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An old barn and packing shed remain from an asparagus ranch where a Chinese immigrant family thrived before the San Fernando Valley became the suburbs.
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An old barn and packing shed remain from an asparagus ranch where a Chinese immigrant family thrived before the San Fernando Valley became the suburbs.
He brought out the staff to take a bow on camera. Nice touch.
The original Los Angeles media and politics blogger is featured in today's Column One in the LA Times.
P-41, an adult male weighing 130 pounds, was tagged and released on May 7 in the mountain range above Burbank and Glendale.
Eric Garcetti's deputy mayor for budget and innovation is a veteran local city official who formerly was mayor of Pasadena and the top staffer in Ventura.
Take that, haters. Alba really is more than a pretty face and the Internet's favorite bikini body.
I've been storing up for a few days.
Channel 5 was the first Los Angeles television station to deploy a news helicopter. Watch.
Henry Solis was arrested in Ciudad Juarez and handed over to the FBI at the border.
Looks as if the Hyperloop engineers have made themselves at home in the Arts District.
LA's favorite earthquake expert tweets her review of the latest impossible movie disaster to destroy Los Angeles.
Sepp Blatter, longtime president of the soccer federation, was not among those charged. The U.S. will seek extradition from Zurich.
There were some good times, but he's 36 and heading to free agency, while the younger guys have to play. Uribe "choked up when asked what he would miss about the Dodgers and walked away."
The renowned photojournalist of topics as varied as Seattle runaways, Bombay prostitutes, high school proms, twins and film sets died on Monday in New York.
The CEO of Charter Communications says the company will start to offer Sports Net LA within a few weeks, while its $56 billion deal for Time Warner Cable proceeds.
The city plans to turn on its old cameras and add new intersections in June, bringing the total in Beverly Hills to 15.
Meara, the actress and comedian, died in Manhattan. Nash, the mathematician portrayed in "A Beautiful Mind," was killed with his wife Alicia in a New Jersey taxi crash.
My post for Memorial Day includes a book excerpt and a visit to Los Angeles National Cemetery.
The team is hiring a "data scientist" and a senior developer for the research and development team.
The participation by voters was the largest in the history of the Irish republic. The yes side got 62 percent.
These lucky few slutsters got seats at the counter.of Egg Slut in Grand Central Market.
It's a fundraiser for the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
San Francisco completed digging two Central Subway tunnels last week.
Santa Barbara oil spill. Norms gets status. Reaction to David Ryu's election and David Letterman's farewell. Plus much more.
Jimmy Kimmel will air a re-run of his show tonight so that his fans can switch over to CBS and watch Letterman's final show.
Tornado genesis from Jim Cantore at the Weather Channel.
Columbia co-author questions data provided in last year's news-making study by a UCLA co-author.
He become the first Korean-American elected to the Los Angeles City Council. The race wasn't that close.
The council votes 14-1 to tell the city attorney to draft an ordinance that would make $15-an-hour the minimum wage in the city of Los Angeles by 2020. Mayor Garcetti signed on to the final deal.
Individual actors or set designers can't copyright their small contributions to a film, as the actress argued who was tricked into appearing in "Innocence of Muslims."
Previous season openers did better in the ratings than the series finale, according to first-night numbers from Nielsen.
This is what Hollywood's acceptance of sexism looks like in real life, writes BuzzFeed LA's Susan Cheng -- despite a lawyer letter trying to dissuade her.
Partner Magic Johnson calls the 22,000-seat, $250 million home for an MLS expansion team a jobs plus for South LA.
Clippers lose. Clinton Foundation donations. Loretta Sanchez war whoops. Fassbender as Steve Jobs. Much more.
Her HollywoodDementia.com will feature short stories, novellas and novel excerpts written by Hollywood insiders "like myself."
Task Force 2 reunited with families Sunday at the base in Pacoima.
After 15 years at USA Today, she took a buyout that saw 55 staffers leave the paper last week.
Marines die in Nepal. The City Council's new secretive ways. LANG parent no longer for sale. Another jab at LAT from Jeff Gottlibeb. Plus more politics, media and place.
