Topic Archive: California
By Bay Area tradition, references to freeways don't carry an article. In Los Angeles we "take the 101" (or "the Ventura Freeway") but up north...
Posted July 13, 2008 11:55 PM
This winter skiers and snowboarders will be able to fly to Mammoth for the first time in years. Tickets go on sale Monday for new...
Posted July 13, 2008 11:36 PM
Surprise, a bit of good news about the Los Angeles Times. It appears that, just ahead of the layoff reaper, one of the paper's most...
Posted July 7, 2008 12:55 AM
Tygiel, a professor at San Francisco State, was the author of "The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks and Scandal in the Roaring Twenties," the...
Posted July 3, 2008 11:34 PM
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom filed papers for a campaign committee that lets him start gathering contributions for a possible run for governor in 2010....
Posted July 1, 2008 10:17 PM
Most of Big Sur's main landmarks have been spared by the Basin Complex Fire, but there have been some losses and several close calls. From...
Posted June 27, 2008 11:41 PM
John Rabe, host of "Off-Ramp" on KPCC, hopes to be pretty much first in line for a marriage license Tuesday morning at the Beverly Hills...
Posted June 16, 2008 09:02 AM
The L.A. Times did an analysis and found the Californians who have died so far in the two wars included 208 who were married and...
Posted May 26, 2008 04:26 PM
Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria packed them in at the Central Library's ALOUD series last week and his new book, "The Post-American World," is getting mostly...
Posted May 26, 2008 11:46 AM
Appropos of not much, when my daughter was about nine months old Robert Mondavi stopped by our table at Mustard's, beside his winery in the...
Posted May 16, 2008 03:09 PM
Author and Roman Catholic deacon Eric Stoltz and Los Angeles photographer Francesco Curá are engaged in a project to document the state's cathedrals in fine...
Posted April 20, 2008 11:40 PM
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