Seeking community but finding a cult in the compelling 'Las Brujas de Bellinas'
Book Review The witches of Bellinas By J. Nicole JonesCatapult: 240 pages, $27If you buy books linked to on our…
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Opinion: Is the Los Angeles City Council serious about ethics reform?
The Los Angeles city government has a corruption problem. Since 2020, three Los Angeles council members and a former deputy…
Opinion: You don't want Biden or Trump to have that much power? Maybe the United States needs a polypresidency
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Pennsylvania delegate James Wilson raised an apparently un-American idea. He said the executive branch…
Man dies after alleged attack on San Bernardino County deputy
Detectives with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department are investigating the death of a Rancho Cucamonga man who had been…
Cola Boyy, Oxnard funk innovator and disabled activist, dies
Matthew Urango, the Oxnard-raised singer, multi-instrumentalist and activist who performed as Cola Boyy, has died. He was 34 years old.…
The idea that black people can't be racist is absurd.
To the editor: After reading Clyde W. Ford's article defending former WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes for saying black people can't…
Anti-gender activism brings us closer to authoritarianism
In the United States, gender has been considered a relatively common term. We are asked to check a box on…
Anti-Trans GOP Foolishly Tries to Legislate Biological 'Truth'
To the editor: Proposals to legally define sex as binary – thus officially ostracizing the estimated 1.3 million transgender adults…
The plane lost power and was crashing. Luckily for a Santa Rosa family, the plane had a parachute
Three passengers on a small plane that lost engine power minutes after takeoff suffered only minor injuries after the pilot…
A critic has some ideas about our critical culture. Feel free to disagree
Book Review Without judgment: essays By Lauren OylerHarperOne: 288 pages, $28.99If you buy books linked to on our site, The…