Years of training, grinding, and a little movie called Black Panther changed the lives of three men and an entire community of Black stunt performers forever.
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Earth Trip by Rose City Band
“It is a Sunday morning
Dawn is starting to awaken
Sky is burning
New day rising in the West”
I’ve been sitting on the same stretch of I-5 between the 520 Bridge exit and the I-90 interchange for about an hour; it’s the hottest day of the year (so far) and the engine of my 2000 Nissan sings the loud bellow of a city bus.
When Nicole Russell first acquired a love for pizza, the Queens, New York native was just a teenager. She grew up in a home with a vegan father and a mom who cooked all the time, therefore, eating out wasn’t common for or encouraged by her family. So when she would make her extensive commute home from school (she lived in a two-fare zone where you have to take a bus to the train), she cherished the opportunity to grab a slice from a local pizzeria. It became a part of her routine to get a slice with extra cheese, extra garlic, and a grape soda every single day at Gino’s Pizza in Far Rockaway.
Since 1985, the Whiting Award has recognized the best emerging writers in several categories. Past Fiction winners have included such luminaries as Stuart Dybek (1985), Kent Haruf (1986), David Foster Wallace (1987), Jonathan Franzen (1988), Colson Whitehead (2000), and Ben Percy (2008). In other words: If you want to see who’s going to be shaping the literary world in the coming couple of decades or more, it s worth checking out who wins the Whiting. Now you can add to that list Denver’s own Steven Dunn.
Dunn has been an active part of the local lit scene for some years now, but especially since his debut collection