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He Can Hang With Anybody

In the Green Room with the L.A. Times’ Sam Farmer

May 22, 2012

Sam Farmer is the Los Angeles Times football writer. Before participating in a panel on professional football’s future in the city, he sat down in the green room to rap about his favorite margaritas, his fondness for Jimmy Buffett, and why he’s a lot like Ranch dressing: he can hang with anybody.

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Arizona On My Mind

In the Green Room with the Flinn Foundation’s Jack Jewett

On May 21, 2012

Jack Jewett is president and CEO of Arizona’s Flinn Foundation. Previously, he was vice president for university advancement at California State University-Monterey Bay, a president of the Arizona Board of Regents, and a five-term member of the Arizona House of Representatives. Before moderating a panel on whether Arizona’s history matters today, he sat down in the green room to talk public service, paparazzi, and President Obama.

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The Happy Historian

In the Green Room with Northern Arizona University’s Eric Meeks

On May 14, 2012

Eric Meeks is associate professor of history at Northern Arizona University and the author of Border Citizens, a history of racial and ethnic identities in 20th century Arizona. Before participating in a panel in Tucson about whether Arizona’s history matters today, he admitted in the green room that he was savoring not just the opportunity to talk about the subject of his research but the chance to be alone … and the martini he was planning to have at the end of the night.

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A Night Owl Who Stops to Feed the Squirrels

In the Green Room with SolarCity’s Jim Cahill

On May 13, 2012

Jim Cahill is the regional operating director for consumer solar energy company SolarCity. Before participating in a panel on California’s solar gold rush, he sat down in the green room and revealed that when he’s not helping put up solar panels around Southern California, he’s feeding others—human and squirrel alike.

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She Likes It Hot

In the Green Room with Writer Anne-Marie O’Connor

On May 9, 2012

Anne-Marie O’Connor is the author of The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece. A former Los Angeles Times reporter, she now lives in Mexico City and writes for The Washington Post. Before telling the story of a Klimt portrait that was stolen by the Nazis and then fought over for years, she sat down in the green room to talk about tacos, election excitement, and why she recently considered buying a karaoke machine.

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Friday, December 3, 2010
How One Family Created Chinese America
Zócalo

The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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