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Some other people are embarrassed. Others worry about their work. Some other people simply don’t accept as true with the government.

According to Los Angeles County fitness officials, who said that only 65% of others with COVID-19 are willing to be interviewed through county fitness staff for contacts.

Barbara Ferrer, director of the county’s public health branch, said that while tactile studies have worked well in other countries, here in Los Angeles, the more cases makes it difficult to keep up. She said at today’s press conference:

“South Korea has never noticed more than 1,000 positive cases in one day. We see this volume two to three times every day since last month.”

Ferrer also noticed a key difference between the United States and other countries: we do not guarantee the source of income for others who wish to isolate or quarantine. In countries that have this insured, other people are much more likely to stay at home in poor health, and other people are willing to communicate to touch the tracers.

To encourage participation, the county began providing a $20 gift card this week to others responding to the touch search survey.

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Coronavirus wreaks havoc in schools, shops, businesses, and occasions. With face-to-face concerts, conferences, comedy shows, food festivals and other cancelled meetings, he turned our second-time column into a “no-occasion” column. This will be maintained as long as there is social estrangement and orders to stay at home.

During this difficult time, contributing to their local arts organizations or to individual artists and performers.

Go swimming in the forest in the Arboretum. Find out how xenophobia smells. Listen to two BFFFs communicate about Big Friendship. Watch a documentary about young activists seeking to replace gun laws. Gather the kids for online cooking elegance with Chef Jet Tila.

Parkland Rising Watch the documentary that follows young activists at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and their families as they turn the tragic mass shooting of 2018 at their school into stricter gun laws. Directed through Emmy-winning filmmaker Cheryl Horner McDonough, the film will be streamed live on YouTube channel The Young Turks and TYT.com. FREE; More INFORMATION

In “Smells Like Xenophobia: An Olfactive History of Otherness,” academic Nuri McBride (@deathandscent) discusses centuries of allusions to olfactive disgust in the rhetoric of hate. This lecture examines the history of scent as a tool for creating “in-group” space and otherness, and as a reoccurring device in the rhetoric of prejudice. Monday, August 3rd, online. Content warning: We aim with this class to examine and, above all, challenge historic patterns of communication relating scent to racist and xenophobic narratives. As such, this session will explore some very hard topics; some of the historic images and texts in the presentation were originally created to be hurtful, even hateful to targeted communities. We are presenting this class in the belief that with knowledge, discussion, and action, society can improve. – Image credit: A man expressing jealousy or hate. Etching by B. Picard, 1713, after C. Le Brun.; Rats stowing away in large boxes, carrying the plague to new places. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-. Credits: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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Smells of xenophobia: an olfactory history of otherness The Institute of Arts and Smell organized several online workshops on the pandemic. On Monday, come to see a history and culture lesson that explores “centuries of allusions to olfactory disgust in hateful rhetoric.” This Zoom elegance covers difficult themes and uses unsettling images. COST: $15; More INFORMATION

Breakfast Dinner The Echo Theatre Company offers an online reading of this three-course work written through Kira Obolensky. Look at the midwest ebb and circle of middle-class relatives over a 21-year period. Taking position basically in a modest urban kitchen, the circle of relatives strives to feed and feed, physically and emotionally. Samantha Cavestani, Brian Henderson, Megan Ketch and Carol Locatell are the stars. Abigail Deser runs. FREE; More INFORMATION

Paul F. Tompkins and I are doing another comedy show! August 3 in line with @dynastytypewriter!! We’re going through to do one thing a month, so come and watch and laugh a little with us. Tix costs $5 or $10 (of your choice) and the video will have to be watched for 7 days if you can’t watch it live. Link to tix on your timeline or move on to dynastytypewriter.com! See you later! ?? ♀️

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Comedians Lapkus and Tompkins VS The Cloud Goblin (live broadcast) Lauren Lapkus and Paul F. Tompkins perform a two-man online improvisation set. The live streaming link will be sent in an Eventbrite confirmation email. COST: $5-$10; More INFORMATION

