Huell Howser has retired after nearly 30 years of producing and hosting programs for KCET, ending his career in Garbo-esque disappearance within almost ubiquitous presence. California’s Gold, California’s Green, Downtown, …
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Home is where most Angelenos wanted to live when World War II ended, in a …
When I was young and my brother was a little older, we would be in bed before dark on mid-summer evenings. (The times were different then.) We would lie in …
City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ’70s
by Edmund White
-Reviewed by Shahnaz Habib
Early in his memoir City Boy, Edmund White reminisces about his friendship with …
by V. Penelope Pelizzon
For Nicole Cuddeback and Antonio Ambrosio
Thank Christ for outskirts, where the river pulls you
east or west beyond brilliance into the merely making do,
scrappy verges where …
Should President Obama be rooting for Congressional Republicans this election season? History suggests as much.
Political analysts and consultants like to divine seismic shifts of allegiance every election cycle – “A …
Baseball, like America, is based on a lie: that the past doesn’t hold us back; that the old ties and old bonds can be cast away; that each new season …
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