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Los Angeles’s Long Tradition of LASD Scandals
In 2011, the FBI began investigating claims that Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies were brutalizing jail inmates. In response, the department hid a federal informant from them and sent...
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This Year’s FYF Lineup Is All about the Ladies. Here’s How to Bask in Their...
Most music festivals don’t have a great track record with women. The percentage of women who perform in them remains staggeringly low, with female artists making up only about 12 percent of all...
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These Are the Local Designers Kanye, Solange, and Rihanna Go to for Fashion
When it comes to clothing, Los Angeles is more often associated with caftans and casual denim than haute couture — but that might not be true for long. A new wave of innovative, high-fashion designers...
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These Fabulously Punk OBEY Debbie Harry Designs from Shepard Fairey Pop Up on...
Have you ever wanted Debbie Harry’s iconic mug emblazoned on a jean jacket? A T-shirt? A sweater? The hood of your T-bird? All of the above? Of course you have, and you’re in luck: The Blondie lead...
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This Is Why The Revitalization of the LA River Is Taking So Long
Sandwiched between Rio de Los Angeles State Park and an unusually verdant meander of the L.A. River in Glassell Park, you will find the crumbling remains of a railroad empire. Littered with rocks,...
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Why You Should Stick Your Hand in This Mystery Box at the Bus Stop
What does gentrification smell like? Lavender, coffee, cocoa, and vanilla, says former LADOT artist-in-residence Alan Nakagawa. He created “Economic Development” — a scent inspired by our city’s...
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L.A.’s First Mobile Bookstore Is Coming This Fall
L.A. loves a mobile business. We inspired the food truck frenzy in the early aughts. We embraced the fleet of fashion-mobiles that followed. Basically, if you can bring your store closer to us so we...
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A Putt-Putt Course Will Make You See L.A.’s Housing Crisis in a New Light
Ever wondered how Skid Row became a hub for the homeless? Why Koreatown is so dense? Or what the heck got L.A. into its current housing crisis? The answers to these questions are complex—a lot of it...
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Know Your Streets: Crenshaw Boulevard
Stretching 23 miles from Wilshire Boulevard in Mid City to Palos Verdes, Crenshaw Boulevard was named in 1904 after developer and fruit importer George Lafayette Crenshaw (aka the “Banana King”). He...
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When Fires Rage in SoCal, This Pair of High-Flying Canadians Comes to the Rescue
Fire season is nothing to celebrate, but at least we can look forward to the dramatic display of the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s aerial fleet. While converted DC-10 airliners and helicopters...
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Here Are Six Books You Need to Read In October
1. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado October 3 The best surrealist fiction resides somewhere between the eerie and the actual, and that’s exactly where Carmen Maria Machado feels most...
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A Guide to L.A.’s Best Secret Gardens
Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden Westwood A post shared by L Sierra (@lawnssss) on Sep 15, 2017 at 9:33am PDT Housing more than 3,000 plant species, the jungle-like 7.5-acre arboretum is a retreat...
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A Definitive Ranking of L.A.’s Scariest Immersive Haunts
Terrifying Halloween attractions are nothing new—haunted houses (the fun kind) date to 1969, when Disneyland opened its Haunted Mansion. But evolution was inevitable. Whether it’s a morbid virtual...
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A Giant, Free Clinic Will Be Open in DTLA for Three Days This November
From November 17-19 the L.A.-based nonprofit Care Harbor will host its 8th free mega-clinic, bringing together over 50 local organizations to provide medical, dental and vision services to thousands of...
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It’s Time You Familiarize Yourself with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, L.A.’s...
Watching Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith navigate the knobs on her Buchla synth is mesmerizing—not just because the hulking machine looks like something swiped from the set of Star Trek, but because so few...
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Old-School Hip-Hop Fans Rejoice—Ice-T’s Old DJ Crew is Getting Its Own City...
Most hip-hop fans know the genre was born in the Bronx, when the holy trinity of DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and Afrika Bambaataa pioneered the art of scratching records and rapping over them at...
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The Roller Rink That Incubated L.A. Hip-Hop Is Back—But Not the Same
When World On Wheels opened in 1981, the energy in the roller rink was electric. It was Halloween, and the rails were draped with onlookers as the Scooby Brothers, a popular skate-dance group, showed...
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Life Inside the Mickey Suit (Yep, It Gets Hot in There)
This article is part of our Insider’s Guide to Disneyland, from the November 2017 issue of the magazine. As told by Luann Algoso to Zoie Matthew I grew up in Anaheim, so it was kind of a given that I...
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What It’s Like Being Inside Disneyland at 3 AM
This article is part of our Insider’s Guide to Disneyland, from the November 2017 issue of the magazine. As told by Tina Caviezel to Zoie Matthew I started February 9, 1992. Normally I worked midnight...
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How to Get Started
Lulu Cerone is only 18 years old, but she’s been in the business of giving back for more than a decade now. At six, she started donating the profits she made from selling lemonade in her Encino...
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