outhern California’s water wars have greatly shaped the Owens Valley—the birth of Los Angeles as a mega-metropolis came in part at the cost of draining Owens Lake. What was once a geologically diverse and populated part of the state along the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada has, in the past
A Superhero on Steroids
My wrists throb. My knuckles are bruised and nicked. Dried blood flecks my slim gold wedding band. “Looks like you’re punching too hard and too fast,” says my self-defense instructor when I show him my swollen fists. Maybe I am. Of course I am. My th