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  • Freelance Journalist and Photographer, Freelance
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Bay Area locals are helping to save the coast from purple sea urchins

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By John Beck
| The Mercury News Verified
At first glance, it hardly looks like the beginning of a sea-urchin foraging expedition: a circle of more than 40 people on the grass pretending to be kelp, feet rooted to the ocean floor, swaying from the knees up in the current, arms elastic like stalks, heads bobbing.
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Filmmaker Cameron Crowe coming to Sonoma County for ‘Almost Famous’ screening, conversation

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By John Beck
| The Mercury News Verified
When Art Murray first heard that Cameron Crowe might headline one of his immersive Healdsburg events, he dismissed it as far-fetched. Murray’s T.O.W.N. experiences — equal parts dinner party, performance and elaborate staging — have over the past three years included a sushi boat river, a drone show, a sloth, an animatronic yeti, burlesque dancers and even a staged bank robbery. On April 17, however, that pipe dream becomes reality.
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Oliver James, self-taught reader who went viral on TikTok, takes memoir nationwide

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By John Beck
| petalumanews.com
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Making the rounds from school to school, Oliver James often recognizes a younger version of himself – the wide-eyed 10-year-old who hasn’t yet learned to read. “I see them before they even tell me,” he said. Maybe it’s something in their eyes, or the way they laugh, but as he shares his story of overcoming illiteracy, he can pick them out almost immediately.
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