Fortunate Youth: Twenty minutes with frontman Dan Kelly
Fortunate Youth is a six-piece reggae band with roots in Hermosa Beach, California. Since 2009 it has toured heavily in the
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Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 and 2015. He has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers in the United States and overseas. He writes full-time and lives in Woodland Hills, California. His twitter is: @SteveCooperEsq
Author: Stephen Cooper
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Seventy years after its publication John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men continues to stimulate debate, pro and con, about the
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Addicts hooked on pain pills or “opioids” overpopulate our country’s prisons and death rows — particularly in Alabama. As Anne
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When a zealous public defender acting as the effective lawyer guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment was handcuffed in a Las
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“BNV Productions is strictly a mom and pop operation — we don’t have rules here; we can do whatever we
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