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The Fort Worth rapper comes correct with a series of new singles. BY JUAN R. GOVEA

FEATURE It’s still business as usual at FWISD for Black girls.

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Speaking in Fort Worth last week, Gov. Greg Abbott sent a stern warning to state elected officials: Hands off police budgets or else the guv is going to take away your piggy bank. The playground bullying antics, which were broadcast from inside the Fort Worth police department’s Bob Bolen Public Safety Complex Administration, were aimed at supporters of police department defunding — the oft-misunderstood term that calls for the selective reallocation of taxpayer money toward preventing crime and away from practices that too-frequently result in the shooting of unarmed Black men and women, among other grave policing problems. “Any city in the state of Texas that defunds law enforcement will have their

Static Panther Island Crawling Back? The past few years have been unforgiving for Panther Island, the $1.17 billion flood control project and upscale development headed by the Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD). Construction has crept along, and one of three Panther Island bridges is now slated to open by

year’s end. The federal funds — $526 million authorized by U.S. Congress in 2016 — promised by project cheerleader State Rep. Kay Granger have not materialized. Year after year, Congress has not prioritized the project in the federal budget. The five-member TRWD board is preparing to overhaul its general ordinance (which regulates land and water under TRWD’s control) and commercial facilities ordinance (which sets guidelines and standards for facilities on TRWD property). The proposed changes mark the second time the guiding documents have been revised since 2002 and could

On June 12, as protesters entered Texas de Brazil downtown, more than a dozen police officers entered the south entrance and filled the main dining area.

cent memory, city budget discussions are garnering thousands of online views, and locals are far less likely to confuse the 287 agreement that our county has with ICE with the U.S. route that bears the same name. Mansfield is not in cahoots with ICE ... as far as we know. Or maybe Abbott had a simpler reason for showboating in Cowtown: money. The governor has local political allies with private jet-levels of ka-ching who have donated heavily to his campaign in the past. In late 2013, when running for reelection

against former Fort Worth City Councilmember Wendy Davis, Abbott took in $60,000 from the misleadingly named Good Government Fund of Fort Worth (run by the Bass family), $50,000 from locally based Suerte PAC, and $25,000 from local investment banker Geoffrey Rayor, according to public records. Financial campaign records show that the Good Government Fund of Fort Worth and another Bass-backed PAC, PSEL, donated $10,000 together to Sheriff Bill Waybourn in 2016, $5,000 to Tarrant

point toward shifts in strategic thinking vis-a-vis Panther Island. The most significant changes to the 126-page document are increased powers for the general manager, James Oliver, that would allow him to create and collect fees and handle the approval of construction projects on TRWD property. Greater flexibility to revise existing ordinances is also proposed. “The general manager of the district may, from time to time, adopt or amend any rules, codes, policies, or other standards governing” the construction or maintenance of properties or facilities lo-

cated on or under TRWD land or water, one new addition reads. If the new changes allow TRWD to salvage some version of the expansive Northside project without incurring massive debt, we’re all for it — as long as those steps are planned and completed in a transparent manner. The TRWD board is scheduled to vote on the proposed changes at their Tue, Sep 15, board meeting. Contact Static at anthony@fwweekly.com.

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The likely reason Abbott chose Fort Worth to denounce the “defund” the police movement is green.

property tax revenue frozen as of that time,” Abbott blustered at the press briefing. The gubernatorial commination came days after Austin City Council voted to reallocate 34% of city police funds toward social services and to reorganize existing police services. Austin leadership responded to the political jab by stating that a “group of allwhite members of our state government, including Gov. Greg Abbott, attacked the Black Lives Matter movement. The message from the tens of thousands of Austinites who made their voices heard in this year’s budget process was clear: We must decrease our over-reliance on police to handle all of our complex public safety challenges and instead reinvest in domestic violence shelters, mental health first responders, and more.” Most major Texas cities, including Fort Worth, allocate around one-third of their annual budget to policing. Fort Worth police department’s 2020 budget is $352,893,268, according to the city. Abbott may well have chosen Fort Worth because he felt Cowtown was safely in the tough-on-crime camp following the midJuly public vote to renew Fort Worth police department’s Crime Control and Prevention District (CCPD), which is fueled by a half-cent tax and raises around $81 million per year for police use. If Abbott chose Fort Worth because he felt it was a badge-worshiping city, he should do some research. Since he’s a busy man, we’ll do it for him. The CCPD tax district passed with 64% of voter approval — considerably down from the 84.6% of voters who approved the last CCPD extension in 2014. For the first time in re-

