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Mikey Diaz. | Photo: Douglas McCulloh
I unexpectedly spent the afternoon at an "Ambush Wedding Reception."
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Lincoln Boulevard, "everybody's ugliest street" that runs up the west of Los Angeles from LAX to Santa Monica, draws eyes for its "vitiated architectural typology" and "uncontrolled riot of signage." But past those freely eccentric structures, what doe...
A first job at the margin of retailing and at the edge of a suburban tract.
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This week L.A. Letters spotlights Luis Rodriguez's distinguished career and also highlights the larger community of writers from Boyle Heights to Pacoima and Sylmar that count him as their mentor.
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A wall in Venice Beach has hosted two murals that have acted as love letters to the city.
Mayor Garcetti's first months in office have been more about process than setting an agenda.
My oldest dog, Toby. | Photo: Erin Aubry Kaplan
When you think you're bad off, affording what you really want makes you realize what fortunate means. 
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As we witness a paradigm shift in how Angelenos move through the region, it may be useful to define what we mean by "transportation equity."
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We interviewed Glen Dake of DakeLuna Consultants to get an expert opinion on how to turn a vacant lot into a dog park.
Standard Oil provoked a considerable uproar among real estate interests when it built this wildcat oil well next to a new, luxury housing tract in 1927. Courtesy of the USC Libraries - Dick Whittington Photography Collection.
In a Cheviot Hills subdivision named for its views, the sudden appearance of a steel oil derrick meant trouble.
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At home in the U.S. and abroad, basketball continues to occupy a central place in Filipino American lives.
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Chicano and Mexican-born and white and black and Asian and Muslim young people performed in drill teams and bands and cheerleading displays, from Riverside Poly, JW North, from Bryant Park and from churches and social clubs. It's not only Black History...
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