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The number of men, women, and teenagers who flow through Tarrant County’s criminal justice system is staggering. In 2019, 48,945 criminal cases — roughly the combined populations of Benbrook, Crowley, and White Settlement — were filed in Tarrant County, according to the local district attorney’s office. The realities of drug possession laws and other fac-
Static The phone call in late June went something like this: “Hello, Mr. Gorman. I want to tell you something,” and then the woman on the line told me she was upset that at the Johnson County Justice Center face masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus were required but that the city of Cleburne had no such requirement. “So the bigshot lawyers and judges all want to be protected,” she went on, “but they could care less about the rest of us doing daily activities. I don’t think that’s right.” Less than a week after that call, Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order mandating face masks in public places throughout Texas. There were plenty of loopholes: If you could keep a 6-foot distance from others, if you were a child under 10, if you were eating or exercising outdoors, and so on, you didn’t need to wear one. Abbott’s order came late for Texas, which has seen an explosion in new cases, and deaths, over the past month. And a lot of people in places like Johnson and Parker counties are still largely ignoring that order. While big stores like Walmart,
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tors create thousands of defendants who cannot afford a lawyer. The Sixth Amendment establishes a defendant’s right to legal counsel, but making that right a reality for defendants of all socioeconomic backgrounds is a patchwork system of court-appointed lawyers and public defender’s offices: governmentfunded groups that provide legal representation to defendants who could not otherwise afford a lawyer. Tarrant County relies on court-appointed attorneys for indigent defendants. “When I found out that we don’t have [a public defender’s office], it shocked me,” Pamela Young said. The lead organizer for United Fort Worth Criminal Justice Action Team recently joined Jen Sarduy (director at maternal rights group Re+Birth Equity Alliance) and Lizzie Maldonado (director at the drug overdose prevention nonprofit O.D. Aid) to push Tarrant County officials to create a local defender’s office. “I see all these ways that we criminalize poverty,” Sarduy said. “This is one of the most egregious misuses of public funds. Our groups organize [around different criminal justice reform focuses]. One way that our focuses intersect is on the
lack of structural support for those who need legal support.” The community organizers drafted a letter of support that has 120 signatures and represents six groups, Maldonado said. The signed letters are addressed to the Tarrant County Commissioners Court, the governing body that would need to approve a planning study on the feasibility of a Tarrant County public defender’s office. “Tarrant County is likely the largest county in the United States without a public defender’s office at this point,” said Geoffrey Burkhart, executive director of the Texas Indigent Defense Commission (TIDC). Burkhart’s governmental group is tasked with providing support and funding for state municipalities that offer indigent defense programs. Increasingly, he said, those efforts have focused on establishing public defender’s offices. “The reason the offices work,” he said, “is common sense. If you look at other parts of the criminal justice system, we don’t treat [judges and prosecutors like contract defense lawyers]. You can’t imagine 100 county prosecutors who are all private attorneys with their own overhead and picking cases on a case-by-case basis. You can’t imagine doing that with judges
or jailers either, but we do that with indigent defense. We don’t provide [indigent] defense attorneys with what they need to properly do their job, like investigators, and we don’t pay them much.” Greg Westfall sees Tarrant County’s current court-appointed system as far preferable to the government-controlled alternative. The Fort Worth trial and criminal defense lawyer, who has more than 25 years of criminal defense experience, has spent much of his career defending indigent men and women in Tarrant County. “You’re not going to get rich doing court-appointed work,” he said. “There are a lot of folks who are in the system who shouldn’t be. The defendants are often overcharged, over-arrested, and overlooked. Doing court-appointed work is one of the best ways to get good results for these people.” Westfall has concerns about potential problems that a public defender’s office would bring to Tarrant County. While both options are imperfect, he said, the current system of appointing contract lawyers on a case-by-case basis is less vulnerable to budget cuts. Public defender’s offices are often pitched as cost-saving measures, he said.
HEB, and Brookshires have their own requirements to wear a mask to enter — and there are often two local policemen outside of the entrances to enforce the rules — smaller stores and gas stations are almost completely ignoring the mandate. On recent trips to Dollar General, several gas stations, and a bakery in Johnson County, not a single customer or worker was masked. Parker County residents are behaving similarly, I’m told. “I’m not worried about getting sick,” explained a fellow at a local convenience store who always sports a 9mm gun and whom I have known for years. “Not worried at all.” Not only should he know that masks aren’t necessarily to protect you but to prevent you from giving COVID-19 to others, he should know enough to be worried. According to the Washington Post, which has a team of reporters tracking the coronavirus both nationally and worldwide and publishing the numbers daily, Johnson County still has low overall COVID-19 case numbers and deaths, but they are growing quickly. A month ago, there were two reported deaths and about 450 cases. Currently, there are seven deaths — three in the last week — and 973 reported cases, 88 of those in the last week. The numbers are still low, but the percentages are making a huge jump.
