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Cambria Heights: After reading Voicers back-and-forth about Christmas trees, it prompted me to repeat a story I shared with the Daily News in the Voice of the People a few years ago. It was the Depression and my parents and two older brothers had just lost our 5-year-old brother, who died of cancer.
The mural spaces throughout Desert Ridge Marketplace in north Phoenix will get a fresh coat of paint courtesy of local artists like Gina Ribaudo, Francisco Garcia, Ruth Ann Sturgill, and Lucretia Torva. Each painter will create music-themed murals while a roster of local bands and performers across multiple genres – including Isaiah Tilson, Victor Navarro, KC Angels, and Holly Schranz – do their thing at venues like CB Live and the District Stage. Admission is free to the event, which starts at 5 p.m. The full schedule and lineup is available here. Benjamin Leatherman Last Exit Live, 71...
Bronx: Marijuana is at worst psychologically, but not physically, addictive. Alcohol is physically addictive for some people. Marijuana has medical benefits. Alcohol is medically harmful. But Errol Louis claims that marijuana is a “powerfully addictive substance” in his April 8 column.
Kew Gardens: There is a parallel between the oppression felt by the Thirteen Colonies under the occupation of the British military and the oppression felt in minority communities from the high concentrations of police and the abusive tactics used against them.