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An icon of antebellum architecture is rising again in the South, this time in the suburbs. Columns fill a nostalgic niche and sell houses.
Oct. 11, 2004
The Improv Column: We’re not going to lie to you.
Feb. 9, 2000
Books
It doesn’t make sense to say this, but I’m interested in interesting things. -- Scot Morris Expelled air from a sneeze travels at about 100 miles an hour. -- “The Book of Strange Facts and Useless Information,” by Scot Morris Scot Morris is (a) an accomplished magazine writer with a doctorate in clinical psychology; (b) an eccentric bachelor who juggles while he jogs; (c) probably the only person in Del Mar who knows why there’s more ice at the South Pole than at the North Pole.
Sept. 24, 1987
We all know there are two kinds of lunches with your boss.
Feb. 8, 2001
Sometimes when I’m writing a column I think is especially funny, I sit at my word processor and laugh like hell, even when there’s no one in the room with whom to share my wit.
June 2, 1988
Opinion
To the editor: I think David Lazarus shows some intestinal fortitude in writing this column, given that his employer (The Times) is deriving advertising revenue from one of the very advertisements Lazarus cites.
Sept. 17, 2014
Sports
TEN years ago, when an editor discovered me shivering underneath a pile of one-sentence paragraphs and inexplicably made me a Times sports columnist, I knew there would be changes.
March 30, 2006
Real Estate
Regular readers of this column know my opinion of the typical Southern California garage door--the one-piece door that flips up--if the springs aren’t broken, that is.
March 31, 1985
California
A stretch of the double-decked Nimitz Freeway in Oakland collapsed during last week’s earthquake because the top level was not adequately joined to the bottom level, UC Berkeley civil engineers said Wednesday.
Oct. 26, 1989
Caltrans’ chief of structures said Thursday that the very system designed to prevent the Nimitz Freeway from collapsing during an earthquake may have contributed to the magnitude of the double-decker roadway’s failure during the Oct. 17 Bay Area quake.
Oct. 27, 1989