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    Burned: The Fire that Destroyed Paradise and the Company That Caused It

    by Malcolm Logan February 13, 2021
    by Malcolm Logan February 13, 2021

    Sometime during the night of November 7th, 2018 the winds shifted over the Sierra Nevada. Winds blowing east from the Pacific were …

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    Confinement: Enduring a Lockdown on Alcatraz Island

    by Malcolm Logan January 30, 2021
    by Malcolm Logan January 30, 2021

    On December 6th, 2020 San Francisco locked down for the second time in nine months. You could almost hear the collective groan …

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    A Self-Guided Tour of the Manson Murder Sites in Los Angeles

    by Malcolm Logan January 16, 2021
    by Malcolm Logan January 16, 2021

    This self-guided tour of the Charles Manson murder sites in and around Los Angeles is designed to take three hours. By following …

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    Good Medicine: A Spiritual Journey Through Monument Valley

    by Malcolm Logan March 2, 2020
    by Malcolm Logan March 2, 2020

    As a child he witnessed magic. Among the spires of orange and russet rock, in the shadows of parapets ribboned with plum …

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    Way, Way Out There: The Art and Artlessness of Marfa, Texas

    by Malcolm Logan February 7, 2020
    by Malcolm Logan February 7, 2020

    Southwest Texas is vast, and mostly empty. From San Antonio to El Paso, a distance of 550 miles, no town larger than …

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    Texas with Open Arms: Cozying up to the Music Scene in Austin

    by Malcolm Logan January 31, 2020
    by Malcolm Logan January 31, 2020

    She was not a good student. She had tried college and it hadn’t really worked out. She had fallen in with a …

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    The Cries of the Abused: Exhuming the Horrors of the Past in Marianna, FL

    by Malcolm Logan January 26, 2020
    by Malcolm Logan January 26, 2020

    “What a piece of human trash.” “Should have put him in front of a wall and shot him.” “This dude is a …

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    Sand, Sex and Style on Miami Beach, the Sexiest City in America

    by Malcolm Logan January 2, 2020
    by Malcolm Logan January 2, 2020

    It was awful, one of the most disgraceful examples of urban blight imaginable. Block after block of gorgeous buildings gone to seed, …

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    Aftershock: A Strange Tale of Murder, Rage and the Earthquake that Shook America

    by Malcolm Logan December 10, 2019
    by Malcolm Logan December 10, 2019

    In the months following the murder there was scarcely an hour when the earth did not shake. The sound of it was …

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    Greeting the Storm Spirit: Hiking Mt. Washington, NH

    by Malcolm Logan September 21, 2019
    by Malcolm Logan September 21, 2019

    Here’s a tip for any would-be hikers out there.  Don’t trust the Internet. The trouble is anyone can post anything on the …

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