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Yahoo
22-03-2025
- Entertainment
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MeowMeowz Brings Rockin' Retail to Pasadena
For the past 15 years, Pasadena has been home to one of the coolest alternative spaces in town– a retail and live music hub called MeowMeowz that harkens back to the indie spirit of Melrose Avenue in its heyday. Owned by punk /goth music lover Veronika Sorrow, the colorful shop was inspired by stores of the past that outfitted L.A.'s rocker set long before the internet made edgy fashion easily accessible with just a click. From band t-shirts to jewelry, sunglasses to patches and buttons, Sorrow, who's originally from Alhambra and went to Pasadena City College, has accumulated a vintage oasis that in many ways is a dying breed. 'It's a homage to Retail Slut,' says Sorrow, referencing the famed punk shop where L.A. got its spiked belts and crazy color hair dye in the 80's and 90's. 'We're new and vintage clothing focusing on retro 80s fashion… I'm trying to recreate that experience of shopping in the past.'Not a square inch in the store is wasted in that pursuit. Posters –many from Sorrow's childhood– swathe the walls and ceiling, stickers cover counters and racks are packed with curated clothing and an ample stock of t-shirts designed by Sorrow, many of which mesh old with new. A recent design featured a cat meme juxtaposed with the logo of UK legends Siouxsie and The Banshees. Sorrow is in a Siouxsie tribute band herself. And speaking of cats, they are everywhere– a winking green cat head is the store mascot and logo. They've been hosting band performances in the store since it opened, and it's become a true 'scene' especially for young music fans and acts who can't go to clubs. While punk rock makes sense aesthetically, Sorrow says the store environment necessitates less aggressive genres like emo, indie and alt-rock. 'As much as we love heavier music, we don't have the space, and the kids want to come and mosh,' she says of her weekly Friday and Saturday night shows, which are alcohol-free and cost $8, with bands getting paid for their draws. 'We do rock n' roll but not anything harcore.'They also host other types of events like book signings. With the 80's resurgence alive and well in Pasadena via the Cruel World Festival at the Rose Bowl and over at The Mixx nightclub, Meowz is another Pasadena destination for those who love alternative culture. They've even hosted new wave icon book signings recently including Dale Bozzio, lead singer of Missing Persons signing her biography, Life is So Strange, and Lol Tolhurst of The Cure signing his tome about gothic culture. Those who know about MeowMeowz come back again and again, but Sorrow says her store is still sort of a best kept secret, too, which she'd like to change. 'Every day someone comes in and asks me how long I've been here and says they never heard of it or they've been driving by for years and just noticed us,' she says, somewhat flabbergasted. 'Every day!' But she adds that those same people also tell her they are glad she's still around and keeping the original flashback culture alive, too, via both the merchandise she carries and the live music she books. 'Most people who come in and say that end up being customers for life.' MeowMeowz, 2423 E Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Saturday, March 22, local singer/songwriter Solvei Schou and Modern Time Machines perform live starting at 8 p.m. More info here. This story originally appeared in sister publication, .
Yahoo
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
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How to unlock the Barrow-Dyad exotic in Destiny 2
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. We knew Barrow-Dyad was coming, but even so, this is a surprise. Bungie revealed the new exotic Strand SMG in a preview stream before last week's launch of Destiny 2's new episode, Heresy. What nobody expected was just how it would arrive in the game—as part of an elaborate secret quest culminating in a new exotic mission, Derealize. That mission is available now, with Heresy's week two reset, but first you'll need to actually find it. Unlocking Derealize, and thus earning Barrow-Dyad, can be pretty involved—especially if you don't know where to go. Here then, I'll lay out all the steps you have to follow to unlock the mission, as well as a few tips to bear in mind when you run it. There's no quest marker to follow just yet—this is the bit that Bungie left players to find for themselves. To start the quest that will eventually unlock the Derealize exotic mission, you need to head to Heresy's new Nether activity. Once you've landed on the Dreadnaught, you're looking for a Taken blight. For me this was the most annoying step of the entire thing—there should be a blight in each area, but sometimes it just wouldn't appear where it was supposed to spawn. In the end, the one that spawned for me was in the Hall of Souls, in the room facing the central plinth—the one you load into when launching the King's Fall raid. Based on what other players have said, there's also one in the Mausoleum, along the right-side wall when you turn around from the spawn position. And in the Trenchway, near where the Taken wizard event triggers to the left of spawn. This latter one seemed very inconsistent for me. In the end, I just reloaded the activity until I landed in the Hall of Souls. Once you've found the Blight, jump into it. You'll spawn into a new room with an energy barrier down the middle. Step onto the plate on the floor, and face the direction of the symbol that appears on the barrier. In the bottom-left corner of the screen, your message feed will tell you a direction. For me, the barrier