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Museums, movie theaters and gyms will be able to reopen indoors for limited capacity starting on Monday, as L.A. County eases restrictions based on declining coronavirus cases and increasing vaccinations. Industry leaders are ecstatic, but expect the transition to take time. L.A. County is moving into the less restrictive "red tier" for the first time since the state metric was created last summer. On Friday, L.A. County Public Health officially announced the guidelines for businesses to start reopening: Museums, zoos and aquariums can open indoors at 25% capacity. Movie theaters can open ind...

. Amy Lew and her husband moved to Temple City 30 years ago to raise three kids on a cul-de-sac at the foot of the San Gabriels. In that time, her suburb became among 10 in the San Gabriel Valley to turn majority-Asian as the region drew both immigrants and second-generation Asian Americans such as Lew, looking to be near top schools and some of the best Asian food in the country. So even as Lew heard about a rise in anti-Asian sentiment as the pandemic wore on, she shrugged it off, telling her husband last week as they shopped for groceries, "Nothing's going to happen to us. We have too ma...

SPR's Doug Nadvornick reports. An Idaho Senate committee has approved a bill that would lead to a new industrial hemp industry in the Gem State. Idaho is the only state in the nation not to allow farmers to grow and companies to process industrial hemp, according to Global Hemp Industries. But the Idaho Farm Bureau, represented at a Thursday hearing by Braden Jensen, is asking legislators to change that. “House Bill 126 is a farming, processing, trucking and research bill. House Bill 126 is not a CBD, THC, nor a medical marijuana bill," he said. It would allow farmers to grow hemp with a li...

March 11, 2021 at 10:49 am Tacoma's housing market is one of the most competitive ones in the entire nation. (John Lloyd, Flickr Creative Commons) Tacoma has officially unveiled its plan to reimagine its single-family zoning, which would do away with the moniker entirely and divide the city into new categories that encourage what it’s calling “middle housing” options. Tacoma’s history as a city primarily zoned for residential homes dates back to the 1950s. Today, the Home in Tacoma Project planning commission estimates that the city is zoned 90% for single-family h...

The Stay Home and Read a Book Ball The Library Foundation of Los Angeles holds the 33rd edition of its "nonevent" that asks guests to stay home, read a book and have a ball any way they see fit. Join chair Claudia Rankine and honorary chairs Misty Copeland, Valeria Luiselli, Michelle Tea and Charles Yu in raising funds for the LAPL's free virtual programming, which has expanded during the pandemic. Eddie Murphy stars as King Akeem in 'Coming 2 America,' the long-awaited sequel to his 1988 comedy, 'Coming to America.' (Quantrell D. Colbert/Amazon Studios) Streaming Pick Coming 2 America All h...