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Reviews an exhibition of Mexican artist Paula Santiago's paper sculptures at Iturralde in Los Angeles, California. Paper forms; Titled `Moan,' the Mayan word for a mythical bird.

Reviews the exhibition of Bruce Helander at Don O'Melveny museum in Los Angeles, California.

Reviews the exhibition of Kerry Tribe at the Los Angeles Contemporary Editions in Los Angeles, California.

Reviews the book 'Ethnographic Interpretations, 7-11,' by A.L. Kroeber.

Reviews the exhibition 'Naples and Vesuvius on the Grand Tour' at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California from December 21, 2001 to March 24, 2002.

Reviews the non-fiction book, 'Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan…and Beyond,' by Robin Wood.

Reviews the book 'Elizabethan California,' by Robert F. Heizer.

Reviews the art exhibit "Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics," on display until May 30, 2004 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, California.

Reviews the book 'Patterns of Indian Burning in California: Ecology and Ethnohistory,' by Henry T. Lewis.

Reviews the book 'Going It Alone: The Family Life and Social Situation of the Single Parent,' by Robert S. Weiss.

Reviews the book 'San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: The Painting and Sculpture Collection,' by Diana C. duPont and others, introduced by Katherine Church Holland with foreword by Henry T. Hopkins.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'El Real Ejercito de California,' by Carlos López Urrutia and illustrated by Juan Carlos Carrasco Torrecilla and Juan Ignacio Cuesta Millán.

Reviews the book 'The Great Thirst: Californians and Water: A History, Revised Edition,' by Norris Hundley, Jr.

Reviews an exhibition of Marsden Hartley's paintings and works on paper at the Hackett-Freedman Gallery in San Francisco, California. Noted works on display; Images, materials and design; Artistic style.

Reviews the art exhibit `Susan Rankaitis: Drawn From Science,' at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, California through August 13, 2000.

The article reviews the exhibition "Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples," held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. from October 19, 2008 to March 22, 2009, as well as at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California from May 3 to October 4, 2009.

Reviews the exhibition "Drawing on Faith: Sketches for Korean Buddhist Icons," which is presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California until February 4, 2003.

Reviews the video exhibition 'The Dream of the Audience,' by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in the Berkeley Art Museum, in Berkeley, California.

Reviews an exhibition of sculptures and works on paper by Brazilian artist Tunga at the Christopher Grimes Gallery in Santa Monica, California. Noted works on display; Images, materials and design; Artistic style.

Reviews the book 'Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California,' edited by Kevin Starr and Richard Orsi.

Reviews the book 'A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles.'

Reviews the book 'Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown,' by Nayan Shah.

Reviews the book 'Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community,' by Yong Chen.

Presents several books about the history of the California gold rush. `Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848-1858,' by Peter J. Blodgett; `Art of the Gold Rush,' by Janice T. Driesbach, Harvey L. Jones and Katherine Church Holland; `Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California,' by Albert L. Hurtado.

Reviews several books about Los Angeles, California. `Cybercities,' by Christine Boyer; `City of Quartz,' by Mike Davis; `Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster,' by Mike Davis.

Reviews the exhibition of `Jasper Johns: New Paintings and Works on Paper,' at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Reviews several electronic music events. 1998 Home Theater and Specialty Audio Show on June 9-14 in Los Angeles, California; Annual national conference of the Society for ElectroAcoustic Music in the United States on April 16-18, 1998 in New Hampshire; Annual outdoor digital music concert at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University on April 23, 1998.

Reviews the findings of a project undertaken by Region IX of the Public Health Service in 1989 to provide technical assistance to three primary care clinics serving street youth in San Francisco. Juveniles who live on the street; Victims of physical and sexual abuse and family chaos; Multitude of health problems; Method; Results; Discussion; More.

Reviews the book 'Teachers and Scholars: A Memoir of Berkeley in Depression and War,' by Robert Nisbet.

Reviews the book 'Learning to Earn: School, Work, and Vocational Reform in California, 1880-1930,' by Harvey A. Kantor.

Reports on the San Francisco, California Ballet company's performance of 'Con Amore' in New York. Reaction of the New York dance crowds to the group's performance; History of the San Francisco Ballet; Famous dancers and choreographers who belong to the San Francisco company; Weaknesses of the 'Con Amore' production.

Reviews the book 'Los Angeles: An Illustrated History,' by Bruce Henstell.

The article focuses on the Mime troupe. Mime Troupe is America's most vulnerable guerrilla theatre situated in San Francisco. The Mime Troupe uses the techniques and the ambience of old-fashioned popular theatre, its informality, mobility and rough high spirits recall all the ragged troupers throughout history who barn stormed from town to town with their slapsticks and their crude stages and their homemade costumes and their good strong lungs. They set their stage on the grass and cast their show with drums, brass and cymbals. There were three fifteen-minute sketches one about BART (the Bay Area subway system, now being built), one about the telephone company, and one about pollution-employing live actors and puppets.

Revivals do not happen by accident, and a case in point is that of American illusionist painting of the last third of the 19th century. The revival began in the 1930s with the recognition of artist William M. Harnett, now, thirty-five years later, some of the reasons for it have become clear. The exhibition at the Whitney Museum called "The Reality of Appearance" is an opportunity to consider the topicality of trompe l'oeil. The show arranged by artist Alfred Frankenstein for the University Art Museum, Berkeley, California is a fascinating survey of the three masters, Harnett, John Frederick Peto and John Haberle, plus ancestors and satellites. Leaving aside the desire for an American past, both as history and as commodity, one of the reasons that trompe l'oeil may have been revivable is that it was flat. The formal requirement of flatness in painting, mandatory in post-Impressionism, later Cubism and Abstract art, is united here with familiar subject matter.

The article presents information on the William Saroyan's play "Love's Old Sweet Song." It is being offered at the Plymouth by the Theater Guild in conjunction with Eddie Dowling. The scene of "Love's Old Sweet Song" is Bakersfield, California. It involves conveniently indefinite word-a lonely spinster, an itinerant vendor of a bottled panacea, and a "migratory worker" accompanied by his wife and fourteen children and a Greek wrestler, comfortingly full of the milk of human kind- ness, at whose home all the difficulties are resolved and twelve of the fourteen children of the migratory worker organized into a medicine-show choir.

Reviews the book 'Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology,' edited by David L. Ulin.

Reviews the book 'Handbook for Restoring Tidal Wetlands,' edited by Joy B. Zedler.

Reviews two books about California. 'The Literature of California: Native American Beginnings to 1945,' edited by Jack Hicks and others; 'Unfolding Beauty: Celebrating California's Landscapes,' edited by Terry Beers.

Reviews the exhibition `Women, Surrealism and Self-representation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.

Reviews the book 'Global Climate Change and California: Potential Impacts and Responses, edited by Joseph B. Knox with Ann Foley Scheuring.

Reviews the book 'The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk,' by Randy Shilts.

Reviews the book 'Los Angeles 200: A Bicentennial CElebration,' text by Art Seidenbaum and photographs by John Malmin.

Reviews the book 'Growing California Native Plants,' by Marjorie G. Schmidt.

Reviews the book 'California: A Bicentennial History,' by David Lavender.

Reviews the book 'Los Angeles and the Automobile: the making of modern city,' by Scott L. Bottles.

Reviews the book 'Silicon Valley Fever: Growth of High-Technology Culture,' by Everett M. Rogers and Judith K. Larsen.