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The 15-mile route celebrated Los Angeles in unique ways that allowed Angelenos to experience the geographic diversity of the city.
"I find L.A. to be very similar in certain aspects to Milano. They both are cities that one needs to discover, where everything is hidden and where things are not really coming at you."
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Ecuadorian artist/anthropologist X. Andrade reflects back on the Highland Park-based Full Dollar project, which turned out to be a two-year long project.
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What happened to us? When did we become so elevator-silent, so dour, so proper, so scrunch-faced, so mature?
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The place to stock up on canned green tea, buy a genuine futon, burn an hour at the arcade, eat a heaping plateful of Hayashi rice, or gaze upon the finest men's style magazines: Little Tokyo remains all these, but does it, strictly speaking, remain Ja...
Looking at the "found photographs" in the Huntington's archive of Southern California Edison photographs and finding why the darkness is such chilling fun.
Los Angeles' vast array of zoning overlays and local zoning conditions make little difference in actual land use decisions and investments.
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Camilo Gonzalez is the owner and head chef of Camilo's California Bistro on Colorado Boulevard.
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This week L.A. Letters spotlights a few quintessential small presses and communities of poetry across the country that are redefining the art form and promoting community simultaneously.
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The glittering stories of the old Chateau, and the once scandalous myth of its origins and construction, have been subsumed into the now greater legend of the Church of Scientology.
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Southern California's landscape provided the setting for three critical court cases that reveal the ability of the law to cleave efforts toward equal rights.
Wilson's Service Station in Redlands (Call number: 02 - 19595; Date: 10/21/1936) by G. Haven Bishop
Many of the images were taken by by G. Haven Bishop whose work, almost entirely unknown today, has the subtlety and richness of Julius Shulman's photographs.
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