
No Time to Mourn
A shape bends over a drink at the end of the bar in Big Emma''s on Oakland''s Jack London Square, looking like a bundle of black clothes someone has left on the barstool. Full red lips that match brightly dyed hair are the only source of color, as if an artist had begun to colorize her just before she walked out of frame in a ''40s noir movie. Her name is Susan, and she is there to hire PI Jim Wol...
A shape bends over a drink at the end of the bar in Big Emma''s on Oakland''s Jack London Square, looking like a bundle of black clothes someone has left on the barstool. Full red lips that match brightly dyed hair are the only source of color, as if an artist had begun to colorize her just before she walked out of frame in a ''40s noir movie. Her name is Susan, and she is there to hire PI Jim Wol...