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"In 2018 Owens bought the half-century-old Banks Street Bar, a dive bar and music venue across the street from Mid City Pizza and in the same building where he first started slinging slices; in August 2022 employees commandeered the bar’s Instagram to chronicle a staff-wide firing by new management, prompting local support and disappointment for the workers, and the bar remains open." - Clair Lorell