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Alta Live: The Problem with Ghost Towns
Part history lesson, part amusement ride, ghost towns of the American West reveal only a small, palatable slice of their true story. If we were to really listen, what would the ghosts of abandoned towns like Bodie, California, whisper? According to author Lauren Markham, the Golden State’s forgotten boomtowns hide a history of killing, forced displacement, and environmental degradation-painful truths ignored by most tourists who swing by for a selfie. As Markham discovered on a road trip, they also may hide actual, well, ghosts. On Halloween eve, Markham joins Alta Live to examine the true spirit of California’s ghost towns and share some spooky tales of Golden State ghouls. Join us for this eye-opening peek into the past.
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Alta Live: Crenshaw at the Crossroads
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Los Angeles is a city known for its iconic boulevards (Hollywood, Sunset, Wilshire), but for the city’s Black community, there is possibly no street more historic and revered than Crenshaw Boulevard. The connective fiber that weaves L.A.’s largest Black neighborhood together is the connective fiber of a new civic project titled Destination Crenshaw, slated to open in 2025. Amid fears of gentrif...
California Book Club: Tobias Wolff
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Wolff’s 1989 eloquent and perceptive classic memoir of a grim boyhood in the Pacific Northwest, is remarkable for its novelistic feel. He and his mother, with whom he is exceptionally close, leave Florida in search of uranium and eventually wind up in Seattle. There, an adolescent Wolff tries on different personae, chasing schemes to reinvent himself. Wolff sketches himself and others with equa...
Alta Live: Mapping the West
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The American West has been the subject of speculation, scrutiny, and debate for centuries, and the maps that follow give us a glimpse of that history. In a pullout folio for Alta Journal’s Issue 29, author and historian Susan Schulten compiled numerous maps to demonstrate this, beginning with a map dating from 1540 by German scholar Sebastian Münster to a racially charged layout of San Francisc...
Alta Live: The Elusive History of the Oregon Trail
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Many of us think we know the history of the Oregon Trail from schoolbooks, local lore, or the eponymous video game of the 1990s, but this famed period in the American West contains many stories yet to be told. In Alta Journal’s Issue 29, “Tracing the Storied-and Tragic-Oregon Trail,” author Katie Hickman uncovers a chain of destruction that culminated in the tragic killing of 19th-century missi...
Alta Live: Smokey Bear-More Than An Icon
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An American symbol as recognizable as Mickey Mouse and Santa Claus, Smokey the Bear isn’t even named Smokey the Bear. Technically, he’s Smokey Bear, and over the past 80 years since his invention by the Ad Council at the end of World War II, America’s symbol of forest fire prevention has taken on a life-and death-of its own. In Joshua Wheeler’s eye-opening feature for Alta Journal’s Issue 29, t...
Alta Live: PST Art with critic Shana Nys Dambrot
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In a region known for producing some of the country’s most groundbreaking creative work, the Getty’s PST Art festival is the largest art event in the United States. Which is to say, art lovers: get excited. Kicked off in September and running for five months, with more than 800 artists and over 70 exhibitions, this year’s event is themed “Art & Science Collide.” PST Art's programmers aim to cre...
California Book Club: Danzy Senna
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"Colored Television" author Danzy Senna sits down for a conversation with CBC host John Freeman and special guest Porochista Khakpour. In recent times, television and film have relied heavily on nostalgia and repetition, leading us to pedestrian on-screen material. You might expect, then, that contemporary novels of Hollywood would need to be broad, bland. Danzy Senna’s fifth novel, the satiric...
Alta Live: On-Site at CALIBA’s Fall Fest
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What happens when hundreds of Golden State independent booksellers gather together at a Hilton in Pasadena? Alta Live will be on-site to find out! Join us as we take you inside the California Independent Booksellers Alliance’s annual statewide Fall Fest, where owners and representatives from your favorite local bookstores will attend author panels, networking events, and literary soirees. Mary ...
Alta Live: The Apes of Santa Clarita
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Ever hear singing in the Santa Clarita Valley around sunrise? It could just be the creatures within the Gibbon Conservation Center communicating with one another and marking their territory. The GCC is the only organization worldwide to house all four genera of gibbon, including endangered and critically threatened species. Alta Journal contributor Louise Farr takes us into the gibbons’ global ...
Morbid Anatomy with Joanna Ebenstein
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Meet Morbid Anatomy, an online journal and community created by Joanna Ebenstein that aims to explore, befriend, and normalize death. Complete with a library in Brooklyn and live events, including an upcoming one in Los Angeles, Morbid Anatomy examines death through multiple perspectives, from medical to artistic. Her new book, Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life,...
Alta Live: Inside California’s Frozen Zoo
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We knew it’d happen one day: cloning is increasingly being used as a tool for conservation of endangered animals. In a twist on the plot of the blockbuster dinosaur film Jurassic Park, DNA from living species on the brink of extinction is preserved in the hopes of saving animals we’re close to losing altogether. In “Better Diversity Through Cloning,” Alta Journal contributor Joy Lanzendorfer de...
Alta Live: The Architecture of L.A.’s Trees
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California’s famed trees-SoCal’s classic palm, for example-are beautiful, sure. But the region’s urban forestry is so much more than just gorgeous greens. In his latest for Alta Journal, writer Joseph Giovannini examines the exciting past, present, and future of the trees that line the streets of the Southland’s cities and improve everything from air quality to economic development. Along with ...
California Book Club: Helena María Viramontes
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Helena María Viramontes’s powerful 1995 debut novel, “Under the Feet of Jesus,” takes place in the Central Valley and follows a family of seven migrant farmworkers, including a 13-year-old girl, Estrella. The family drive past a barn in their old Chevy Capri, hoping for work in a labor camp during the harvest-“the barn had burst through a clearing of trees and the cratered roof reminded her of ...
Alta Live: How Goodwill Reflects California Values
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If one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, organizations like Goodwill are transforming that adage into big business. Just read “Goodwill Hunting,” an Alta Journal feature by Edward Humes that profiles the work being done at Goodwill of Orange County. Just last year, the nonprofit diverted 60 million pounds of merchandise from local landfills, leading to a whopping $113 million in revenue fo...
Alta Live: Meet YouTube’s Wonderhussy
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Alta Live: Meet TH-cam’s Wonderhussy
California Book Club: Venita Blackburn
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California Book Club: Venita Blackburn
Alta Live: The Steamy Backstory of Berkeley’s Secret Hot Tub
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Alta Live: The Steamy Backstory of Berkeley’s Secret Hot Tub
Alta Live: The Challenges of Aging Parents
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Alta Live: The Challenges of Aging Parents
Alta Live: What Happened to Carlos Castaneda’s Cult Members?
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Alta Live: What Happened to Carlos Castaneda’s Cult Members?
Alta Live: Ask a Californian
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Alta Live: Ask a Californian
California Book Club: Javier Zamora
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California Book Club: Javier Zamora
Alta Live: Secret Lives of the Huntington Library
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Alta Live: Secret Lives of the Huntington Library
Alta Live: S.F.’s Sexy-Star-Maker
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Alta Live: S.F.’s Sexy-Star-Maker
Alta Live: An Alta Guide to Humor
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Alta Live: An Alta Guide to Humor
Alta Live: LACMA Looks at Ed Ruscha
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Alta Live: LACMA Looks at Ed Ruscha
California Book Club: Gary Snyder
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California Book Club: Gary Snyder
Alta Live: Author Tracie McMillan
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Alta Live: Author Tracie McMillan
Alta Live: The Drama at Oregon Shakespeare Festival
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Alta Live: The Drama at Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Alta Live: What Should We Do About Kelseyville
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Alta Live: What Should We Do About Kelseyville

