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Where We Are:
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is getting a new permanent exhibition ready. It will help us understand how we became Los Angeles.
Where We Are:
An eccentric course of cocktails and dinners through the storied bars, restaurants, and hash houses of Los Angeles
Where We Are:
Down PCH, rambling in and out of memory and history, from Seal Beach to Huntington Beach
Government:
This last week makes it clear: California's State Parks doesn't really want to take care of the Providence Mountains State Recreation Area. They should give it to someone who does.
Where We Are:
There is no better place to read than in one of the wide, deep, comforting chairs in the waiting room of Union Station.
Where We Are:
The story of life at Los Alamitos threads from from Povuu'ngna to the present. It's inclusively retold in the rancho's new exhibits.
Guest Commentary :
When I first moved here two years ago, I was spooked by the stories of K-town's crime rates, grit, and messy urban aesthetic. But now, I've come to love it -- abandoned couches, police helicopters, and all.
Movie Miento:
Outside MOCA Martin Lopez yells in Spanish at the top of his lungs, "Josefina Vazquez Mota, is the same thing, blood, violence, unemployment."
Where We Are:
The Million Dollar Theater. Grand Central Market. Angels Flight. Coles. But no snow.
Places:
Southern California's inland highways share the culture of roadside diners with the rest of the nation, but it stands out as a junction of fast food origins.
Where We Are:
"Earth movement" continues to rearrange L.A.'s geography.
LA as Subject:
On older maps of the city, Lincoln Heights is labeled "East Los Angeles," a name now used for a community three miles to the southeast. What happened--who moved East L.A.?
Notes of a Native Daughter:
I like to look around at Andulka for the classic American landscape.
Where We Are:
Although it isn't exactly night.
Where We Are:
Every bit of the built landscape has been given shape by someone's imagination.
LA as Subject:
Silver Lake's Sunset Junction is steeped in local transportation and social history that continues to survive in Southern California's archives.
Commentary:
An arts project like East Jesus really couldn't have come about anywhere other than Slab City, but after the death of its founder the same anarchic environment that gave it birth is making it hard to keep it going.
LA as Subject:
Through archived photographs from L.A. as Subject member institutions, take a tour of three classic Southern California theme parks and tourist attractions: Marineland of the Pacific, Knott's Berry Farm, and the California Alligator Farm.
Commentary:
Ken Layne's new novel "Dignity" stands with one foot in the genre of utopian fiction, the other in its dystopian counterpart.
Where We Are:
A. C. Martin brought suburban modernity to Lakewood Center in 1950.
SoCal Focus is a daily blog about the people, places and issues in and around Southern California.
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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