Even the museum’s glorious 1960s vision had its detractors.

The Olympics fixed LA’s traffic problem—can the 2028 games do it permanently? Transportation solutions deployed for the 1984 Summer Olympics are even more relevant today ...

LA’s first cemeteries were defiled, dug up, and bulldozed in the name of progress.

In 1978, Los Angeles agreed to host the 1984 Summer Olympics and, as described in the official report of the games, a small, secretive organizing committee formed to oversee the delivery and ...

Eve Babitz's guide to Los Angeles Take a tour of the writer’s sexy, smoggy city of the 1960s and ’70s ...

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 ...

Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place is one of the greatest examples of film noir ever produced—a deft thriller that doubles as a spellbinding meditation on love and its limitations. Nearly as ...

The “ booster era ” of Los Angeles spanned roughly 40 years, from 1885 to 1925. Over these pivotal decades, rough-hewn and optimistic pioneering city leaders worked with creative writers, real ...

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 ...

Rebellion and rock ‘n’ roll: The Sunset Strip in the ’60s How go-go dancing teens—and the underage clubs that embraced them—turned the Strip technicolor ...

Donald Sterling's racism has somehow only just finally gotten too loud for everyone to keep ignoring: This morning, four days after the release of a cartoonishly bigoted audio tape, Sterling was b ...

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