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Trial of Travis and Nettie Reay: The expert witness speaks out

Barbara Harvey and Barbara Harvey May 5, 2015

During the trial of Travis and Nettie Reay, expert witness Linda Barnard, Ph.D, was called upon by Nettie’s defense team to testify that the abuse Nettie suffered at the hands of Travis had caused Nettie’s...

Rail riders: Inside the invisible culture of train hopping

Rail riders: Inside the invisible culture of train hopping

Barbara Harvey and Barbara Harvey May 4, 2015

Sometime after sending his last text message on March 10, 2013, 19-year-old first-time train hopper John Paul Alpert was murdered. One year later, detectives in Roseville, California issued arrest warrants...

My parents are murderers: Killers daughter confronts stigma to speak out

My parents are murderers: Killers’ daughter confronts stigma to speak out

Barbara Harvey and Barbara Harvey May 4, 2015

Karen Reay sat quietly in the back of her high school class, staring in disbelief at a page of search results. She had finally worked up the courage to Google her parents’ names, something she had dreaded...

Surviving suicide

Surviving suicide

Barbara Harvey and Joseph Daniels May 4, 2015

Pauline Ghost woke up at Mercy San Juan Hospital, confused and alone after a day of binge drinking. Shortly after waking, she was told by hospital staff that she had attempted to take her own life by overdosing...

Something for nothing: The rise of crowdfunding

Something for nothing: The rise of crowdfunding

Barbara Harvey and Barbara Harvey May 4, 2015

Stewart Ludwig was down on his luck. After a long stretch of unemployment, the ARC theater major hadn’t been able to pay rent for three months. He had noticed friends donating to the crowdfunding efforts...

Your culture or mine? : Analyzing the misuse of sacred cultural items

Your culture or mine? : Analyzing the misuse of sacred cultural items

Emily K. Rabasto and Emily K. Rabasto May 4, 2015

Before it was called appropriating, it was called stealing. Cultural appropriation is the act of one race or culture taking aspects of another, usually without permission, and using them to raise their...

The Art of the Pickup: A look into the culture of Sacramentos pickup artists

The Art of the Pickup: A look into the culture of Sacramento’s pickup artists

Emily K. Rabasto and Emily K. Rabasto May 4, 2015

Did it hurt when you fell from heaven? I seem to have lost my phone number. Can I have yours? Did you sit in a pile of sugar? ’Cause you have a pretty sweet… “Pickup lines are bullshit. It’s...

Mustafa Shaheen: Portrait of an artist

Mustafa Shaheen: Portrait of an artist

Kameron Schmid and Kameron Schmid May 4, 2015

Mustafa Shaheen looked like a million bucks as he walked hurriedly around Witt Gallery, making final preparations for the opening of his first solo art show, “Friends and Sometimes Friends.” On a small...

A mother silenced: A Ukrainian immigrant struggles to follow her sons murder trial

A mother silenced: A Ukrainian immigrant struggles to follow her son’s murder trial

John Ferrannini and John Ferrannini May 4, 2015

Standing alone in a courthouse hallway and denied entrance into her son’s murder trial as the case was nearing its end, Larisa Postelnyak said she did not know what to do. That is when the Ukranian-born...

DAM! Volume 1 Issue 1 e-edition on issuu.com now!

DAM! Volume 1 Issue 1 e-edition on issuu.com now!

May 20, 2014

DAM! is a student run magazine at American River College. Stories include revenge porn, anxiety, domestic violence and inside the mind of a serial rapist. Pick up a copy around campus, or see the online...

The Origin of Kava

Brooke Purves and Brooke Purves May 15, 2014

According to Okusitino Sitake, a descendent of Tongan royalty living in North Highlands, this ceremony is used to celebrate the installation of royal titles or the king’s birthday, but similar familial...

Powdered kava root is prepared by Jacob Ciongoli, a worker at The Root of Happiness kava bar in Rancho Cordova. Photo by Emily K. Rabasto

Kava: someone’s relaxation destination

Brooke Purves and Brooke Purves May 15, 2014

Self-taught ethnobotanicalist Travis Blythe, who studies sacred plants, claims the effect of kava, a drink made from the pulp of the root of a Polynesian pepper plant, is a “complete and total relaxation...

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