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Meow Wolf Will Open Its Fourth Immersive Art Outpost in Suburban Texas, Where It’s Promising ‘Caring’ Vibes | Artnet News
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Meow Wolf is coming to suburban Texas.
This week, the immersive artwork manufacturing firm introduced the main points of its latest location, set to open in Grapevine, a suburb between Dallas and Fort Price, this summer season.
Settling right into a former big-box retail house inside a shopping mall that’s additionally residence to a theater, aquarium, and a “LEGOLAND Discovery Heart,” the brand new outpost will boast 29,000 sq. toes of exhibition house, some 30 separate rooms, a efficiency venue, and an extra retail house.
Behind-the-scenes work at Meow Wolf Grapevine. Photograph: Shayla Blatchford. Courtesy of Meow Wolf.
“We’re hiring like mad and the development limitations which have been put up at [the Grapevine site] can barely maintain the collective creativeness inside,” Meow Wolf Grapevine’s basic supervisor Kelly Schwartz mentioned in a assertion.
Along with work by Meow Wolf’s in-house designers, the set up will function contributions from Texas-based artists, together with sculptor Dan Lam, illustrator Mariell Guzman, and painter Carlos Don Juan, in addition to choices from native distributors.
Behind-the-scenes photographs shared by Meow Wolf supply a peak on the firm’s preparatory labor, although what the Grapevine set up will finally appear and feel like stays beneath wraps.
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Texas-based artist Mariell Guzman. Photograph: Jordan Mathis.
In a latest interview on Meow Wolf’s website (the corporate has its personal editorial arm), the lead author of the mission, LaShawn M. Wanak, teased little in the best way of aesthetic particulars, providing a form of vibe abstract of the brand new department as an alternative.
“I can say that it’s a story about caring, caring for folks,” the author defined. “When folks stroll into Grapevine, after they stroll into the location, I would like their first impression to be: ‘Oh, it is a well-loved place, and the folks inside love one another and look after one another.’”
When it opens, the Grapevine location will develop into Meow Wolf’s fourth devoted department, becoming a member of outposts in Denver and Las Vegas, and the unique mission house in Santa Fe. A second Lone Star State set up is within the works, too, because the group prepares to open an outlet in Houston in 2024.
Final Might’s announcement of the 2 new Texas areas was met with criticism on-line as followers referred to as out Meow Wolf for transferring right into a state that has curtailed abortion rights and entry to gender-affirming look after minors.
In response, the corporate put out a assertion saying that “Meow Wolf has all the time stood with marginalized folks and that features LGBTQIA communities and girls.”
“We wanna be clear,” the group’s message went on, “we’re coming to Texas to deliver our assist, love, and adoration for these communities by supplying jobs, internet hosting occasions, supporting artists, and doing the whole lot we are able to to offer house and time and sources to the communities of Texas going through probably the most backlash.”
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Texas Rangers closer Kirby Yates has All-Star case, even without lighting up the radar gun
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BALTIMORE — A philosophical question: If a closer doesn’t hit 100 mph, can he still get noticed? You know, kind of like a tree falling in the woods. If nobody sees it, did it actually happen?
We may get an answer to that question in the next week when All-Star rosters are revealed. Rangers closer Kirby Yates has seemingly done everything necessary to make the AL All-Star team, other than light up a radar gun.
As players wrap up their voting for the All-Star pitching staffs this weekend, choosing three relievers, it’s hard to make a convincing case against Yates reaching the medal stand. Unless, of course, you factor in his fastball. It doesn’t light up Statcast metrics. It’s only good for getting him ahead in counts and setting up his devastating forkball. Among qualified relievers, Yates’ 93.1 mph average fastball ranks only 60th in the AL. The guys getting all the national buzz are Oakland’s Mason Miller and his 100.8 mph fastball and AL saves leader Emmanuel Clase with his 99.8 mph heater.
“I know I don’t have a fastball that lights up the radar guns,” Yates said. “But the league is filled with stuff and guys who are throwers. Guys who pitch are the outliers. But if you pitch and execute your pitches, you can be successful. I don’t think that will ever go away.”
