Judy Graeme noticed an especially bad sidewalk rupture on Prosser Avenue, just below Pico in Rancho Park.
As the centerpiece of an end-of-year ritual it really works, says a writer.
Highland Park's rooftop pollo gets cited as a prime example of a Muffler Man derivative on the "50th anniversary of the creation of these strong and silent giants, who, with their behemoth height, are some of the largest examples of American roadside kitsch."
Halloween house.
For 16 years, Whittier artist George Sportelli has been cleaning and maintaining his mural of actor Tony Curtis on the southbound Hollywood Freeway. But no more.
In court documents filed Friday, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich asked for $2,500 for each day that the Beverly Hills company allegedly violated Los Angeles rules.
An architecture critic says don't build that wall, while an artist envisions a revenue opportunity.
The streetscape landmark on 3rd Street "exists outside the normal boundaries of space, time, and interior decorating," says Curbed LA.
We have Eldon Davis to thank for many of those Googie-style coffee shops that sprouted along Southern California boulevards in the 1950s, then spread across the country.
Tonight's Which Way, L.A.? on KCRW delved more deeply into today's City Council approval of the special lighting rules for the Korean-backed project planned for the Wilshire Grand hotel site at 7th and Figueroa.
Today's radio column mashes up the Militant Angeleno's post on the evolution of Los Angeles street signs with the controversy over ad signs to be beamed on the skin of the new skyscrapers proposed for Wilshire and Figueroa.
Excellent run through the variety and history of Los Angeles street signs at the blog Militant Angeleno.
Markos Geneti of Ethiopia, running his first marathon, set a course record 2 hours, 6 minutes and 35 seconds. It's the fastest marathon ever run in California and the second fastest in the world this year.
"Yes, Los Angeles has always been a town for lovers," reads the caption for this 1871 map posted on Facebook.
he team that saved Chicken Boy from destruction and had it mounted on a Highland Park art studio will receive a 2010 Governor’s Historic Preservation award on Friday.
Eric Spiegelman noticed that a lot of dentists east of La Brea advertise with a happy, smiling tooth. So he made a slide show.
CicLAvia on Sunday, Zocalo on Saturday, Liz Phair on Friday.
Blogger El Chavo at LA Eastside has started a series of short videos just showing an ordinary two minutes at an ordinary corner in Los Angeles. And it works.
I couldn't believe recently how bad the empty lot at 1st and Broadway looks — a deep pit filling with rancid- looking water and overgrown with weeds a block from City Hall.
The city attorney's office says 20 new cease-and-desist letters have gone out and that at least eight supergraphics have come down or will shortly.
There's a catch: the firm wants City Hall approval for 20 of its disputed supergraphics.
A judge went along with City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's request for $1 million bail for a man charged with three misdemeanors for posting an illegal sign near the Oscars theater in Hollywood.
Tibby Rothman of the LA Weekly interviews one of the activists she says is behind last week's guerrilla action.
Fuel's billboards around town may be illegal, but the city of Los Angeles isn't the one posting violation notices on them.
It's nice to see the blogger-photographer getting some mainstream media acclaim for his new collection of L.A. images,