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Covering Koreatown, Pico Union and Westlake for The LA Local
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The LA Local
15 days ago
Open call for artists: Submit your art for a zine
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Open call for artists: Submit your art for a zine | LA Local
Submit a black-and-white, coloring bookâstyle take on one of Los Angelesâ most iconic spots.
https://thelalocal.org/art-and-culture/open-call-for-artists/
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LA Public Press
16 days ago
LA is in a budget crisis. Here are your candidates for City Controller LA Controller Kenneth Mejia says he wants transparency and accountability on municipal finances. His challenger says he will scrutinize how every public dollar is spent.
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LA is in a budget crisis. Here are your candidates for City Controller
LA Controller Kenneth Mejia says he wants transparency and accountability on municipal finances. His challenger says he will scrutinize how every public dollar is spent.
https://lapublicpress.org/2026/03/la-city-controller-race-2026/
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The FIFA World Cup tournament is projected to generate around $892 million in total economic activity across the county, according to the Los Angeles World Cup 2026 Host Committee.
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World Cup jersey sales are up at Nikyâs Sports in Pico Union â especially these teams | LA Local
It's just part of the projected $892 million in economic activity the tournament is expected to bring to LA County.
https://thelalocal.org/neighborhoods/pico-union/world-cup-jersey-sales-are-up-at-nikys-sports-in-pico-union-especially-these-teams/
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Keum-soon Lee was a light in every community she was part of. She performed at an LA Kings game earlier this year with her harmonica ensemble and was struck by a hit-and-run driver on her way from morning prayer at her church.
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Koreatown hit-and-run victim remembered as a light in her church and senior center communities | LA Local
Keum-soon Lee played harmonica with the Koreatown Senior & Community Center ensemble. She was 73 and is survived by her husband and son.
https://thelalocal.org/neighborhoods/koreatown/koreatown-senior-community-hit-and-run/
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Koreatown in LA is one the cityâs greatest neighborhoods. Yesterday I got Korean skincare, ate fried chicken, and bought these pineapple cream cookies Iâm obsessed with all in one building!
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28 days ago
LA undocumented college students are still fighting for access to campus jobs Students lobbied elected leaders, sued the University of California, and even engaged in a hunger strike to access campus jobs. A proposed state law would give them what they seek.
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LA undocumented college students are still fighting for access to campus jobs
Students lobbied elected leaders, sued the University of California, and even engaged in a hunger strike to access campus jobs. A proposed state law would give them what they seek.
https://lapublicpress.org/2026/03/la-immigrant-undocumented-university-job/
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The LA Local
27 days ago
Iranâs sports minister says country wonât participate in World Cup, throwing LA matches in limbo
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Iran's sports minister says country won't participate in World Cup, throwing LA matches in limbo | LA Local
Iran is scheduled to play two matches in Los Angeles in June against New Zealand and Belgium.
https://thelalocal.org/sports/fifa-world-cup-iran-match-los-angeles/
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28 days ago
Nonprofit Pico Union Project gets new leadership as co-founders step down
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 The Pico Union Project gets new leadership | LA Local
Craig and Louise Taubman founded their nonprofit in 2013 and will step down from their leadership roles, but will remain active in the organization.
https://thelalocal.org/neighborhoods/pico-union/pico-union-project-new-leadership/
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28 days ago
Sasheer Zamata, Jane Fonda, Jenny Yang and more to âRidicule a Rulerâ at immigrant rights comedy show
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Brave of Us: Jane Fonda, LA comedians fundraise for immigrants
Sasheer Zamata, Jenny Yang, Aparna Nancherla, Zainab Johnson join Jane Fonda in Westlake to headline the Dynasty Typewriter comedy show.
https://thelalocal.org/neighborhoods/westlake/jane-fonda-sasheer-zamata-fundraiser/
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The LA Local
30 days ago
This week in LA: Government meetings you donât want to miss
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This week in LA: Government meetings you don't want to miss | LA Local
LA Documenters attend uncovered government meetings and publish notes for folks who couldn't attend. Here are a few meetings documenters will be monitoring this week you won't want to miss.
https://thelalocal.org/la-documenters/meetings-were-watching-this-week/
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Los Angeles promises the $2.6 billion Convention Center expansion will be a job generator and bring in tax funds over the next 30 years. But businesses in the neighborhood say their customers are not coming back.
