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Foreclosures and resulting blight infest once-safe neighborhoods
William Perez has been waiting a long time to tell someone all the sad and crazy things he's seen. Perez runs a crew that crisscrosses Los Angeles and the Antelope Valley doing the dirty but essential job of cleaning up homes that have been foreclosed...
Tags: Los Angeles Times Columnists, Foreclosures, Criminals, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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Barbasol and a brew are ingredients for downtown's revival
Matt Berman believes that barbershops can change the world.
He'll take off his shirt to prove his passion -- by showing off his barbershop tattoo, which covers his entire back.
Last month, the 46-year-old former marketing executive said goodbye to a...Tags: Heroin, Personal Service, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Culture, University of California, Los Angeles
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Hope endures in a recession-battered area of L.A. County
In South Los Angeles' flat plain of humble homes, apartments and palms, there is a community officially (but rarely) called Westmont that has no "mont," not even a hill. It got its name, it seems, from being west of Vermont Avenue.
These days it has...Tags: Labor Markets, Employment Opportunities, Layoffs and Downsizing, Employment, Car Allowance Rebate System (2009)
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Pasadena's writer-driven LitFest gets bigger this Saturday
If Los Angeles can have a book festival -- the just-concluded Los Angeles Times Festival of Books -- and even the suburb of nearby Duarte (pop. 21,000) can have one, why not Pasadena? Pasadena is famous for the Rose Parade, Caltech and Jackie Robinson,...
Tags: Festive Events, Literature, Arts and Culture, Jonathan Gold, Authors
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Amazon to buy book-focused social network Goodreads
Amazon.com Inc., which got its start as an online bookseller, went on to create the Kindle e-reader and has gotten into book publishing, is now pushing into the social side of reading. The world's largest online retailer said Thursday that it had agreed...Tags: Apple iTunes, Jeff Bezos, Apple Inc., Culture, Books
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'Black Against Empire' tells the history of Black Panthers
-------------------- Black Against EmpireThe History and Politics of the Black Panther Party Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.University of California Press: 560 pp., $34.95 -------------------- The defenders of the 2nd Amendment once had a...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Firearms, Politics, Martin Luther King Jr., Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Video chat: Author Amy Wilentz on Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 10 a.m.
Join us Tuesday for a live video conversation with award-winning author Amy Wilentz about her new book, "Farewell, Fred Voodoo." After a massive earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, Wilentz, a journalist who has been writing about the country for more...
Tags: Haiti, Google+, Haiti Earthquake (2010), Carolyn Kellogg, Social Media
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