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This week’s column is all about scandalous and unconventional women. From fictionalized narratives of the controversial Zelda Fitzgerald to real-life footage of flappers, your commute will be sassier and more entertaining with these picks. &nbsp...

Who: Jana Neudeck-Helmig – Real Estate Broker Where: Indian Wells – Palm Springs, California Indian Wells is set in the California desert and is known for its international tennis tournament Parts of the Coachella Valley in California – known for the...

September 29 In History 480 BCE : The Greeks defeat the Persian fleet of Xerxes I at the Battle of Salamis.  At this time Judah and Jerusalem were part of the Persian Empire .  Xerxes reigned from 483 BCE to 465 BCE which meant that he was a contemporary...

In the year 1956, Anastacia Fotopoulos finds herself pregnant and betrayed, fleeing from a bad marriage. With the love and support of her dear friends Stavros and Soula Papadakis, Ana is able to face the challenges of single motherhood. Left with emotional...

LOS ANGELES, whose sprawling internal combustion–driven all-consuming reaches I fled half a century ago, remains embedded in my imagination, so that even at this remove it appears unpredictably in my poems, fruitful goop bubbling up from the unconscious...