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This week, Cinefamily presents a great line-up of films, including Exit Through the Gift Shop on the street artist Banksy, and the Second Los Angeles Animation Festival International.
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The City Council after much repetition and last-minute changes approves 10 ballot measures for L.A. voter approval in March.
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Buried in the pages of the new ordinance is an "Easter egg" for developers - a 20 percent increase in density to be granted administratively.
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While votes remain to be counted, after weeks of uncertainty our County D.A. Steve Cooley has conceded the victory in the statewide Attorney General race to San Francisco's Kamala Harris.
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Project managers with California's high speed rail project today said the first piece of track for the 800-mile system should be laid on more than 50 miles of track stretching through Fresno and Hanford. The suggestion comes after the federal governmen...
Down on the Farm: Demolishing the South Central Farm
The farm is gone, blighted by poverty politics, ethnic conflict, developer hubris, and sleazy land deals. But some of it lives on in San Marino.
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Carl Rosendahl offers a unique vision of last month's Fresno County Fair in his short video "Slitscan Carnival."
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I cut across several lanes of traffic to pull into a grocery store when the drizzle falling on my windshield reminded me about the existence of hot chocolate.
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A new plan pushed through the City Council could end citizen and Neighborhood Councils ability to speak up during the city planning process.
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Hilja Keading's four-channel video installation at Angles Gallery features an 800-pound bear named Bonkers and the artist, alone together in a very small room.
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Blum & Poe gallery features a stunning film installation by artist Matt Saunders made with ink drawings on mylar.
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I think of the physical humiliations of using Art Leahy's buses and trains. If only he were here with me, I would feel less alone in the cold and the dark.
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