: “Behind the white American’s nightmare that someday, no longer tourist, inheritor, or liberator, he will be rejected, refused, he dreams of his acceptance at the breast he has most utterly offended.” Fiedler called white America’s dream of forgiveness “sentimental” and “outrageous” but suggested it was the only game in town and that “we play out” this “impossible mythos” generation after generation, futilely hoping to achieve some kind of redemption. Eminent American literary critic meet Texas champion mojo storyteller. The 2020 release of Lansdale’s Of Mice and Minestrone marks 30 years of the author’s two most popular characters, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, and if you’ve been following this East Texas duo as long as Lansdale fans have, this episodic prequel is manna from redneck heaven — especially if your idea of rednecks includes a liberal white man and a gay, Republican black man — both B Y E . R . B I L L S of whom are backwoods brawlers to boot. From the beginning, Hap and Leonard As most former American Lit grad students around the country can tell were fraternal outliers, incessantly you, it’s tough to shake the requisite vexing to devotees of traditional Texas terminology, phrasing, and general stereotypes but so authentically Texan concepts that characterized the academic that they couldn’t be ignored. Hap finds brotherhood with Leonard, paper chases of one’s youth. Voices (in perfect English, of course) still echo but there are no teases of homoeroticism and frame one’s perspective, and the in their relationship because Leonard emanations that have most reverberated is proudly and openly gay and Hap is through my mind over the last decade unshakably if not happily heterosexual. come from American literary critic Leslie Their friendship transcends race and Fiedler — especially after I read a Joe R. sexuality, and the dynamic of their piney woods escapades challenges Fiedler’s Lansdale book. In Love and Death in the American Novel claim. Hap and Leonard exist as equals in (1960), Fiedler argued that the primary spite of their country’s cultural baggage. theme of American literature was white Lansdale’s writing in the series also makes male protagonists fleeing to a frontier short work of a standard white peccadillo or wilderness with male companions of commonly featured in the mixed-buddy color to escape Puritanism and marital plots Fiedler alludes to. In The Last of the domestication. He noted that this Mohicans, Moby Dick, and even on up to overarching narrative was conveyed by The Lone Ranger and One Flew over the hardy methods of male bonding, ranging Cuckoo’s Nest, the male characters of color from those of a prepubescent nature, as are almost invariably secondary to their in the relationship between Huck and white counterparts. But Hap and Leonard thrive with equal measure Jim in The Adventures in Lansdale’s fiction, and of Huckleberry Finn, to this tilts Fiedler’s paradigm that of the adult, quasiOf Mice and Minestrone, on its ear. Though the homoerotic friendship by Joe R. Lansdale book series is told mostly of Ismael and Queequeg Tachyon Publications from Hap’s perspective, in Moby Dick. In “Come 240 pps. $8.69-15.95 Leonard’s story is explored Back to the Raft Ag’in, unabashedly, and he Huck Honey!” — a literary and Hap rage against lightning strike published in the Partisan Review in 1948 — Fiedler homophobia, sexism, racism, bigotry, claimed that white male flight with men and religious dogma with bare-knuckled of color was an attempt to assuage white ferocity. The Texas that Hap and Leonard male guilt over the crimes whites had navigate with their wits and fists is not

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HearSay Streaming still seems to be a thing, thankfully. I don’t know about you, but I’m digging this newfangled-but-really-old way of seeing concerts. Not to take away from the irreplaceable feeling of standing in front of a stage with dozens of other humanoids, maybe swaying back and forth a little, maybe nodding your head in time with the riffage and beats from the people with instruments nearby, I’m all for any experiential music outlet that A.) lets me share live, quality, professional rocking and rolling with my hip-hopand-“The Final Countdown”-loving 8-year-old and B.) forces performers to go on at a decent, god-fearing hour. No little thanks to a DUI that I spent five hours and $53.50 earning at a local watering hole one random Tuesday night a few years ago, I stopped staying up past 10pm, oh, around eight years ago. That 6am alarm every morning Monday through Friday comes around awfully early, especially when you’re a dad who looks back fondly on his days of livin’ la vida loca instead of cursing them like a normal person

