Welcome to one of the most confusing parts of the election process in California: the Closed Primary.

BY SAYRE PIOTROWSKI AND NICO SIMONIAN Our Official 2023 Playlist, “Glamorous Euphoria in Spite of it All” is HERE! It is that time of year again! 2023 is the fifth year running that BAS has convened a group of the most passionate music nerds in our midst to compile a list of the

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There was a feeling of slow courtship with a song or album, compared to current days of a “swipe left, swipe right” music listening experience.

By Bernard J. Wolfson Milagro, a Peruvian immigrant in Riverside County, California, has had spotty access to health care in the two decades she’s been in this country. The 48-year-old, who works as the office manager at a nonprofit, can get emergency care through a narrow set of benefits the

BY DAVID COPPIN LANEGAN David Coppin Lanegan (@willybillybilliam, @wavesons.band) is a writer and musician. Find his SubStack Jawbone here, and his band Wavesons’ music here.  Mottled blue and white carpet and air pump from the rounded, creme ceiling on the Coast Starlight, the Amtrak Train with service from Seattle to Los Angeles. Visions

Written by Ashley November whisked by in a whirlwind of fallen variegated leaves and crisp air. It was National Adoption (of humans) Month, and I spent it reflecting on my teen years in the Alameda County child welfare system. Or as I now refer to it, the family policing system,

By Carolyn Jones for CalMatters via The 74 Pushing back against the surge of misinformation online, California will now require all K-12 students to learn media literacy skills — such as recognizing fake news and thinking critically about what they encounter on the internet. Gov. Gavin Newsom last month signed Assembly

BY DAVID COPPIN LANEGAN David Coppin Lanegan (@willybillybilliam, @wavesons.band) is a writer and musician. Find his SubStack Jawbone here, and his band Wavesons’ music here.  Everyone’s favorite ATM-robbing, civilian-shooting, car-crashing, coke-snorting game franchise is getting a new installment. Grand Theft Auto 6 was officially announced in early 2022 after years of speculation, Rockstar