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

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Looking at the "found photographs" in the Huntington's archive of Southern California Edison photographs and finding why the darkness is such chilling fun.
Wilson's Service Station in Redlands (Call number: 02 - 19595; Date: 10/21/1936) by G. Haven Bishop
Many of the images were taken by by G. Haven Bishop whose work, almost entirely unknown today, has the subtlety and richness of Julius Shulman's photographs.
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My neighbors and new friends are definitely moving, something I just can't seem to accept.
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The Colorado River will outlive us all. What's endangered are the communities, human and non-human, who depend on it.
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There are a few other tamale festivals in California, but this one has a unique purpose.
Painting by Gary Lang, used with permission.
The words just kind of snuck up on him. Words can do that. Depressing, inspiring, uplifting, unsettling, erotic. Life-changing.
Would expressly shielding cities from liability lead to more dog parks? Lawyers, insurance providers, city council members, and legislators don't necessarily agree that it would.
Ever so slowly, California has begun unwinding a tax policy called the "third rail" of politics for its presumed ability to take down any politician who dares touch it.
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Long Beach resident and community organizer Marin Yann has decided, after an entire decade of writing about it, to tell his story.
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Growing up in the '70s, the Dodgers were my rock stars. Things have changed.
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In these graduating times, cause for celebration and remembering: smeary handprints won't forever stay messy or small.
The "undecorated shed" that was the mass-produced tract house changed the American landscape, with consequences that are still to be fully appreciated.
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