1. Breathe. If you are unlucky, you will inhale some spores
of Coddidioides immitis. It is endemic in our soil. An ordinary case
of resulting Valley Fever is not muc
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I can’t remember the last time I so thoroughly enjoyed
reading a series of articles in the L.A. Times as this week’s Pulitzer-class
five-parter on the ho
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A CORONER’S REPORT CONCLUDED that the 24-year-old son of renowned defense attorney Robert Shapiro died last month from an accidental overdose of Ecstasy two days a
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Photo by Ted Soqui
The president, I suspect, is already descending. The Time and Newsweek polls, taken during (and, in the case of Newsweek, a few hours following)
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The dark maw of a Koreatown karaoke bar was the site of a peculiar fund-raiser one recent happy hour. The event benefited 1864, a documentary film seeking to draw p
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Not that I was ever all that quick myself. But my friends run fast. I used to drive the sort of performance-enhanced machines that attracted attention and inva
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Photos by Anne Fishbein
This is the story of the new world, revealed . . .
It can be broken into the smallest chips of bone and tears.
It can be put back tog
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Illustration by Peter Bennett
Churchill famously remarked that the Germans are always either at your throat or at your feet. Americans adopt the same schizoi
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A veto — one of Mayor James Hahn’s first public acts after taking the oath in July 2001 — echoed through City Hall this month and provided some me
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Photo by Debra Di Paolo
Neil Young’s Greendale is the veteran rock man’s third ramble into the realm of film as director “Bernard Shakey,&#
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Ambitious Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet, Theater@Boston Court. The new Pasadena company’s maiden production of R&J, adapted by director Michael Michet
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In October, Pantheon published my nonfiction book And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank. An investigation into two infamo
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