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Ariel Young, the five-year-old girl who was injured in a car crash involving former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid remains “unresponsive,” even though she has awoken from her coma.
Ariel’s family revealed Monday that after 11 days in a coma, the 5-year-old finally woke up.
On Thursday, a spokesperson for the Kansas City police told PEOPLE magazine that Ariel is “now breathing on her own but remains unresponsive.” When asked to elaborate, the spokesperson said no further information would be given.
As previously reported, Ariel was inside a Chevrolet Traverse that was struck by Reid’s Dodge Ram pickup truck on Feb. 4. The Traverse was pulled over on a highway entrance ramp when the crash occurred.
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Imagine if punk-poet John Cooper Clarke had been born in New Jersey instead of Manchester, and grew up to front the E Street Band. Imagine no more. The eighth album from the Hold Steady fits that bizarre brief. They sound like a classic rock band, with frontman Craig Finn not really singing so much as ranting some of the best street poetry this side of Tom Waits. âThere was an early morning meet-up at the mansion on the mountain, the master still had glitter on his face,â Finn spits on the opening line of the opening track, dragging you in from the get-go with no set-up and demanding your attention. Lovelorn losers and damaged damsels have always populated his songs, and
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“I fantasize about it,” Craig Finn says of his first post-Covid gig with The Hold Steady, still unscheduled, like all gigs and all things. “There’s a celebratory but also a physical aspect of the shows we play,” he continues, and he is both absolutely correct and vastly understating the point. Finn, 49, is a tornado of bliss and poetry onstage, a guy who begins each show looking like the creative writing professor he once was and ends each one an unlikely rock god. In every last encore, Finn tells the crowd, “There is so much joy in what we do up here,” and while from someone else it could come off self-serving, at the end of a Hold Steady show, it is just a fact. A Hold Steady show is cathartic and ecstatic, a situation where you wind up arm in arm with a stranger, maybe two, definitely someone else’s beer down your front. The vibe in the crowd is joyful, communal, sweaty. It’s the kind of thing we’ve been denied for nearly a year, and as the band