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The friendly docent who chatted with me seemed a little dazed at what it will require to take the Crystal Cathedral and turn it into a Catholic church.
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Southern California is being refigured by the imaginations of all of its interpreters. "Ghost" inhabitants are making their historical claims. Shadows are being illuminated by a new generation of authors, academics, and cultural critics.
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The homely sugar beet begat development in both Los Angeles and Orange counties at the turn of the 20th century. The city of Los Alamitos began with sugar, but celebrating the beet isn't entirely sweet.
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Long Beach tops the nation in spending on ice cream according to some statistics. Meanwhile, city council members plan to silence the annoying tunes of the vendors who sell frozen treats.
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Studio One Eleven - the people behind the 'parklets' idea - have re-imagined waiting for a plane. Think of it as your holiday on a modernist main street. You may want to rebook to a later flight.
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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.
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An eccentric course of cocktails and dinners through the storied bars, restaurants, and hash houses of Los Angeles
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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.
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There is no better place to read than in one of the wide, deep, comforting chairs in the waiting room of Union Station.
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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.
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Every bit of the built landscape has been given shape by someone's imagination.
SoCal Focus is a blog about the people, places, and issues in and around Southern California.
I Am Los Angeles: Strings of Success
Sasha is content just to be living his life on his own terms, doing something he thoroughly enjoys: building and playing guitars.
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