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

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We are just not a public-display-of-affection kind of people. I can't think of one photo of Mao Zedong hugging a factory worker or slapping the back of a farmer, but if you Google "President Clinton hugging," you will come up with 836,000 results - and...
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Proposition 8, the successful 2008 voter initiative that banned gay marriage in California, has been struck down by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the court announced this morning.
The airport fire department is slowly rotating older trucks out and replacing them with compressed air-foam-equipped vehicles | Photo: Reut R. Cohen
The vehicle is superior to previous models - using a careful mixture of compressed air, foam solution and water to generate a firefighting agent that uses less water.
They are accused of not speaking out about the death of Kelly Thomas, a homeless man who died after a confrontation with city police last July.
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REDCAT will showcase a collection of iconic music videos from the '80s, each an experiment with a different technique designed to push the boundaries of art video, in a show titled "Music + Image."
1950s science fiction speculated on the answers, both tragic and majestic, but today only Newt Gingrich seems convinced.
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Goodbye budget deficits; hello surplus funds? I could "like" that. If Facebook's IPO has done anything for Sacramento in the short term, it is give legislators and lobbyists something (more) to argue about. Where is the Facebook button for "not a sh...
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In the first-ever case of its kind a court will hear that SeaWorld is violating the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by holding whales in captivity.
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Most precipitation is expected in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.
Four billion in loans that cities hope to collect from defunct redevelopment agencies is only part of the trouble.
Producer Don Cornelius accepts the 'Discretionary Award - Pop Culture' on stage the 2005 TV Land Awards at Barker Hangar on March 13, 2005 in Santa Monica, California. | Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Don Cornelius was a steward of black pride who knew more than most of us that song and dance wasn't just entertainment, it was a revolution. That the revolution happened in L.A. made it all the better for me.
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L.A. media art reimagines the past this week with several events designed to rethink earlier films and genres, and it looks to the future with large-scale multimedia projects filled with bombast and intrigue.
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