Word: storefronts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current popularity is a welcome reverse; only a few years ago, she thought that "I was going to die in obscurity." Reared in rural Calvin Center, Michigan, where she performed in storefront churches, she ventured to Los Angeles and got her first break -- and first name change, to Gaby Lee -- warbling love songs at a faux-Parisian nightclub called the Moulin Rouge. She was later dubbed Abbey Lincoln, after the 16th President, by a manager who quipped, "Old Abe didn't really free the slaves, but maybe...
...Pirus. (Black Crips and Bloods gangs, now nationwide, got their start in Los Angeles in the early '70s.) The bonding ritual was a subadolescent mumbo jumbo of slogans and hand signs, like those used by adult fraternal groups. Car theft, drug selling and smash-and-grab robbery (smash a storefront with a car, wait for the glass to settle, and grab the goods) were agreeable moneymakers, but what gave the Crips their legends and their heroes were drive-by shootings in Bloods territory, to avenge real or fancied dissing -- slights to the gang's code of honor...
...Carvalho and Trinity Property Management, the landlord of the storefront, are appealing the board's decision in court...
...landlord of the storefront wedged between Bruegger's Bagels and Christy's alleges that the defense fund is being selective in trying to block the opening of the fast food bake shop...
Barron complains of widespread sanitation and aesthetic problems from the homeless using his storefront as a bathroom...