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Will ‘Ambassadors’ help LA metro riders feel safer?

Food journalist Mona Holmes discusses how the LA restaurant scene fared in 2023 and anticipates dining trends for the new year. In response to complaints about customer service and mass transit safety, Metro is hiring hundreds of people to offer warm welcomes and help to passengers. The Autry Museum’s “Reclaiming El Camino” details the hardships Native populations faced under European settlement, and highlights Indigenous resistance.

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  How has LA homelessness changed in over 8 years?

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  Angelenos are crowding clown shows — ‘an act of counterculture’

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  Sale of Skid Row grocery store aims to bring racial healing

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  Finding love and beauty at Mosaic Tile House in Venice

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  Forget Hinge and Tinder? LA singles try ‘Love Isn’t Blind’

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  Once-quiet landslide zone is starting to move. SoCal residents are worried

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  Helpers replay special: Miracle Messages, Las Fotos, Underdog Community

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  Animals replay special: Shrimp farming, bear boom, cats on hikes

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  Replay: Looking back on 100 years of Tinseltown’s Hollywood Sign

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  ‘Santa Claus Conquers the Martians’: Failed film is hit theater show

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  LA Breakfast Club: ‘Everybody is on the same level,’ regardless of backgro…

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  For many LA Latinos, making tamales is core to the holidays

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  Driverless cars: Is it safe to be a passenger?

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  Fake snow, ice rinks: Which LA areas are creating a white Christmas?

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  Diamond Bakery, Jewish LA institution, closes after 7 decades