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When Angelenos gathered downtown to protest the murder of George Floyd, they started at City Hall and eventually made their way toward the 101. Pastor Stephen “Cue” Jn-Marie from the Row ...
you realize that Taix sold the land to save the restaurant? Like, the options here are 1) Taix stays alive and we get over 100 homes, 24 of which are subsidized affordable housing or 2) Taix shuts ...
But the design in its pure form would not last long. Tar from the La Brea pits began to seep into the reflecting pools, and they were filled within a few years. Alterations and additions further ...
The fires would rage in pockets across the city. In the so-called “Mexican district”—epicenter of the 1924 outbreak of the ancient, dreaded plague—buildings were ripped apart, bulldozed ...
The Getty, California Science Center, and Natural History Museum are all offering online programming for free.
Thanks to Golden State Mutual Life Insurance, thousands of black Californians—in a time of profound racial discrimination—were able to obtain home loans and build transgenerational wealth.
A proposal out of Sacramento to put denser housing near transit has divided Californians. But a similar program is already underway in the city of Los Angeles. It’s an incentive program called ...
Twenty-six years ago this morning, Tom Sabol was jolted awake by the thrashing of an earthquake. He lived some 20 miles from the epicenter in suburban Northridge. But he still remembers power ...
There are more 50,000 streets in Los Angeles County. They are named after cult leaders (L. Ron Hubbard Way), martyred astronauts (Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Street), the view of a lighthouse ...
The Inglewood City Council approved permanent rent control measures that will block property owners from increasing rents more than 5 percent .
A large-scale sculpture of hands making the “LA” fingers —the only work of art definitively planned for a 12-acre park below the new Sixth Street Viaduct —will go on the Arts District side ...