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County District Attorney Sharen Wilson in 2017, and $2,500 to Mayor Betsy Price last February. According to the nonpartisan nonprofit National Institute on Money in State Politics, the Good Government Fund has disbursed $3,333,213 over 24 years, including just over $300,000 to Democrats. Read the campaign contributions of prominent local Republican politicians, and you could be forgiven for thinking it was a membership directory for the Colonial Country Club — the exclusive club for Fort Worth’s wealthy that was somehow awarded $1 to $2 million in federal loans as part of the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) last April. New golf carts, anyone? Fort Worth’s pro-business left isn’t without fundraising prowess. Former Mayor Mike Moncrief, a Democrat, pulled in a sizable $185,997 in campaign contributions in 2009, the year he was reelected, and he used his position to pander to oil and gas companies at the expense of public health and common sense. But Fort Worth’s elites have a vested interest in supporting conservative, ruleof-law candidates and opposing police reforms, and it has little to do with abortions and welfare and everything to do with protecting property and the ability of the wealthy to continue funneling money from the rest of us. One elected official recently put it plainly. “As we look around at the wealth and success of this great county, there are two fundamental reasons for this,” Waybourn told a crowd of several hundred at last month’s The March for America rally. “We were blessed by an almighty God. It is the rule of law that makes [this country] flourish and wealthy.” As with much of Texas’ uber-rich, Fort Worth’s blue bloods made their early fortunes as landowners and cattle ranchers. When oil became a lucrative commodity, owning property paid dividends. Today, the real money is in development, as evidenced by the tightknit relationship between surnames and properties: the Stockyards (Hickman, Murrin), downtown (Bass), and the Shops at Clearfork (Edwards). Not all of Fort Worth’s top-tier earners garner the same political clout. You can learn a lot about a city’s vested interests by its policing habits. Last June, hundreds of reformminded protesters began daily marches from downtown to the West 7th corridor, where the marchers berated Varsity Tavern (for allegedly using discriminatory policies that kept Black customers out) and Your Mom’s House (for allowing one staff member to dress in Blackface) by using megaphones, chants, and other nonviolent means of disrupting business. Fort Worth police kept a watchful but

A group of allwhite members of our state government, including Gov. Greg Abbott, attacked the Black Lives Matter movement. distant eye on the rowdy crowds. On June 12, protest organizers tried a new tack. After a week of flooding West 7th restaurants and bars with raucous marchers, a small group aligned with protest group Enough Is Enough pressed into Texas de Brazil, which is located one block from the Bassowned downtown district of Sundance Square. Around one dozen police officers immediately followed suit and, shortly after, ordered the protesters out. Protesters said they wanted to go where “Betsy Price eats.” During protests the next day, police filled downtown restaurants to prevent the types of disruptions that the same police had allowed in the West 7th corridor. Two days into the downtown disruptions, two protest organizers were arrested on what appeared to many as bogus charges of interfering with public duties and giving false or fictitious information to a peace officer. The message was clear. Protesters would not be allowed to disrupt businesses near Ed Bass’ hood. Men and women pursue careers in law enforcement for many often honorable reasons, and protecting buildings and capital probably isn’t one of them. Disentangling policing habits from corporate interests requires independent oversight of CCPD spending, a counterbalance to the heavy campaign contributions of the Fort Worth Police Officers Association, and a willingness to have honest discussions about the influence the wealthy maintain in local campaigns. As long as investment bankers and development moguls are buying our sheriff, mayor, and DA, the only seat at the table they’re going to save for the non-rich is at Texas de Brazil. l

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Blacklisted Altheria Caldera’s 2018 academic study painted a grim picture of the lives of Black girls in the Fort Worth school district, but at this point little seems to have changed. B U C K

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he return to school has morphed into a season of unrest unto itself. The “COVID question” is still very much unanswered, but one group has worked and protested to make their voices heard, and it’s a cohort of women urging our cities’ officials to open schools in person as soon as possible. Their professed reasons are legitimate. Underprivileged and at-risk youth especially need to be in school for social support. It’s where they receive the education that will allow them to lift themselves from poverty. Schools may provide the only decent meal those students will eat every day. Their home situations might even be neglectful or downright dangerous. These calls to “save the children” didn’t seem to be coming from the group whose children would be directly affected. Instead, the carefully painted and glittered protest signs were being held aloft by overwhelmingly white and privileged members of Fort Worth’s Tanglewood neighborhood. It seems that the influence of these protesters calling for schools to open on normal schedule may have been successful, as Fort Worth schools amended their original in-person start date of September 28 to right after Labor Day. Another group, the female students of the Fort Worth school district — particularly the Black ones — brace for a business-as-usual semester in which