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  • @ValderramaHaynes
    @ValderramaHaynes 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I really appreciate your efforts! I need some advice: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?

  • @stonew1927
    @stonew1927 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I am friends with someone who was there at the Westwood compound in the mid to late 90s. He was CC's apprentice and one of the leading people to disseminate the teachings of Castaneda and Don Juan. He changed his name (his new name was given to him by CC) and completely broke contact with all his family and friends for several years. Since, he has reintegrated into society and is leading workshops on shamanism, Tensegrity, and Western medicine, which he is trained in. Recently we ran into each other and we agreed to meet up. I asked him so many questions but our time was limited. We agreed to meet again the next time he travels to my area in a couple of months. To Geoffrey and any real journalist who wants to delve deeper into the mysteries of the cult, this is my suggestion: Snooping around and asking questions will only get you so far. If you truly want to learn more about the inner happenings behind the hedges at the compound in Westwood, you might want to start attending some of the seminars that the Cleargreen group present around the world. Become acquainted with those running them, and gain their trust. It will take time, but eventually you should be able to uncover some hidden truths. On the point that the writer went to Tula Mexico trying to locate real Yaqui sorcerers, then traveling nine hours to meet with one who hadn't heard at all about Castaneda's Don Juan, that's not surprising and doesn't disprove anything. For one, I believe Tula is quite far from where the Yaquis live in Sorora state and southern Arizona. And given their economic level and levels of exposure to the New Age Movement and intelligentsia in the US I highly doubt that any Yaqui person, even less a sorcerer living in a remote village in Mexico, is going to have heard of our CC and his Don Juan Matus.

