Articles by Ann Herold

There was much heavy sighing and some collective head-scratching when the Bixby Ranch, a majestic coastal property belonging to the family that once owned all of what is now Long Beach and parts of Irvine and Palos Verdes, was sold in January for close to $140 million, a record for noncommercial real estate in California. Read more

Not too long after she was truly hooked on golf, trading in six nights a week of competitive softball for a daily dose of the sport, Lisa Marie Petersen noticed she was bracing herself every time she approached the tee box. Read more

On one corner of Paso Robles’ main square–a charming place with a park and gazebo at its heart and a sweet mix of historic buildings, wine-tasting rooms and boutiques at its edges–is a clock tower shaped like an acorn. Read more

A longtime Californian, Susan Bell had lived through one drought after another, so she was certainly primed to hear the call. Read more

ALBERTO HERNANDEZ is out to repair the world. Read more

In this Ron Stoner photograph, a surfer is paddling away from a house in a field. Read more

IN the Cuyama Valley, I keep running into people I would like to be. Read more

Inside the special bag Isabelle Vajda brings back each year from Paris are four things (five if she has room): five packets of couscous fin, four cans of Clement Faugier chestnut paste, two large cans of duck confit and lots of Haribo chocolate-covered marshmallow teddy bears. Read more

Lupe Ybarra is 89, but she can remember people and places like it was yesterday: Her mother Amelia packing lemons at Montecito’s Crocker-Sperry ranch (later to become the ultra-exclusive Birnam Wood Country Club) in 1925, wrapping the Sunkist beauties one at a time in paper before putting them into the box. Read more