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Should neighborhoods be named after a single specific ethnicity?
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A new mural has made South Los Angeles a bit more animated.
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Here's how you can explore Little Tokyo through the lens of Departures.
Light and air are substances in the Los Angeles basin, as material as the mountains that frame our horizon. What goes up in the air of L.A. stays there - the minimum is three days - and its presence both harms and delights us.
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The wrinkle is that special interests groups largely, if not exclusively, fund many of these trips.
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Observing the changing Westside, the latest ebook technology, and preserved history in Boyle Heights.
City Council Member Larry Van Nostran has died.
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There's much more to the city than just the Festival of Lights at the Mission Inn.
The Raymond Hotel dominates the South Pasadena landscape in this circa 1894 photo by Truman D. Keith. Courtesy of the South Pasadena Local History Images Collection, South Pasadena Public Library.
Each winter, the Raymond Hotel in South Pasadena invited well-heeled tourists to escape the frosty East Coast for the sunny skies of Southern California.
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In tough times, saving dogs and self-preservation can be the same thing.
From Paris, San Francisco, and London to the "shambolic Third-World-ness" of L.A.
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In this cacophonous age when almost everyone is shouting to be noticed, quiet speaks loudly.
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