A couple of the chapters in my 2001 book, The San Fernando Valley: America's Suburb, deal with the history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and how abundant water changed the city and the valley. It holds ...
Fun item from historian Michael Beschloss: In 1962, Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax invested in a West Hollywood motor inn, which was renamed Sandy Koufax’s Tropicana Motel. Down Santa Monica Boulevard ...
After reading that the current LA Weekly could not turn up an archive copy of the paper's first issue after the riots in 1992, Los Angeles magazine editor-in-chief Mary Melton dug out her copy and ...
That trompe l'oeil depiction of bookshelves on a garage door spotted in the Hollywood Hills a few weeks ago by author Robert Crais has a backstory, of course. And there's a media angle. Barbara ...
The passing of Ray Manzarek, the legendary keyboard player for The Doors, has brought up personal memories of the band all over social media. The Doors performed live a lot, and of course their music ...
During the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, on July 28, 1984, a dramatic moment came when 84 grand pianos appeared in the peristyle of the Coliseum and began to play "Rhapsody in ...
At Saturday night's local Emmy awards, the Governors Award for lifetime achievement went to Susan Stratton, the KCAL9 producer-director who produced Los Angeles Lakers broadcasts for most of three ...
Playwright and screenwriter Gideon Brower says if you live in West LA, you know the Santa Monica Boulevard billboard that counts up the (estimated) deaths from smoking each year. He and others watched ...
CityBeat and film critic Andy Klein parted ways yesterday, say sources close to the weekly and to Klein. He continues apparently with KPCC's FilmWeek segment and "Off-Ramp." This follows last week's ...
Variety was expected to announce tomorrow the hiring of longtime Los Angeles Times reporter James Rainey, but an hour after I called Rainey tonight and said I was going to post they went ahead and ...
Susan Atkins was the Charles Manson follower who used the knife on actress Sharon Tate on Cielo Drive in 1969. After she died this past September, Orange Coast Magazine writer Shawn Hubler began ...
Melvin Feuer, the father of Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer, died today at age 92. The senior Feuer was featured earlier this year in a Steve Lopez column in the Los Angeles Times for his ...
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