Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place is one of the greatest examples of film noir ever produced—a deft thriller that doubles as a spellbinding meditation on love and its limitations. Nearly as ...

In just a few short months, Metro's Expo Line extension will begin operation, making it Los Angeles's one and only train line to reach the Pacific Ocean. The Purple Line, if it can get past Beverly ...

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 ...

They arrived in sweeping evening gowns. In the cool March air of 1965, LA’s social and entertainment elite partied at the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on the stretch of Wilshire ...

The weird roadside architecture of Los Angeles From Idle Hour to The Tamale, these buildings will make you do a double take ...

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

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 ...

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

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 Sunset Strip story The Sunset Strip occupies a short stretch of Sunset Boulevard, but its reputation as a stomping ground of gangsters, glamour girls, rock stars and hell-raisers has held an ...

In the summer of ’63, black students led protests against the South Bay’s white-only neighborhoods Thousands of demonstrators flooded Torrance—and were confronted by angry white homeowners ...

The history of Hotel Barclay is filled with stories of deaths—and near-deaths. In 1911, there was a minor car accident in front of the grand Van Nuys Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. As a result ...