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SoCal Focus is a blog about the people, places, and issues in and around Southern California.

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It is true that picking up trash for a few hours won't realign the Earth's axis. But it is also true that it is a fine place to start.
An aisle full of Asian sauces and spices at Hong Kong Market in the San Gabriel Valley.
The ethnic restaurants that dot SoCal are perhaps the most prominent ways that people can either introduce themselves to a certain culture.
Turning the Crystal Cathedral into a Catholic church.
Southern California is being refigured by the imaginations of all of its interpreters.
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Just when you think you know everything about where you live, you find out that you don't.
Geoff Gouveia behind an espresso bar made from a Cessna wing. | Photo: Douglas McCulloh
The intensity required to open your own business in 2013 forces you to think creatively.
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This is not a story about firsts; it's about everything that comes before. Some might call them failures.
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Celebrating community spirit should be easy. Not this year.
Shelter took on a new meaning under the threat of global thermonuclear war. Decades of uneasy peace have followed. "Shelterists" are sure that it won't last.
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Remaking the Los Angeles landscape balances risks and benefits.
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Poor lighting threatens astronomy, disrupts ecosystems (nocturnal bird migrations, bat behavior and sea turtle movements), and disrupts teenage necking.
Stone and glass. Anchored and slipping away. Wayfaring and rest, on a Palos Verdes bluff.
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