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Lost L.A.
How Did the Mexican-American War in California Actually End? A Table, Cahuenga, and Historical Uncertainty
Post date:Uncertainty clouds our memory of Jan. 13, 1847, when Andrés Pico and John C. Frémont signed a document variously called the Capitulation of Cahuenga or Treaty of Cahuenga.
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citizen science
Redefine
Citizen Spider Science: Tracking the Decline of L.A.'s Black Widows
Post date:California's least-loved native species is in trouble in Los Angeles County, and citizen scientists are providing most of the evidence.
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bioscan
SoCal Connected
The Bug Bet
The Bug Bet
Post date:Spurred by a bet, Natural History Museum curator Brian Brown went on a mission to uncover new species of bugs in the comfort of his colleague's own backyard.
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container gardens
Home & Garden
Plant a Winter Edible Garden with Help from Tara Kolla of Silver Lake Farms
Post date:SoCal's perpetually sunny climate means planting can continue year-round, according to Tara Kolla.
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Natural History Museum
SoCal Focus
100 Years of Remembering: The Natural History Museum of L.A. County
Post date:Dr. Jane Pisano, who has led the the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County for the past dozen years, asked me to say a few words at the start of the museum's anniversary day events on Wednesday.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Just Add Water: Artist Rob Reynolds Explores the Aqueduct
Post date:Artist Rob Reynolds' show, "Just Add Water: Artworks Inspired by the L.A. Aqueduct," explores L.A.'s complicated relationship with water.
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Natural History Museum
Travel
The Natural History Museum's New Nature Lab and Gardens
Post date:The Nature Gardens and Lab have injected a shot of adrenaline into the dignified NHM.
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Natural History Museum
SoCal Focus
Becoming Los Angeles: My Speech at the Natural History Museum's Exhibit Opening
Post date:The new permanent exhibition "Becoming Los Angeles" opens on Sunday at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Exposition Park. I had a small part in the press preview on Wednesday and got to say a few words about what "becoming" might mean...
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writing on the wall
History & Society
Model of Downtown Los Angeles as a State Of Mind
Post date:A former Angeleno recreated the downtown Los Angeles of his childhood and now lives in his own private Idaho.
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block by block
History & Society
Exploring the Expo Line and its Surroundings: Phase 1 (Minus 2)
Post date:What can you find when you get off at every stop along the Expo Line?
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Transcontinental Railroad
History & Society
Exclusionary Laws and the Chinese-American Experience
Post date:This week in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act barred immigration from China. While this marked a significant point in U.S. history when a specific group was targeted in an exclusionary immigration law, it was not the first of its kind, nor was it the la...
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exposition park
Lost L.A.
How Agricultural Park Became Exposition Park
Post date:Exposition Park is known today for football games, dinosaur exhibits, and its sunken rose garden. But as its original name--Agricultural Park--suggests, the park's history reveals a time when farming in Los Angeles was not limited to rooftop skid row g...
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History
Lost L.A.
Dinosaurs in the Southland and from the Pleistocene to Pop Culture
Post date:The opening of the Natural History Museum's new Dinosaur Hall brings new attention to the prehistory of Southern California--and prehistoric creatures' influence on the region's popular culture.
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Natural History Museum
SoCal Focus
First Look: Natural History Museum's New Dinosaur Hall
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environment
SoCal Focus
Kids Explore Urban Parks at 'Sustainable Sunday'
Post date:The work of engaging young people with the outdoors is more important than ever.
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Natural History Museum
TV Talk
Where's Huell (May 9-13)
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Natural History Museum
Commentary
P/T Job of The Week: Saber-Tooth Cat
Post date:Who says jobs are extinct. The Natural History Museum is looking again for a puppeteer. If you can carry 73-pounds, crawl, and channel a pre-historic beast, this might just be the perfect gig for you.
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assimilation
Departures
Chinese Laborers, Old Chinatown and the Produce Industry
Post date:William D. Estrada, chair Of the History Department for NHM, shares his knowledge about the history of Los Angeles and its relation to historic preservation.
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Natural History Museum
Commentary
The L.A. Job of the Week
Post date:Think all the good gigs are extinct? Not quite. The Natural History Museum is hiring dinosaurs.