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While Hemisfair was viewed as a win for the city's business establishment, a now-forgotten pavilion operating under the World's Fair banner that was anything but establishment — especially for the time.

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Parties of multiple kinds were at the heart of the Current's most-read stories of the week.

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The flamboyant Market Square fixture was placed in hospice care earlier this month.

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Meltdown-prone Sen. Ted Cruz went ballistic again — and this time someone called the cops.

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The flamboyant 76-year-old performer was hospitalized in January after a COVID-19 infection.

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