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Los Angeles graffiti — in the form of a tagged-up, unfinished skyscraper downtown — has recently made national news. But we’re also the mural capital of the world and constantly asking ourselves: Is this art or vandalism?
Cemeteries -- grand and all-but-forgotten -- dot our landscape. Here are their stories -- and the stories of Angelenos who found their final rest there.
She toured the world wowing audiences, and she captured the public’s imagination for decades. No, not Taylor Swift; Ellen Beach Yaw, also known as Lark Ellen.
The Westside Pavilion is being remade as a UCLA biomedical research facility, an Orange County mall will become housing, and Gen Z seems to actually like shopping at malls.
Antisemitism is as old as time. In Los Angeles, prejudice against Jewish people took on new and more public forms in the 1920s and 1930s and beyond.
Our answer to New York City’s goofy ball drop is in giant letters for all to see: Let’s light up the Hollywood sign one night a year, New Year’s Eve.
Southern California’s Thanksgiving celebrations have evolved over the years, from a mostly religious occasion to the more secular parades, football and celebrities.
In bookstores’ L.A. heyday, shops were as ubiquitous as a certain coffee chain is today. But we’re no slouches today, even if the internet removed many stores’ physical presences.
The big pageants like Miss America are nowhere near the cultural touchstones they once were. And the smaller ones — anybody remember an L.A. auto dealership’s Miss New Car Department? — have all but disappeared. What happened?
Los Angeles’ first documented smog attack — yes, we had smog attacks — was in 1943. We’ve been fighting the sources of pollution and the quirks of geography that trap it ever since.
