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Area Info
There is so much to Southern California that it makes you dizzy just thinking about it.
When most people think of this region, it's Los Angeles that first comes to mind. The two-county metropolitan area (Los Angeles and Orange Counties) sprawls over nearly 6,000 square miles, and includes 122 incorporated cities. Many of them are firmly embedded in the American imagination: Malibu, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Beverley Hills, Newport Beach. Actually, each of these communities has its own separate character and history...they just happen to have grown up very, very close to one another.
Still, they share the same sun, surf, and shopping image so strongly associated with Southern California. And there is much truth to that image, but there's also much more. There are actually wilderness areas within this huge megalopolis; there are important manufacturing and high-tech companies, and some of the best theaters, restaurants, symphonies, and museums in the world.
This eclectic character extends along the coast in both directions from Los Angeles. To the south, San Diego offers many of the same amenities as Los Angeles, in a more compact (and some would say, more appealing) package. To the north, the coast is dotted with smaller communities like Ventura and the toney, well-preserved Santa Barbara, one of the most popular destinations among Southern Californians themselves.
Inland, beyond the mountains that surround Los Angeles, the area's reputation for contrast continues. The Mojave Desert—not much more than an hour from downtown Los Angeles—is a parched and silent region of austere beauty. Yet even here, there is contrast: the golf courses, spas, and restaurants of toney Palm Springs.
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News from the Orange County Register
News from the Orange County Register
Local News from San Diego Union-Tribune via Yahoo! News
Week's forecast has lots of sunshine
Mar 15, 2010 7:12 pm
No need for rain contingency plans this week. Sunny skies and warm temperatures are forecast through Sunday.
San Diego County housing prices rebound in February
Mar 15, 2010 6:57 pm
San Diego County housing prices bounced back in February to reach a median $322,000 that was in the range of prices for much of last year, MDA DataQuick reported Monday.
Police say man stabbed by cousin at family party
Mar 15, 2010 3:42 pm
A 25-year-old man was stabbed in the back by his 24-year-old cousin at a family party in the Valencia Park neighborhood Saturday, police said.
Mar 15, 2010 3:42 pm
Runners, walkers and others began the High Tech High Walk For Haiti yesterday at Mission Bays De Anza Cove Park.
Study points SEAL recruiters toward athletes
Mar 15, 2010 1:57 pm
A study points Navy efforts to recruit new SEALs toward men who play seven rough-and-tumble sports.
Jackson S.Q. Hom: Proprietor of Land of China was active in community
Mar 15, 2010 7:19 am
The entrees at Jackson S.Q. Homs Land of China restaurants appealed to an American palate, with egg foo young and chop suey dishes that either originated in the United States or arent widely consumed ...
UCSD incidents ramp up diversity pressure
Mar 15, 2010 7:13 am
David Ritcherson had every reason not to say what he said during a recent community forum, after a string of racially charged incidents at the University of California San Diego. But there he was, a l...
Smoking ban slow to take in S.D. parks
Mar 15, 2010 7:13 am
Based on the butts found, smokers aren't enforcing San Diego's no-smoking-in-parks policy on themselves.
San Diego faces another $25 million in cuts
Mar 15, 2010 7:13 am
Stop me if youve heard this before: The city of San Diego has a budget deficit. Its not the mammoth $179 million deficit the city closed three months ago, but a projected hole of $25 million to $35 mi...
Lawn bowling on a roll with new green
Mar 15, 2010 7:13 am
Mike Axelson donned the traditional all-white garb the other day for his first lawn bowling lesson. After an hours worth of instruction by a seasoned player, the 25-year-old Coronado resident worked o...
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