From the Coliseum to Dodger Stadium.Just as it had during the 1932 Olympics, the Coliseum played a key role in the 1984 games. It was the site of all track and field events, as well as the venue ...

Yesterday, we heard that actor/comedian Andy Samberg and musician Joanna Newsom have purchased Moorcrest, the famed 1920s house where Mary Astor and Charlie Chaplin once lived. Today, thanks to the ...

Los Angeles was Raymond Chandler’s muse, mistress, and his making. For his famous anti-hero, private eye Philip Marlowe, it is a torturous, nasty place filled with “tough-looking palm trees ...

In 1940s Los Angeles, black entertainers not only revived West Adams—they challenged racist covenants and laid the groundwork for the Fair Housing Act.

Under this method, tiles were colored using clay slip (a mix of clay and water) and then fired once in a kiln. Most ceramics would then be glazed and fired a second time, but Batchelder preferred ...

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Googie. Mission Revival. Midcentury modern. Eastlake Victorian. Chateauesque. Streamline Moderne. Art Deco. Spanish. Spanish-Moorish. Spanish Colonial Revival ...

As witnessed during the Woolsey Fire, even roadways like PCH that are built for high volumes of cars can become gridlocked when many evacuees use them at once. In his role designing evacuation ...

Los Angeles isn’t particularly well known for its streetlights. Maybe it should be. Not because we have the most streetlights (today that number hovers around 220,000, while Chicago’s ...

A new map details Pacific Electric’s sprawling "Red Car" rail network as it appeared in 1926, harkening back to the days when LA was home to one of the largest mass transit systems in the world.

The Sunset Strip story The Sunset Strip occupies a short stretch of Sunset Boulevard, but its reputation as a stomping ground of gangsters, glamour girls, rock stars and hell-raisers has held an ...

A proposal out of Sacramento to put denser housing near transit has divided Californians. But a similar program is already underway in the city of Los Angeles. It’s an incentive program called ...