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

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Putting ethnic communities on the city map is much more than a notion.
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On any given night, restaurant tables are filled, cash registers ring, and empty street parking spaces are nonexistent. But Thai Town still faces some big challenges.
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A powerful and widespread storm system hit hard at Thermal and Mecca's Desert Mobile Home Park, informally known as Duroville.
Ray Bradbury holds an image of himself during an event honoring the author with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame April 1, 2002 in Hollywood. | Photo: Vince Bucci/Getty Images
A Ventura filmmaker and artist is making a documentary on the man who had creative ADHD and forty-eight hours in his day.
September is the cruelest month, suggesting autumn but delivering a month of hot days.
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Californians may soon be able to obtain more information about those giving and spending money in political campaigns.
The county's library system is a hundred years old this month.
Tree stumps remain along Manchester Boulevard where workers have cut down some of the almost 400 trees slated removal to make way for moving the space shuttle Endeavour to its new home at Exposition Park on September 5. | Photo: David McNew/Getty Images
Losing hundreds of trees in Inglewood and South Central to create a temporary path for a space shuttle is the unkindest cut.
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Cultural festivals are an integral part of the Southern California ethnic dynamic.
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The old Route 66 and surrounding environs are home to fast food history, including Juan Pollo.
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A group of high-powered environmental organizations has filed suit to send the Cadiz water project back to the drawing board.
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Life is short, and Ventura author Ken McAlpine shares a handful of simple, yet important lines of advice he once shared with a friend's son.
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