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

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The California State Senate chambers
Last week the California Supreme Court rejected a request by a GOP-supported coalition (known as FAIR - Fairness & Accountability in Redistricting) to invalidate California's newly drawn state senate maps.
It includes geography, some history, a bit of politics, and potential confusion for riders.
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This week, look for classic scary films from the 1920s, political films from the 1970s, and unnerving animations from the last few years.
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What does it mean to be part of the 99%? Sometimes you have to see it up close.
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With the way information and change happens so quickly, I feel like I am living numerous lifetimes in one.
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Sam Benjamin's often humorous memoir chronicles a search for honesty, beauty, the naked and the raw in sexual cinema, but finds something else entirely.
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KCET visited this year's Dia De Los Muertos festival at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to take in the sights, smells and to talk to some of the participants about their ceremonial altars.
Poolside at The Parker | Creative Commons photo by Ricardo Diaz
When the summer ends, and the temperatures slacken, the desert gets to be a more attractive place to spend time
Photo: Christopher Allison/Creative Commons
The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said it will sue SeaWorld for allegedly holding orca whales as slaves "in violation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution."
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Kaliman is the patron saint of adults who've spent part of their childhood in Mexico and now live in the U.S.
The city council wants to shift costs and risks to property owners, claiming economic necessity.
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Those who made contributions in support of Proposition 8, a successful ballot measure which defines marriage as only between a man and a woman, unsuccessfully asked a federal court to exempt them from state campaign disclosure laws.
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