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Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House is for sale in Los Feliz

WEBBuilt and named for a popular health guru, the Lovell Health House opened in 1929. Photos by Barcelo Photography Inc., courtesy of The Agency

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Lovell Health House: How LA’s wellness culture shaped its modern

WEBLovell, who wrote a column for the Los Angeles Times Sunday magazine called “Care of the Body,” had become a local legend in a burgeoning scene filled with natural food …

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‘LA Confidential’: The movie’s filming locations, mapped

WEBOpen in Google Maps. 6671 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028. (323) 463-5611. Visit Website. Crossroads of the World’s iconic tower, as seen from the …

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LA County moves ahead with plan to reuse General Hospital as …

WEBThe 1930s-era Los Angeles County General Hospital that rises 19 stories above the northern edge of Boyle Heights has sat largely unused since 2008.. Now the Los …

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How Cultists, Quacks, and Naturemenschen Made Los Angeles …

WEBThe group mixed elements of various world religions with health food, healthy living, free love, music, and drugs. What began as a bunch of be-robed longhairs living in a house …

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The Respectable LA Houses of 1970s Hippie Cult The Source

WEBToday: the Source Family hippie cult of the late '60s and early '70s. The Source Family cult created one of the most persistent popular visions of Los Angeles: …

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All the Ways Global Warming Will Make Los Angeles Less Healthy

WEBHere are some of the biggest warming-related threats to public health. —"By 2050, the Los Angeles area is expected to warm by 5 degrees on average," which will …

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Former LA hospital—once a lifeline for Japanese Americans—is up …

WEBThis article was updated 8:40 a.m. October 13. The boxy white building a few blocks east of First and Soto streets in Boyle Heights doesn't look like anything special.

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La Crescenta’s old asylum for women to become park and …

WEBIt was founded by a woman, a nurse named Agnes Richards, whose work in state-run mental health facilities of the time left her critical of the system and convinced …

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Report: Housing the homeless is actually saving LA County money

WEBLast year, Los Angeles voters approved a $1.2 billion bond to build 10,000 new units of permanent-supportive housing over the next 10 years. Then, in March, …

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LA’s Santa Ana winds: What causes them and how they affect us

WEBA man who wrote to the LA Times in 1893 to complain about the name of the Santa Anas still had to acknowledge that "it is generally admitted that the winds are …

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Hepatitis A outbreak highlights lack of public restrooms for …

WEBA Hepatitis A outbreak might finally prompt city officials to provide more public restrooms for homeless people. The Los Angeles Times reports that Los Angeles …

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Being Poor in Beverly Hills, the Most Unequal City in California

WEBThe chasm in Los Angeles between the rich and the poor is one of the biggest in the US, but, in all of California, Beverly Hills is the city (of its size or larger) with the …

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How Malibu became the celebrity rehab capital of America

WEBIt should not be a hotel.”. Not everyone agrees with moderate architectural approaches like this, used by long-running treatment centers like Betty Ford, Las …

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Watts Residents Will Die 11.9 Years Before Bel Air Residents

WEBOn the last day of his term, Mayor Villaraigosa released the Health Atlas for the City of Los Angeles (pdf): "More than 100 health indicators -- such as obesity, …

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LA to spend $336M to build 2,998 apartments for the homeless

WEBLos Angeles lawmakers are queuing up $335.8 million to help build nearly 3,000 affordable apartments across the city, including the first Measure HHH units in …

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The booster campaigns that sold Los Angeles

WEBThe “ booster era ” of Los Angeles spanned roughly 40 years, from 1885 to 1925. Over these pivotal decades, rough-hewn and optimistic pioneering city leaders …

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The choice between rent control and pest control

WEBAfter each round of maintenance and glue traps, the mice would retreat, and I’d tentatively relax. But after a week or two, I’d begin to hear rattling in my dog’s empty …

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State awards $35M grant for projects in Watts

WEBA parking lot at the Jordan Downs housing project in Watts. The city of Los Angeles has won a $35 million grant to fund affordable housing and new parks and …

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