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Frankenstein is yours, after work today I’ll look what else I have.

He does, I work there and he does a lot of work for our alumni fundraising.

He's got a house on the lake and he was there a lot last summer.

When I was a little girl around 2000 my parents and I lived at chesterfield apartments and my mom and me would walk over and watch movies all the time 😭

Allen Ross visit his soundcloud page here

Joe Terry of Skeletons fame

Chappell Roan is really starting to take off

Agreed. It’s prime real estate at one of the major intersections in the city. Of course it’s going to get developed. As you said the way developers and the city handled relations with the local neighborhood FUBARed the entire project before it even started.

Would it be useful to have more of a "Where should I NOT get my hair cut as a trans man?" kind of post?

I would hope (might be very wrong) that there is a decent expectation if you walk into most places in town, especially the chains, that they wouldn't bat an eye. But are there any actually trans hostile places?

I say this as a Cis man who would then for sure NOT patronize those places.

Does Bruno Mars is gay?

I feel like the politics here with regards to development is a bunch of greedy developers vs a bunch of selfish NIMBYs.

Like the University Heights development: the Sunshine/National intersection is a TERRIBLE place to have a house because of all the traffic. (Source: Me. I lived two blocks from that intersection for three years.)

But also, the developers have ignored the neighborhood and just tried to bulldoze their way through.

Ugh.

I miss $2 movies, I had a lot of fun cheap dates there

Buffalo Springfield

I ended up going to Springfield 11 now because they have a deal that for $20 a month you can see 3 movies a week and it includes the imax and 3d.

Watch Center of Nowhere and it will give you the lowdown on the showdown.

They do, and they have better projection and a much better selection of movies than Springfield 11. But that program is less generous than A-List. You have to book reservations directly through Alamo on their website, and they don't waive online convenience fees. So you can't collect Fandango rewards, and you're still paying about $2 per ticket on top of the monthly membership fee. Alamo also doesn't include premium formats, so if you want to see something in 3D, that's an additional $2. You can make reservations only 7 days or less in advance, whereas AMC doesn't have a time limitation. It's a more restrictive program than A-List, and when you factor in both the lost rewards and ticket fees, it's really a much more expensive program for someone who is seeing a lot of movies. Since I don't particularly love the Alamo experience, the only major upside of their program is the better selection of movies. However, with A-List you can book everything through Fandango and then use VIP rewards to purchase discount tickets to Alamo screenings of things that aren't playing at Springfield 11. For example, if you used a VIP reward to go catch something at Alamo on a Tuesday, then you would pay only around $4 for that ticket ($2 more than if you had Alamo Season Pass), and you'd get back $1.25 credit towards your next $5 VIP reward. So, the value of Alamo Season Pass is pretty questionable, even for someone who prefers Alamo.

I miss when there were good movies coming out worth seeing. Tbh I only want to go local now at The Moxie, tickets are only $10 anyways and it’s such a fun experience. They play the fun artsy stuff that I can enjoy and not another reboot, sequel, or rehash of a movie that came out 3 months earlier and you can’t tell which movie is ripping each other off. Movies suck right now tbh, I miss 2019 movies

Sheryl Crow

It's a PAC funded by the Springfield Chamber of Commerce since they can't directly donate to candidates themselves. Hooray for dark money in local politics.

There’s a band called T.R.O.Y they’re from pleasant hope but they call Springfield their home now they’ve been on MTV a few times for battle of the bands and even won some

What's this "Good Government Committee" thing that's endorsing like half the candidates? is it a PAC?

I'm reminded of an old SNL skit with Paul Simon. He makes a deal with the devil to become a star and in the final scene as a little old man he steps onto an elevator and there's the devil. As the doors close The Boxer plays on Muzak in the background and he says 'I'm ready'. "oh Paul," the devil responds with maniacal laughter, "we're already here!".

I'm old/young enough to have experienced the summer movie program where your parents would pay like some super cheap price for a package of movie tickets. They then took you during the week days of the summer to see movies that were usually a few years old at that point. First theatre was the one on Battlefield where Play it Again Sports is now when I was in elementary school and later it moved to the Palace after that closed when my brother was in elementary school.

Having to pick between 2 developers for that open seat is going to be like picking a giant douche or a turd sandwich.

With how badly the recent development projects have been managed from a communications and public relations standpoint, no matter your position on the developments themselves, it's hard to see how McClure can make any case he should get another term. Time for much of the city council to go for fresh ideas. That's even ignoring the fact he's already been mayor for 6 years and needs to move on for someone new.