So many great sights and sounds at the LA Times book festival this weekend but my favorite by far: Standing...

Chocolate. In a fountain. Need I say more?

Ever wonder what happened to those pencil and candy vendors that used to float around the departure lounges at LAX?

The major gun-control advocates have been passionately fighting the battles they feel they can win. Perhaps the time has come, however, to passionately fight the battles that need fighting.

Semantics, new math, and the mysterious 11-percentage-point increase in the affordability of California housing.

Several ratty, old newsracks in Westwood Village began sporting pink tags from their handles this past week.

My 17-year-old daughter and I have many things in common, but perhaps the most surprising is our mutual deep affection for Dustin Hoffman.

I fall into the river during my behind the scenes look at the master plan with Jenny Price & Co.

Look, I get it about doing something for yourself to make yourself feel good. A lady friend says La Perla underthings do the trick; and we've heard all we need to about why women get boob jobs, and men get ... whatever it is we get. All that’s well and good for the “It’s for my self-esteem” crowd. But isn’t the point that someone’s got to notice?

History envelops me as I enter the courtyard of the Egyptian Theater in the fading light. I see glamorous ghosts,...

The venerable Westside diner was born April 11, 1947

Do you know why we vote on Tuesday? Bradley does. He'll be talking about that, and more, at UCLA.

If a tragedy on the scale of the 1992 LA riots were to occur today, it would be reported and viewed through the eyes of Los Angelenos on YouTube.com, not LATimes.com.

A Famima!! famine on the Westside.

A new low in rooftop billboards?

Awhile back, I mused here about the perfect epigraph for “Los Angeles Noir,” the short story anthology I edited that...

LADOT wants to know if Westsiders would be in favor of traffic restrictions that may delay traffic leaving and/or entering the neighborhood. What's next, border checkpoints?