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

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Bill Deverell handed me a book the other day, with the recommendation that the author had put together a good story. The book is Building Home: Howard F.…
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My neighbors are leaving. But why they're leaving creates a loss that will be felt for a long time.
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We all crave reassurance, the knowledge that a scrap of us will last beyond the flare of our life.
Skid Row is a "Petri dish" for cultivating human misery. That now includes a strain of tuberculosis that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had tagged as unique to downtown. What began as a "health crisis" has become a "moral crisis."
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Only in America could people whose heritage hails from within and around the world's largest continent be considered a single demographic group.
It's summer. Ladies are lunching and window-shopping. Limousines are lined up on Wilshire Boulevard. Chauffeurs are idling in front of Perino's.
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I find that black support for marriage equality is real, but it's not a given--or a gimme.
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Susan Straight recalls the history of Riverside's Our Lady of Guadalupe and introduces the people who have kept the parish alive all these years.
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Take off your Google Glass before you come near me. I mean it. And I'm not the only one.
A professor of Architectural History takes my hometown tour, where the everyday nearly always fails to be ironic and the quotidian does not always disappoint.
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College shouldn't just be about how much money you should make. The questions are far grander. What barrier will I break? How can I change the world?
For a few hours this week, we (meaning our avatar Voyager 1) might had slipped the surly bonds of the solar system. It turns out we didn't.
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