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John McPhee

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Hush Puppy Food Fight: Penguin Fish & Chips vs. Charlie's Fish & Chips

    Hush puppies aren't the reason you bought the fried fish platter, but they're maybe what you enjoy most. Once you irrigate your breaded whiting pieces with liberal splashes of hot sauce and tuck them between a few porous slices of tartar-laden bread, these humble balls of fryer-blasted cornmeal dou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    People Read Books! 80 Percent of Californians Have Read One in the Last Month

    Flickr/GoodSquadSarah​ This just in from the "humanity isn't as screwed as we think" department: people read books. A new USC Dornsife College/Los Angeles Times Poll says 80 percent of Californians surveyed have read at least one book in the last month, and 40 percent have read three. Here at ... More >>

  • News

    November 10, 2005

    Green to the Core? — Part 2

    Flickr/GoodSquadSarah​ This just in from the "humanity isn't as screwed as we think" department: people read books. A new USC Dornsife College/Los Angeles Times Poll says 80 percent of Californians surveyed have read at least one book in the last month, and 40 percent have read three. Here at ... More >>

  • News

    September 8, 2005

    Waiting for the End of the World

    Flickr/GoodSquadSarah​ This just in from the "humanity isn't as screwed as we think" department: people read books. A new USC Dornsife College/Los Angeles Times Poll says 80 percent of Californians surveyed have read at least one book in the last month, and 40 percent have read three. Here at ... More >>

  • News

    February 17, 2005

    Fight of the Condors

    Can the giant birds survive Tejon Ranch development?

  • Art+Books

    June 3, 2004

    Dead Men Walking

    Border crossings gone very, very wrong

  • Art+Books

    May 6, 2004

    The Vanishing

    Border crossings gone very, very wrong

  • News

    November 28, 2002

    The Gods of Small Things

    The Center for Biological Diversity cares as much about the unarmored threespine stickleback as it does a cathedral forest of trees, which is why it is reinventing the environmental movement and could be saving Southern California in the process.

  • News

    August 3, 2000

    It’s Not Easy Being Green

    Some brilliant — and bungled — attempts to save the urban forest

  • News

    April 15, 1999

    The Myth of Solid Ground

    On The Science, Pseudoscience and Lunatic Logic of Earthquake Prediction

  • News

    October 1, 1998

    Riding Out the Apocalypse

    the best place to bike when the big one hits

  • News

    February 5, 1998

    Nature Boy

    Adam Werbach’s audacious plan for the Sierra Club

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