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Dreams come true at Victorville's Tea Life boba shop
Sometimes the biggest dreams come together because of many small dreams. These “seed” dreams often go in many directions, but when everything works well, that is called progress. Tea Life, the trendy bubble tea shop near Von’s in the Victor Valley Town Center, is a perfect example. Maya...
Reaching for the Light: Daniel Hawkins’s Wild West Dream of a Desert Lighthouse
Daniel Hawkins’s surreal, fifty-foot Desert Lighthouse is a glowing, perplexing beacon in the desolate Mojave Desert, on the site of ecological catastrophe. Out in San Bernardino County’s high desert, north of Los Angeles, a dream stands fifty feet tall on a barren hill, purchased by Daniel Hawkins in 2011, surrounded by creosote and fortified with a chain-link fence. It is built with a steel frame interior, covered by translucent polycarbonate paneling, giving it a unique glow when lit from the inside. Nearby, there is a Pacific Gas & Electric natural gas processing plant, and the ghost town of Hinkley—once bustling with four thousand people—is now down to an estimated three hundred. The mysterious light on the hill hovering over the outskirts of town, installed nearly seven years ago, is Daniel Hawkins’s incongruous and strange Desert Lighthouse.
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