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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Women in MacArthur Park in 1968. William Reagh took 40,000 photographs of Los Angeles and Southern California from the 1930s until 1991, chronicling a time of huge change in the cityscape and the ...

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 ...

SF Muni's F car. LA Observed photo. It wasn't until I was in the Army (my gap year before college — actually two years) that this Los Angeles native realized that Angelenos and Northern Californians ...

The Buggy Whip fan page on Facebook says the La Tijera Boulevard standby closed for good around the end of September. "This great establishment has lasted since 1949 as an iconic traditional steak ...

Westwood Village gained a new big store this week — one of the scaled-down urban Targets opening under the City banner. Its doors opened quietly on Tuesday, in the former Bullock's department store on ...

When Daryl Gates ran the LAPD from 1978 to 1992 he also ran a worldwide political spying operation. And he lavished time on it, sometimes several hours each day, including all the dossiers and reports ...

Johnny Perez came out of San Antonio as the drummer of the 1960s band Sir Douglas Quintet, which had hits with 'She's About a Mover" and "Mendocino." Perez landed in Topanga Canyon and more recently ...

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 ...