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    Aug 27, 2011 |Column| Los Angeles Times
  1. Patt Morrison Asks: The poet, W.S. Merwin

    An Idaho resort hotel's verdure is not the wild tumble around W.S. Merwin's beloved Hawaiian home, but disciplined grass and orderly stands of trees. Not, perhaps, the sort of trees Merwin had in mind when he wrote, "On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree." But the Sun Valley Writers' Conference bears an annual crop of words and ideas, and Merwin is here as a master gardener of that. He just ended a year's term as the nation's poet laureate. He <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/merwin/">has to his name two Pulitzer Prizes and more than 30 books of poetry and prose</a>, and a hand-planted forest at home of rare and endangered palms. <a href="http://www.merwinconservancy.org/">The Merwin Conservancy</a> is dedicated to keeping his works green -- the ones he created with words, and the natural ones that exist before and beyond them.
    An Idaho resort hotel's verdure is not the wild tumble around W.S. Merwin's beloved Hawaiian home, but disciplined grass and orderly stands of trees. Not, perhaps, the sort of trees Merwin had in mind when he wrote, "On the last day of the world I would...

    Tags: W.H. Auden, File Sharing, Genesis (music group), Radio, Star Trek (movie, 2009)

  2. Sep 3, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  3. Bel-Air estate was a nature sanctuary – amid mansions

    Imagine it is Labor Day 1924. You've just finished dinner on the porch, the kids are playing next door and the radio just tuned in: "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Today's story is about bestselling author Gene Stratton-Porter. At this very moment she's building a castle in Bel-Air and making her garden a bird and wildflower sanctuary."
    Imagine it is Labor Day 1924. You've just finished dinner on the porch, the kids are playing next door and the radio just tuned in: "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Today's story is about bestselling author Gene Stratton-Porter. At this very moment...

    Tags: Porter, Paris Hilton, Wildflowers, Conservation, Photography

  4. Aug 21, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  5. Peter Berg dies at 73; advocate for bioregionalism

    When thousands of American youths dropped out of mainstream society and descended on San Francisco in the mid-1960s convulsion known as the counterculture, Peter Berg and a small band of like-minded subversives were there to greet them.
    When thousands of American youths dropped out of mainstream society and descended on San Francisco in the mid-1960s convulsion known as the counterculture, Peter Berg and a small band of like-minded subversives were there to greet them. Calling...

    Tags: Fiction, Conservation, U.S. Army, Natural Resource Industry, Pulitzer Prize Awards

  6. Oct 3, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  7. Proposed Keystone XL oil project draws a divisive line

    <b>Reporting from Atkinson, Neb.</b>
    Reporting from Atkinson, Neb. Some might have been surprised to hear that plans to build a 1,700-mile oil pipeline through the Midwest to the Gulf Coast — a source of new oil and thousands of jobs — would drive an emotional fault line down...

    Tags: Unions, U.S. Department of State, Conservation, Career and Workplace, Petroleum Industry

  8. Sep 25, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  9. The Siren's Call: Step right up!

    The novel <strong>"The Night Circus"</strong> (Doubleday: 387 pp., $26.95) is receiving a good deal of attention, and it's rightly deserved &mdash; even though some comparisons of Erin Morgenstern's fable to other popular books seem sky-high and unfair (to her). Does anyone's book, for instance, really deserve the pressure of being called the next Harry Potter? Can anyone live up to that?
    The novel "The Night Circus" (Doubleday: 387 pp., $26.95) is receiving a good deal of attention, and it's rightly deserved — even though some comparisons of Erin Morgenstern's fable to other popular books seem sky-high and unfair (to her). Does...

    Tags: Fiction, Book, Circuses, Entertainment, Harry Potter (fictional character)

  10. Sep 27, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  11. Wangari Maathai dies at 71; Kenyan environmentalist

    Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist who made it her mission to teach her countrywomen to plant trees and became Africa's first female Nobel Peace Prize winner, has died. She was 71.
    Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist who made it her mission to teach her countrywomen to plant trees and became Africa's first female Nobel Peace Prize winner, has died. She was 71. One of Kenya's most beloved figures, Maathai died Sunday after...

    Tags: National Government, Nairobi (Kenya), Prisons, Prisoners and Detainees, Consumers

  12. Oct 14, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  13. Rick Perry talks energy, slams Herman Cain's '9-9-9' plan

    Friday marked the day Rick Perry finally tried to go on offense.
    Friday marked the day Rick Perry finally tried to go on offense. First he blitzed the network morning shows, then he delivered a detailed speech on energy policy in Pittsburgh. All before lunch. It amounted to what felt like a new chapter in the Texas...

    Tags: Natural Gas, Energy, Barack Obama, ABC (tv network), Economy, Business and Finance

  14. Jul 10, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  15. Anne LaBastille dies at 77; naturalist inspired women to explore outdoors

    Naturalist Anne LaBastille became something of a cult hero among modern women for embracing a distinctly frontier past.
    Naturalist Anne LaBastille became something of a cult hero among modern women for embracing a distinctly frontier past. When her marriage fell apart in the mid-1960s, she took refuge in the wilderness, building a log cabin on a hidden lake in the...

    Tags: Firearms, Natural Resource Industry, Wildlife, Environmental Issues, Colleges and Universities

  16. Aug 21, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  17. Manifest Destiny, in art

    In 1861 Carleton Watkins took the definitive picture of Yosemite Valley from the aptly named Inspiration Point. The sheer granite wall of El Capitan, as sharp as if cut with a cleaver, fills one side of the photo. A rising tier of rock monoliths marches up the other, with a slender waterfall cascading off the side. If someone painted a picture of the scene, you wouldn't believe such a place could really exist.
    In 1861 Carleton Watkins took the definitive picture of Yosemite Valley from the aptly named Inspiration Point. The sheer granite wall of El Capitan, as sharp as if cut with a cleaver, fills one side of the photo. A rising tier of rock monoliths marches...

    Tags: John Muir, Hudson River, Thomas Moran, Arts, Petroleum Industry

  18. Jul 24, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  19. Discoveries: 'The Chairs Are Where the People Go' by Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti

    The Chairs Are Where the People Go
    Los Angeles Times
    The Chairs Are Where the People Go How to Live, Work, and Play in the City Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti Faber and Faber:: 175 pp., $13 paper Sheila Heti wanted to write about her friend Misha Glouberman. The Canadian performance artists had...

    Tags: Russia, Chess Playing, Human Interest, John Hay, Vladimir Putin

  20. Jul 24, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  21. Book Review: 'An Ideal Wine' by David Darlington

    An Ideal Wine
    Los Angeles Times
    An Ideal Wine One Generation's Pursuit of Perfection — and Profit — in California David Darlington Harper: 356 pp., $26.99 The California wine business is full of contradictions. Little wonder. On the one hand, the industry cultivates...

    Tags: Grapes, Book, Human Interest, Jacques Derrida, Alcoholic Beverages

  22. Jul 1, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  23. Market Watch: Country Fresh Herbs sprouts up

    A relative newcomer to farmers markets, Country Fresh Herbs offers a gorgeous display of heirloom tomatoes, salad greens, specialty peppers, lemon cucumbers and Romanesco zucchini. But even more intriguing is the story of the family that brings this produce to market.
    A relative newcomer to farmers markets, Country Fresh Herbs offers a gorgeous display of heirloom tomatoes, salad greens, specialty peppers, lemon cucumbers and Romanesco zucchini. But even more intriguing is the story of the family that brings this...

    Tags: Restaurants, Career and Workplace, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure, Apricots

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