Susan Straight
Susan Straight was born in Riverside, where she still lives. Her latest novel is "Between Heaven and Here." She teaches at UCRiverside and works with photographer Douglas McCulloh to document the Inland Empire.
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San Bernardino's making national headlines because elected officials have filed for bankruptcy, but a lot of people said what really outraged them: The city council said it couldn't host the Route 66 Rendezvous downtown.
Fairmount Park in Riverside, CA was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, known for Central Park in New York City and others.
A chance encounter with coyotes shows just how wild the 96-Mile Santa Ana River can still be.
I teach in an area almost written off by affluent America, in a university where "minority" students have been the majority for years.
I thought my job was to make them write about stucco and wood framing, about gated communities and urban apartment complexes, about bedrooms decorated…
Although many classic cars and trucks are like emblems of American history, the Apache truly gets a particular kind of historic love from people of all backgrounds.
People who still make something we can drive, like the Jimenez Bros, are artisans putting another coat of primer and then custom flames or candyflake on better dreams.
Pinstripes and swirls. Nine-foot flames lifting from custom hoods. The percussive revving of engines. Custom upholstery, gleaming chrome and candyflake paint. It must be spring, and time for one of the best parts of being a Southern Californian -- ...
I went to visit my rock last week. I hadn't actually touched it since I was about five, though I salute it every time on that freeway, and the other rock's celebrity journey had me staring at the hundreds of other huge obelisks of stone where we grew ...
Here in Southern California, especially in the old citrus-growing regions, the first week of April is a picture-postcard replica of most lyrics in "America the Beautiful."