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Gladys Towles Root made a long career out of "defending the damned" – and donning sensational courtroom attire.
Not everyone in Hollywood wanted the 101 freeway when construction began in 1947. One group even denounced it as "un-American."
Nellie Coffman opened the Desert Inn in 1909 as a sanatorium for tubercular patients. It soon grew into a famed resort.
There's something missing from MacArthur Park's memorial to Harrison Gray Otis, the larger-than-life publisher of the Los Angeles Times.
Can we learn to see the vast spiderweb of electrical lines that powers Los Angeles as something more than utilitarian – as beautiful, even?
L.A.'s Ovarian Psycos change the way women ride bikes.
The Los Angeles River and its advocates have turned jokes about the river on its head, using it instead to capture the limelight
Its throne may sit vacant today, but for roughly a century the Inland Empire paid fealty to a powerful emperor: the orange.
Thirty miles in radius, the Hollywood Studio Zone grants the film industry a specific geography within the L.A. metropolis. (And yes, that's how TMZ got its name.)
Can Los Angeles's past be of any value to us except as nostalgia or irony? D.J. Waldie explains why he writes about the confluence of history and private life.
Urban planner James Rojas, who coined the term "Latino Urbanism," reflects on the loss of his family compound in Boyle Heights.
Hollywood was once known as "the pride of the Cahuenga Valley." So how did an entire valley vanish from L.A.'s cultural topography?