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 ...

The “ booster era ” of Los Angeles spanned roughly 40 years, from 1885 to 1925. Over these pivotal decades, rough-hewn and optimistic pioneering city leaders worked with creative writers, real ...

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 ...

The pride of West Adams Thanks to Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co., thousands of black Californians—in a time of profound racial discrimination—were able to obtain home loans and build ...

A tour of the lobby and two underground floors of the 1926 Subway Terminal Building as they prepare for retail redevelopment.

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 ...

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 ...

A large-scale sculpture of hands making the “LA” fingers —the only work of art definitively planned for a 12-acre park below the new Sixth Street Viaduct —will go on the Arts District side ...

In the summer of ’63, black students led protests against the South Bay’s white-only neighborhoods Thousands of demonstrators flooded Torrance—and were confronted by angry white homeowners ...

Architecturally, it’s just another nondescript, drab corner strip mall, fronted by a wide parking lot dotted with pigeons (and their droppings). It happens to be on the gray corner of Hollywood ...

In just a few short months, Metro's Expo Line extension will begin operation, making it Los Angeles's one and only train line to reach the Pacific Ocean. The Purple Line, if it can get past Beverly ...

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 ...