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The greater Los Angeles office rental market started the year with a turbulent first quarter and historically high vacancies as tenant demand was persistently soft in spite of more robust return-to-office policies coming from managers.

Dressed in a form-fitting Nudie-style suit in spite of the 100-degree heat, Shaboozey brought an hour of country music to Coachella on Sunday afternoon, two weeks before he’s booked for the festival’s country cousin, Stagecoach.

Manufacturing jobs, though far outnumbered by hospitality jobs, still pay much more—in spite of the GOP’s efforts to crush unions, worker protections, and so on.

To be joyful, to laugh, to stay quirky in spite of everything, is a supreme act of defiant survival.

In spite of a recent backlash, the rise of more inclusive YA has felt every bit as much like a seismic shift as “The Hunger Games” did back in the day.