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Playing video games is nothing new. Playing video games with other players is pretty common too. But doing it in real life, as a seven-hour group experience that’s meant to be a theatrical endurance game, well, that’s where the unemployed donkeys trot in. Asses.masses, a long-running theatrical video game project that lets audiences use a…
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The city is hosting Community Emergency Response Team training to help residents be ready for an emergency. The idea behind CERT training is that residents learn how to help themselves and their neighbors, so in the event of a disaster, they can help those around them while they wait for first responders. Training sessions will…
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Daniyal Mueenuddin spent a decade after finishing his 2009 prize-winning short story collection, “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” writing a nonfiction book about his mother and “the complicated circumstances surrounding her death and her life.” But he says he never got it quite right, so he put it aside and returned to fiction.  The result,…
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department has charged a man who squirted apple cider vinegar on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at an event in Minneapolis, according to court papers made public Thursday. The man arrested for Tuesday’s attack, Anthony Kazmierczak, faces a charge of forcibly assaulting, opposing, impeding and intimidating Omar, according to a complaint filed…
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks said Thursday that it plans to open hundreds of new stores across the U.S. and add seating capacity at thousands of existing locations, doubling down on a strategy of emphasizing the company’s cafes as community hubs even as consumer demand for drive-thru coffee grows. The…
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Look, I get it. And I feel for you. You were among the literal tens of thousands of souls who couldn’t land a seat at Noma’s Los Angeles residency, missing the chance to fork over $1,500 to eat fermented forest floor fare in Silver Lake. Reservations vanished in under three minutes after going live on…
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The ancient Aztecs considered it a powerful aphrodisiac. Montezuma, according to legend, consumed large quantities of the stuff to enhance his charms with the ladies. We’re talking about chocolate, of course, and with Valentine’s Day around the corner, the chocolatiers will get a workout. What is it about chocolate that is so comforting, so intoxicating,…
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Richard Beam said he always knew working at ICE would be a contentious and, at times, controversial position. But he believed in the mission, and in his job to inform the public about the agency – by telling the truth, he said. He remembered that all changed one day in 2025. Beam was working in…
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By MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy rose to 79 years in 2024 — the highest mark in American history. It’s the result of not only the dissipation of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also waning death rates from all the nation’s top killers, including heart disease, cancer and drug overdoses.…
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By LARRY LAGE, AP Sports Writer Some blind and low-vision fans will have unprecedented access to the Super Bowl thanks to a tactile device that tracks the ball, vibrates on key plays and provides real-time audio. The NFL teamed up with OneCourt and Ticketmaster to pilot the game-enhancing experience 15 times during the regular-season during…
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