Sorry to see this in the City Paper. So many elegant ways to deal with slippery pronouns and situations, including the use of plural nouns and pronouns. Accepting "they" as plural is lazy, even if defensible in narrow circumstances, leads to to un-sharp writing. Period. I don't say this as a traditionalist, but as someone who thinks hard about editing options and narrative voice. See Sin and Syntax for more of *my* thoughts on this...
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