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they will inevitably fall last on the school district’s priorities list. The school district suspends Black girls at a disproportionate rate, according to a 2018 academic article written by Dr. Altheria Caldera, an educational doctorate graduate of TCU. If statistically inclined, it’s noteworthy that Fort Worth school district was suspending all students more often than any other major urban district in the state save for Houston. Black girls made up 12% of Fort Worth’s student population but represented 62% of female suspensions and 18% of total suspensions. I don’t seem to recall any protests at the time, but we also didn’t seem as protest-y back then. Sitting in an empty classroom at Denton’s Ryan High School, where I teach world history and coach tennis, preparing assignments on tandem desktop computer screens, my laptop dinged with the arrival of the interviewee to my virtual Zoom table. A sans serif “A” disappeared to reveal a smiling Dr. Caldera broadcasting from her home office in Fort Worth. The former assistant professor from Texas A&M University-Commerce greeted me warmly as we discussed events of this summer before she apologized for her husband’s hand delicately placing a veggie burger on her desk. “Hand sanitizer, please,” she requested before returning her attention to me. “So do you think the protests were beneficial for Black women?” I said.

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Caldera’s study summarizes why it is important to understand the underlying context for why girls of color are viewed differently from their counterparts and how the designation of gender in analyzing their outcomes is essential.

“Breonna Taylor was killed before George Floyd, but it took his death for the national attention to start,” she responded.

This year has brought stark changes to everyone’s lives as efficiently as an Amazon Prime delivery. Among these are a grab bag of cliches that are likely invading your vernacular regardless of age, race, gender, or occupation: “new normal,” “flexibility,” “fluidity,” “uncertain times.” Amid divided pressures, school districts across North Texas are opening their doors and web portals to welcome back students. Fort Worth’s is currently in preparation mode before butts hit the plastic. This opening timeframe is one of several that have been proposed and reconfigured as health officials and Texas’ seesaw politicians try to decide who’ll be holding the proverbial hot potato last and who inevitably will receive the blame if this entire pand-experiment goes awry.

Discipline problems in a virtual classroom are likely the last thing on the minds of most parents or administrators as they embark on the logistical nightmare of connected learning. But absurdities can still happen. School districts are already girding their expectations that students should be dressed as they would be in school when attending virtual class — the consequences for pajama conferencing haven’t been made clear. One student in San Antonio has already garnered media attention by pulling up his shirt and making sexually charged comments toward his art teacher during a class video conference. The first week in the nearby Lewisville school district revealed different problems as bandwidths maxed out almost immediately as teachers across the district tried to live conference with thousands of students simultaneously. Maybe we’ll just ask the students to send in pictures of themselves in proper learning attire. No way that could go wrong, right? Outrageous stories aside,

Caldera doesn’t fault the Fort Worth school district for recognizing that they have poorly served their Black student population but does assert that simply adopting the equity of races is far too general to ultimately be effective by the most vulnerable population served: Black girls. Both race and gender have long plagued American equity in an essential rights and functional capacity. The 19th amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, celebrated its 100th anniversary just a

week ago when it passed the threshold of 36 states as Tennessee adopted the law into Constitutional finality. This represents in a plain sense what Caldera argues is a necessity when attempting to reconcile achievement gaps for Black girls within the American education system: They’re usually going to wait twice as long for everything. Caldera’s study, Suspendable and Expendable, Kicking Out and Throwing Away Black Girls: An Analysis of a School District’s Policies and Practices, summarizes why it is important to understand the underlying context for why girls of color are viewed differently from their counterparts and how the designation of gender in analyzing their outcomes is essential. It could nary be argued, at least not effectively, that white men established our country and its institutions at large. The rules, standards, and practices of these institutions are unsurprisingly constructed to be navigable by the same population by which they were established. White women have and continue to fight institutional patriarchy through many trajectories through feminist movements that have been fought over multiple centuries for equivalencies such as compensation for equal work and voting rights. White women, for all the struggles they face at the hands of patriarchy, are still ingrained and hold a place in the

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Protests of all sizes and types, centered on everything from Floyd’s death, a rogue hair salon owner defying public health orders to close in Dallas, or the removal of Confederate monuments around our metro area, have swelled and quieted for months. The common theme I’ve noted from groups who are and have been suffering is a resounding “thank you,” with the qualifier that these problems have been around and will continue to be around without a sustained collaborative effort from everyone. Systemic change doesn’t happen quickly and, in most cases, can’t be legislated into existence. Least effective of all are empty-rhetoric mission statements and fanciful language or even blacked-out Instagram posts.

