Aldea Hill, as it was and may still be known to the little children of Encino Village, is where the street I grew up on rises steeply to meet Burbank Boulevard, acro
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THE FIRST TIME THEY FOUGHT, THEY WERE JUST KIDS, A COUPLE OF LOCAL pre-teen hotshots. One was from East L.A. and had an entire community
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The Ugly Reality
Forget math and reading programs. Forget teacher accountability. Forget social promotion. The Los Angeles Unified School District faces a more
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There are fish in this Polynesian restaurant's foyer, fish tanks surrounding three sides of each booth, fish swimming inside the gl
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Photo by Sam QuinonesZEUS GARCIA HAS THIS THING ABOUT BASketball. Back in his village in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, he built a dynasty. He and his brothers and cou
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Despite the availability of hundreds of channels, an estimated 75 percent of America’s TV viewing remains fixed on local stations and network affiliates. Satel
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Integrity is a slippery fish. “You can sell without selling out,” insists Stephen Trask, composer-lyricist of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the punk-rock mu
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Something important was missing from the Seattle anti-WTO demonstrations. Oh yes, there were, in some proportion, all the just causes I&
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Allow me to suggest, to playwrights in search of a New Year’s resolution, that they quietly abandon the dysfunctional family as source material for the next 12
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For almost four decades, one song has returned from the realm of the undead every Halloween, lurking on every spooky-sounds compilation, the soundtrack of every mad
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Hollywood‘s love-hate relationship with its bad self is at the heart of, in back of and all over the bright new Fox sitcom Action, much in the news, even befor
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Agung
Agung, near downtown, has become the one place to go when you want avocado in your coffee. Iced coffee and the creamy fruit go pretty well together, especially
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