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Most customers are walk-ins, mainly students who are looking for a low-priced manicure, but sometimes even tourists stopping to get their nails touched up. Word of mouth has helped, Nguyen says, as students learn of the Square’s first discount shop specializing in nails...
...Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich's best-selling book about her experiences as a minimum-wage worker, into a stage play. The result is an episodic but incisive series of vignettes about the impossibility of making ends meet while waiting tables in Florida, scrubbing toilets in Maine and stocking discount-store shelves in Minnesota. Nickel & Dimed has its deficiencies as drama, but it's a rare example of theater that tries to open people's eyes to the way life is lived in the real world--and maybe even rouse them to action. Midway through the second act, the actors...
...sort of band reunion ... and we're all getting on just fine, so I wouldn't ever discount a return to the original four members at some point — DAMON ALBARN
...ballad for the good times," and Coxon's spacey guitar loops tell you just what he means. Could this song foretell the future? "We had a sort of band reunion at Alex's wedding," says Albarn, "and we're all getting on just fine, so I wouldn't ever discount a return to the original four members at some point." So maybe instead of a divorce, Think Tank is a musical souvenir of a much-needed trial separation...
...Miller is at least 26 years away from getting his senior discount at the movies. And yet he can explain--and enjoys explaining--the minutiae of Social Security survivor benefits and how a senior can take advantage of a national free-eye-exam program. Every day, working as a one-man operation from his home office in Norman, Okla., Miller responds to queries from seniors and their friends and relatives on issues affecting the elderly. Crafting this into a nationally syndicated column, aptly dubbed "Savvy Senior," Miller provides information in a fun, folksy manner, sparing readers legalese...