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- ↑ "Pair see Tacoma from Beautiful Angle", The News Tribune, August 3, 2003.
- 1 2 3 4 This Strange Thing of Ours: Witty and spiritual, scofflaw yet civic-minded. Beautiful Angle is a tangle of contradictions, all coated with wheatpaste [ permanent dead link ], City Arts (Tacoma), Sep/Oct 2007
- ↑ Recognizing New Tacoma Award Winners [ permanent dead link ], May 4, 2010
- ↑ "Beautiful Angle-phile « Felt & Wire". Archived from the original on December 30, 2010. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ↑ Jessica Corey-Butler, "A Love Letter To Tacoma: The images and words of Beautiful Angle", Weekly Volcano, March 23, 2010.
- ↑ "TACOMA WEEKLY". tacomaweekly.tumblr.com. Retrieved June 16, 2021.
- ↑ "Tacoma Art Museum corrals inventive energy of contemporary Northwest print artists | Arts and Culture | the News Tribune". Archived from the original on June 27, 2014. Retrieved April 24, 2015.