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

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Welcome to Anza-Borrego State Park? | Creative Commons photo by Anastaz1a
In two weeks, the Imperial County Planning Commission will vote on a giant landfill proposed for the boundary of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. The locals are a little upset.
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Where have the Chicano radio DJs gone?
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Her extraordinary feature film debut is well named as it's a study precisely of the making and unmaking of selves, a brutal and exhilarating endeavor that the British artist captures with aplomb.
The politics of development is played rough and for keeps. The question is, who has the edge on Broadway?
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While fears about consequences to individual gamblers of legalizing and taxing online gambling are not unwarranted, neither are worries about the state's lack of funds.
Autumn comes, and it's a subtle - but revealing - experience.
Michael Reed and his dog Topaz
Lending a hand to a sick friend with few resources can take on a life--and a schedule--of its own.
Raft of the Medusa
This week's media art projects feature clarinets, a muted trumpet, hand processing, future paranoia, Method acting and sculptures driven by data.
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In observing Los Angeles drivers, I have seen the worst in all stripes and colors, in all age groups and genders.
Photograph by Douglas McCulloh
Their maternal grandmother's family has been in Santa Ana since the late 1700s, when that place was still Rancho Santa Ana, and its citizens called Californios.
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The Ambassador Hotel is recalled in an intriguing sculptural video installation currently on view at Las Cienegas Projects.
The controversial Topock Compressor Station | Photo via the California Division of Toxic Substances Control
A year after a defective and never-inspected Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) gas line south of San Francisco exploded, killing eight people and injuring dozens more, that same utility asked the State of California on Monday to let another of its ...
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