In 2020, a nondescript TraveLodge at 130 E. Holt Avenue in Pomona, California permanently shut down. The…
On September 21, 2004, a United Airlines flight from London to Washington D.C. was diverted to Bangor…
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“I love the relationship that anyone has with music: because there’s something in us that is beyond the…
In 1981, 16-year old Frank Black (real name Charles Thompson, aka Black Francis) was vacationing in…
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