Nearby Parker County is doing better than Johnson. It has had only one death and a total of 697 cases, but 82 of those were reported in the last week, a jump of more than 10%. Tarrant County has a very different story. Fort Worth and nearby cities are much more densely populated than Johnson and Parker counties, and the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths reflect that. There has been a total of more than 22,000 cases in Tarrant, with around 3,000 reported in the last week. The death toll stands at 299, with more than 25 of those in the past week. But much of Tarrant County appears to finally be taking the pandemic seriously, in large part due to Abbott’s executive order. “A month ago, maybe half the people in Central Market or Trader Joe’s were wearing masks,” said Matthew Haddock, a lawyer who lives in South Fort Worth. “And hardly anyone was wearing them at gas station convenience stores and places like that. Now, everyone is wearing a mask in public places. Of course, the big supermarkets and places like Lowe’s won’t allow you in without one, but even the mom-and-pop place customers are wearing them now. People know it’s serious.” I was talking with Haddock while he was getting a haircut in Fort Worth, and he said that both he and the barber were
wearing masks. “I think Fort Worth will see its numbers drop because of them.” There are still people who defiantly refuse to wear masks because they think it is a plot by the government to make us all more pliable, or that it is the mark of the devil, or because masks will lead to chips so that the government can follow our every move. There are also those who do not believe the coronavirus is real or, if it is, that it is not dangerous or, if it is dangerous, that it will not affect them. COVID-19 is real, and it is dangerous. And while some deaths might have been ascribed to it mistakenly, most of the 140,000-plus deaths from COVID-19 in the United States are correctly attributed to it. Those places, like Fort Worth, which have begun to take the virus seriously, will see their numbers drop. In Johnson and Parker counties, where significant numbers of people are not taking it seriously, their numbers will, unfortunately and heartbreakingly, continue to rise dramatically. — Peter Gorman Author and former staff writer Peter Gorman lives in Johnson County. The Weekly welcomes submissions from all political persuasions. Please email Editor Anthony Mariani at anthony@fwweekly.com.
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lawyer] to continue to represent poor people” because the lawyer “vigorously” advocated for his clients, according to a public statement by Civil Rights Corps. The case, which was settled in 2019, highlights systemic problems that remain in Texas’ indigence defense programs, TIDC’s Burkhart said. The Galveston lawsuit and others like it are forcing counties to reexamine what rights and resources are afforded impoverished defendants, he added. Westfall said Tarrant County judges have a reputation for readily approving the resources indigent defense lawyers need to vigorously defend their clients. If reformminded groups are really concerned about improving outcomes for indigent defendants in Tarrant County, those groups should push for policy changes (such as decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana) with the Fort Worth police department and the Tarrant County District Attorney’s office, he added. “We need to have social programs,” he said. “We don’t need to be doing drug treatment through the criminal justice system. We don’t need mental health programs and parenting classes through the criminal justice system. It’s a horrible allocation of resources [that we currently have]. If things were changed, [indigent dependents] would never need lawyers.” United Fort Worth’s Young sees a public defender’s office as one solution on the back end of Tarrant County’s legal system that could eventually redefine front-end policing practices. Once defendants who are charged with low-level crimes like marijuana possession are properly defended and exonerated, police will become reticent to arrest individuals for actions that are nonviolent and perfectly legal in many states, she said. Westfall, throughout his 25 years defending Fort Worth’s poor, has seen how nonviolent individuals are swallowed up by Tarrant County courts. “The Tarrant County Jail is now an asylum,” he said. “It has become the Tarrant County Asylum.” When asked for comment on this story, Gary Medlin, Tarrant County Bar Association president, said his group “does not have a position on whether Tarrant County would benefit from a public defender’s office.” Burkhart said public defender offices are not a panacea, but they generally solve the “nobody” problem, he said, referring to a term that describes when a defendant has “nobody” to represent them. “If folks in Tarrant County reach out to us and are interested in letting us conduct a planning stage for a public defender office, we could certainly do that,” he said. l
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“When you go into it with that attitude, the quality of representation goes down. We have seen public defenders with caseloads in the hundreds. In a perfect world, [public defender’s offices] would have the same resources as district attorney offices [that prosecute cases], but the world is never perfect when it comes to indigent defense. Politically, it is safer to give money to the DA office than a public defender’s office.” If Tarrant County does gain a public defender’s office, Sarduy said it would need to be protected through participatory budgeting that involves input from Tarrant County residents. According to TIDC data, 37 Texas counties now have a public defender’s office — up from seven offices 20 years ago. Tarrant County spent $21,602,871 to provide defense counsel for 15,644 indigent felony cases and 15,333 indigent misdemeanor cases in 2019. The approved 2020 budget for the Tarrant County District Attorney’s office is $28,411,757, according to the DA’s office. Young would like to see spending parity between indigent defense and the DA’s office where top assistant district attorneys can garner six-figure salaries. While a public defender can earn $50 to $125 per hour for indigent defense services rendered in Tarrant County, public defenders are paid an average annual salary of $58,300, according to ABA Journal, the publication of the American Bar Association. The salary for public defenders pales in comparison to private law firms, but federal loan forgiveness programs can erase law school debt for public defenders after 10 years. Both systems for providing indigent defense are understaffed and underfunded in Texas, according to reporting by The Texas Tribune. Nationally, the county average for indigence defense spending is $17 per capita compared to the Lone Star State’s average of $10. According to the TIDC, Tarrant County’s per capita spending on indigent defense ($10.86) ranks below Dallas ($14.16), Harris ($11.73), and Travis counties ($11.54). Overall annual state spending on indigent defendants has increased — largely due to county spending and with little state help — from $91 million in 2001 to roughly $300 million today. Another barrier to equitable defense spending is the fact that Texas’ counties overwhelmingly rely on judges to appoint indigent defense and approve legal expenses for defendants, such as DNA testing, The Texas Tribune found. In one recent case, a Galveston judge was sued by Civil Rights Corps, a nonprofit that fights systemic injustice, because the criminal court judge “refused to allow [a criminal defense
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Where Dogs Go before They Go to Heaven
As Vici says about Digby, “He will bite you if you look at him the wrong way.”
