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It is now an annual ritual for these twenty-somethings at the Best Buys in Atwater Village.

Anthea Raymond is a journalist and educator who has lived in Silver Lake since 2002.
Her reports have been heard on National Public Radio for over twenty years.
She has taught communications history and audio production at UCLA, USC, and Hunter and Santa Monica colleges.
A former LA Press Club president, she has a JD and an MBA from UCLA, and was the first senior editor at KPCC.
At KPCC, she supervised a team of award winning journalists including Frank Stoltze, John Rabe, Adolfo Guzman Lopez and Ilsa Setziol for almost two years.
She has also served as a Show Editor at NPR's News and Notes--the network's ground-breaking show on the African-American experience--and the Senior Producer of Bloomberg Politically Speaking.
A graduate of Palisades High, she has taught kayaking at UCLA's Marina Aquatic Center for many years.
She was one of the founding members of the Edendale Library Friends Society (ELFS) in 2004. She produced several benefits for the group at the Echo and Echoplex.
Raymond has also served on the advisory board of the Echo Park Recreation Center.
She is the eldest of six siblings, and the daughter of Joseph Raymond, former Associate Director of UCLA Medical Center.
It is now an annual ritual for these twenty-somethings at the Best Buys in Atwater Village.

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The candidate is the district director for State Senator Alex Padilla.
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The company was laying off more than 500 people. It is not yet known how many at the Los Feliz location will be affected.
William Hars spends 86 days in the hospital after colliding with an SUV on July 22. Another motorcylist waiting at the intersection may have seen what happened.
The most recent occurs Sunday on Witmer Street near Downtown.
Displaced union members continue their vigil outside 2330 Ripple St., hoping for a quick sale that will protect their jobs.
The flooding river took a construction project with it near the 2 Freeway.
A still undetermined number of workers at the Hostess location at 2330 Ripple St. in Silver Lake's Frogtown could lose their jobs when the company files for bankruptcy.
A still undetermined number of workers at the Hostess location at 2330 Ripple St. in Silver Lake's Frogtown could lose their jobs when the company files for bankruptcy.
However, the Bank of America Fall 2012 Small Business Owner Report released Thursday also showed uncertainty the economy will improve in 12 months.
Vartan Abgaryan arrives at the famed restaurant with the lovely patio Dec. 1. Will he help raise Silver Lake's profile as a dining destination?
1625 Palo Alto Street burned for several hours the night of Oct. 9, displacing numerous small businesses. What's happening now?
Give us your best guess in the comments below.
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LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy's office plans to investigate space-sharing concerns that may result from Gabriella's colocation with Logan Street Elementary School.
A quarter-acre burns just below Temple Community Hospital in Historic Filipinotown Wednesday afternoon. It is the second fire in this location in just over a month.
Overnight road work will slow traffic for five nights starting Tuesday at 9 p.m. at the intersection in Los Feliz.
Carpenters recreate the garage featured in the first and fourth films at its original Angeleno Heights location for this sequel of a sequel.