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Artists always know who among their cohorts is the best, and even as a student at Cal Arts, where Kelley graduated in 1978, he held that influential position.

Cal State Long Beach sociology professor Oliver Wang offers a powerhouse of a coffee table book by taking what could have easily sold as a scrapbook of cool images and grounding it in the history of a community that has seen the promise and pain of Southern California like few others.

Rosales, who has spent nearly two decades helping students navigate the college admissions process, noted that Cal Grant income ceilings leave out some middle-class families unable to afford to send their children to a UC or CSU campus.

Cal Peternell moved back to the area after a decades-long stint at the famed Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif. His restaurant, Finnbar, in Frenchtown, N.J., is a 12-minute drive from my house.

More than once, when I was put in charge of making the mushroom sugo for the Finnbar kitchen, Cal would taste the stew and start boiling white wine in a skillet to add to it, correcting the acidic balance of the dish.