The streets here are lined with artisanal butcher shops, pasta makers, fishmongers, and wine and specialty goods stores, many run by the same families for generations.
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Lauren Schuster,
Kansas City Star,
17 Feb. 2026
Vitek’s Market, which has served the area for 110-plus years, was founded by a Texas-Czech butcher in 1915 and has been passed down through four generations.
But are the Red Sox a more complete team with a lineup that no longer features the slugging Rafael Devers, Bregman the ‘baseball rat,’ as Cora affectionately calls him, and southpaw slayer Rob Refsnyder?
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Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
9 Feb. 2026
The dragon slayer is lost without the presence of the dragon to define him.
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