Remember the California Condor? Twenty-five years or so ago there was, like, 12 left. That’s an exaggeration; there were 22. Remember the grim documentary, probably from National Geographic, depicting the bird’s dire situation? Ecologists were wringing their hands over whether … Continue reading
Daily Archives: July 31, 2012
A Fatal Twist of Lemon by Patrice Greenwood Cops drink coffee. They don’t belong in Ellen Rosings’s Victorian tearoom. But when her opening day thank-you tea ends in the murder of the president of the Santa Fe Preservation Trust, the … Continue reading
Ursula K. Le Guin has been awarded UC Riverside’s Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award: “RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin, special effects creator Raymond F. Harryhausen and Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee will be recognized with the J. Lloyd … Continue reading