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Paramore performing during the This Is Why Tour

"Running Out of Time" is a song by the American rock band Paramore (pictured). It was released on May 23, 2023, by Atlantic Records as the fourth single from the band's sixth studio album This Is Why (2023). Hayley Williams, Taylor York, and Zac Farro wrote the song in the early stages of the album's production, and Carlos de la Garza produced it. The band premiered the song at a concert at the Grand Ole Opry on February 7, 2023, and performed it on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on February 14. Described by critics as a pop-rock and dance-rock song, "Running Out of Time" deals with time management and comments on social anxieties over death, aging, and losing friends. Williams said the song was influenced by her personal struggle with punctuality and her friendship with Taylor Swift. Critics positively reviewed the song, praising its lyrics as playful and its composition as well-balanced. The song peaked on several international charts in 2023 and ranked on Billboard's year-end Alternative Airplay chart. (Full article...)

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Albert Marco was an Italian-born bootlegger and pimp active in Los Angeles during the American Prohibition era. Born around 1887, he immigrated into the United States in the early 20th century and became involved in crime in Nevada and Washington before moving to Southern California. Protected by political connections, Marco made large profits from liquor smuggling and prostitution, and was linked to figures including Charles H. Crawford and Max "Boo Hoo" Hoff. In 1928 he was arrested after shooting two men at the Ship Cafe in Venice, Los Angeles. Convicted of assault with a deadly weapon, he was sent to San Quentin State Prison, and was eventually deported to Italy. This photograph, showing Marco at the police station with blood stains, was captured on a glass-plate negative by a Los Angeles Times photographer the morning after a Ship Cafe shooting.

Photograph credit: unidentified Los Angeles Times photographer; restored by Adam Cuerden

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