The Long Goodbye American film noir went through a relatively fallow period from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, when the first wave of “neo-noirs” began cropping up in theaters. Robert ...

For the set of In a Lonely Place, director Nicholas Ray recreated one of his first Hollywood homes: The Villa Primavera in West Hollywood.

It’s not exactly Chinatown, but it’s a lot like Chinatown. During the late 19th century, it became clear to enterprising Los Angeles boosters that the only way the town could grow into the ...

From the Coliseum to Dodger Stadium.Just as it had during the 1932 Olympics, the Coliseum played a key role in the 1984 games. It was the site of all track and field events, as well as the venue ...

McDaniel worked in both radio and film and has stars on the Walk of Fame for both. She won an Academy Award for her role in Gone With The Wind, and was the first African-American to be awarded the ...

Yesterday, we heard that actor/comedian Andy Samberg and musician Joanna Newsom have purchased Moorcrest, the famed 1920s house where Mary Astor and Charlie Chaplin once lived. Today, thanks to the ...

At 180 by 50 feet, it was the largest illuminated advertising display to be erected in Northern California in the year 1956. The C and the H letters, representing the states California and Hawaii ...

When the founder of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale first came to see the site in the 1910s, San Fernando Road was "an unpaved road where vehicles mired down when it rained and sank deep in ...

Construction is officially underway on a long-anticipated people mover system at Los Angeles International Airport that officials predict will ferry up to 30 million travelers per year between ...

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 ...

Surfrider Beach was the domain of a small, rag-tag group of surfing pioneers—until a teenager nicknamed "Gidget" burst onto the scene.

Parker Hotel Palm Springs Palm Springs is the bastion of breeze blocks, and the Parker Hotel is its mecca. The giant, curving wall was built, unusually, two blocks deep, likely to stabilize it ...