October 2012 Archives
Where We Are:
Some say California's sun is setting, that Census data prove the gloomiest predictions true. But there are other ways to interpret the numbers.
Where We Are:
"The house is our first universe, a real cosmos in every sense of the word." -
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Notes of a Native Daughter:
Take a look today while you drive around, wherever you live, at the not-lost art of housepainting.
Commentary:
A luncheon celebrating weighty women in L.A. had a menu of discussion topics that was, well, low-calorie
LA as Subject:
According to at least one authority, Robinson Jeffers is the greatest poet to emerge from Los Angeles.
Commentary:
It was 425 years ago on this day that the first Filipinos arrived in what is now the United States on a Spanish galleon near Morro Bay, CA -- some 33 years before Pilgrims from England arrived at Plymouth Rock.
West Is Eden:
"I want to go away and see things," she told me. Many people say this sort of thing. Not so many have Stage 3 cancer. She had a bucket list, she said. Ambling around the country, going nowhere in particular, was on it.
Government:
Friday's debate between contenders for California's 36th Congressional District's seat got ugly fast.
Blog Editor Chris Clarke With California at the forefront of renewable energy in the U.S., ReWire tracks its developments, from policy to technology, with a critical eye. Blog Editor Chris Clarke is an environmental writer of two decades standing and...
Where We Are:
In which the author becomes a subject, and his words run away from him, mostly in a good way.
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