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Stop Six Though only four square miles, the Eastside neighborhood represents a complex caste system but also an intractable sense of community. STORY AND PHOTOS BY JASON BRIMMER

STATIC Thanks to many do-gooders, a food crisis was averted at Las Vegas Trail. BY EDWARD BROWN

STUFF Normal People is more than just the steamy sex scenes. BY KRISTIAN LIN

HEARSAY So how did the first weekend go for the venues? BY ANTHONY MARIANI

MUSIC A local artist livestreamed writing a song from scratch. Magic ensued. BY JEFF PRINCE

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The spread of COVID-19 has added a new sense of urgency to reforming how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) handles immigrant detentions. Lawyers for 11 immigrants currently being held in Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado recently said the spread of the coronavirus inside the facility has placed the prisoners’ lives in jeopardy. The lawyers are suing ICE to compel the federal agency to release the detainees. Last March, Maria Celeste Ochoa Yoc de Ramirez, a Guatemalan woman who was seeking asylum, died in ICE custody while in a Fort Worth hospital. Recent investigative reporting from the Dallas Morning News, Buzzfeed, and other prominent publications has found that Ramirez’ case is not unique. Medical abuse of jailed

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immigrants at the hands of ICE agents is widespread, the reporting found. ICE states that its agents have removed 350,000 at-large fugitives from this country since 2003. There’s no shortage of criticism of the agency that separates families and stokes fear in many communities, but a 2018 Politico poll found that only one in four voters believes the agency should be outright abolished. One local supporter of ICE, Sheriff Bill Waybourn, brought Tarrant County into a voluntary pact with the agency through an agreement shortly after taking office in 2017. The 287(g) program allows members of his sheriff ’s office to act as local ICE agents after they undergo specialized training. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, as it’s formally known, is currently active with 79 U.S. law enforcement agencies, according to ICE’s website. In an email, Waybourn told me that ICE “has worked with the Tarrant County Sheriff ’s Office for the last 30 years. The 287(g) program allows for the sheriff ’s office to review immigration status on inmates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Further, the average recidivism rate of illegal aliens is higher than 70%. This has a direct effect on the crime in the Tarrant County area. It is clear, if released, there is a seven in 10 chance these people will reoffend. Program 287(g) and cooperation

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Last March’s sharp economic downturn left Willie Rankin and the 35 volunteers of LVTRise with an urgent new mission: helping to feed a growing unemployed Westside population and hundreds of newly homebound public school students. With the help of the Fort Worth school district, churches, numerous nonprofits, and extensive food pantries, Rankin said a hunger crisis was averted. The executive director said his nearly 2-year-old nonprofit is now focused on providing a wide range of services for residents of the Las Vegas Trail community who are still dealing with the fallout from the pandemic. Some of those efforts are straightforward. Rankin said he has helped several residents (including senior citizens) without bank accounts cash coronavirus relief checks. And since the Texas Supreme Court recently ordered that tenant eviction proceedings could resume, many LVT families are fearful of losing their homes, Rankin said. “That’s going to be the biggest issue” for these residents moving forward, Rankin said. “We are in an area of 32 apartment complexes. If [occupants] cannot pay rent, there is worry about what is going to happen. We will have to see how this impacts our community after eviction protections are lifted. A lot of that will depend on the apartment owners and how they respond.”

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with ICE allows Tarrant County Sheriff ’s Office to make sure these repeat offenders be held fully accountable.” However, Waybourn’s numbers do not jibe with some recent data. A 2019 study published by the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute found that illegal immigrants are 32% less likely than native Texans to be convicted of a crime. A study by Justice Quarterly that same year found that, from a sample pool of 192,556 former inmates, “19% of immigrant offenders were reconvicted for a felony offense within three years of their release compared to 32% for nonimmigrant offenders.” On Wednesday, May 27, 287(g) will be at the center of a virtual town hall meeting organized by New Sheriff Now Tarrant County, a new coalition of civic-minded groups and volunteers. The online meeting, which can be viewed via the Facebook page New Sheriff Now Tarrant County, “will be a call to the Tarrant County community to join its effort in electing a new sheriff and demanding real change,” the event organizers said in a statement. Jessica Ramirez remembers being blindsided by news of the 287(g) agreement, which required consent from Tarrant County’s five governing commissioners. It was 2017, and she was busy speaking out publicly against SB4, the so-called “show me your papers” bill that is the law of the land in Texas.