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problem within the district, with the caveat that failing to recognize gender as an important component left the initiative unfocused from the beginning. Racialized sexism, as Caldera categorizes it, is not a problem du jour. The White House collected figures in 2015 and reported the suspension rate for Black girls is 12% higher than girls of any other race. Southern states are the worst offenders, with female Black students representing 56% of all suspended girls. Texas, specifically, logged greater percentages in every grade level than either white or Hispanic girls. My friendly interviewee never accused Fort Worth schools of ignoring girls of color with the new initiatives. Rather, she said, schools are failing to recognize the unique nature of being Black and a woman which must be addressed as a standalone initiative. Simply addressing race or gender separately misses a mark they may have never considered an essential target in the first place. Most groups and individuals can accurately be accused of transient activism. We’ve just experienced arguably the most racially charged summer of the century. It also seems that in the wake of furloughs, layoffs, and working from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans have suddenly remembered their First Amendment rights of assembly.

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discipline referrals from virtual learning seem unlikely, because what would be the point? Despite primary education’s current digital form, it’s important to consider the concept of out-of-school suspensions in general. Credible research documenting the educational and career outcomes of students suspended during their primary education is unsurprisingly poor. Soberingly, those who are suspended in grades 7-12 are at a significantly greater risk of being victimized by criminals, engaging in criminal activity themselves, or eventually becoming incarcerated. It’s also a foregone conclusion that most students — especially Black and brown ones at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale — will sit masked in cramped classrooms by early October at the latest, so the issue will regain relevance sooner rather than later. In Fort Worth specifically, a brief media backlash followed Caldera’s statistics coupled with two print articles and a feature criticizing the district’s practices on the radio program Texas Standard. Dr. Kent Scribner, Fort Worth superintendent, had already introduced a new Racial and Ethnic Equity Policy the previous year. In her study, Caldera commended the district for good-faith actions toward reconciling what has been a longstanding racial equity

system they’re trying to bend toward their own equality. Caldera prefaces her study with scholarly reminders that Black women face an intersectionality of both sexism and racism that can’t be considered as parallels but are forever linked. How are black girls viewed differently? Equity is an elusive concept. The simplistic answer is to treat everyone the same and everything will work out fine. Statistics argue this logic is flawed, and natural bias proves time and again that humans are widely incapable of treating everyone the same regardless

of sexual and racial designations. Black girls, as referenced by nationwide surveys and studies of educators, are viewed as outspoken and challenging and loud, and they dress provocatively. The aforementioned characteristics are likely influenced by the longstanding stereotypes of the angry Black woman or the sexualized Jezebel. These biases lead to acute adultification of Black girls when compared with their white counterparts, who are more likely to be perceived as delicate and in need of protection. I asked about what I believed to be a common archetype for Black women as strong and

long suffering. Caldera confirmed my perception and responded, “I refute the strong-Blackwoman stereotype. My question is at what cost? No, I have vulnerabilities and weaknesses. White women are thought to be more fragile or needing protection and care. Black women can take it, we can endure, and we got it. It’s a dangerous characterization which plays into the adultification of Black girls, so they aren’t seen as needing protection in the way that they should be.” A report from the African American Policy Forum and Columbia Law School’s

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center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies found that Black female students are more likely to be suspended multiple times than any other gender or race of students and also receive harsher punishments for the same infractions. If these statistics seem familiar, they mirror our country’s criminal justice inequities regarding race in our court systems that have been at the forefront of various movements to defund the police and reform criminal justice practices that are perceived as unfair to Black and brown populations. In 2017, a Black woman was nearly twice as likely to be incarcerated as a white woman and nearly 50% more likely than a Hispanic woman.

