The NBA’s long held connection with the glitz of Hollywood, bright lights of Times Square and mocha-colored tan lines of South Beach is giving way to the blue-collar and middle class of Midwestern American markets.
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Point: Streetcar route a beginning
The framework for Phase 1 of the streetcar system has now been approved. This initial route will connect civic treasures, institutions, major employers and new housing downtown, reinforcing the significant economic engine that drives sales tax revenue benefiting our entire city. In addition, we are in the process of acquiring the historic Santa Fe Depot […]
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The Aquabats! Super Show! Season One! 2012
A surf-rock band I recall running across in the mid-1990s, The Aquabats have been reborn as superheroes in these utterly insane adventures, drawing more influence from ’70s-era Asian monster matinees à la Infra-Man than anything else. In each half-hour, our costumed quintet fights some rubber-suited creature (Manant and the Floating Eye of Death among them), […]
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Sierra Club kudos
Credit: Brad Gregg But we all know the list America has been waiting for … Best civic infrastructure, of course! Oklahoma City’s Santa Fe Intermodal Station has edged out the Gangnam Style Boardwalk, the Binders Full of Women Carpool Lane and the Claire Danes Cryface Light Rail to become the No. 1 transportation project of […]
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Back to the future
Doug Tennant, senior planner and project manager at Jacobs (the consultant for the hub plan), walked the council through the winnowing process that started with 10, and later three, potential sites. right Sketched plans for the forthcoming hub “The Santa Fe site was absolutely head and shoulders above the other two,” Tennant said. “Some people […]