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We’re proud to announce our new class of writers! Interested in joining them? Applications for Spring 2017 are due February 1st. For more information contact us at palmdesertmfa@ucr.edu Jorge Alvarado holds two bachelor degrees, a BA in English-Spanish...

Manuel Harlan Harry and Albus Potter in the stage version of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” Harry Potter reigned supreme in 2016. The series remains among the most popular books, and the latest edition of the canon, “Harry Potter and the Cursed...

By Nadine Epstein and Rebecca Frankel In the early 1960s, Bob Dylan performed at tiny Greenwich Village folk clubs, acoustic guitar strapped across his compact shoulders, harmonica perched on a metal rack around his slender neck. His chord changes were...

May 22 In History 124 BCE :  Simon the Hasmonean, drove the “Greeks” – the Syrians and their Hellenized Jewish allies – out of the citadel which was their last stronghold in Jerusalem. While Jews celebrate Chanukah, it is this victory, 40 years later...

THAT LETHAL FIVE-CAR pile-up on Highway 20 near the Potter Valley turn-off? Captain Randy Johnson of the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department kicked it off when he stopped to make a left turn into his private, unmarked driveway across a double...