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Councilman Ed Reyes
Councilman Ed Reyes puts on his boots and heads to the river for a portrait and an interview.
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The workshops expand access for underserved adults to photography, filmmaking, and media arts as tools for engaged community storytelling.
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Founded in 1964 on Central Ave., the mythical Blues venue found a new home in Leimert Park during the late 90's.
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Community organizations already know that engaging the communities of Los Angeles will require ingenuity, teamwork, and persistence. But how does technology fit into the picture?
Wedged between car parts and brick walls, Elvira grows various chiles, sarabando beans and marigolds. | Photo: Vickie Vertiz
More people are turning to self-provisioning in ways they had not considered before, signaling a need to reconnect with this part of our lives
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The compact space within the Japanese American Cultural Community Center hosts ukulele connoisseurs from all around town, from Hawaiian expats to young musicians from Silver Lake and the Arts District.
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With the proliferation of mobile phones, digital cartography has taken off as a community-building tool. Using geotags for posted photographs and status updates, people can relay valuable information about the communities they live in.
Mia Lehrer
Mia Lehrer sees urban planning as a tool to improve environmental and social issues and the L.A. River is the perfect opportunity to exercise this vision.
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Ecologist Ellen Mackey describes the various native species found in an alluvial sagebrush ecosystem, once common to flood plains like the Tujunga Wash and the Los Angeles River basin, but are now rare in California.
Sixth Street bridge steel arches from the west side of the viaduct in January 2012 I Photo by Ed Fuentes
From films like Grease to Transformer, Hollywood has long been fascinated by a vision of the channelized Los Angeles River as a landscape of decay and abandonment.
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JJ Hoffman, bicycle advocate and organizer of the Los Angeles River Ride, discussing bicycling along the Los Angeles River.
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Continuing the civic tradition of his family, Harry Chandler advocates for the revitalization of the Los Angeles river.
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