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Anderton has spent the last 25 years of her professional and personal lives exploring the relationship between LA's architecture, politics and design.
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In the last two years, Pugh-Scarpa, the architectural firm of Lawrence Scarpa, has been bestowed with every imaginable national and international architectural award.
The rich history of Venice has fascinated many, yet due to its complexity, only a few can be considered aficionados.
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp has been a staple of the LA art scene for more than two decades.
Old time resident Willy Wyatt refuses to move out of Venice even though he can't afford it.
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Professor and lifeguard Arthur Verge is equal parts storyteller and encyclopedia when it comes to the history of lifeguarding.
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Rudnick's Venice Oceanarium, at the Venice Pier is a makeshift presentation on a portable table with over 25 years' worth of collected speciemns.
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Chicano activist Debra J.T. Padilla drove her mint-condition 1964 Ford Galaxy from Deming, New Mexico, to Venice to become the new Executive Director of SPARC in 1993
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The First Lutheran Church of Venice is ironically set in a community where art and surfing could be considered religion.
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Located in the old Venice City Hall, built in 1906, is LA's preeminent center for literature and arts directed by Fred Dewey.
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Hal's Bar and Grill has remained a staple for Venice locals Abbot Kinney Boulevard for over twenty years.
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