Catching the Yips
Random Lengths News (2016)
Most people wouldn’t think that an urban landscape would be rife with wildlife, especially in Los Angeles County, the land of freeways and terrible drivers.
However, there is one animal that’s steadily challenging the perception of the typical urban setting. From San Pedro to Long Beach, the canis latrans, the song dog, or coyote, has become a source of discord in the Harbor Area…
Jessie Kahnweiler
Random Lengths News (2016)
Jessie Kahnweiler has some serious chutzpah. Or, as the goyim might call it: guts.
It’s hard to find any other description for a woman who demonstrates the existence of white privilege by trying to get arrested—walking up to two cops, offering to sell them her antidepressants and walking away undetained…
Steel Relevant
New Times San Luis Obispo (2015)
Max Randolph loves his work.
Even if he doesn’t say it outright, it’s easy to see from the way his blue eyes suddenly light up and crinkle into a smile, or in the excited gestures of his arms whenever he’s talking about it. He lives to pound metal.
That’s not some kind of weird, obscure reference. Max Randolph is a blacksmith…
From Cradle to Grave
New Times San Luis Obispo (2015)
Stephen Jenkinson is on an unconventional mission.
He’s out to change the public perception of grief and dying. Known by the moniker “The Angel of Death,” the soft-spoken Canadian works as a consultant to palliative care, which focuses on alleviating and soothing pain for the terminally ill. He helps guide people, and even whole communities, through the struggles of grieving, sadness, and most of all, dying. Over the years, he’s been at the deathbed of more than 1,000 people…
‘The Yellow Birds’
New Times San Luis Obispo (2015)
"The war tried to kill us in spring.”
So begins Kevin Powers’ harrowing novel, The Yellow Birds. Published in 2012, the story chronicles the experiences of two young soldiers, 21-year-old John Bartle and 18-year-old Daniel “Murph” Murphy, as they navigate through boot camp and their eventual deployment to Iraq during the height of the most recent conflict. There, the young men find themselves wildly unprepared for the violence and anguish that awaits them…
Sowers Education Group
New Times San Luis Obispo (2015)
Rachel Thomas said she was just 20 years old when she was forced into sex work.
A native of Pasadena, she lived a happy childhood with supportive, loving parents. Her father was a church deacon, and Thomas was in the Rose Parade court and voted prom queen at her high school. In other words, she was a fairly normal, happy teenager. She certainly wasn’t what most people would think of when picturing a victim of sex trafficking…
