PEOPLE Reasons to Love California
California!
California: Real & Imagined • CELEBRATING A PLACE WHERE EVERYONE HAS A CONNECTION—NO MATTER WHERE THEY’RE FROM
10 Reasons to Love California • THE GLAMOUR, OF COURSE (WHAT OTHER STATE HAS EXPAT ROYALTY?), BUT ALSO THE WAY IT TAUGHT THE WORLD TO LAUGH, TO TOAST TO LIFE AND TO START OVER—JUST ASK THE FORMER GOVERNOR
1. Fabulous Fetes: Where the Party’s At • A CENTURY AGO THE FILM INDUSTRY GOT TO WORK. THE CELEBRATIONS SOON FOLLOWED
2. Arnold Schwarzenegger: ‘I’m Ready for More’ • CALIFORNIA LOVES A COMEBACK. AT HOME IN L.A. THE BODYBUILDER TURNED ACTOR TURNED GOVERNOR TALKS ABOUT HIS FOURTH ACT
3. A Whole New World: Happy 70th, Disneyland! • OPENING DAY IN 1955 WAS A BUMPY RIDE, BUT THE ORIGINAL MAGIC KINGDOM IN ANAHEIM GREW BEYOND EVEN WALT DISNEY’S WILDEST DREAMS
4. Its Parks Play Planets in Star Wars • WHAT DOES ENDOR LOOK LIKE? OR TATOOINE? TWO OF CALIFORNIA’S MOST TREASURED NATURAL SPACES STOOD IN FOR DESTINATIONS IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY
5. The City of Angels is Taylor Swift’s Musical Muse • THE PENNSYLVANIA-BORN STAR WHO FOUND FAME IN NASHVILLE CAN’T STOP NAME-CHECKING LOS ANGELES IN HER LYRICS
6. Hungry? Celebs Want to Feed You… • TWO BARBIE STARS ARE AMONG THE FAMOUS FOLK TO OPEN RESTAURANTS
7. LeBron & Bronny James: A Dad’s Dream Team
8. Harry & Meghan: Royal Refuge • WHEN THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX SAID GOODBYE TO ALL THAT IN THE U.K., THEY BUILT A NEW LIFE FOR THEIR YOUNG FAMILY IN SANTA BARBARA
9. Comedy Clubs: In on the Joke • HOME TO AMERICA’S LONGEST-RUNNING COMEDY CLUB, CALIFORNIA COUNTS LAUGHS AMONG ITS GREATEST RENEWABLE RESOURCES
10. It Is Home to Real Heroes • THE FIRES THAT DEVASTATED THE L.A. AREA REVEALED THE RESILIENCE OF THE CITY’S CITIZENS, BOTH FAMOUS AND NOT
Golden State, Silver Screen • A FEW OF THE CLASSICS THAT CAN TRANSPORT YOU TO CALIFORNIA—FROM THE BAY AREA TO SAN DIEGO—WITHOUT EVER LEAVING THE MOVIE THEATER. PLUS: PLACES YOU CAN VISIT IN REAL LIFE
California On Film: 10 Essential Movies • PEOPLE’S CRITIC ON GEMS SET ACROSS THE STATE
A Toast to Friendship: ‘Sideways’ Turns 21 • ALEXANDER PAYNE’S FILM ABOUT LOVE, DRINK AND OTHER OBSESSIONS CHANGED HOW PEOPLE FELT ABOUT PINOT NOIR, MERLOT AND THE SANTA YNEZ WINE REGION
Ghost Story: An Eerie Night at the Hollywood Roosevelt • DOES MARILYN MONROE HAUNT THIS ICONIC HOTEL? DOES MONTGOMERY CLIFT? A PEOPLE EDITOR WHO CHATS UP SPIRITS WITH HER ‘GHOST MOMS’ PALS, BRAVELY CHECKED IN TO FIND OUT
That West Coast Sound • FROM THE BEACH BOYS TO SNOOP DOGG TO GWEN STEFANI: PEOPLE TALKS WITH CALIFORNIA HITMAKERS
Gwen Stefani: Songs of My Life • WITH THE RELEASE OF HER 2024 SOLO ALBUM, THE POP ICON FROM ORANGE COUNTY STEPPED BACK IN TIME
Snoop Dogg: The Growth of an Icon • HE WENT FROM L.A. GANGSTER RAP TO OLYMPIC GOLD—BUT HE’S STILL THE SAME OLD G
Belinda Carlisle: What I Know Now • L.A. FAVORITES THE GO-GO’S MADE HER A STAR. AFTER FOUR DECADES, THE SINGER REFLECTS ON FAME AND FINDING PEACE AFTER FACING ADDICTION
SoCal Originals: The Beach Boys Look Back • THE ICONIC BAND’S SURVIVING MEMBERS REFLECT ON MORE THAN SIX DECADES OF ENDLESS SUMMER
California Dreaming • A FORMER FARMWORKER BECOMES AN ASTRONAUT, A SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM MAKES A MIRACLE HAPPEN, AND A STAR BECOMES A HERO TO RESCUE DOGS
Astronaut José Hernández’s Life Inspires a Movie: ‘I’m the Epitome of the American Dream’ • A MIGRANT FARMWORKER AS A YOUTH, HE LONGED TO GO TO OUTER SPACE. THEN HOLLYWOOD TOOK NOTICE
Deaf Football Team Makes History: ‘A Classic American Underdog Story’ • FOR 70 YEARS THE TEAM AT CALIFORNIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF IN RIVERSIDE COULDN’T WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP. THEN THEY...