- A Brief History of Dumplings | Open Culture
- The Incendiary History of San Francisco’s Cliff House | Laughing Squid
- Why New Brunswick, New Jersey’s House Show Scene is So Iconic | Alt Press
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What I’ve Been Reading – 12/12/2022
What I’ve Been Reading – 9/5/2022
- Fire Island Is a Surprisingly Faithful Jane Austen Adaptation (Albeit With More Poppers) | Slate
- A Chef Who Offered Chinese Food in Spanish | The New Yorker
- Driven | Gabriella Gage
- Apparently the Brontës all died so early because they spent their lives drinking graveyard water. | Lithub
- Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Haven Been Uniquely Stupid | The Atlantic
- A Week In Silver Spring, MD On A $18,024 Salary | Refinery 29
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What I’ve Been Reading – 8/29/2022
- Staff show off changes to new community library space and programs | Coastal View News
- Where the Crawdads Sing: Why Author Delia Owens is Wanted for Questioning in a Real Life Killing | Vanity Fair
- Camille Herron on Racing Through Her Period | Runner’s World
- It’s been a hard time for librarians. Enter an epic sleepover of stuffed toys. | Washington Post
- Medieval Times Employees Vote to Unionize in New Jersey | New York Times
- The Lost Glamour of the Department Store Lunch | Atlas Obscura
- Inside Santa Barbara’s Summer Solstice | Santa Barbara Independent
- The “hard ugliness” behind mythical Santa Barbara surf Valhalla Beach | Beach Grit
- State Street Dining: Remembering Frank’s Rice Bowl | Santa Barbara Independent
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What I’ve Been Reading – 8/22/2022
- In Memoriam | Ryan Leone: 1985 – 2022 | Santa Barbara Independent
- Susan Orlean Falls Asleep to the Dateline Podcast | Vulture
- The Magic of Your First Work Friends | The New York Times
- Stop Calling It Asian Salad | Consumer Reports
- It began as a typical ferry ride in Kachemak Bay. Then a minke whale went airborne. | Anchorage Daily News
- Santa Cruz Island’s Unsolved Mystery | Santa Barbara Independent
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What I’ve Been Reading – 7/18/2022
- On Domesticity | From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy
- Why Are People With No Social Media So Damn Hot? | Dazed
- How to Identify What You Enjoy | The Atlantic
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What I’ve Been Reading – 5/2/2022
- Every Drink Brand Should Follow AriZona’s Lead | The Takeout
- 12 Things You’ll Find In Every Midcentury Church Cookbook | The Takeout
- Every Midcentury Church Cookbook | The Takeout
- The Story behind Bay Area ‘Sugar Town’ and that iconic sign | SFGate
- This Steakhouse Keeps SF’s Classic Spirit Alive | The Bold Italic
- One Photographer’s Look at the 2022 Yosemite Firefall | My Modern MET
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What I’ve Been Reading – 4/11/2022
- Photo Essay: What a Miscarriage Looks Like | The Cut
- Are There Nightclubs in Heaven? | The Cut
- When Are You Really an Adult? | The Atlantic
- In Praise of Weird, Small Projects | Courtney Martin
- The Delightful History of Fruit Stickers, the World’s Tiniest Canvases | Fast Company
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What I’ve Been Reading – 3/7/2022
- Red Beans Parade Honors a Culinary Tradition | Louisiana Travel
- Teaching in Context | KHÔRA
- What Song Is Playing on a Never-Ending Loop in Your Personal Hell | Cup of Jo
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What I’ve Been Reading – 2/28/2022
- How Saturday Night Live Gets Made Each Week | Open Culture
- One of NYC’s First Substations Will be Demolished Soon | Gothamist
- Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks | NPR
- Santa Barbara Coast is a nursery ‘hot spot’ for great white sharks | KEYT
- Big Seep Spotted Around Platform Holly | Santa Barbara Independent
- She Has A Name | Alta
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What I’ve Been Reading – 2/21/2022
- Celebrating the Birth of Surfing in California | Santa Barbara Independent
- Andrew Leonard’s Santa Barbara Scenes | Santa Barbara Independent
- The Racism of the Great Outdoors | Washington Post
- Why Printers Are the Worst | NPR
- It all amounts to something | Santa Barbara Independent
- ‘From the Serious to the Seriously Weird’ | The New York Times
- Seeing California Through the Eyes of Its Most Important Librarian | Afar
- The Activists who Desegregated Arlington’s Movie Theaters | Arlington Public Library
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