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Businesses struggle while Convention Center expansion closes off Pico Boulevard | LA Local
Businesses in the neighborhood say their customers are not returning due to the construction along Pico Boulevard.
https://thelalocal.org/neighborhoods/pico-union/pico-boulevard-convention-center-expansion-closure/
about 1 month ago
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For more than five years, Gurpreet Singh, 42, has looked out for the MacArthur Park community-responding to mental health crises and overdoses by administering Narcan or calling 911. This interview is from
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This volunteer hands out Narcan at MacArthur Park #localnews
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about 1 month ago
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Alissa Walker
about 1 month ago
Hearing from employees at LAUSD headquarters. Board members and their staff are also not able to enter their offices. There are emergency meetings scheduled this morning to figure out how to proceed with committees scheduled to meet later in the day
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âWe have senior citizen retirees showing up saying, âIâm an old white woman â how can I help?â We have students from community colleges and universities." Story
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Older, white Angelenos are joining Latino volunteers to monitor ICE raids | LA Local
The rapid response group, UniĂłn del Barrio, has seen a huge spike of new volunteers after two high-profile killings in Minnesota.
https://thelalocal.org/neighborhoods/westlake/ice-raids-union-del-barrio-volunteers-spike/
about 1 month ago
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Everything changed in October at Oscarâs green card adjustment appointmentâ a routine interview with immigration officials to determine whether he could become a lawful permanent resident. Reporting
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After ICE detention, couple plans new life in Guatemala
Longtime LA resident Oscar Polanco was newly married and working to get legal status when he was detained and taken to Adelanto ICE Processing Center.
https://thelalocal.org/immigration/immigration-couple-separated-reunited-restarting-guatemala/
about 1 month ago
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Rep. Jimmy Gomez
about 1 month ago
FBI Director Kash Patel decided to fly to Italy and make a fool of himself in front of Team USA. Somebody needs to tell this guy that FBI doesnât stand for Frat Bro Initiation.
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Sergio Perez
about 2 months ago
Hereâs the full scene work - âDanza Macabreâ by Israel Campos.
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about 1 month ago
Pepe the parrot of Hermon
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Pepe the parrot of Hermon | LA Local
How a colorful parrot captured the hearts of a northeast Los Angeles neighborhood.
https://thelalocal.org/neighborhoods/east-la/pepe-the-parrot-of-hermon/
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Rep. Jimmy Gomez
about 1 month ago
Iâm monitoring the situation in Jalisco, Mexico. If youâre traveling in Mexico, follow all State Department guidance and stay in close contact with your loved ones back in the US. Enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program, STEP, to receive verified, up-to-date alerts and safety information:
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L.A. TACO
about 1 month ago
El Mencho was the last of the old guardâthe final mass-trafficking titan standing alongside El Chapo and El Mayoânow fallen, marking the end of an era in Mexican organized crime. This is a developing story. The latest:
lataco.com/mexico-viole...
