The boys on Larchmont in "False Alarms," with an LA Railway yellow car passing by. What is it about non-Angelenos becoming so obsessed with old filming locations that they spend years tracking down ...

All, In the next couple of weeks our sister paper, the California Real Estate Journal, will cease publication. This news is a reflection of the times we live in; as you all know too well, the economic ...

IN Los Angeles is out with a strong story on the death of two-year-old Sarah Angelina Chavez, six months after she was taken away from her lesbian foster parents and ...

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 ...

Filthy McNasty owned two well-remembered music clubs in the Los Angeles area. His Filthy McNasty's on Sunset Strip occupied the spot where the Viper Room is now. After leaving the Strip, McNasty ran ...

When longtime El Cholo waitress Carmen Rocha died in October, the L.A. media hailed her as the creator of nachos. It's not so, says chef and Travel Channel foodie Anthony Bourdain and his producers.

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 ...

Gil Friesen was the longtime president of A&M Records, the legendary Los Angeles record company started by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962. Born in Pasadena, he started in the mailroom at Capitol ...

Michael Ansara had one of those Hollywood careers that lasted a long time and is fun to examine. Because he was of Lebanese heritage (born in Syria but raised in the U.S.), he went from the drama ...

On her blog, radio personality and voice actor April Winchell has posted an MP3 file of an on-air tiff (audio she wants you to listen to it from her blog, so click on the link above) between anchors ...

Before the Derby Dolls and their teasing double entendres, the legendary names of Los Angeles roller derby were Ralphie Valladares and Shirley Hardman, Red Smartt and Honey Sanchez, John Hall and ...

Steve Whitmore is the spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. He submitted this post to honor his father, the actor James Whitmore, who died on February 6. Framed photographs line ...