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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 Chinese GuyJeremy Lin. Lin-sanity. What are we to make of the Cinderella of the NBA? The guy no one noticed until he was pulled off the bench when…
Herb Jeffries and Artie Young on Murray's Ranch | Screen capture from The Bronze Buckaroo, 1939
At places like Murray's Dude Ranch in Apple Valley the history of African-American people in the desert mainly involved kicking back, enjoying a break from the grind of mid-20th-century city life and drinking in that clean, high-desert air.
President Barack Obama speaks to supporters during a fundraiser for his re-election campaign at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip on September 26, 2011 in West Hollywood | Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
The visit may cause traffic, but it will also be a litmus test for the President after he came out against a pair of anti-piracy bills in January.
Robotic exploration of the solar system is losing out in the tug-of-war for funding, and it may never recover.
Image: Courtesy USGS
It struck at 1:07 p.m. near the community of Weitchpec in Humboldt County. The epicenter was 31 miles northeast of Eureka.
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Presidential candidates have and will frequent our fine state. California has been dubbed by me and others the presidential ATM.
The man behind the iconic cafeterias faced down a corrupt city hall and a murderous LAPD "goon squad."
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Meet Vanessa Libertad Garcia. She makes films, writes poetry and short stories. Recently she's been mining the sordid and beautiful fast life she shared with other 20-somethings right around the time of Barack Obama's election.
Coming out of the Ontario Airport, travelers can see just beyond the railroad tracks a vast stone building with arched windows and the skeletal remains of…
Shackles for slave children as seen on display at the New-York Historical Society this month | Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images
Celebrating the history of black Americans every year should be simple, but it's anything but.
John and Miranda Nobles: detail of a mural on the site of the Nobles Ranch | Chris Clarke photo
Prejudice against African-Americans can still be found, and the wealthier cities in the West Valley are almost as segregated as they were when such discrimination was still legal, but without pioneers like Nobles and Crossley the divisions might have r...
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Sex, singing and Soviet filmmaking figure prominently in this week's media art scene.
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