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Junipero Serra needs just one more miracle
In a basement at Old Mission Santa Barbara, a filing cabinet is thick with claims of miracles that didn't make the grade.
A man falls off his horse and, thanks to Junipero Serra, he gets up unscathed. A woman visits Serra's tomb in Carmel and something...Tags: John Paul II, Vatican City, Roman Catholicism, Christianity, Diseases and Illnesses
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Kickstarter's growing grass-roots food scene
Kate Koyama moved to Los Angeles from Hardin, Mont., to work in film production, but then a year ago a new dream started to take shape: selling Native American fry bread tacos. She already had her own family recipe, passed down from her Aunt Bernice Cook,...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Documentary (genre), Family, Minority Groups, Movies
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Book review: 'Unfamiliar Fishes' by Sarah Vowell
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSarah Vowell is an intellectual melting pot. Her cleverness is gorgeously American: She collects facts and stores them like a nervous chipmunk, digesting them only for the sake of argument. Her curiosity is fueled by indignation. She insists, like a...Tags: Book, African Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Minority Groups
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Diabetes belt: American South gets more health notoriety
First, we had the "stroke belt," a swath of the American South characterized by those with unmanaged high blood pressure and a sedentary lifestyle. Then, we got the "obesity belt," a portion of Southern geography inhabited by a number of folks with...Tags: African Americans, Obesity, Weight, Medical Research, Diseases and Illnesses
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A wired world sees the horror as it happens
After the quake, it took 45 minutes for the tsunami to reach the coast of Japan — 45 minutes of knowing, of waiting, of bracing.
When it came, they were all glued to their televisions — a Jesuit priest in New York, an engineering professor in...Tags: Tsunamis, Japan, Abusive Behavior, Engineering, Social Issues
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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: Fiction, Restraint of Trade, Cormac McCarthy, Graham Greene, Corporate Crime
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Home of the Week: A hillside hideaway with a Hollywood vibe
Two-time Oscar-nominated actress Natalie Portman slept here. So did pop sensation Joe Jonas. Just not at the same time.
A quintessentially Hollywood vibe blends with echoes of Roaring '20s elegance in this well-preserved Spanish Colonial Revival home....Tags: Joe Jonas, Natalie Portman, Jim Henson, Rentals, Minority Groups
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Monticello's preservation forever linked to Jewish family
Special to the Los Angeles TimesI've never met an American who didn't have a soft spot in his heart for Thomas Jefferson and Monticello, his home and plantation in Charlottesville. After his term as president expired in 1809, Jefferson lived full time at Monticello. The house, which...Tags: Judaism, Politics, Trips and Vacations, Theodore Roosevelt, Minority Groups
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The future of Tahoe's famed Thunderbird is up in the air
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIts deep-throated engines temporarily squelched, the Thunderbird idles in the crystal-clear waters of Lake Tahoe, a few hundred yards offshore from Crystal Bay, Nev. A rubber dinghy sidles up to the elegant 55-foot speedboat. Terry Clapham, one of the...Tags: Property, Heads of State, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Minority Groups, Tony Bennett
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Weekend Plans? Explore Art in Arizona.
A place of sweeping beauty and cultural diversity, Arizona is a haven of enlightenment for artists and aficionados alike. Take a long weekend and see what inspires you.
Scottsdale
Visit Scottsdale for Old West charm and Native American craftsmanship....Tags: Human Interest, Arts and Culture, Mining, Arts, Minority Groups
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New Year, Renewed Spirit
Breakaway from holiday stress and embark on a getaway you and your friends will never forget. Rest, relax and enjoy the view, because Arizona is where memories are made.
Rest assured
You were looking for rejuvenation and the Grand Canyon State is...Tags: Personal Service, Human Interest, Phoenix (Maricopa, Arizona), Minority Groups, Tucson
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Researcher gave the Chumash a gift: their heritage
Everyone thought the tall, strange white man was some kind of genius. But to teenage Ernestine De Soto he was a giant pain in the neck, a nosy, "Ichabod Crane-like" character who drew her mother's attention from its rightful place -- on her.
John Peabody...Tags: Museum Dioramas, Documentary (genre), Family, Movies, Social Issues
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