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you realize that Taix sold the land to save the restaurant? Like, the options here are 1) Taix stays alive and we get over 100 homes, 24 of which are subsidized affordable housing or 2) Taix shuts ...

But the design in its pure form would not last long. Tar from the La Brea pits began to seep into the reflecting pools, and they were filled within a few years. Alterations and additions further ...

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 ...

The Getty, California Science Center, and Natural History Museum are all offering online programming for free.

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to Golden State Mutual Life Insurance, thousands of black Californians—in a time of profound racial discrimination—were able to obtain home loans and build transgenerational wealth.

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 ...

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 ...

Twenty-six years ago this morning, Tom Sabol was jolted awake by the thrashing of an earthquake. He lived some 20 miles from the epicenter in suburban Northridge. But he still remembers power ...

New cafes have opened on Market street, but it’s still pretty sleepy. Photos by Jessica Flores For more than two decades, the Fox Theatre flourished on Inglewood’s Market Street. But today, it ...