“You look rich as shit, sir,” said the performer to me at Hyena’s comedy club some years ago as he worked the crowd during his set. “Are you rich as shit?” I was surprised by his attention as I sat drink in hand with my then girlfriend enjoying an evening downtown. “Definitely not,” I chuckled in response. “I’m a teacher in South Oak Cliff.” The Black comedian was obviously surprised by my answer. “Man, I’m surprised those kids haven’t eaten you alive! Especially those girls. Even I can’t get them to act right.” The audience laughed, as did I, but I’ll blame it on the two-drink minimum. Realistically, I didn’t agree. I was in the middle of coaching my powerlifting season, and my girls team — entirely Black — featured my best performers and hardest workers. But the notion from the comedian was familiar and had been shared by former colleagues: “Black girls can be hard to teach.” It wasn’t something I had experienced personally but had been told to watch out for the warnings. Kids are kids, I’d always thought. They’re all going to have tough days. But the distinction wasn’t lost on me, and it still isn’t. “We are the sacrifice,” Caldera said with friendly composure tinted with emotional exhaustion. “Black women are always at the forefront of social justice movements.” “Are things improving in FWISD?” I asked with general concern, assuming the attention of years past had at least created marginal forward momentum in addressing this problem specifically. “No one will be able to tell you that because no one is collecting the data,” she said. “Either it’s not being collected or its not being distributed.” Caldera had checked in with administrators within the district earlier this year but wasn’t provided a clear

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We have to speculate because the district can’t tell you.” The code to which she’s referring is Code 21 — Student Code of Conduct. According to her communications with Assistant Superintendent Michael

Steinert, Code 21 is a broad category of infractions lacking specificity in the PEIMS (Public Education Information Management System) codes that detail infractions that lead to suspension. A computer breakdown will reveal only how

many students and of which race were suspended and the infraction based on the PEIMS code. Gender is not a component that can currently be disaggregated for reporting, including the most current data. Steinert told Caldera that two years ago the district needed more robust software to track these offenses as well as better training for the administrators logging them. Without those things, which have yet to be publicized, students are thrown into the Code 21 matrix of mystery, and we just know what they did must have been bad enough to warrant a suspension, even if it was talking back to a teacher who was having a bad day or for multiple dress code infractions. It’s hard to imagine that the reporting and disaggregation of discipline data ranks high on Fort Worth schools’ list of action items amid the complications brought by COVID-19 reopenings. This shouldn’t mean they’re off the hook. When the children of Tanglewood return to school, it’d be nifty if the parents can retrieve some of their protest energy to move on this issue as well. l

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answer. She used her social media to pose the question to a broader audience, including school board members whom she had come to know through her research process. Sherry Breed, Fort Worth schools’ chief of Equity and Excellence, reached out to provide updated suspension numbers. Those numbers encapsulated the continued disconnect within the district: aggregation. Suspension numbers are categorized by race and offense but not gender. In many cases, the reason is missing as well. The pitfalls in data collection are something our researcher had encountered before, having to ask for a manual breakdown of these statistics to complete her research. This process — after special request — was completed by the district but only after charging Caldera $60 for the labor of the breakdown, 60 bucks that had to be paid in cash and delivered in person at the district office. “Why are these students being suspended?” I asked, knowing myself as a teacher that there is tremendous discretion when referring a student to administration to even be considered for suspension-type punishment. Caldera, exasperated, said, “They don’t have a way to identify the reason girls are being suspended. One broad category, one nebulous code that has no meaning.

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After such a long and bewildering layoff, I had become so sports starved that if someone had simply decided to trot out caffeinated gerbils in tiny domestic rodent-sized jerseys onto miniature courts, piped in canned crowd noise, and had deep-voiced announcer guys call the action on some random Midwestern public access TV channel, I would have watched with the unwavering attention of eyelid-pried Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange. Come to think of it, I would absolutely watch such a thing under any circumstances. Point being, I was beyond ready for the return of any actual, real, live team sports entertainment. Quite prepared as I was to settle for whatever pandemic-maligned product the NBA and NHL could manage to cobble together, I’ve been completely dumbfounded by what I’ve witnessed so far in the bubbles. Not only is it amazing what both leagues have been able to accomplish in regards to presenting their respective sports in a fairly convincing and relatively natural way — a feat that really can’t be overstated — but I’ve also been gobsmacked by the quality of play. This includes both of our little hometown teams who have been running with the best of them, consistently putting on incredible, elating, heart-pounding showings. Going into the resumption of their seasons, not much was expected from either the Mavericks or the Stars. Simply being in the playoffs again for either club was largely considered a pure house-