Yellow FaceSierra Madre Playhouse offers an online presentation of a reading of David Henry Hwang’s semi-autobiographical work. Audience will need to be recorded on YouTube starting at 8 a.m. on Monday. As the reading lasts two hours with a brief intermission, visitors begin to look before 9:30 p.m. to see the total event. COST: FREE with RSVP, but donations are accepted; More INFORMATION

Rachael Ray Yum-o-Cooking Camp The Star of Food Network and his celebrity chefs are an online cooking camp for young people (and their families) until August 14. Perfect jasmine rice from Jet Tila of Los Angeles. After enrolling in the course, participants will receive an additional email with the Zoom link, recipe, ingredients and necessary utensils. Proceeds from donations will be distributed between Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Rachael Ray’s Yum-o! scholarship for academics who wish to attend the Chaplin School of Hospitality – Tourism Management at Florida International University. FREE; More INFORMATION

Forest Bathing Arboretum and Botanical Garden of Los Angeles County 301 N. Ave., Arcadia The Arboretum brings back its wellness classes, with masks and physical distances needed to participate. On Wednesday, watch the Forest Bath, a Japanese-inspired practice through Shinrin Yoku. It is said that this form of natural treatment decorates immunity, decreases tension and improves cognitive functioning. Ben Page will consult participants throughout the tour and explain how productive it is to interact with the land. Limited to 15 other people COST: $35 -45; More INFORMATION

Big Friendship: A Conversation Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, bicoastal bffs and co-hosts podcasts (Call Your Girlfriend), communicate about their eBook Big Friendship with Glory Edim, founder of the Well-Read Black Girl club and e-book network. They will communicate about platonic love and how social sciences turn out to be the price of friendship. The occasion takes position through Zoom. A link will be sent after confirming your attendance. COST: Free – $31 (eebook included); More INFORMATION

Out of the Blue: Stories of Surprise Moth Mainstage’s virtual display features stories that are told (and not read) about unexpected discoveries, unannounced flashes, and exposed truths. Hosted through Jon Goode, the screen will be streamed Zoom. COST: $15 consistent with the home; More INFORMATION

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The physical area of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park remains closed, so this year’s jury show is online. The interactive Internet format asks artists and visitors to participate in a variety of activities. The exhibition, which combines 44 artists whose works read about structures and archival materials, features works by Jamie Adams, Caroline Clerc, Natalie Delgadillo, Danny Jauregui, Dina Kelberman, Audrey Leshay, Maura Murnane, Lenard Smith, Allison Stewart and Rachel Zaretsky. FREE; More INFORMATION

Lunchmeat VHS Six Pack The independent magazine celebrating the darkness and esoterialism of cinema, especially horror and exploitation films, joins forces with the Alamo Drafthouse to deliver six films celebrating the outdated culture of VHS. The films included in the package are WNUF Halloween Special (2013), Split (1989), Invasion of the Scream Queens (1992), CreepTales (2004) and documentaries in The Video Store (2019) and Adjust Your Tracking (2013). These movies will be in virtual HD format. COST: $13 per rental and $42 per purchase; More INFORMATION

Who doesn’t stop fainting to eat or avoid a drink at the bar? Here are some places to eat and features the bar as we return to normal.

Like many angels, journalist Charles Fleming did not take into account that the City of Angels was a paradise for walkers.

“I was a guy in the car and a guy on the motorcycle, not a guy who walked, especially when I was in Los Angeles, until I was sided with back disorders and back surgery,” Fleming recalls. “The only thing that eased the pain was walking gently, so I started walking. As I got more power and walked more, I researched the public stairs of my Silver Lake neighborhood. I became addicted, I fell in love with a city I basically knew as a series of exit ramps.”

Through his books Secret Stairs and Secret Walks, his Column of the Los Angeles Walks in the Los Angeles Times and public tours, Fleming took thousands of locals to some of the city’s places to walk. With the quarantine restrictions that COVID-19 restricts to many of our social media, more and more angels are exploring the city on foot.

