Last Tuesday was La La Land Day ? La La Land as in the movie, the one in which Ryan Gosling teaches us all to love jazz, the one that almost won the Best Picture O
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UPDATE, May 17, 10:55 a.m.: Measure C has passed, with 57 percent of the vote.Civilian oversight became a byword for greater police accountability in Los Angeles aft
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A new report on California's outrageously priced traffic tickets pretty much tells us what we already know: The fines disproportionately affect the poor who, lac
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After the House this week narrowly passed a bill to repeal so-called Obamacare and replace it with a health care program endorsed by President Trump, advocacy groups
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If you need any more evidence that Cinco de Mayo is an American beer holiday rather than a Mexican celebration of an underdog victory over the French in 1862, look a
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In March, the District Attorney's Office wrapped up its five-year prosecution of figures implicated in the Coliseum Corruption scandal, and rave promoters???who
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Miguel García, who's among the most accomplished civil-rights litigators from L.A.'s Chicano Power era, sold his law practice on Whittier Boulevard in E
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Maybe it was the fact that the baby was the same age as one of her own sons. Maybe it was the familiar look of exhaustion on the mother's face. Whatever it w
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When reporters, lawyers and cops need a gang expert, the person they turn to often has a badge. The result can be a one-sided and myopic depiction of barrio life
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There's an L.A.-based podcast called Pop Rocket, in which a panel of local luminaries weighs in on the pop culture issues of the week ? topics ranging from P
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Lila Higgins' family thought she was crazy for wanting to move to Los Angeles. As a child growing up on a farm near Worcester, in the British Midlands, she s
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Yesenia Mateo, a 16-year-old junior at L.A. High, was headed to nutrition class when a throng of students in the main stairwell stopped her in her tracks. Mateo hadn
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