Rankin knows his community well. LVTRise regularly polls residents for their most pressing concerns. Right now, residents are worried about jobs and access to transportation in addition to protections from evictions. Information about the Fort Worth Community Action Partners program (which offers utility gas, electric, and rental assistance) can be found at 817-392-5720. A similar program through the Tarrant County Department of Human Services can be reached at 817-531-5620. Las Vegas Trail’s two leading job industries, administration and food service, were hit hard by the recent economic downturn, Rankin said. Until those jobs return, Rankin said, Las Vegas Trail will continue to see unprecedented levels of stress and other hardships. The nonprofit director said the shelter-at-home orders plus job losses have increased area reports of domestic and child abuse. The local community has stepped up to meet the challenges, Rankin said. Residents are checking in on neighbors, especially those who are elderly, and Westside families are sharing what scarce resources they have, he added. Transportation remains an urgent need. Rankin said one in four adults who live in and around Las Vegas Trail does not own a car. While Rankin and his team of volunteers work to address a growing number of COVID-19-related problems, construction continues on a new community center (a former YMCA on Calmont Avenue) that will provide educational programs, nonprofit offices, and a wide range of social services to Westside residents. “Phase 1 is going to have offices, classrooms, and a

“We were so busy fighting SB4 that we were not paying attention to 287(g),” she said. Ramirez was joined by Sindy Mata, an organizer for RAICES, a 34-year-old immigrant and refugee nonprofit. Mata’s group sees 287(g) as an ideological effort to entangle local government with federal immigration responsibilities. The biggest fear with regard to the expansion of federal immigration at the local level, she said, is public safety. “There is a distrust with local law enforcement,” she said. “People don’t feel comfortable reporting crimes, and it has an immediate connection with the collaboration with ICE.” To take on the work of abolishing all local agreements with ICE, volunteers with multiracial- and civil rights-minded groups like United Fort Worth, RAICES, Indivisible Fort Worth, and Faith in Texas began asking questions about the program and speaking with county officials. In 2018, those volunteers formed a coalition called ICE Out Of Tarrant County. The grassroots group began with house meetings to teach Hispanic communities about the 287(g) agreement. Peaceful protests are another hallmark of ICE Out Of Tarrant County’s efforts. If there’s a large public event that’s hosting Waybourn, there’s a good chance the coalition’s members will be there, Mata

new Fort Worth Library,” Rankin said. “The facility will have private offices for art therapy, counseling, coaching, and case management through our partnerships with several nonprofits.” Providing after-school programming will allow LVTRise and its partners to address one of the top needs of area residents. The project is ambitious, Rankin said, and LVTRise is continually seeking donations and other forms of contributions to make the community center a reality for Westside residents. LVTRise is also working with Westside apartment managers to improve the aesthetics of the community through outdoor beautification projects. Many private businesses have stepped in to help, Rankin said. The COVID-19 crisis forced Rankin and his team of volunteers to shift their focus from health and social services to providing food to unemployed families. Rankin said the broader Fort Worth community should know that basic services like transportation, eviction protections, and job opportunities remain in short supply on the West Side, but Rankin said the community is working with the city, school district, the Fort Worth police department, and nonprofits to address each crisis as it comes. The community center remains a priority for LVTRise and its community partners. “The community center will be a great improvement for our area,” Rankin said. “It will provide a safe space and after-school programming — something that is a concern for our neighborhood.” — Edward Brown

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said. The group has expanded its programming to providing workshops on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and advocating for protections for DACA recipients and undocumented students at Tarrant County College. To this day, and despite numerous open records requests, Ramirez and Mata said they have not received data related to 287(g). The sheriff ’s office, however, provided me with some 287(g) detainer numbers. Of the 237 Tarrant County inmates who currently have ICE detainers, meaning they are non-citizens who will be handed over to ICE upon release, nine have been charged with homicide, 71 charged with sexual assault (including cases involving minors), nine listed as escaped fugitives, and 17 have been charged with burglary. A total of 16 criminal categories were included in the county data. The sheriff ’s office could not tell me how many illegal immigrants in total are in custody or for what crimes. “Currently, all prisoners that are being held on an ICE detainer must have Class B offense charges or higher,” Waybourn said. “That is our policy. The majority of those detained are being held on felony charges. Seventy percent of those held in our jail have detainers issued by agencies other than Tarrant County Sheriff ’s Office.” Vance Keys sees the 287(g) agreement as damaging to the work that local law enforcement does. The 20-year Fort Worth police department veteran is running against Waybourn, whose elected position is up for grabs this November. “There is no evidence 287(g) has a positive impact on crime,” Keys said in an email. “It does, however, fragment the people of Tarrant County and contradict the tenets of community-oriented policing. Immigration is an emotionally charged hotbutton topic. Rather than exploit the fears and biases of people, criminal justice leaders are responsible for being transparent.” The Democratic candidate said local law enforcement should focus on priority threats to public safety — not expanding the powers of ICE. “If elected as Tarrant County Sheriff,” he said, “I will discontinue the agreement.” Last June, despite vocal opposition from Tarrant County residents, three of five Tarrant County Commissioners voted to renew the voluntary agreement with ICE. The anti-ICE coalition will be supporting candidates who have a stated interest in building relationships with communities that continue to feel threatened by local law enforcement. The 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, which is now being tried as a hate crime, and the death of 24 inmates in ICE custody since Trump took office point toward a climate where asking for change is no longer an option, Mata said. “We are transitioning from raising concerns to demanding change,” Mata said. “The upcoming election offers an opportunity to redefine what a sheriff looks like. We will be supporting someone who is advocating for the things that are being violated right now, which is human rights.” l

