• A Masterpiece On Beethoven Street, $2.7M,Philip Ferrato

    A Masterpiece On Beethoven Street, $2.7M

    In the Westside’s Mar Vista neighborhood, the Mexico City based architect Pablo Pérez Palacios of Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados has designed a serene, yet visually challenging, new home unlike anything seen in Los Angeles. Finished in concrete and paying homage to great minimalists like Luis

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  • Residents claim ongoing traffic-safety problems on Foothill Boulevard,Dave Schwab

    Residents claim ongoing traffic-safety problems on Foothill Boulevard

    Foothill Boulevard neighbors in Pacific Beach have a quandary: The traffic-calming roundabout they’ve advocated for years is being built, but it’s claimed not to be enough to resolve ongoing traffic safety problems.PB residents near Foothill/Loring, where the new traffic-calming roundabout is going,

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  • Farewell: Flying to Abraxas,Kyungmin Min

    Farewell: Flying to Abraxas

    “The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born first must destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God’s name is Abraxas.”– Demian, Hermann HesseIt was a way out of the egg, spending nine months in San Diego for me. I had vague images of Southern California befo

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