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Anna Sklar, the author of "Brown Acres, an Intimate History of the Los Angeles Sewers" takes John Rabe underground into the longest sewer line in the country.
The Sun Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles became the home of the largest school-based health care clinic in the state. Queena Kim went to the opening.
Business reporter Mark Lacter gives John Rabe the skinny on the grocery chain Fresh 'n' Easy. The store's niche is to limit choice. Lacter says that the business model isn't very successful.
Last week Nick Roman told us about the historic Dodger v. Red Sox game at the coliseum. A reader wrote in to say, he got a fact wrong.
On April 12: Meet Angel Joy Blue, a 24-year old soprano who knew she wanted to be an opera singer when she was three; plus the Getty's exhibit of long-archived California video art.
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