Jenna Chandler

Curbed LA

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Chances are there’s no infinity pool, champagne room, or crystal aquarium in your future home. It’s hard enough to pay the average rent in LA.

What can $1,000 a month get you in LA? Not much

Chances are there’s no infinity pool, champagne room, or crystal aquarium in your future home. It’s hard enough to pay the average rent in LA.

from Greater LA

LA will host the Olympic Games in 2028. It hosted the games back in 1984.

How LA cleared homeless people off the streets for the '84 Olympics

LA will host the Olympic Games in 2028. It hosted the games back in 1984.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Last night at Santa Monica College — where this radio station is located -- about 100 protesters crowded a hallway outside a meeting of the Board of Trustees.

Protesters Pepper Sprayed at Santa Monica College

Last night at Santa Monica College — where this radio station is located -- about 100 protesters crowded a hallway outside a meeting of the Board of Trustees.

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