Past Tense: November 12, 2026
Prescribed Burn begins on Thomas Mountain
On Monday, November 9, approximately 174 firefighters from the Forest Service, Wildland Fire Service, Idyllwild Fire Protection District and other agencies gathered at the Kenworthy Forest service station for a briefing before beginning a prescribed burn on Thomas Mountain. The burning is expected to continue until Saturday, Nov. 14 and to cover approximately 2,500 acres…
A message from Maria Loutzenhiser on the 20th anniversary of the Esperanza Fire
By Maria Loutzenhiser. A message from the November 12, 2026 edition.
Hunky Dory spins full circle
Before Michael Brown owned a record shop, he knew how it felt to be welcome in one.
As a teenager in Janesville, Wisconsin, he frequented a small independent store specializing in punk and new wave. Friends and MTV had helped introduce him to the music. The shop gave him somewhere to find it, and somewhere to stay a while
The Man, The Myth, The Listings
He arrives in a vintage 1976 yellow Chevy, the kind of vehicle that suggests a different relationship to time. “That’s ol’ Hoss,” he says, as if introducing a trusted companion. If you know Gavin Toler at all, it’s likely through his music — songs that drift somewhere between the intimate and absurd, full of strange…...
