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Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. Subscribe The city of L.A. wants to make coronavirus vaccines as all city-run vaccine sites will now be appointment-free. Additionally, health workers will operate some sites for later hours, and another late-night site will open in South L.A. Beginning this week, the city’s vaccination sites at Pierce College and L.A. Southwest College will be open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. In South L.A., a vaccination site at Green Meadows Recreation Center will now be open from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. In an announcement yesterday, Mayor Eric Garcetti...

Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. Subscribe The Sears department store in Boyle Heights is gone. The Eastside landmark, with its familiar tower visible for miles around, closed its doors for good last month, after being open for nearly 100 years. The front door of the now-closed Boyle Heights Sears store. (Leslie Berestein Rojas LAist) At one time, the massive, 2-million-square-foot retail complex at Olympic Boulevard and Soto Street was one of several large Sears distribution centers located around the country. It first opened its doors in 1927. For the generations...

Patrick O'Connell at home in New York in 1994 Photo: Thomas McGovern / Getty Images Patrick O'Connell, the founding director of the organisation Visual Aids, which since the late 1980s has used the arts to raise awareness about HIV and Aisa and to support artists living with the disease, has died, aged 67. Perhaps the most recognisable of the many projects that O’Connell helped develop is the red Aids ribbon, which was first distributed and worn by activists and supporters in 1991. O’Connell died in a hospital in New York City on 23 March from complications due to Aid...

The aftermath of Selton - Eleven lives lost between March and April 1921 Selton Hill memorial ');  '); In the immediate aftermath of the Selton Hill killings at Gorvagh on 11 March 1921 resulting in the loss of six prominent members of the IRA’s South Leitrim Brigade, IRA activity against crown forces in Leitrim came to a virtual halt. Not only had Selton resulted in the capture of a limited arms supply, but the deaths of six active column members was detrimental to any hope of increased military activity in the area. The death at Selton Hill of IRA GHQ organizer Sean Connolly who was s...

People Museum are an art-pop/electronic music band started by Jeremy Phipps and Claire Givens in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans in 2016. Inspired by Afro-beat, hip-hop, choral, and marching band music, People Museum has formed a sound that could only come from the eclectic byways of Louisiana. Created with the intention of bringing the state’s intriguing nature into the future, Phipps and Givens combine the brass-filled past with the synthesizer-heavy, progressive underground sounds of New Orleans. People Museum’s debut EP, I Could Only See Night, arrives today and Big Takeove...