“I know from direct and no public delight that other people were encouraged to investigate walking and walking through the quarantine era ‘stay home’ because I won a lot of letters from them saying that,” Fleming says.

They’re not the first. Angelenos has enjoyed a smart hike, whether it’s an urban walk between manicured gardens or an arduous hike with panoramic views.

Since the beginning of the American era in Los Angeles, the city’s promoters have sold Southern California to the rest of the world as a paradise to discover.

“For our carefree critics in the Eastern press, who assume that everything here has been lost in what they call a collapsed Array boom … can a man with good physical condition or a guy with little physical capacity ask for a better home?” asked the Los Angeles Times in 1889. “The fact is that outdoor living is imaginable and fun here for three hundred days a year.”

Hiking would be one of the first expressions of this SoCal spirit.

“Since 1800, the mountains of Los Angeles attracted walkers along trails over the communities of Pasadena, Altadena and Sierra Madre, many of which were left by the natives of Gabrielino and Tongva, then evolved and expanded through [naturalist and author] John Muir,” Fleming says.

This enthusiasm for the outdoors led to the “Great Age of Hiking” in the area, which took up position around the 1930s, according to historian Mark Landis.

“Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of hikers used to walk those trails every weekend,” Arthur N. Carter wrote in a 1937 edition of Trails magazine. “The procession of laughing and making a song for hikers began early on Saturday afternoon and continued until dusk, or on Sunday afternoon hikers descended, many of whom had pain in their feet and were under control, and traveled in Pacific Electric special cars waiting to take them. “back to Los Angeles and close to the cities.”

These hordes of hikers were encouraged through an enthusiastic local press, who published articles by doctors that ingtolled the ability to walk.

“Great is the joy of spending all your time outdoors, among trees and birds, where everything is harmonious, across the sea, in the lake or in the mountains, where there is renewed vigor and health, after having practiced fishing. , paddling, driving, horseback riding, walking or with a matrix,” the Los Angeles Times reported in 1904.

It was also an appropriate form of training for women and children. “Any woman who doesn’t have an active profession walks 3 to 5 miles a day,” a local doctor told the Los Angeles Times in 1893.

The “big spaces”, especially the spaces that were owned and operated through the government, were technically open to everyone, regardless of race. According to historian Alison Rose Jefferson, writer of Living the California Dream, African American Leisure Sites in the Jim Crow era, other people of color may use public trails, parks and walks, even if they were prejudiced and were infrequently denied service through personal vendors. . “Civil rights legislation said those positions were open to everyone, but incidents of discrimination rarely occurred,” Jefferson told LAist by email.

Some of Los Angeles’ early designers and trends are prodigious walkers and hikers.

“One of the main citizens of the first city of Los Angeles is a prodigious walker,” Fleming says. “Charles Lummis ran as a journalist in Cincinnati when, in 1884, the Los Angeles Times presented him with a job. Lummis agreed and walked to the paintings, literally, traveled more than 3,500 miles, on foot, in 4 months. He gave the position of city editor upon his arrival, and later painted as librarian of the city and discovered the Southwest Museum.”

According to historian Mark Landis, the first popular hiking trail in Arroyo Seco Canyon. It was built in the 1880s through Comical Perry Switzer, who also built a rustic camp about 15 miles down the trail. It became known as Switzer Camp or Switzer-land.

“Things have been a bit complicated Array … with about 60 river crossings, either on foot or twice a week in mules,” writes historian Paul R. Spitzzeri along the way. “The reward, however, is the opportunity to camp in a charming place, adding a nearby waterfall, within walking distance of the “civilization”.

Other resting stations would soon open along the mountain trails of Southern California.

“Nearby, a prospector named Charley Chantry built tents and rented donkeys to hikers, and Chantry Flats, named Charley, still offers donkey rentals at Adams’ Pack station,” Fleming explains. “Today you can walk along the Charley Chantry Trail in front of the site of its original camps. In the Sierra Madre, you can stop at Lizzie’s Trail Inn, which for a hundred years has provided hikers who climbed the Mount Wilson Trail. Lizzie won’t sell any more meals, but other people stay climbing the way.”

