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By Ivan Jimez, student at Mountain View High School
We asked Youth Voices participants the question: Whats your city postcard? and asked them to respond by designing a postcard of their city.
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There is a cast of mind that sees the numinous in things and makes one a connoisseur of what's at hand.
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This week L.A. Letters spotlights Culver City, its natural landscape, illustrious history, and the brisk redevelopment that has reenergized the city's core over the last decade.
Westbound pioneers were just one of many migrant movements to El Monte.
Artist Phung Huynh's El Monte Bus Station mural tells of cross-cultural, Asian and Latino history and the importance of engaging local community with sensitivity and relevance.
Artist Vincent Ramos narrates the legacy of El Monte Legion Stadium in a four-panel mural at the El Monte Bus Station. With bold graphic qualities of a concert poster, and the intimacy embodied in a hand rendered drawing, Ramos' mural commemorates this...
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What happens when a street-end becomes a street haven that filters and cleans our stormwater? This park! Imagine one on every dead-end river street.
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Behind the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Hollyhock House near Los Feliz lies a fascinating and complicated story, and at its center, a woman whose dreams were often dashed by bureaucracy, difficult collaborators, and herself.
El Monte and South El Monte residents share their ideas about how their community can become a healthier place to live, work and go to school.
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In the years following WWII, California's athletes served as the transnational bridge between Asia and the United States.
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Inspired by the presence of the Latin@ MacArthur Fellows, youth and adult leaders from the Boyle Heights engaged in an afternoon of interaction focused on the pressing issue of displacement.
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When you don't feel safe where you live, when is it time to call it quits? Like any relationship, it's complicated.
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"Everyday my family prays the Virgin Mary to allow us to have a wonderful day and that no harm come to any of us" -Geovani O.
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