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

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Susan Straight says there are two kinds of people in Riverside: those who stay and those who leave.
Gage Avenue in Bell, CA. | Photo: Courtesy Google
In L.A., going to a part of town where you've never been -- including a totally different town -- isn't just a job for GPS, it's an adventure.
I went to Chicago the other day. It had been a hard winter on the western shore of Lake Michigan, my hosts told me.
N.W.A's 'Straight Outta Compton' record from 1988.
NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" made gangsta rap an enduring genre, but the social critiques it once featured didn't fare as well.
A pod of dolphins near Arch Rock off Anacapa Island in Channel Islands National Park. | Photo: Courtesy Munch Photography/Latitudes Gallery
The whales move with lethal power. Slipping beneath the surface they make a sound like a whisper, no more.
Every map is a fiction, but some maps are more fictional than others.
In 2010, I wrote about the palms in front of a building down the block that renew themselves year after year. Their persistence continues.
The station is beginning a multi-year program of expansion but I can only hope that the project will retain Union Station's capacity for daydreaming.
White Tiger
Our entire neighborhood once went on high alert when I discovered my boa constrictor gone.
My baby photo. | Photo: Courtesy Kris Aubry
As a kid, I was a serial non-smiler. I sensed that for black women, smiling was never just about giving men something pretty to look at.
Among those honored last week by the city of Lakewood is a man you probably haven't heard of.
Old signs are part of a dialog continually shaping American places.
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