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Miles Regis: Multimedia Artist From Trinidad
I said 'Amsterdam is a close second, but I want to live in L.A.'...cut to five years later, I'm still not in L.A. yet.
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Striking The Perfect Note
In this world where so many things are going wrong, so many things are also going right -- like this choir program in Ventura County.
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The HeArt Project
Arts Education The HeArt Project Departures Youth Voices partners with the HeArt Project to bring arts into the classrooms.Learn More
Crunching the Crime Numbers: Too Many Cops or Not Enough?
Does your city have too many police officers or not enough? A new study suggests there is an answer, but it's not likely to be one that your city council will care to hear.
Power Play: California, Electricity and Climate Change
A California law passed in 2002 mandates that by 2020, 33% of the state's electricity must come from renewable resources.
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Beats and Rhymes: The Oral Tradition
Poets have always played the role of the voice of people since the dawn of man
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Up at the Old Museum: New Ways to Tell the Stories of L.A.
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is getting a new permanent exhibition ready. It will help us understand how we became Los Angeles.
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'Going to the Olympics' Mural to Return to the Hollywood Freeway
The iconic 1984 mural by Frank Romero will return to its former glory.
A two-horse City-Central streetcar, circa 1886. Courtesy of the California Historical Society Collection, USC Libraries.
L.A.'s First Public Transit Was Horse-Powered
Public transportation made its L.A. debut in 1873 with a horse-drawn omnibus.
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Collared -- The Pain of Losing the Dog You Tried to Rescue
Columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan learns that when animal rescue doesn't work, it hurts.
'Two Vendors' (1989) by John Valadez. Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program and the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment © 1989, John M. Valadez
Mr. Valadez Goes To Washington
The Smithsonian American Art Museum comments on the influence of Latino art, specifically the murals of John Valadez.
Cheng Rey Koo: China, Chinatown, and L.A. Is Love
Setting up shop in Chinatown was the logical conclusion after fleeing Communist China.
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