...Liane Brouillette; Ilona Virginia Missakian Music starts and the students in a San Diego classroom begin to imitate the teacher’s movements, alternately moving and freezing at the teacher’s signals—this is an innovative language lesson that also emphasizes teamwork and comprehension. The Teaching...

...Henry Jenkins Each summer, the San Diego Comic-Con offers an important intersection between Hollywood and its fans. While most of the mainstream media coverage focuses on stars and celebrities or on costumes, this article places these high profile elements into a larger context, considering...

... of the faces of Tlaloc, Mexican god of rain and harvest. rafael tiffany and susan moffat Monumental Hydraulics Diego Rivera s Lerma Waterworks and the water temples of San Francisco T he water pouring readily out of our private faucets is a modern production thatbelies the enormous scale of public...

...Phoebe S.K. Young San Diego vied with San Francisco to host the 1915 World’s Fair. San Francisco won, but San Diego went ahead and staged the International Panama-California Exposition. Planners of both fairs traded on ideas of empire to raise their cities’ profiles and capitalize on increased...

...Rick Kennedy Exploring a way of seeing expansive meaning in the juxtaposition of important buildings and sculptures, by centering on Alexis Smith’s "Snake Path" sculpture at UC San Diego and her reputation as an "assemblage" or "collage" artist, this article puts the iconic university library...

..., Jennifer Wolch, into his San Diego home to discuss his career, his writings, and his erstwhile and ongoing efforts to understand Los Angeles. © 2016 by The Regents of the University of California 2016 mike davis A Boom Interview In conversation with Jennifer Wolch and Dana Cuff E ditor s Note...

.... In other words, Cross Border Xpress looks a lot like many U.S. airports, except the runway is in Mexico. The bridge just might be an apt new symbol of interconnectedness between San Diego and Tijuana—and a symbol of changing times and shifting perceptions on the border. © 2016 by The Regents...

...Scott Vandehey This paper draws on extended fieldwork in San Diego County to show that suburban residents exhibit a particular set of rights-claims that they make specifically around their residence in their suburban community. These claims are largely made legitimate by homeownership and are based...

...Louis Warren; Spring Warren Ricardo Dominguez, Professor of New Media , Performance Art, and a Principal Investigator at CALIT2 at the University of California, San Diego, specializes in electronic civil disobedience as an art form. In January, 2010, he was placed under university investigation...

...Boom Staff A roundup of interesting things to do, see, and read around California in the spring of 2015. San Francisco San Diego California Tower Panama-Pacific International Exposition Panama-Pacific International Exposition centennial Lightswarm Yerba Buena Center Pacific Worlds...

... San Diego Baja California The First Administrative Division of Baja and Alta California from Francisco Palo´u, Relacio´n Histo´rica de la Vida y Aposto´licas Tareas del V.P. Fray Jun ´pero Serra, 1787. COURTESY OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. michael dear Bajalta...

... 2014 Bears grizzly bears San Diego County Los Vallecitos Lost Valley bear men hunting jared dahl aldern From Los Vallecitos to Lost Valley Transformation and resurrection in grizzly country Here s where the big bear died.An afternoon s trip has brought me from my San Ysidro Mountainhome...

.... The concurrent Panama-California Exposition in San Diego was only slightly less ambitious it simply wanted to position Biodiversity #22 by Hiroko Yoshimoto. San Diego as the vanguard of the American inheritance of the Spanish conquest of the Southwest and the Pacific. Under all the happy talk of a new era...

... in Surf, Sand, and Stone: How Waves, Earthquakes, and Other Forces Shape the South- ern California Coast, a new book by Keith Heyer Meldahl, a professor of geology and oceanography at MiraCosta Col- lege in San Diego. If sand grains fall from the binding and saltwater stains the pages or crystallizes...

... on blind photographers. McCulloh is an honors graduate of UC Santa Barbara and holds an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University. GU I lleRMO NeR ICC IO GaRC ía aNd W I ll IaM NeR ICC IO form memogr@phics designcasa at San Diego State Univer- sity Press, (httpsdsupress.sdsu.edu/memo.html). Born in Laredo...

.... Robinson earned a Ph.D. from UC San Diego, where he worked with the legendary postmodern literary scholar Fredric Jameson and wrote his dissertation on science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. He cares deeply about Cali- fornia and is actively involved with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at UC Merced...

... that the exposition ran (20 February 1915 to 4 December 1915), more than eighteen million visitors saw these and other attractions, reportedly a record for world s fairs at that time. Given the magnitude of the project which included beating out New Orleans, San Diego, and other cities for congressional approval...

.... But there are currents thatflowed through the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Fran-cisco and the Panama California Exposition in San Diego in 1915 that still flow through California today. As much as people did things differently and thought differently a century ago and it does us good to understand how...

... for California s still cash-starved public higher education system. The California EdHub idea is about the money, but it is also about solidifying California and metropolitan regions such as the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego as global talent magnets, further elevating the state as a global actor with both...

... is the university photographer for California State University, Fullerton, the college where he studied photography. C O N N Y H E I N R I C H is a German photographer who lives on the south eastern shores of Ireland. R I C K K E N N E D Y is a professor of history at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego...