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While undoubtedly influential and important, Northern California's Silicon Valley's rise rests heavily on its Southern California predecessor -- Caltech. Even today, this history remains obscured.
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Two recent murals have been cited for not having the proper permits under the new mural ordinance.
In 2010, I wrote about the palms in front of a building down the block that renew themselves year after year. Their persistence continues.
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Sometimes photographic documentation is all that remains of long-lost murals.
The station is beginning a multi-year program of expansion but I can only hope that the project will retain Union Station's capacity for daydreaming.
Beverly Hills Freeway route
It's the missing link of L.A.'s freeway network – a direct connection between the Westside's 405 and Hollywood's 101.
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This week L.A. Letters explicates two remarkable releases that are making major waves nationally: a book by award-winning poet Douglas Kearney, and an album by the singer-songwriter, emcee, and multi-instrumentalist Aloe Blacc.
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At the intersection of Washington and Culver Boulevards rises a brick triangle that looks like a wedge of tawny brown bread, which movie stars, bookies, and bums once called this building a temporary home.
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Shelter Partnership and Salvation Army's Bell Shelter, located right along the path of the projected 710 freeway expansion, currently serve as important resources for the homeless communities of Los Angeles.
Boundary of the San Gabriel Wilderness on Three Points trail | Photo: Daniel Medina
Wilderness protection advocate Ann Olander reflects on the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and its impact on the wilderness of the San Gabriels.
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The tour allowed participants to engage in the more everyday L.A. residential streets, compared to the celebrity home tours in L.A. made famous by the infamous "star maps."
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Our entire neighborhood once went on high alert when I discovered my boa constrictor gone.
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