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Fishin' for Evildoers on the Pacific Coastnew

The Alameda County Sheriff's Department believes it is the only county agency in the nation that defends its residents with a fully manned antiterrorist gunboat.
East Bay Express  |  Justin Berton  |  09-26-2005  |  International

Fifty Years After His Disappearance, Poet Lives Onnew

Renewed attention to Weldon Kees is a peculiar literary revival tale, in which one enthusiast after another seems to discover his own life story in Kees, then proselytizes on behalf of the forgotten poet.
SF Weekly  |  Matt Smith  |  08-02-2005  |  Books

Blackbird Fly: Americana the Way It Ought to Benew

The Houston native's music manages to sound both Depression-era vintage and strikingly contemporary, while her songs are full of pleas for good old-fashioned morphine and desperate failed romances, not to mention the talking starfish and singing mermaids that gambol and frolic on the beaches of her adopted San Francisco home.
Houston Press  |  John Nova Lomax  |  08-23-2004  |  Profiles & Interviews

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