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Marcos J. Perez at Digicolors
Marcos J. Perez talks about the changes he's seen on York Boulevard since his business opened several years ago.
Kay Osorio at Awesome Playground
Owner Kay Osorio explains the need for an indoor playground on York Boulevard in Highland Park.
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We all know what happened to New England cod and, before that, the great whales. The oceans are not what they used to be.
How do young people see Los Angeles? In this video, students from The HeArt Project share their point of view through a multi-media exhibit -- Mapping the Metropolis: Finding the Heart of Our City.
ArtLAB students map the landscapes of their mind.
The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter isn't about letters or women. It's about the domestication of gazing and the color blue.
An overwhelming share of new residents over time will need affordable housing.
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This week L.A. Letters celebrates two new books and two open mic venues that put the community over the individual in order to improve our environmental and cultural landscape.
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The unlikely partnership between a billboard company and street artists brings change in the relationship between art and outdoor commerce.
A question about a boulevard leads to a memory of a boy encountering some of the meanings of nature in Los Angeles.
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A brewery and pub in an industrial area of Atwater Village are redefining public spaces.
1933 view of the southwest corner of the intersection. By the time of this photo, a fur shop had replaced the Hellman Bank branch as the building's primary tenant. Courtesy of the Dick Whittington Photography Collection, USC Libraries.
Once the site of a two-story Victorian house and the original Vons grocery store, the intersection of Figueroa and 7th will soon host the tallest building on the West Coast.
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