Cover Stories
Tom Metzger agrees that a special meeting did take place at his house that night and that it lasted for several hours. But he denies absolutely all allegations of a Klan trial or the use of guns.
A victory party at Metzger’s Fallbrook home followed the riot, and the Klansmen watched themselves on the evening news.West German television had covered the riot. The German TV crew had communicated their support.
“Right now the landfills charge twenty-seven cents to dump a tire, because they're bulky, they don’t decompose, and they keep coming back to life — they keep floating up to the surface. So tires are a big pain."
In the Southland tract where I was raised, developers planted geraniums in front of every house for purpose of immediate, colorful effect; and geraniums were the first things you pulled out to make room for more “sophisticated” plantings.
THIS IS A STORY ABOUT THE collision of dreams in the arena of redevelopment politics. One dream was that of Danah Fayman, a wealthy and influential arts patron with powerful political allies. She wanted to …
It’s hard to watch the Stanley Tonight show without asking yourself at some point, “Is this guy for real?” Talk-show hosts are odd, as a rule, and Stanley Siegel is the excess to the rule. …
Russell adds that he thinks knowing which stock to buy is not difficult. “I think that point’s overdone. If the market’s right, it’s really no problem picking stocks. You can buy a good mutual fund.
We sat in an office in his church in Santee. It was a weekday morning. Phones rang. Children could be heard singing in the student church school. Men and women returned, sunburned, from picketing an …
On Sunday, April 19, the last known California condor was snatched from the wild. Depending on your viewpoint, this event was a great tragedy that marked the extinction of the wild condor or a great …
A year ago, on February 17, 1986, at the height of the stormy seasons most merciless gale, I drove over threatening, waterlogged back roads from Berkeley to Santa Rosa to watch a man die. He …
Avenida Revolucion, where two great civilizations collide to form a Himalayan range of apposite images and attitudes, has made business geniuses out of men like Hector Santillan. Starting as a shoeshine boy in the 1940s, …
Toward the end of Governor Jerry Brown’s administration, UC salaries had sunk to the bottom third of the list — a development that faculty members say made recruiting much more difficult, particularly in the engineering school.
Public transportation is a challenge, too, especially if the bus, train, or airplane is crowded. I am not a touchy-feely guy, but I have been forced into some of the most intimate physical encounters with strangers while traveling.
I made my bed in the lee of a stout little juniper, but Schad, fond of wind and rain and discomfort,made his on the crest. Then we huddled together to cook noodles and tuna, with a Kahlúa chaser.
The coils of angel-hair pasta are arranged neatly on beds of red lettuce and adorned with gleaming shrimp. Baskets of thickly cut potatoes bubble in the fryer. A plastic container full of fresh jambalaya sits …
Today Ataricio Loriga Gomez’s right wrist works again, and Pablo Pena Valdez no longer shows the unmistakable symptoms of starvation. When the two former political prisoners were released from Cuba six months ago and introduced …