Los Angeles isn’t particularly well known for its streetlights. Maybe it should be. Not because we have the most streetlights (today that number hovers around 220,000, while Chicago’s ...

From red Spanish Colonial rooftops to vibrant mosaics to rose pink bathroom vanities, Southern California is filled with tile. Whether big or small, monochromatic or multi-hued, tiles are ...

ABC used Hollywood’s Sunset Gower Studios as a base of operations for coverage of the Olympics. The company had paid $225 million for the right to broadcast the games in the United States and ...

But LA needs to think bigger than a few rail lines. By the time the games return to LA in 2028, the population of Los Angeles County will likely be double what it was in 1984.About 48 million ...

It was the early morning of July 19, 1949. Mobster Mickey Cohen was hanging out at Sherry’s, his favorite after-hours haunt at 9039 Sunset Boulevard.

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 ...

‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ filming locations, mapped. From Santa Monica to Sylmar, the classic movie turned LA into a hellish inferno ...

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 Koreatown restaurant has appeared on-screen in everything from ‘Mad Men’ to ‘Chinatown’ to ‘New Girl,’ and it’s absolutely worth a visit.

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 ...

If you love old-timey buildings, you probably look at the Echo Park restaurant Taix and see the worn wood and the two little towers, and a charming resemblance to a chalet in the Alps.

Below are our five favorite California desert ghost towns. Some have been re-purposed, some glamorized, some left to rot. They’re easy to drive to, fascinating to explore, and may leave you ...