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

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Activists are claiming victories in their effort to shut down what they call the "schools to prison pipeline."
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"Bait and switch" in pending greentech sale.
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Over the past twelve months the State Senate has spent approximately $111,000 in taxpayer money on meals for themselves. That money could and should be put to better use.
Development process crosses the line at Midtown Crossing
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For me and a lot of other people, the diamond in Darby Park in Inglewood was about so much more than baseball.
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Catch up on the histories of film and video this week with surveys of Italian Neo-Realism, Black cinema, textural sleaziness and video art, plus a peek into the future via AFI Fest.
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As we progress from one generation to another, the language of our forebears is lost and what we are left with is small bits and pieces, we are left with knowing only how to order dishes of dim sum by sound, not by meaning.
I like to look around at Andulka for the classic American landscape.
Spirit Mountain. Photo by Chris Clarke
Native people work to defend and preserve their diverse cultures. And some aspects of that cultural diversity are far harder to preserve than a petroglyph or intaglio. Some are as ephemeral as a soft voice spoken in the desert wind.
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20-foot Chicanos erased themselves and in the same act replaced the various shades of their brown skins with reproductions of iconic and lost East L.A. murals.
Courtesy of the California High-Speed Rail Authority
High-speed rail costs are expected to be soar over initial projections and be late coming into the station.
Unearned Nostalgia
It's made of dreams, nostalgia, and powdered granite.
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