The first “incel” rampage brewed in an idyllic California college town. Five years later, Isla Vista still copes with its darkest chapter. This story contains descriptions of violence, extreme hate, and traumatic experiences that may be disturbing to some readers. I. Tragedy Siavash Zohoori was grabbing dinner to go at Pita Pit when it started. It was Friday, nearly 9:30 p.m., and his fellow students who hadn’t hightailed it out of Isla Vista for…

CARS did not exist when Albert Charles Louis Goldman was born. Neither did radio broadcasting. His family had to make do without a vacuum cleaner. He was five when the Victorian Era concluded without a bang, except for those of the guns fired at Victoria’s grand funeral. …

“When they came,” Shele Kinkead said, “it was like they took over town.” But the planes were nowhere to be seen — well, heard — when the map-trotter first arrived in Forks, Washington in the early ’80s. Her husband’s first parish was there. She was still a teacher. Their neighbors…

Storylines evolve quickly in professional wrestling. Characters come and go. When Ish Lihinag-Tam checked back into WWE for the first time in four years, just a few weeks before starting grad school, the new faces on the TV got him wondering: How did all these new guys make it to…

Walter Edmond Stewart was born in Bakersfield on March 29, 1927 — which, contrary to what he liked to say, was not before Abraham Lincoln or George Washington’s time. He passed away after a short illness in his hometown nearly 92 years later, on February 14, 2019. He’s survived by…

It’s called the Gourmet Ghetto, but the name feels wrong. I get the cleverness behind calling cities’ bourgie food and drink neighborhoods “ghettos,” but it feels rather tasteless to co-opt the term for commercial benefit — especially in ostensibly liberal Berkeley. Exploring your new home town can be an emotionally…