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    Stormy connections, Amazon seeks city, 'Found in Translation'

    As Apple marks the iPhone's ten year anniversary with the launch of the iPhone X, thousands of people in hurricane-struck areas cannot make a phone call. And Amazon seeks a bride: North American cities are a-courting to house the tech behemoth's HQ2. Plus, LACMA's Found In Translation explores decades of cross-pollination in art and design between California and Mexico.

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    By Frances Anderton • Sep 12, 2017 • 28m Listen

    Photo: Detail from Xavier Viramontes, "Boycott Grapes," 1973; Oakland Museum of California, All of Us or None Archive; gift of the Rossman family, © 2017 Xavier Viramontes

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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