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It's Always Sunny in El Sereno*
The seasonally-green Ascot Hills in El Sereno.It was a lovely, post-rain windy day, the day that begs for photographs to be taken, and The Militant decided to crawl out of his compound, because he...
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It's Always Sunny in El Sereno, Part II: The Ascot Hills Adventure
Ascot Hills welcomes you.Whenever there's more to the story, there's always a sequel (although these days it's only because the movie studios want to make more money), but after The Militant's recent...
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The Militant's Epic CicLAvia Tour XVI!
Interactive map! Click and drag to navigate. Larger map here!It may be technically winter, but CicLAvia season has begun! We're now here in 2016 for the 16th-ever CicLAvia. This time around we return...
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Erotic City (The Epic Militant Prince Map of Los Angeles)
View larger map here. Dearly beloved...We R gathered here to salute this man called Prince Rogers Nelson, who left this life 4 the afterworld on April 21. Though he's undoubtedly associated with being...
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The Militant's Epic Militant CicLAvia Tour XVII!
View larger map here!The 17th CicLAvia is upon us this Sunday, and it takes us to Watts and the historically industrial cities of southeaster Los Angeles county. First off, for those who haven't been...
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The Militant's Epic Militant CicLAvia Tour XVIII!
Interactive map! Click here for larger version!Welcome to CicLAvia XVIII, the third CicLAvia in 2016! Our Epic CicLAvia Tour returns to iconic Wilshire Boulevard for the first time since April, 2014,...
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2017: A Militant Preview
Whatup and Happy Militant New Year! Congratulations on surviving 2016 -- you've made it! We have a year ahead of us that may or may not be the greatest or worst year ever (of course he says that every...
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Los Angeles Is...Defined By Its Street Signs
The streets of Los Angeles are not just mere infrastructure, but they create geographical identities, local cultures, microcultures and sub-cultures, and become the live stage of the urban theatre of...
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El Centennial Party That's Segundo To None*
The northernmost city in the South Bay celebrated its 100th Birthday on Wednesday, exactly a century to the day the city that was named after an oil refinery was officially incorporated. Though a town...
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The Militant's Epic Militant CicLAvia Tour XX!!
Interactive map - click and zoom! Click here to view the map separately!Ahhh, Spring is finally in the air. A time for more daylight, colorful native floral blooms, Dodgers baseball and...CicLAvia! The...
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The Militant's Epic Militant CicLAvia Tour XXI!!
Interactive map! Click and drag to navigate. To view larger version, click here.The 21st iteration of CicLAvia (and the second one of 2017) brings us the first all-new alignment since the Southeast...
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The Militant's Epic Militant CicLAvia Tour XXII!!
Click here to view bigger version or to save on your mobile device!Check out this slick video of the CicLAvia route:And check out The Militant's video on San Pedro, made in 2011:2017 marks the year...
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The Militant's Epic Militant CicLAvia Tour XXIII!!!
Interactive Map! Click on green points to view hotspots, or click here for larger view.It's October, which means we celebrate the 7th anniversary of CicLAvia, its 23rd iteration, and say "hola" to the...
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The Militant's Epic CicLAvia Tour XXIV!!!!
Click here for larger map!The year closes with CicLAvia XXIV, the fifth of five Los Angeles open streets events in 2017! Our Epic CicLAvia Tour returns to iconic Wilshire Boulevard for the first time...
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In The Valley of Nostalgia: The Valley Relics Museum
Neon and on and on at the Valley Relics Museum.The San Fernando Valley might be known for being the archetypal Southern California suburb, for a notable early 1980s teenage female linguistic dialect,...
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The Militant's Epic Militant CicLAvia Tour XXV!!!
To see larger map view, click here.Here we go, folks, CicLAvia season has officially begun! There are uh...[an unspecified number of] CicLAvia open streets events in this here year of 2018. The first...
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The Militant's Epic Militant CicLAvia Tour XXVI!!!!
Interactive map! Click and drag to navigate. Larger map here!Love reruns? This Sunday's 26th CicLAvia would fill the bill, as it's a reprise of the March 6, 2016 route, which The Militant covered here....
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It's Coming...
You're gonna have to wait until Tuesday for this. But The Militant promises it's going to be pretty big (Such a tease, he knows...).
View ArticleTHE MILITANT'S EPIC ANNOUNCEMENT!
First off, HAPPY 237th BIRTHDAY, LOS ANGELES!The Militant Angeleno has attended all 26 CicLAvias since the event began in October, 2010. And since April, 2011, The Militant has published his Epic...
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The Militant's Epic Militant CicLAvia Tour XXVII!! (Limited Version)
Click here for bigger version of this map!The route of this 27th iteration of CicLAvia, "Celebrate LA," which happens to be an extension of the current "Iconic Wilshire Boulevard" route (truncated...
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