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Stop Six will take you fast,” Derrick says as he slots a key into the front door of the one-bedroom apartment where he stays. “It’s sad. I seen good girls come over here, move in. They wasn’t drinking or nothing, not smoking weed, nothing. Next thing you know, they are sitting around, popping Four Lokos, running the streets. This place, it will take you.” Derrick is a Day One, which is to say that he was born in Stop Six. “Growing up here,” he says, “you see people selling dope, doing dope. You see it all. People die over here. Fights, you know. So you get caught up in the mix. You want to be a part of it. You want to be ’hood. The devil be roaming around here, you hear me? Out here, the devil will pull up before God will.” Derrick turns the key, the metal bolt snaps back a little too loudly, and he

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Though only four square miles, the Eastside neighborhood represents a complex caste system but also an intractable sense of community. Some people, like Shonda (second, top row), were reluctant to have their picture taken. Others sat for an hour or more. KDawg (first, top row) is a Truman Street Blood, part of a second wave of gangs that appeared after K9 Posse, arguably the first gang established in Stop Six.

Daniel Jackson was born in Stop Six, spent years as a cook all over Fort Worth, and after retiring “came back to give back to my ’hood.” He runs the Stop Six Store on Ramey Avenue, one of the few businesses in the area that is owned and staffed by people who live in and around Stop Six.

Both the number and variety of affiliation signs is staggering, and not all are gang-related. Many represent which street or housing block a person grew up on.

elbows the door open. Two steps, and he is across the tiny living room and into the kitchen. He fiddles with a few knobs on the front of an old oven, gets a spark, and lights a Newport off the front burner. I unpack my lighting gear quickly. People are already starting to gather in the dim twilight beyond the open door. Word has gotten around. Some photographer is taking pictures. Derrick greets some of the visitors by casually dispensing up-close

half-hugs and back slaps, while others, those from The Bricks, receive special, impossibly intricate, coded handshakes. A little more than four square miles in total size, Stop Six is a complex place, one where the street you grew up on matters. There is a kind of geographically based caste system at work here. Sure, anyone can be a Blood, but only a select few, by accident of birth and family address, can be a Truman Street Blood. Derrick isn’t a Truman Street Blood, but he is from

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don’t want to be bothered. Say bad things about me, things that hurt. Then you come back and say that you didn’t mean to say it. I don’t know what to believe.” Benjamin sucks on her cigarette until the filter begins to smolder and announces, “OK, that’s enough. No more tonight.” The room has filled up fast. Benjamin has to do some pushing to get out of the front door. As I watch her go, I think about something Derrick told me: “The struggle moves from generation to generation to generation. That struggle, it goes with you, and it leaves a bad mark.” “I ended up over here by the grace of God,” Sheri Samuels tells me after I finish taking her picture. “I was homeless for two years, living in my truck. They tried to take my oldest son, Zay, but he wouldn’t go. He never left my side. I cried every night. I told my son to leave me, go with your friends,

The Bricks, the projects, specifically the 4900 block. The Stop Six caste system is so atomized that even something as small as a block of the projects has its own handshake, culture, and history. Patricia Benjamin, known throughout the neighborhood as Miss Pat, is the first to sit down. Flanked on either side by whitehot studio lights, she tugs on her wig and takes such a deep drag on her Newport that a solid two inches of cigarette is instantly turned into ash. She begins to talk as I snap away, telling me about watching her father abuse her mother, about how her mother took a knife to him one night, and about how their divorce left her confused and hurt. “I just want somebody to love me,” Benjamin says. “They say they do, but they have a strange way of showing it. One minute, you cool with me. Next day, you

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“Boo” at the corner of Liberty Street and Avenue G in Stop Six.

