Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vinyl made a comeback, and so did slow food and long beards. So why not the typewriter? Actually, there’s a good reason why not: ...

This has been a very good year for documentaries so far, particularly those off the beaten path of the usually more serious-minded docus that flood art house theaters. One of those, California ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Two and one-half stars. Unrated. 104 minutes Documentarian Doug Nichol’s debut feature “California Typewriter” celebrates the surprising staying power of a ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Documentarian Doug Nichol’s debut feature, “California Typewriter,” celebrates the surprising staying power of a technology that has become almost — but not quite — obsolete. Although many of its ...

Anyone with fond memories of the tactile click-click-click of pounding out words on a manual typewriter will love “California Typewriter,” Doug Nichol’s love letter to the machine. Will anyone else?

The typewriter is a marvelous invention because, with proper care, a single unit can last decades. And if you’re still using one now, it would have to: Since the mass adoption of personal computers in ...

To most people, typewriters are perhaps quaint but ultimately inert relics of a bygone age. Crafted at a time in which gears and levers could conjure something close to magic -- which typewriters darn ...

Doug Nichol's documentary about typewriter mania is a piece of analog nostalgia that's in thrall to what digital culture has lost. Vinyl made a comeback, and so did slow food and long beards. So why ...