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Notes of a Native Daughter:
It may be one of the most quintessential Southern California landmarks, beloved by thousands, and now it's made national news.
Notes of a Native Daughter:
Jose Medina walked into the banquet room at Zacateca's Restaurant on Riverside's Eastside to loud cheers and clapping of hundreds of supporters.
Commentary:
It was perhaps the most sensational interaction captured by the embedded press pool the night the LAPD evicted Occupy L.A. from City Hall grounds. Here's what happened at the trial.
People:
Proposition 8, the successful 2008 voter initiative that banned gay marriage in California, has been struck down by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the court announced this morning.
People:
The journey is to raise awareness about homelessness.
Where We Are:
Mid-century L.A. was the subject of an almost forgotten photographer.
LA as Subject:
As the country's only metropolitan area to host two presidential libraries, Southern California boasts a wealth of presidential history.
LA as Subject:
In the 1930s and 1940s, as the horrors of Nazi Germany engulfed the European continent, Los Angeles became a sanctuary for some of Europe's most celebrated artists and intellectuals.
Commentary:
Three years ago, homeless Michael Reed and his dog Topaz turned tragedy into a small triumph. Today, tragedy threatens again.
Where We Are:
Carmageddon may help propel Zev Yaroslavsky into the mayor's office.
Arts & Culture:
Bloomfest has blossomed.
Commentary:
Rick Caruso - mayoral candidate in waiting - imagines an entertaining Los Angeles, but a city of "customers" will have to pay.
Commentary:
The L.A. rich got a whole lot richer in 2010, according to the Los Angeles Business Journal.
People:
Dressed down in a Havana-style guayabera shirt, Cuban-born Sergio Diaz not only made a statement where he was from, but where he ended up after retiring from the LAPD.
Commentary:
It turns out that our love affair with the Dodgers was mostly one-sided.
Commentary:
Austin Beutner has joined a game with harsh rules, pitiless opponents, and a goal that is ambiguous at best.
Commentary:
It isn't surprising that the mayor recycled school reform as his job. His job as mayor proved so unappealing.
Commentary:
Cardinal Mahony was the perpetual "man who would be. . ." in American Catholicism.
History:
A journalist, adventurer, Indian rights activist, presidential advisor, and amateur anthropologist, Charles Fletcher Lummis cuts a unique figure among those who populate the ranks of larger-than-life Angelenos.
People:
Travel + Leisure magazine asked a critical world to rate US cities. Los Angeles didn't do so well.
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I Am Los Angeles: On His Way Back
A video portrait of a man whose dreams and determination allowed him to get off the streets and into a stable life.
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