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Margaret Runyan Castaneda dies at 90; ex-wife of mystic author
They were an unlikely couple, the Latin American immigrant and the West Virginia divorcee whose paths crossed in mid-1950s Los Angeles.
But, by Margaret Runyan Castaneda's account, she and Carlos Castaneda were kindred spirits whose time together...Tags: Union Carbide Corp., Teaching and Learning, Mexico, Heart Attack, Family
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Book review: 'The Border Lords' by T. Jefferson Parker
Los Angeles TimesWhen it comes to the crime-based fiction that long has played such an important role in the literary life of Los Angeles, we're living through what amounts to a golden age. The dark ecstasies of James Ellroy, Michael Connelly's artful probing of the...Tags: Crimes, Corporate Crime, Book, Michael Connelly, Fiction
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Book review: 'The Four Fingers of Death' by Rick Moody
The Four Fingers of Death
A Novel
Rick Moody
Little, Brown: 730 pp., $25.99
Rick Moody grew up on a nutritious diet of Pynchon, Vonnegut (to whom this book is dedicated), Roth and Updike, some Melville and Hawthorne for New England-style moralizing, a...Tags: Crimes, Book, Space Programs, NASA, Science and Technology
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A quarter-century marriage to a man behind bars
First of Three Parts
The summer after her first year of law school, Pamela Dowden dug a red calico sundress out of her closet and left her apartment in Sacramento. It was a hot, shadeless morning. She drove her orange Datsun pickup out of town as...Tags: Crimes, Billiards, Snooker and Pool, Science and Technology, First Data Corporation, Sicilian Mafia
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David Baldacci will ruin you
Young people are constantly being warned that the information they include in their Facebook profiles could eventually come back to haunt them. Photographs of bacchanalian escapades, catastrophic sartorial decisions or intimate moments with toothless,...Tags: Adam Sandler, Jane Austen, Fishing, Hugo Chavez, Jean-Paul Sartre
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Straddling the old world and the new in 'The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire'
The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire
A Tejano Elegy
John Phillip Santos
Viking: 280 pp., $25.95
John Phillip Santos went in search of his Mexican father's indigenous roots in his 1999 National Book Award finalist, "Places Left Unfinished at the...Tags: Gaming, Lana Turner, Tennessee Williams, Family, Trips and Vacations
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Juan Valdez pours fresh cup to get cafe cachet
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe ever-faithful mule is still by his side, the poncho neatly draped over his shoulder, the straw hat perched atop the serene, mustachioed visage. But this is a new Juan Valdez -- younger, more vigorous, more eco-conscious -- a Colombian coffee grower...Tags: Portland (Multnomah, Oregon), Colombia, Bogota (Colombia), YouTube, University of Miami
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Testing mushrooms' magic
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterResting on a hospital bed beneath a tie-dyed wall hanging, Pamela Sakuda felt a tingling sensation. Then bright colors started shimmering in her head. She had been depressed since being diagnosed with colon cancer two years earlier, but as the...Tags: Crimes, Gaming, Headaches, Mushrooms, Anxiety
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Dads Arrested For Attempted Robbery While Kids Waited In Car
FOX40 NewsTwo young fathers are in Sacramento County Jail accused of trying to rob a business while their kids were waiting in a car. Sacramento police Sgt. Norm Leong says 27-year-old Carlos Castaneda and 25-year-old Jamone Paiva walked into a convenience store...Tags: Crimes, Theft, Crime, Law and Justice
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TeWinkle learning model helping struggling students
COSTA MESA — In just two second-period English classes at TeWinkle Intermediate School, students reading performance ranged from "at grade level" to first grade and English-language learners. "That's a big gap for our teachers to cover," said...Tags: Education, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Rich Rodriguez
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