Columnist/art lover David Allen checks out an exhibit of IE scenes at The Cheech and an edgy ceramics show in Pomona. And he finds a Redlands orange crate at the Huntington.

“A History of Baseball in Riverside” weighs in at 838 pages. Its compilers tell columnist/contributor David Allen that the subject, like the book, was a heavy lift.

The series of opening and closing doors made traveler/columnist David Allen think of “Get Smart.” He was returning from SF, which he loves.

The former Riverside mayor has been on the board since its 2012 founding, but after a shakeup, he’s now its president. Columnist David Allen marvels.

Readers welcome columnist David Allen to the ranks of hybrid car owners. He’s filled his Camry’s gas tank only six times in four months.

Columnist David Allen’s new book collects the best of 5 years of his work. He outlines some of the stories inside and offers a schedule of upcoming talks.

Singer headlined revue at Swing Auditorium in 1968, columnist David Allen learns. She may have returned to the Inland Empire only once afterward.

3,000 items owned by the late Marguerite McIntosh sell during pop-up boutique to benefit the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, which she founded. Columnist David Allen attends.

Celestial ceiling at storied 1931 auditorium was feet away for columnist David Allen due to scaffolding for the restoration work.

For 85th anniversary, museum produces ambitious survey of region’s art history and seeks to spotlight up-and-coming artists, columnist David Allen writes.

Columnist David Allen makes it through periodontal surgery, delves into the lore of 47 at Pomona College and its uses in “Star Trek,” and shares the reopening of a Victoria Gardens store.

Will the president’s executive order be expanded to target the city with the Canadian name? Columnist David Allen wonders about the ripple effects.

“You should be ashamed of yourself,” one critic tells columnist David Allen, who frequently is. He also excerpts mail on other recent columns.

Columnist David Allen is trying to come to grips with the news that a former newsroom colleague now oversees the nation’s drug policy.

The Borg, an alien hive mind, was inspired by the Oldenborg Center, a dorm where a ‘Trek’ writer lived in his student days, columnist David Allen reports.

Over 32 years in office, councilman has amassed power and influence that is now eroding. But don’t count him out, columnist David Allen cautions.

Does KD1 have designs on Shadow? Is it too soon? Columnist David Allen imagines how the scene in Shadow’s nest may be playing out.

Ralph Megna, then a director of Riverside’s Redevelopment Agency, recalls the renovation and sale of the hotel in 1992 in conversation with columnist David Allen.

First U.S. concert was ‘inexplicably’ in the city 60 miles east of LA, biographer Bob Spitz writes. Columnist David Allen has more.

Basement museum has a popular online presence worldwide, but few locals know it exists. Columnist David Allen talks to founder Gene Sasse.

In Hollywood, columnist David Allen visits the Pantages one Sunday, the Bowl the next. He reflects on what makes the century-old venues special.

Two months after rejecting a McDonald’s for a blighted corner, the City Council OKs it 5-1 Wednesday. The audience was largely opposed, columnist David Allen reports.

KPC Development is poised to buy the notorious abandoned towers for $517 million. Also in David Allen’s column: at a baseball game, a reader catches a foul ball in her purse.

City Council rejects a McDonald’s, saying city can do better. Others find that logic unrealistic, columnist David Allen writes. The council will reconsider on Aug. 5.

Public health professor was ill for a month in 2018 after consuming tainted lettuce. To learn more, columnist David Allen invites him out for a salad.

1960s civic hub by famed architect gets a $14.6 million refresh that adds a playground near the library and restores the long-dormant fountain, columnist David Allen writes.

Study says seismic stress is at its highest in a thousand years. Columnist David Allen recommends not worrying. Also: news about Joey’s Bar-B-Q, the IE native at the Smithsonian and more.

Columnist/Cardinals fan David Allen sees his team on the road and almost wishes he hadn’t. But a friend caught a foul ball.

Murals are expression of faith that also aim to prevent graffiti, journalist Sam Quinones says at the launch event for “Our Lady of the Angels.” Columnist David Allen is there.

Columnist David Allen buys his first modern car, with touchscreen, backup camera and more. It’s a lot to get used to, but the gas mileage is worth it.

Exhibit of work by photographer Michael Graves captures sites from Needles to Santa Monica, columnist David Allen writes. It’s on view through Aug. 1.

Summer music from the Pomona Concert Band has moved indoors. Repairing the bandshell will be expensive, columnist David Allen learns.

Volunteers with Friends of the Mission Inn fund $10,000 job, continuing its role since 1969 to protect hotel’s artifacts, columnist David Allen writes.

California lost 66,000 population in 2025, but the IE gained 10,000 people. Even Needles gained population, columnist David Allen learns.

Columnist David Allen checks off his 19th MLB ballpark and, in a bonus, sees his favorite team beat the Braves. He also visits MLK sites and walks the Beltline.

“An All-American City” surveys presidential visits to Riverside and the city’s all-out response to the Bicentennial. Columnist David Allen checks it out.

Inglewood both isn’t and is Los Angeles. Ditto with wherever in SoCal we live. Neighbors we may all be, but the region is so vast, it isn’t easy to visit, columnist David Allen writes.

His resignation closes a tenure that degenerated into soap opera and threats of litigation, columnist David Allen writes.

Matt Garcia says Latino actors from famed Claremont theater migrated to Hemet to fill roles in “Ramona” pageant, columnist David Allen writes. He also goes out for burgers with a Shake Shack fan.

$1 million donation will allow 1931 ceiling to be repaired this summer, columnist David Allen reports. In other news from Claremont, a chocolate shop has closed after 50 years.

Meanwhile, attorney for Kelly Roberts says the two paintings that prompted outcry are “personal property” and were excluded from the hotel’s sale, columnist David Allen reports.

Two aunts and family friend say astronaut was “brilliant” as boy and has kept his feet on the ground despite historic space flight, columnist David Allen writes.

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Stand offering the rare item closed June 3, laments columnist David Allen, who got one last cup. He also offers his take on local election results.