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This week we visit Monterey’s Cannery Row and the world-class Monterey Bay Aquarium, which was among the first to recognize that by focusing on the local…

There is much we don't know about California's buried past. Author Tony Platt wrote a book about the plundering of Native American graves. Local writer…

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matt Richtel wrote A Deadly Wandering, a nonfiction narrative that was selected as this year's Book in Common. It is a…

We head Up the Road this week to Mariposa at the southern end of California’s famous Mother Lode, where John C. and Jesse Fremont once called home some 70…

Award-winning investigative journalist Mary Roach writes humorously about weird science. In her latest book she examines the curious science of humans at…

The featured speaker at this year's fundraiser for the Jesus Center is best-selling author Paul Young. Their Spring Luncheon takes place April 21. This…

Motivational speaker Noah Johnson has created programs in youth centers and juvenile detention centers to inspire and motivate young men to overcome…

This week we appreciate New York-based writer and New Journalist Joan Didion, born and raised in Sacramento, the Big Tomato. Pioneer stock. Some of her…

If you’re a Californian you’ve probably had the experience of touching down elsewhere in this vast wonderland—somewhere in the Midwest, say, where…

Sociology professor Tony Waters has written a second book about the influence of German sociologist Max Weber. His latest book is “Max Weber and the…