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

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Meshes of the Afternoon
The best of cinema history is on view this week, with the work of avant-garde icon Maya Deren, the remarkable eight-hour documentary Shoah, and the 24-hour collage film "The Clock" by Christian Marclay.
The diversity in my fridge
Asians are not an invisible group that exists outside the mainstream: They are marrying outside their ethnic groups, living outside their communities, and have been weaving their stories into the cultural heritage of this country.
The Cadiz Valley | Chris Clarke photo
Is pumping water from the Mojave Desert a sustainable idea? A new scientific report says "no."
Firefighters battle a 1943 blaze in Topanga Canyon. Courtesy of the Herald-Examiner Collection, Los Angeles Public Library
Southern California's photographic archives richly document the region's troubled relationship with the four classical elements.
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REDCAT will screen Daniel Eisenberg's extraordinary visual essay exploring objects, how they're made and what they mean as the nexus between the maker and the consumer.
The Great Game
Jan Perry's embarrassing "auto da fe" illustrates why the city council needs radical change.
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The integrity of the political and electoral processes we must have meaningful disclosure, but it should not come at the cost of bona fide security risks.
The Britannica was a marker of middle-class aspiration. And it was something you could hand on.
Fans cheering Tatyana Calhoun | Photograph by Douglas McCulloh
Something many Americans believe about Southern California is that people here came from somewhere else. In Riverside, every day I see people I've known since kindergarten, and every time I go to a North High game, it's like a family reunion.
National Guardsmen and a police officer take up security positions in front of a burned and looted shopping center on May 1st, 1992 in central Los Angeles. | Photo: HAL GARB/AFP/Getty Images)
What's the legacy of April 1992? Bet you haven't thought about it lately, to say nothing of the last twenty years.
Chunky Move
Radical, experimental and avidly political filmmakers are featured on the screens of L.A. theaters this week, from Jon Jost to Rose Lowder, Dziga Vertov to Kurt Kren.
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Love is a roll of the dice, whether you have all the control or none.
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