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Muralist Charles Key Wants to Teach Kids That Art Can Be a Way to Dream Find Key’s artwork in the Napier area and elsewhere around the city Tweet By Charles KeyPhoto: Daniel Meigs Growing up in South Central Los Angeles in the ’80s, Charles Key didn’t have a lot to do. The neighborhood, he says, was infested with gangs, and his parents wouldn’t let him leave the yard. But his imagination was active. His father was an artist, and the walls of South Cen...

Tweet Photo: Daniel Meigs It feels like a massive tear forms in the space-time continuum the moment you walk through the glass door of Blue Stripes Urban Cacao. A devil pops up on one shoulder, an angel on the other. Suddenly you’re being torn between indulgence and restraint, hunger and health, chocolate and cacao. Blue Stripes opened in February in the Three Thirty Three building. The Gulch cafe is the latest from Oded Brenner, co-founder of the worldwide chocolate cafe chain Max...