Kevin Roderick launched LA Observed in 2003 and is the site's editor and publisher. His bio is here. Website | Email Most of his 10,000 entries have been written for his editor's blog. Browse or ...

Gary Leonard has been photographing Los Angeles for 40 years. He first made a name by chronicling the city's punk clubs and nightlife. He's centered mostly in Downtown now, and has a gallery called ...

LA Times staffers say this is where the newspaper will be moving before July. Meg James on Twitter For the first time in its history, the Los Angeles Times will be housed outside the city of Los ...

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 ...

Downtown chronicler Ed Fuentes blogs at View from a Loft that the sign for Gorky's Russian cafe still hangs over the corner of 8th and San Julian streets. It's kind of like looking back in time at the ...

Willie Nelson, beardless and braidless, at the Palomino in 1970. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images at LA Magazine's website Before everyone forgets that LA's music lore includes North Hollywood, Los ...

Thursday farmers market in Westwood Village. LAO. Karl Johansson has run the Village Center Newsstand for 20 years, since shortly after he came over from Sweden. He's going to close down by the end of ...

Uptown design district in Palm Springs. LA Observed photo. When I visited Palm Springs in April, just ahead of the Coachella festival hordes, even I could detect the desert city has taken on a fresher ...

There was a time — several decades actually — when cruising Van Nuys Boulevard at night to see and be seen was a major youth culture tradition in Los Angeles, and especially for teenagers (the real ...

They took the official wraps off the northbound carpool lane on the 405 freeway through Sepulveda Pass today. Drivers with a passenger aboard can now take the left lane from the Orange County line all ...

Richard Fausset will become the new Atlanta Bureau chief. Read more in this note from Alison Mitchell, Ethan Bronner and Peter Applebome. If the National Desk wanted to dream up the perfect person to ...

Photo of the Zanja Madre in Chinatown by William Preston Bolling and Friends of the Los Angeles River. Crews excavating on the former Little Joe's restaurant site in Chinatown have uncovered the ...