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Sookie, an Olde English bulldogge, plays ball, showing she still has some life in her. Cour tesy of Rebecca Lee
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ici Menzel’s backyard is one hopping dog sanctuary. Sookie, an Olde English bulldogge, is next to me panting and periodically licking my knee. While pitbull Starry is chilling in the shade, Bugs, a deaf French bulldog, is trying to get into some mischief just inside the screen door. From experience, he’s learned that if he can lift himself onto a chair, he can hop up on the kitchen table, which from his vantage point is a doggy playground chock full of all kinds of delectable things to chew on, especially Vici’s eyeglasses. It’s a beautiful Saturday evening at the end of May with temperatures still thankfully mild. In Vici’s backyard, we’re sitting under a free-standing awning lined with hanging plants and wind chimes sounding their soft music as a gentle breeze wafts through them. To my side, a little Chihuahua tries its hardest to look ferocious, growling and yapping at everything around. I later learn that would be Digby, who’s had head trauma, is missing one eye, and probably because of those afflictions is a bit on the ill-tempered side. Bless his heart. This motley crew is Vici Menzel’s foster dogs. Mainly they come from two sources, Apollo Support & Rescue or from the organization she manages, PHAST (Project Homeless: Apollo Street Team), which provides food and care for homeless people’s dogs. Some of her dogs will be
Vici loves on a dog while doing her rounds for PHAST.
adopted, mostly by older people, while others she’ll hospice until their last days. I ask her how did she ever end up running a hospice for elderly dogs? Vici explains that after she retired, she started
out doing rescue for pitbulls, but an older Corgi-mix named Angel changed her plans. “She just grabbed me,” Vici explained. “After her, I started thinking I’d start my own rescue. I got a name and everything. And just do older dogs, and, finally, it dawned on me that they don’t need more rescues but fosters. I’ve always been more attracted to the older dogs because people just dump them at the shelter just to leave them to die.” Then Vici describes how Angel was diagnosed with congestive heart failure,
but that wasn’t all. The dog ate a stick that perforated her bowels, which caused her to need major surgery. “So Angel stayed with me,” Vici says, “and it was considered hospice because of her heart” and her other conditions. “Then I got another one,” Vici says. “His name was Andy. He was a miniature poodle that somebody found in their garage. And nobody would claim him, so he came to stay with me. And then I get the dogs” from “old people when they go into nursing homes and the families don’t want” the dogs anymore “because they’re
On a personal level, “I like to foster the older dogs, like her,” she says, pointing at Sookie, still busy licking my knee, her eyes swollen because her eyelids rub against her eyes. She’s “11 and was dumped at the shelter by the people who adopted her when she was a baby because she was too old and all she did was sleep. I’ll show you how she plays ball. She does more than sleep.” Vici shakes her head at all the specious reasons people give when they abandon their dogs. When she was volunteering at the Lancaster Animal Shelter, she met a woman who brought in “a Japanese chin, and they’re not cheap dogs. And cute as all get-out … because she found the perfect dog. And, evidently, this one was no longer perfect, so me being the mean person that I am … I told her husband, ‘I hope she doesn’t trade you in for another model, huh?’ And after that, I could no longer talk to the public.” As one of her neighbors in Riverside, I recognize this is pure Vici Menzel –– honest to a fault and hilarious, but with a heart as big as her backyard. Then we’re interrupted by Bugs, the special-needs deaf bulldog, in the kitchen butting his head against a propped-up chair, trying to knock it back on the floor, so he can hop on it to engage in some doggy mayhem. After Vici goes into her kitchen to investigate, she pointedly says, “And these puppies and adolescent dogs, I don’t like quite so much” because they’re so much trouble.
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old. Then several of them ended up in hospice because they get cancer, congestive heart failure, or diabetes.” While we talk, Vici plays with and carries on multiple conversations with her four-legged charges. I shake my head in full realization that I don’t have anywhere near the energy level needed to take care of a handful of mostly aging canines, some with special needs, plus have the grit to be beside them when they’re taking their final breaths. So already in awe at Vici’s patience and stamina, I ask her how she got interested in helping dogs. She explains that while she grew up as a military brat –– living all over the United States, plus Japan –– her family always had dogs. In fact, not just dogs. She had a regular menagerie: rats, mice, rabbits, and, once, even possums. And though she is a confirmed dog lover, she says, “I like cats, too, but I got bit a few years ago and ended up in the hospital for almost a week, so I’m kinda gun-shy. Also, I have a food chain right now. … Bulldogs have real strong prey drive, and, yeah, Bugs is cute, but …” She smiles and shrugs her shoulders, letting me imagine the rest. During her working days as a medical lab tech, Vici always found time to volunteer with the Humane Society or foster. After her job was off-shored, she went back to school and received a vet tech degree, but she found the job itself disappointing. “I decided I would just devote what I had learned to work with a rescue.”
“When you’re young,” Vici explains, “you’re kind of a taker, but when you’re older, you see there’s all this stuff that needs a little help.”
