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January 01, 1990 - December 06, 2012 + LA Observed
LA's Split Personality 
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Los Angeles has always had a split personality. Going back to the days when the American settlers kept their distance from the Mexicans and Chinese....
KCET Goes Indie
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If you only follow the brave new world of television and media a little bit, a local news nugget last week may have caught you...
Smile for the Camera
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Driving while on your phone or, worse, texting, gets all the bad press right now. And with good reason. Those are dangerous...and stupid..things to do....
Buddy Collette's LA
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Jazzman Buddy Collette was born in Watts in 1921, making him 89 when he died this month. Imagine how different Los Angeles was then, especially...
3rd and Long for the McCourts
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In a couple of days the calendar will roll over into fall, and in much of the country that means football. I almost never think...
Westlake Shooting
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Paul Conrad, the great political cartoonist, skewered the powerful in the LA Times for three decades. He died a week ago at the age of...
Pacific Time
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To live in the Los Angeles area means we submit our lives to the control of a greater power. And I don’t mean Hollywood. There...
The Ruben Salazar Files
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It's not common at all for a journalist in Los Angeles working on a politically sensitive story to be shot dead by a law enforcement...
What's in a Name?
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo100823whats_in_a_name
Sometime this week…probably…the Los Angeles City Council will settle one of the most nettlesome issues on its docket. The council will enshrine in law the...
Expo Line Video
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One of the fun things about all the streetcar lines weaving through Los Angeles again is the trackside view you get of the city. I...
The Bell Tolls for Bell
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Would you be happy to find out Antonio Villaraigiosa were paid $800 thousand a year to be mayor of LA? Probably not. You'd be mad....
Mad Mel and the McCourts
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Will Mel Gibson's embarrassing rants at his ex-girlfriend end his long film career? I don't know and I don't care. I'll leave that for the...
Grim Sleeper
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Nothing gets a city's attention quite like a serial killer on the loose. Or so you'd think. In Los Angeles, that proposition is shaped by...
Bruce Lisker's New Life
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Every one who's trying to get by in Los Angeles has a story about the daily struggle. But Bruce Lisker really has a story. He...
Freebies and the Mayor
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Antonio Villaraigosa is, to be sure, a smart enough guy to be elected mayor. You'd probably like him if you sat down to dinner or...