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would. (Hungover parenting is the worst.) So far, I’ve turned my boy on to Brandin Lea and Sam Anderson, who have both performed at MASS separately, and at 7pm on Monday (4/20), I’m going to introduce the little fella to Big Mike Richardson via Facebook.com/bigmikemusic. The human jukebox will perform the music of The Eagles, following up on his previous sets devoted to Pink Floyd and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Please leave your Eagles hateration at the door. Big Mike has made it clear that he’s not having any of it. Respect his authoritah! There also are a few new weekly residencies I just learned about because I’m drowning in sorrow, second-grade homework, and Bud Light. Zeppelin-esque rockers Dead Vinyl are holding down Thursdays at 11pm via Facebook.com/ deadvinyltx, and on Fridays, Joseph Patrick Neville goes live at 6pm via Couchbound Sessions. Anderson is still going strong every Friday at 8pm and Wayne Floyd every Wednesday at 8pm, both via Facebook. com/MASSFW, and Keegan McInroe gets after it every day at 3pm, Mondays at 7pm, and Thursdays at 1pm via Facebook. com/keeganmcinroemusic. All streaming shows are free, but you should probably put something in those virtual tip jars. I wish I could give some, but since being furloughed, it’s been the final countdown on my savings.

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musicians and featuring them and some friends. With Crawl, the Creeps establish a newly polished and more technical style, reminding listeners how great psych-rock mixed with post-punk can be. Recorded in August 2019 by producer Jeff Mount at his Session Works Studios (Twisted Black, Jefferson Colby, Mother Freud) in Hurst, Crawl is eight solid tracks of reverberating guitar, complex instrumentals, and dooming vocals. The album opens with a moment of silence before exploding into “Sleestack,” a fury of riffs and altered breakdowns. The voiceless and rhythmically barraged completion of “Crimson Desert” caps the album’s 37 minutes. Singer/guitarist Michael Eppinette said Crawl is meant to be categorized simply as “rock,” though he agrees there are some psych-rock elements throughout. “We like to think of ourselves as a rock group, so it gives us a chance to change up our sound for the next album,” Eppinette said. “In every song, we like to tell a story.” Several tracks, especially “Beyond the Pond,” express existential ideas of escape and release, keeping the listener somewhat pondering. “I am just a frog / Sitting on a log / Staring at the pond / Pondering beyond / Beyond the pond.” Eppinette’s vocals and lyrics give imaginative life to several characters in a far-off world. “As I hop along / The wizards meet at dawn / One flash of the wand / Pondering beyond.” The title track is the longest on the

Eppinette: “We like to think of ourselves as a rock group, so it gives us a chance to change up our sound for the next album.”

album at more than eight minutes. It compares controversial themes to nightcrawling creatures and a universe in despair. Eppinette said placing different musical parts and pieces together while agreeing on certain ideas for songs is basically what happens in the group’s jam space. After taking their time to piece together the right parts just so, the album came together nicely. Though a few tracks are purely instrumental, the stated themes are certainly strange and out of the ordinary.

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Two Fort Worth heavyweights recently released vidjahs for new tunes. One is a megastar with nearly 23.9K subscribers on YouTube and 28.6K followers on Twitter. The other is Leon Bridges. The video for Go Yayo’s new track “Top Flow” is as patently ridiculous as you can probably imagine: lots of toughlooking young men, lots of handguns pointing at the camera, lots of drinking (or “dranking”?) from Styrofoam cups, lots of smoking blunts (probably), lots of what I assume are gang signs, and lots of unintelligible rapping from Yayo that lacks any sort of aforementioned “flow.” The vid’s also been viewed more than 600,000 times since going live on March 11. The best part is trying to watch the expletive-laden commercial for bad life choices while living la vida lockdown in a tiny house with an 8-year-old. “Why’s he so angry, Dad?” “Well, the angry guy’s son didn’t do his homework when politely asked, that’s why.” Bridges’ release is a lot less stentorian but no less macho. “Inside Friend,” which features John Mayer (yes, that John Mayer) and was co-written by the North Texas duo Medicine Man Revival, is a pretty simple slow jam in the spirit of Quiet Storm playlists going back to the 1980s. There is mention of yoga pants.

