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Theresa Caputo, TLC's Long Island Medium, Has a Message for You

By Laura Bond
Apr 5, 2017

My first psychic was about six feet tall, with a plume of yellow hair that recalled both Phyllis Diller and Big Bird, a chain smoker who read my future — rather accurately — by flipping through a deck of playing cards. She punctuated important moments in the reading with jabs...
King Soopers Store 124 In Glendale is the U.N. of Supermarkets

By Laura Bond
Sep 28, 2016

Hanan Chthieer has done harder things than push a line of shopping carts up an incline through an obstacle course of a parking lot — like flee Iraq in fear for her life, for example. But now this is her job, and it’s difficult. The wheel on one of the...
Zoot Suit Riots changed the future for Jose Mercado's students -- and for him

By Laura Bond
Mar 13, 2014

It was just a spring musical — a ritual, like homecoming, familiar at nearly every high school in the United States. But when the lights came up on Zoot Suit Riots at North High in May 2004, they revealed a very special show. The twenty teenagers who made up the...
Alejandra Lamas on how surviving the Aurora theater shooting helped her get documented

By Laura Bond
Mar 12, 2014

At first, Alejandra Cardona Lamas couldn't have imagined that a single good thing would come out of July 20, 2012. She was among the hundreds of fans gathered for the midnight screening of The Dark Night Rises at the Century 16 multiplex in Aurora. And she was there for the...
The Wire's Wendell Pierce on Sterling Farms and the economics of food

By Laura Bond
Apr 9, 2013

Wendell Pierce is best known for starring in two of the best television shows ever made: as Detective Bunk Moreland on The Wire, and now as trombonist/teacher Antoine Batiste on Treme, a cinematic and music-filled character study of post-Katrina New Orleans. Like The Wire, Treme explores a constellation of factors...

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