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Los Angeles is the ultimate networked metropolis, and in 404 City blogger Ophelia Chong takes a look at our diverse web of communities, all of them interwoven by freeways, shared history, media, automobiles, and the ever present digital penumbra of cell-phones and computers.More 404 City -
Blur + Sharpen is an insider's look at Los Angeles' vibrant and globe-trotting community of new media artists. It is curated by Holly Willis. You can also keep up with Holly and Blur + Sharpen on Twitter by following @blurandsharpen.More Blur + Sharpen -
Reflections upon the upcoming national PBS premier of When Worlds Collide (Mon., September 27), a feature-length documentary about the first century of “Contact” between New World and Old and the rise of “mestizo” culture. In an examination of cultural fusion—and tension—across many frontiers, Rubén Martínez leaps from L.A. to Latin America to Spain, weaving together the personal, the political and the historical.More Border Ballad -
Cakewalk is journalist and op-ed columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan's first-person account of politics and identity in Los Angeles, with an eye towards the city's African American community.More Cakewalk -
From City Hall to the City Council, from the County Board of Supervisors to the L.A. Unified School District, from elections to ballot measures to budgets to scandals. Local political and civic affairs shape our lives in Los Angeles in ways that aren't always apparent. Brian Doherty's City of Angles will help you understand and appreciate all the angles of L.A.'s always lively and often perplexing political scene.More City of Angles -
Movie Miento is a poetic exploration of Los Angeles history, Latino culture and overall sense of place, darting across LA's physical and psychic borders. It is written by poet and journalist Adolfo Guzman-Lopez.More Movie Miento -
A blog about food, farmer's markets and Los Angeles, by Kelsey McConnell.More The Public Kitchen -
Think Tank L.A. is a slow-boil chronicling of the goings-on at policy centers, research institutions, and the like in and around the Southland – and beyond. The blog covers the tanks themselves, the people who work at them, and the big ideas so often born at tanks. It's written by Jeremy Rosenberg.More Think Tank LA -
Where We Are is an ongoing examination of L.A.'s twinned identities as urban and suburban written by one of the area's great chroniclers, D.J. Waldie.More Where We Are
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As of 2011, D.J. Waldie's posts can be found elsewhere on KCET.org where he writes on two blogs...
Soup is straightforward in theory. It's complexity lies in the execution... in how you build flavors and the first flavor layer can come from a mirepoix. Unlike "soup," "mirepoix" is fun to say and it's the colors of the Irish flag, which makes me like it even more.
Our new/old Governor Jerry Brown is inaugurated into a job that promises to be more trouble than even this old pol can skillfully navigate.
These are the empty days. Their hours are filled with blank stares past cubicle walls and through tinted windows. The end is not over and the beginning is far from started.
The 20-year struggle to get a shopping center built at Slauson and Central reveals long-standing problems with the politics of development in L.A.
Boy oh boy oh boy. I did some seriously excellent eating this Christmas.
Despite a staggering economy, the number of murders in L.A. has fallen to 1967 levels--which given our 30 percent population rise since then, a murder rate even lower than that.
History is an assembly of stories. And it is wise of writers of history to know that stories are never as simple as the teller might prefer.
Erik Loyer's lovely new iPhone app delivers a powerful and poetic experience of music and storytelling based on the evocative state produced by rain.
They taste good and they look cute. In fact, they taste so good and look so cute, I kind of want them all for myself. But, as my grandmother always said, "the best gift is the one you're tempted to keep."
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