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Paula Mejia

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  • LA Contributing Culture Editor, SFGate
  • Writer and Editor, Freelance
  • None, Freelance (NPR)
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🇨🇴 Culture features writer and editor | Contributor @GQMagazine @TheAtlantic @SFGATE others | adjunct prof @uscannenberg | Past @latimes @TexasMonthly
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Hollywood’s Controversial Coroner

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By Paula Mejia Verified
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In 1957, the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors appointed the county’s first-ever chief medical examiner–coroner. Trained in medicine and forensic pathology, this appointee—working in a city where celebrities occasionally end up on the slab—was also expected to share brief statements to the press regarding the deaths of public persons. Dr. Thomas Noguchi, a gifted forensic pathologist from Japan, was appointed to the position in 1967.
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William Randolph Hearst built an LA beachside mansion. You can still swim there.

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By Paula Mejia Verified
| SFGate Verified
The northern tip of Santa Monica hugs an especially scenic expanse of Southern California's coastline. Several members-only clubs, notably the Beach Club and the Jonathan Club's shoreline outpost, line this breadth of sun-drenched real estate, while just down the beach, the Santa Monica Pier welcomes some 14 million annual visitors.
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Dave & Buster’s Likes to Party Original

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By Paula Mejia Verified
| Slate Verified
Moneybox Shortly before midnight near the edge of the Inland Empire, a woman hoisted a bulbous Labubu mascot atop her head, took a stranger’s hand, and led a conga line to the pulse-quickening tune of a Vengaboys “We Like to Party” remix. Twentysomethings clad in Deftones and Pikachu tees, Dodgers caps, and beaded bracelets joined the procession, snaking from the dance floor through the bar area and back down again.
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