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HAPPY HALLOWEEN HAUNTS ARISE AROUND TOWN

Ghosties, Ghoulies, Skeletons, Tombstones And Other Spooky Icons Come Out To Play By Night And Day A Photo Essay by Larry Freeman As All Hallows day nears, all sorts of supernatural and haunting apparitions come to their own special incarnations of half life and reveal above ground. After almost a year of storing up their frights, delights and supernatural sights in the eerie confines of  local basements, garages and attics –where they might spend the better part of the year… [READ MORE].

FACES OF FORTITUDE: A PHOTO ESSAY

A subtle, but deeply profound change comes over the faces of Alameda Fire Academy recruits from the time they suit up before facing their live fire attack and rescue training sessions of the day to the time when the ordeal –or at least part of it– is over. Expressions of anticipation preceding the flame and smoke-filled sessions… … morph, in the aftermath of their dealings with Dante, into weighty ones of reflection and reckoning, colored by a touch of fatigue and… [READ MORE].

A PHOTO ESSAY RETROSPECTIVE ON THE COLD CLUTCH OF COVID

Those grim days whose stranglehold on society began  in March of 2020, plunged  the world into a cloistered crisis of fear, shutdowns, panic buying, hoarding, dread, loss, death, grief, sickness and regressive life style impacts. Days fraught with two hour lines stringing around the back of the Costco Warehouse and the mad, flailing  search for rubbing alcohol, Clorox Wipes and toilet paper long gone from barren  shelves are ones we might well want to forget. In the very beginning, we had… [READ MORE].