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Laken Riley: How a gruesome attack changed this running trail
1 month ago

Laken Riley: How a gruesome attack changed this running trail

CNN  

Athens, Georgia CNN — The five pairs of sneakers resting in front of a popular wooded trail serve as a daily reminder of the run Laken Riley never finished. “I became really vigilant.” UGA juniors Victoria Kota and Will Brenneman enjoy visiting Oconee Forest Park near Lake Herrick, but they say the tragedy of Laken Riley's death has affected the …

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California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick opens up at the L.A. Times Book Club
1 year ago

California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick opens up at the L.A. Times Book Club

LA Times  

California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick is the author of “Scar and Flower.” Poet Laureate Lee Herrick, who celebrates his home state in “My California,” joined the L.A. Times Book Club on Dec. 12. As California’s 10th poet laureate, he has spent the past year on the road visiting schools, libraries, book festivals, poetry slams and community groups and down the …

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From high schools to prison: Why California’s poet laureate is always on the road
1 year, 1 month ago

From high schools to prison: Why California’s poet laureate is always on the road

LA Times  

When California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick shares his travel schedule with his friends, he says they often compare it to the itinerary of a band on tour. “It’s always eye-opening,” he said, “but I say it most everywhere I read, the people in prisons are Californians too.” Herrick especially loves visiting high schools and meeting the future leaders of California. …

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Texas is terrifying — and Hollywood has noticed
1 year, 1 month ago

Texas is terrifying — and Hollywood has noticed

Raw Story  

Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. More than 1,000 horror films — from “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” to “Friday the 13th” — have been made in the Lone Star State. Other horror movies filmed in Texas include “The Faculty” …

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Sea lions are washing ashore sick, aggressive. How to help
1 year, 5 months ago

Sea lions are washing ashore sick, aggressive. How to help

LA Times  

Algae blooming along the California coast — so toxic that it’s causing fatal brain damage in sea lions and dolphins — has reached San Diego, resulting in a recent surge of sick and potentially aggressive animals washing ashore. “We see these animals coming in every year, but this is just a big bloom,” said SeaWorld San Diego veterinarian Dr. Kelsey …

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Teen held in Texas school shooting that left 1 dead, 1 hurt
1 year, 9 months ago

Teen held in Texas school shooting that left 1 dead, 1 hurt

Associated Press  

ARLINGTON, Texas — A 15-year-old arrested in a fatal shooting outside a Dallas-area high school will remain in custody following a Tuesday detention hearing, the boy’s lawyer said. The early-morning gunfire prompted officials at Lamar High School to lock the building down for hours, although police said they arrested a student on a capital murder charge stemming from the shooting …

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Venus: Scientists get first direct geological evidence of an active volcano
1 year, 9 months ago

Venus: Scientists get first direct geological evidence of an active volcano

The Hindu  

A fresh analysis of radar images obtained more than three decades ago has yielded new evidence indicating Venus, Earth’s planetary next-door neighbour, is currently volcanically active - a dynamic world with eruptions and lava flows. Researchers said on Wednesday radar images taken by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft showed that a volcanic vent about 1.6 km wide on the Venusian surface expanded …

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Kippered, a bar focused on bubbles and tinned fish, to open downtown
2 years, 8 months ago

Kippered, a bar focused on bubbles and tinned fish, to open downtown

LA Times  

Co-owners Reed Herrick and Lydia Clarke, at Kippered, a new bar with a focus on tinned fish and sparkling wine. Lydia Clarke and Reed Herrick are opening Kippered in the space formerly occupied by Bernadette’s at 361 S. Broadway near 4th Street, on the same block as Grand Central Market. Clarke and Herrick, who opened DTLA Cheese in Grand Central …

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Hollywood ignored women. Academy Museum’s female curators aren’t making the same mistake
3 years, 3 months ago

Hollywood ignored women. Academy Museum’s female curators aren’t making the same mistake

LA Times  

During the silent era, there were plenty of female editors. “I’d say overarchingly, that’s sort of the moment when women got pushed out of that field.” Over the years, rigorous scholarship has unearthed hidden stories about underappreciated women, Serrano says. The Academy Museum’s animation gallery includes a fascinating German woman named Lotte Reiniger, who in 1926 made the first surviving …

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Small Texas town revels in watching Dodgers pitcher Dustin May blossom so close to home
4 years, 2 months ago

Small Texas town revels in watching Dodgers pitcher Dustin May blossom so close to home

LA Times  

The first time Dustin May set the Twitter-sphere aflame with a two-seam fastball that made a fool of a four-time All-Star, a small enclave of Dodgers fans in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, rejoiced. To hear May’s high school coach tell it, most in the blue-collar community of about 4,000 are devotees of the Dodgers’ star rookie pitcher. It’s really cool …

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