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A former Pico Union party supply warehouse is now home to a growing number of luxury classic cars. How one man turned a weekend side gig into a thriving car rental agency. By
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How a Pico Boulevard warehouse became home to a fleet of luxury cars | LA Local
A former Pico Union party supply warehouse is home to a growing fleet of classic cars. How one man turned a weekend gig into a car rental agency.
https://thelalocal.org/neighborhoods/pico-union/classic-car-rental-pico-uni/
about 1 month ago
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The proposed measure would impose a one-time tax of up to 5% on individuals and trusts with a net worth above $1 billion. Backers, including
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Bernie Sanders campaigns for billionaire tax
Sen. Bernie Sanders kicked off the campaign for a California billionaire tax with an event Wednesday in Koreatown.
https://thelalocal.org/neighborhoods/koreatown/bernie-sanders-billionaire-tax-rally/
about 1 month ago
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The proposal to fence MacArthur Park could make the space easier to maintain, according to city officials. But residents worry this would drastically change the fabric of the neighborhood. From
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and Hanna Kang for
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LA wants to fence MacArthur Park. Locals don't think it will fix anything. | LA Local
A fence around MacArthur Park could make it easier to maintain, officials say. Some locals are on the fence about the whole plan.
https://thelalocal.org/neighborhoods/westlake/la-wants-to-fence-macarthur-park-locals-arent-sure-it-will-fix-anything/
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Self-storage developer La Tierra Consulting uses Papa Cristoâs logo in renderings presented to the Neighborhood Council, but has not actually asked Chrys Chrys if he wants to reopen his displaced family business. Neighbors say they want housing. Sigh...
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A Redondo Beach developer plans to turn Papa Cristoâs longtime home in Pico Union into a storage facility â but says that he still wants to honor the restaurantâs more than 70 year legacy in some way.
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Papa Cristoâs former home could be replaced by storage facility | LA Local
Greek marketplace Papa Cristoâs former home in Pico Union could be demolished to make way for a storage facility.
https://thelalocal.org/neighborhoods/pico-union/papa-cristos-former-home-in-pico-union-could-be-replaced-by-a-storage-facility/
about 2 months ago
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L.A. TACO
about 2 months ago
DAILY MEMO: ICE Is Still Active in Southern California
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From Buenos Aires to the Super Bowl stage, Argentine designers Federico Laboreau and Maximiliano Pizzi helped bring Bad Bunnyâs iconic casita to life â and this is how they did it. Story from
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Bad Bunny Super Bowl Casita: Meet the South LA Designers
Meet Federico Laboreau and Maximiliano Pizzi, the Argentine owners of South LAâs Fuegos who went from serving empanadas to designing the interior of Bad Bunnyâs iconic Super Bowl halftime casita.
https://thelalocal.org/art-and-culture/bad-bunny-super-bowl-casita-designers-fuegos-la/
about 2 months ago
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2 months ago
What we know about the people taken during Wednesdayâs ICE raids on the Eastside
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What we know about those detained during Wednesdayâs ICE raids
Neighbors and family members shared details as at least six people were taken from Boyle Heights and East LA in a surge of immigration enforcement.
https://thelalocal.org/immigration/eastside-immigration-raids-who-they-are/
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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles
2 months ago
Shameful: Curren Price's office claims to know nothing of Urban Alchemy plan to shut down due to LAHSA underpayment, the same week Price is sent to trial on corruption charges. Wonder how many staffers no longer live in CA, like one quoted in this story?
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Nonprofit to close South LA âsafe sleepâ site this week, citing insufficient funding | LA Local
The Lincoln Safe Sleep Village on South Central Avenue was one of only a handful of similar government-sanctioned tent encampments operating around the state.
https://thelalocal.org/neighborhoods/south-la/homeless-south-la-safe-sleep-site-closing/
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Are you a business in LA that will be participating in tomorrow's
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#GeneralStrike
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2 months ago
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L.A. TACO
2 months ago
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The hottest concert in Koreatown this past weekend may have been an impromptu, after-hours, one-man show at a closed shopping mall. The crowds at the Koreatown Plaza didnât gather for Korean eats at H Mart. They came to catch viral saxophonist Nathanial Young.
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You just stumbled into the hottest secret concert in Los Angeles â in a mall
How viral musician Nathaniel Young packed a Koreatown mall for an impromptu, solo show.
https://thelalocal.org/art-and-culture/nathanial-young-saxophone-secret-show-koreatown-mall/
2 months ago
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L.A. TACO
2 months ago
Feeling helpless? Hereâs how YOU can help take a stand against ICE!
