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Artbound
'No More Japanese Wanted Here': When Japanese Americans Were Forced Into Internment Camps
Post date:On the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, the 1942 mandate that forced Japanese Americans into detention camps, an exhibition reminds viewers of the grave injustices of the past, while making parallels to political actions today.
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Food
Iconic Neighborhood Restaurants: Little Tokyo
Post date:By most accounts, the first Japanese-owned business, a restaurant owned by a former seaman, opened in Little Tokyo in 1886, in an era when racial covenants barred people of color from living in many neighborhoods. Now everyone wants to be here.
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Arts District
Earth Focus
Arts District Fights to Keep Metro Maintainance Yard Out
Post date:The neighborhood just recently found out that Metro is planning to build a maintenance facility for the heart of the Arts District.
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Boyle Heights
History & Society
Redefining Asian America: Japanese Americans, Gardena, and the Making of a Transnational Suburb
Post date:In post-war Southern California, Japanese Americans created the built environment as much as much as anyone else, and few suburbs demonstrate Asian American agency like South Bay's Gardena.
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l.a. letters
History & Society
Japanese Boyle Heights in the 21st Century
Post date:This week L.A. Letters spotlights three spaces clustered within a block of each other on First Street in Boyle Heights, which have a longstanding history and intimate connection with the local Japanese community.
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block by block
History & Society
The Missing Link: Exploring the Regional Connector Transit Corridor
Post date:Of the five Metro rail projects currently under construction in L.A., the Regional Connector is the shortest at just 1.9 miles long -- the but its consequences will be among the most far-reaching.
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engaging spaces
History & Society
World Cup L.A.: Connecting Communities Through a Love of Soccer
Post date:Inspired by the city's growing interest in reclaiming public spaces, these pop-ups viewing events will revolve around TVs placed on streets and stores, that face sidewalks, vacant lots and other public places so that people can gather to watch the game...
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l.a. letters
History & Society
The Power of Place and Emerging Voices
Post date:This week L.A. Letters pays tribute to the work of Dolores Hayden and also announces the Emerging Voices Fellowship, a major writing competition open to up-and-coming writers.
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l.a. letters
History & Society
News and Venues for National Poetry Month 2014, Part Two
Post date:This week L.A. Letters picks up where last week's column left off, with a long list of special events, venues, and announcements related to National Poetry Month.
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writing on the wall
History & Society
Preserving Memory of Lost Murals with Photographs
Post date:Sometimes photographic documentation is all that remains of long-lost murals.
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Japanese
Departures
Envisioning Little Tokyo's Future as a Cultural Ecodistrict
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leimert park
Departures
Growing Up Japanese American in Crenshaw and Leimert Park
Post date:For close observers, signs of a Japanese American presence are visible throughout the Crenshaw district.
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intersections
History & Society
Masculinity, Femininity, and Asian American Basketball in 20th Century California
Post date:Asian American basketball leagues have given shape to the unique histories of each ethnic group living under the flattening designation of "Asian American."
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form follows function
History & Society
Our Year 'On the Road': Creating New Ways of Thinking and Making in L.A.
Post date:Born out of a shared desire to create a platform for new ways of thinking and making in Los Angeles, that engages both a discipline and culture with contemporary ideas about architecture, design, and art, the group was formed May 2013, and soon after b...
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l.a. letters
History & Society
Save the World Stage; Field Notes for Fall
Post date:This week L.A. Letters salutes Leimert Park's the World Stage, reinforces its importance, and draws the connection between other community arts organizations like Tuesday Night Café, Sunday Jump, Punk Hostage Press and Espacio 1839.
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what's in a street name
History & Society
Searching for Bonnie Brae
Post date:You may have come across Bonnie Brae Street and wondered, who exactly was Bonnie? A silent film actress perhaps? The daughter of a city founder?
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intersections
History & Society
Noiring L.A.: The Crimson Kimono and Asian American Sexuality in the Age of the Cold War
Post date:Fuller's 1959 film took a very different approach from other film noir of the 1950s, and serves as useful text from which to consider changes to the genre and Southern California's racial dynamics.
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The Nosh
Food
A Little Tokyo Food Crawl in 10 Stops
Post date:In a city where cars are king, Little Tokyo is a miniature oasis where walking is actually rewarded. With delicious food.
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Little Tokyo
Departures
Photographs of Nisei Queens Through the Years
Post date:Here's a photographic look back at past Queens, and how their roles have changed over the years.
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!["Breeze" (Fusion Ikebana series) by Shizuko Greenblatt, 2008; mixed media sculpture, 22" x 32.5" x 13". | Courtesy of the artist.](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/atoms/article_atoms/www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/images/Ikebana4.jpg?itok=ssDeN54n ""Breeze" (Fusion Ikebana series) by Shizuko Greenblatt, 2008; mixed media sculpture, 22" x 32.5" x 13". | Courtesy of the artist.")
visual art
Artbound
Floral Fusion: The Ikebana Sculptures of Shizuko Greenblatt
Post date:L.A.-based artist Shizuko Greenblatt creates sculptural works informed by the flower arranging tradition of her native Japan.