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Post-war California experienced a boom in prosperity that few could have imagined in the dark days of 1935. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Pan Pacific Auditorium was bustling with leisure activity- you could watch the Harlem Globetrotters play the hap...
How do you play the L.A. River at North Atwater Park?
This week L.A. Letters highlights this important book and adds a few more names to the 26 movers and shakers featured in its pages.
So you want to be an actor? I learned a long time ago--painfully--that there's more to it than I thought.
I wonder how its residents are supposed to make good decisions about the future of the South Bay if their imaginative conception of it no longer reflects what the South Bay is becoming.
How do you play the L.A. River at the Caballero Creek Confluence?
Led by the Feminist Library on Wheels and hosts of Bike Talk, Open Books rides are free public group rides that explore the city and its literary outposts.
This week L.A. Letters examines McWilliams' classic book from 1946, "Southern California Country: An Island on the Land," as well as his towering legacy as one of Southern California's most important chroniclers.
The stadium project in Inglewood is going full steam ahead. But there's a lot missing from this story -- things that have been missing a long time.
The Blue Line is one of the most used light rail in the nation. With its 25th anniversary on the horizon this July, a look back at its creation proves a useful means to think about L.A.'s transit past, present, and future.
El Monte, as investors and developers are figuring out, is a place of great opportunity. But as city officials are often reminded, it is also a place of great need.