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Criminalizing Poverty or Ensuring Justice?
Pamela Young remembers the smiles, tears, and stories that accompanied the recent release of 16 Black and Latinx inmates from the Tarrant County Jail....
The Leaders
Three months ago, before the arrival of COVID-19 and the latest wave of demonstrations against police brutality and in support of Black lives —...
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Vote Against Proposition A and Reimagine Public Safety
What makes us safe? A safe community is not hungry, its members receive care when they are sick, older adults don’t worry about surviving...
Music
Save Our Stages
I don’t know what Gov. Greg Abbott does in bars, other than probably look for a way out as quickly as possible (get thee...
Bruce Magnus Elevates
On their new album, Bruce Magnus tweak the past to come up with something surprisingly fresh. Recorded at Cloudland-Recording Studio with Mean Motor Scooter’s...
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Classic Texas Cuisine
In early March, weeks before local restaurants began closing en masse, chef/restaurateur Marcus Paslay made the call to temporarily shutter his two ventures, Clay...
Tinie’s Goodness
Tinie’s Mexican Cuisine, 113 S Main St, FW. 682-255-5425. Temporary hours: 5pm-10pm Tue-Thu, 5pm-12am Fri-Sat. Normal hours: 4pm-12am Tue-Sat. Full and Sat-Sun brunch will...
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Last Call
Now Delivering: Joy
Who knew that something as simple as a coffee drop-off to local healthcare workers could make such a colossal impact on morale?
BJ and Amber...
Blotch
Fort Worth Protesters Honor Victims of Law Enforcement Abuse and Neglect
Standing next to a long table topped with flowers and photos of 37 deceased men and women, Kwame Osei Jr. addressed dozens of protesters...
Stirr Restaurant Not Permanently Closing, Co-owner Says
In today’s Star-Telegram, columnist Bud Kennedy announced that Stirr Restaurant has “closed permanently.”
Not long afterward, Fort Worth Weekly owner Lee Newquist received a text...
T&J Best Musical Moments Part I
Mask and social distancing requirements have prompted Toast & Jam to suspend production temporarily. In the meantime, we will offer Best of T&J segments...
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First Cow: Got Milk?
Some of the most fascinating filmmakers seem to have been born at the wrong time. Whit Stillman should have been writing Restoration comedies, Guy...
Shirley That’s Enough
Lots of actors can express contempt, but when Elisabeth Moss grabs hold of it, it’s special. Somehow she makes that basic emotion into something...
Spaceship Earth: A Whole New World
I was a teenager in Arizona when eight scientists sequestered themselves in Biosphere 2, a geodesic dome in the desert outside Tucson containing an...
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