Photo gallery for
LA Observed

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, just 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....