Hennessey + Ingalls Art and Architecture bookstore opens a branch in Hollywood this week.

Bush sought to "make the pie higher," but President-elect Barack Obama says it's time "to make sure we're growing the pie …"

Legendary 19th-century photographer Carleton Watkins, who is the subject of an exhibition at the Getty, traveled hard miles around California with a simple motto: stand "where the view looks best."

For every dollar I put into my first car, I got back a lifelong education in auto repair, and this disease.

Erin Kaplan responds

Without referencing its recent layoff, the Ventura County Star's editor says the suburban LA paper is now "more streamlined and, in many ways, much more efficient."

We stripped the Indians of their ponies, and now we're doing it to ourselves.

When the sun looks like that, there's a big fire somewhere regardless of whether we see or smell smoke.

The Northridge Quake buried people alive, killed 57, injured more than 9,000 and displaced at least 20,000. And that's only because it happened at 4:31 a.m.

Eyeing the book launch for Overspray: Riding High With the Kings of California Airbrush Art, Norman Hathaway's lavish art book about the golden age of L.A. airbrush artists in the 70s.

A really short honeymoon for Barack Obama

LA heart Obama.

A photo essay of Thursday's Prop 8 protest march on the Westside.

Roger Vargo presents a multimedia lecture on the famed Room 8 cat of Echo Park'. Also, what if the Room 8 Cat had a Twitter account?

Is it worse for a company to do a layoff immediately after it got the election coverage it wanted?

Time to emancipate Billy, the last elephant at the LA Zoo.

A trio of thuds in the driveway (NYT, LAT, LADN) announce the real start of each day. Today, though, that's just not enough. Today, I need more.

Photos of Los Angeles, CA, on Election Day, 2008

A poll worker checks in.

A week later, starting to speak out.

LA Litscape recap: local poet and performer, Thomas Kearny, wins a major literary prize, Skylight Books celebrates its 12th anniversary, evoking memories of Chatterton's Bookshop and other bookstores, and pondering the fate of Forrest J Ackerman.

Celebrate Dias de Los Muertos traditionally or in Tiki-style at the "In Search of Tiki" exhibit on display at Forest Lawn Museum Glendale.

The voice that permeated my childhood was not that of Fred Rogers, Winnie the Pooh or Charlie Brown.