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Being involved in band helps students work collaboratively with others and helps them to develop social and problem-solving skills that are necessary to be successful in the work force once they are adults.
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Traveling through Los Angeles on a bike you are bound to hit infrastructure dead zones, where bikeways stop suddenly in the least ideal places where cars assert dominance on the road.
California voters took a whack at man not entirely made of straw on Tuesday at the polls.
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The compact space within the Japanese American Cultural Community Center hosts ukulele connoisseurs from all around town, from Hawaiian expats to young musicians from Silver Lake and the Arts District.
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With active modes of transportation on the rise in L.A. and across the United States, the public health lens must be taken into account when planning the future of transportation in this city.
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Writer, activist, and former California State Senator Tom Hayden reflects on what the recent developments in L.A. River revitalization could mean for the city.
Radiate L.A. aims to get young Catholics in touch with their faith.
Tearing a page out of the pontiff's playbook, the L.A. archdiocese is trying to fit into the changing digital landscape.
The future of food hadn't arrived when I was a boy.
The curl-crested aracari is one of many animals displaying hypnotic colors in the Tambopata National Reserve in Peru.
I returned home with the Amazon's Darwinian lessons reverberating in my head.
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This week L.A. Letters salutes Wyvernwood and the multigenerational coalition of residents, activists, preservationists, professors and students committed to preserving the site and stopping the redevelopment.
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Something has been left out of the story of Huy Fong Foods and the city of Irwindale.
A career in writing is nothing to be scared of.
This is what I tell the kids when I stand in front of them, waving my hands in the air in what I hope is an enthusiastic, and not lunatic, manner.
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