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March 21, 2012
Entertainment & Arts
Amy Herzog’s ‘4000 Miles,’ directed by Mark Rucker, is a coming-of-age drama that finds laughter in cockeyed yet utterly believable detail.
Jan. 29, 2013
‘4000 Miles’ leads audience on a complex journey through life
Set in one room, the South Coast Rep production goes further than many works in presenting meaningful character interaction.
Oct. 29, 2013
Sports
They had a deal, Mark Plaatjes said, and Rolando Vera didn’t keep up his end of it.
March 6, 1995
In the end Rolando Vera of Ecuador took the $3,000 first-place money in the inaugural Trib 10 kilometer road race.
May 21, 1990
California
Like so many times before, Philip Vera Cruz, a 60-year-old Filipino farm worker, was picking grapes one hot, late-summer afternoon in the San Joaquin Valley.
Aug. 4, 1992
Vera, the old Greenwich Village lefty with bad hearing and some trouble remembering words, was the main attraction of “4000 Miles,” Amy Herzog’s critically acclaimed drama about progressive politics and the generation gap.
April 30, 2015
Books
Ramona Ausubel’s third novel, ‘The Last Animal,’ follows a scientist and her children on a globetrotting quest to resurrect a mammoth and save the world.
April 18, 2023
Neither slippery streets nor soggy sneakers deterred the runners, bicyclists and wheelchair racers in Sunday’s 10th annual Los Angeles Marathon, although the unrelenting rainstorm cut back on traditional crowds of sidewalk fans and party animals.