Derrick, 29, is “Stop Six from day one.”

Patricia Benjamin stops in front of the Amanda Food Store to rest her feet.

A younger brother gets a boxing lesson during the lockdown.

“We was locked up before they put us behind bars,” Derrick tells me as he looks at the projects where he grew up. “This place is just like the pen. Ain’t no difference.”

Totiana Samuels and her brother, Red, were photographed days before they moved out of Stop Six.

“No one plans for the future,” one Stop Six resident (not pictured) told me. “It just don’t make sense to think about a five-year plan when you know you might not get five more days.”

Sometimes the car wash on Ramey is bumper-to-bumper with cars waiting to be hand-washed. Mimi freestyles, her flow guided by the beat that pumps out of a nearby car waiting to be washed. 9

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Big Mike (not pictured) sets up his barbecue smoker in a lot on Ramey Friday through Sunday, and it is often difficult to see his setup through the crush of cars and people that surround it, people who come as much for the company as they do the food.

and he did. But that night, he was right back, telling me, ‘Mama, I’m not leaving you.’ Samuels continues, “One day, my sister snuck me into her house. She snuck me in and closed the door, and all of a sudden, I just started crying because I knew I had to get back out to the truck [where we were staying] in that cold. I heard this voice say, ‘Stand still.’ The voice

The blessing of Stop Six, though, is created by what that pressure, what that grind, what that struggle creates: resilience and community. I began photographing Stop Six almost a year ago by documenting the closing down of the projects, and like so many of the people who came to Stop Six, I got caught up in the struggle. The pride that the people have in their community and their heritage is strong, as is their grief and pain at the violence that has torn so many of their families apart. It is this complex mixture of pride and pain that I have spent hundreds of hours endeavoring

to capture. Stop Six is changing. The Bricks are all but gone now, empty shells waiting to be bulldozed. In a matter of months, there will be no new project babies to teach the 4900-block handshake to. How much more about Stop Six will change? I wonder as I pack up my camera for the night. “No matter where I go or how far away I am,” Derrick tells me as we break down my equipment, “my feet always bring me right back here. There’s good people here, working hard against that struggle.” That, I know, will never change. l

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A young man charges a cell phone off a junction box above an out-of-service payphone.

sounded so real and so loud. The next day, a letter came in the mail. I got my housing. Now, we got a roof over our heads.” Blessings and curses come mixed so close together in Stop Six that it is difficult to tell them apart. An abusive father is forced out, but the hurt lasts, causing pain that continues for decades. Any place where 40% of the population lives below the poverty line and the murder rate is 37% higher than the national average can feel cursed. Talk to any Stop Six resident long enough, and the conversation will always, without fail or exception, include the phrase “they were killed right over there.” Sometimes “right over there” is the patch of gravel behind what was a redpainted liquor store that now stands abandoned, its windows boarded up and a “no trespassing” sign posted on the locked front door. A girl was found there, behind the red store, shot to death, lying in the gravel. “It was a long time ago,” Slim tells me as he looks into my camera. “I don’t remember her name anymore, but that’s where they found her.” Sometimes “right over there” is Village Creek Park, a small green space to the south of Stop Six where five people were injured on Mother’s Day by gunfire. “They are calling it the Mother’s Day Massacre,” says Zay, Sheri Samuels’ eldest son, the son who wouldn’t leave his mother’s side even when it meant sleeping in the cramped cab of a truck.

This Saturday, May 30th Mario García Torres The Schlieren Plot, n.d. Mario García Torres's The Schlieren Plot, n.d., is a cinematic narrative based on two little-known episodes in the career of the American artist Robert Smithson (1938-1973). Between the late 1960s and 1970s, Smithson worked on two projects in Texas. Mixing fact and fiction, the film's story centers on a gardener at the Menil Collection in Houston who goes on a journey to review Smithson's path across the state. Video will go live on Saturday, May 30 at 7 pm CST and will be screened continuously until 10pm CST

At noon –– or any Wednesday or Friday now through July 3 –– join Wednesday Mrs. Dipsworth (Sheran Keyton) for a free Story Time Message on YouTube or Facebook Live. Keyton, who has a day job at the Fort Worth Opera, has been teaching children through music and dance for more than 10 years. From rap videos to lessons like Mrs. Dipsworth Explains COVID, there’s a little bit of everything. Her messages are targeted at little ones on up through fifth grade. See more at Facebook.com/ MrsDipsworth.

