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The history of City Lights Publisher and Bookstore is shaped by the serendipitous meetings between writers and decades of touchstone publications that have made this institution one of California's most significant cultural landmarks.
See our most popular history articles from 2015, and the stories that link some of L.A.'s milestones this year to the Southland's rich past.
Remaking downtown Los Angeles has taken another long step. As LA history shows, it's one that might end badly.
At ground level, San Bernardino is not just a blur in Greater L.A.'s suburban expanse, but a place that speaks pointedly to a larger narrative of violence that binds us all.
Surveyors once named L.A. boulevards after American presidents and governors of the Mexican California.
California, which has spawned so many of its own myths, has its origin in myth. The Spanish explorers were looking for an "island dream" when they gave California its name.
A photo essay that explores the meaning that every day objects have through a Muslim lens and for the photographer, explores the origin of each object in the Quran.