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SoCal, Las Vegas high-speed rail line awarded $2.5B from USDOT
create 35,000 jobs, ease traffic on I-15 and cut more than 400,000 tons of carbon pollution each year. The line will include a flagship station in Las Vegas, with additional stations in Apple Valley, Hesperia and Rancho Cucamonga. The Rancho Cucamonga Station will also connect to Southern California's regional Metrolink service,
allowing for connectivity into downtown Los Angeles and beyond. "As the first true high-speed rail system in America, Brightline West will serve as the blueprint for connecting cities with fast, eco-friendly passenger rail throughout the country," Brightline Founder and Chairman Wes Edens said. "Connecting Las Vegas and
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Southern California's oldest bookstore, Vroman's, up for sale
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he literary landscape of Southern California is facing a historic transformation as Vroman's Bookstore, the region's oldest independent bookshop, and its affiliate stores are slated for sale. The announcement by owner Joel Sheldon, who has been stewarding the family-owned business for nearly five decades, ushers in a period of transition, characterized by both uncertainty and anticipation. Sheldon, on the verge of his 80th birthday, has steered Vroman's through waves of change, preserving See Vroman’s Bookstore Page 31
‘Another Beautiful Country’ exhibition at USC Pacific Asia Museum shows moving images
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Aerial view of the Las Vegas Station. | Photo courtesy of Brightline West
infrastructure package gives us the opportunity to build safe, green, and accessible rail systems that will deliver benefits to the American people for generations to come." The $12 billion Brightline West project will be a fully electric, zero-emission system that officials say will be one of the greenest forms of transportation in the United States. The project is expected to bolster tourism,
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high-speed rail line connecting Southern California with Las Vegas got a major boost Tuesday with the approval of $2.5 billion in bonds. The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the funding, via private activity bonds authority allocated for the Brightline West High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail project. The 218-mile rail line will primarily run along the Interstate 15 median with trains capable of reaching 186 mph or more, cutting the trip to 2 hours, 10 minutes -- half the time to travel by car, officials said. "Today, the BidenHarris administration takes the next step to fulfill the promise of high-speed rail in the American West, with $2.5 billion in private activity bond authority to lay tracks, create jobs, and connect American cities," U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. "President Biden's historic
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its status as a community cornerstone since its inception in 1895. However, as the store approaches its 128th year, he believes, "Vroman's deserves new ownership with the vision, energy, and commitment necessary to take it successfully into the future," as expressed in a statement released on the store's social media channels. “We want someone who really appreciates Vroman’s and wants to continue it as a community resource,” Sheldon tol the Pasadena Star-News. The proposed sale includes several locations across
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touching experience awaits visitors to USC Pacific Asia Museum who come to see “Another Beautiful Country: Moving Images By Chinese American Artists.” On view from Jan. 26 to April 21, 2024, the exhibition showcases 10 artists whose work explores diverse ways immigrants and their families embody, imagine, and reciprocate intercultural experiences. Curated by Jenny Lin, Ph.D., an associate professor of Critical Studies in Art and Design and graduate director of Curatorial Practices at the University of Southern California, the exhibition features the works of award-winning, distinguished, and renowned artists in their specialized fields: Patty Chang, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Richard Fung, Rania Ho, Andrew Thomas Huang, Simon Leung, Candice Lin, Vivian Wenli Lin, Charlene Liu, and Ken Lum. Drawing its title from the Chinese translation of America, měiguó, literally beautiful country, and the popular abbreviation for American-born Chinese (A.B.C.), this exhibition presents artworks as scenes of cross-cultural sharing. “Another Beautiful Country” foregrounds fluctuating ideas of nationhood and belonging as portrayed by artists who identify as Chinese American. These artists confront subject positions of being both, while neither singularly, Chinese and (nor) American, revealing the nuance and multivalence of national categorizations. Offering expansive, hybrid views of culture, exhibited works appear as moving images — simultaneously filmic, migratory, and emotionally evocative. The exhibition highlights artists’ utilizations of cinematic strategies including montage, collaborative production, experimental documentary, and mise-en-scène to depict diasporic relations, familial dynamics, longing for homelands, intergenerational tales of migration, personal desires and transformations springing from tradition. Resisting aggrandizing nationalist mythologies, Orientalist stereotypes, and globalization’s dehumanizing aspects, “Another Beautiful Country” brings together works that reflect the multiplicity of Chinese American identities and representations. “Another Beautiful Country” is the first full exhibition that Lin curated at PAM but she’s certainly not a stranger to the museum. She explains via email. “I have had the pleasure of working with PAM on multiple programs. In 2020, I collaborated with USC students and colleagues to create an online exhibition, ‘In a Bronze Mirror: Eileen Chang's Life and Literature,’ which showcases qipao/ cheongsam from PAM's collection. In October 2022, I organized the USC Visions & Voices event at PAM, ‘Taipei Night,’ which featured Taiwanese pop music, snacks and See Exhibition Page 32