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Alissa Walker

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Alissa Walker is a writer whose work focuses primarily in and on Los Angeles. She writes about design, architecture, cities, transportation and walking for many publications, including GOOD, Fast Company, and Dwell, and is the associate producer for the KCRW public radio show "DnA: Design and Architecture" hosted by Frances Anderton. In 2010 she was named as a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellow for her writing on design and urbanism. Alissa lives in a royal blue house in the Silver Lake neighborhood, where she throws ice cream socials, tends to a drought-tolerant garden, rides a Creamsicle-colored Public bike, writes infrequently on her blog, Gelatobaby, and relishes life in L.A. without a car.

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The future of food production for this city is inside a nondescript bright red brick building in downtown L.A.
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This Saturday is the first-ever Good Food Day LA. Here is our preview of events.
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A wave of swaps organized via Facebook and Twitter has been sweeping the nation, with six in Los Angeles County alone.
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Honoring the self-ascribed "Oldest Restaurant in Hollywood" and its role in local literary history.
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Felix Barron's semi-roving restaurant has hit its stride with a movable Downtown brunch.
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