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

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Abigail Child brings her brilliant experimental films and video to REDCAT, showing how words and images merge to create a new poetics.
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Term limits have certainly not caused all that ails California, but they surely have done little to help.
The Dodgers are back. The AEG and the NFL aren't talking. And the fans are waiting.
A woman joins nationwide protests in memory of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin on March 26, 2012 in downtown of Los Angeles | Photo: JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images
The case of Trayvon Martin may be outraging the nation, but in my Inglewood classroom he's just another one of us.
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The future still looks to the past for inspiration - this week Abigail Child recalls early cinematic techniques for contemporary visual exploration and the Academy recalls the early days of projection...
Jenni, along with others of her generation who reject traditional roles, have captured the frustration of first generation Mexican-Americans.
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For the past year I have written about Asian Americans, and with each piece I tried to speak about what it is to be Asian American in Los Angeles. I now see that there are no defining walls that separate me from them, us from you.
The Tuk Tuk with its unique propulsion system on the back | Image courtesy Denver Zoo
A team of engineers developed a process in which the manure and other organic waste is heated in the absence of oxygen, creating a gas that can be burned as fuel. An engine burns that fuel and charges a set of batteries, which then provide power throug...
Will corruption turn Los Angeles into another Detroit in a decade?
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In an era in which it is so easy to spend large sums to support candidates, and so difficult for charities to get the funding that they need, we must live with the less-than-ideal decision that behested contributions must be allowed.
The spirit of entrepreneurship is boosting business creation, but not all of the signs are good.
Protesters demonstrate at a rally for Trayvon Martin on March 22, 2012 in Sanford, Florida. | Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images
A "suspicious" black man, a brutal mistake, a refusal to see the reality of injustice.
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