• It's 9 a.m. on a Thursday and Paul Waters and Kevin Voecks are paging through photos of cakes at the Vienna Bakery in Thousand Oaks.
– June 16, 2008, California section

• It's just past 3 a.m. on a chilly Wednesday morning when Erica Ford pulls her tidy 4-year-old SUV into a parking space behind the left-field wall at Angel Stadium.
– May 12, 2008, Column One

• It was near midnight at the Railway Club, a posh spot at the train station in Gorakhpur, close to the Nepal border.
– June 26, 2008, Column One

• It's almost 8 a.m. on 111th Street in Watts, and here's a scene that could make a cynic faint.
– July 23, 2008, Steve Lopez column

• It's another Friday night at the Fullerton train station, which is full of the usual types: commuters with briefcases, people sprinting over a bridge because they found themselves on the wrong side of the tracks, families struggling with suitcases.
– Oct. 1, 2008, Column One

• At 6 a.m., the hospital's bright hallway lights flicker on, signaling the start of a new day.
– March 24, 2008, Health

• It's a bright, sunny morning after a gig, and Chrissie Hynde is doing what any good rock star would: hanging out in her hotel room, casually flipping the pages of a magazine and eyeballing porn.
– Oct. 4, 2008, Calendar

• It's not yet 3 a.m. Juana Rivas grabs her shopping cart and steps off the curb into the dark.
– March 12, 2008, Column One

• It was just after 7 a.m. on the set of "Fox & Friends," but the studio already looked like the scene of a college all-nighter.
– Oct. 21, 2008, Calendar

• On a humid summer morning, the Straight Talk Express is rolling along, en route from a town-hall meeting in Albuquerque to a private airstrip where a newly refurbished plane, also dubbed the Straight Talk Express, awaits.
– Sept. 4, 2008, Front page

• On a warm autumn afternoon, toward the end of a daylong barrage of PowerPoint presentations, a white-haired, gentlemanly fellow named Michael Merzenich faced a room full of neuroscientists and pharmaceutical executives and declared that, really, they could all pack up and go home.
– Dec. 27, 2007, Front page

• It's a balmy September evening just after sundown, and Gabriel Gonzalez and his family peruse an aisle of pirate accessories, skull-headed walking sticks and fake tattoos.
– Oct. 4, 2007, Calendar Weekend