KTLA was the first Los Angeles television station to deploy a news helicopter. It made Channel 5 the place for breaking news until the other stations wised up. This clip shows the news copter being ...

Mission & State, the two-year-old investigative reporting startup, is being closed down by the Santa Barbara Foundation with the support of major funder the Knight Foundation. It sounds as if the ...

Freelance videojournalist Abraham Riesman was sent in 2012 to do a story for Punch on Paul Mazursky's morning gathering of old Hollywood hands (and a few younger ones) at Farmers Market. The table ...

Downtown chronicler Ed Fuentes blogs at View from a Loft that the sign for Gorky's Russian cafe still hangs over the corner of 8th and San Julian streets. It's kind of like looking back in time at the ...

Willie Nelson, beardless and braidless, at the Palomino in 1970. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images at LA Magazine's website Before everyone forgets that LA's music lore includes North Hollywood, Los ...

Sports columnist T.J. Simers' rebirth with the Orange County Register lasted less than a year. He writes in Sunday's column that on Monday he will submit his paperwork for the "voluntary separation ...

Richard Fausset will become the new Atlanta Bureau chief. Read more in this note from Alison Mitchell, Ethan Bronner and Peter Applebome. If the National Desk wanted to dream up the perfect person to ...

SF Muni's F car. LA Observed photo. It wasn't until I was in the Army (my gap year before college — actually two years) that this Los Angeles native realized that Angelenos and Northern Californians ...

Visitors to Santa Monica Beach in the 1880s. This is pretty awesome. Ernie Marquez, a member of the land-grant family that owned Santa Monica Canyon and Rancho Boca de Santa Monica, grew up in the ...

The December issue of Los Angeles Magazine has a nice fat piece on County Fed leader Maria Elena Durazo: how the daughter of immigrant farmworkers came to be a union organizer in Los Angeles, marry ...

Zócalo Public Square has posted the video and some photos from my conversation the other night with David Folkenflik, the media correspondent for NPR whose new book is "Murdoch’s World: The Last of ...

LA Observed photo of the chapel on the VA reservation near West LA. The charming and very unusual chapel facing Wilshire Boulevard on the VA campus in West Los Angeles looks worse every time I check ...