The mount Wilson hike, the most sensible of the San Gabriel Mountains, would also be a popular trip. “Pilgrims pass through Array … khaki shorts, skirts, following the example of a legging Array harness … Some ‘scale’ without hunting back,” the Los Angeles Times reported in 1909. “A giant square carton attached to a tree naively announced that a couple is rising on their wedding day. The rocks are covered with messages like “Hello, Bill” [and] “Keep moving,” with giant capital letters and red paint.”

Mount Wilson’s wisest victory according to Times columnist Lee Shippey:

“A walking course includes a start on the Mount Wilson Trail around 11pm, which takes hikers to the most sunrise-sensitive: the afternoon view is unforgettable. Here and there in the dark, 6000 feet below, bloom small starry cities, with big cities in the background like seas of light.”

Not everyone was looking to be so close to nature. For those who liked the most “civilized” wanderings, there were the rich and predominantly white Victorian enclaves of Hollywood and Pasadena. The flowery Hollywood estate of the painter Paul De Longpre, located in what is now Hollywood and Cahuenga, would become one of the first highlights of the Los Angeles march. Opened to the public in 1901, it was full of hikers and tourists, who discovered De Longpré walking or portraying in his garden.

In 1907, the Los Angeles Times reported an Organization of Shriners that arrived at the gardens:

“Inside and outside the gleaming gardens, there were such corporations of noble fezzed and their wives and lovers that each and every walk was full of people and each and every barrel filled the matrix . In summer houses in various locations in the park, refreshments were served through young women who used baskets of the best flowers to distribute as eyelets and distributed them with winning smiles that without delay they made a success with the Shriners.”

De Longpre died in the house in 1911 and the estate, along with its beautiful gardens, was demolished in the 1920s.

In 1909, beer baron Adolphus Busch and his wife, Lily, opened the gardens of their Pasadena property to the public, giving birth to busch Gardens.

With a 14-acre “upper garden” officially planted and a casual 16-acre “lower garden,” Busch’s estate, whose ruins are still visible today, has attracted everyone.

“Sometimes it seemed that both one and both walk in the two gardens full of tourists. In addition, both occupied the maximum time. The day delicious and the soul max both one and both outside,” the Los Angeles Times said in 1910. .

The wonderful era of hiking was also an era of expansion for the Los Angeles County public park system.

“I’m drawn to water, so I love walking around Lake Hollywood or to lesser-known Peanut Lake, and around Echo Park, Lake MacArthur Park and old Eastlake, now known as Lincoln Park and Hollenbeck Park.” Fleming says. “These last 4 were built through the leaders of a new city determined to create safe and hot spaces for others to enjoy the California sun they found here in Los Angeles to find. More than a hundred years later, they still do. Array “

In the years leading up to World War I, there is no better position to walk and peacock than MacArthur Park (then known as Westlake Park), which surrounded via whatArray at the time, one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

In 1896, the Los Angeles Times reported a day with corporate waves:

“Throughout the day, the walks were full. Array… two well-dressed young men, wearing canes, gloves, uncompromising hats and all the magnificent accessories of the young men of the century, roamed in a majestic beauty around the aisle, when a breath The wind lifted the hats from any of their heads and dropped them gently under the wheels of a passing car. I wandered near the edge of the boathouse platform and walked calmly over the edge in 8 feet of water.”

Even cemeteries like Evergreen Cemetery (which had been open to others of all races and religions, whether for burials and visitors) and Hollywood Forever (which had not been) presented themselves as walking parks, intended to be enjoyed with many tactics: walks, horse-drawn carriage rides, picnics, memorial events.

If a walk among the dead isn’t your thing, there were coastal walks and docks. One of the popular highs of Long Beach Pike. Opened in 1902, its 35-foot-diameter concrete walkway is illuminated at night through Edison’s twinkling light bulbs, hence its nickname, the “Walk of The Thousand Lights”.

