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The setting of McPherson’s play is a flophouse in Depression-era Duluth, Minn., the port city where Dylan was born in 1941.
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
Opened two years ago from what essentially was a snowboarder flophouse, Basecamp has now expanded, buying and razing another rundown motor court, adding 24 rooms (74 in all), meeting spaces and a hot tub large enough for the entire Swedish ski team to take a soak.
—Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
At the east end of Great Jones Street lay the Bowery, a once-reputable boulevard that had become a notorious thoroughfare lined with brothels, beer gardens, flophouses and pawn shops.
—Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
The film captured the city’s most explosive bands tearing up their stages and flophouses, making Spheeris the poet laureate of disenchanted young Los Angeles.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
Opened two years ago from what essentially was a snowboarder flophouse, Basecamp has now expanded, buying and razing another rundown motor court, adding 24 rooms (74 in all), meeting spaces and a hot tub large enough for the entire Swedish ski team to take a soak.
—Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
At the east end of Great Jones Street lay the Bowery, a once-reputable boulevard that had become a notorious thoroughfare lined with brothels, beer gardens, flophouses and pawn shops.
—Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
The film captured the city’s most explosive bands tearing up their stages and flophouses, making Spheeris the poet laureate of disenchanted young Los Angeles.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
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Blackpool, sweeping the planks of his mother’s boardinghouse while listening to a staticky radio broadcast.Chloe Schama, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
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After resorting to desperate measures by burning down a boardinghouse and stealing money and a palomino horse, Tom and Polly set out for San Francisco.Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
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The former University of Kentucky student who was seen on viral video unleashing a tirade of racial slurs against a Black student who was working at a dormitory front desk has been sentenced to a year in prison, a Fayette County Circuit Court clerk confirms to PEOPLE.KC Baker, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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Several of them interviewed by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel described their housing as a crowded, stifling hot dormitory plagued with insects.Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2024
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The residents of the dorm room were home at the time, smelled smoke and went to investigate.Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2024
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The Basile facility quarantined the dorm where the Chinese migrant was housed and conducted tests of the detainees in that dorm for drug-resistant tuberculosis.Louis Casiano, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2024
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In all three races, critics who cited smash-and-grab robberies, open drug dealing at homeless encampments and other unlawful trends, said the leaders were too soft on crime.Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
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The investigation concluded there was little to no discipline regarding encampments and building takeovers at schools including Northwestern, Berkeley, and Rutgers.Arthur Jones II, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2024
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“Flophouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flophouse. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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