  • @cath3renee
    @cath3renee 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Well done , you capture the history of both sides . I was raised history was one sided growing up in Washington State. I look forward to your book 36:05

  • @cath3renee
    @cath3renee 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Well done , you capture the history of both sides . I was raised history was one sided growing up in Washington State. I look forward to your book

  • @cath3renee
    @cath3renee 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Seattle

  • @thepursuitofhappiness1062
    @thepursuitofhappiness1062 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    🤣🤣🙂 YOUR INTERVIEWING THIS CRAZY LADY? LOVE HER🥰 DANG SOCIAL BUTTERFLY

  • @juansalvo2374
    @juansalvo2374 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Absolutly amazing! Thanks!

  • @BruceMollberg
    @BruceMollberg หลายเดือนก่อน

    Smokey the Bear says ,” Only you can prevent trump !”

  • @jeffkiesner9971
    @jeffkiesner9971 หลายเดือนก่อน

  • @duwomaiishgabrielle9498
    @duwomaiishgabrielle9498 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sarah is great, she is the “Showgirl of the Old West”, honest and authentic to the core! She is also very savvy! 🙏🥳🍀. Modern version of Ms Kitty 🥳🥰

  • @mayraruiz9447
    @mayraruiz9447 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What if there is a house on it what happens to the people that live there do they get paid for what ever it is you find there?

  • @gregbowers3505
    @gregbowers3505 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi from Pahrump NV

  • @williamlandrum4030
    @williamlandrum4030 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The condor restored? They where zoo breed and released and have to be feed or starve to death. Bringing back grizzlies is stupid Yosemite will have very many hikers killed these people run up to black bears, and the only reason we r over run with black bears is because u make it almost impossible to hunt them with all the laws.

  • @johnwylie6611
    @johnwylie6611 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Emily Dickinson 280

  • @johnwylie6611
    @johnwylie6611 หลายเดือนก่อน

    H L Mencken

  • @1110glen
    @1110glen หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you…fascinating. So glad I visited Pioneertown when it was natural and quiet and still Pappy’s…so many good desert memories.

  • @FreeThinking999
    @FreeThinking999 หลายเดือนก่อน

    People like this are so stupid it make me sick. Look at the blithering fools.

  • @FreeThinking999
    @FreeThinking999 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Idiots, Are either one of these idiots going to volunteer to let one of their children be the first child killed by a Grizzly.

  • @jennifermcclelland8002
    @jennifermcclelland8002 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had the biggest crush on Griffin when he played the creative writing teacher in My Girl. I was only like 9 but already had good taste.

  • @skimsk808
    @skimsk808 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Didn’t even ask the guy how they would live in California. The historic salmon runs when grizzlies were around are 10% of that and DECLINING. The old growth oak and redwoods are almost all replaced by exotics like eucalyptus and young trees so no acorns. They aren’t deer specialist like wolves or mountain lions so that’s out. Guy is a fanboy because there is no way😂… trash, dogs, livestock, and the occasional touron is all that’s left.

  • @RandolCraver
    @RandolCraver 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This whole thing gives me NO new info!!!!!

    • @hankm
      @hankm หลายเดือนก่อน

      You already knew that one of the missing witches may have been involved in selling CC's compound ten years after they went missing? And you already knew that there may have been a hole in the trunk lock of Patricia Partin's car in the desert?

    • @hankm
      @hankm 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      So you knew already that one of the missing witches may have been involved in selling CC's compund ten years after she went missing? And you knew that there may have been a hole in the trunk lock of dead Patricia Partin's car that was found in the desert?

    • @hankm
      @hankm 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      So you already knew that one of the missing witches may have been involved in selling CC's compound, ten years after her disappearance? And that there may have been a hole in the trunk lock of dead Patricia Partin's car found in the desert?

  • @RandolCraver
    @RandolCraver 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The female on the left is the worst interviewer O have ever seen!!!

  • @Duxdex
    @Duxdex 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You guys are nuts bringing bears back is an stupid idea we had dammed all the rivers everywhere we terraformed the state this guys we need to fix other more pressing issues that bring bears back. Have you seen how the grizzlies attack omg this guy is brainwashed about the system it’s crazy. I saw a mountain lion once it’s crazy omg !!!

  • @gopherdawg3457
    @gopherdawg3457 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Incredibly interesting.

  • @anthonyburee650
    @anthonyburee650 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Marc Andreessen

  • @Lois-o1f
    @Lois-o1f 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    WH, you are not a stranger to us, you just don't know us 😢😊😂❤

  • @jbman413
    @jbman413 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They you Ladies nice video!

