tag:www.kcet.org,2010-01-19:/socal/departures/landofsunshine//1488 2013-06-14T15:46:13Z Exploring the shifting cultures of Los Angeles and its neighborhoods. Movable Type Pro 4.38 tag:www.kcet.org,2013:/socal/departures/landofsunshine//1488.60892 2013-06-14T17:30:29Z 2013-06-14T15:46:13Z

The poem is my ode to not only Long Beach but the entire Southeastern quadrant of Los Angeles County, better known as a region by its area code, 562.

Mike Sonksen http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/mikeS The poem is my ode to not only Long Beach but the entire Southeastern quadrant of Los Angeles County, better known as a region by its area code, 562.

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To understand the City of Angels, Joan Didion once wrote, one needed to immerse oneself in the freeway experience or, as she put it, "the only secular communion Los Angeles has."

Ryan Reft http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/Ryan Reft To understand the City of Angels, Joan Didion once wrote, one needed to immerse oneself in the freeway experience or, as she put it, "the only secular communion Los Angeles has."

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The summer tour will be held on the first Thursdays of July, August, and September.

Ed Fuentes http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/efuentes The summer tour will be held on the first Thursdays of July, August, and September.

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An object of fascination for the writers of "When Harry Met Sally" to "The Simpsons", restaurant critics to Yelpers, Ethiopian cuisine has its Los Angeles center on a single block of Fairfax Avenue. We can easily visit Little Ethiopia for a satisfying meal, but how, then, to assure ourselves of our ability to engage with a culture beyond paying for its food?

Colin Marshall http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/Colin Marshall An object of fascination for the writers of "When Harry Met Sally" to "The Simpsons", restaurant critics to Yelpers, Ethiopian cuisine has its Los Angeles center on a single block of Fairfax Avenue. We can easily visit Little Ethiopia for a satisfying meal, but how, then, to assure ourselves of our ability to engage with a culture beyond paying for its food?

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This week L.A. Letters highlights a new exhibit spotlighting a street in invisible Los Angeles and a mixed-media anthology that shares the same zeitgeist.

Mike Sonksen http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/mikeS This week L.A. Letters highlights a new exhibit spotlighting a street in invisible Los Angeles and a mixed-media anthology that shares the same zeitgeist.

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If the stage production of "Zoot Suit" made El Pachuco the flag bearer of identity, its poster became the garrison flag.

Ed Fuentes http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/efuentes If the stage production of "Zoot Suit" made El Pachuco the flag bearer of identity, its poster became the garrison flag.

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When presented with the opportunity to explore it without the distraction of baseball, I stepped up to the plate, as it were.

Eric Brightwell http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/ebrightwell When presented with the opportunity to explore it without the distraction of baseball, I stepped up to the plate, as it were.

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The "Wall Street of the West" when downtown first functioned as the center of Los Angeles, architecturally venerable Spring Street offers a window onto the urban revival that may well make it the center again. So what's with the faded bike lanes and all those surface parking lots?

Colin Marshall http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/Colin Marshall The "Wall Street of the West" when downtown first functioned as the center of Los Angeles, architecturally venerable Spring Street offers a window onto the urban revival that may well make it the center again. So what's with the faded bike lanes and all those surface parking lots?

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May 2013 saw more murals coming, then going. Here's some news and notes we like to tag under Monthly Mural Wrap.

Ed Fuentes http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/efuentes May 2013 saw more murals coming, then going. Here's some news and notes we like to tag under Monthly Mural Wrap.

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The idea of Arrival is a timeless concept because we are all in our own stage of arriving.

Mike Sonksen http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/mikeS The idea of Arrival is a timeless concept because we are all in our own stage of arriving.

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Great, great thanks to all of you who have read, shared, complimented, complained about, and of course, contributed to the column.

Jeremy Rosenberg http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/jrosenberg Great, great thanks to all of you who have read, shared, complimented, complained about, and of course, contributed to the column.

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This is a hill where the white man watched, where they built a fort, celebrated L.A.'s first Fourth of July, buried their dead, built their finest homes and newest schools, and endlessly searched for even more treasure.

Hadley Meares http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/hmeares This is a hill where the white man watched, where they built a fort, celebrated L.A.'s first Fourth of July, buried their dead, built their finest homes and newest schools, and endlessly searched for even more treasure.

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More than a century after its founding in 1909, the California Art Club is still fighting the good fight as part of L.A.'s art history.

Ed Fuentes http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/efuentes More than a century after its founding in 1909, the California Art Club is still fighting the good fight as part of L.A.'s art history.

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This June marks the 70th anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots, which some critics call "the worst mob violence in Los Angeles history."

Ryan Reft http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/Ryan Reft This June marks the 70th anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots, which some critics call "the worst mob violence in Los Angeles history."

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"A young man at the Santa Monica Pier asked how I could go to the movies by myself. When I told him I was a researcher, he responded, 'Oh. That's why you're single.'"

Jeremy Rosenberg http://www.kcet.org/user/profile/jrosenberg "A young man at the Santa Monica Pier asked how I could go to the movies by myself. When I told him I was a researcher, he responded, 'Oh. That's why you're single.'"

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