Sam Lefebvre

@Lefebvre_Sam

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    Nov 19

    Betsy Ann Cowley bought Pulga in part to provide refuge from the Bay Area housing crisis, only to encounter an environmental nightmare. My report from a budding intentional community in the Sierra foothills, deep within the evacuation zone.

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  2. 5 hours ago

    . created a guide to cooperatively-owned arts resources in the Bay Area and commissioned writings on equity in the cultural sphere. Good stuff ~>

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  3. 22 hours ago

    I love this breathless, lyrical tribute to Aunt Charlie's High Fantasy, for years the secret patron saint of Tuesdays.

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    Nov 20

    Betsy Ann Cowley bought a former ghost town in Butte County and revived it as an artists' haven. Then, the Camp Fire leveled her home, knocked out electricity, burst her water line and choked the air with smoke.

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    Nov 20

    Inside the evacuation zone of the Camp Fire, time moves slower. The air is thicker, and you can’t leave. In the outskirts of the evacuation zone, there’s no ground to stand on. My dispatch from the deadliest fire in California history:

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  6. Nov 20

    ICYMI: The one object Cowley recovered from the ash of her house was a mug from the 5th Ave. Marina arts enclave in Oakland, a relic of the life she left behind to build an intentional community in a former ghost town: Pulga. My report on the ~>

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    Nov 20

    Today in gentrification: joins a growing lost of San Francisco music venues that have shuttered or ceded to corporate control this year. The building's owners are converting it into office spaces.

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  8. Nov 20

    inspired but rude

    Last month, about 100 young people stole boats at Lake Merritt in Oakland and partied on the island that's a sanctuary for birds and other wildlife, per Lake Merritt Institute newsletter today:
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    Nov 20

    Six inches of ash were all that remained of Betsy Ann Cowley’s house after the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history started less than a mile from her doorstep in rural Butte County.

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    Nov 20

    The If/When/How staff had a beautiful time coming together for a retreat at Pulga earlier this year — a community and gathering space now nearly destroyed by fire.

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    Nov 19

    Betsy Ann Cowley bought Pulga in part to provide refuge from the Bay Area housing crisis, only to encounter an environmental nightmare. My report from a budding intentional community in the Sierra foothills, deep within the evacuation zone.

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    Nov 19

    The Camp Fire started right near a former ghost town owned by an artist who fled Oakland's high rent for the country. visited her in the heart of the fire zone, her home leveled, and came back with this story of California's new reality.

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    Nov 19

    The story of Pulga, a one-woman town in the heart of where the Camp Fire allegedly first sparked

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  14. Nov 19

    Leftover pictures: Scorched trailer in Pulga, Elicia in Walmart parking lot, and the rubble of Rock House, a restaurant on Highway 70.

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    Nov 19

    The Chico City Council has approved a 10% rent hike cap to prevent fire-related rent gouging. If you or anyone you know lives in Chico, please let them know!

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    Nov 18

    A media story untold: where were the photojournalists covering the first minutes and hours of ?

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  17. Nov 16

    I just got back to Oakland from reporting on the in and around Pulga, and my neighborhood, like this parking lot in Chico, is full of tents. In California, affordability and environmental crises are yielding the same results.

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  18. Nov 15

    Orcutt plays with Zachary James Watkins (Black Spirituals) tonight at the .

    "Brace Up!" is the latest scene in the brashly inventive guitarist and improviser's second act, another idiom-defiant record imbued with the thrill of precognitive expression. Finally did one on Bill Orcutt ~>
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    Nov 14

    “Now when I’m playing, I’m going for joy.” answers to no record label, feels distant from the social aspect of the music scene and doesn’t expect—or need—to make a living from his work. with the scoop.

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  20. Nov 14

    Taken today along Highway 70 near Pulga.

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