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In uncovering the fundamental imprint of emigrés had on Hollywood, we came across countless images that illustrate their fight against persecution and the communities of artists and intellectuals that were formed in this unfamiliar, and often unwelcoming, place.
Here are 8 of the best SoCal gas stations for bringing some magnificence to the mundane — whether you're on your daily commute or using up your savings to reach a farther flung locale.
Driven from their home countries, many European émigrés found intellectual stimulation, camaraderie and solace within homes around Los Angeles.
The film screens April 12 at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, immediately following with a Q&A with award-winning French director Lisa Azuelos.
Talented composers fleeing Nazism made a new home for themselves in the United States and, in the process, helped create the vibrant sounds and the emotional pull of such Hollywood movies as "Casablanca," "Sabrina" and many more.
If ever there is a Palm Springs LGBTQ Hall of Fame, Rose Dougan will surely require her own wing. Named Flying Rose, she lived an adventurous life learning to fly with Wilbur Wright, taking "the longest all-woman drive," and eventually working to help preserve the art of Native American basketry for generations to come.
At natural history museums, it's the big dinosaur bones or sabertoothed cats that get all the attention, but it's microfossils should have greater scrutiny. Here are ten tiny fossils that deserve a second look.
Essayist D.J. Waldie explores the legacy of the fire element on the landscape of Los Angeles.
Despite the popularity of megafauna fossils, it is the tiniest of remains at the La Brea Tar Pits that hold the key to a clearer picture of our prehistoric past.
Bright and colorful Santa Barbara-based artist adriana la artista's digital design unpack the often too-hidden histories of Chicanx people, elders, artists, immigrants, activists and community leaders.
The film screens April 5 at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, immediately following with a Q&A with award-winning director Ted Braun.
Los Angeles has a wealth of cultural destinations, so much so that there is one that might be sitting just beneath your radar. Here are just some of the most intriguing, and often hidden, highlights of what the UCLA campus has to offer to the public.
Mark Wahlberg will be present for a Q&A after the film screening on March 29 at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.
Artists Kiều Chinh and Ann Phong would have never thought they would be part of the art scene in Orange County when Saigon fell in 1975. Despite decades of work, both continue to fly under the radar.
Los Angeles jazz legend Barbara Morrison, who performed on a pair of Grammy-nominated albums, produced another and founded a performing arts theater and jazz/blues museum in Leimert Park, died today at age 72.
Photojournalist Julie Leopo takes us into the lives of farmworkers in Oxnard, as they navigate the complexities of working in the field, poverty and unstable futures.