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Vincent Musetto, a retired editor at the New York Post, died on Tuesday in the Bronx at age 74. He "wrote the most anatomically evocative headline in the history of American journalism," the New York ...

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 ...

First, a little background. Dating to even before Tribune Company ownership of the LA Times, the cost cutters looked for a way to reduce the huge commitment on the books to pay for vacation days ...

David Allen, the columnist for the Inland Valley Bulletin, is a fan of the Brand Bookshop in Glendale and isn't happy at all to hear that it's closing. He paid what may be a final visit and posted a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following on last week's announcement that LA Times film writer John Horn would anchor KPCC's on-air arts and entertainment show, the station has filled out the producer spots with names that also ...

Forty five years ago, then-governor Ronald Reagan made it a cause to get young UCLA professor Angela Davis fired by the UC Board of Regents. She was a member of the Communist Party, a participant in ...

Photo of the Zanja Madre in Chinatown by William Preston Bolling and Friends of the Los Angeles River. Crews excavating on the former Little Joe's restaurant site in Chinatown have uncovered the ...

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 ...

Greuel told Rick Orlov, “When I heard about Henry retiring, I felt the fire in the belly. It would be an honor and a privilege to succeed Henry Waxman. He is an icon." Daily News Greuel is still ...