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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 week's media art scene includes exciting new work from artist Kara Walker, a new feature film by brilliant filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, and a new book on the great designer Saul Bass.
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Despite uncertainly mainly surrounding the state senate and congressional lines, a number of soon-to-be candidates have kicked off the races for our state's lower house.
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Stella was fascinated by a young man selling fruit across the street from her apartment, and it inspired her to create a series of portraits of the men and women selling fruit throughout Los Angeles.
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Up to two-thirds of voters would change their support for California's high-speed rail system, according to a Field Poll released Tuesday.
Aerial view of, or through, Calexico and Mexicali's air pollution | Creative Commons photo by Omar Barcena
This isn't the amusing asthma you see on situation comedies, that marker of nerd-dom that recedes with a few hits off an inhaler. This is the kind of asthma that sends you to the hospital for weeks.
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The day after Raul Borbon died the winds, like demons, threw themselves off the peaks of the San Gabriels and wishbone-snapped every tree in their reach.
At a Occupy L.A. meeting on the steps of City Hall before the camp was evicted | Photo by Tom Andrews
The 24-hour-a-day encampment has been destroyed, at least for the moment. But what remains after the tents have been destroyed?
Detail of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown L.A.
A big picture look at the region, including the notorious Geezer Bandit, making San Bernardino "hip," and studying the mental health effects of wildfires.
The Million Dollar Theater. Grand Central Market. Angels Flight. Coles. But no snow.
The Old State Court Building
Last week the public got some good news, courtesy of a Sacramento Superior Court judge. Ruling on a lawsuit by a number of California newspapers against the California Assembly, the judge found that despite the Assembly's argument to the contrary, our ...
A sticker advertising Amtrak's new wireless internet service aboard the Pacific Surfilner in Santa Barbara County | Photo by Zach Behrens/KCET
The most requested on-board feature has arrived on three Amtrak routes in California.
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A big picture look at the region, including stories on pollution from Central Asia affecting our weather, homicide rates going down in the Inland Empire and more.
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