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

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Rosa Alvarez and Nicole Maiden Alvarez in Rosa's San Pedro Kitchen
I brought out the casting couch for tamale auditions last week.
An encounter with old-school deejay and black music historian Tom Reed is an education, and a reminder that preserving black L.A. history is a job never done.
xmas
If I was to really give it meaning, it would not be about the gifts or the holiday spirit, it would be about being with my family and just celebrating being lucky enough to spend that day with them.
A 1947 L.A. transit pass
A big picture look at the region with stories about immigrant wages, a possible medical marijuana ballot measure and more.
Detail of the certified congressional map
The citizens' commission had pledged to create districts based on testimony from the communities themselves, not from parties or statewide political players.
On a  Los Angeles Metro Bus
A big picture look at the region, including stories about California's most collision-prone highway, oil drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel and more.
The Occupy Wall Street movement does have a message, and it is expressed by necessity through creative means about a complex nexus of issues.
Detail of Matt Kish's book
Gift-giving is easy this year, thanks to a spate of terrific, recently published books suited to several different reading predilections. Here are four to consider...
Salvation Mountain in HDR, though it hardly needs it | Creative Commons image by Jesse
Leonard Knight, creator of the folk-outsider-art desert installation Salvation Mountain, seems to be doing better than some news reports in the last week might have led you to believe, but the mountain's fate is still uncertain.
Snow may not blanket the city every winter, but the holidays still happen here.
Griffith Observatory
A big picture look at the region, including palm trees, big pay for state nurses and the Inland Empire.
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It was spitting rain when I walked home, which put me in mind of Ireland.
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