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Why L.A.’s Freeways Are Symbolic Sites of Protest The freeway system displaced generations of people of color.

They arrived in sweeping evening gowns. In the cool March air of 1965, LA’s social and entertainment elite partied at the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on the stretch of Wilshire ...

When the plague came to Los Angeles “Little Mexico,” a bustling community near Olvera Street, was leveled in the name of sanitation ...

During Prohibition, the Public Storage building on Beverly Boulevard was more than a place to store old mattresses.

More than half a century after publishing the collections that established her reputation as a gimlet-eyed cultural critic—Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album—Joan Didion continues ...

Ernest Batchelder: Southern California’s masterful tile maker A guide to the beautiful and popular tiles that adorn many Los Angeles fireplaces ...

These 1920s apartments inspired one of the best noir films ever made For the set of In a Lonely Place, director Nicholas Ray recreated one of his first Hollywood homes ...

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 ...

Culver Studios before Amazon A $600 million transformation will turn the lot where film history was made into the home of Amazon Studios ...

The stories behind LA’s famous (and strange) street names The origins are both common and weird, from cult leaders to old Mexican ranchos to the pets and family members of real estate subdividers ...

The Crenshaw Subway Coalition has a new base for community organizing in Leimert Park village.