By Maggie Fazeli Fard
Community Life, Sept. 23, 2010
Every spring, mothers and fathers across the country field gift requests from their children, mementos of impending college graduations. The lists can read like miniature wedding registries, items ranging from baubles like pearl earrings and designer watches to extravagant jaunts island-hopping with friends along the Grecian coast. But [...]
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By Maggie Fazeli Fard
Community Life, Aug. 26, 2010
More than 100 people gathered on Sulak Lane last Thursday afternoon, chowing down on burgers and corn on the cob, singing along to familiar tunes by the Who and the Byrds, and vying for shade beneath the trees until the last warm specks of sunlight disappeared behind nearby [...]
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Rising above a bad rep in urban Oakland.
By Maggie Fazeli Fard
East Bay Monthly, August 2010
Photo by Spiral-A Photography.
Pedicab driver Ken Lin-Ott is often heard before he is seen, the sound of his bike bell announcing his appearance on a dark street in downtown Oakland. Meeting a stranger, the lanky, bespectacled 31-year-old is quick to offer [...]
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By Maggie Fazeli Fard
Community Life, June 24, 2010
Westwood – David Saunders was 21 years old when he was diagnosed with a disease he’d never heard of: primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). Doctors discovered the ominous-sounding disease – which affects the bile ducts inside and outside the liver – by accident, while running a set of routine [...]
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