Friday is Sharkey's last day at the Los Angeles Times after 17 years, the last seven as film critic.
Sanchez is running. Brown and Napolitano make up. A good point about almonds and water. Another LATimesman leaves for political PR. And more.
The federal grand jury is investigating corruption in the LA County jails and the attempt by sheriff's officials to hide a federal informant from the FBI.
Units that are really just vacation rental businesses will no longer be allowed to take in paying guests unless the resident is there too.
News industry analyst Ken Doctor likes the moves Austin Beutner has made at the Los Angeles Times, including the acquisition of U-T San Diego.
The 1920s landslide zone apparently is safe enough to let people in during the day.
My post last week on the Mormon lawn in Westwood had a weird, short life as a media drought nugget. After hedging, the landmark temple now says, yes, the lawn is going dry to help out.
Jeff Gottlieb, who shared in the 2011 Pulitzer for Bell coverage, warns in his exit email to Times staffers about "these treacherous waters"
Seligman says she "has helped end the careers of some of the most corrupt members of Congress, targeted the NRA and its allies, exposed front groups covering for corporate interests, and rooted out misinformation in the media."
Chock full of politics, media, place and an appreciation of Kodak's Tri-X film.
Burden's "Urban Light" outside LACMA has become one of the most admired and photographed works of art in Los Angeles.
Fun stock footage posted on the Internet Archive. Clifton's, the Golden Gopher, the Rialto and other theaters make appearances.
Plus Antonio Villaraigosa's new actress-girlfriend, restaurants come and go and a big day for a Dodger.
I don't know if this a drought measure or what, but the big expanse of green grass on Santa Monica Boulevard in Westwood is mostly brown.
Nice one-day haul for the Democratic candidate, but she's also in the spotlight for agreeing to take money from even bigger donors.
Tribune Publishing buys U-T San Diego and installs Times publisher Austin Beutner as publisher there too. Otis Chandler's dream realized?
Chief Beck has already said he's concerned about this shooting after seeing video footage.
An 11-minute promotional film on MySpace shows the newsroom and printing plant (and the hairstyles) when the Times had an entire newspaper operation in Chatsworth.
The LA Times has tapped Washington bureau chief David Lauter to run the presidential campaign coverage. Read the memo.
Plus Steve Soboroff acquires another famous person's typewriter. And what it was like to play for the bad old Clippers.
In his first game in major league baseball, the new Angels catcher won the game with a walk-off home run.
With David Letterman's TV run coming near the end, his writers of the past reveal the jokes they wish they had been allowed to put on the air.
So somebody else did. Screen grab from CarlyFiorina.org.
How long P-22 was under the house in Los Feliz, the lion cubs who crossed the 101 freeway and how many pets have been found at lion kills in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Our occasional but often-on-Mondays roundup of politics, media and place.
Tim Egan, Dana Goodyear, Mark Arax, Grace Peng and others weigh in on the drought and California's future, while the New York Times style editors again give Angelenos something to wag their tongues about.
The Survey Monkey chief executive who reportedly died outside the U.S. while on vacation with his wife -- no details have been released -- was a pioneer in bringing digital music to the Internet.
Tracy Wood, now at Voice of OC, learned lessons about official corruption covering the Vietnam War that keep coming into play in her coverage of government.
Good for Marques. After a dude invaded her shot and began talking dirty, she put his pic on Facebook. "Do you know this face?"
Far from DTLA, Fuentes has been chronicling street art in the desert and has some ideas on what's missing.
A Missouri couple received apologies from a climber rescued off a cliff at Point Dume.
Bill Gardner soared with his on-air set devoted to the late Ben E. King on Saturday afternoon on KPFK.
Baltimore cops charged, more reax to LAPD body cameras, a crooked local chief of police, DWP audits and more.
Clinton fundraises in LA
Jim Henson Studios on La Brea became a presidential campaign stop on Thursday.
Brown declares disaster area
The natural gas leak above Porter Ranch now qualifies for various government actions. Story
Performing arts with cheer
Donna Perlmutter closes out 2015 with productions downtown and on the Westside.