Whether in a cosmic universe beyond our time or in a peaceful environment, a serenade of fuzzed-out guitar, trippy bass, and heavy kick drums, the Cosmic Creeps will take you out there. With ideas of escaping on a red dragon, taking flight into an unknown, instrumentally influenced cosmic and chaotic realm, Eppinette perfectly manifests the far-out lyrics through his monotone voice. The Cosmic Creeps are a young band, and while they’ve played some respectable venues (Lola’s Saloon, MASS, J&J’s Pizza on the Square, The Grackle Art Gallery), they haven’t really been packing them in. But that’s OK. The label has held steady momentum, Eppinette said, with a list of friends and artists taking part in the work involved. While the label seems to fit more of a rock-band element, Eppinette said bands in other genres, including jazz, have made their way onto Magic Maze Records, which has more than increased in size since it originated two years ago. While also working as a booking agency for local and touring groups, Eppinette said, “The label was primarily started as a collective for a few local musicians and songwriters to work together and play local venues.” The Cosmic Creeps’ discography can be found on their Bandcamp page along with their merchandise. Until further notice, the Creeps’ next show is May 15 at MASS. l Someone is encouraged to slide across a kitchen floor. (Zat you, Jon Bonnell?) There is a hot lixxx guitar solo. It is a song. The video isn’t really a video in the MTV sense. It’s just audio of the track over a placeholder image of Leon and John a la an old-school concert poster. “Inside Friend” has been viewed more than 167,000 times since going live last week. Leon has 351K YouTube subscribers. Put that in your blunt and smoke it, Yayo.

Billy Bob’s Benefit Concert Along with Cavender’s, the world’s largest honkytonk is putting on a concert this weekend for a good cause. You’re Still Farming & We’re Still Singing promises an all-star cast of Lone Star State pickers and a-grinners whose names are being announced every day, one at a time, via @ billybobstexas. Taking place at 7pm on Saturday, the free/donation-based event will benefit the Texas FFA Foundation, the statewide chapter of the national agricultural nonprofit. Farming/Singing will be Billy Bob’s second benefit show. The first, in honor of the club’s 39th year, was on April 1. Visit Facebook.com/ BillyBobsTexas. –– Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at hearsay@fwweekly.com.

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5 AM Drip Coffee Roasters 1201 Evans Ave #101, FWTX SquareUp.com/Store/5am-drip-dallas-fort-worth-texas Online ordering and curbside pickup for coffee and plant-based foods. Alchemy Pops 411 S. Main #109, FWTX, 817-502-2026 www.AlchemyPops.com Now offering Curbside Pick Up and Delivery during normal operating hours. Call or text to place an order or purchase an online gift card. Ampersand Coffee 3009 Bledsoe St, FWTX, 682-707-9626 3025 S. University Dr, FWTX, 817-965-6565 www.AmpersandTX.com Currently offering Curbside & To-Go Drink Orders. Feel free to call ahead for faster Pick-Up.

Chimy’s 1053 Foch St, FWTX, 817-348-8888 www.Chimys.com Margarita delivery available. Now offering familysized fajita packs. Available for 4, 8, or 12 at $12 per person. For to-go procedures and delivery instructions (2pm-5pm only), please visit Chimys. com. Cowtown Brewing 1301 E Belknap, FWTC, 817 489-5800 www.CowtownBrewco.com Curbside Pickup Available. “Please support your local Breweries by purchasing Beer to go.” -Shawn Kidwell - Cowtown Brewing Co.

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The Bearded Lady 300 S. Main St, FWTX, 817-349-9832 Online at Bit.ly/FWBeardedLady Contactless To-Go Orders Now Available. Order online at www.thebeardedladyfw.squarespace.com or call us at 817-349-9832. Credit card payments over the phone or online only. No cash. No pens.

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Crude Craft Coffee Bar 804 S. Main St #120, FWTX, 682-224-5541 www.CrudeCoffeeBar.com We’re still here to serve you via Call In orders, To-Go, or our online menu! Tough times call for Caffeine!

Division Brewing 506 E Main, Arlington TX Facebook.com/DivisionBrewing Curbside Sales are available every day Noon - 8PM. Beer is flowing and coolers are stocked. Check our FaceBook page for our menu. Kent & Co Wine Bar 1101 W Magnolia, FWTX, 817-454-6966 Facebook.com/KCOWines KC0 has Drive Through or Delivery available. Just call or text our Dedicated Wine Line. Text when you arrive and we’ll bring it to you car. Watch for Specials on Facebook.com/KCOWines. View our Full Wine Menu at bit.ly/kcowines.

