PHOENIX – The lights of Boycott Bar’s patio switched on, and married couple Marley DeGroodt and Jocy Suarez, two of the bar’s employees, immediately jumped in to help as Briana Brown wheeled in her first load of donations from her parked SUV.

That was the official start of the bar’s community food drive at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Working together in the pink and purple glow of the bar’s neon signs and to the sounds of Britney Spears and late ’90s and early 2000s pop hits, DeGroodt and Suarez hustled over and helped unpack and organize the four large plastic tubs of nonperishables from the center of the concrete bar floor.

Within half an hour, a growing collection of donated groceries was amassed on Boycott Bar’s stage and sprawled across the black wooden booths that lined the interior gray bric

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