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An overhead view of a dining room table set with plates, silverware, a big roasted turkey, corn, carrots, and other side dishes. Around the table are seated a diverse group of diners, some of whom are passing food across to their fellow diners.

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Recipes For Your Thanksgiving Leftovers (And Other Headlines)

What do with your Thanksgiving leftovers, Erewhon’s cult following, and helping you with gift shopping this holiday season.

Wood scaffolding is visible under a raised roadway

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Is The 10 Freeway Safe After Its Speedy Repairs? (And Other Headlines)

Questions arise after the fast repairs on one of L.A.’s busiest freeways.

Earth worms in the palm of someone's hand over dark compost.

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Santa Monica College’s Worm Army (And Other Headlines)

Some 400,000 red wiggler worms transform 300 pounds of campus waste into nutrient-rich soil.

Burned out cars and other debris are visible under a scorched 10-lane freeway overpass.

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The 10 Freeway Is Back. That Was … Fast (And Other Headlines)

The freeway was originally thought to be out of commission for weeks, if not months.

An abstract painting with lots of greens by artist Patrick Martinez.

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New Exhibit At The Broad Aims To 'Speak To The People' Who Live In LA

The exhibit "Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog)" features all L.A. artists whose works depict the city.

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Our Friendsgiving Guide For Less Stress, More Fun (And Other Headlines)

Worried about hosting your first Friendsgiving? Don’t be! Follow these tips to win over the crowd.

The entrance of the Egyptian Theater with sign that reads "Graumans Egyptian" above an columned arch way at night next to a backlit mural Egyptian hieroglyphics

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How The Egyptian Theater Helped Establish Hollywood

Now that it has been officially renovated and reopened, How to LA looks at the splash the theater's making now and back in 1922 when it first opened its movie palace doors.

Here's a photo of the downtown Los Angeles skyline along with taken from the view of the North Broadway bridge. There is a palm tree, tents and a billboard in the foreground.

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Documenting The City At '5 mph': Meet Photographer Elon Schoenholz

In this occasional series, How to LA is spending time talking with local artists about how they view the city. This round is from the seat of a car.

An empty stretch of elevated freeway. The Los Angeles city skyline rises in the background.

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LA Traffic Is Worse, But Not Terrible, After Freeway Disaster (And Other Headlines)

Detours push cars into neighborhoods that are already plagued by some of the worst air pollution.

Cavernous council chambers are full of a diverse crowd sitting on wooden benches, they're facing the council dais, they're backs to the camera. Two police officers stand next to the short wooden entrance that leads to the dais.

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City Council Vote Allows Rent Increases Up To 6% Next Year (And Other Headlines)

The city council's decision will allow rent hikes beginning in February.