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Lost L.A.
Why Did Oak Trees Once Grow in the Middle of Pasadena Intersections?
Post date:The unusual traffic hazards – the result of deliberate town planning – became local landmarks.
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environment
SoCal Connected
Thank you, Jules Dervaes
Post date:Pioneering Urban Homesteader Has Passed Away
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Departures
Departures
The Hunt for Tiburcio Vasquez: A Chase Through a Californio's L.A.
Post date:Tiburcio Vasquez portrayed himself as the defender of the Californios following the American takeover of California, though he was tried as a criminal and eventually hung. The last chase of Vasquez throughout L.A. reveals a landscape in transition from...
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downtown
SoCal Wanderer
The Most Haunted Places in Los Angeles
Post date:For a little taste of paranormal activity, visit one of these historic L.A. landmarks and be reminded that you are not alone -- even when you're by yourself.
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iconic neighborhood restaurants
Food
Iconic Neighborhood Restaurants: Pasadena
Post date:Pasadena is proud to maintain its all-American image, yet beneath the gleam it projects, the city of roses has some dark and peculiar history.
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biking
Travel
CicLAvia Pasadena: A Guide for Angelenos Venturing East
Post date:Experience the restaurants, history, and culture that makes Pasadena the Crown of the San Gabriel Valley.
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biking
Earth Focus
Reimagining the Arroyo Seco as an Alternative Transportation Corridor
Post date:The bikeway in the riverbed allows cyclists to speed through one point to another -- but doesn't allow them to enjoy the amenities that are just over the chain link fences.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
John Burtle's Gradual Alchemy
Post date:In a new exhibition, John Burtle creates a walk-in environment/ecosystem to investigate the physical and perceptual boundaries of landscape painting.
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Altadena
Earth Focus
Conservationists Take to Crowdfunding to Fight Hahamongna Watershed Plan
Post date:Conservationists say that the plan is a temporary solution that has 425 double dump trucks a day running through the project area, giving off noxious fumes, noise, and adding to traffic.
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Arbor Study
Earth Focus
Community Enthusiastically on Board for Arroyo Seco Restoration
Post date:Communities in the northeast have their eyes trained on a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project that aims to restore the Arroyo Seco.
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arroyo seco
History & Society
Blossoms in Bloom at Pasadena's Original Busch Gardens
Post date:The ruins of the once world famous public gardens of Adolphus and Lilly Busch, of "Budweiser" beer fame, are scattered around Pasadena.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Haider Ali: The King of Pakistani Truck Painting
Post date:The Pacific Asia Museum's "From the Grand Trunk Road to Route 66" brings an eclectic array of arts from Pakistan to Los Angeles.
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Architecture and Design
Artbound
Machine Project Takes Over the Gamble House
Post date:"The Machine Project's Field Guide to the Gamble House" features over 50 artworks, performances, workshops, and interventions, scattered throughout the iconic home.
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The Nosh
Food
International Restaurant Chains Find Foothold in Los Angeles
Post date:Because Los Angeles has immigrants from all over the world, it's prime territory for foreign chains looking to serve a bit of home.
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lost landmarks
History & Society
The Hotel of Mirth: Pasadena's Castle Green
Post date:At Castle Green, one's imagination is apt to run wild.
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l.a. letters
History & Society
News and Venues for National Poetry Month 2014, Part One
Post date:This week L.A. Letters celebrates National Poetry Month with a litany of locations for live poetry.
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Music
Artbound
Songs About Place: Pasadena's Hyperlocal Music Series
Post date:The fourth iteration of the program "Songs About Place" features performances of songs about the San Gabriel Valley.
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intersections
History & Society
California Triangulation: Science, Religion, Industry, and the Birth of the Research Park
Post date:While undoubtedly influential and important, Northern California's Silicon Valley's rise rests heavily on its Southern California predecessor -- Caltech. Even today, this history remains obscured.
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writing on the wall
History & Society
Surveying the Link Between Modernist Mexican Painting and Murals
Post date:A new exhibition in Pasadena surveys the career of Alfredo Ramos MartÃnez, who has been cited as the father of Mexican modernism.
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intersections
History & Society
Bungling Across America: The Bungalow in Southern California and Beyond
Post date:In the early twentieth century, the bungalow dominated bourgeoisie and working class visions of the American dream, and Southern California's climate and landscape provided the perfect setting for the bungalow's expansion.