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money bonus. The two teams, however, have cast off those expectations like so many discarded COVID face coverings littering a Burleson Walmart parking lot. (Don’t @ me, Burleytowners.) As of this writing, the Mavs have knotted their first-round playoff series against the L.A. Clippers at two games apiece, and the Stars have a bewildering 2-0 on the Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference semis. Prior to the three-game round robin to start the playoffs, the Stars were in complete offensive shambles. Their top line of Jamie Benn, Alexander Radulov, and Tyler Seguin had been cold going back to basically mid-February. Since then and despite a shutout in Game 3 against the Calgary Flames, the Stars now sit as the top scoring team in all the playoffs. Including potting a staggering seven unanswered goals after falling down 0-3 to Calgary in Game 6, the Stars have put up 17 goals in just the last three games. With their 5-2 comeback against the Avs in Game 2 on Monday, the Stars have scored five or more goals in five of their eight playoff games. The Avs could be reeling from the loss of starting goalie Philipp Grubauer and defenseman Erik Johnson, each out indefinitely to injuries suffered in Game 1, but with Nate MacKinnon, Colorado still has to be considered one of the top teams remaining. They will no doubt continue to be a tough challenge for the boys in

Victory Green, despite the 2-0 series lead. I don’t want to be the mouse to “eat the cheese,” as Bill Parcells would famously say, but with the way defensemen Miro Heiskanen and John Klingberg have been dominating from the point, buttressed by the newly found offensive prowess of Joe “Captain America” Pavelski and rookie Denis Guryanov — along with a reawakened Seguin line — I no longer have the doubts I did going into Round 1. If they continue to play like this, they’re as good or better than any team still in the bubble. It’s actually possible Benn and Seguin could skate the first Stanley Cup for Dallas in 21 years. (We’ll ignore that they’d do it 2,000 miles from Big D.) More impressive than the Stars, perhaps, is the way the Little Mavericks have hung with the Clippers. L.A.’s NBA second sons were the odds-on favorites to win the Larry O’Brien trophy heading into the bubble. Led by Kawhi Leonard — maybe the league’s best all-around player — the Clippers’ defensive acumen was a terrible mismatch for the offensedependent Mavs (the most efficient offense in NBA history, no less). Though Leonard has had the amazing series one would expect from him, one player has been even better. L.A. just doesn’t have an answer for 21-year-old phenom Luka Dončić. In Sunday’s matinee Game 4, the Clippers were dominating Dallas for most of the first half, pushing a 21-point lead at

one point. It appeared inevitable L.A. was headed for an insurmountable 3-1 series lead. The Mavs were short one Unicorn in the missing Kristaps Porzingis. Though Dončić was forced out of Game 3 with his own injury — a particularly nasty-looking ankle sprain — the second-year Slovenian superstar was able to play. He somehow picked the rest of the Dallas squad up and placed them square upon the No. 77 on the back of his jersey and brought them all the way back to force overtime. Then, in what is already a Top 5 personal favorite sports moment, Luka hit a career-defining stepback three-pointer as the buzzer sounded to win the game and tie the series. It’s been a long time since I’ve sports cried, but as the entire Maverick organization mobbed Luka at half-court after the shot dropped, I had to explain to my wife that I had something in my eye. I’ve watched the highlight only about 35 times, and I get chills every time. With that shot and his 43-17-13 triple-double, the kid has become an instant local sports legend. I’d put money that one day Nowitzki Way will intersect with Dončić Drive outside the AAC. With the way the heroes from Dallas keep saving my sports heart from breaking, it’s already been a year to remember and finally for a good reason. No matter where either team goes from here, there’s no doubt bubble play has been worth the wait. l

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Hell’s Half Acre is an awesome band. (Yes, I’m plugging my friends’ band. Friday What?) The band’s name is a historical reference. Back in the 1800s, Hell’s Half Acre was Fort Worth’s little redlight district. At noon, join the Texas A&M School of Law –– situated on the grounds where the acre once stood downtown –– for the webinar A Visit to Hell’s Half Acre

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and hear Brendan Smart tell stories of this controversial district. Smart describes the acre as a “thriving” assortment of bordellos, saloons, and gaming parlors, serving up delights for cowboys, railroaders, gamblers, thieves, and ordinary citizens and “generally outraging the religiously fervent and the reform-minded.” The webinar is free to attend at Info.Law.TAMU.edu/ HellsHalfAcre.

