The word baan means a house or a home. It can also mean a village, but it goes deeper than that, it speaks to the heart. Which to me is where food comes from. I was born and raised in Bangkok and have spent more than half my life in Thailand, as a…
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Laura J. Nelson
– Mar 24, 7:21 PM
Every day at 3 p.m., Henry Tseng arrived at a gym on the Westside for his daily workout — not an unusual sight in Los Angeles, except Tseng was 111. Tseng's passion for physical fitness made him something of a local celebrity at the Collins…
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Lynell George
– Mar 24, 3:05 AM
Early in 1963 — in the midst of wrangling with a local printer who refused to set type for a text vivid with expletives — Lawrence Ferlinghetti drafted a letter to his friend and fellow poet, Allen Ginsberg: “If it weren't for…
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Alejandra Reyes-Velarde
– Mar 14, 1:00 PM
In the hills of Lake Elsinore, children carried drooping apricot-colored poppies while panting dogs ran alongside them, their paws tainted orange. Girls braided flowers into their hair and nature photographers juggled tripods and cameras, waiting…
