Don’t E-mail This Article! Although we are living in an electronic era, author Marla Paul still clings to her scissors, envelope, and 44-cent stamp and mails her daughter newspaper clippings. Why not just e-mail the story? “A link is nothingness, a cloud’s wisp, a digital arrow,” Paul writes. “A clip is the real, permanent thing.”

Born Into the Cycle. This week we launched the first installment of a multipart series by Lakesha Townsend on her family history in Watts, Los Angeles, California. Townsend writes, “Watts is the place I call home. It’s also the place I want to leave. It’s my comfort, and it’s my trap.”

So You Wanna Have a Well-Run Empire. On Monday night, philanthropist and business leader Mort Mandel sat down with Drucker Institute executive director Rick Wartzman to discuss the biggest challenge of leadership and revealed his blueprint for organizational success.

American Voters, American Writers, American Indians. Miami, the town in Oklahoma, is pronounced mie-AM-uh—unlike the Florida city: mie-AM-ee. Nerd out on Southwestern pronunciations, Willa Cather’s letters, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in this week’s Six-Point Inspection.

Sociologist Richard Mora in the green room. Before participating in a panel on post-immigrant Los Angeles, Occidental College sociologist Richard Mora sat down in the green room to reveal what cheese best embodies him, what weapon he would use in a zombie apocalypse, and what question he wishes his students would ask more often.

Our Crappy Old Stadiums: A California Triumph. California is now home to three of the five oldest stadiums in Major League Baseball and also boasts three of the five oldest National Football League stadiums. Sure, our stadiums are old and dumpy, but Joe Mathews explains why they’re an example of the way we should be running the state.

Next week …

On Monday, David Lee Strasberg of the Lee Strasberg Institute examines why President Obama’s Boston memorial-service oration left him so flat.

On Tuesday, Council on Foreign Relations Latin America analyst Shannon K. O’Neil, author of Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead, visits Zócalo to ask if our marriage with Mexico is working.