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Lopez, who is from Los Angeles, serves as the spokesman for his hometown??€™s Stop the Violence program and has served as a longtime advocate against youth violence. He has also been recognized by his community for his work on behalf of earthquake victims in Latin America, and his charity, The George and Ann Lopez-Richie Alarcon Care Foundation...
Despite an impressive touring resume that has taken him to Japan, London, Pittsburgh and Houston, Jackiw opted to stay close to his hometown??€”Boston—for college...
...everyone has to pay through the nose for glamour shots, though—at least one first-year who wishes to remain unnamed had her studio shots done for free, one of the perks of being crowned her hometown??€™s Miss Chinatown...
...Washington’s Birthday—two of the other holidays the Uniform Holidays Bill shifted to Mondays—Veterans’ Day had become disassociated from its namesake, and had irrevocably become associated instead with brief vacations and department store sales. This is why my hometown??€™s parade feels insufficient: it is too modest a recognition of veterans on the day that bears their name, too brief an interval before we rush to the mall to take advantage of holiday sales...
...hometown??€™s Veterans’ Day parade is a poignant affair, like a Norman Rockwell painting without quite enough people to fill the frame. It is sparsely attended—my coastal town’s population shrinks drastically in the off-season—and as the high school band director eschews John Philip Sousa unfestive music in minor keys ricochets between the shuttered storefronts. There seem to be fewer veterans every year. Their absence is poorly disguised by the addition of more boy scouts. Bystanders shift from foot to foot, filling the gaps between cub scout...