Stopping gentrification in Boyle Heights: Can retail co-op model help?
To prevent small businesses from being priced out of Boyle Heights, a nonprofit is buying commercial property and offering tenants a share in ownership.
Find LA's rare plants and animals through City Nature Challenge
In LA, more than 2500 species were identified by about 1400 observers in this year’s City Nature Challenge. The western fence lizard was the most observed species.
After salty debate, plans for OC desalination plant are wiped out
Plans for a Poseidon Water desalination plant in Huntington Beach were unanimously rejected by the California Coastal Commission. What’s the future for desalination in the state?
Campaign is quiet, stakes are high in LA supervisor race
The next LA County supervisor from the San Fernando Valley and Westside will represent over 2 million people and control billions of dollars. But where’s the campaign?
Salome Agbaroji, a high school student in Artesia, loves the adrenaline of performing spoken word poetry. Her writing speaks to the beauty and disparities in her hometown of LA.
Top candidates in LA city attorney’s race are ex-GOP. Does that hurt them?
In the LA city attorney’s race, two candidates previously ran for office as Republicans, but they say they’ve been with the Democratic Party for many years now.
Young Creators Project poet spotlight: Gillian Chamberlin
Gillian Chamberlin’s haunting and beautiful poems will make readers long and ache. She says that writing poetry allows her to make her thoughts more digestible.
Drinks and burritos upstairs, drag show downstairs: Casita del Campo turns 60
The Silver Lake restaurant staple, Casita del Campo, has been serving margaritas for 60 years. And the downstairs theater, The Cavern Club, hosts raucous drag shows.
Can CARE Court curb CA’s homelessness and mental health crises?
“CARE Court” aims to help Californians with mental health and addiction disorders, but civil liberty activists question its effectiveness and legality.
P-22, the Brad Pitt of cougars, is aging. Will he still find love?
P-22, the beloved LA mountain lion, has reached the ripe old age of 12, which is the normal life expectancy for a wild cougar. How much longer might he be around?
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We need to raise $25,000 by midnight tonight for The Hillenburg Family to match those donations — that’s $50,000 on the line for KCRW.