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Known as "Downtown Orange County," the city of Santa Ana will be holding its first open streets event this fall.
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This week L.A. Letters visits the National Steinbeck Center, examines his lengthy career, and also briefly spotlights Steinbeck's influences and the local students carrying on his legacy.
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Phones can be the revolutionary tool that we need to transform the way we connect to each other, inside and outside the classroom.
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Women who practice Zumba in El Monte have developed and embodied a kind of barrio feminist aesthetic that helps them reclaim their bodies and public space.
Chavez Ravine the canyon is clearly marked on this 1966 USGS topo map, a landform distinct from the hilly terrain now occupied by Dodger Stadium. Courtesy of the USGS.
Dodger Stadium might have replaced the community known as Chavez Ravine, but the actual canyon still exists -- albeit anonymously.
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A stray, shady slice of Griffith Park. Enjoy the big old sycamores, and find where the soft-bottom stretch of Glendale Narrows begins.
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In order to keep abreast of trends in the workplace, I constantly ask for feedback from professionals and invite them into my classroom.
Guess which wins in the contest for public space: aesthetic interest, comfort, or fear?
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This week L.A. Letters spotlights the city's history and the new generation of game-changers invested in the city's revitalization.
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Art clubs, luxury shops, and oil corporations have all occupied the intricately detailed spaces of the 1926 Fine Arts Building in downtown L.A.
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In this month's Community Story Lab the participants turned their cameras on themselves, layering and complicating the meaning of the ubiquitous "selfie."
At a National Moment of Silence event in New Orleans on August 14, 2014.
Ferguson has taken us back to necessary, if overly familiar, discussions about relations between black people and police.
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