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City council members in Los Angeles and Long Beach have choices to make about two iconic buildings, architecturally representative of their times, that neither city council likes very much.
From 'California Game Marked Down (1896).
Two mountain lions had been sighted in Elysian Park. The hunt was on.
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For an El Monte teen already bilingual in English and Spanish, learning Chinese can have social and economic advantages for her future.
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Gardening at school and at home can help foster healthy lifestyles and encourage healthy eating with more nutritious foods -- something that communities like South El Monte and El Monte urgently need.
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How do you play the L.A. River at Rio Hondo Confluence?
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This week L.A. Letters examines two new important poetry anthologies that capture the zeitgeist of American poetry in 2015.
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The TSA has agreed to no longer single out black hair for security searches at airports. I guess some progress on racial profiling is better than none.
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The student group's goal is to create and install a series of ½ mile markers around Legg Lake walking and running nature path at the Whittier Narrows Area and Park.
The reason for the "otherness" of Los Angeles has been named differently in different seasons, but all the interpreters of our re-read city have actually been trying to identify its original sin.
Subsistence Homesteading project in El Monte and San Fernando gave select families the opportunity to supplement their income during the Great Depression with food they grew themselves.
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Parts of the old zoo at Griffith Park still stand, and they are moving reminders that sometimes humans just don't know best when it comes to animals.
A trolley car along the Pacific Electric's Newport-Balboa Line. Courtesy of the Orange County Archives.
How important was the Pacific Electric's arrival to Orange County?
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