Michelle Macareno serves up plates of veal parmesan and spaghetti with meatballs to lunch customers at Colichia's Italian Village in Groves. Dave Ryan/cat5 The menu: boasts a fine collection of classic Sicilian favorites. In case you haven't heard,
It has slightly less sweetness that some of the super-agressive IPAs have (120 Minute, etc), an equal alcohol presence, much less hop profile, but replaces the majority of that hop profile with dark, roasted malty goodness.
Groves of navel oranges dot the arid, brush-covered landscape. Candace's husband, Tom Spiel, came here to sell hamburgers. A Chicagoan by birth, he fell into a job at McDonald's the really old-fashioned way: in 1962, a family friend introduced him to
Orangefield basketball team taking it "two minutes at a time" for fallen ...
Levi Shores' legs were trembling as he stood at the free throw line on Tuesday night at the Orangefield High School gym.
The Orangefield basketball player had missed his first five free throws in the game. And he had made only one of his six warmup free throws at halftime.
Now, he needed two in a row to win and send his team to a play-in game tonight.
"Bro, can you help me out here?" Shores looked up and asked Grey Smith , one of his best friends who had died in a car accident in September at age 17.
Shores had last seen Grey about five hours before he died, when Grey dropped him off after they ate at McDonald's. His last words to him were "see you later."
The Bobcats had made it this far for Grey and Shores didn't want to be the one to let him down.
As Shores prepared to shoot, Grey's father Jack sat in the top corner of the gym alone, wearing an orange pullover and talking to Grey as well.
"Grey, if you have any pull up there, your buddy needs your help," Jack said.
