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Move over Academy Awards, because South LA will host an award show and film festival with just as much glitz, glamor, and prestige. The Pan African Film and Arts Festival (PAFF) is set to kick off its 20th anniversary with star-studded festivities, ...
(Feb 6, 2012, The South Los Angeles Report)
Councilman Eric Garcetti was the big winner of the last campaign financing period, raising more than $1 million in less than four months. Posted: Monday, February 6, 2012 6:01 am | Updated: 5:07 pm, Fri Feb 3, 2012. DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - There are ...
(Feb 6, 2012, LA Downtown News Online)
By Rick Orlov, Daily News Staff Writer Developer Rick Caruso has left the GOP, signaling he is increasingly serious about his potential run for mayor in an overwhelmingly Democratic city. The lifelong Republican switched to decline-to-state in December ...
(Feb 6, 2012, Los Angeles Daily News)
The city is looking for institutions that would store and display the works salvaged after protesters were ousted. But Occupy LA says the murals 'were made for the people and they belong to the people.' By Ari Bloomekatz, Los Angeles Times During their ...
(Feb 5, 2012, Los Angeles Times)
A Spanish silver coin dating from 1816 is among the artifacts a 30-member team of archaeologists has unearthed next to railroad tracks in front of the San Gabriel Mission. Archaeologist Deanna Jones sifts for artifacts from an excavation next to ...
(Feb 5, 2012, Los Angeles Times)
Officials with three law enforcement organizations say they have yet to formally decide whom to back, in anyone, in this year's race for district attorney. Trutanich, LA's city attorney, is the obvious front-runner. Officials with three law enforcement ...
(Feb 5, 2012, Los Angeles Times)
Robert Olmsted accuses department officials of rigging a probe into excessive force in jails to scapegoat him and shield brass from blame. A department spokesman denies his allegation. By Jack Leonard and Robert Faturechi, Los Angeles Times A retired ...
(Feb 5, 2012, Los Angeles Times)
Shmuley Boteach's book focuses on Jesus' Jewishness, portraying him as a hero who was not resurrected or divine. But some other rabbis express contempt for the book and forbid followers to read it. Barak Boteach, 15, sells copies of "Kosher Jesus" by ...
(Feb 5, 2012, Los Angeles Times)
Insular Bernal Heights — 'this weird little borderline utopia,' as one resident calls it — has updated 'complementary currency' in the form of a debit card. Arno Hesse, left, and Guillaume Lebleu, right, residents of San Francisco's Bernal Heights ...
(Feb 5, 2012, Los Angeles Times)
The US Army Corps of Engineering will start a $3.4 million project next week to recreate riparian habitat along a portion of the Tujunga Wash in Valley Glen, CA. This photo shows a portion of the Tujunga Wash that was completed by the Los Angeles Couty ...
(Feb 5, 2012, Los Angeles Daily News)
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