Otis Chandler

The woman who sheds her assigned domestic role to make things happen in the community in which she lives, who walks out of her house and wrenches or wills or cajoles one or another raw frontier boomtown into an approximation of a city, was once a familiar...

The next time you're at a $750-a-plate fund-raiser for the opera, check Plácido Domingo's shadow. In it, you're likely to find a solid citizen named Marc Stern. You've probably never heard of Stern, but when a million-dollar gift falls through or a...

On a Saturday afternoon, a few weeks from the official opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, people with television cameras attached to their shoulders are steering Frank Gehry from the Founders Room to the main entrance. Graciously, Gehry allows...

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I'd never thought of Joan Didion as dependable before. But after reading these 11 pieces of superior reporting and criticism, I now think of her as a writer who can be relied on to get the story straight. In her previous collections of essays, "The White...