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A crowd at the Sunset Junction Music Festival in 2007
A city panel today voted to deny a permit for the Sunset Junction Music Festival scheduled for this weekend, but the move could be reversed this Wednesday.
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The last time mayoral candidates ran for an open seat was 2001. In that race six candidates spent slightly over $20 million. Even in a bad economy, we could easily see similar, if not higher, spending for the 2013 election.
The politics of taxation in California make it almost impossible to raise general revenues for the common good.
A Norman Bus Bench on Wilshire Blvd. in Westlake, as seen in 2009 | Photo by Matt Fleischer
Norman Advertising's bus bench contract expired nearly two years ago. Why is the city council just getting around to dealing with it now?
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Just when you thought we were almost done talking about redistricting, it's time to refuel and prepare for another round of discussions.
Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk I Ed Fuentes
A city task force assembled to seek safe alternatives for the popular Downtown Art Walk have passed down its first mandate and will be in effect tonight.
The Los Angeles City Council and the County Board of Supervisors both held meetings on Tuesday, with outcomes that could be described as game changing.
A helicopter over Los Angeles, as seen from The Getty
Helicopter noise in Los Angeles is now in the national spotlight.
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Forever young. Los Angeles still sells itself to the world with that increasingly ironic branding. Yet for most of the 20th century, it was true. Because…
The current deal to bring a football stadium to downtown L.A. is better than the bad one AEG asked the city council to accept.
A bicycle attached to a mobile billboard on Cahuenga Boulevard on the Cahuenga Pass | Photo by Zach Behrens/KCET
Mobile billboard owners have found creative solutions to a law banning their signs.
Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk at Spring and 4th on July 2010 I Ed Fuentes
Following the death of an infant, the city has formed a committee to look and propose solutions for the Downtown Art Walk, where crowds have grown to 30,000.
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