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 destructive force of Rebuild LA How the nonprofit created after the 1992 ‘riots’ failed the community it was supposed to help ...

In 1978, Los Angeles agreed to host the 1984 Summer Olympics and, as described in the official report of the games, a small, secretive organizing committee formed to oversee the delivery and ...

13 of the best noir films set in Los Angeles Laced with corruption in the 1940s and ’50s, LA became the birthplace for the literary and cinematic style ...

When mobsters and movie stars ruled the Sunset Strip The end of Prohibition signaled a new outlaw era on the Strip, one that was both dangerous and glamorous ...

Donald Sterling's racism has somehow only just finally gotten too loud for everyone to keep ignoring: This morning, four days after the release of a cartoonishly bigoted audio tape, Sterling was b ...

Phillips Mansion: The deserted hub of a lost California town The grand brick estate was home to one of the founding fathers of the rough-and-tumble pueblo of Spadra ...

In segregated Los Angeles, black entertainers not only revived West Adams—they challenged racist housing covenants.

The real-life tower that made ‘Die Hard’ Nakatomi tower is really Fox Plaza in Century City, an example of 1980s power architecture at its finest ...

For those looking to shake up their Halloween routine, may we suggest a leisurely cemetery tour. While all of LA’s graveyards have their fair share of celebs interred, Hollywood Forever Cemetery ...

On some nights, the small islands off the shore of Long Beach shine with bright Vegas-style lights: orange, yellow, red and blue. Rising around a quarter mile off the coast, they feature colorful ...

Imprisonment was a form of social and political control, and the jails were often filled to the brim.