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Roof line of the Giant Robot 2 store in the Sawtelle district.
The view from behind Broadway's Orpheum Theatre.
405 freeway, southbound, West Los Angeles.
Back door, Helena Avenue. Santa Barbara.
Vanowen Street, Lake Balboa....
Van Nuys industrial district....
Andy Gump, Eastside....
This building on Sylvan Street in Van Nuys used to house the offices and newsroom of the Daily News and the paper's previous incarnation as the Valley News and Green Sheet.
The view from the alley behind Van Nuys Boulevard....
Great Republic Lofts, Downtown Los Angeles
Olympic Boulevard, Downtown LA fashion district....
Locals know that winter is a special time on the beach.
The Good Nite bar. North Hollywood. Cocktails. Karaoke.
Tinhorn Flats Saloon, West Magnolia Boulevard, city of Burbank.
There's plenty of seating at the bus stop outside the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.
Los Angeles Kings fans at Staples Center a minute after their team lost in an especially disappointing way....
Drawers holding letterpress type at Iron Curtain Press pop-up store in Westwood Village, part of the Hammer Museum's Arts ReSTORE LA project....
Coso Junction is just south of the Owens Valley along U.S. 395 in Inyo County.
Santa Monica Beach boardwalk on a Sunday afternoon.
A cinder cone beside U.S. highway 395 about 164 miles north of Los Angeles, near Little Lake.
This sign for the long-gone Clifton's Silver Spoon Cafeteria on West 7th Street — "a jewel of a cafeteria" — is visible only from Grand Avenue. The street address, 515 West 7th, is currently the location of Mas Malo restaurant....
Mission Road, Boyle Heights.
Construction underway at the One Santa Fe development across from Sci-Arc on Santa Fe Avenue in the Arts District.
Lots going on in this view toward the Sierra Nevada from California highway 136 in Inyo County.
Dinosaur head next to the sidewalk in a shop on La Brea Avenue.
As of last week, Los Angeles mayor-elect Eric Garcetti is protected by an LAPD detail and driven around the city in a dark Chevy Suburban.
Mayor Antonio Villaraiogsa hugged mayor-elect Eric Garcetti outside Getty House this morning and called him a friend. But does the mayor finally look tired of seeing the TV cameras in his front yard?
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A Mexican fan palm grows out of the sidewalk beside the Herald Examiner building on 11th Street in downtown Los Angeles.
North Chinatown. Our kind of place.
Expo Line riders queue at the Culver City station an hour after the end of the first Ciclavia to include the Westside and Venice Beach.
Portable bathrooms pass by the historic Culver Hotel at the end of the first Ciclavia to reach Culver City.
A day of sunshine after rain brought out a crowd to the Sunday market on Grandview Avenue in Mar Vista. Sunday was also the first day of Daylight Saving Time.
Photographers from the late Los Angeles Herald Examiner newspaper told stories and showed pictures on Saturday at the Central Library in Los Angeles.
Porter Street, south of Downtown Los Angeles....
The view from Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles.
Stop sign as community bulletin board.
Joshua Tree against the snowy San Gabriels near Pearblossom. More Mojave Desert photos...
The owner of Grand Central Market has launched a makeover aimed at capturing more of the new demographic moving into downtown.
The Los Angeles River upstream from Burbank Boulevard in the Sepulveda Dam Basin.
The Los Angeles River, left, flows toward the Sepulveda Dam spillway beside Burbank Boulevard.
Waiting at Sweeney Todd's Barber Shop on Hollywood Boulevard....
Signs on the northbound Interstate 405 on-ramp in Culver City.
Everywhere you look: palm trees....
5th Street near Spring, downtown Los Angeles.
Web staff at work in the new KCET offices in Burbank. Story and pics...
The control room during a rehearsal of 'SoCal Connected' at KCET. More pics from inside KCET....
The control room of KCET's studio for "SoCal Connected."
North Main Street, Lincoln Heights. See larger...
If you remember UCLA's Pauley Pavilion as dark and dated, look again....
Brewery Arts Complex, Lincoln Heights. More photos...
Upstairs at The Last Bookstore, downtown....
Venice Boulevard in Mar Vista....
Few miles south of Bakersfield....
Sunshine and afternoon rain in Westwood Village....
Big lawn mowers barrel around the corner of Wilshire and Comstock, possibly headed for the Los Angeles Country Club....
Sign in downtown's Arts District....
LADOT traffic officer has things under control at Figueroa and Exposition....
The 1920s Walker and Eisen hotel and apartments in Koreatown were probably not named for the founder of Wilshire Boulevard. But the first-floor cocktail lounge was called The Gay Room....
Studio still from "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," opening this month, showing Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomqvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander....
The Wilshire Grand Hotel at Figueroa and Wilshire in Downtown Los Angeles opened in 1952 as the Statler. This image from the Herald Examiner Collection at the Los Angeles Public Library shows the Wilshire Boulevard side during opening week...
Gov. Jerry Brown's wife, Anne Gust, tweeted this picture of hubby doing a pushup. More...
Annie Chuck discovered a storefront in Old Town Torrance papered over with what looks to be the entire last published edition of the Her Ex from Nov. 2, 1989....
North of downtown....
Now entering the city of South Gate....
City of Compton....
Yvonne B. Burke Sports Complex....
South Vermont Avenue in South Los Angeles....
Railroad underpass in Vernon....
View Park has great views of Downtown Los Angeles — and many palm trees....
A team from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and UCLA works to preserve the Watts Towers from the stress of earthquakes and daily heating and cooling....
UCLA's William Clark Memorial Library in West Adams....
