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Grapevine restaurant cancels drag act from New Year’s Eve bash after social-media rage
BY BUD "LIBTARD" KENNEDY
UPDATED DECEMBER 30, 2023 11:25 AM
A Grapevine restaurant canceled a drag act from its New Year’s Eve party program, citing a need for safety after an onslaught of complaints on social media. Piaf Kitchen + Wine + Bar had promoted a “drag show” Dec. 31 as part of a circus act at a premium-priced party that also will include a fire thrower, a magician, a palm reader, dinner, music and a DJ. The restaurant posted Friday on social media, the lineup was changed, “For the safety of our Performers, and Staff, and for a pleasurable experience for our Guests … to ensure a more universally enjoyable and safe experience for everyone.” Piaf had been the target of hundreds of online complaints after ads for the $75-$150 event including “drag entertainers” were circulated Thursday on social media. One post came from Julie McCarty, leader of the Grapevine-based True Texas Project tea party group.
“Heads up, Grapevine,” McCarty wrote: “Who/What will be strolling our beautiful downtown, and how will they be dressed? … This is not the atmosphere we want in Grapevine.” McCarty also criticized Piaf for hosting a palm reader. After Piaf changed plans, McCarty wrote in a new post: “Victory! Victory! … Way to go citizens and city council! And thank you to Piaf’s for hearing our concern.”
Local actor Ryan Matthieu Smith is the “disco party” circus director and one of the performers. He wrote in an online message that he has been producing Piaf’s New Year’s Eve party for two years and that this year’s show included two entertainers in drag singing and doing comedy, along with acrobats. U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, was among commenters defending Piaf. On Facebook, he called the event a “grown folks New Year’s Eve party.” “Just tell the easily offended to not come,” he wrote. “And why is Palm Reading offensive?”
https://www.star-telegram.com/entertainment/restaurants/eats-beat/article283667663.html
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A 17-year-old foreign exchange student is missing in Utah; Chinese parents get ransom note
Kai Zhuang of China was officially declared missing Friday, and police say they have “reason to believe” that he is “being held against his will."
Police are looking for a 17-year-old foreign exchange student who went missing Thursday from the home he was sharing with his host family in Utah, police say.
The teen was last seen at about 3:30 a.m. local time in Riverdale, about 30 miles north of Salt Lake City, according to the Utah Department of Public Safety.
Kai Zhuang of China was officially declared missing Friday, and police have “reason to believe” that Zhuang is “being held against his will," police have told media outlets. The department did not immediately respond to request for comment from USA TODAY on Friday.
Kai is described as 5 feet, 6 inches tall, 150 pounds with black hair and dark eyes. It's unclear what he was wearing when he was last seen, police say he often wears a green jacket.
Police decided to send out an endangered missing person advisory early Friday after the department received a call from Kai's high school saying they'd heard from the teen's parents in China.
The couple claimed to have received a photo of their son along with a ransom letter, Riverdale Police Chief Casey Warren said in a press conference held Friday.
Officers contacted the host family who were unaware the teen was missing, he said.
Warren said there is no evidence to suggest that Kai was taken from his home by force, contradicting a previous statement from police that “officers have reason to believe (Kai) has been forcefully taken from his home and is being held against his will.”
An Amber Alert for Kai wasn't issued because there is no suspect yet in the case, Warren said.
Riverdale police are working with the FBI, the U.S. Embassy in China and Chinese officials to bring the missing teen home.
"At this point, the information we have is very limited," Warren said.
Anyone with information is being asked to call Riverdale police at 801-394-6616 or Weber County dispatch at 801-395-8221.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/29/missing-foreign-exchange-student-kai-zhuang-riverdale-utah/72062942007/
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>Everyone remembers that.
You must pretty knowledgeable to know that everyone remembers that, anon. Please bless us with moar of your esteemed intellect.
September 9th, 2001
Supposedly died two days later on flight 77
she wasn't far off in her prediction
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Possible that she is under witness protection with new identity as Lady Booth remarried to man she supposedly widowed?
Nah that's just crazy, right?
Dear Being Mindless is sad,
Maybe you should have budgeted moar than one hundred twenty dollars for your dear daughter's education. That kind of money just won't go very far these days.
Sincerely,
Anon
>Nope. He did not say.
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It's in globals here
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Caller predicts Barbara Olson's death two days later.
"You're not gonna survive too long. You got too much hate and the devil in you."
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