POD seating enables stadiums like Dickies Arena (1911 Montgomery Saturday St, 817-402-9800) to bring in events like Professional Bull Riding (PBR) while assuring fans are seated in an appropriate, socially distanced way. For PBR on Sat at 6:45pm and Sun at 1:45pm, POD seating options include groupings of two to six seats with minimal crossover interaction among fans. The overall capacity will be 50%. The only ones feeling unsafe will be the bullriders. Pre-paid parking in “regularly sanitized lots” and tickets ($16.50-385) are available at TicketMaster.com.

Local and national vendors peddling fossils, minerals, and more will be at the Will Sunday Rogers Memorial Center (3401 W Lancaster Av) for the annual Fort Worth Gem & Mineral Show 10am-5pm Sat and 10am-4pm Sun. Along with the precious and semi-precious stones and oddities for sale, there will be door prizes, a kids’ corner, and silent auctions. Admission is $6 per adult. Children 12 and under are free. Call 817-921-5227.

A Great Dane and a Chihuahua walk into a bar. That’s not a joke. Monday It’s the Great Dane + Chihuahua Meetup at MUTTS Cantina (5317 Clearfork Main St, 817-377-0515). Touted as a “small get-together with large potential,” MUTTS hosts a small and large breed playdate. From 5pm to 8pm, purchase people snacks at the Cantina –– and Woof Menu doggo snacks for your pup –– then head out to the onsite dog park for a big (and small) night out. There is no cost to attend other than your snack budget.

Are you obsessed with the Dusty Biscuit Beignet food truck/pop-up phenomenon Tuesday on the Near Southside? Learn their secrets at the Virtual Beignet Making Class at 7pm. For this demonstration on Facebook Live, Dusty Biscuit promises to provide a “solid beignet recipe” and a step-by-step walkthrough of the rolling and cutting process. The class is free, but tipping is encouraged. For the list of the ingredients you’ll need and ways to tip, go to Facebook.com/TheDustyBiscuit.

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With September being National Honey Month, let’s take a moment to appreciate bees and their yummy handiwork. We need bees to survive ourselves –– they pollinate flowers and help keep the food chain alive and well –– so if you have a hive on your property you want removed, call someone who cares. Wildernex LLC: Wildlife Control works throughout Texas and respects the bees’ right to live. Call the North Texas number at 214-396-9270 to have your hive relocated safely. We need local honey to stave off those fall allergies. We recommend buying honey from small local businesses like Cowtown Farmers Market (3821 Southwest Blvd, 817-462-1426) or Green’s Produce (3001 W Arkansas Ln, Arlington, 817-274-2435). If you make those beignets on Tue (see: above), you may want some honey to go with your culinary creation.

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Before becoming Fort Worth’s newest hotspot, Mule Alley (131 E Exchange Av) was just a row of mule barns. Now with renovations of the Stockyards area nearly complete, it’s time to celebrate. On Fri-Sat, The Biscuit Bar, Cowtown Winery, and Provender Hall will throw a big ol’ bash with live music, delicious food, and a bevy of adult beverages. Drink specials at The Biscuit Bar (128 E Exchange Av, Ste 640) include $5 cocktails and $3 domestic beer, wine, and beer on tap, and there will be a Lucchese boot giveaway. Cowtown Winery (128 E Exchange Av, Ste 610, 817-626-1011) will have $5 frozen daiquiris, margaritas, and piña coladas, plus 20% off all bottles of wine. Chef Marcus Paslay’s new concept, Provender Hall (128 E Exchange Av, Ste 110, 817-782-9170), is offering happy-hour drink specials and half-priced oysters from 4pm to 6pm both days. Starting at 4pm both days, enjoy the Biscuit & Jams live music series with Squeezebox Bandits and Tommy Luke on Fri and Alex Bellin and Trees Marie on Sat. The Mule Alley Celebration is free to attend, but you do buy your food and drinks. For more information, visit FortWorthStockyards.com/Events/MuleAlley-Celebration. This event coincides with the annual Stockyards Championship Rodeo (121 E Exchange Av, 888-269-8696), also on Fri and Sat, so be sure and catch the cattle drives. Rodeo tickets are $15-50 at StockyardsRodeo. com. Kids get in free on Fri.

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From August 28 to September 27, dine at these participating restaurants and part of the proceeds will go to Lena Pope, a local nonprofit that identifies the needs of children and designed programs to fill the gap. Dinner prices are $39 to $49 for this program. Contact the restaurant for details.

