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A totally Californian poet laureate
Wearing jeans, green sneakers, a hipster straw bowler and a Buddhist symbol around his neck, the new poet laureate of California opened his weekly poetry workshop at UC Riverside with stretching and breathing exercises.
"Let's detox our cluttered...Tags: Culture, Education, Politics, Diabetes, University of Iowa
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Baseball: Southern Section playoff pairings (updated)
Varsity Times InsiderSOUTHERN SECTION BASEBALL PLAYOFFS DIVISION 1 First round, Friday, 3:15 p.m. Moorpark at #1 Orange Lutheran King at Vista Murrieta Capistrano Valley at Los Alamitos Riverside Poly at West Ranch Brea Olinda at Agoura Corona at Camarillo El Dorado at...... -
Baseball: Southern Section playoff pairings
Varsity Times InsiderSOUTHERN SECTION BASEBALL PLAYOFFS DIVISION 1 Wild-card games, Tuesday, 3:15 p.m. A--Millikan at Moorpark B--Oxnard Pacifica at Capistrano Valley C--Riverside Poly at Anaheim Canyon D--Brea Olinda at JSerra E--Corona at Valencia F--Huntington Beach at... -
USC to award degrees to Japanese interned during WWII
Friday morning, the USC campus will be filled with smiling students posing for pictures next to the most important people in their lives. For Hitoshi Sameshima, however, graduation comes a little too late.
It's been 70 years since Sameshima attended USC,...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), University of Oregon, University of Washington, University of Denver, Students
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Asian beetle threatens California avocado crops
A tiny Asian beetle could spell big trouble for California's avocado industry.
The insect, known as the tea shot hole borer, has been found on backyard avocado trees in several Southern California communities, where it's spreading a fungus that's... -
Los Angeles Review of Books aims to 'revive' literary culture
On the home page of the Los Angeles Review of Books, a crisp color image of a couple treading water in a pool fills much of the screen. An essay probes the meaning of pools "in our lives and in our art." That piece sits atop a video interview with...Tags: Culture, Amazon.com Inc., Newspaper and Magazine, Newspapers, Arts and Culture
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Happy 150th, land grant universities! Love, Prez Abe
Sevenscore and 10 years ago … is pretty much how University of California President Mark G. Yudof began his remarks on the west lawn of the state Capitol on Monday to mark the sesquicentennial, the 150th anniversary, of President Lincoln’s...
Tags: Arable Farming, Politics, Apple iPad, Agricultural Research and Technology, Abraham Lincoln
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The anti-immigrant game
The Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday on the constitutionality of Arizona's 2010 immigration enforcement law. If upheld, SB 1070 would require local police in most circumstances to determine the immigration status of anyone they stop based only...
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Getty gets NEH grant to organize huge contemporary art archive
Culture MonsterThe Getty Research Institute has received a $230,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to help it organize a huge archive on modern and contemporary art that it acquired last summer. The NEH announced $17 million in grants, including $1.4... -
Garden Grove man convicted of forcing women to perform sex acts
L.A. NOWA Garden Grove man was convicted Wednesday of forcing women to perform sex acts on him in his car after threatening to kill the women with a withdrawn weapon.... -
Juan Felipe Herrera appointed California poet laureate
Jacket CopyJuan Felipe Herrera was appointed California poet laureate by Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday. His 2008 collection "Half of the World in Light" was a winner of that year's National Book Critics Circle award in poetry.... -
Let's bring back the idea of a free UC education
The son of a railroad worker, Earl Warren came from a family keeping a desperate finger hold on a working-class existence at the turn of the last century. Yet when he left high school in Bakersfield in 1908, there was no question where he was headed: to...
Tags: Earl Warren Jr., Finance, Regional Authority, University of California, Berkeley, Immigration
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