Sometime during the night of November 7th, 2018 the winds shifted over the Sierra Nevada. Winds blowing east from the Pacific were…
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On December 6th, 2020 San Francisco locked down for the second time in nine months. You could almost hear the collective groan…
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This self-guided tour of the Charles Manson murder sites in and around Los Angeles is designed to take three hours. By following…
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As a child he witnessed magic. Among the spires of orange and russet rock, in the shadows of parapets ribboned with plum…
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Southwest Texas is vast, and mostly empty. From San Antonio to El Paso, a distance of 550 miles, no town larger than…
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She was not a good student. She had tried college and it hadn’t really worked out. She had fallen in with a…
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“What a piece of human trash.” “Should have put him in front of a wall and shot him.” “This dude is a…
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It was awful, one of the most disgraceful examples of urban blight imaginable. Block after block of gorgeous buildings gone to seed,…
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In the months following the murder there was scarcely an hour when the earth did not shake. The sound of it was…
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Here’s a tip for any would-be hikers out there. Don’t trust the Internet. The trouble is anyone can post anything on the…