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The freeway system displaced generations of people of color. Why L.A.’s Freeways Are Symbolic Sites of Protest. The freeway system displaced generations of people of color.

If you love old-timey buildings, you probably look at the Echo Park restaurant Taix and see the worn wood and the two little towers, and a charming resemblance to a chalet in the Alps.

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 fires would rage in pockets across the city. In the so-called “Mexican district”—epicenter of the 1924 outbreak of the ancient, dreaded plague—buildings were ripped apart, bulldozed ...

Joan Didion, her husband, John Gregory Dunne, daughter Quintana Roo Dunne, and John’s nephew Anthony Dunne walk along the Malibu beach. Photo by Henry Clarke/Condé Nast via Getty Images ...

How many apartments are vacant in LA right now? Vacancy data is often distilled down to what’s known as the vacancy rate. The rate can signal whether an area has too many empty apartments or too ...

It was the hot, fraught summer of 1963.Every weekend 18-year-old college students Bobbie and Renee Hodges would trek over to the boiling, treeless Torrance housing tract of Southwood Riviera ...

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 ...

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 ...

Warren Aerial Photography Inc. / Institutional Archives, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (1997.IA.10) Twenty-six years ago this morning, Tom Sabol was jolted awake by the thrashing of an ...

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 ...