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A Mission to Save the West Coast’s Last Racing Greyhounds

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Alta Journal ’s Biggest Stories of 2025

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Alta Journal ’s Top Newsletters of 2025

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Letter from Deadwood: The Real Mr. Wu

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Incomplete Science at White Sands National Park

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FROM THE MAGAZINE

Eyes on the Central Valley

If you think it’s a straight line through America’s “fruit basket,” you’re mistaken.

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Publisher’s Note: An Issue Dedicated to Road Trips

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Stop Hating on the Golden State

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An Owens Valley Travelogue

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The Original Frozen Dead Guy

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ALTA FOLIO

Alta Folio: ‘I Went Southwest’

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Publisher’s Note: Music Is Always Cool

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Letters to the Editor: Billboard Idea

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Letters to the Editor: Catalina Island

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Will Hearst Remembers Frank Gehry

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Ask a Californian: Home (?) for the Holidays

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The Penny Saved My Life

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Ask a Californian: Keeping It Casual

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Grocery List for Resistance

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Letters to the Editor: In Vino, Veritas

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

Hopis of Alcatraz

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Letters to the Editor: Memory Lane

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Ask a Californian: Grapes of Wrath

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Ask a Californian: Goodies and Baddies

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They Built a 7,000-Pound Raft—and Floated

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The Playwright Who Found His Stage

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Letter from Cambridge

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Boots, Bucks, and Drag

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Publisher’s Note: Building a Culture of Art

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The Ghosts of Cloverdale

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Ask a Californian: America’s Only Child

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Lynell George on ‘Ode to Dena’

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West Coast vs. Upper West Side