The Los Angeles Times has been on a hiring spree almost since Patrick Soon-Shiong took over and moved the newspaper from its downtown home to El Segundo. Since I last posted about it, the paper has ...

Los Angeles car culture never saw anyone like Big Willie Robinson — or needed anyone quite so much. In the mid 1960s, when baby boomers were racing hot rods and fighting each other and the cops all ...

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 ...

Sandstone Retreat was a clothing-optional refuge in Topanga Canyon that began in the late 1960s and survived efforts by the county to shut it down. John Williamson opened the retreat with his wife, ...

Jess Marlow had a long career reporting or anchoring on KNBC, KCBS and KCET — 37 years in all, ending with the old "Life & Times” program on KCET. Marlow retired to Santa Fe in 2003 and died Sunday in ...

Austin Beutner was once the lowest-paid deputy mayor in the Antonio Villaraigosa administration at City Hall — a dollar a year, working on economic development. Now the publisher of the Los Angeles ...

Martin Milner, right, as Officer Malloy in a scene from "Adam-12" at Henry's Tacos in Studio City. Actor Martin Milner worked a lot, but he is remembered most for two strong television roles he ...

Officer Aragon was off-duty when his motorcycle crashed around 2:15 a.m. at Fletcher Drive and Larga Avenue, according to the L.A. Times and CBS 2. He was pronounced dead at Glendale Memorial Hospital ...

Shervin Lalezary, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy who made the traffic stop that netted arson suspect Harry Burkhart, is OK looking too. He's not a full-time member of the LASD. He is a ...

Will Fowler was the first reporter on the scene of the Black Dahlia murder and kept a bottle of whiskey in his desk drawer at the Examiner, and also quit the Greater L.A. Press Club when the all-male ...

An LA Observed reader who works at Cal State Long Beach stopped by Wilshire Books in Santa Monica and found the store cleared out. "Quietly closed at the end of December," he writes. The store had ...

On Aug. 21, 1935, Benny Goodman and his band were turning in an uninspired set before thousands at the Palomar Ballroom, billed as the largest dance hall on the West Coast, at 3rd Street and Vermont ...