Chuck Philips has talked about this a little before, most notably last year when he wrote that the Los Angeles Times should not have fully retracted his 2008 story naming names in the murder of rapper ...

This past September, David Davis contributed at our Native Intelligence blog a lovely piece on the legacy and death of Theo Ehret, his friend who for many years was the house photographer at the ...

Last time I was at the corner of Vanowen Street and Louise Avenue, the side wall of a clothing store was filled with a mural by Alfredo Diaz Flores, depicting a scene from the Spanish era at Mission ...

Throughout the history of American newspapers are examples of editors and headlines affixing catchy names to notorious crimes and criminals. This is one of the few things that newspapers do that can ...

Glen Creason, the author of the stupendously grand book Los Angeles in Maps, is the map librarian at the Los Angeles Public Library. So when he says on Facebook that this 1942 carte by Jo Mora is "one ...

Ian White, son of Charles White, at the opening of his father's exhibition at LACMA. Photo by Judy Graeme. Below: 'Sojourner Truth and Booker T. Washington,' Charles White 1943. Two exhibits featuring ...

Philanthropy has been curiously absent from the Jobs resume, at least when it comes to public giving. He isn't donating half his fortune to charity (as Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and other ...

This is a day for those who ever worked at KNBC in Burbank to think, wow, they are leaving the old newsroom and studios. Tonight's shows are the final KNBC news broadcasts from the corner of Olive and ...

The website LAUNFD posts a gallery of images showing the old neighborhood of homes that was cleared out, starting in the mid-1960s, between LAX and Vista Del Mar, the street in Playa del Rey that runs ...

Sheriff John Scott sent out a memo Wednesday informing department supervisors that the closed-in, climate-controlled, members-only patio where selected sheriff's officials could smoke cigars with each ...

If you haven't yet seen the season finale of "Mad Men" and intend to, you might want to skip this item. TV Guide's Michael Schneider says at his blog Franklin Avenue that he has figured out the ...

In honor of the 38th anniversary of a landmark moment in Los Angeles rock and roll lore, here's some YouTube video of Jimi Hendrix jamming on stage at Devonshire Downs in the middle of the Valley.