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Before reaching the age of maturity, I had the singular good fortune of stumbling upon a most unique, run-down tavern frequented by society’s disposables. Kilroy’s, squeezed between a darkened Shell station and a distinctly ungentrified stretch of Venice Beach, Calif., was home to a frowsy l… More Headlines

They made small talk, exchanged greetings but didnt know each other well. But on May 21, 2018, she found herself rushing to find Cleveland Hawthorne on his stomach in a nearby church parking lot on Concord Avenue SW. He had been shot in the chest and was taking his last breaths. "I was tapping him and saying, Come on, come on," Maxwell recounted, her voice weakening. She heard him moaning. "I was just crying, talking to him and he took one last moan, and that was it." Maxwell described those...

The simple announcement of a show for children sparked two petitions, a series of articles and plenty of community comment that stretched nearly two months, Doug Sail discovered when he reviewed the news that made headlines in August 2020 as part of our series looking back on the year that was. A Timaru woman launched a petition calling on the town’s library to cancel an event which would have seen a drag queen duo address children on diversity. Taranaki-based drag queens Erika and Coco Fla...