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

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I went to my grandmother's house in the San Jacinto Valley last week, praying that there would be sheep because I have missed them.
A 1943 L.A. Railway ticket
A big picture look at the region, including how the richest donate, using a cellphone while driving and L.A.'s light rail.
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Two mistakes recently in L.A.'s venerable Spanish-language La Opinion Twitter feed were too juicy to pass up.
Naked Hollywood Meyer
The photographer known as Weegee created a series of lurid and surreal images of L.A. between 1947 and 1952, many of which are currently on view at MOCA, and collected in a book.
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A big picture look around the region, including water rate increases, Occupy L.A., a civil rights review of Metro and more.
California Governor Jerry Brown in October | Photo by Max Whittaker/Getty Images
While the survey covers a plethora of topics, ranging from the 2012 Presidential Election (Obama has 50% of likely voters) to Occupy Wall Street (Californains are more likely to support it than the Tea Party), we'll look at it through the lens of the r...
Saul Bass Book
Over his career Saul Bass would revolutionize the art of movie title design, reinvent the ways in which advertising campaigns were conceived and carried out, and basically change the foundations of visual communication in American popular culture.
The California Supreme Court building
This type of uncertainty is less than helpful. Incumbents and would-be-candidates do not know the shape and size of their districts. Imagine a scenario in which one set of district lines are in place for a primary election and another set for the gener...
Railroad tracks outside downtown Los Angeles
A big picture look at the region, including stories about snow in the desert, dust pollution in The West, earthquake analysis and tuba thefts.
Lost, unwanted, or unclaimed out of fear, there are thousands whose burial is left to strangers.
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I've been pretty hard on Inglewood, but lately I've been more accepting of what it is and what it's not. Chalk it up to the spirit of the holidays, and to the spirit of the changing times.
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