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

Even the museum’s glorious 1960s vision had its detractors.

When the plague came to Los Angeles “Little Mexico,” a bustling community near Olvera Street, was leveled in the name of sanitation ...

LA cracked down on McMansions. Developers are still building them. Huge single-family homes are nearly taking over entire blocks ...

The number of state-owned homes in El Sereno occupied by protestors trying to draw attention to the region’s severe housing affordability crisis has grown to nearly a dozen. The protesters, who ...

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 ...

The pride of West Adams Thanks to Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co., thousands of black Californians—in a time of profound racial discrimination—were able to obtain home loans and build ...

A proposal out of Sacramento to put denser housing near transit has divided Californians. But a similar program is already underway in the city of Los Angeles. It’s an incentive program called ...

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 ...