He has pitched exceptionally well. There is not a performance-based stat in which he is weak. He began Saturday perfect in his 11 save chances this year, the only AL reliever with at least 10 opportunities and no blown saves. His ERA (0.99) was second. His batting average allowed (.134) was second. He had a WHIP below 1.00 (0.95).
Put this another way. He is the only pitcher in baseball — regardless of league — to begin the statistical second-half of the season perfect on at least 10 save chances, with a WHIP and ERA both below 1.00. There is more. He’s averaging 12.07 strikeouts per nine innings thanks to a filthy splitter and hasn’t allowed a homer.
The closest comp to Yates from a year ago was Minnesota’s Jhoan Duran, who ended June with 11 saves in 13 chances, a 1.91 ERA and a 0.94 ERA. Perhaps, it’s not best to bring this up. Duran still didn’t make the All-Star team. There were six relievers either selected or named as replacements. It included each of the top five in saves and Baltimore’s Yennier Cano, who had a 1.14 ERA and 0.86 WHIP entering July. Moral of the story: Yates’ relatively low number of saves may work against him.
If other players rely on a singular number such as saves or WAR, Yates may get overlooked. He is tied for 11th in the AL in saves and is eighth in WAR among AL relievers at 1.0, though only three-tenths of a win separates him from the No. 2 spot, which belongs to Clase.
On the other hand, if AL manager Bruce Bochy has any input, Yates will get a firm endorsement. That doesn’t carry the weight it once did. Once upon a time, the manager had a big hand in selecting the pitching staff. Now, it’s almost entirely reliant on peer votes. Bochy said this week that he would heartily endorse Yates as a reliever.
So, too, will David Robertson, the AL’s senior reliever at age 39. Robertson was an All-Star in 2010 as a setup man with the New York Yankees.
“His case is great,” said Robertson, who has a pretty solid case of his own. “His WHIP is good. His strikeouts are high. If you aren’t giving up walks and hits and you are striking out guys, what else are you supposed to do? I hope he goes.”
Yates admits it, he’d like to. He’s been an All-Star before and was even named the NL’s closer in 2019. Only problem: NL didn’t have a lead. He didn’t pitch. Since then: He missed most of three seasons with elbow issues and eventually surgery.
“I think making the team would validate a lot of things,” Yates said. “I’d love a chance to pitch, but the fact that I was named the closer that year was a real sign of respect and I appreciated that. In a perfect world, you’d get a chance to do both.”
And if everybody sees it, well, then it definitely happened.
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Two Texas jail guards are indicted by a county grand jury in the asphyxiation death of an inmate
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Two county jail guards have been indicted on murder charges for the asphyxiation death of an inmate in Texas.
The indictments, dated Tuesday, charge Joel Garcia, 48, and Rafael Moreno Jr., 37, in the April death of 31-year-old former Marine Anthony Johnson Jr. at the Tarrant County jail in Fort Worth.
Attorneys for Garcia or Moreno did not immediately return phone calls and text messages for comment Friday.
Randy Moore, an attorney for Garcia, has previously said that Garcia’s role in the fight was limited and that the use of force was necessary.
“The wheels of justice continue to turn in this case,” Sheriff Bill Waybourn said in a statement. “I said from the beginning that we hold accountable anyone responsible for Mr. Johnson’s death and we are doing that.”
Waybourn, who has said Moreno wrongly placed his knee on Johnson’s back after Johnson was handcuffed and that Garcia was the supervisor, initially fired the two, but both were reinstated and placed on paid leave because the sheriff’s office said the dismissals did not follow official protocol.
The force used in Johnson’s death is intended to stop and subdue people without killing them, yet increasingly it has come under scrutiny following the 2020 death of George Floyd.
Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer restrained him face down on the ground for nine minutes and pinned a knee to the back of Floyd’s neck, an incident that sparked outrage nationwide.
