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Why is the starting team of one of the most multicultural cities so vanilla?
Evelina Fernández’s poignant new play, set in 1968, focuses on a Boyle Heights mother in a world gone awry.
Why Los Angeles researchers are looking differently at Skid Row.
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Diseases don’t respect borders, nor do they care about passports, citizenship or residency.
Developers blame a half-century-old law for slowing development. Studies show there are other factors at work.
Alex Gibney has become the filmic Freud of frauds, a master at dissecting sparkly but flawed personalities.
Financial assurance flaws leave taxpayers potentially liable for massive clean-up costs.
Bay Area seventh grader helps to organize San Francisco student protests as part of Friday’s “Climate Strike.”
The California Immigrant Policy Center and Capital & Main invite you to a conversation to explore the disparate economic and social impacts of the Trump Administration’s immigration policies, from heightened detention and deportation to a proposed “public charge” rule to punish immigrant families.
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As cities struggle to rein in the short-term rental service, a detente in San Francisco may show the way.
Although California’s leading politicians favor rent-cap legislation, none is on the horizon.
Idris Goodwin’s play revolves around two hip-hop performers, one black and one white, who have been friends since childhood.
All of Jeffrey Wright’s acting skills can’t quite elevate O.G. beyond being a solid and dignified tale.
The closure of an immigrant detention center could represent a setback for the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies.
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Parsing who is a company employee and who is an independent contractor is no mere academic exercise: Contractors typically lack the workplace benefits and security enjoyed by traditional employees.
Playwright Boni B. Alvarez dramatizes the experience of six Filipinas temporarily inhabiting a one-bedroom flat near Los Angeles’ well-to-do Hancock Park neighborhood.
“We must nominate a solid progressive,” says New York’s mayor about the Democrats’ next presidential candidate. “That’s the only way we can change the country. It’s also the only way we can win.”
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Angry immigrant rights activists say the generous ICE funding flies in the face of many Democrats’ stated desire to put the brakes on the Trump administration’s deportation surge.
The iPhone-shot High Flying Bird comes across as less a feature film and more like a pilot for a TV series. (Think The West Wing meets Ballers.)
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Prisons have been called universities of crime. What if they became, instead, actual universities?