The Los Angeles Times has been on a hiring spree almost since Patrick Soon-Shiong took over and moved the newspaper from its downtown home to El Segundo. Since I last posted about it, the paper has ...

Los Angeles car culture never saw anyone like Big Willie Robinson — or needed anyone quite so much. In the mid 1960s, when baby boomers were racing hot rods and fighting each other and the cops all ...

Sandstone Retreat was a clothing-optional refuge in Topanga Canyon that began in the late 1960s and survived efforts by the county to shut it down. John Williamson opened the retreat with his wife, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey has revamped her media office with a trio of former journalists. The highlights are that Jane Robison gets a new title — Senior Public Information ...

Martin Milner, right, as Officer Malloy in a scene from "Adam-12" at Henry's Tacos in Studio City. Actor Martin Milner worked a lot, but he is remembered most for two strong television roles he ...

Austin Beutner was once the lowest-paid deputy mayor in the Antonio Villaraigosa administration at City Hall — a dollar a year, working on economic development. Now the publisher of the Los Angeles ...

Officer Aragon was off-duty when his motorcycle crashed around 2:15 a.m. at Fletcher Drive and Larga Avenue, according to the L.A. Times and CBS 2. He was pronounced dead at Glendale Memorial Hospital ...

An SEIU union investigation concludes that the chief executive of Central City Community Health Center, which provides free or low-cost health care to the indigent of L.A. and Orange County, has ...

An LA Observed reader who works at Cal State Long Beach stopped by Wilshire Books in Santa Monica and found the store cleared out. "Quietly closed at the end of December," he writes. The store had ...

It's not easy to describe Point Dume, the craggy elbow of land that cradles the northern tip of the Santa Monica Bay. With visitors, I start at the wild, untouched headland with its sheer cliffs, ...