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In October 1990, the food critic Jonathan Gold reviewed an inexpensive fast-food joint on Pico Boulevard called Oki-Dog for the
LA Times. The piece, “Trans-Global Junk Food,” doubled as an obituary for the late-night hangout of his youth: the 24-hour Oki-Dog on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, which had recently closed. In the early days of punk, Gold spent many a night at the nearby nightclub, the Starwood, which gave many future rock heroes their first big gigs, and played cello in two short-lived bands, Overman and Tank Burial. Years later, he was still an evangelist for Oki-Dog and its eponymous dish: two hot dogs, a slice of cheese, a slice of pastrami, and chili wrapped up in a flour tortilla, which he described as “a cross-cultural burrito that’s pretty hard to stomach unless you’ve got the tum of a 16-year-old.”
Polytechnic University free of all explosives and lifted the roadblocks and police checkpoints that had sealed the university off from the rest of the city for 12 days police closely guarded all entrances to the campus until a handful of protesters barricaded inside left peacefully this week they confirmed no remaining protesters were left but did find nearly 4000 Molotov cocktails the standoff began when thousands of protesters rallied at the campus to fend off police threatening to enter during one of the most violent bouts of street fighting so far but the protests quickly turned into a siege as police sealed off all exits and arrested anyone who tried to leave police said more than 1000 have been arrested and leaving n.p.r. News Beijing stocks are trading lower on Wall Street at this hour the Dow is down 67 points the Nasdaq composite down 16 you re listening to n.p.r. News in Washington. A mandatory evacuation order has been lifted for a community in southeast Texas near the site
There also be a ban on all promoted tweets about elections or other political topics advertisers that want to talk about public policy issues will still be allowed to buy ads on Twitter but they won t be able to advocate for or against the political candidate or piece of legislation and they can t use some of Twitter s powerful targeting tools to put their messages in front of people based on political leanings or what zip code they live in while Facebook and other major tech companies have drawn scrutiny for not limiting political ads Twitter s new stance is seen as a sharp departure Sanin beyond n.p.r. News San Francisco stocks move sharply higher today capping what has been a solid week for Wall Street all 3 of the major u.s. Stock market indices up more than half a percent today but I ll Jones industrial average was 222 points to close above 28000 Nasdaq was up 61 points the Standard and Poor s 500 gained 23 points you re listening to n.p.r. Some new guidelines from the trumpet mi
Public policy issues will still be allowed to buy ads on Twitter but they won t be able to advocate for or against the political candidate or piece of legislation and they can t use some of Twitter s powerful targeting tools to put their messages in front of people based on political leanings or what zip code they live in while Facebook and other major tech companies have drawn scrutiny for not limiting political ads Twitter s new stance is seen as a sharp departure Sanin beyond n.p.r. News San Francisco stocks move sharply higher today capping what has been a solid week for Wall Street all 3 of the major u.s. Stock market indices up more than half a percent today but I ll Jones industrial average was 222 points to close above 28000 Nasdaq was up 61 points the Standard and Poor s 500 gained 23 points you re listening to n.p.r. Some new guidelines from the trumpet ministration for the health care industry other terms of the rules insurers and hospitals will be required to disclose upfr
One thing that caught my attention was how he talked about the economy kind of finally working for people at the bottom of the income ladder you know that the strongest wage gains have been for lower paid workers you know he knowledge there are still gaps for people of color people in rural communities but say are there more signs that the wealth is perhaps being shared more broadly here I mean there s a really good evidence that essentially hot economies are very good and disproportionately good for folks who are really on the margins of the labor market so the unemployment rate will pull fastest. African-Americans. In the kind of the hottest point of the recovery and so so that is that is really positive I think one of the other things that that Jay Powell said at the testimony was that you know that fiscal policy should you know had more to do that there were lots of reasons why people want in the labor force that really monetary policy couldn t actually help with and and my respon