Jakes Burgers and Beer 8 DFW Locations Including: 515 Main St, FWTX, 817-332-5253 www.JakesBurgersAndBeer.com Serving Curbside and Delivery in all 8 DFW locations. We have family meal packs, beer, wine and cocktail kits to go. Thank you so much for supporting locally owned business! Legal Draft Beer Co. 500 E Division, Arlington TX, 817-962-2210 www.LegalDraftBeer.com We’ve heard you asking whether we’re going to sell beer to go, and the answer is YESSS!! Details on our website. Locust Cider & Brewing Co. 701 S Main, FWTX LocustCider.com/TapRooms/Fort-Worth Currently offering TO GO from Wednesday to Sunday, Noon to 8pm. TO GO includes growlers, grunts, and six packs of hard cider as well as gift cards and merchandise. We are also offering online ordering (https://squareup.com/store/locust-cider-fort-worth) for pick up in our taproom or curbside. The Post At River East 2925 Race St, FWTX, 817-945-8890 www.ThePostAtRiverEast.com Our cocktail delivery menu has arrived! These 32 oz carafes of house made cocktails will yield roughly 6 drinks when poured over ice, and you can get them delivered to your door for only $20! We will also be offering a daily rotating $4 takeout meal. $20 family size portions available with an hour or more notice. Full Menu, including Cocktails, Beer, and Wine is available for Take-Out or Delivery. Call to order. Roots Coffeehouse 400 Bryan Ave #101, FWTX, 817-349-8059 9101 Blvd 26 #101, NRH TX, 817-503-7344 www.Facebook.com/RootsCoffeehouse Open reduced hours for Take Out and Curbside Pick Up. Find our hours by visiting our social media channels @rootscoffeehouse. Our order ahead / curbside pick-up link is https://rootscoffeehouse. square.site/ Southside Cellar 125 S. Main St, FWTX, 682-703-2184 www.SouthsideBeerCellar.com Our retail space is fully stocked and ready for you to run in and grab a few brews. Tap Wall available for to-go Growlers or Crowlers. Plus, Gift Cards which will come in handy once all of this blows over! Tommy’s Burgers + Brew 1736 Mall Circle, FWTX, 817-759-9088 www.TommysHambergerGrill.net Serving our regular menu To Go. Curbside available for Pick Up Orders. FREE beer with your order! We also deliver with FAVOR. Hours are 1030am to 8pm. Call to order. Follow us on Facebook for updates. Winslow’s Wine Café 4104 Camp Bowie, FWTX, 817-546-6843 www.WinslowsWineCafe.com We are OPEN and will proudly offer Curbside To-Go. Give us a call and let us know how we can be of service. Yucatan Taco Stand 909 W Magnolia Ave, FWTX, 682-385-9395 Facebook.com/YucatanMagnolia The NEW Yucatan has arrived. We are now open for To-Go food and alcoholic beverages. Please call (682) 385-9395 for curbside pick up orders.

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Texas Gun Experience 1901 S Main St, Grapevine TX www.TexasGunExperience.com TGE staff and its facilities are equipped with the appropriate amenities and training to create a safe environment for its guests. Our hours of operation, events, training and classes are still as scheduled. Snap that cabin fever with a full auto, machine gun rental! Wag Canine Emporium 4737 Camp Bowie, FWTX, 817877-4924(iwag) www.WagForDogs.com Now offering curbside pickup, online ordering, and will accommodate private shopping hours. We are here for the dogs of Fort Worth and their humans. Follow us on social media @WagForDogs. FITNESS & BEAUTY The Bar Method 5277 Monahans FWTX www.BarMethod.com Bar Method Fort Worth is providing your favorite barre exercise from the comfort of your own home! Our instructors are teaching live stream classes 7 days a week on our live stream instagram account @ barmethodftwlivestream. Not a member of our studio? Not a problem! Purchase our Virtual Access Package for granted access to our live stream classes AND 30 days of Bar Online. Madison Reed Color Bar 3000 S Hulen St #156, FWTX www.Madison-Reed.com Our Color Bars are temporarily closed during this time. But don’t worry...the hair color we use in our Color Bar is the exact same salon-quality color

