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June 2, 2010

Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

On April 27, Janet Napolitano pronounced that the border separating the United States from the Republic of Mexico is more secure than ever. “I say this again as someone who has walked that border,” the former Arizona governor told a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, which …

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February 11, 2010

Orange County's Sexiest Cities

Would we give Fullerton our real number? Would we kick Dana Point outta bed for eatin’ crackers? And just how drunk would we have to be to hook up with Fountain Valley? We thought very long and very hard about these questions as they relate to every incorporated city in Orange County and our next-door-neighbor-with-benefits, …

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January 22, 2004

No Durn Fool

Behold ye, milk-fed city slickers, the imperial countenance of old-timey songster Doc Watson: craggy, stony, lined and timeworn; baked like hardtack; magnificently primal, yet full of tacit mountain wisdom. Faces like this come to us in modern times only from half-forgotten dreams, dimly recalled from grainy movies we glimpsed as children. Consider the connotations of …

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August 21, 2003

American Splendors

Outside of Clint Eastwood, no modern film star has remained more stubbornly committed to making Westerns—or had more luck at getting them made—than Kevin Costner. And Costner's case is all the more remarkable in that he came to the genre in a moviemaking era that deemed Westerns commercially unviable. His three films as director—the naive …

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