LA Observed photo of the chapel on the VA reservation near West LA. The charming and very unusual chapel facing Wilshire Boulevard on the VA campus in West Los Angeles looks worse every time I check ...

After reading that the current LA Weekly could not turn up an archive copy of the paper's first issue after the riots in 1992, Los Angeles magazine editor-in-chief Mary Melton dug out her copy and ...

The website FTV Live reported Monday morning that longtime Los Angeles TV and radio personality Steve Edwards — the host of "Good Day LA" on Fox 11 — was fired "after sexual harassment allegations ...

Susan Atkins was the Charles Manson follower who used the knife on actress Sharon Tate on Cielo Drive in 1969. After she died this past September, Orange Coast Magazine writer Shawn Hubler began ...

During the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, on July 28, 1984, a dramatic moment came when 84 grand pianos appeared in the peristyle of the Coliseum and began to play "Rhapsody in ...

Mayor Eric Garcetti today appointed tech executive Peter Marx to be City Hall's first Chief Innovation Technology Officer. "Marx will oversee the implementation of new tools and technologies across ...

CityBeat and film critic Andy Klein parted ways yesterday, say sources close to the weekly and to Klein. He continues apparently with KPCC's FilmWeek segment and "Off-Ramp." This follows last week's ...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey has revamped her media office with a trio of former journalists. The highlights are that Jane Robison gets a new title — Senior Public Information ...

Photos of Clifton's opening night benefit by Ray Richmond When the new Clifton's Cafeteria on Broadway held a big benefit opening on Monday night, Ray Richmond was a more interested guest than most.

Sunday's New York Times revives a classic Los Angeles sports media incident — the time that KLAC radio reporter Paul Olden asked Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda what he thought of Cubs' left fielder Dave ...

Melvin Feuer, the father of Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer, died today at age 92. The senior Feuer was featured earlier this year in a Steve Lopez column in the Los Angeles Times for his ...

Scott McKenzie, who died Saturday at home in Silver Lake, is best known for singing the ballad "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)," which beckoned the youth of the world to come to ...