Earlier this year I was walking through downtown Walnut Creek on a beautiful spring day. I was cruising through the outdoor ...

The first sensation that strikes visitors is often the quality of silence—not an absence of sound, but rather the presence of nature’s own soundtrack: wind sighing through pine boughs, water lapping ...

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Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt created the character’s high-pitched, electronic chattering by combining his own voice and ...

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Stranger Things returns November 27 with its final season, ending Hawkins’ saga on New Year’s Eve. Follow Live.

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Kings Canyon National Park, located in the Southern Sierra Nevada region of California, is generally visited for its massive ...

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