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Rep. Jimmy Gomez
2 months ago
Trumpâs deportation machine is out of control. People are being targeted based on the color of their skin, citizens are being killed in the street, and this administration is dodging accountability. We warned this would happen when Trump targeted LA last year. It's time to get ICE out NOW.
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LA Public Press
3 months ago
Federal agents descended on a quiet Willowbrook block shortly after 7 a.m., startling residents in the unincorporated Los Angeles community.
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L.A. TACO
3 months ago
DAILY MEMO: ICE and Border Patrol Continue Shooting and Assaulting Southern California Immigrants, Citizens, Women, and Minors
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The Associated Press
3 months ago
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judgeâs warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
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Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
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3 months ago
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles
3 months ago
Grand Central Market update: Roast to Go has passed over to legacy businesses heaven and the La Sandunga Oaxacan stall is coming soon.
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L.A. TACO
3 months ago
"It's not just about always being on alert, but sometimes, if [employers] hire us, they threaten us with ICE so they don't have to pay us," a laborer named José says in Spanish. The full story:
lataco.com/laborers-sca...
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Some of the detainees at the California City detention facility were detained at immigration hearings. Many did not have prior criminal records, according to Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff. They conducted an oversight tour at the facility on Tuesday. Story by
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Some detainees were arrested at routine immigration appointments, Padilla and Schiff say after oversight tour | LA Local
The California Democratic senators carried out the congressional oversight tour amid the onslaught of immigration raids across the region.
https://thelalocal.org/immigration/immigration-detention-facility-oversight-tour/
3 months ago
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Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice sued California, along with 22 other states and Washington, D.C., for access to their full, unredacted voter files. That includes driverâs license, social security numbers and other sensitive data.
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Federal government has no right to California voters' sensitive data, judge rules
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter made the ruling Thursday in a case with national significance.
https://laist.com/news/politics/ruling-federal-government-has-no-right-to-california-voters-sensitive-data
3 months ago
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L.A. TACO
3 months ago
Memo is back.
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L.A. TACO
3 months ago
The âgraded responseâ model calls for police officers in regular uniforms to be deployed at protests before sending in heavily-armed officers in riot gear and specialized units such as SWAT, if needed. The full story:
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The pocket park, set to slot right next to the PĂo PicoâKoreatown Branch Library, was formally approved in August 2017. Nearly a decade later â and after $22 million in public funding was committed â the park remains unfinished. Story from
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$18 million and a decade later, Koreatown is still waiting for its mini park | LA Local
When Los Angeles opens a pocket park in Koreatown in 2027, it will be the first park opened since the 1920s.
https://thelalocal.org/los-angeles-city/18-million-and-a-decade-later-koreatown-is-still-waiting-for-its-mini-park/
3 months ago
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LA Public Press
3 months ago
Nearly one person died every week in LA County jail custody last year Deaths jumped 44% from 2024 to 2025 as Proposition 36 brought an older, sicker population into already crowded facilities the county promised to reform.
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Nearly one person died every week in LA County jail custody last year
Deaths jumped 44% from 2024 to 2025 as Proposition 36 brought an older, sicker population into already crowded facilities the county promised to reform. Deaths jumped 44% from 2024 to 2025 as Proposit...
https://lapublicpress.org/2026/01/one-person-died-every-week-la-county-jail/
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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles
3 months ago
New independent media outlet The LA Local, launched in response to how legacy media is failing Angelenos, expands on the Boyle Heights Beat channel with coverage of Inglewood, South LA, Koreatown, Pico Union and Westlake.
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Welcome to The LA Local: We built this newsroom for you | LA Local
We interviewed hundreds of residents from across Los Angeles County and designed our newsroom to meet your needs.
https://thelalocal.org/news/welcome-to-the-la-local-we-built-this-newsroom-for-you/
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