Valenzuela Game Show Fails
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Valenzuela Game Show Fails

From “Wheel of Fortune” to Local Gaffes: The Stumbles on Valenzuela’s Stages The Polo Park Mall “Spin the Wheel” Promo Disaster A mall in Polo Park hosts a promotional game show event. A giant wheel offers prizes from detergent to a TV. A contestant spins with gusto. The wheel spins… and spins… and then, due …

Pateros’ Great Sardines Shortage Panic: The High-Speed Rumor Mill, The Frenzied Rush for Stockpiling, and the Profound, Existential Dread of Running Out of Tins
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Pateros’ Great Sardines Shortage Panic: The High-Speed Rumor Mill, The Frenzied Rush for Stockpiling, and the Profound, Existential Dread of Running Out of Tins

An Examination of the Community-Wide Reaction When a Basic Staple Becomes an Endangered Commodity and the Unexpected Rise of Tinned Fish Bartering The Fragile Equilibrium of the PantryIn Pateros, the stability of the domestic economy and, indeed, the very social order, rests precariously on one staple item: the tinned sardine. Thus, the mere rumor of …