SENIOR CITY PLANNER Jane Blumenfeld must have known something was up when about a dozen observers” at a workshop” about the city’s plans to create more housin
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The old L.A. Public Library burned down/that library downtown/and with it went/a large part of my/youth.”
Illustration by Kyle T. Webster
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LAST WEEK, THE L.A. BOARD OF EDUCATION approved the first step toward building an $85 million elementary school for 800 children in East Hollywood, to be erected on
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THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH of Los Angeles was the first of its kind in Southern California. It was founded in 1885 by African-Americans and for the last 83 years has
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WHAT BECOMES A ROYAL FAMILY MOST? Could it be the $95 million in subsidies from Los Angeles taxpayers — the windfall bequeathed to the Dubai royal family, whose c
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NBC UNIVERSAL HAS GONE TO COURT claiming that The Weinstein Co. engaged in deception” and sham negotiations” with Jeff Zucker over walking its Project Runway fr
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The students of Sunnydale High’s class of 1999 have gathered at the Cinerama Dome for their eight-year high school reunion. A demon is here. So is a vampire, a we
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UPDATE: TMZ's April 2014 publication of racist comments attributed to Donald T. Sterling prompts a Los Angeles rally against the Clippers owner. Sterling's a
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It’s official. The word designer is one thin thread away from being meaningless, especially in L.A. Pop tarts, rap moguls, TV personalities, feckless fame finagler
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TWO WEEKS AGO, ROGER SNOBLE, CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Los Angeles, repeated a falsehood that typifies the confused move by powerful trans
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Back when Bill Clinton was running for president, there was a riveting seven-game playoff between the Chicago Bulls, led by the lavishly gifted Michael Jordan, and
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Two more firefighters rake in fortunes – this time for reverse
discrimination
Two fire captains who were suspended after black firefighter Tennie Pierce was fed do
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