displayed an eye symbol and the message read "Something whispers to the right…" Keep looking at the symbol and move off the plate in the direction you're given—in my case strafing right. This teleported me to the other side of the barrier, where a collectible sits on a pedestal. Grab the collectible—a Taken Osseous Fragment—and return to orbit. Head to Eris's apartment in The Last City, and over to the Shaping Slab. This will give you a new quest, The Taken Path. Your first step is to unlock and equip the Scotopic Rune in the Shaping Slab's Runic Enhancement menu. This costs Sigil Shards and requires you to be at Nether Enhancement Level 2 to equip—meaning you may need to farm some Nether completions if you aren't yet able to fulfil the criteria. Once the Scotopic Rune is equipped, it's time to collect more Taken Osseous Fragments. The quest first directs you to Sorrow's Harbor on the Moon. Head to the K1 Lost Sector, which will be suspiciously empty of enemies. Find the Taken dome about halfway through the Lost Sector, and shoot the small blight above it. Inside the dome was the same plate puzzle as before. Step on and face the symbol, and then step off in the direction you're given. Taken will now spawn. Kill them to reveal a new fragment. The next step of the quest takes place in the Cosmodrome's Forgotten Shore. Enter the Veles Labyrinth Lost Sector—again, it's quiet in there. Walk through the cavernous maze until you arrive at another dome, and shoot the blight above it. This time you'll need to move through a sequence of portal plates—once again always stepping on the plate, looking at the symbol nearby, and stepping off in the direction you're given. Surprise! Another bunch of Taken have spawned. Kill them off—you'll need to work backwards through the Lost Sector and through the maze section again—and you'll reveal another Taken Osseous Fragment. It's back to the Shaping Slab now, where you'll be given three new quests: Curse of Endurance, Curse of Urgency and Curse of Revenge. For each one, you'll need to travel to a specific location or activity, and pick up a Taken artifact. When you grab the artifact, a timer will start counting down—but it can be refreshed with every enemy you kill with the artifact. Eventually you'll need to dunk the artifact in the marked location—usually after the associated activity's completion. Here's the rundown of each specific quest: Curse of Endurance: Head back to Sorrow's Harbor and you'll see a waypoint leading to the artifact near the entrance to the Scarlet Keep. Simply kill the enemies that spawn, and dunk the artifact at the marker given. This one completed for me automatically because a bunch of Guardians were already doing it when I loaded in. Curse of Urgency: This one's in the Hallowed Grove Lost Sector, near the Sludge landing zone in the EDZ. Here you'll grab the artifact, run through the Lost Sector and destroy a Taken barrier at the end using the artifact's super ability. The dunk spot is behind the barrier. Curse of Revenge: You'll find this one in Nightmare Hunt: Pride on the Moon, which takes you through Skolas's ship—the location of Destiny 1's first secret exotic mission. You'll find the artifact in the boss room, and you'll be able to dunk it once Nightmare Skolas is killed. To finish off the three curse quests, you need yet more Taken Osseous Fragments. This new set can be acquired through the Thrall statues you can now find in each zone in the Nether. When you interact with a statue it spawns a miniboss nearby. Kill the boss and the fragment will spawn back on the statue. Here's the location of the three statues I found: The Mausoleum: Jump down into the eldritch pit at the back of the room—where you fight the zone's boss. In the upper section, before you walk down the ramp to the boss arena, head to the left side—the statue is there. Trenchway: This one is near the event where you fight the two shielded Subjugators—on the left-hand side of the stairs if you look at the area from the platforms opposite. It can be hard to spot as it's shrouded in shadow. Hall of Souls: Look to your right from the spawn point and you should see it pretty easily. Do this three times—either as part of a full Nether run, or just reloading back into the Nether—and you'll finally be done. Now, in your director, in The Last City, you'll see the prompt to launch the new Derealize mission. You can see Esoterickk's runthrough of the mission above. It's reasonably simple as a combat challenge—there's no timer or revive limit here, and unlike in the Nether you do regenerate health normally. It's an easy one to complete solo, but there is one puzzle that can take some work to figure out. Derealize Hive symbol puzzle: After the first boss encounter, you'll be trapped in a space similar to the portal room that kicked off the whole quest. To escape this, you'll need to again do the plate-based teleportation puzzle that's been required throughout The Taken Path. This time there's a twist. When you step on the plate, a 10-second timer will start. When the timer hits zero, you'll be automatically teleported to a new room for 10 seconds. You'll travel between four rooms like this, before being returned to the start. Above the plate, this time you'll find a code of four symbols. The trick here is to only step off the plate in the corresponding direction if its symbol matches the next one in the code—reading it from left to right. If it matches, step off in that direction. If it doesn't, simply wait on the plate until the timer counts down and you're automatically teleported to the next room. From what I can tell the code remains the same for everyone: First symbol: In the first room, step right. Second symbol: In the third room, step forwards. Third symbol: In the second room (after one full cycle), step backwards Fourth symbol: In the fourth room (after one full cycle), step left. You'll know if you've done something right, because the code will remove any symbol you've correctly activated. If you mess up, it will instead reset and display the full code. If this happens, just wait. After you're teleported through all four rooms, you'll be taken back to the start to try again. Beyond that, you're really just repeating mechanics that you learned in the prelude to the quest itself—the main other thing to watch out for is the sealed green barrier during the mission's main jumping puzzle. You'll need to destroy three purple crystals to lower it. Eventually you'll end up at the boss room, where you'll finally unlock Barrow-Dyad. Then, when you defeat the boss, you'll be given a new quest to unlock the catalysts that are available to craft.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- General
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Monument honors about 450 Black people buried in unmarked graves in Taylor City Cemetery
TAYLOR — On a recent gray day with a cold wind blowing, Ernest Rector looked over a mostly empty plot of land dotted with a few headstones at the Taylor City Cemetery. The 96-year-old pointed to the tombstone of his grandfather, who was freed after being a slave. But Rector can't show where several of his other relatives are buried. An estimated 450 Black people are buried in unmarked graves in the northwest part of the Taylor City Cemetery that was segregated for African-Americans, said Morgan Cook, who runs the cemetery for the city. Those in unmarked graves often had temporary markers, including wooden crosses or small metal plaques from funeral homes, said Rector. "They didn't have the money to buy tombstones," he said. A monument to recognize the African Americans with unmarked graves buried from 1879 to 2023 was erected at the cemetery this fall. A dedication ceremony for it took place Saturday to kick off Black History Month, said Frances Sorrow, the president of the Taylor Conservation and Heritage Association. More: Group trying to locate where bodies buried in neglected, 131-year-old Black cemetery in Hutto Sorrow said Rector told her about the issue with the unmarked graves about three years ago, and she decided the association needed to do something about it. "It was the need to have that part of the cemetery recognized as a sacred burial ground because it looked like an empty field," she said. "I felt very strongly that I at least wanted people to know when they step on it, they are stepping on sacred ground." She said the association paid for the $6,000 monument with help from the Leo Livingston Fund, which was established to help nonprofits in Taylor. The city donated the part of the land in the cemetery where the monument, a black granite slab, is located. The slab is 3 feet high and 4 feet wide. Sorrow said she got support from the City Council for the project, especially Council Member Gerald Anderson. "It's important for me to give a marker to those that have gone unnoticed and forgotten for decades," said Anderson. "They say the dead do not rest until their grave is marked. Hopefully this will bring their souls some peace. … I feel this marker will also bring some respect and dignity to them as well." More: Volunteers to spend weekend cleaning Black cemetery in Hutto The top of the granite monument says "Historic African American Burial Section." The monument also says "In loving memory of our citizens whose memorials have been lost to time." The bottom of the slab has a Bible verse from 2 Samuel 1:23: "In life they were loved and admired and in death they were not parted." There are records that show the names of the people buried in the section for Black people whose markers have been lost to time, said Cook. He is putting the names in a database that people will be able to access online to find their ancestors. He already has developed a database of people buried in marked graves, which is accessible on the city website at The website also offers tours of the cemetery online. The cemetery at 1101 E. Fourth St. has about 19,000 people buried across 100 acres, said Cook. The city opened it in 1879, but it already had a few graves from the 1850's, he said. Rector said his grandfather, Jordan Elliot Rector, whose tombstone is in the cemetery, was born in 1857 as a slave on a plantation in the Manor area. After he was freed, he farmed on land in Jonah before moving to Taylor so his seven children could go to school there, said Rector. Rector said he was 14 when his grandfather died of cancer in 1943. The tombstone of his uncle, Pleas Monroe Rector, is also at the cemetery, Ernest Rector said. He said Pleas Rector fought in World War I but was gassed in the trenches of France and died as a result of his injuries in 1920. Ernest Rector said he likes the monument that the Taylor Conservation and Heritage Association erected at the cemetery for the Black people with unmarked graves, but wished it could have had the names of the people on it. Sorrow said there was not enough room on the monument to note them all. Rector, whose career has included being a manufacturing representative in California, said he worked at various jobs until he was 88. He has two sons. Rector says he still remembers growing up in Taylor and helping clear the waist-high grass from the African-American part of the Taylor cemetery because it wasn't mowed during segregation. When he dies, Rector said, he doesn't want to be buried at the City Cemetery. "I'm donating my body to science," he said, "so my family won't have any expense." This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Monument honors about 450 Black people in unmarked graves in Taylor
