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

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"The house is our first universe, a real cosmos in every sense of the word." - Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
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Take a look today while you drive around, wherever you live, at the not-lost art of housepainting.
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A luncheon celebrating weighty women in L.A. had a menu of discussion topics that was, well, low-calorie
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It was 425 years ago on this day that the first Filipinos arrived in what is now the United States on a Spanish galleon near Morro Bay, CA -- some 33 years before Pilgrims from England arrived at Plymouth Rock.
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"I want to go away and see things," she told me. Many people say this sort of thing. Not so many have Stage 3 cancer. She had a bucket list, she said. Ambling around the country, going nowhere in particular, was on it.
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Friday's debate between contenders for California's 36th Congressional District's seat got ugly fast.
Studied
In which the author becomes a subject, and his words run away from him, mostly in a good way.
Some of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's reactions during his vice presidential debate. | Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/GettyImages
Physical altercations are, to be charitable, counterproductive and feed into the dislike and distrust of politicians.
Bolts
Waking up to a passing electrical storm leads to an encounter with ephemeral nature and persistent memory.
Affirmative Action, Protesters
We are not over racism but we are eager to leave off addressing it via public policy of any kind.
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Mary Bono Mack's campaign's attempt to cast Democratic challenger Raul Ruiz as a wild-eyed leftist seems to be fizzling.
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Should you visit Piedras Blancas beach, I advise you visit in the evening's last light. There is something bizarrely ethereal and comforting about the gloaming that drapes itself on this stretch of sand seven miles north of San Simeon.
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