Peter Crooks
True Crime Editor at Mysterious Press
Author of THE SETUP: A TRUE STORY OF DIRTY COPS, SOCCER MOMS, AND REALITY TV, film fan
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1 month ago |
diablomag.com | Peter Crooks
The Ultimate Indie RockerMegan Slankard ups her game as a distinctive singer-songwriter. Like many rock musicians, Megan Slankard’s life changed the first time she saw the Beatles on television. In Slankard’s case, she wasn’t alive when the Beatles played on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964; her introduction to the Fab Four came via a VHS copy of the movie Help! in the early ’90s. “I was about 10 years old, and my dad checked out Help! from the library,” says Slankard, who grew up in Tracy.
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Jan 21, 2025 |
history.howstuffworks.com | Peter Crooks
By: Peter Crooks | The endless curiosity of Marshall Brain helped educate, inform and inspire countless students, entrepreneurs and web surfers for decades before Brain's death on November 20, 2024. Brain, 63, was the founder of HowStuffWorks, as well as an author and educator. Brain gained fame during the late 1990s when he created HowStuffWorks.com to give readers clear explanations about the workings of a wide range of subjects — how rocket engines work, how laughter works, how smoke...
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Jan 2, 2025 |
diablomag.com | Peter Crooks
Julie Rubio has spent her entire adult life fascinated by the paintings of Tamara de Lempicka. The acclaimed artist, whose works are collected by celebrities such as Madonna, Jack Nicholson, and Barbra Streisand, made a strong impression on Rubio when she saw an exhibition at age 21. “I was instantly fascinated with her sensual connection to both women and men,” says Rubio, an Orinda resident.
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Nov 15, 2024 |
diablomag.com | Peter Crooks
Adam Plantinga’s day job is working as a patrol sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department in the Mission District, but in his free time the Lamorinda resident writes about cops and crime. After publishing two nonfiction books about police work, Plantinga wrote his first novel, The Ascent, a prison-set thriller that was released earlier this year to rave reviews. The book’s rights have already been acquired for a TV series, and Plantinga’s second novel is on the way.
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Oct 3, 2024 |
diablomag.com | Peter Crooks
Next month, voters across the nation will choose the next president of the United States. Whether they vote for East Bay native Kamala Harris or New Yorker Donald Trump to lead the U.S. beginning in January 2025, one thing is certain: Oakland’s Peter Alexander will be watching every detail of the campaign, election, and aftermath. Alexander is celebrating his 20th year as a national reporter at NBC News, where he has been the network’s White House correspondent since 2012.
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