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This Friday, Burbank celebrates its centennial. The city ambitiously billed as the media and entertainment capital of the world--and which, for much of its history, also served as a major hub of the aviation industry--hardly betrays today its humble origins as a dentist's sheep ranch.
LA Vitamin Report:
Could Long Beach's "Bicycle Business District" plan work for LA's 7th Street Bike Lane?
Commentary:
Details and logic filled a study supporting spending increases for walking and cycling paths, but the message got lost in a presentation with warnings of pedestrians dying in the streets.
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You should go and see what Dr. Gumbiner put in his 20,000-square-foot former roller skating rink in Long Beach.
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Even etched in stone, memories are fleeting.
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The celebration in a small Riverside community is a cultural memorandum that the one-square-mile neighborhood is one of the oldest Mexican-American districts, or barrio, in Southern California.
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The city and Olvera Street merchants are mutually dependent on a paternalistic business model hardly changed in 80 years.
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We're more than 'Korean tacos' and we're not 'lesser New York.'
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"Zombie history" stalks the old plaza, and the dead are loosed to fight our posthumous battles.
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Compton was once known for its sugar beets, cauliflower, and pumpkins. Albeit vastly different today, the city's agricultural neighborhood Richland Farms gives a glimpse of the past tradition of growing food. One good example is the community garden found along the Compton Creek at Raymond Street Park.
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From Tennessee Walkers to Andalusians, Mexican charros to corner horse races, Richland Farms in Compton is a horse community,
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Jocie Reynaga and her family moved to Compton's agricultural neighborhood about ten years ago. "My mom can live like how she lived in Mexico and how I grew up," she said of Richland Farms, where she calls her property "Pueblos Unidos" of the family Reynaga.
Arts & Culture:
The American Institute of Architects California Council, in the current edition of ArcCA, tries to find a place for both loss and faith.
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Andrew Johnson moved to Compton's Richland Farms when he was 5 years old and remembers a childhood of dirt roads and chicken farms, and activities like racing horses, chasing rabbits and hunting crawdad. "It was like Griffith Park!" he excitedly exclaimed.
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Mayisha Akbar, a real estate broker from Torrance, moved to Compton's Richland Farms in 1988 after researching the neighborhood for a client. "When I came across the community," she explained, "I thought, 'Oh man, who would ever realize there were horses in Compton?'"
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When it comes to the great outdoors, Glendale does not exactly come to one's mind. What some may not realize, however, is that L.A. County's fourth largest city is home to around 5,000 acres of open space.
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From the 1940s, when racially restrictive covenants were legal, to 2000, L.A. has seen major population shifts with African-Americans, Latinos and most recently, Asians.
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Compton in the 80s was actually a pretty typical example of the urban crisis. What was unique, however, was--and still is--its proximity to the entertainment industry.
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Excavation at a downtown Los Angeles museum was halted Friday after two weeks of controversy over the work continuing despite the discovery of skeletal remains more than two months ago.
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Lloyd Wilkins is one of the several longtime residents of Richland Farms who has seen the city change over the years. During that time the 42-year veteran public school teacher has kept tabs on the political workings of Compton, becoming an 'old school' political provocateur.
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