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Photo: Zach Behrens/KCET
Sunday morning, a little before dawn, down some ordinary suburban streets, and through their aural landscape.
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A word to the wise: Just when you thought "silly season" ended with the election, it did not.
The "Least Interesting Policy That Dominates Most Everything" has ruined the character of our streets.
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If I've said it once, I've said it a million times -- there's a golden age of arts flourishing these days in L.A.
Threat or Threatened?
Opossums wander our backyards by night and occasionally startle a homeowner, who imagines that nothing so wild could be part of everyday life.
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A closer look at Noa Bornstein's lost mural, a surrealistic spoof of advertising and an homage to the Belgian master.
Pilar Marrero holds her books. | Photo: Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
Pilar Marrero has a new book out. But like any good Latino in the U.S., it has two identities and two names.
Aerial view of Manhattan Beach, laid out on the sand dunes of the South Bay coast, circa 1920. Courtesy of the Photo Collection, Los Angeles Public Library.
This month, Manhattan Beach celebrates its centennial. Known for its lively seaside promenade, the Strand, and for its associations with surf culture, the city has its origins as a coastal resort built atop shifting sand dunes of the South Bay.
Alicestyne Smith feeding another coach. | Photo: Douglas McCulloh
There are six sisters in this story, and one brother, all educated in a one-room schoolhouse, ninety children and one teacher, and all of them went to college, and their kids went to college. This story, and the sweet potato pie, come from slavery, whi...
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The Interior Department says Southern California can expect to get a lot less water out of the Colorado River in the next 50 years.
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Social mobility used to mean you moved when and where you wanted to. No more.
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Rap group N.W.A. glorified Compton as ground zero of urban Black life -- while at the same time the city's demographics showed a shift towards a Latino majority.
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