While all Southern Californians were technically permitted at Pike, some suffered from racism and discrimination. In 1910, Charles Looff built a race track on the pike and banned black consumers unless at certain times. In an article for KCET, historian D.J. Waldie says Looff released a sign that says:

“People of color and their friends are welcome after 9am on Saturday night. When African-American visitors protested, Looff told the Los Angeles Times that “his fun is for women and young people and will not settle for any adjustment to his rules.”

The pike closed its doors in 1979, but at its peak is a position “where fully clothed tourists can walk, make a stop at department stores and other attractions in the land aspect of the prom and leave the sand and water in the other aspect, “according to historian Joan Mickelson. During the 1920s and 1930s, the number of public and personal parks in Los Angeles exploded, fueling the popularity of walking and walking as a hobby.

In 1927, the city-funded exhibition park became an elegant walk when it was remodeled into a shimmering rose garden with a central pond, pergolas and a fountain that repositioned the color at night. Rachel Robinson, widow of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, remembers loving the lawn as a child, the only position her mother allowed her to walk alone.

A year later, Huntington Gardens, with its magnificent museum and French gardens, opened in San Marino. Susan Turner-Lower, Huntington’s vice president of communications, says her studies indicate that the gardens are open to other people of all races (except young children) from the beginning.

In the early 1930s, the strange, rustic Fern Dell opened in Griffith Park. According to the Los Angeles Times, “a walkway with rustic seats borders the look of the ravine and crosses the creek over picturesque bridges built of stone and logs.” The dell proved popular with photographers and tourists, who walked with buckets to drink the stream water, which they said had been endowed with magical powers through the local Americans who once called the area.

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Although other people of color are technically welcome to camp and walk in government-owned parks and nature reserves (such as Griffith Park and Catalina Island) and do so when they feel safe, they are excluded from beaches and pools. South black Californians have created their own resorts. In Living the California Dream, Jefferson described Val Verde, known as “Black Palm Springs,” and Lake Elseneur, which presented many opportunities for swimming, camping, and walking in nature.

The wonderful era of hiking in Los Angeles came to an end in the late 1930s. The Second World War on the horizon and the rise of the roads and the culture of the automobile made the walk a boring and outdated pastime. But Southern California has never stopped delighting us with its outdoor trails, parks, trails, and wonders, and perhaps the coronavirus pandemic will motivate others to look for them.

The Los Angeles Unified School District and its teachers union have agreed on what distance education will look like when the fall semester begins on August 18. and training time that academics can expect.

The agreement, which has not yet been ratified by all members of United Teachers Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Unified School Board, provides supplies for the average day for students from nine a.m. to 2:15 p.m.

Under the agreement, the maximum youth would get at least 90 minutes of live instructional day.

The agreement also sets out plans for special education students and child care options. Teachers should also paint hours with parents and academics.

If ratified, the agreement will remain in effect until December 31 or until campuses are reopened for in-person teaching.

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After weeks of further infections, hospitalizations and deaths, Los Angeles County’s director of public health Barbara Ferrer said Monday that she was “cautiously optimistic” that the county was recovering and taking positive steps to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Hospitalizations continued to average another 2,000 people a day last week, but Ferrer said the numbers were beginning to decline.

The number of reported instances is also starting to decline, a average of more than 3,000 new instances consistent with the day through mid-July.

“In undeniable terms, the bar closure worked,” Ferrer said. “It has also helped restrict food inside restaurants and move businesses and establishments’ activities abroad.”

Ferrer also stated that many citizens have listened to the warnings of fitness officials and have taken steps for themselves and others by avoiding social gatherings, dressed in hats, keeping their hands off and washing their hands. She added:

“A few months later, when we were able to adjust the curve together and reopen many of our key businesses and network sectors, many of us thought we could come back to life just as we knew it before the pandemic occurred. I just can’t do it again. We still have a long way to go to decrease network transmission. More importantly, so that we can get off the state watch list, and that’s a major indicator of our progress.