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doing the best they could.’ … That cocker spaniel was named Noel. She was a pretty little cocker spaniel.” Later, Vici tells me, Noel had to be euthanized, all because of her owner’s criminal neglect.
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When Vici settles back in her chair, I ask her which of the foster dogs she’s had has affected her the most. “With happiness,” she says, “was when Layla was adopted. She’s a Maltese. She’s 12 years old, and an 82-year-old adopted her. And they sent me pictures of them on the couch watching TV, and they’re both smiling. And Noel broke my heart.” Vici recounts how instead of bringing her to Apollo, Noel’s owner called and told Vici that a stray dog was under a bridge. After someone picked up the dog, Vici spent hours dematting her and discovered
to her horror that more was wrong with the dog than neglect. “She had two broken legs,” Vici says, her voice breaking. “She couldn’t even stand up. Her eyes had holes in them because she had dry eye, and he didn’t put the drops in them. He forgot he had her chipped. It was the same guy. It was the owner” who had called. “And he had cruelty charges pressed against him, but that’s the only dog owner I’ve been able to get cruelty charges pressed against. It’s impossible. Animal Control just sucks. Once a judge finds out that they surrender the animal, the judge won’t do anything. ‘Well, they finally did good,’ the judge says, or, ‘but people were
Vici administers fluid to a chi mix with PHAST.
While we’re giving them food, we look at their dogs and ask them if they need their vaccines, and if they do, we provide them. “I’ve met some really neat people that are homeless,” Vici continues. “I don’t know their stories. I don’t ask them, and they don’t volunteer. It’s not about that. It’s about helping them to keep their dogs healthy. We provide the shots, and there for a while I was getting several of them fixed, but I got stood up too many times. Then the [COVID-19] thing happened and put that to a halt. “Most of the homeless take great care of their dogs,” Vici explains, “because that’s the only thing they have. They don’t have family anymore. People ignore them. They don’t want to pay attention to them because they’re homeless and they’re dirty. But they love their dogs. I’m not saying that when they’re doing drugs they’re not mean to their dogs because sometimes they are, but for the most part, they treat their dogs better than themselves. “One of the things,” she adds, “that we’ve been able to do is help [homeless]
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Vici was going to start a pitbull rescue, but the Corgi-mix Angel changed her plans.
Vici’s motley crew relaxes in the backyard.
Then I ask her the question every dog owner has to ponder at some point: When is the right time to euthanize your ailing dog? “I make that decision when it’s time,” Vici says. She mentions an article she read that says you needed to keep a diary for two weeks, and if there are more bad days than good, it is time. “That made a lot of sense to me,” Vici adds, “but I’ll have to tell you, it doesn’t matter when I make the decision. It’s never right. I should have given them another day, or it was too soon, or I waited too long. It’s never been right.” Then she remembers one instance when the time was right. “I had Pepe. He was a papillon and older. He went into renal failure, and I had him put down. I didn’t regret that at all … but when it comes to another living being, you just never make the right decision, very rarely.” What else is there to talk about? What I do is “lifesaving,” Vici answers, “and fulfilling. And it’s not just dogs’ lives. It’s hundreds of persons’ lives. You hear stories a lot,” from people who’ve adopted these older dogs saying, “ ‘It gave me a reason to get up in the morning.’ ” l
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I ask her what motivates her to do so much. Her answer is simple. “I am a doer. I’m a helper. Everybody has the things they do for people when they love them. You know the five love languages, and mine’s a doer. I like to do, and I just like animals. But I like doing for people, too. At my church, there are a couple of older ladies, not now, but before all this [pandemic] started, I’d go over to their houses a couple of afternoons and help them. I just like to help. And I think,” she says, for a moment turning philosophical, “as you go through life, and you’ve done your career, and your family’s grown, it’s time to give back. When you’re young, you’re kind of a taker, but when you’re older, you see there’s all this stuff that needs a little help.” Having seen people burn out from doing animal rescue, I ask Vici what she does to decompress. Without hesitation, she says she spends time “in nature.” Her brother and son own property out in the country. Also, she says, she normally hikes with some friends on Tuesdays because, as she explains, “for some reason, it rains every Monday.” Then she excitedly asks me, “Have you been out to Tandy Hills lately?” After I answer no, she tells me they’ve redone some of the trails. “It gets my heart rate up.”
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Sometimes there is a happy ending. Layla and her mom enjoy watching TV, both smiling.
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people to take their dogs to the vet. And they get to go with” their dogs “when they euthanize them, so that they can say goodbye. … Just the thought of them having to take them to Fort Worth [Animal Care & Adoption Center] or the Humane Society and just leave their dogs there and not be there when they die makes my heart stop for the dogs and for the people. And I think that’s one of the coolest things that Apollo has been able to help me do for” the homeless. After asking Vici to tell me about some of the homeless she’s encountered, without hesitation, she talks about one particular woman, Sabrina. “She will go around and browbeat everyone on the days we’re going to have the vet out there,” Vici says, “so they will bring their dogs to get their rabies vaccination. I will give her extra food, so that if somebody runs out, she has that extra food to give to them … but Sabrina also takes care of everybody, medically and physically, too, because I know of several
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Bugs, a deaf French bulldog, chills a minute before he gets into more mischief.
