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

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Even these days, for many in the LGBT community coming out can be a difficult and sometimes stressful process.
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The racially fascinating history of lovely Leimert Park is now told in a book -- but the story's not over.
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Looking for the perfect Holiday gift? Here it is, courtesy of a Benedictine monk with a marvelous sense of humor.
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Sunday morning, a little before dawn, down some ordinary suburban streets, and through their aural landscape.
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A word to the wise: Just when you thought "silly season" ended with the election, it did not.
Threat or Threatened?
Opossums wander our backyards by night and occasionally startle a homeowner, who imagines that nothing so wild could be part of everyday life.
Pilar Marrero holds her books. | Photo: Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
Pilar Marrero has a new book out. But like any good Latino in the U.S., it has two identities and two names.
Alicestyne Smith feeding another coach. | Photo: Douglas McCulloh
There are six sisters in this story, and one brother, all educated in a one-room schoolhouse, ninety children and one teacher, and all of them went to college, and their kids went to college. This story, and the sweet potato pie, come from slavery, whi...
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The Interior Department says Southern California can expect to get a lot less water out of the Colorado River in the next 50 years.
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Social mobility used to mean you moved when and where you wanted to. No more.
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In this world where so many things are going wrong, so many things are also going right -- like this choir program in Ventura County.
Does your city have too many police officers or not enough? A new study suggests there is an answer, but it's not likely to be one that your city council will care to hear.
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