Tibby Rothman

On a February night in L.A., SCI-Arc, the city's uberhip architecture school, is a mob scene of an opening. Architect Patrick Tighe has taken over a gallery — or rather, a parabola-shaped room he designed in collaboration with composer Ken Ueno. Its undulating, 20-foot-high, teepee-like envelope was formed from liquid foam......

Jamie Court is eating lunch and talking about Google. Or rather, he's speaking voluminously in a rat-a-tat of sentences about the Internet giant, between occasional fork-stabs of salad. It's four days before Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, is set to appear at a Sacramento press conference to announce the introduction......

At night, the now-banned flares that once erupted from oil company smokestacks turned the industrial scape around Wilmington into Dante's Inferno, a postapocalyptic scene for drivers passing by on the 110 freeway. But to families and children who worked and lived there and in nearby cities upwind, such as Carson,......

Heidi Lemmon was warned not to go to Nepal. It was 2005 and the country's political instability had prompted the U.S. government to issue a travel advisory. But Lemmon, executive director of SkatePark Association International, was on a mission. Nepalese skateboarder Ram Koirala had worked hard to establish a skate......