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When I said "open to anywhere," it didn't even occur to me that L.A. would ever be a possibility. I mean, San Francisco, maybe. Portland, maybe. But I certainly never thought, "Los Angeles."
Thai Town is an example of a transnational space as the geographic place that serves as home to Thai immigrants, restaurants, and community organizations.
The tiny municipality seems to punch above its weight in most of the important modern rankings: food, no doubt; culture, in certain senses, yes; street life, seemingly so; homosexuality, most definitely.
We all crave reassurance, the knowledge that a scrap of us will last beyond the flare of our life.
Only in America could people whose heritage hails from within and around the world's largest continent be considered a single demographic group.
All Americans are indebted to the actions of Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez, and four other Santa Ana families, who challenged segregation in local schools.
Here are a dozen news and notes about street art and murals from the month of March, 2013.
This week L.A. Letters highlights two evenings of live music and a band of high school musicians.
When Spanish explorers first visited the Los Angeles shore in 1542, they named the area the "Bay of the Smoke."
I find that black support for marriage equality is real, but it's not a given--or a gimme.