Los Angeles has Koreatown, Chinatown and even Tehrangeles. But there's no Irishtown?? except for today, when?every corner of the city is Irishtown. Police are urging
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A forthcoming compendium of research on neighborhood inequality in the United States finds that residents of low-income Los Angeles County communities tend to see li
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One could argue that Los Angeles is the global epicenter of many things, including the film and TV business, car culture and even rocket science. That doesn't me
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The mere mention of riding a bike on the streets of L.A. is often met with the words crazy? and death wish. While the city recently named the most car-congested in
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Marijuana has come a long way in the nearly 14 years since the federal government jailed Tommy Chong for selling water pipes. It's now fully legal for anyone 21
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A federal jury today convicted former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on all three counts he faced in connection with thwarting an FBI investigation of civil rig
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A health clinic that is a fixture of the stretch of Pico-Union known as Little Central America?has declared itself a sanctuary from the recent spate of enforcement s
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Los Angeles went and had a little municipal election last week. That was followed closely, as it is every year, by an annual tradition: the wringing of the hands ove
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Back in 2013, thenL.A. Weekly staff writer Patrick Range McDonald complained that L.A. Pride had become an outdated, adolescent mess, a celebration more about good t
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It's been a tough few years for L.A. law enforcement. Crime has been up, and nobody really knows why. A lot of blame has been assigned to liberal criminal-justic
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The raison d'être of the University of California, Cal State University and community college systems is to give anyone a shot at a degree. But the cost of atte
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This past winter came on strong and surpassed a normal season's worth of rain by early February. The drought was wiped out in Northern California. And a little m
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