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The major work at the L.A. Central Library that has survived grime, two arson fires, and budget cuts, is not getting much attention on its 80th Anniversary.
"People could actually hold a symbol of their affinity in their hands -- their love of being a deejay or collecting records or dancing -- and consume it as if were like Catholic communion."
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Susan Straight recalls the history of Riverside's Our Lady of Guadalupe and introduces the people who have kept the parish alive all these years.
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Take off your Google Glass before you come near me. I mean it. And I'm not the only one.
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Last week the Departures production crew headed out on a little field trip eastward to Azusa at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.
A professor of Architectural History takes my hometown tour, where the everyday nearly always fails to be ironic and the quotidian does not always disappoint.
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College shouldn't just be about how much money you should make. The questions are far grander. What barrier will I break? How can I change the world?
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One can technically live an entire life in only Korean or Spanish - or indeed, only English - within these almost three square miles, but it would by no means count as a full one.
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Over 60 percent of the city's geography is covered by special overlays and site-specific designations -- these are the machinery of the metaphorical sausage factory that is the Los Angeles development industry.
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This week L.A. Letters discusses Iconic L.A. Women.
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Before pigeons turned his statue white, the storied composer stood in L.A.'s oldest park with dignity.
For a few hours this week, we (meaning our avatar Voyager 1) might had slipped the surly bonds of the solar system. It turns out we didn't.
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