Stories
Swooning over San Francisco’s Tetris house
30 April 2024
In one of San Francisco’s historic neighborhoods, largely defined by Victorian homes in singular shades of pastel, one house stands out. Painted in blocks of lime green, aquamarine, deep plum, and seemingly every hue in between, the house looks almost pixelated, or as some neighbors have pointed out, like a giant game of Tetris. In…
The strange boundary line that divides California in two
14 March 2024
The little-known third redwood
27 October 2023
The daredevil Wesley May performed the first aerial refueling over Long Beach in 1921. Another stunt killed him.
16 October 2023
An Indian warrior’s legendary fight for the Stanislaus River
11 October 2023
Sacramento once had one of the nation’s most vibrant Japantowns
2 October 2023
A gold rush, a wave of Chinese immigration, and an herb shop: the story of Fiddletown
14 June 2023
The Merry Tramps of Oakland: California’s original glampers
8 June 2023
George Freeth, the man who brought surfing to Venice
16 May 2023
22 photos of midcentury San Francisco in vivid color
11 May 2023
Six days and 665 miles: Louis Remme’s amazing bank run in 1855
2 May 2023
How ‘something glistening in the grass’ created the city of Yreka
1 May 2023
‘A grand woman fallen on difficult times’: the Redman Hirahara Farmstead
14 April 2023
The Church of One Tree, and the tale of California’s clear-cutting
10 April 2023
A lousy extinction: How Colpocephalum californici lived among (and on) the California condors
21 March 2023
California’s Central Valley was once a watery landscape of lakes and marshes. Then we sucked it dry.
14 March 2023
In California, the wildflowers used to be everywhere
18 February 2023
How Kate Sessions made her mark on San Diego
13 February 2023