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Going to a Witch Dance on Halloween

How a sect of politically active, feminist neopagans try to make the world a better place, one night a year. OK Whatever The setting was incongruous. They were in a midcentury...

A 68-Year-Old Woman Attempts to Set a World Record Playing Solitaire

It was lunch hour on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 47th and the intersection was teeming with people. A Prêt-A-Manger employee proffered brownie samples to passersby on a...

Jennifer LeBarre Makes Sure That Oakland Students Get A Healthy Lunch

The bell rings— a prolonged buzzing signaling the end of class. Attention students: lunch is being served in the cafeteria, announces a female voice over the intercom. Lunch is...

After Oakland Hills Fire, Residents Build Off-The-Wall Homes

--Published on OaklandNorth.net on October 19, 2011--   Robert Pennell shifted the gear to neutral and parked the car along the side of the road. “There,” he said, pointing...

Salt Room Therapy On Shifty Ground

--Published in The Los Angeles Times health section on August 2, 2010-- It's 1 o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon, and Heidi Kling is reading in an all-white room. She's shoeless,...

Time For A Typewriter Renaissance?

Salon IT WAS 4 P.M. ON A THURSDAY, two hours until the end of Jesse Banuelos’ workday. He was standing behind the front counter of Berkeley Typewriter, his trademark green apron...
Salt Room Therapy On Shifty Ground

--Published in The Los Angeles Times health section on August 2, 2010-- It's 1 o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon, and Heidi Kling is reading in an all-white room. She's shoeless, but socks protect her feet from the 6 inches of salt that cake the floor. The only objects...

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Time For A Typewriter Renaissance?

Salon IT WAS 4 P.M. ON A THURSDAY, two hours until the end of Jesse Banuelos’ workday. He was standing behind the front counter of Berkeley Typewriter, his trademark green apron tied around his waist. A dozen broken typewriters — some electric, but most of them manual...

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