Homeless, alcoholic, and depressed, Michael King lives in a UPS loading bay on the wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon. One rainy night, he stumbles upon a hurt, starving, scruffy cat and takes her in. Nursing her back to health, he names her Tabor and she becomes a bit of a celebrity in southeast Portland. When winter comes, they travel from Oregon to the beaches of California to the high plains of Montana, surviving blizzards and bears,...

"It's 2026, and Rally is thirteen years old. The long, hot Louisiana summer looms before him like a face-melting stretch of blacktop, and the country is talking civil war while his adoptive family acts more vicious than ever. Rally spends his days wondering about his dead father's people, the Woolsacks of West Florida, who long ago led a failed rebellion to carve their own state from the swamp and sugar-sand of the coast. That family might have been...

A break is a musical interlude during a song, and the dance style called breaking or b-boying on the streets began in the 1970s in (arguably), the Bronx, NY. DJ Kool Herc noticed that when he played break beats between songs, dancers reacted with their most impressive dance moves. He christened those dancers "b-boys" and "b-girls" or "break-boys" and "break-girls." The Black and Latino communities of NYC invented early hip-hop dance styles known variously...

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