The family of Johnson, who had been arrested two days before his death for allegedly using a knife to threaten the driver of a vehicle, has called for a federal investigation of the jail. The family has told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that Johnson was suffering from a mental health crisis.
On Friday, four Missouri prison guards were charged with murder, and a fifth with accessory to involuntary manslaughter, in the December death of a Black man who was pepper-sprayed, had his face covered with a mask and was left in a position that caused him to suffocate.
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Texas Supreme Court upholds state ban on gender transition treatment for minors
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The Texas Supreme Court on Friday upheld the state’s ban on gender transition treatment for children, allowing the Lone Star State to remain one of at least 25 states, and the largest, with restrictions on such treatment.
The law, which has been in effect since Sept. 1, 2023, prohibits children under the age of 18 from accessing hormone therapy, puberty blockers and gender transition surgery. Children who were already on those medications were required to taper off their use of the drugs. The law includes exemptions for children in early puberty or who have “a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development.”
The lawsuit that challenged the law argued it harms transgender teenagers who are barred from receiving gender transition treatment recommended by their physicians and parents, according to The Associated Press.
The court, comprised of all Republicans, handed down its ruling in an 8-1 decision.
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The Texas Supreme Court on Friday upheld the state’s ban on gender transition treatment for children. (AP)
“We conclude the Legislature made a permissible, rational policy choice to limit the types of available medical procedures for children, particularly in light of the relative nascency of both gender dysphoria and its various modes of treatment and the Legislature’s express constitutional authority to regulate the practice of medicine,” Justice Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle wrote.
The lone dissenting judge said the court was giving the state’s government the ability to “legislate away fundamental parental rights.”
“The State’s categorical statutory prohibition prevents these parents, and many others, from developing individualized treatment plans for their children in consultation with their physicians, even the children for whom treatment could be lifesaving,” Justice Debra Lehrmann wrote. “The law is not only cruel — it is unconstitutional.”
A lower court had ruled the law unconstitutional, but it was permitted to take effect during the state Supreme Court’s consideration of the case.
Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton tweeted after the ruling that his office “will use every tool at our disposal to ensure that doctors and medical institutions follow the law.”
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The law prohibits children under the age of 18 from accessing hormone therapy, puberty blockers and gender transition surgery. (Fox News )
The groups who filed the lawsuit criticized the ruling as harmful to transgender children and their families.
“It is impossible to overstate the devastating impact of this ruling on Texas transgender youth and the families that love and support them,” Karen Loewy, senior counsel and director of Constitutional Law Practice at Lambda Legal, which was one of the groups that sued the state on behalf of doctors and families, told The Associated Press.
ACLU of Texas’ policy and advocacy strategist for LGBTQIA+ rights, Ash Hall, said the government should not “deprive trans youth of the health care that they need to survive and thrive,” adding that “Texas politicians’ obsession with attacking trans kids and their families is needlessly cruel.”
Gender transition treatment for transgender children is supported by major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association and the Endocrine Society.
BRAGG’S OFFICE FACES BAR COMPLAINT ALLEGING DISCRIMINATION IN ‘DIVERSITY’ HIRING PRACTICES
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The lawsuit that challenged the law argued it harms transgender teenagers who are barred from receiving gender transition treatment recommended by their physicians and parents. (ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)
One justice dismissed the medical groups’ position as irrelevant to whether the Texas law is constitutional.
“The fact that expert witnesses or influential interest groups like the American Psychiatric Association disagree with the Legislature’s judgment is entirely irrelevant to the constitutional question,” Justice James Blacklock wrote in a concurring opinion. “The Texas Constitution authorizes the Legislature to regulate ‘practitioners of medicine.’”
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In a lower court hearing, several doctors who treat transgender children testified that patients could face deteriorating mental health that could potentially lead to suicide if they are denied gender transition treatment.
Texas officials said the law was needed to protect children and pointed to several other restrictions for minors intended to keep them safe, including when it comes to tattoos, alcohol, tobacco and certain over-the-counter drugs.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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