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I used to go to Ports O'Call when I was in college in the 1960s. It's always kind of fun to be a tourist in your own town and to see how we want visitors to remember Los Angeles.
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As lawmakers seek to add another chapter to the ongoing saga of the mural ordinance, the world of street art keeps turning. Here's our mural wrap for May.
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Bruce's Beach and the Inkwell served as sites of leisure, agency, community, and controversy, and demonstrate the complex racial history of the Golden State.
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An amendment to the mural ordinance will make it easier for property owners to understand the process for registering murals with the city.
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Economics, environment, and health all make for pretty good cases to ride, but in Los Angeles, what can trump the temptation of a commute sans the traffic?
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The story of the Tongva medicine woman that helped lead a revolt against the padres and the communities who continue to claim her legend.
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The longest continuous stretch of the L.A. River bike path traverses alongside the I-710 freeway. Can the path and the neighboring river contribute to the transportation and public health goals of the I-710 corridor?
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Street vendors can turn food deserts into food havens by bringing fresh fruits and vegetables into communities that lack access to healthy and affordable food.
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How do you define restorative justice? This question is commonly being asked throughout Boyle Heights, and was the inspiration for the Restorative Justice Pilot Radio Project, based out of a storefront radio station.
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The San Gabriels provide over 70% of L.A. County's open space and host over 3 million visitors a year, and the proposed national recreation area would serve 17 million people within an hour's drive of the mountains.
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This week for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month L.A. Letters extols two important contemporary Asian Pacific American authors and their most recent books.
A house in some parts of Los Angeles is an unstable dynamic of big aspirations, small lot sizes, and the economics of speculative construction.
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