1849 taught California a harsh lesson about the permanent costs of a boom-and-bust culture. Governor Brown seems to have forgotten what the Gold Rush gave us.
The multi-city Greater Little Saigon area in Orange County now boasts some 2,000 businesses and a population of some 125,000 residents of Vietnamese descent.
The city of Yucca Valley has high hopes that it will be able to make itself indistinguishable from any other uninteresting cluster of stripmalls in the state.
Studio One Eleven - the people behind the 'parklets' idea - have re-imagined waiting for a plane. Think of it as your holiday on a modernist main street. You may want to rebook to a later flight.