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Photographer Bob Minkin Preps ‘Just Bobby: Bob Weir Photographed’ Book

Acclaimed photographer Bob Minkin today launched a Kickstarter campaign for Just Bobby: Bob Weir Photographed, a forthcoming coffee table book featuring approximately 200 images of Grateful Dead/Dead & Company guitarist Bob Weir. The 152-page tome includes both live and behind-the-scenes photos spanning the mid-1970s to the present. “I pored through every photograph of Weir I […]

Regional books: “The Bonanza King,” “Phoebe Apperson Hearst” and more

“The Bonanza King” from Gregory Crouch (Scribner). Like our very own Leadville, Virginia City, Nev., is a bucolic town, a remnant of the past that lives on biblical glory.  But Virginia City has been the center of their world for its mining industry that is precious-metals.  It turned out to be a town that brought gold- sharpers, […]