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Early voting ends with nearly 4% of Midland voters casting their ballots early
MIDLAND COUNTY, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) - Early voting has officially come to an end, with all eyes now on Election Day on Saturday. The City of Midland said 3.8% of more than 75,000 registered voters within the city have cast a ballot in the special election for the empty At-Large Midland City Council seat. Early voting []
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Good Times: Black Again Isn’t As Bad As Its Trailer — But It Also Isn’t Good
There isn’t a show out right now that’s more offensive than Good Times: Black Again — Netflix’s new animated series reboot of the 1970s classic sitcom Good Times — and that’s saying a lot considering Zeus Network is still actively in business and cranking out almost exclusively aggressive and exploitative content, like the reality TV franchise Baddies. After the Good Times reboot trailer dropped, immediate backlash ensued. If the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) was any indication, most...
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In Jane Smiley's rock 'n' roll novel, does good sense make good fiction?
Toward the end of Jane Smiley’s new novel, “Lucky,” its narrator takes a moment to flip through her mother’s record collection. It’s got a lot of ’60s folk-rock, including, she notes, “the four J’s.” Presumably she means artists like Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins and Janis Ian. But maybe one of the J’s is the narrator herself — Jodie Rattler, a moderately famous singer with a knack for writing melancholy love songs. “Lucky” is framed as a rock ’n' roll novel, but it’s a tricky and...