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The fires would rage in pockets across the city. In the so-called “Mexican district”—epicenter of the 1924 outbreak of the ancient, dreaded plague—buildings were ripped apart, bulldozed ...

Next Up In Los Angeles Museums LACMA is beloved. Its design never was. LACMA is being torn down right now; Actress Issa Rae at Destination Crenshaw groundbreaking: ‘We’re not going anywhere’ ...

The protest was inspired by the women of Moms 4 Housing, who drew national attention for their occupation of a house in Oakland earlier this year. But unlike the Oakland house, which was owned by ...

Joan Didion, her husband, John Gregory Dunne, daughter Quintana Roo Dunne, and John’s nephew Anthony Dunne walk along the Malibu beach. Photo by Henry Clarke/Condé Nast via Getty Images ...

It was the hot, fraught summer of 1963.Every weekend 18-year-old college students Bobbie and Renee Hodges would trek over to the boiling, treeless Torrance housing tract of Southwood Riviera ...

Now up for grabs in Altadena is one of the town’s most notable landmarks, the Zane Grey Estate. Sited behind iron gates on a 1.19-acre lot west of Lake Avenue, the Mediterranean Revival-style ...

Warren Aerial Photography Inc. / Institutional Archives, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (1997.IA.10) Twenty-six years ago this morning, Tom Sabol was jolted awake by the thrashing of an ...

What a decade it’s been for Downtown Los Angeles.In the last 10 years, the neighborhood has added thousands of apartments and condos, gained its new tallest skyscraper (if you count the spire ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are more 50,000 streets in Los Angeles County. They are named after cult leaders (L. Ron Hubbard Way), martyred astronauts (Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Street), the view of a lighthouse ...