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Health officials are now reporting 1,634 new cases of coronavirus, representing a total of at least 193,788 cases across the county. A total of 8,285 instances were reported in Long Beach and 2,004 in Pasadena. (Both cities have their own fitness services).

Ferrer also reported 12 new deaths of COVID-19 patients. It noted that the number was lower due to delays in reports over the weekend. The total number of deaths in the county is now 4,701.

Highest daily deaths in July, Ferrer said.

“We began the month on July 1 with an average of 30 deaths per day, and unfortunately we ended the month, with an average of 34 deaths per day,” she said. “We did anticipate a rise in deaths as hospitalizations increase the first three weeks of July, and death is a lagging indicator.”

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County officials also cited reports that sheriff’s officers had accumulated for a personal party Friday night inside the Sassafras Hall in Hollywood, with no public fitness rules in the process.

The county branch and the Liquor Commission are investigating the party, Ferrer said, adding that inspectors responded to the scene the next day.

“The owners said they opened for this personal party, but there is a full investigation,” he said.

County manager Kathryn Barger said she was heavily involved and disappointed after watching a video that was allegedly taken at the party, “especially given the allegations that the police and police intend to comply with public physical fitness orders.”

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The suspended City of Los Angeles Councilman, José Huizar, pleaded “innocent” in a large case of corruption at the city council. She gave the impression by teleconference before U.S. Justice of the Peace, Alicia Rosenberg. A trial date will be set at a hearing later this week.

Huizar faces dozens of fees similar to corruption transactions in The City Council. He dressed in a dark suit, a white blouse and glasses. It gave the impression of being dressed in a white N95-grade mask.

Huizar answered “yes” or “yes, your honor” to questions such as: do you perceive the accusations? In the customs room, the trial and staff remained in plexiglass. Lawyers gave the impression via videoconference, with all precautions in place due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Huizar arrested on June 23 in an organized crime. Federal prosecutors say he ran a “criminal enterprise” from his post on the board, taking cash flights from downtown skyscraper progression agreements and major hotels.

A grand jury indictment published last week says Huizar agreed to at least $1.5 million to release progression agreements through the city’s land-use plans and control committee.

So far, there have been four reasons for blame in the case, former city councillor Mitch Englander, who faces up to five years in prison.

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This article was first published at 7 a.m. and was updated with Huizar’s plea.

The number of Californians who tested positive for coronavirus is shrinking, even as the average number of other people evaluated expands, and that’s smart news, Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a noon news convention today.

Compared to a week ago, the positivity rate in COVID-19, the number of hospitalizations and the number of admissions in the ICU show modest decreases.

These are “encouraging signs, but one week does not generate some kind of trend … We want to see a few more weeks of this kind of data … to be more confident in our scenario as a state.” Newsom said.

However, the total number of coronavirus deaths has increased in weeks, according to Newsom, which cited the death of a young user in Fresno.

“This is a sober reminder of the severity of this disease. I don’t need to be alarmist,” Newsom said, acknowledging that while teenagers are unlikely to die from COVID-19, this can happen.

In the past 14 days, an average of 121 more people in California have lost their lives each day to coronavirus.

“We’ll probably see those numbers remain stubbornly high in the coming days, potentially [about] next week,” Newsom said.

The governor said 38 counties, which “represent the vast majority of the population” in California, remain on the state’s watch list. This list determines the degree of restriction of quarantine rules in the area.

Newsom also took a moment to congratulate the business community. He said he understood the seasoning that many state business owners felt with the reopening and final orders.

Newsom stated that liquor and Cal/OSHA had made tens of thousands of visits and that “the vast majority of corporations are doing everything they can [to comply with the new regulations] in those very difficult circumstances. And the vast majority of those who aren’t. 100 percent compliance is fulfilled very, very quickly. Perfection is rarely on the menu and other people do their greatest productivity under normal circumstances.”

