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		<title>Launch of the Purple Passport!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, I’ve been working behind closed doors with an awesome team for many months to help roll out the online travel guide The Purple Passport (www.thepurplepassport.com). Well, guess what? The time has come to take the “Do Not Disturb” sign off the door and invite you into this portal to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bye Bye, Gabah&#8230; :(</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been so many years since I&#8217;ve been to Gabah, the East Hollywood club that used to host underground hip hop nights like the Chocolate Bar and The Root Down. But still, as I drove by this week and saw that scaffolding had gone up around the building, I felt a tug at my heart. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From kimchi to karaoke in Koreatown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Singular Magazine is running a four-part series I wrote on ethnic neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The second stop is Koreatown, where high-tech billboards and dense high rises collide with soothing tea houses (my favorite is Hwa Sun Ji Tea &#38; Coffee) and mineral spas specializing in ancient healing arts.  The timing of this piece is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A travel path paved in purple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Calling all travelers! I&#8217;ve joined the blogging ranks of The Diary of the Purple Passport, a travelogue devoted to the most fun, unique, and elegant spots around the world. It was started by gals-about-the-globe Emily Chang and Jennifer Garcia-Alonso, best friends and travel companions since high school. Their taste-making online travel guide The Purple Passport [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rachelbethlevin.com/a-travel-path-paved-in-purple/</link>
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		<title>Travel the globe without leaving Los Angeles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re in a place where exotic smells waft from sidewalk cafes.  All around you, signs are scrawled in foreign scripts and people speak in unfamiliar languages.  Food-market bins are crammed with piquant spices and unusual produce.  Colorful curios line the shelves of neighborhood boutiques.  Surely, you&#8217;re very far from home.  Or, you&#8217;ve just stumbled into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get ready for summer camp &#8211; adults only!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer is my favorite time of year. I love soaking up the warm sunshine, wearing strappy sundresses, dancing salsa during sultry nights, and losing myself in a good summer read. But most of all, I love the frame of mind&#8230;that sense of &#8220;school&#8217;s out for summer&#8221; (even though I&#8217;m no longer in school) when everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel, on your toes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles is a melting pot of dance forms &#8212; at clubs, classes, and performance halls, you can pretty much tour the world through movement by driving less than five miles in any one direction. Salsa, samba, flamenco, African, Indian bharatanatyam, tango&#8230;you name it, we have it. Local dance companies have long brought the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate Dance 2010: An en-light-ened line up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday night (well, technically Sunday morning), we turn the clocks forward to welcome the arrival of daylight savings time (Woo hoo! Finally!). But welcoming an extra hour of light every night is not the primary reason I&#8217;m looking forward to Saturday. More so, I&#8217;m excited to see the lights come up on the Alex [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rachelbethlevin.com/celebrate-dance-2010-an-en-light-ened-line-up/</link>
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		<title>The Norma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a new guilty pleasure: the almond milk latte &#8212; dubbed &#8220;The Norma&#8221; &#8212; at Bricks &#038; Scones cafe in Larchmont Village. I love lattes, but generally try to avoid dairy. Soy lattes are a dime a dozen, but my system&#8217;s not so partial to soy, either. Hence, almond milk is a kind of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rachelbethlevin.com/the-norma/</link>
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		<title>La Cienega:  LA&#8217;s Restaurant Row</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a teenager growing up in Orange County, I knew how to get to two and only two places in L.A.: the Third Street Promenade and La Cienega Boulevard. On the rare occasions that my friends and I escaped the &#8216;burbs, these were the two places we journeyed to in order to &#8212; in our [...]]]></description>
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