In Appraisals, Claire Boyles goes back to the land.
Claire Boyles’s Colorado: Water Rights, Fracking, and the High Cost of Western Farming
In Appraisals, Claire Boyles goes back to the land.
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The bitter divorce and inheritance battle that nearly kept the William S. Hart Museum from the public forever.
The Hollywood Divorce That Nearly Cost California a Museum
The bitter divorce and inheritance battle that nearly kept the William S. Hart Museum from the public forever
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Casino Bar has anchored the tiny town of Bodega since 1949. Now, after the death of its legendary owner, the bar’s next chapter is uncertain.
The Last Great Roadhouse
Casino Bar has anchored the tiny town of Bodega since 1949. Now, after the death of its legendary owner, the bar’s next chapter is uncertain.
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From Vietnam War protesters to the Black Panthers to the occupation of Alcatraz, photographer Ilka Hartmann has spent a lifetime documenting resistance and refusing to look away.
The Photographer Who Captured America’s Resistance Movements Up Close
She photographed the Black Panthers, the Alcatraz occupation, and the farmworker movement. At 84, Ilka Hartmann is still developing film—and still a radical.
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In a conservative California suburb, a group of goddesses is spreading radical love.
Inside the Witch Community Thriving in Conservative Southern California
In a conservative California suburb, a group of goddesses is spreading radical love.
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Read an early passage from Susan Orlean’s THE LIBRARY BOOK, the California Book Club selection for August.
Why Do Books at the LA Public Library Still Smell Like Smoke?
Read an early passage from Susan Orlean’s work of nonfiction, the California Book Club selection for August.
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The discovery of more than 100 buried dogs at a Northern California sanctuary has exposed failures in the regulation of animal handlers. @allisonlanda.bsky.social has the full story.
The Tragedy of Miranda’s Rescue
Investigation into the Humboldt County animal sanctuary reveals oversight gaps in California's shelter network.
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In Sam Sweet’s All Night Menu series, Los Angeles is a city of the dérive.
The Writer Mapping Los Angeles’s Invisible Past
David L. Ulin joins writer Sam Sweet on a drift through Los Angeles, tracing the lost histories buried beneath the city’s surfaces in his series All Night Menu.
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Read an early passage from Susan Orlean’s work of nonfiction, the California Book Club selection for August.
Inside the Sun-Drenched Labyrinth of LA’s Most Defiant Literary Monument
Read an early passage from Susan Orlean’s work of nonfiction, the California Book Club selection for August.
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A new documentary follows Dead & Company’s 2023 final tour through the eyes of a new generation of Deadheads. Brian A. Anderson has the full story.
Goin’ Down the Road on Dead & Company’s Endless ‘Summer Tour’
A new documentary follows the band’s 2023 final tour through the eyes of a new generation of Deadheads.
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Our latest book review by Jim Ruland dives into Gary Phillips’s The Haul, a gripping new heist novel.
Can a Master Thief Ever Outrun His Past? How Gary Phillips Subverts the Classic American Heist Story
Gary Phillips’s antihero returns in The Haul, a gripping new heist novel.
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In Los Angeles, an undocumented mother confronts cancer and deportation fears through labor, faith, and grace.
She Needed Cancer Treatment. Then ICE Arrived in Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles, an undocumented mother confronts cancer and deportation fears through labor, faith, and grace.
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For @altajournal.bsky.social I wrote up some thoughts on the new Summer Tour doc, a tender road movie that follows mostly young (post-Garcia) heads and articulates a question that hangs over Deadworld: What’s next? www.altaonline.com/culture/movi...
Goin’ Down the Road on Dead & Company’s Endless ‘Summer Tour’
A new documentary follows the band’s 2023 final tour through the eyes of a new generation of Deadheads.
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After a childhood marked by loss, a writer gained a new sibling.
She Wasn’t Family by Blood. She Became Family Anyway.
Shaquille Heath grew up without a family to count on. Then she met Rachel. A personal essay about chosen sisterhood, survival, and what it means to belong.
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After building a plant-based-restaurant empire, the brood behind Café Gratitude has bet on meat—and MAHA ideals.
The Vegan Empire That Traded Oat Milk for Cattle Ranching
After building a plant-based-restaurant empire, the brood behind Café Gratitude has bet on meat—and MAHA ideals.
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A lifetime of silence, a pandemic confession, and a DNA test lead one man to the father—and brothers and sisters—he had never met.
He Spent 60 Years Not Knowing His Father. Then a DNA Test Changed Everything.
Greg spent 60 years not knowing his father. A 23andMe notification changed everything. Gregory Bynum and Blaise Zerega tell the story together for the first time.
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"We also know something about bringing home a small creature who, hour by hour, day by day, reshapes your life and seizes your heart, causing it to ache and melt and backflip." buff.ly/Uaxc0QD
our latest issue on family includes a piece on witches, because chosen family extends to covens too and we are not going to argue with that
Inside the Witch Community Thriving in Conservative Southern California
In a conservative California suburb, a group of goddesses is spreading radical love.
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our california book club july pick: adam hochschild's "american midnight." our july mood: deeply concerned but well-read
Cafe Gratitude always gave me the creeps and I guess this is why... Terrific story from Lydia Horne @altajournal.bsky.social: www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...
The Vegan Empire That Traded Oat Milk for Cattle Ranching
After building a plant-based-restaurant empire, the brood behind Café Gratitude has bet on meat—and MAHA ideals.
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One of our favorites in this latest issue!
Katya Cengel@katyacengel.bsky.social · 4w agoReally enjoyed this historical piece by Julian Smith for @altajournal.bsky.social The time and place were as much characters in this story as the train robbing brothers and their victims. www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...
respectfully, no one should have to answer emails in july.
sorry I can't come to your thing, two countries I have no connection to are playing and it matters deeply to me
the way a bookstore can fix a bad mood faster than literally any other establishment is genuinely unmatched
Three-day weekends were made for books. 📚 What's everyone reading this weekend?
a magazine you grab "just to look at" and then somehow read for 40 minutes. happens every time. no regrets.
an iced latte in one hand, a book in the other, and a complete unwillingness to be anywhere else. that's the whole plan.