people that she’s walked with to [John] Peter Smith [Hospital] to make sure they went in and had things done. There’s this one guy who had burnt his arm … but she finally about whipped him to death to get him to go to the hospital. He ended up being admitted for about a week. It was gangrenes.” Sabrina, Vici explains, is “like the matriarch. … She’s good at taking care of her people. Now I want you to know there are not many men who will do that. Mostly, it’s women.” But Vici does cite one example of a homeless man who she thought was outstanding. He “went around to make sure the women felt safe and weren’t worried about something, but I think he was a vet,” and he is now no longer homeless. “One of the things I’d like to do is get pepper spray and hand it out to all the women because” if you’re homeless, “it’s guaranteed you’re going to get beat up and raped once.” “Now I have had a few women and a couple of guys ask if I can find a place for their dogs to go” while they go “into treatment. … We’ll keep their dogs for them while they take the 30-day treatment to get clean, but that’s $365 apiece.” Vici puts together online fundraisers usually through Facebook in response. However, “I just can’t get much money going now.” While some fundraisers are devoted to vaccines or dewormer, emergency medical needs are the most pressing concern. Vici’s donors are incredibly generous, she says. She points at Digby, the little neuro-dog that during our conversation has been unrelentingly yapping away. “He has head trauma. He will bite you if you look at him the wrong way. He’s just grumpy. He got poked in the eye, and I had to have his eye removed. I then just posted it for prayers, and everybody called it in. It was paid for.”
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No one wants to see your vacation pictures. Fort Wednesday Worth Camera is bringing in a pro to help you with that problem. From 6pm to 8pm, David Akoubian –– professional photographer and Tamrom image master –– will be teaching a webinar via Zoom called 10 Tips to Improve Your Landscape and Travel Photography. Tickets are $19 at Register.GoToWebinar.com. Seasons do change. But with summer finally here, we are still mostly virtual Thursday when it comes to events. That fact is especially true for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. With the 2020 competition canceled, the organization is reliving past recitals online. On Thursdays at 8pm thru Aug 6 –– and 1pm on Aug 13 –– jump online for the Cliburn Watch Party: Summer Sessions. Today’s showcase features the winners of the 2019 Junior Competition, including Shaun Hern Lee (1st), Eva Gevorgyan (2nd), and JiWon Yang (3rd). See the full schedule and view for free at Cliburn.org/Cliburn-at-Home.
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Chris Polone brought his company name “Stand For Something Group” to life over Fourth of July weekend. He took a stand for all of the 51-percenter bars by opening the doors of his venue, Rail Club Live, in protest of Gov. Greg Abbott’s mandate to close the bars to help contain the spread of COVID-19. Not any other businesses, mind you, just bars. With zero drops of liquor served and no money collected that day, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) still gave Polone a warning that he would lose his liquor license. That was the whole point of the event. The Rail and nearly 100 other bars around Texas are suing the
who loves me –– this is National Barkarita Day at MUTTS Canine Cantina (5317 Clearfork Main St, 817-377-0151). While he is glad his human can order $4 Barkaritas all day while supplies last, he’s more interested in the adjoining off-leash dog park. “Woof.” You said it, Baxter.
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At 8pm, enjoy music made famous by the movies at the Casual Night at the Saturday Museum! concert at the Arlington Museum of Art (201 W Main St, 817-275-4600). Dress casually as if for a park concert, says the AMA. “But we’ll be in the air-conditioning!” (Walking shorts and a sweater. Got it.) Live performances by Kathy Hodge Abrahamson, Timothy Angel, Erik Barnes, LeeAnne Chenoweith, Jim Higgins, and Don O’Neal LeBlanc include an aria from Pretty Woman, the tango from Scent of a Woman, and more. Complimentary wine and soft drinks will be available, but you can also BYOB. Tickets are $35-80 at TimelessConcerts. com.
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No need to hit Dallas for a gospel brunch. Fort Worth has one now at Sunday Gemelle (4400 White Settlement Rd, 817-732-9535). The free governor and the state to remain open. And around 100 bars are hosting a protest show this weekend. Proceeds from Freedom Fest: Statewide Unified Protest for 51 Percenters and Musicians will benefit the nonprofit of each bar’s choice. The show at the Rail (3101 Joyce Dr, 817386-4309) featuring Messer and Cutthroat Conspiracy will benefit Brandi’s Play in the Shade, an organization that provides shades for children’s playgrounds and educates people about skin cancer. Freedom Fest is 6pm Sat at The Rail Club Live, The Eight Ball Billiard & Bar (5854 Jacksboro Hwy, 817-626-8849), and G. Willickers Pub (310 109th St, Arlington, 817-633-5445). Tickets are $10 at the door.
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At 9:45am Tuesday and Thursday this week and next, you can get a Tuesday workout while your little ones are being entertained. The Daily Method (2000 W Berry St, Ste 200, 817889-2551) is holding Craft + Barre out on the lawn with The Little Art Bus parked nearby to teach your kids art. Adult barre class is $15. Child art class is $20. For signup information, go to Facebook.com/ TDMFortWorth.
