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The Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League played baseball in shorts from 1950 to 1953. Courtesy of the Herald-Examiner Collection - Los Angeles Public Library.
From 1950 to 1953, the Hollywood Stars wore shorts on the field, and L.A. as Subject has the photos to prove it.
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The L. A. River School and all the students who participated have been indispensable partners in the ongoing endeavor to re-imagine the Los Angeles River.
The problem with the impoverished language of lad-dom is you quickly run out of ways of intensifying the moment until every other word is an anatomical adjective.
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After the city's vast street car system was dismantled, its rail cars experienced a variety of fates, from having extended lives overseas to a new life as museums and restaurants.
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Students and teachers know how difficult it is to maintain decent grades and get help from teachers when there is just too many students in one classroom.
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From the return of a Venice landmark mural, to the preservation efforts for a work inspired by John Muir, here's a look at public art stories for June, 2014.
How does a community come together to "daylight" a hidden creek and how does it assert it's voice on how the creek will flow?
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L.A. Letters spotlights Laguna Beach with a focus on the Laguna Greenbelt and the area's cultural history.
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Punk's impact and longevity in El Monte continues to be a source for creativity and is deeply rooted in the immigrant experience of youth that sought an alternative to a very dismal reality.
Filtered photo of a copy of the California Constitution. | Photo/Editing: Zach Behrens/KCET
The sickness has been diagnosed, but the medicine is unlikely to be taken. California's constitution is in crisis, but too much depends on the current initiative process.
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At Castle Green, one's imagination is apt to run wild.
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Spring, with its days of overcast, was always a cause for disappointment for me and my ideas of a perfectly sunny SoCal. The drought has changed all that.
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