Remember the good old days, when men were men and sportsball was a Thursday thing? Well, everything old is new again. Fort Worth Vaqueros Futbol Club has taken back Thursdays –– and Tuesdays, for that matter –– with a new eSports team they’ve launched. At

9:30pm and 10pm, the games are streamed at Facebook.com/FWVaquerpEsports. Call 817-200-7355.

“The MyOhMy Drag Show is closed as far as having a live audience,” Friday producer Robert Burke said. “Hopefully, we will reopen in June, but in the meanwhile, we are doing something special for all the people who have supported us the past five years.” In celebration of their fifth anniversary, the show will be televised without an audience via Pay Per View Live from the Red Goose Saloon downtown at 8pm. Tickets are $4.95 at MyOhMyTheShow.com. Call 817946-2295.

Celebrate National Brisket Day with its founder, Fort Worth’s own Rick Saturday McNeely. At noon, head to Smokey’s BBQ (5300 E Lancaster Av,

At 7pm, the Spectrum Chamber Music Society’s production of the Igor Monday Stravinsky music-theater piece The Soldier’s Tale will be at the sanctuary of First United Methodist Church Fort Worth (800 W 5th St, 817336-7277). As described on the event page, “A young soldier on leave sells his precious fiddle to an old man in exchange for a book that promises great riches, and his troubles begin from there.” No cost to attend. Reception to follow.

At 7pm today –– and the next five Tuesdays –– log into Zoom and take a Tuesday free course series called Come On, Get Happy: 4 Perspectives on Happiness. Topics include philosophical and religious perspectives (tonight’s subject), the psychology and science of happiness, economics and happiness, what makes children happy, and a conversation about happiness. While there is no fee, registration is required and attendance is limited to 300. To register, visit TCU.edu and search “On Happiness.” Call 817-2577000.

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We Heart Huckabee

When legendary Fort Worth actor/ director Bill Paxton died three years ago, devastated friend Tom Huckabee threw himself into several Paxton-related postmortem projects, including the Bill and John Paxton Sculpture Garden. This interactive-art environment was established by Huckabee at 26 Cliffside Dr, the vacant lot next to the filmmaker’s house in Edgecliff Village. Local artists created the outdoor sculptures. Some pieces are for sale, while others are permanent installations. Each has a meaning that Huckabee would love to explain. Just knock on his door and ask for a guided tour. Admission and parking (curbside) are free, but donations are appreciated. Open 24/7, day or night, or as the sign at the front says, “Private Property. Yes Trespassing.” Read more about Tom Huckabee in this week’s Toast & Jam in the Last Call section.

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Bill Paxton is gone but not forgotten. Tom Huckabee agrees.

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At 1pm, relieve your quarantine stress with Hopes & Jokes at The Mad Sunday Hatter Neighborhood Pub (706 Carroll St, 682-703-2148). This all-day comedy event features five different shows, plus a roast battle. Tickets are available for presale at Eventbrite for $15 per show or $25 for all day. Proceeds benefit The Suubi Project that helps children in Uganda.

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If you’ve heard one thing about Normal People, it’s that the new Irish TV miniseries has wall-to-wall sex scenes. Indeed, the second episode alone has four of them, and it runs only half an hour. The show’s producers actually had to issue Pornhub a cease-and-desist order when the site streamed a 22-minute supercut of sex scenes from the program. The other thing you might have heard about Normal People is that it’s really good, and I’m happy to report that that hasn’t been oversold. It’s a landmark of sorts, because it adds Ireland to the list of countries where good television is made. The story is based on Sally Rooney’s bestselling 2018 novel, which I didn’t have a chance to read — damn you, coronavirus. It follows our protagonists from their teen years together in the fictional town of Carricklea, County Sligo. Connell Waldron (Paul Mescal) is the handsome, popular star of his school’s Gaelic football team, while Marianne Sheridan (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is the roundly disliked bookworm at the top of her class. Connell’s mother (Sarah Greene) has a part-time job cleaning Marianne’s house, and through this Connell sees that the confidence Marianne exudes melts away when she’s not in school. They start having sex on the sly, because Connell’s afraid of being embarrassed in front of his friends if he’s seen with her, and her selfesteem is low enough for her to go along with it. What sets their lives off on parallel tracks is her suggestion that he’s smarter

