Business LA Times demands that reporters sign away rights to books, movies and other works they create while working at the paper Cory Doctorow

Business Oakland's tech startups are reportedly being gentrified out of their spaces by deep-pocketed marijuana growers Cory Doctorow

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los angeles The Flying Morgans threw another insane NYE bash Jason Weisberger

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Food Disgusting Food Museum coming to Los Angeles David Pescovitz

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california Los Angeles's homelessness epidemic has created a typhus epidemic Cory Doctorow

happy mutants To do in LA this Saturday: I'm speaking at the Pasadena Loves YA festival! Cory Doctorow

videos A public bank for LA: instead of sending hundreds of millions to predatory finance, Angelenos' taxes can fund community development Cory Doctorow

happy mutants LA libraries replace fines for young readers with in-library "read-offs" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants To do in LA this weekend: Scottworks, celebrating visionary composer, inventor and musician Raymond Scott Cory Doctorow

elections LA County will switch to all open source vote-counting machines Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Burbankers! There's a Save Magnolia Park meeting on August 13th at Geeky Tees Cory Doctorow