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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - After more than 60 years in business, Casa De Sousa, a coffee shop and gift store on Olvera Street, is facing eviction from its home for non-payment of rent. It would mark only ...

Hundreds of people and their pets attended the blessing of the animals by Archbishop of Los Angeles José Gomez on Holy Saturday on Olvera Street. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Archbishop of Los ...

The Los Angeles City Council on Friday advanced an effort to save a long-time beloved Olvera Street attraction known as "El Burro,'' a life-sized stuffed donkey, after its owners ran into issues with ...

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A Los Angeles commission on Thursday voted to evict the owners of La Carreta -- home to a beloved Olvera Street attraction known as "El Burro'' — despite a City Council attempt to save it. The Board ...

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Las Posadas has been a part of Olvera Street since its founding in 1930, and now for several nights each December, Los Angeles residents and visitors gather to watch as shepherds — known as pastores — ...

Walking along Olvera Street, from the mural his father painted near the plaza to Las Anita's Café at Cesar E. Chavez Avenue, Paul Leo Politi weaved a story about a beloved children's book author with ...

Susanna MacManus was teaching Spanish at Occidental College in 1997 when the family business came calling. She had grown up helping out at Cielito Lindo, sometimes falling asleep in the booths of the ...