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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moving to a new city can be hard, especially an unwieldy, disjointed, sprawling metropolis like Los Angeles. One thing that helps ties all Angelenos together? Talking about things we know! We talk ...

From red Spanish Colonial rooftops to vibrant mosaics to rose pink bathroom vanities, Southern California is filled with tile. Whether big or small, monochromatic or multi-hued, tiles are ...

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 ...

There’s a huge tamale in East LA, and a giant Sphinx once stood on Fairfax. We’ve mapped 18 of the weirdest buildings, from past to present.

It was Christmastime in Los Angeles in 1902. The Los Angeles Times sent a reporter out to the saloon-lined intersection of First Street and Los Angeles Street, epicenter of Victorian LA’s Skid ...

‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ filming locations, mapped From Santa Monica to Sylmar, the classic movie turned LA into a hellish inferno ...

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 ...

Photos by Elizabeth Daniels The Schaffer Residence in the Verdugo Hills is probably best known now as the house from Tom Ford's great-looking movie, A Single Man; it's one of architect John ...