When I came to Los Angeles in 1970, I couldn't figure it out. The city and its environs were exhaustingly big and complicated. Eventually, I saw it's just a place of distinctive neighborhoods. If I ...

Rep. Adam Schiff took part in a Saturday morning media event at Silver Lake Reservoir and heard lots of words of support for his watchdogging of President Trump and the Russian election meddling ...

Lynne Westmore Bloom, an artist who died Friday night at home in Encinitas, is best known for the work of guerrilla public art she created in 1966. Then known as Lynne Seemayer, she left her ...

Filthy McNasty owned two well-remembered music clubs in the Los Angeles area. His Filthy McNasty's on Sunset Strip occupied the spot where the Viper Room is now. After leaving the Strip, McNasty ran ...

Sunday's New York Times revives a classic Los Angeles sports media incident — the time that KLAC radio reporter Paul Olden asked Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda what he thought of Cubs' left fielder Dave ...

Between 1964 and 1966, popular Los Angeles radio deejay Sam Riddle hosted a Saturday night dance show that was syndicated nationally from the KHJ studios in Hollywood. "Hollywood A Go-Go" featured ...

Newly seated Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis has named Peter Hong as her chief deputy — the county's title for the chief of staff in individual supervisors' offices. Hong in September had ...

Flood damage on Tujunga Wash at Magnolia Avenue in North Hollywood in 1938. All photos: LA City Archives. The Los Angeles City Historical Society has put a growing database online of selected ...

Freelance videojournalist Abraham Riesman was sent in 2012 to do a story for Punch on Paul Mazursky's morning gathering of old Hollywood hands (and a few younger ones) at Farmers Market. The table ...

Jeffrey Ressner began his journalism career as a messenger at the LA Weekly, and from 1993-2007 was a Time correspondent in Los Angeles. He was also a writer for Rolling Stone, US Weekly, the ...

Downtown chronicler Ed Fuentes blogs at View from a Loft that the sign for Gorky's Russian cafe still hangs over the corner of 8th and San Julian streets. It's kind of like looking back in time at the ...

Kate Mantillini closed Saturday, and with it a dining tradition for many of us Angelenos. Me and Pop tried to get a dinner reservation on Wednesday, but they weren’t taking any, so we ankled in early ...