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On the same night Angel City was stepping up, seven miles away the Dodgers were once again stepping back, warning singer Nezza, the daughter of Dominican immigrants, to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” in English, not Spanish.

Less than three miles away from the police parking lot, a landscape crew of five Latinos was working in a front yard, building an intricate walkway from multi-shaped pavers.

A few miles away, a Latino landscaper with a shaggy salt-and-pepper beard waited in his truck while his crew loaded wheelbarrows and other equipment outside a newly landscaped hillside home with a sweeping view of the Ventura coast.

About 16 miles to the southwest, firefighters had contained the Maria fire by Monday evening, also along the river bottom, south of Santa Paula.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Monday night, once again creating a light show for Southern California and even those hundreds of miles away.