As a kid, Alexandra Nagy dreamed of being an astronaut and trying to figure out that big question of why are we here. But while studying physics at UC Irvine, sh
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Solo Scott grew up in a hectic household, he says, describing his Venice homestead on Speedway and Paloma Avenue as a virtual shooting gallery where his mother,
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Sitting outside the Central Library sipping coffee, Amy Inouye calculates the number of photos in the library's archive. It's 3_ million, no _? nearer to 4 milli
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As she neared her 50th birthday, Maggie Ehrig asked herself: What event has made the most resounding impact on my life so far?? Her answer came quickly: the deci
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Some athletes look like they're having fun when they play. Robbie Keane is not one of those athletes. The L.A. Galaxy's season opened anticlimactically, with a d
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Jennicet Guti?rrez had been living in fear most of her life. At 15, she crossed the border from Mexico to join her mother and eight siblings in the San Fernando
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Driving south down La Brea, it's impossible to miss the crazy carnival of ephemera at the corner of West First Street. The huge, mazelike home and its lot are br
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At the Frogtown headquarters of Happier Camper, Derek Michael and his team have been working on the HC1. This is no ordinary trailer. It's a patent-pending, modu
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When Jess Carbino moved to Los Angeles in 2009 to start her graduate work in sociology at the University of California, she had no idea that so much of her time
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Daniel Lopez was 22 when he decided to run a slate to take control of the Los Angeles County Young Democrats. The board was full of lobbyists and professionals,
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For years, an NFL team has been considered the ultimate prize for any municipality in the Greater Los Angeles area. The city of L.A. tried for years; so did the
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Freyja Bardell and Brian Howe are hardly the first artists to show an interest in the Los Angeles River, but they are certainly part of a new generation that is
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