Robert Frost

Lessons from a five-star president

2013-01-28 00:00:00

As President Obama contemplates his second term, he has been talking to historians about another two-term president, Dwight D. Eisenhower. We think of Ike as a great military man, but as president he used his understanding of the military to rein it in....

Titian painted in a new biography

2012-11-24 04:25:00

-------------------- Titian His Life Sheila Hale Harper Collins: 832 pp., $39.99 -------------------- This is a long book about a long life, a large volume about a large talent. Titian, its titular subject, was the most celebrated painter of his...

Man About Town: Carving out autumn bliss in a pumpkin patch

2012-10-20 00:00:00

Largely free of the manure odors that kept me from a life in agriculture, Faulkner Farm puts on quite a pumpkin patch, replete with red barns, hayrides, a pumpkin catapult, corn mazes and, best of all, a fine tri-tip sandwich, the only thing really...

Post & Beam's well-seasoned restaurateur, Brad Johnson

2012-07-04 00:00:00

Foodies tend to move like flocks of birds, swarming a chic eatery, and then — swoop — off to the next. One of their newer perches in Los Angeles is in a part of town that hasn't had much of the food spotlight. Post & Beam opened on New Year'...

88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress

2012-07-04 16:36:52

Tracking Wallace Stegner's footprints in Vermont's earth

2012-04-08 00:00:00

Wallace Stegner wrote books about the American and Canadian West, so it's understandable that people consider the longtime California resident a Western author. Stegner, a prolific novelist, essayist, conservation advocate and professor at Stanford...

Vermont: If you go

2012-04-08 00:00:00

THE BEST WAY TO VERMONT From LAX, United, US Airways, Delta and JetBlue provide connecting service (change of planes) to Burlington. Restricted round-trip fares, including taxes and fees, begin at $508. Public transportation outside the Burlington area...

John Williams and Steven Spielberg mark 40 years of collaboration

2012-01-08 00:00:00

The quietest room in Hollywood may be the office where John Williams composes. In a bungalow on the Universal Studios lot, steps from the production company of his most frequent collaborator, director Steven Spielberg, Williams works alone at a 90-year-...

Ask Laz: Handling neighbor's debris from recent windstorm [Video]

2011-12-09 16:34:33

School named for Sandra Cisneros to open in Echo Park

2011-06-28 16:34:36

Poet Kay Ryan among the geniuses

2011-09-20 16:35:09

The California Cook: Scrambled eggs: the sunny side of dinner

2011-03-31 00:00:00

I've always loved Robert Frost's line about home being the place where, "when you have to go there, they have to take you in." Perhaps I'm putting an overly optimistic reading on it, but the idea that even on our coldest, darkest nights, there is always a...

Gordon Clapp as Robert frost

2012-11-15 14:27:00

Songs of the Earth: Environmentalist Bill McKibben's new book plead with readers to stay focused on what is happening to the world. He is seen here at home, in Vermont.

2008-02-27 00:00:00

The versatile man of letters, shown in 1981, was a friend of Robert Frost.

2005-09-18 23:12:03