Life on Enceladus

from National Geographic Right Stuff for Life Found on Small Saturn Moon Data from a dead spacecraft suggest that this world may be the best place besides Earth for life as we know it. BY NADIA DRAKE On Saturn’s small moon Enceladus, perpetual fountains of alien...

California Missions

from The LA Times A history of California’s missions By CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS 1542 Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sails into San Pedro Bay and claims the California coast for the king of Spain. 1697 Spanish Catholic missionaries from the Jesuit order begin...

Won’t You Be My Neighbor

from The Village Voice “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” and Mister Rogers Insist Humanity Can Be Better Than This by LARA ZARUM If your cold, cold heart doesn’t melt at some point during Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, the documentary about Fred “Mister” Rogers, well, I don’t...

The Water Wars

from the LA Times via Bristol Herald Courier One of LA’s oldest community gardens thrived for decades. Then the water wars began By Joe Mozingo For more than 40 years, Italian, Mexican, Croatian, Filipino, Indonesian and Laotian gardeners have built productive...