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Meet the L.A. duo preserving the analog photo booth
There’s fewer than 300 old-fashioned analog photo booths left worldwide. A third of those are in the U.S. The Booth Buds are working to keep them alive.
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Your street tacos are in legal limbo
Approximately half of sidewalk food vendors have the health permits required to operate legally, but very few of those are cooking on the street.
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Noted Hollywood vintage dealer faces hard times, undaunted
Nick Metropolis has struggled to keep his once-iconic furniture shop in business. After a series of ill-fated moves, he’s giving it one last go.
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Rent hike turns Eagle Rock bookstore into organizing hub
Read Books will close June 1. The shop is using its final weeks to organize around small business displacement.
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Do trees burn houses? Or is it the other way around?
Surveying the trees that survived the fires of 2025, scientists update what we know about how and why cities burn.