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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The neon sign maker that lit up California Electrical Products Corp. dominated the West Coast sign industry, then it disappeared. This map documents some of its last remaining signs ...

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 ...

Rebellion and rock ‘n’ roll: The Sunset Strip in the ’60s How go-go dancing teens—and the underage clubs that embraced them—turned the Strip technicolor ...

The free people mover would connect LAX terminals to Metro’s Crenshaw/LAX Line as well as a forthcoming rental car facility. Renderings courtesy Los Angeles Mayor’s Office Construction is ...

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 ...

Crenshaw Boulevard rising For decades, the ’Shaw has been the historic main street of black Los Angeles. Now the communities fighting to celebrate its legacy are ready to make it ...

When the founder of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale first came to see the site in the 1910s, San Fernando Road was "an unpaved road where vehicles mired down when it rained and sank deep in ...

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 ...