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Netflix is pushing Dark pretty hard since airing the third and planned final season of the acclaimed German sciencefiction show. If you’ve heard anything about it, likely it’s that Dark is similar to that other Netflix program Stranger Things, whose first season started airing while the first season of Dark was being filmed. Indeed, the two programs share a ton of similarities: mysterious child disappearances, supernatural occurrences, ’80s nostalgia, teenage hormones. The main difference is that the German series is a lot less cute and a lot more metaphysical. In other words, German. Another difference is a timeline that would turn Christopher Nolan green with envy. The series begins in November 2019 in the fictional town of Winden in southern Germany, which is almost wholly dependent on a nuclear power plant. With the town reeling from the vanishing of a teenage boy, some of his friends try to dig up his stash of drugs hidden in a creepy cave in the forest, because this is a German story and there has to be a forest in there somewhere. When evil-sounding noises start emanating from the cave, the kids scatter, and in the confusion 11-year-old Mikkel Nielsen (Daan Lennard Liebrenz) disappears as well. The police — with Mikkel’s distraught father Ulrich (Oliver Masucci) among them — launch an exhaustive manhunt, while the consciencestricken teens, two of whom are Mikkel’s siblings, do their own investigating. Chief among them is Jonas Kahnwald (Louis Hofmann), who discovers a passage that transports people through time in increments of 33 years.
Louis Hofmann and Lisa Vicari cross oceans of time to be together in Dark.
The show takes us through several generations of Winden’s families, and you might need a family tree to keep everybody straight. (Then again, one character discovers that she has given birth to her own mother, so maybe that wouldn’t help so much.) Other characters follow Jonas down the wormhole, and at one point there are three separate versions of Jonas’ girlfriend and Mikkel’s sister Martha (Lisa Vicari) running around. The
discussion about the mechanics of time travel. I also could have done with fewer shots of people sitting bolt upright in bed after nightmares. Even so, series creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese do quite well weaving the physics discussions in with the soapy drama of the domestic lives of Winden’s citizens, as Jonas and Martha’s friend Franziska (Gina Alice Stiebitz) fumes after discovering that her father (Stephan Kampwirth) is a regular client of
This series is an extraordinary machine, as every plot detail is perfectly planted. producers haven’t skimped on production values, staging scenes in periods ranging from 1888 to a postapocalyptic 2053. Jonas spends a good chunk of the series trying to nullify his own existence by preventing his father from going back in time. Later, he finds out that he and Martha are Adam and Eve, but what are they the start of? If you’re used to American TV, you may find this a little light on action, which the show might have used to cut all the
a transgender prostitute (Anton Rubtsov) who lives at the edge of town. The script is chockablock with references not only to Back to the Future and The Matrix but also to the Greek myth of Ariadne and Goethe’s Elective Affinities — and here I thought I’d read that book in college for nothing. Some actors with international profiles like Antje Traue and Sebastian Hülk appear here, but the standout in the cast is Vicari, who looks like Jennifer
Lawrence and has the same angry smolder. Oh, and remember that old philosophical chestnut about what if you could go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler as a baby? One of the characters does something like that, and not only is it horrible, it doesn’t even work. Shows like this frequently go up their own ass with crypticity for its own sake, plotlines that dead-end, and secret organizations behind the secret organizations. This series is an extraordinary machine, as every plot detail is perfectly planted, such as Ulrich leaving his smartphone in 1953, to be found by a clockmaker (Arnd Klewitter) who uses it to build a time machine. Dark works quite well as a teen romance on a grand Wagnerian scale, as Jonas and Martha’s love is so powerful that it literally destroys worlds. The show’s characters think they’re free to pursue what they want, when in fact, what they want condemns them to repeat the same patterns through the decades and in parallel universes. (Ah, the Arthur Schopenhauer of it all!) The program’s best episode is its final one, tracing the wormhole’s origin to that clockmaker and a terrible loss that he suffered. After seeing so many dysfunctional families, Jonas and Martha’s work to heal the rift in this man’s family is deeply moving. Let’s see Stranger Things top that. l
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Arlington Improv 609 Curtis Mathes Way, Arlington. Comedy club and full-service restaurant also serving drinks. July 31 to August 1: Michael Blackson.
Alley Cats 2008 W Pleasant Ridge, Arlington. 609 NE Loop 820, Hurst. Bowling, laser tag, rock climbing, and arcade games with a full bar and food options.
Places around town for dinner, drinks, and a good time. Dutch’s Hamburgers 3009 S University, Fort Worth. Burger joint, full bar, occasional live music. Friday, 7/24: Live Music by Reid Farris.
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Gemmelle 4400 White Settlement Rd, Fort Worth. Italian restaurant with an al fresco garden, bar, and portico overlooking the yard. Gospel brunch on Sunday, 7/26 with music by Sheran Keyton and the Joe Rogers Trio. Gas Monkey Bar & Grill 10261 Technology Blvd E, Dallas. Music venue with full-service restaurant and bar. Tribute bands playing weekly. Sat, 8/8: Wayne "the train" Hancock. Grease Monkey 200 N Mesquite St, Arlington. Burger joint, full bar, and patio, with occasional live music and sporting event. Friday, 7/31: Acoustic Hash.
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Lava Cantina 5505 Grandscape Blvd, The Colony. Rock n' roll themed Coastal Mexican restaurant that doubles as a premier concert venue. In-person and live streaming options. Thurs, 7/23: Cody Canada & The Departed.
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Oscars Bar & Grill 1581 SW Wilshire Blvd #101, Burleson. Restaurant, bar, and music venue. Friday, 7/24: Jesse Jennings (full band).
