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

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Most Angeleños wrest their life from ordinary labors. But some of us have been lucky or possessed enough to stumble into riches. And some think the golden thread should lead to them.
Heart, Wood.
I should be grateful, I suppose, that my neighbor felled the tree in his front lawn.
The northern terminus of the Crenshaw Line will allow for transfers at the east-west Expo Line.
Rail construction has finally come to Crenshaw, but not in the way everybody would like. Many fear the boulevard's businesses will suffer unless the construction goes underground, and the solid jobs that are always touted as stimulating the local econo...
What can be more special than solitude?
From the busy intersections of Ventura to the quiet islands just off its coast, a story of what matters.
As Denny's morphed from Danny's, the first Danny's on Bellflower Boulevard glazed its last doughnut and became an early franchise of Kentucky Fried Chicken. By then, the renamed Denny's had grown to a 20-restaurant chain.
Los Angeles is judged to be so dangerous by some observers that Mike Davis based an entire book on the region's lethal features. This week gave us reminders.
Amiri Baraka
When I met Amiri Baraka last year, I didn't realize what an historical moment it was. Not surprising, since black people still have trouble placing the '60s itself in history and the past.
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You can find Piru's new skateboard park near the community center, and here's the very cool part. The neighbors not only acceded to it, they welcomed it.
News
It's time to round up some remainders from 2013 to see just how little has changed at the start of 2014.
With its new owners, The Forum has recently lit up Manchester Boulevard. | Photo: Courtesy Madison Square Garden Company
The Forum is getting ready to re-open and take--or re-take--its place in the pantheon of Southern California concert venues. It's definitely an improvement, but what will it mean for us, i.e. the rest of Inglewood?
The bitterness in this week's reactions to Baca's resignation is hard to swallow. What didn't we know in 1998 or 2002? What did we chose to forget by 2010?
A computer rendering of LADWP's 1,200-acre Southern Owens Valley Solar Ranch as it would appear if built. Manzanar National Historic Site appears as the light green area towards the middle left of the image.
The peace and solitude of the National Historic Site are being threatened by a pair of industrial energy projects proposed to be built in close proximity, says the Japanese American community.
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