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As a born-and-raised Angelino, there are places in this fair city of ours that always evoke strong feelings and memories. For me, one of those places is the Los Angeles International Airport, also known as LAX.
How do you celebrate a community under attack? How can you feel seen when you feel targeted? How do you feel you belong when you are constantly made to feel like an outsider? These questions are nothing new to the Latino community of Los Angeles.
W. Elmo Reavis was a man who wore many hats, including bookbinder, instructor, inventor, manufacturer, editor, and advocate. He established the Pacific Library Binding Company in Los Angeles in 1912 to focus solely on bookbinding for libraries.
We left Sarah Bernhardt accepting a very lucrative offer to perform in Southern California, and despite reports to the contrary, it was not the only prospect—but it was the only realistic prospect.
Picture this: A Friday night in L.A. You got last-minute tickets to see a game at the Staples Center (oops), I mean Crypto.com Arena. The tickets are free...but you need to get there by 5:30 p.m. Should you:
A: Uber or Lyft (stuck on the way back mired in surge pricing)?
Just before 6 p.m. on the afternoon of May 18, 1906, twenty-year-old Highland Park resident Elizabeth Beatty stepped onto the boardwalk of the newest amusement pier in Los Angeles County.
On a pleasant summer evening in 1891, the Los Angeles Herald's theater critic attended a play that ran for exactly one night.
While we await the start of the 2024 World Series Friday between the Dodgers and the Yankees over at 1000 Vin Scully Avenue, we wanted to take a look back at the most frequent World Series matchup, albeit one that has not happened in 43 years.
Pershing Square has and continues to have an important role in the history of Los Angeles. In fact, what is today known as Pershing Square was, in fact, La Plaza Abaja, the 6th Street Park, and even known as Central Park. In 1918, the downtown park was renamed Pershing Square.
Introduction / Introducción
Los Angeles is a place where history is all around us, made by people from around the world. LAX is an integral part of the history of Los Angeles and the role that aviation has played in the world.