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Billy Wilder
Lost LA
How Archivists Helped Video Game Designers Recreate the City's Dark Side for 'L.A. Noire'
Post date:Several Southern California archives helped video game developers recreate Los Angeles circa 1947 for the new game, L.A. Noire.
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SoCal Focus
Why Switching to Electric Vehicles Improves National Security, the Environment, and Our Economy
Post date:My decision to purchase an electric car was driven by a variety of reasons, but the simplest reason was this: The cost of filling up with gas is just too much. Not just the price at the pump, but also the cost to our future generations, our national s...
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ladwp
SoCal Focus
Clean Energy or Not, Some Predict Higher Rates from the LADWP
Post date:Can Los Angeles rid itself of coal-burning power plants by 2020? A panel of five L.A. environmental heavy-hitters discuss.
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Jan Perry
Commentary
Why Does it Take 20 Years to Build A Shopping Center in South Central?
Post date:The 20-year struggle to get a shopping center built at Slauson and Central reveals long-standing problems with the politics of development in L.A.
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freeways
Commentary
Subway to the Sea Won't Cut Auto Congestion
Post date:A new environmental impact study about the westside "subway to the sea" casts doubt on the belief that it will help ease auto congestion.
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Commentary
Add Alleyways
Post date:Nice photos of L.A.'s hidden-in-plain-site potential improved public spaces, and a look back at USC's incredible back alley census.
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Southern California
Commentary
Food for Thoughts
Post date:Student poets force me to see--and read and hear--the possibilities of USC like I never have before.
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Pepperdine University
Commentary
Pomp & Circumstance
Post date:Cue the orchestra, or at least the iTunes and P.A. It's college and university graduation season across Southern California, and beyond. Leading politicians, academics, artists, writers - yes writers - and KCET icon Dr. Huell Howser are among the regio...
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TV Talk
I'm in Love Again. Truly.
Post date:KCET's Fine Cut features the best short student films from leading film schools in southern California. The 2010 series airs Thursday nights during May at 10:00 PM. You can also stream many of the films at kcet.org/finecut.
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Agriculture
SoCal Connected
Starving in the Sunshine
Post date:We produce more food than any state in the nation. But now many can't feed themselves and their families. A USC Journalism school project examines Hunger in the Golden State.
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USC
Commentary
Oscar Memory
Post date:During a past Academy Awards, an editor decided to do a story about a real Oscar. This is the resulting piece on Oscar Williams.
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Barack Obama
Commentary
USC on PresidentialChina Trips
Post date:The USC U.S.-China Institute has compiled and posted press clippings from the various trips taken to China by U.S. Presidents since 1972.
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Commentary
Connecting Ideas & Sports
Post date:How will you know when it's time to shut it down? When the donations stop coming.
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Commentary
USC Grad Student's China Tank Paper
Post date:The political science/international relations grad student was the co-author of a Stockholm International Peace Research Institute study on China's growing role in United Nations peacekeeping undertakings.
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RAND Corporation
Commentary
Thursday is Great Shake Drill
Post date:Thursday morning at 10:15am is the "Great California Shake Out," a mass earthquake preparedness and response drill.
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Real Estate
Commentary
61. Real big and right here
Post date:It would be hard to quantify, but the USC brand depends on the seductive qualities – real and imagined – of this place.
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USC
Commentary
Animated Spaces / Animated Bodies
Post date:"Animated Spaces / Animated Bodies" show of experimental animation promises to highlight new forms of media experience.
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memories
Commentary
Memory
Post date:It takes a lot of memory to remember the Holocaust. Archivists at USC are using eight petabytes.