A couple of the chapters in my 2001 book, The San Fernando Valley: America's Suburb, deal with the history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and how abundant water changed the city and the valley. It holds ...

Sandstone Retreat was a clothing-optional refuge in Topanga Canyon that began in the late 1960s and survived efforts by the county to shut it down. John Williamson opened the retreat with his wife, ...

Willie Nelson, beardless and braidless, at the Palomino in 1970. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images at LA Magazine's website Before everyone forgets that LA's music lore includes North Hollywood, Los ...

Top photo: Gary Leonard. Others: LA Observed. Click on any photo to see it larger. There wasn't much to see or buy — it was the second weekend of the sale at the Bob and Dolores Hope estate, and there ...

The statistical analyst and blogger who moved from baseball into politics and had a leading role in New York Times coverage during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections is going back to sports.

Even the Mayans didn't believe the world would end today. But there is a cool semi-ancient, quasi-celestial event that happens around here on the winter solstice. By legend, anyway, today is when the ...

Reports on social media are saying that the proprietor of Manny's Original El Tepeyac in Boyle Heights has died. KFI News tweeted that employees of the burrito stand on Evergreen Avenue confirmed ...

Veronique de Turenne's post this morning of photos showing a mountain lion killing off a deer on Mulholland Highway has caused quite a stir. Lots of shares, retweets and reposts. The cougar, a young ...

Consumer spending isn't as strong as it could be and austerity is the watchword in many parts of the world, but the fuller explanation centers on a sharp drop in the percentage of government spending ...

The staff at KPCC was told recently that two general assignment reporter slots are being eliminated and the Sacramento bureau closed. At least one of the affected staffers has been offered another job ...

Zócalo Public Square has posted the video and some photos from my conversation the other night with David Folkenflik, the media correspondent for NPR whose new book is "Murdoch’s World: The Last of ...

Forty five years ago, then-governor Ronald Reagan made it a cause to get young UCLA professor Angela Davis fired by the UC Board of Regents. She was a member of the Communist Party, a participant in ...