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Like Thanksgiving, Mardi Gras, and the Opening of Buck Season in Pennsylvania, December 5, aka Repeal Day should be one of our nation's great holidays.
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After its first burial in 1906, the park quickly became the chosen resting spot for many of Southern California's early aristocracy.
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In the past decade, the arrival of some of L.A.'s most innovative restaurants, hip bars, and progressive art galleries have transformed the long-depressed area of the Old Bank District in downtown's Historic Core.
Motorists celebrate Sunset Boulevard's completion in 1904. Courtesy of the Automobile Club of Southern California Archives.
Sunset may have been its name, but the boulevard's grand opening on May 14, 1904, marked the dawn of a new age in Los Angeles.
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A magical spot, this street-end stormwater park catches L.A.'s runoff while it gives you the largest and most ambitious park so far on the Frogtown stretch.
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Tales of tomato sauce made of worms, radioactive teas, and killer antipasto, all from FDA workers on the front lines.
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This week L.A. Letters spotlights Culver City, its natural landscape, illustrious history, and the brisk redevelopment that has reenergized the city's core over the last decade.
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Behind the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Hollyhock House near Los Feliz lies a fascinating and complicated story, and at its center, a woman whose dreams were often dashed by bureaucracy, difficult collaborators, and herself.
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In the years following WWII, California's athletes served as the transnational bridge between Asia and the United States.
An early color photo of the arena. Courtesy of the Orange County Archives.
A new Space Age arena arrived in the summer of 1967.
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"Godfather of the L.A. River" just celebrated his seventh decade in this world this month, more than three decades after he founded Friends of the L.A. River.
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In this episode the actor uncovers the gossip, intrigue, and scandal.
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