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than he thinks he is and should pursue his talent for writing as a vocation. That’s how they wind up continuing their relationship at Dublin’s fabled Trinity College. Unlike Britain, Ireland does not have a lengthy tradition of homegrown prestige TV drama, even though Game of Thrones and The Tudors were filmed there. Normal People is bankrolled by Hulu, and you can see a determination to give top-of-theline treatment to this contemporary Irish story, with Lenny Abrahamson (the Oscarnominated director of Room) directing the first six episodes. Single episodes were filmed in Italy and Sweden, a luxurious touch for a half-hour show, as well as a necessary one that indicates Connell and Marianne’s broadening sense of the world. “Cities in foreign countries really exist,” marvels Connell as the two of them savor gelato in an Italian piazza. The book was acclaimed for its psychological insight, and with Rooney on board as co-writer of all the episodes, that comes through here. This is queasily so in an early scene at a school dance, when a football player gropes Marianne’s breast, and as she runs out of the building traumatized, his friends all defend him, with the notable exception of Connell. Marianne is one of those girls that One Direction sang about, who’s beautiful because she doesn’t know she’s beautiful. Charming as that can be, the show demonstrates how that mentality carries a steep downside, springing as it does from a family life marked by abuse from

her deceased father and her unrelentingly awful brother (Frank Blake), who seems to have inherited his dad’s tendencies. She attracts more abusive men when she’s not with Connell and experiments with degrading BDSM sex. When they get back together, Connell is shocked when she asks him to rape her. All this would seem to make Connell the less interesting half of this partnership, but that’s fortunately not the case. He has his own crap to go through, as he ignores Marianne in public because his macho friends expect him to date someone hotter who doesn’t lead with her intelligence. Later, he feels out of place amid the bigcity types in Dublin (in contrast with Marianne, who finds a circle of supportive friends), and his demons send him crashing into a deep depression after he hears that one of his Carricklea friends marked New Year’s Eve by jumping off a bridge to his death. The format of the show seems to be the biggest issue. The cycle of breakups and reunions that Connell and Marianne go through is too abrupt when dealt with in these 12 half-hour episodes. I imagine it played better on the page and might have done so over one-hour episodes. The final scene of the series, too, taking place on the floor of Marianne’s Dublin flat, doesn’t feel like the end somehow and could have packed more of a wallop. The two actors play the living crap out of it, though. The show compensates for its lack of above-the-line stars by minting

a couple of new ones. Mescal has his Irish version of the sensitive-jock thing down pat, and he looks especially beautiful when he cries. Meanwhile, Edgar-Jones is an English actress who slips into the Irish milieu without hitting a false note, and she’s good at playing both the awkward version of Marianne at Carricklea and the more polished version of her at Trinity. People say that the dewy-eyed Edgar-Jones looks like Anne Hathaway, but I’m struck by her resemblance to Sally Rooney. The sex scenes, too, aren’t just there to generate publicity (though they help, especially when they feature full frontal nudity, male and female). They capture that stage of teenage sexuality when Marianne first discovers sex and wants it all the time. They reveal character, and not just in the aforementioned requested rape scene. It results in a heartbreaking scene when Paul’s email message to Marianne (“I know people have treated you badly, and I include myself in this, but that doesn’t mean you deserve it”) is overlaid with Marianne posing for topless bondage photos for her Swedish boyfriend and realizing that she no longer wants all the punishment. There may not be a happy ending for this romance, but as Connell and Marianne part for a final time, these two deeply insecure and broken people realize how they’ve made each other better, and it is moving like few other dramas achieve. Without resorting to high concepts, this program finds the very stuff of life. l

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Sadly, the Pho Shizzle was a fizzle. Maybe our disappointment was rooted in the fact that we had just accepted Sriracha ranch, mozzarella, and blue cheese as “normal” toppings for a loaded bakedpotato, but I’d have been less put off if this Vietnamese soup-inspired pie was more traditional in its flavors. I eat pho often, but I have never seen oven-roasted chicken, red peppers, or caramelized onions in the bowl. And although both plants are called “basil,” the herb used to garnish Mediterranean dishes lacks the citrus-twang and aroma of the Thai variety one typically finds in Southeast Asian cuisine. The real standout was The NYC. The classic pizza is made with house-roasted tomato sauce, mozzarella, and a dusting of dried oregano. As directed, we ordered the half and half: Half the surface is topped with all-beef pepperoni and the other with Italian sausage. The acidity of the homemade sauce played foil to the greasy goodness of the crispy-edged pepperoni, and black pepper added a nice kick to the juicy sausage chunks. The ZaLat zealots, as they called themselves, were very generous with their toppings. The crust was close to perfect, with a bit of char and a nice crunch, which yielded a steamy soft center. The slices folded well in-hand with a slight crackle. They didn’t become soggy and didn’t droop. Next time you’ve got the munchies and you don’t mind battling the undead, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better latenight dining option. But if you’d rather save your bugout bag for the end times, get to ZaLat Pizza before the bars let out. l

