Column: Check it out: mayor, writer recall girlhoods at library

In Riverside, the new Main Library is a real eye-catcher, set to open late next month. On Wednesday, Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson and writer Susan Straight met up there for a livestreamed chat to talk about books and their memories of the previous library. I was there to witness, and I write about it in Friday’s column. The tail end has a few other notes from the day I spent in Riverside and, for good measure, an item about Pomona.

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Column: Baez’ ’64 U of R show packed seats and stage alike

Information on Joan Baez’ Redlands years has continued to come in despite 2 1/2 previous columns on the subject, and I am helpless to ignore it. In my defense, I got 20 years of occasional columns out of Frank Zappa’s Cucamonga, Ontario and Pomona years. Also, I write about an angle unexplored before: her 1964 evening concert at University of Redlands. (The afternoon concert at Redlands High was a previous topic.) And so, Baez in Redlands makes up Sunday’s column.

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Column: Local cities got name-checked in ‘Inlandia’ anthology

The “Inlandia” literary anthology was a recent column topic. In reading the book, a few amusing quotes jumped out at me. I collect ’em, with commentary, in Friday’s column.

It’s been a while since I wrote a column of fiction quotes about the region. A bunch more such quotes are saved up, and I’ll try to present those in the near future, now that this column lays some groundwork.

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