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88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?... -
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Special to the Los Angeles TimesMaking Supper Safe Why We've Lost Trust in Our Food and How We Can Get It Back Ben Hewitt Rodale: 265 pp., $24.99 The statistics are shocking: "More than 200,000 Americans are sickened by food every day, and each year 325,000 of us will be...Tags: Conservation, Natural Resources, Spike Lee, John Jacobs, New Year's Day
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Al Boeke dies at 88; 'father' of Northern California's Sea Ranch
Al Boeke, the developer-architect whose vision spawned Sea Ranch, the sprawling Northern California coastal enclave known for elegantly rustic homes built to harmonize with a breathtaking natural landscape, died Nov. 8 at his home there. He was 88 and had...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Liver Cancer, Arts and Culture, Architecture, Charles Moore
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Reading L.A.: Marc Reisner's 'Cadillac Desert'
Culture MonsterMarc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water," the 11th title in our Reading L.A. series, is not, strictly speaking, a book about Los Angeles or its urban form. It is a book -- a monumental, sharply...... -
L.A. names school after Al Gore -- but will students be safe?
L.A. NOWL.A. school officials have named a school after Al Gore, making him the first vice president to receive such an honor. Yet there are concerns over the school -- not over Al Gore's name but because some critics fear the...... -
Reading L.A.: Richard G. Lillard on the growth machine and its discontents
Culture MonsterNew essay in Reading L.A. series by architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne, this one on the book Eden in Jeopardy by Richard G. Lillard, a book on architecture, the environment, ecology and growth in Los Angeles and Southern California.... -
Food books, a feast of ideas
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThere's a Calvinist streak marbling the fat of any good American eater: One hand giveth and the other taketh away. I should. I shouldn't. Pleasure and pain. I want it but I shouldn't have it. This is a good time to reflect on just how American our...Tags: Services and Shopping, Science and Technology, Distilling and Brewing Industry, Global Change, Books and Magazines
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Book review: 'The View from Lazy Point' by Carl Safina
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe View from Lazy Point A Natural Year in an Unnatural World Carl Safina Henry Holt: 416 pp., $30 "The View from Lazy Point" is a naturalist's notebook, a record of a year at Carl Safina's home on the Sound side of eastern Long Island, north of...Tags: Conservation, Fishing, Book, Nature, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Ed Begley Jr.: Big green man
I once tried to pick up Ed Begley Jr.
Before your mind dives for the gutter, it was 2004, not long after Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor, and I rented a Hummer to write about whether it was all that its most famous fancier believed it to be. I...Tags: Drama (genre), Documentary (genre), Meryl Streep, Ed Begley, Fox Broadcasting Company
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John McPhee's new book gets personal
There's a fault line opening in John McPhee. After 28 books and countless essays, he is giving us, bit by bit, a more personal sense of who he is. In a recent, beautiful piece for the New Yorker, he combined an essay on pickerel with memories of his...Tags: Entertainment, Newspaper and Magazine, Bill Bradley, Science and Technology, Gaming
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Artist Bruce Nauman skywrites over Pasadena
Culture MonsterDown on the ground, it was a Saturday morning pretty much like any other in the Arroyo Seco's Brookside Park, a stone's throw from Pasadena's Rose Bowl. Kids were playing soccer, vendors hawked ice cream, families were heading to the...... -
'Mad Men': 'Seven Twenty Three'
Show TrackerSo, no one lost a foot this episode. Come on, you blood-thirsty animals, we canâ??t have a severed extremity every show. For those counting the violent acts, Don was clocked in the back of a head by a seemingly future......
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