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which costs only about $6 more. 360 Brunch House has been open since last winter. Like other restaurants, this family-owned shop is slowly returning to what passes for normal in these times. The one complaint from the visit: the mask hygiene of the two guys tending bar. One had his traditional cloth mask pulled under his nose (effectively nullifying any droplet protection), and the other wore his gaiter jauntily around his neck. At least he sort of pulled the thing up when serving booze. This may not bother you — it certainly didn’t appear to bother the folks who cozied up to the outside bar counter. There’s apparently no regulating patio dining, and the pretty outdoor space was crowded. Beautiful olive green banquettes and booths, along with glorious green foliage hanging from the ceiling and globe lights, create a seductive, big city vibe in a restaurant that’s just off Highway 360 and Broad Street. Unfortunately, like many Fort Worth restaurants, 360 Brunch House suffers from a shortage of available parking, at least in the front of the strip mall, where the joint shares parking access with a nail salon, a hair salon, and a couple of other chain restaurants. Even if you’re not up for splitting a mimosa flight ($40, serves you and five buddies) on the patio, odds are you’ll find something tasty on the lengthy menu. l
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Though he just started college, this 19-year-old is already racking up more than 8,000 monthly streams on Spotify. The guy generating all that traffic is softrock singer-songwriter Ayden Trammell, whose latest single, “Water and Salt,” follows two previous singles and an EP.
HearSay Freedom Fest Saturday
The fight is over why bar/restaurants are allowed to stay open while bar-bars, a category that includes venues, must remain closed. Though Gov. Greg Abbott appears to see himself as above the fray –– only godforsaken heathens listen to the devil’s music and imbibe the devil’s drink in public, apparently –– he may not be able to stay aloof any longer. That’s because about 100 bar/venues across the state are about to hold protest rallies at the same time, 6pm, on Saturday. Freedom Fest is the brainchild of Chris Polone, a coowner of Rail Club Live who famously held a protest at his Westside club on July 4, appropriately, that attracted dozens of likeminded souls and that may lead to a 30day shutdown of his venue, according to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC). Since no alcohol was served and the TABC still shut down the protest, Polone decided to sue the state for violating his First Amendment rights. Proceeds from the $10 cover at Freedom Fest will go toward the charity of each bar’s choosing. Abbott must think that all bar/venues are just dens of inequity where people swap spit all night long while rubbing blood on their bellies, incanting occultish texts in Latin, and gyrating. While true in some cases, he’s painting with a broad brush. At most bar/venues, people drink beer and talk, and in the case of places like
the Rail, people drink beer, talk, and listen to music. Loud music. Across the country, venues are joining together to seek government assistance to stay afloat. Leading the charge is the recently formed National Independent Venue Association (NIVA). Along with several of the music industry’s largest companies and organizations, NIVA recently sent a letter to Congress asking to support the RESTART Act, a new loan for businesses hit hardest by the shutdown, notably music venues. The world’s three largest music companies — Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group — signed the letter along with Spotify, Amazon Music, and YouTube. Fort Worth NIVA members include the Rail, Lola’s Saloon, MASS, Magnolia Motor Lounge, Shipping & Receiving Bar, and the forthcoming Tulips, all rock clubs. To support NIVA’s Save Our Stages campaign, visit SaveOurStages.com. Joining the Rail locally on Saturday for Freedom Fest will be The Eight Ball Billiard & Bar (5854 Jacksboro Hwy, 817-626-8849), G. Willickers Pub (310 109th St, Arlington, 817-633-5445), and some breweries that Polone is not at liberty to name yet. None of Fort Worth’s other, popular rock venues will be participating. The 100 across the state poised to protest Saturday started out as about 300. Polone attributes the decrease to a couple of factors, especially his standard operating procedures (SOPs). “The only way to win this fight is to be tactful and intelligent and be safe about
it,” he said. “I didn’t want bar owners putting 200 people in a room for 25, and not all of [the bar owners] were onboard. If they didn’t want to abide by our SOPs, we did lose some to that. A lot of them are stuck in their ways. At the same time, we feel like we don’t feel like we lost anything. We don’t want jackasses doing this.” Another factor contributing to the decrease, Polone believes, is that the TABC is loosening restrictions on what constitutes a 51% business, possibly allowing bar-bars and venues to serve a minimal amount of food to qualify not as 51% businesses but as restaurants or some heretofore unnamed variation thereof. “I’m thinking by the end of the week, we’ll have over 100” participating venues, Polone said. “Heck, 10 to me was badass. We hope to make a massive impact.” Polone has been able to generate interest in Freedom Fest by capitalizing on his fame following the Fourth of July protest. “A lot of it came organically from knowing my name after the media put it out there.” He was since asked to speak to groups all over Texas and also asked for advice from other club owners. His initial and most accessible mode of correspondence –– Facebook videos –– has been neutered. “Facebook hit me in the mouth a little,” Polone said, noting that the social network accused him of going against community standards by calling for large groups of people to gather, allegedly putting public health at risk. “I went from
posting to 15 groups a day now down to one. That did inhibit me a little as far as getting the word out on Freedom Fest.” Polone said his Freedom Festers are not trying to “defy” Abbott but that the governor is “literally starving out a population of people.” Polone extrapolates from his 15 employees that the number of bar/venue workers out of work now is astronomical, based on the large number of bar/venues across Texas. “That’s a large number of people [that Abbott] won’t address at all.” In the governor’s mandates, Polone sees a stark double standard. “You can’t drink a beer at my bar, but go across the street and have a burger and drink all you want, or go to a BYOB strip club or go wait in line at Six Flags, the list goes on and on.” Polone said that more than anything he would love to “start a dialogue” with the governor. Bar/venues, the Rail coowner added, “pay more in taxes than any commercial business –– they’re still charging us taxes now,” which is true. “It’s literally taxation without representation, and [Abbott] won’t even talk about it.” Freedom Fest, Polone said, is just the beginning. “This is something we’re organizing and continuing to do as more and more bars jump on as weeks go by. … We’re going to continue going bigger and louder every single time until we get some sort of bailout or we know how to proceed and open.” –– Anthony Mariani Contact HearSay at anthony@fwweekly.com.
