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This week's media arts scene is a hall of mirrors, with events designed to disrupt, rearrange and reset your sense of perception.
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There are foods that every culture hold dear, foods that evoke emotions that can take you away from that stressful moment, back to a time of comfort and simplicity.
Enjoying Club 75 at Coachella 2010 | Creative Commons photo by Caesar Sebastian
The City of Indio is holding off on signing a long-term contract with the promoter of the long-running Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival after the adjacent city of La Quinta asked for environmental review of the six-day festival.
US Sec. of Education Arne Duncan (L) joins LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LA Unified officials to announce an overhaul to the program that educates more than 200,000 English learner students at the school district.
"For so many years we have so many English learners who are long term, and they're not kids who were born in Mexico, they're kids who were born here."
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A new book co-written by a UCLA neuropsychiatrist and a parenting specialist grounds smart, useful childrearing strategies in brain science to offer a terrific guide for parents.
Although it isn't exactly night.
A voting center in San Francisco
Labor unions and those sympathetic to their cause typically turn out in much larger numbers for November elections, as compared to June elections. A pending ballot measure, which likely would have appeared on the June 2012 ballot, restricts the ability...
Mid-century L.A. was the subject of an almost forgotten photographer.
'If you grew up here you're guaranteed to run into people from your past.'
Faulkner had a point--the past is never the past, especially when it's about race and reconciliation.
Indie Cade Night Games
This week's media arts scene features the beginning of several large events, including Filmforum's 24-show screening series dedicated to experimental filmmaking in Los Angeles, as well as UCLA's excellent series, LA Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cine...
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Debuting this week is a new television series called "American Horror Story." The premise is simple: family moves into haunted mansion. The family is your typically cast prime time show, all white. If Asians had been cast, it would be a completely diff...
Fall doesn't really fall in southern California until long after the traditional September date on the calendar.
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