Power BAR Women’s Fitness Arlington & Haltom City TX www.PowerBarFit.com Our pole dance studios are closed for the time being. However, we are offering online tutorials for pole and dance enthusiasts who would like to continue – or start their training. Stockyards Salon & Spa 112 NW 24th #116, FWTX, 817-965-8107 No need to show roots! Custom Hair Color kits made just for you. Delivered for free to your door (in Fort Worth). Our Color experts will create your Custom Kit after a phone consultation. Pamper yourself by adding Professional Hair care and Skin care products to your basket. Shampoo, Conditioners and even Moisturizing Face Masks. Urban Yoga 1706 8th Ave, FWTX, 817-908-3569 www.UrbanYogaFW.com Urban Yoga is bringing the community Facebook Live classes and / or YouTube video and a streaming service via Zoom / Mind Body. For the latest updates, follow us on Facebook or subscribe to our newsletter by emailing InfoUrbanYoga@gmail.com HEALTH & WELLNESS Mothers Milk Bank of North Texas www.TexasMilkBank.org We are currently experiencing an increased need for donor milk in North Texas NICn Us. For important COVID-19 information related to breastfeeding and milk bank safety, click the link on our home page at www. texasmilkbank.org.

Thrive Apothecary 212 Carroll St, FWTX 817-480-7098 www.ThriveTX.com Curbside and Online Orders Only! We know you still need your Doctor Approved CBD, and we want to keep our employees working. Order online at thrivetx.com for FREE shipping or curbside pickup OR call us at 817-4807098 to place an order for pickup. Visit ThriveTX.com to place your order today. SERVICES Texas Coalition For Animal Protection Burleson, Hurst, Fort Worth www.TexasForThem.org TCAP is offering FREE Spays and Neuters for 14 Zip Codes. Qualifying Zip Codes are 76102, 76103, 76104, 76105, 76106, 76107, 76110, 76111, 76112, 76114, 76115, 76116, 76119, and 76140. Convenient Locations in Burleson, Hurst, and Fort Worth. To schedule an Appointment, call 682-2007630. For more info, visit www.TexasForThem.org. Union Worx Coworking 500 E Front St #160, Arlington TX, 817-864-1818 www.unionworx.com Union Worx has room to spread out and are asking our member to do just that. We are not taking things lightly but also know there is still important work that needs to get done and are keeping our doors open until instructed otherwise. We are ready to help people as their work needs evolve due to coronavirus.

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TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY Revised Notice of Draft Federal Operating Permit Draft Permit No.: O2058 Application and Draft Permit. Royal Baths Manufacturing Company, 14635 Chrisman Rd, Houston, TX 77039-1116, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for a renewal of Federal Operating Permit (herein referred to as Permit) No. O2058, Application No. 29967, to authorize operation of the Burns Street Facility, an All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing facility. The area addressed by the application is located at 7112 Burns St in Richland Hills, Tarrant County, Texas 76118- 6808. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility's general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to the application. You can find an electronic map of the facility at: http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/hb610/index. html?lat=32.795833&lng=- 97.2275&zoom=13&type=r. This application was received by the TCEQ on January 21, 2020. The purpose of a federal operating permit is to improve overall compliance with the rules governing air pollution control by clearly listing all applicable requirements, as defined in Title 30 Texas Administrative Code § 122.10 (30 TAC § 122.10). The draft permit, if approved, will codify the conditions under which the area must operate. The permit will not authorize new construction. The executive director has completed the technical review of the application and has made a preliminary decision to prepare a draft permit for public comment and review. The executive director recommends issuance of this draft permit. The permit application, statement of basis, and draft permit will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ Central Office, 12100 Park 35 Circle, Building E, First Floor, Austin, Texas 78753; the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Office, 2309 Gravel Dr, Fort Worth, Texas 76118-6951; and at https://www. royal-mfg.com/news-events/ beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The draft permit and statement of basis are available at the TCEQ Website: www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/tvnotice At the TCEQ central and regional offices, relevant supporting materials for the draft permit, as well as the New Source Review permits which have been incorporated by reference, may be reviewed and copied. Any person with difficulties obtaining these materials due to travel constraints may contact the TCEQ central office file room at (512) 239-2900. Public Comment/Notice and Comment Hearing. Any person may submit written comments on the draft permit. Comments relating to the accuracy, completeness, and appropriateness of the permit conditions may result in changes to the draft permit. A person who may be affected by the emission of air pollutants from the permitted area may request a notice and comment hearing. The purpose of the notice and comment hearing is to provide an additional opportunity to submit comments on the draft permit. The permit may be changed based on comments pertaining to whether the permit provides for compliance with 30 TAC Chapter 122 (examples may include that the permit does not contain all applicable requirements or the public notice procedures were not satisfied). The TCEQ may grant a notice and comment hearing on the application if a written hearing request is received within 30 days after publication of the newspaper notice. The hearing request must include the basis for the request, including a description of how the person may be affected by the emission of air pollutants from the application area. The request should also specify the conditions of the draft permit that are inappropriate or specify how the preliminary decision to issue or deny the permit is inappropriate. All reasonably ascertainable issues must be raised and all reasonably available arguments must be submitted by the end of the public comment period. If a notice and comment hearing is granted, all individuals that submitted written comments or a hearing request will receive written notice of the hearing. This notice will identify the date, time, and location for the hearing. Written public comments and/or requests for a notice and comment hearing should be submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087, or electronically at www14.tceq.texas.gov/epic/eComment/ and be received within 30 days after the date of newspaper publication of this notice. Please be aware that any contact information you provide, including your name, phone number, email address and physical address will become part of the agency’s public record. A notice of proposed final action that includes a response to comments and identification of any changes to the draft permit will be mailed to everyone who submitted public comments, a hearing request, or requested to be on the mailing list for this application. This mailing will also provide instructions for public petitions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to request that the EPA object to the issuance of the proposed permit. After receiving a petition, the EPA may only object to the issuance of a permit which is not in compliance with the applicable requirements or the requirements of 30 TAC Chapter 122. Mailing List. In addition to submitting public comments, a person may ask to be placed on a mailing list for this application by sending a request to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address above. Those on the mailing list will receive copies of future public notices (if any) mailed by the Chief Clerk for this application. Information. For additional information about this permit application or the permitting process, please contact the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Public Education Program, MC-108, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087 or toll free at 1-800-687-4040. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040. Further information may also be obtained for Royal Baths Manufacturing Company by calling Mr. Caesar Hage at (281) 442-3400. Notice Issuance Date: March 23, 2020

