Ernest Batchelder: Southern California’s masterful tile maker A guide to the beautiful and popular tiles that adorn many Los Angeles fireplaces ...

Development in the Valley: 11 big projects poised to alter the region From Chatsworth to North Hollywood, these are the mega mixed-users headed to the Valley ...

If it hadn’t been for what was observed after Northridge, and the Getty’s commitment, nothing might have been fixed.

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 ...

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 ...

The real-life tower that made ‘Die Hard’ Nakatomi tower is really Fox Plaza in Century City, an example of 1980s power architecture at its finest ...

For a new city, Los Angeles has an awful lot of lost architecture. From the lush rural estates of early Angeleno pioneers to the midcentury masterpieces of Hollywood royalty, many architectural ...

LA’s haunted landmarks and their ghost stories, mapped From the Colorado Street Bridge to the Hollywood Sign ...

It was during the Victorian era, from 1837 to 1901, that Los Angeles transformed from a small, dusty Mexican outpost into a Gilded Age American boom town. Thousands of homes were built during this ...

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 ...

From beachfront parks in Santa Monica to hillside spots in Griffith Park with city views, these are the best places to lay down a blanket and dig into a picnic spread.

A large-scale sculpture of hands making the “LA” fingers —the only work of art definitively planned for a 12-acre park below the new Sixth Street Viaduct —will go on the Arts District side ...