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Meet the Exotic Dancer Who Went Undercover to Take Down Domestic Terrorists

Exotic-dancer-turned-undercover-agent-1 - Credit: Thomas Ingersoll*She was a mom of two who’d gone from cocktail waitress to dancer to pay the bills. A cop’s daughter who’d always harbored dreams of fighting crime. And, for four and a half years, a confidential informant who helped the feds bring down a white supremacist behind a 2004 Scottsdale, Arizona, bombing that maimed a Black...

She left Birmingham for entertainment industry, now wants to ensure others don’t have to

This is an opinion column.She’s still that little girl on the couch. On the couch in West End. Kristena Hatcher was an only child. Leonard, her father, and entrepreneur committed to building a legacy for his family with his Automotive Service Center, now open for more than four decades. Patricia, her mother, a corporate accountant, was buttoned up and polished.Kristena...

Pop iconoclast Rina Sawayama: ‘Drag is turning trauma into entertainment. That’s what I’m doing’ | Music

I’m not sure exactly what I expected the hyper-glam, gleefully camp indie-popstar Rina Sawayama’s opening gambit to be, but it’s safe to say it wasn’t an update on her current mortgage rate. “It went from 1.4 to 3-point-something,” she tells me incredulously, moments after I enter the glass terrace of the London members’ club where she is eating breakfast. The...