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I met her at a function for young children at our church. Unlike the other parents who dropped off their kids and came back later to pick them up, this young mom stayed and waited.

Non-spoiler review One of the first columns I wrote while here at the newspaper was about the passing of Chadwick Boseman. Boseman was 43 when he passed away on Aug.

Review by AMELIA HENSLEY Ponca City High School Drama teacher and director of the Wildcat Theatre Co. What is a farce? If you’ve spent any time at all in the theatre, you already know, but just in case you don’t: A farce is “a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically crude characterization within ludicrously improbable situations.” It is an old genre, far from a new or “cutting edge” art form–but it still exists today because it does one thing extremely well: It makes us laugh.

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INGREDIENTS 1 pound lean ground beef 1 1/2 cups instant brown rice, uncooked 2 cups water 1 cup onion, chopped (about 1 medium) 1 tablespoon chili powder 3 cups tomatoes, chopped 1 seeded jalapeño (chopped finely) 2 cups spinach or romaine lettuce 1 cup 2% fat cheese, shredded INSTRUCTIONS 1. Cook ground meat in a large skillet until brown (160° F). Drain off fat. Rinse meat with warm water to remove the grease.* 2. Add rice, water, onion, and chili powder to meat in skillet.

Netflix’s workplace sitcom struggles for laughs at the last Blockbuster video store on Earth Four years ago, a Blockbuster video rental store in the town of Bend, Oregon, became the last one still in business. That’s the surfacelevel inspiration for the new Netflix sitcom called, simply enough, “Blockbuster,” starring Randall Park and Melissa Fumero.

Most of us are painfully aware that food costs in the past year have risen. A survey by The Hartman Group found that 85% of consumers feel the pinch in their pocketbook. Over half of those people say rising prices have impacted their ability to purchase foods, beverages and other grocery items “at least somewhat.” Nearly 1 in 4 report they’ve “really had to rethink how they shop for groceries.”