Kansas City Call Building The Kansas City Call, founded in 1919, became one of the city’s most influential newspapers for the Black community while reporting on community affairs and advocating for civil rights.
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Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
20 Oct. 2026
As the kid grew up in Los Angeles, shining shoes, selling newspapers, and vowing, unlike the rest of his family, to get an education, one impulse drove him on.
Some of these digital pamphlets provide terse, functional updates while others act as the successors to bygone alt-weeklies, covering cultural happenings and carrying out local-interest investigations.
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Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
The Southern California News Group is made up of 11 daily news publications and several weeklies throughout Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
My sister, the author Jacqueline Moriarty, works in a particularly beautiful chocolate shop, which is also a café and looks really magical, and her books often do have a magical side to them.
The inspiration for the series began with the fact that the Museum’s holdings included an actual VistaVision projector built in the early 1990s for dailies screenings but which hadn’t been used for decades.
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Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Aug. 2026
In-demand Los Angeles projectionist Taylor Umphenour, an Imax consultant who has worked with Nolan on his dailies, helped oversee the design and construction.
Filling porch and patio planters with fall-blooming annuals and festive foliage plants is an easy way to add color to your space and curb appeal to your home.
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Lauren Landers,
The Spruce,
28 Sep. 2026
Since tropical hibiscus can’t survive freezing temperatures, they can be grown as annuals or overwinter indoors in cold regions.
When word spread that the Chief Librarian of the Army was paying a visit, soldiers rushed to request their favorite periodicals and book genres.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2026
Operating for nearly a century, Algani began in 1927 as a modest seller of newspapers, periodicals, and postcards before evolving into one of the city’s first international newsstands.
Set against the height of the early 2000s tabloid era, the film chronicles Kapoor’s fight to clear his name as paparazzi descend on his office, police raid his home, private journals are leaked, and every aspect of his personal life becomes public.
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Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
16 Oct. 2026
The show's storylines were based on interviews with real-life survivors of Easy Company, in addition to letters and journals of real soldiers.
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