The owners of El Buen Cacao, Erik Landis and Jessica Ramirez, pride themselves on their dark chocolate made on-site from the main ingredient, cacao. The cacao beans are sourced from the jungles of Central and South America and grown by farms that practice fair labor. Keeping the chocolate healthy with no processed ingredients — including…

Imagine a novel in which a major presidential candidate builds his platform on deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants and secures his party’s nomination. That is the basis for “Crossings: A Political Fable of the Near Future” by Sid Gardner, a novelist experienced in government service in the District of Columbia, and co-author Scott Robinson, an…

History is something we all learn in school. We read books, watch movies and we are taught about world events that occurred before our time. Then, there is our personal history — the stories that are told within our families of where we came from and what we can expect to be passed down in…

Richelle Gribble, townie, hillbilly and optimist, is a 2013 bachelor’s of fine arts graduate of the University of Southern California with a minor in social entrepreneurship and marketing. She went to Idyllwild Arts for high school, completing in 2009 what she called an immersion in making art that continues to influence her today. For the…