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 ...

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

The Olympics fixed LA’s traffic problem—can the 2028 games do it permanently? Transportation solutions deployed for the 1984 Summer Olympics are even more relevant today ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How one Ohio native became the ‘Mother of Hollywood’ There seems to have been nothing in Hollywood that Daeida Wilcox Beveridge didn’t nurture ...

A common, frequent complaint about Los Angeles is that it’s so big and so sprawling that it feels like it goes on forever. Is it really? Does it really? To get a better grasp of LA’s relative ...

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 ...