A blood test to predict behavior? Charles Baxter finds humor in that terrifying premise
book review Blood test: a comedy By Charles BaxterPantheon: 224 pages, $28If you buy books linked to on our site,…
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Don't blame the human residents of Sierra Madre for your bear problem
September 24, 2024 3 am Pacific Time To the editor: In her article on bear problems in the Sierra Madre,…
Dave Navarro regrets Jane's Addiction tour and is ready to move on
If you're wondering what Jane's Addiction's split and Walt Whitman's groundbreaking “Leaves of Grass” have in common, let rocker Dave…
Jane's Addiction cancels reunion tour after apology
Jane's Addiction abruptly canceled the remainder of its reunion tour after an onstage fight between singer Perry Farrell and guitarist…
Self-proclaimed Anaheim 'incel' gets prison sentence for hate crimes
An Anaheim man and self-described “incel” who admitted to committing hate crimes by pepper-spraying several people was sentenced this week…
How Shannen Doherty was portrayed as the stereotypical bad girl 'Veronica'
As Brenda Walsh on “Beverly Hills 90210,” Shannen Doherty represented a bit of reverse typecasting. She was a sultry, dark-haired…
Are we saying the F word about returning shopping carts? Oh!
To the editor: Thanks to letter writer Julie Atherton of Tustin for writing about civility in the shopping cart return…
California surfboard-stealing sea otter returns to Santa Cruz coast
Social media lit up this past holiday weekend with the return of Santa Cruz's most famous marine mammal: the surfboard-stealing…
Sacha Baron Cohen's chapter of Rebel Wilson is missing some edits
It seems that Rebel Wilson and her team decided to prevent parts of her book “Rebel Rising” from hitting some…
Too obsessed with Taylor Swift? Could be a coping mechanism
While researching “Cultish,” her book on “the language of cults from Scientology to SoulCycle,” the writer Amanda Montell I kept…