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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Surfrider Beach was the domain of a small, rag-tag group of surfing pioneers—until a teenager nicknamed "Gidget" burst onto the scene.

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 ...

Even the museum’s glorious 1960s vision had its detractors.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

On the last day of his term, Mayor Villaraigosa released the Health Atlas for the City of Los Angeles (pdf): "More than 100 health indicators -- such as obesity, coronary disease and asthma -- ...

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 ...