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...drinkers can sober up by cutting themselves off and also by chowing down, slowing their bodies’ alcohol absorption. More heads up on the deal after the jump. With 150-ish facebook event RSVP's, students should expect a crowd. Barring a Lamont/Felipe’s-style riot, though, DAPA and b.good are looking to continue their newfound partnership. "Every couple weeks we are planning on doing some great late-night or pre-drinking-time deals at b.good,” says Zeller. “Future deals won't be quite as extravagant, but they will...
This featureless quality of the new album’s soundscape is especially bizarre given the experience the boys were racking up on hiatus. After releasing their two studio albums—“Quiet Is the New Loud” and “Riot on an Empty Street”—as well as a remix compilation featuring high-profile guest artists like Four Tet and Ladytron, the two friends parted ways for a few years to pursue other priorities. Øye packed his bottle-cap glasses and scruff aesthetic off to Berlin, where...
...brutal attack on worker's rights. They charge that Calderón targeted the electricity union for backing his political adversaries and protesting against his free-market policies, and accuse him of seeking only unions that are weak and loyal to the government. The deployment of thousands of riot police to inform his writ underscored such criticism. "The police and military assault on the electricity workers is a serious setback in the precarious democratic life of our country," wrote columnist Luis Hernández Navarro in the daily La Jornada. "It establishes a nefarious precedent, taking us back...
After Zelaya told the Miami Herald earlier this week that the Micheletti government was "threatening me with death" and that "Israeli mercenaries" were trying to zap him with high-frequency radiation, Brazil admonished him to soften his rhetoric. But after army and police riot squads were criticized at home and abroad this week for their heavy-handed use of clubs, tear gas and mass arrests, Zelaya still argues, "We came here for dialogue and they answer us with war. Since the coup this has become a violently repressive regime." Micheletti supporters, however, suggest that's part of Zelaya's strategy...
...first order to disperse went out, marchers slowed and chanted their defiance, but also retreated to regroup and then ran into another line of riot-ready cops and police vehicles as they neared an alternate route - the first of several direct avenues to the summit site they tried. This time, the dispersal order was followed by smoke, then two canisters of OC - Oleoresin of capsicum, that is, pepper spray. Both were kicked back at police. A small protester contingent rolled a Dumpster down the steep hill, which hit something with a boom, although it was hard to see through...