Empire Florist

Modesto Bee 2010/03/21

Spring has arrived, and while many plants and flowers are just beginning to come out of their winter

San Francisco Chronicle 2010/03/21

Few non-botanists would give a California seablite plant a second glance. Suaeda californica is 2 feet tall, shrubby, with gray-green needlelike leaves and inconspicuous green flowers. What makes it special is its rarity. Listed by the federal government as...

The Japan Times 2010/03/20

In 1974, Hideko Kariya represented Japan in the Miss Internationals finals, a beauty pageant that started in California in 1960 and moved to Japan in 1968. She placed fifth. Then, in 1981, she married into a family than ran an ever-expanding empire of more than 100 kimono stores across Japan. But as the economy boomed, and with it the family business, Kariya humbly remained at home, Cinderella ...

Los Angeles Times 2010/03/21

Nearly a dozen put their miniature rail systems on display for public viewing in an event presented by members of the Model Railroads of Southern California online chat group. Larry Stark's sliver of imaginary Los Angeles, where it's forever 1937, is a Depression-bitten place of scrap yards and tumbledown wooden shacks, weedy yards and soot-smudged tenements. Hobos still roam with their ...

Post-Tribune 2010/03/21

You might say Bob Chapek is a big cheese in the Mickey Mouse empire. The north Hammond native became president of distribution for The Walt Disney Studios late last year. Chapek is responsible for developing distribution strategy and overseeing delivery of all motion pictures and television content. That involves theatrical exhibition, home entertainment, pay TV, digital formats and other new ...