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Sci Fi Factory Keller 10716 N. Beach St, FWTX Open by appt for curbside pickup of comics, board games, CCgs, D&D items, MTG, Pokemon, YGO, and other gaming items. Orders are taken through FB Messenger. Delivery is also available.

Miss Botox Fort Worth 1327 Hemphill, FWTX, 817528-9899 MissBotoxFortWorth.com During the covid crisis, we are not seeing our aesthetic patients in office. In lieu of Botox and filles we are currently Smoothing lines and providing skinhealth by ZO Skincare line. We are treating acne, rosacea, hyperpigmentation, age spots and sun damage among other conditions. Call for virtual visit or order through on-line store.

Fort Worth Dental Arts 2421 W. 7th St, FWTX www.FortWorthDentalArts.com We are creating a safe space for our patients by seeing one patient at a time and sanitizing every surface, as always! Dr. Hoyt is here for our patients and any dental emergencies that arise. Stay Strong Fort Worth.

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Recycled Books, Records & CDs 200 N Locust St, Denton, TX, 940-566-5688 www.RecycledBooks.com Our online stores for collectible and semicollectible items remain open on Amazon, DiscOgs and Ebay.

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THE RIDGLEA PRESENTS: All shows have been POSTPONED until further notice.

Live performances will be back as soon as possible, including many acts previously scheduled, as follows: RIDGLEA THEATER: Sat 5/2 CRUEligans; Fri 8/21 Ricky Lee Jones. RIDGLEA ROOM: Fri 5/8 Fort Worth Music Academy; Fri 5/22 Fusion Franklin, Bodega Da Gawd, LingoLive. RIDGLEA LOUNGE: Fri 5/15 Sushi Greenberg Phish Tribute; Fri 5/29 90s Nite w Marilyn Hanson. theRidglea.com

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ExteNet Systems, Inc is proposing the installation of a new decorative pole to accommodate small cell equipment at the following location in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, TX. FTW_00043_SC-A at NW 25th St. and N. Main St. Public comments regarding potential effects from this project on historic properties may be submitted within 30-days from the date of this publication to:Dustin Cox with BEC, 6333 E. Mockingbird Ln, Ste 147-913, Dallas, TX 75214, 214-888-6965, or dustin@BenchmarkEC.com. Please refer to SC-TXSUPERFTW and the address when submitting comments.