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Barring true Armageddon, you will never come closer to the sights and sounds of the zombie apocalypse than at 2:30 a.m. in the West 7th corridor on a weekend. When my The Pho Shizzle was a lot to take in. guest and I entered the labyrinth of oneway streets before the pandemic, a mass of bleary-eyed people was staggering up and every order. We were hoping to explore down the sidewalks. Moving quickly to a wider sampling of the menu, but, our destination, we passed a woman sitting unfortunately, individual slices are offered on the curb. She was missing a shoe and only from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Monday staring blankly at her feet. We avoided eye through Friday. We needed to choose contact with a man who was grunting and wisely. Names were called for pickups. cursing incoherently at passing cars. As we approached our destination, we realized Various branded delivery drivers came that it was packed with similarly afflicted and went through the crowd of customers. folks, but it wasn’t human brains that these Someone named Miranda was having a video chat that was just starting to get fiends craved. It was food. Fooooood. After shouldering past a group of guys interesting when our new friends reached filming a TikTok video, we entered ZaLat their decision. We should order a Pho Pizza. The four-month-old eatery’s small Shizzle, a Loaded Notato, and The NYC. space is more of a production kitchen than Why the hell not? Despite the top-notch zombiea restaurant. Pizza boxes are piled floorto-ceiling along the walls with a break watching from our small table in the in the clutter for a large painted menu enclosed, pet-friendly patio, the next and signage encouraging you to order via 20 minutes seemed like an eternity. Thankfully, the pizza was worth the wait, ZaLat’s app or Zalatpizza.com. The kitchen dominates the space but if you are planning on trying this place, and is in plain view directly behind the you’d be wise to order ahead. The first pizza we received was L-shaped ordering counter. From simple salads, candy bars, and pints of ice cream the Loaded Notato. A play on a loaded to unique pizza combinations, the choices baked potato, it was topped with bacon, jalapeños, mozzarella, are many. Luckily, cheddar, chives, and the friendly staff is a blue cheese ranch helpful in navigating ZaLat Pizza Loaded Notato ........................$15.99 swirl. The flavors the eclectic offerings Pho Shizzle .............................$14.99 combined well. The but definitely not as The NYC, half and half............$13.99 smokiness of the friendly as the group bacon took the lead, of slurring brand advocates standing in line next to us who and the Sirancha, which was used here as the base sauce, melted with the cheeses to insisted on steering our order. The decision-making process went on delicious effect. I had hoped for more of for a while due to a disagreement between a blue cheese flavor, but I was unable to two of our advisors about the virtues of detect any. Also, this pizza could be too Sirancha, ZaLat’s trademarked name for spicy for some. My guest took one bite and Sriracha-ranch sauce, which comes with was unable to finish.

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Court Hoang was a couple of weeks into the pandemic lockdown and feeling disconnected. Hunkering down wasn’t

HearSay I talked to my wife about it, and she decided, for both of us, that I would stay home and work. The other option was to go to the bar. Since this Tuesday afternoon was breezy and shady, the thought of sipping/chugging Bud Light on the patio of Lola’s Trailer Park sounded great. My favorite spot was reopening, and as much as I wanted to be there, I didn’t want to forget I was still, y’know, on the clock. More times than I want to or can remember, “Let’s go grab a couple beers” has turned into last call. My wife and I also weren’t sure about the other customers. Lola’s itself, I wasn’t worried about. I’ve known owner Brian Forella for more than 20 years. I know that when he says his place will be spotless, his employees will be wearing protection, and that social distancing guidelines will be respected, I can’t even begin to doubt him. I also know that whatever extra security he’s hired can’t be everywhere at all times, scolding customers for approaching customers at other tables or wiping down every single piece of furniture anyone touches. For germophobes like me, now’s probably not a good time to start socializing in public. That’s me talking, not my wife. Honestly. I certainly have no designs on being any sort of hero of late capitalism. Lee Newquist and younger brother Michael Newquist, the guys who own our paper and run the advertising side? Those

