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 ...

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 ...

Gary photographs owner Leonard Bernstein before the final closure of downtown's Caravan Book Store.

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 ...

Big turnout for the groundbreaking at the new high-rise project across Grand Avenue from the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Artists Ed Ruscha and Kent Twitchell in front of the latter's mural of the former on the legendary American Hotel building in the Arts District downtown.

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 ...

For five years some residents of Laurel Drive in Altadena have complained to the Sheriff's Department about LAPD Officer Irsie Henry, the Pasadena Weekly's André Coleman reports. They say Henry has ...

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 ...

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 ...