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An all-women mural crew gives counterpoint to the male-dominated "Mural Mile" in the San Fernando Valley.
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In an ever-shifting book selling landscape, creative survival has been crucial to Eso Won's longevity.
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This zone of missions, clinics, residential hotels, and sparse convenience stores hosts not just a large and unfortunate outdoor population but their many tents, shopping carts, and rickety wheelchairs besides. What does its presence, which troubles ev...
The seasonal crowds of Point Bennett, San Miguel Island, Channel Islands National Park in California.
One day great hordes of sea lions may loll on the beach at Santa Monica, watching with liquid-eyed disinterest as ravens poke curiously at the skeletal remnants of amusement rides.
When Lakewood residents voted for incorporation in 1954, they determined the kind of city they wanted Lakewood to become.
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L.A. in Motion, a series exploring transportation equity in Los Angeles, is produced in partnership with the California Endowment.To understand where we…
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This week L.A. Letters spotlights five emerging women authors who are doing important work in our contemporary scene.
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The women and men who created this busy city, who built the movie studios, the hospitals, the charities, the schools, and the industries that make Los Angeles great, are buried in these gently sloping hills.
Until the past few years, nobody but water wonks knew or cared about what the Central Basin Municipal Water District did.
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Our idea has grown more with the help of the people we interviewed.
As one of the San Pedro Bay's most conspicuous features, Dead Man's Island became something of a landmark. Postcard by M. Reider, courtesy of the James H. Osborne Photograph Collection, CSUDH Archives.
Home to as many as 11 graves, Dead Man's Island near San Pedro met its own demise in 1928, slowly dismantled by dredgers and dynamite.
Michael and his dog, Topaz.
Michael Reed was a friend of mine. That was something I sometimes struggled to accept for reasons I'm not proud to admit.
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