  • @photoman4692
    @photoman4692 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Finally had time to watch this. Great interview.

  • @thomasbaldwin9594
    @thomasbaldwin9594 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Californian grizzlies - they survived in ca for 1000's of years. Humans hunted and killed them. (For pleasure) A rancher in Kern County claimed a grizzly bear killed some 200 sheep in a single night. The conflict grew so tense some counties offered bounties to kill the bears. Eventually, California grizzlies-a subspecies of brown bear-were hunted, poisoned, and trapped to local extinction. The rancher never mentioned that arrows were found in his dead sheep, his story was bullshit.. There has never been a human killed by a brown in CA.. a Cal black bear has been documented killing and devouring a woman-inside her home. the Downieville incident is now the first documented fatal attack by a black bear in California history. In the 1850's for pleasure..... people in ca would go to the bear and bull fights, which was the main event, with an undercard of cockfighting and dogfighting to whet the crowd's appetite for death. Next time you invest in a bullish market maybe you should find out where Wal Street got there logo. I look at the Ca flag and think of we did and how we justify killings- ** Bring home the brown bear, they are not the problem... miss-informed humans are Humans caused there demise... The bear was never a threat. You can lie about history - in all facets - Politicians are masters at this. You can lie about history --- BUT YOU CAN NOT CHANGE HISTORY

    • @Duxdex
      @Duxdex 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Steve Lebec mauled by a grizzly in south cal

  • @renhutchinson1538
    @renhutchinson1538 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Viramontes and Munoz are essentials for the next Chicano generation, fascinating to see them cook. 39:15 ✊🏽🫀⚔️

  • @UHaulTV
    @UHaulTV 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice thumbnail

  • @RichardJennings
    @RichardJennings 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pretty crappy "journalism." I was a student of Castaneda's from 1995 until his death, having attended numerous private sessions with him, dinners, etc. The website I put up in 1999 -- sustainedaction.org/ -- is the most extensive repository of info about the missing women on the Internet. Here's my review of Geoff's piece: sustainedaction.org/?p=1093

  • @seasqrlzpix7436
    @seasqrlzpix7436 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good interview into the inner workings of Goodwill! The curating teams that process the goods and maximizes the earning potential item for GW, is a comforting, feel good feeling that monies generated for this 501c non-profit corporation goes toward supporting jobs for people that often times are passed over/overlooked. Hats~off!☺️👍🐿

  • @allencheck501
    @allencheck501 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you alta, wonderhussy your #1❤❤

  • @joshuastavos4376
    @joshuastavos4376 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Toyota interior looks like a business jet!

  • @BruceMollberg
    @BruceMollberg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Havre , Montana .. north of Rocky Boy …

  • @meloearth
    @meloearth 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm an introvert that has tried extroversion. People suck the energy out of ya. I had to retrieve. Her mind is very fast. I feel exhausted after watching this video. It's nice to give of oneself to others but I hope she won't burn herself down for the cause. Don't think she's just making "minimal wage" but certain things demand a high personal cost.

  • @wrongplanet1957
    @wrongplanet1957 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonder hussy lives shut down, people cant understand working for yourselves

  • @SimoneNC
    @SimoneNC 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I see dementia face

    • @SaintsPurgatory
      @SaintsPurgatory 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Please explain what exactly is "dementia face" ? After that would you explain why you are being a scumbag ?

  • @SimoneNC
    @SimoneNC 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    She is so weird. I can’t stand watching her

  • @stealth1fighter
    @stealth1fighter 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Best TH-cam channel out there. Wonderhussy

  • @wrongplanet1957
    @wrongplanet1957 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Alllll censorship is treason

  • @wrongplanet1957
    @wrongplanet1957 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Find the movies prstty maids all in a tow, day of the dolphane, war of the ants, golden child, fletch, fletch lives, randle tex cobb,, my dad gave him imhis first boxxing gloves , to beat us up in boy scouts before they came out as kharzarian mafia of the new world order

  • @wrongplanet1957
    @wrongplanet1957 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where is wonder hussy?

  • @altarehkugler4675
    @altarehkugler4675 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love Wonder Hussy!!!💜

  • @ARTtoGO
    @ARTtoGO 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderhussy is way way cooler than the Hawk Tua girl.

  •  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Luv luv WH, grounded, genuine, and she takes you on wonderful Wonderhussy adventures every time, a true font of information.🥰

  • @larry785
    @larry785 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nailed it!

  • @safromnc8616
    @safromnc8616 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Big fan of Sarah Jane....she keeps it real, which is part of her allure.

  • @garlandstyle5797
    @garlandstyle5797 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love Wonderhussy. She is just an awesome person. This was so well done. Thank you very much. 🙂