Los Angeles: Police in downtown Los Angeles have noticed an emerging trend in cellphone thefts. For the first quarter of this year, thefts of cellphones have increased 32 percent in the downtown area. In the one-mile square area of Skidrow,... »
SXSW 2012: Wednesday panels and shows to watch, as tipped by Times pop music critic Randall Roberts, including Fiona Apple. »
Mark Lacter: It's a grocery-type operation called Neighborhood Markets. »
The 1999 Adaptive Reuse Ordinance changed the face of Downtown, making it easier for developers to convert old commercial buildings into housing (Tom Gilmore's Old Bank District was the catalytic pioneer). But now city officials want an update to bring... »
Wow...old pictures of Farmer's Market and Wilshire Blvd. in the early 1950s. Hollywood in the 40s, and even earlier. Then of course, they featured this video of Angels Flight back in the day. Where? Vintage Los Angeles on Facebook! »
The CHIP Solar House has been said to look like a couch, a quilt and a spacesuit, among other things. Photo by Ryan Tyler Martinez/SCI-Arc. At first glance the 750 square-foot home looks like a marshmallow. It can be controlled by an iPad and it produc... »
Kevin Roderick: High speed rail, impounding the cars of unlicensed drivers, a Wendy Greuel audit, growth at the Natural History Museum and more. »
Ryan Gosling completists have so much material to keep them busy. There are the award-nominated performances, the bare-armed tabloid photos, the feminist Internet memes, the breathless news reports of street corner heroics. »
