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Fort Worth Weekly
Thursday February 4
In collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, the Fort Worth Opera presents
Midnight Film Fest: The Met in HD at Coyote Drive-In (223 NE 4th St, 817-717-7767). From 7pm to 10pm, see
Akhnaten with countertenor Anthony Roth Costanza as the eponymous ancient Egyptian Pharaoh and mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges as Nefertiti. Then, on Thu, Feb 11, see
La Boheme, and on Thu, Feb 18, it’s
Daughter of the Regiment. Tickets are $35 per car for one film, $60 for two, or $75 for three at FWOpera.org/Moonlight-Film-Fest.
Friday February 5
Not that I need an excuse to go to Grease Monkey Burgers (200 N Mesquite St, Arlington, 817-665-5454) they have a Swiss mushroom burger that is insanely good but there’s live music happening in their dining room/bar area every weekend. From 8pm to 11pm, singer-songwriter
Editor-at-Large
The US Treasury Department and the Small Business Administration (SBA) refuse to release all of the names of companies that received federal bailout funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), but reports show companies connected to at least four Members of Congress received some of the funds they themselves approved.
Four companies with ties to Congressmembers applied for and received emergency loans designed to help companies retain workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, but others may have as well.
Two Republican Congressmembers have spouses that own companies that received PPP loans. Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler from Missouri and her family own multiple farms and equipment suppliers across the Midwest. The company received funds from the PPP.