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dudes are local-loving supermen. They’re probably at Lola’s — or The Boiled Owl or Central Market or Poag Mahone’s — as we speak. They take great pleasure in investing in the community they love so much. I’ll just continue to show my support from at least 6 feet away. And while wearing a mask. I got sucked into it the other day, “the social network,” that infernal cesspool whose name I can’t even bring myself to say. I had seen so many of my “friends” (and friends) post nonsense about masks that I had to leave a snippy comment: “The mask isn’t to protect you. It’s to keep you from getting other people sick if you’re asymptomatic. Wearing a mask is just a G.D. common courtesy.” Or maybe that was the 10 Bud Lights talking. Either way, if universal masks are going to save us, as has been suggested, then the United States will become an actual cesspool. Here’s a story. Since 1844, my family has been ordering our groceries for pickup. Two lousy days ago, as my wife was on her way to Walgreens to grab some scripts, she noticed that the parking lot of our local Kroger was mostly empty. In need of some odds and ends around the house, she popped inside. More than three-quarters of the other customers she saw, or about three dozen of them, were not wearing masks. Note: Not wearing a mask in public does not make you a hero. Not wearing a mask only makes you a selfish asshole. It doesn’t say you’re a patriot to

whom directives do not apply or to whom they loom as ominously as infringements on freedom itself. It says you don’t care if you get other people sick, because you can be asymptomatic and still pass along COVID-19. Dotards. Then again, could there be anything more American than the ability to kill other people easily and claim it as a right? Says the guy who can drink 10 Bud Lights in one sitting. The Star-Telegram reported that most bars across West 7th Street from Lola’s had waiting lines on Friday and Saturday nights, the first full weekend of reopened bars/venues. The paper went on to say that places like Durty Crow, The Local, Reservoir, and Texas Republic appeared to be respecting social distancing and cleanliness. The Usual on the other side of town, the Near Southside, was pretty subdued, the Star-T said. Business at MASS, the progressive-music venue on the Near Southside, was “rough,” coowner Ryan Higgs told me. “We are an event-driven space. Not too much walkup without a show going.” As Lola’s will begin music inside in mid-June, Forella said, Higgs said MASS may start earlier. “We’re contemplating it,” Higgs added. “It will be seated/ticketed shows. It will have to be a listening room of sorts.” If music does start at MASS, it won’t be this weekend but Friday, June 5. Like at Lola’s, MASS’ guidelines for proper venue/bar behavior are posted everywhere inside. There is also extra security to enforce the rules “for the safety

of everyone,” Higgs said. How do you drink with a mask on? Easy. You pull it down and take a sip. It’s like smoking but healthier. Like, there’s no downside to it at all. Except strangers can’t see how wholly handsome or pretty you are, I guess. — Anthony Mariani

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honest with your kids, but you don’t want to put things on them that are too big for them.” Then he had an idea. The part-time indie folk-rock artist decided to livestream a songwriting session. He would start from scratch –– no chords, lyrics, or melody –– and write in real time in front of online viewers. “One of the best ways to connect with people is to share the vulnerability, and what is more vulnerable than trying to write a song in front of people?” he said. “I’d start with nothing and go through the songwriting process that I usually go through and just see what comes out.” An hour into the livestream, he had written a verse and chorus for a song called “Will I Wake Up?” Nothing was polished, but Hoang liked what he’d come up with on the spot, and he enjoyed exposing his writing methods to viewers. “I was talking through my process as I was doing it –– this is how I’m choosing the chords, this is how I’m writing the melody,” he said. “Once I had the melody, I started playing around with words. Just talking it all out. It was a very strange experience. Usually I don’t even let my wife and kids hear a song until I at least have a finished draft. The folks who stuck around enjoyed it.” He completed the song over the next few days. “Then I thought, What am I going to do with it?” he said. Hoang recorded the basic guitar and vocal tracks in his garage, which he has converted into a recording studio. He liked the song and envisioned a big production

the past or seen their work, and I trust them.” All of the musicians agreed and recorded their parts using a variety of methods, including studio gear, laptops, USB mics, or iPhones. They mailed their parts back to Hoang to add to the master recording. “No one really knew what anyone else was doing,” Hoang said. “Then I did a little bit of chopping up and cutting and pasting –– but very little.” The musicians, aware of the large number of people involved, played sparingly but purposefully. After the mixdown, the finished product steeped in orchestral folk, rock, and pop sounded rich and warm. Musicians who contributed include Casey Davis-Van Atta (mandolin), Joseph Fisher-Schramm (upright bass), Brian Garcia (drums), Luke Lindemann (piano), Blake Montgomery (electric guitar), Caleb Schramm (hand percussion), Veronica Schramm (violin), Taylor Teachout (vocals), James West (vocals), and Bess Whitby (cello). Hoang was so pleased he produced a video using license-free stock footage and spent dozens of hours creating a timely storyline that depicts different ways in which people are navigating the crisis. The song debuted on Friday, May 22, on The KXT Local Show hosted by Amy Miller and online at KXT.org and is available at CourtHoang.com. Proceeds from sales will be donated to the North Texas Food Bank. “I am supremely happy with how it turned out, especially given the constraints we were under,” Hoang said. l

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