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Closing This Weekend

Closing This Weekend

We were hoping to use last week's writer Happy Hour meeting as an opportunity to get Tankboy drunk enough gently convince our fellow writers to check out some theatre for us, but apparently they have lots of other things to write about like "news" and "politics." Had we not run out of money for shots been more persuasive, here's what we would've sent them to see: more ›

Site of Dillinger’s Last Bank Robbery on the Auction Block

Site of Dillinger’s Last Bank Robbery on the Auction Block

Just in time to cash in on the opening of “Public Enemies” this week, the site of John Dillinger’s last bank robbery shootout in South Bend, Indiana is up for sale. The historic State Theatre formerly known as the Blackstone Theatre Vaudeville House still bears bullet marks from the over 100 bullets that flew during gunfight between police and Dillinger’s gang in the 1934 robbery of Merchant Bank. The shootout left one police officer dead and eight people wounded as the gang made off with $30,000. more ›

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