In 1978, Los Angeles agreed to host the 1984 Summer Olympics and, as described in the official report of the games, a small, secretive organizing committee formed to oversee the delivery and ...

The stories behind LA’s famous (and strange) street names The origins are both common and weird, from cult leaders to old Mexican ranchos to the pets and family members of real estate subdividers ...

In the summer of ’63, black students led protests against the South Bay’s white-only neighborhoods Thousands of demonstrators flooded Torrance—and were confronted by angry white homeowners ...

A tour of the lobby and two underground floors of the 1926 Subway Terminal Building as they prepare for retail redevelopment.

More than half a century after publishing the collections that established her reputation as a gimlet-eyed cultural critic—Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album—Joan Didion continues ...

13 of the best noir films set in Los Angeles Laced with corruption in the 1940s and ’50s, LA became the birthplace for the literary and cinematic style ...

Surfrider Beach was the domain of a small, rag-tag group of surfing pioneers—until a teenager nicknamed "Gidget" burst onto the scene.

"LA is the worst party city I’ve ever seen," Bastian Yotta declares emphatically, perched on a silver and blue throne in the kitchen of the Yotta Life Mansion, in the Hollywood Dell neighborhood ...

Why L.A.’s Freeways Are Symbolic Sites of Protest The freeway system displaced generations of people of color.

Urban Light: The story of LA’s great landmark for the 21st century How the installation became a Los Angeles icon ...

The Wilmington Oil Reserve is one of the largest in the country. It was discovered in the 1930s. Debates over what to do with the black gold under Long Beach raged for years. Residents wanted the ...

Los Angeles was Raymond Chandler’s muse, mistress, and his making. For his famous anti-hero, private eye Philip Marlowe, it is a torturous, nasty place filled with “tough-looking palm trees ...