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The mural ordinance gets another chance tomorrow to be passed and end a long ban on public art.
The sight of an orange tree, laden with golden fruit on a cold winter afternoon, remains a guarantor of Southern California's mythic qualities.
The five top tier candidates running for L.A. Mayor (from left:) Emanuel Pleitez, Eric Garcetti, Kevin James, Jan Perry, and Wendy Greuel.
Running for the highest elected office in the City of Angels is not an inexpensive undertaking.
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Huell Howser was an emissary for "The Gospel of Beauty" as preached by poet Vachel Lindsay.
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Experiencing street art and murals becomes heightened when it's a random discovery, and the tweeting and Instagrams help makes these works more popular…
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A dilapidated sign near Griffith Park is a reminder of the former grandeur of the neighborhood of Westlake.
Left: Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen in 'Gangster Squad.' Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Right: Mickey Cohen after being convicted of income tax evasion in 1951. Courtesy of the Los Angeles Examiner Collection, USC Libraries.
With "Gangster Squad," the world's attention turns to the criminal underworld of postwar L.A. and its pugilistic boss, Mickey Cohen.
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Quentin Tarantino was well represented -- and then some -- at a recent discussion of his latest movie in Leimert Park.
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The Santa Monica Mountains are L.A.'s backyard, but for children of color living in poverty with no access to a car, they may as well be worlds away.
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One of Huell's gifts was getting people to say the right thing in one take.
Spanish speakers were hard to come by when she arrived to Los Angeles fifty years ago.
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For this auto-less adventure, I decided to explore a train line that doesn't yet exist.
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