When asked about the procedure by allowing elementary schools to apply for an exemption so they can offer instruction even if they are in a county on the state watch list, Newsom said the main points of the waiver procedure will be disclosed this afternoon.

“We have worked hard with many of those same public servants who have expressed concern … Some adjustments have been made last week to the contributions of many players in the education box, not just in our exercise box.”

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Hee Sook Lee, who founded the beloved Los Angeles-based BCD chain of restaurants Tofu House, known for its bubbling soondubu pots and willingness to remain open late, has died. The Koreatown Youth and Community Center announced his death last week in a message on its Facebook page. No date or cause of death was given, it appears that Lee died in early or mid-July.

Lee opened the first BCD Tofu space in 1996 on Wilshire Boulevard in Koreatown. According to the company’s website, he named the place to eat in honor of the Bukchang Dong community in Seoul, South Korea, where his in-law once owned a place to eat. Lee will soon specialize in tofu, a highly seasoned tofu stew prepared with a variety of possible ingredients: vegetables, seafood, thinly sliced meats, egg and served in a stone or porcelain pot.

BCD was not the first place of tofu in Koreatown or soon, but it is one of the most important, as it helped spread the popularity and success of Korean cuisine.

For the past 24 years, Lee has expanded his flagship food place into a chain of 14 locations: six in Los Angeles County, 3 in Orange County, 3 in New York/New Jersey and one in Texas.

Like many restaurants in Koreatown, BCD Tofu House swept away COVID-19 and now only works through delivery and takeaway. But even amid the pandemic, the restaurant’s original location in Wilshire worked with the Koreatown Youth and Community Center to bring Korean food to seniors who had been remote through its forties and lived on a limited income.

“We are very grateful for Ms. Lee and her BCD family,” KYCC wrote, pronouncing Lee’s death. Lee was also active in other charities.

More than a restaurateur, Lee has been described as “an entrepreneur and network leader” through Michelle Steel, an Orange County manager who wrote about Lee as a friend on Facebook: “Your logo and legacy will continue to live and she will be an inspiration to me and many others.”

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The 1943 Zoot Suit riots took up position in Los Angeles when the Corps of Navy workers beat other young men who were largely Latino. The so-called country explained why these young people wore “zoot costumes,” loose ensembles that were considered outlandish at a time when the country intended to keep the tissues for World War II. Add to that the widespread racism of the time, and the gunpowder barrel exploded in a week of attacks.

Writer/artist Marco Finnegan has taken up these riots and his family’s history as a starting point for his new graphic novel, Lizard In A Zoot Suit. He combined the riots with a true story from the 1930s: a geophysicist who convinced the Government of the city of Los Angeles to let him look for underground tunnels that would belong to a lost race of lizards.

No secret civilization was found, however Finnegan wondered what would have happened if the story had been true. You can read a preview of the graphic novel and an interview with the author in our full story.

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Authorities say Apple’s fireplace has now burned about 26,450 acres in Riverside County and remains in 5% containment.

It erupted Friday in the Cherry Valley area, burning in the San Bernardino National Forest.

Lisa Cox, chief information officer at the forest fireplace, said she saw the clouds of pyrocumulus over the weekend and she knew it badly. “My abdomen dropped.”

Captain Chris Bruno of Cal Fire said the chimney had a good chance of growth. Warm temperatures, low humidity and dry plants mean you’re “ready for forest chimneys.”

“When a forest chimney burns in a secure domain, it preheats the domain it is about to consume, and that increases the rate of spread of the incident,” he said.

The chimney is now one of the largest, so this year for Southern California, according to Bruno.

Here’s Kate Kramer, Head of Public Information at the U.S. Forest Service:

“Because of where it burns and the type of land where it burns, on very steep slopes that are difficult to access, this is what makes this chimney special and dangerous Array.”

Authorities say the chimney appears to be heading northeast and is expected to burn in less dense vegetation. About 2,300 firefighters are deployed in the area.

Thousands of citizens have been asked to evacuate their counties in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

So far, one space and two outbuildings have been destroyed.

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