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Sarah Holland-Batt, an Australian poet, has a poem of California in this issue of the New Yorker.
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State Sen. Isadore Hall is already running, so Buscaino said today "my future is here in Los Angeles, not 3,000 miles away."
Here in Malibu
Continuing with the post-rain, pretty sky, silhouetted tree theme, here's the sunset Monday night....
Gary Leonard
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Demographics
Cities aren’t gentrifying by master plan, but because young people with money to spend want to live there.
LAT
Juliet Lapidos is an opinion editor and writer for the New York Times and formerly edited or wrote for Slate, the Atlantic, the Awl and other outlets.
Bill Boyarsky
“The time to act is now,” said the LA 2020 Commission in its report last year urging big changes for Los Angeles city government. Not so fast, said City Council President Herb Wesson, who created the commission.
News
Inglewood OK's the NFL stadium. Taxpayers did pay for the Kevin DeLeon coronation. Kenneth Turan's favorite Oscar analysis. Drones over the Valley. Plus more politics and media and tweets of the day.
Obituaries
Graham reported the Billionaire Boys Club stories in the 1980s and wrote for "NYPD Blue" and other TV shows.
Place
The site provides information on and mapping of hundreds of City Hall-designated historic-cultural monuments and other places that might be designated someday.
Business
Just as the Expo Line will be arriving, Nordstrom will be relocating to a much bigger space a few miles east.
Politics
Will the former mayor aim for governor in 2018 — or have we seen the last of Antonio Villaraigosa the candidate? Who will dare run against Kamala Harris?
Politics
Overtures to big D.C. law firms did not find a comfortable fit for the Democrat who battled Big Tobacco and Big Pharma.
Here in Malibu
The final shreds of that stormlette as they crossed the coast yesterday left us with blue skies and the slightest...
News
Metrolink crash injures 28. Port logjam could take months. UCLA's superbug problem. Plus politics, media and place notes and a tweet of the day.
Here in Malibu
Well, it tried to rain. I've read about other parts of SoCal that got drenched but here in Malibu we...
Television
Hale has been at Channel 11 since 2004 and with Fox TV Stations for 18 years. No replacement has yet been named.
News
Politics, media, place and more. Photo: KPCC's Meghan McCarty looks for an Angeleno who cares about the city election.
Good read
Becklund's service on Sunday at Hollywood Forever included a recommendation — seconded here — to read her piece about dying on the LA Times op-ed page. Sacks' too, in the NYT.
Hollywood
No Twitter, no Facebook, no live blogs or online snark. So liberating. Link to winners inside.
Christensen and Gold
Hermosa Beach residents have 10 more days to contemplate the future of their beach town and the Santa Monica Bay. Whatever they decide it may feel like déjà vu all over again. The question is which version of the past do they want to see come back?
Architecture
Of the two big projects officially kicked off on Friday, the construction of a new bridge to carry 6th Street over the Los Angeles River and beyond is the more likely to happen.
News
Politics notes: An endorsement in the 4th district. Media: Mad Men and Pulitzer prizes. Place: Green sea turtles. And more.
Don Shirley
Shirley also reviews "Cineastas," which closes Saturday at REDCAT downtown.
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Silver Lake near Sunset Junction. LA Observed photo
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