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Clastoptera mineralis sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Clastopteridae) lives on cypresses (Hesperocyparis spp.) (Cupressaceae) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Many of its post-first-instar nymphs form and live within mineral-crusted spittle masses until adult emergence. No comparable phenomenon has been documented in New World spittlebugs, but mineral coverings have been observed in the Old World spittlebug groups Machaerotidae, which make mineralized nymphal tubes, and Tremapterus Spinola, 1850, which make spittles with mineral casings. In contrast to the more permanent and organized structures of the Old World species, the remains of C. mineralis crust disappear after late fall rains and may depend on the intense California summer dry season for their initial persistence. They might represent an early stage in the evolution of nymphal mineral coverings. Some C. mineralis nymphs are associated with spittle-inhabiting larvae of the fly Cladochaeta sturtevanti Wheeler & Takada, 1971 (Diptera: Drosophilidae), which apparently stunts their growth. Some C. sturtevanti pupae are attacked in turn by a chalcid wasp parasitoid of the genus Pachyneuron Walker, 1833 (Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). Both parasitized and unparasitized fly puparia were found associated with C. mineralis mineral crusts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Review of: The California Gothic in Fiction and Film, Bernice Murphy (2022) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 320 pp., ISBN 978-1-47449-786-2, h/bk, £90.00 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Restricting Los Angeles Paparazzi: California's Legal Efforts Impacting Free Press Rights. I enjoyed the field observation chapter, where Azriel spent a week in the field embedded with other paparazzi and working as a freelancer himself, but wish that it contained more than a brief summary of the various activities of a paparazzi. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers news briefs in the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) as of August 2021. Topics include the AOSSM at American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) meeting that will tackle topics like the role of orthobiologics in sports medicine and the "Baseball 2021: Youth to the Big Leagues: Managing the Developing Player" program.