Racing! A brief conversation with Aidan Butler

Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we send you a YouTube clip that is guaranteed to make you laugh. At the recent California Horse Racing Board meeting a bunch of reporters (including me) caught up with Aidan Butler, acting chief executive of California racing for The…

By JohnValbyNation November 24, 2019 0

Earthquake: 6.3 quake strikes near Adak, Alaska

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake was reported Saturday afternoon at 4:54 p.m. 65 miles from Adak, Alaska, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. No tsunami warning was issued. Click Here: jean paul gaultier perfume In the past 10 days, there has been one earthquake of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby. The earthquake occurred at a…

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Newsletter: Evil in the shadow of Disneyland, and the detective who cracked the case

Today’s special Sunday edition of the Essential California newsletter comes from Los Angeles Times Deputy Managing Editor Shelby Grad: What happened on the streets of Orange County in 2013 was evil. Women were being grabbed, their bodies later dumped in a local landfill. Two men were eventually arrested, labeled serial killers. There was public outrage,…

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Cate Blanchett is fun to watch in the otherwise mixed 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette'

New on Blu-ray “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” (20th Century Fox DVD, $29.98; Blu-ray, $34.99; also available on VOD) In the dramedy, Cate Blanchett plays a cranky, agoraphobic architect who mysteriously disappears, leaving her precocious teenage daughter, Bee (played by Emma Nelson) to piece together the meaning of her life. Maria Semple’s bestselling novel tells Bernadette’s…

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Raymond Kappe, California architect promoted pre-fab as environmentally friendly, has died

Raymond Kappe’s first attempt to shape the future of California architecture ended in failure. After starting the architecture program at Cal Poly Pomona in 1968, he was fired as the department’s chairman. Kappe said it was because his program was too “free-swinging.” Undaunted, he recruited six faculty members — future Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne,…

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