Almanacs

Silver lining to gloomy day? That’s easy: No more Clay (Tacoma News Tribune)

4 Jul 2008

Before Clay Bennett arranged to transport the 41-year-old SuperSonics to their eternal place of wrest, Walter O’Malley renounced 67 years of Brooklyn baseball history by relocating the Dodgers to California. And he persuaded the owner of the crosstown Giants, Horace Stoneham, to bolt with him.

Camarillo's Marco Gutierrez pulls off a remarkable trifecta in summer league game (Ventura County Star)

1 Jul 2008

Marco Gutierrez can't seem to wipe the goofy grin from his face.

Cason Point: Change signals end of era for rabbit ears (Ventura County Star)

29 Jun 2008

Record shops, map books and almanacs have one thing in common. They are all like the Bates Motel in Hitchcock's thriller "Psycho." Just as the interstate bypassed and then isolated cinema's creepiest motor court, the Internet has dispatched those three technosaurs to the offramp of history.