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Smaller sizing on peaches and nectarines in North America
Supplies of stone fruit in North America are good and increasingly building.
On the West Coast, coming off the long weekend, production will build on California peaches and nectarines plums will soon start as well. As the season builds, Larry Davidson of North American Produce Buyers based in Toronto, Canada notes that the sizing is off this year. “It’s probably a combination of varying temperatures and the heavier load being left on the trees in some cases,” says Davidson. “With the labor and the water issues, I don’t think they had the ability to thin the trees the way they wanted to.” That said, he does add that the fruit is eating well given the high temperatures in the growing season brought out good sugars.
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Meet Bill Butler, the Godfather of Roller Disco
He brought dance music to the Empire Rollerdrome in Brooklyn, and taught generations of skaters how to roll, bounce and be jammas.
Bill Butler’s style of skating is now seen as the beginnings of roller disco.Credit.Braylen Dion for The New York Times
Published Dec. 30, 2020Updated Jan. 4, 2021
When Grace Jones was strutting around Studio 54 and Donna Summer records were playing at New York clubs, Empire Rollerdrome was hitting its stride in Brooklyn.
It was the end of the 1970s, disco fever was in full swing, and crowds of predominantly Black and gay Brooklynites had spent the decade dancing and skating at Empire. Unlike some of the elite discothèques in Manhattan, the rink was a welcoming space, with no velvet ropes or fickle doormen. Anyone with a few dollars could get in.