
Fiona Ng
Deputy Managing Editor
(she/her)
Fiona Ng oversees our Explore L.A. vertical and leads our weekend crew. She was previously the show creator of K-pop Dreaming and led reporting and production on the podcast series. Before that, she was the senior producer of AirTalk with Larry Mantle on LAist (formerly KPCC). As a freelance writer, she has written for Los Angeles Magazine, Boston Globe Magazine, New York Times, with an emphasis on covering the Chinese diaspora.
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Lincoln Heights Tutorial Program is a grassroots organization that provides academic support and leadership development to kids and teens from the community. On Saturday, their teen volunteers were out in droves to beautify Lincoln Park.
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Mount Waterman is about 50 miles from downtown, making it the closest ski resort from L.A. The mom-and-pops operation was put up for sale in May. According to it listing agent, the property is about to enter escrow.
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New Pasadena-based company Craft Ads is reviving the art form of the hand-painted billboard.
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Remembering Sean Burroughs, Who Took Long Beach Little League To The Mountaintop In The 1990s, TwiceAfter a successful Little League career, Burroughs went on to the big league and help Team USA win a Gold Medal at the Olympics. He died last week at the age of 43.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, turns out that chopping off the top of trees to reduce their sizes is rather harmful, arborists say.
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Your last chance to check out the 40 some vintage and classic cars at the space is July 7.
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Animal tracks. Bones. A slug living in a tide pool ... and yes, you can even snap and send in a pic of animal poop. This weekend, Los Angeles is one of hundreds of cities across the globe taking part in the City Nature Challenge to document urban nature.
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The glowing blue waves are caused by a species of plankton called dinoflagellates, which swim in clusters causing a red tide, but when disturbed, they emit the glittering flashes of light.
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We visit the city of South Pasadena, the putative Southern California capital of a lawn game called "kubb." The game is making a steady sweep across America.
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"If I could tell people when the poppy peak is or what the season's going to be like, I would absolutely," said Callista Turner, state park interpreter. "Unfortunately, it is a natural reserve, which is subject to the climate that we have and the weather as it comes through."
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