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Bugs, bones, birds, and millions upon million more things fill the museum's collections, second only to the Smithsonian's. But there's nothing dusty about this 100-year-old archive of what was and what is Los Angeles.
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This week L.A. Letters highlights a new book and recent events that celebrate life and death in Los Angeles.
An alphabet soup of the promoters, players, and policies are shaping Los Angeles. It's not an appetizing mix.
Students from L.A. Leadership Academy on the rivers edge
Student producers explore the islands of the L.A. River
Angels hurler Nolan Ryan pitches from the Angels Stadium mound in Palm Springs, 1973. Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive, Young Research Library, UCLA. Used under a Creative Commons license.
From Anaheim to Catalina Island, Southern California once hosted major-league baseball teams' preseason training camps.
Job seekers at the L.A. Convention Center in December 2010. | Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
Jobs are the foundation of home -- and for too many people, the foundation is shaky and getting shakier.
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I'm curious how voters will decide which candidates to send to the May election. After all, what do we really know about them?
"My family tried living near Griffith Park, just north of Los Feliz, but we didn't like it. It was haunted, among other things."
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Baba Austin is the owner and tattooist at Vintage Tattoo Art Parlor on York Boulevard in Highland Park.
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Angelenos often have a hard time convincing the so-called more progressive Bay Area and New York that there is an L.A. that is not consumed with a plastic way of living.
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In October, I criticized plans to widen a road in Joshua Tree National Park. Not long after, the park's superintendent persuaded me that I might need to reconsider my position. And he did so with one sentence.
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New form of street art pays tribute to the city's name.
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