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With more than 8,000 monthly Spotify streams, this 19-year-old singersongwriter and TCC student is breaking out.
heart. The uptempo “Ramona” breaks the spell while pleasantly matching the singersongwriter’s softly pitched, high voice. On Trammell’s latest, the scorching “Water and Salt,” he shares vocal duties with Los Angeles solo artist Jessi Blue, their beautiful work recounting a story of star-crossed lovers. “I wrote you a letter I think you might like,” Blue sings, “Ending in three words that follow ‘goodnight’ / Painted you pictures of us in starlight / Two souls apart are all intertwined / And all the things I would do for your hand in mine.” The love song was released on Valentine’s Day, which Trammell said seemed like a good time to drop the track onto Spotify. Trammell said that he’s taking time to focus on the album by shooting a music video. “I’ve been allowed more time to put less focus on live shows and focus more on other things,” he said. Trammell doesn’t exactly know where the great response to his music is coming from and said, “If I knew, I’d tell you. I guess social media did the most for my following.” l
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Hunter Trammel for the song “My Poor Brain.” Ian Brothers (Acid Carousel, Black Vega, Big Red Ants) is set to play drums for “Homely Jonas,” another track to be included on the album. The upcoming album does not have a hard release date yet, and Trammell said he’s still juggling ideas for an album title. Before the pandemic, Ayden Trammell and Big Red Ants drew decent crowds, Trammell said. “Honestly, it got a little tricky with the outbreak happening,” he said. “Typically, we draw a pretty big crowd playing in Deep Ellum and Fort Worth, trying to get as many people out as we can.” Trammell finds himself writing lyrics throughout the day a piece at a time and taking lockdown to experiment with different sounds. “There are still songs with the signature sounds,” he said. “I’m also changing things up a little bit and being more open with writing. Upbeat, fun songs always get the crowd going.” In the spirit of one of Trammell’s biggest influences, Ray LaMontagne, the local singer-songwriter’s oeuvre is full of heartache and cosmic vibes. “Juice in the Morning” and “When the Night Gets Older” are particularly poignant, with their lyrics of loss and longing and notions of being down and out because of a broken
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At National Cardiovascular Partners (NCP) and our partnering clinics, we take the privacy and security of our patients’ information seriously. NCP is a managing partner of Fort Worth Heart and Vascular Center of Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas and Medfinity Health – Plano in Plano, Texas (the clinics). We are providing the following information to inform our patients that a third party may have had unauthorized access to information about some patients who were seen at the clinics.
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On April 27, 2020, an unauthorized individual obtained access to an NCP employee’s email account. NCP became aware of the unauthorized access on May 19, 2020 and took immediate steps to contain the incident. We terminated the unauthorized access to the email account the same day it was discovered and worked with a leading cybersecurity forensics firm to investigate this matter. As part of our investigation, NCP conducted an extensive review of the employee’s email account to determine if any emails contained personal information. As a result of that review, beginning on June 18 NCP identified emails containing the names, addresses, dates of birth, dates relating to the provision of medical services or the payment for services, medical history and diagnosis information, prescription information, health provider information, insurance numbers, email addresses, and medical record numbers for some of our patients. We also identified emails containing the Social Security numbers of two individuals and the financial account information of one individual for whom we do not have current contact information to send a personalized notification letter. At this time, we are not aware of any unauthorized viewing or misuse of our patients’ information. All available evidence suggests that the unauthorized individual’s purpose was to attempt to commit financial fraud against NCP—not to seek and obtain any personal information of patients. NCP sent notification letters by first class mail to all potentially affected individuals for whom we have up-to-date contact information and have arranged to provide them with 12 months of identity protection and fraud resolution services through Experian. Any individuals who receive a notification letter from NCP or who might otherwise be concerned about identity theft are encouraged to regularly review statements from their accounts and to periodically obtain their credit report from one or more of the national credit reporting companies. Individuals may obtain a copy of their credit report once every 12 months by either visiting http://www.annualcreditreport.com, calling toll free at 1-877-322-8228, or completing an Annual Credit Report Request Form (found at https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0155-free-credit-reports) and mailing it to: Annual Credit Report Request Service, P.O. Box 105281, Atlanta, GA 30348-5281. For questions about identity theft, credit monitoring, and how to keep information secure, patients can visit this website: http://www. consumer.ftc.gov/topics/identity-theft. Individuals who received care at one of the clinics and have not received a notification letter may call (833) 281-4826 toll-free to determine whether their information has been identified as being involved.
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