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From 1923 until the 1960s, pathways dedicated to horse travel ran down the center of several Beverly Hills streets.
For the first time ever the mysterious moving rocks of Racetrack Playa have been seen moving.
In the movie "Swingers," Jon Favreau's character famously observes that all the cool places in L.A. don't have signs, so that telling someone you've been to one is like bragging that you were able to find it. But that wasn't always the case.
In the 1920s and '30s, health guru Paul Bragg led huge group hikes into the Hollywood Hills and San Gabriel Mountains.
In 1939, Fortune magazine asked Ansel Adams to get some photos of the burgeoning aviation industry in L.A. Like any good photographer, however, Adams found his attention wandering,
Next to the bustling MacArthur Park, the once vibrant interiors of the Westlake Theater are now silent. But all around it, there is life.
L.A.'s dining and nightlife have always attracted the fashionable set, though the fashions have changed considerably over the years.
At 100 years old, the severely rural desert town of Trona, CA, is dying. It is a dystopian Emerald City on the shore of a dry lake "at the end of the world."
The 2010 Parent Trigger controversy provides a valuable window into the city's education history, the evolution of its Latino-African American relations, and the new political reality of today's "City of Compton."
On July 8. 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared the Los Angeles River to be classified as "Traditional Navigable Waters" under the Clean Water Act, an action that would increase the momentum for restoration, protection, and public ap...
Bringing the flavors of Mexico's varied regions to American palates was something of a challenge in the twentieth century,
Never mind that Tinseltown was fifty miles away. In 1926, one Ventura County beach became Hollywood-by-the-Sea.