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

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This show's mix of Mexican, Chicano, and art by Charles and Ray Eames and Julius Schulman is a temporary vision of the possibilities of a Latino museum in Southern California.
Broken off by Saturday's high winds, a power pole rests precariously on nearby lines. | Creative Commons photo by Florian Boyd
Saturday's winds were an impressive reminder that for all the Coachella Valley's seeming domestication, despite our manicured lawns, fountains, and irrigated gardens, we still live in the desert.
The regional connector is a big deal, but Metro's rail network has all the limitations of the history it's recreating.
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The process designed to guard against special interests, and specifically their influence over legislators, has now been turned on its head and is all but controlled by those interests. In order to qualify an initiative for the ballot one needs money, ...
Wayfinding
Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumbs are a bad idea for finding our way home.
johnny-otis
Johnny Otis is gone, but what he meant to black music and black consciousness should live forever.
Disappearing Environments
L.A. continues to be both the site and subject for innumerable artworks across the city, from a large-scale performance and public art festival to screenings featuring films about L.A., by L.A. filmmakers.
Human Profiling-Annex One, 2010.
Living in a melting pot, we move about our space reflecting and mirroring one another, so as natural as it is to close our eyes when we sneeze, we habitually profile one another based on a so-called "cultural" assumption.
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The quality of Spanish language news in Southern California varies widely and it's been made worse, Arredondo said, by budget cuts that have decimated the ranks of reporters and editors.
Detail from the front cover of the book 'Hold-Outs'
Bill Mohr's new book on poetry in Los Angeles is a rich, exuberant and pleasurable history of nearly 50 years of extraordinary writing.
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There is a middle way between big government and little cities. It began 58 years ago.
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At a time when a cynic would call the idea of the public having faith in government a laughable one, it is nice to see one agency -- the Fair Political Practices Commission -- aggressively doing its job.
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