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Nearly 800 bars across Texas are prepared to swing open their saloon doors Saturday as part of a protest launched by a Fort Worth venue. The Rail Club Live has been battling Austin since June 26, when as a result of the pandemic Gov. Greg Abbott issued a decree closing all establishments earning 51% or more of their income from alcohol sales, or 51 percenters, as Rail coowner Chris Polone calls them. What Polone, his supporters, and many fellow bar/venue owners across the state want to know is why they must close their businesses while similar businesses, like restaurants, can remain open — at half capacity, yes, but still open. Abbott, Polone said, didn’t “shut down bars. He shut down 51% bars. If we didn’t quit drinking, we went somewhere where it was legal,” like restaurants. Texas alcohol sales, according to reports by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage

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continuously drop music,” Charle$ said. His debut record was followed by In Transit 2, plus dozens of singles and music videos. “Facts Only” debuted on Sirius XM’s Shade 45 in 2015, and the 2018 track “Love on Drugs” received airplay on K104. Other North Texas stations, including KXT, KTCU, The Pirate, and ALT 103.7FM, are spinning his latest releases. “Showin’ Out” is heavy with shoutouts to Texas, notably legendary rap label Swishahouse, and marquee Houston rapper Paul Wall guests on it: “Four-fours, I’m tipping / Wood grain, I’m gripping / Catch me lane switchin’, with the paint drippin’ / Turn your neck, and your gang missing / Lou Charle$, I ain’t different / I came up on that H-Town / That DJ Screw … that Swishahouse / Texas boys, they showin’ out.” Charle$ said that what he’s trying to Commission (TABC), remain strong and in July increased over last year. The shutdown of bars/venues statewide has not impacted Texas’ bottom line, Polone said, and it’s part of the reason why the club owner is trying to “prove what this is really about.” Polone sees an old-boy network at play. The people advising bars/venues to remain closed while allowing other mass-gathering places such as restaurants, gyms, and churches to stay open have a vested interest, he said. The governor’s COVID-19 Strike Force is composed of a couple dozen industry leaders, including several restaurateurs. There are no bar/ venue owners on the strike force. Of course, Polone said, the restaurateurs on the strike force want “guys like me shut down. What we’re exposing is the double standard. … No wonder there’s no bailout [for 51 percenters]. We’re not affecting tax revenue. There’s no reason to help us.” After a recent get-together, Polone said he and some friends went to a BoomerJack’s. “They have burgers there, but you don’t go there for that. You go for the $3 Crown and down. There were 300 people there.”

do is keep making music, stay inspired, and maintain his connection with his supporters. “My mind is constantly turning to come up with innovative ways to continue to build and curate a community of dope vibes,” he said. It’s not unusual for Charle$ to collaborate, though it’s not necessarily frequent. Collaborating brings different ideas to his rhyme scheme, he said, and to the beatmaking process. “I don’t collaborate a lot, but if I do, I try to make it impactful,” he said. Charle$ said his recordings would not have been possible without “Chico” Santiago and the Fort Worth recording studio Music in Focus. “Chico is a mastermind at everything from mixing, mastering, and putting the tracks out there,” Charle$ said about his DJ during live performances. Along with having gigged at MASS on the Near Southside, Charle$ has played everywhere from Virginia to Portland over the years and has shared stages with Chamillionaire, Joyner Lucas, Joe Budden, G-Eazy, and A-Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. An earlier single, “Take Me Home,” received a lot of exposure when released earlier this year. The song, Charle$ said, had been sitting on his computer since 2018 when he pitched it to local country singer-songwriter Grady Spencer during a trip to SXSW in Austin. The resulting collaboration was picked up by the City of Fort Worth’s visitors’ bureau, Visit Fort Worth, and included in a promotional video to celebrate Valentine’s Day. “I’m not sure when the September release is gonna be,” Charle$ said. “I’m not 100%, but it’s gonna be good.” l Clearly, Polone continued, shutting down bars/venues is “not about public safety. It’s something a lot more sinister.” After Abbott shut down bars/venues in late June, Polone held a Tea Party protest. TABC responded to his July 4 event by suspending his liquor license for 30 days. Later in July, Polone organized a much larger rally. Hundreds of bars across the state opened their doors as part of Freedom Fest, and many saw their liquor licenses suspended as well. “The time has come,” Polone writes on 51childrenofliberty.org. “No longer will we stand by and watch our government effectively commit smallbusiness genocide in the name of public health and safety.” Keeping 51% operations closed, he continues, “is not about public safety, and it never has been. We proved on July 4 and again on July 25 that we can operate safely, and yet we remain condemned.” Abbott, Polone told me last month, is “literally starving out a population of people.” If every Texas bar/venue about the size

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