David de Alba worked for years at Finocchio’s when it was a highlight of the San Francisco entertainment scene.
Rachel Aston
Hassan Hamilton has a fresh and old-school hip-hop style in the Las Vegas music scene.
By 22, Raquel was blind even after hundreds of eye operations. The headaches that came with her vision problems were so intense that she decided to have her eyes removed.
Zac Erickson joined the carpenters’ union the first week out of high school. But when the recession hit work slowed down and he began doing custom woodwork.
He had a full-time job in graphic design, but the job became unfulfilling. Social and political issues galvanized him to establish Recycled Propaganda, the pseudonym for his artwork.
Clyde Williams couldn’t feel the Lord in an oil refinery in Los Angeles. He couldn’t connect to the Lord at a cubicle in a stagnant office building either.
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