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Ana Serrano. Photo by Iris Schneider. Ana Serrano loves to build. Equal parts sculpture and architecture, the artist's colorfully painted cardboard cityscapes, installations, and scaled-down buildings ...

The 1935 LA Times building is in the foreground, at 1st and Spring. To the rear left, at 2nd and Spring, is the 1948 Mirror building. The 1970s Times Mirror wing, at 1st and Broadway, is what would be ...

Now this is Hollywood, and a place where some people will do anything to promote anything. So it could be just that: a promo for something yet to be revealed. But it seems that on Page A7 of Monday's ...

Hitchhikers on Sunset Strip in 1968. Posted by PastDaily.com. Sound archivist Gordon Skene has a huge collection of radio clips and other audio files. After the news broke last week about KFWB AM 980 ...

Wednesday was the last day of work for many of the close to 80 newsroom staffers who are leaving the Los Angeles Times, with farewell gatherings and toasts in several departments. "Hysterical," is how ...

For her NPR piece on the Day of the Dead celebration at Hollywood Forever cemetery, Los Angeles correspondent Mandalit del Barco hooked up with El Mariachi Manchester. Their thing is they cover songs ...

The other domino has fallen from the Los Angeles Times' move last month of political editor Cathleen Decker to politics columnist. David Lauter, the bureau chief in Washington, will run coverage of ...

Between 1964 and 1966, popular Los Angeles radio deejay Sam Riddle hosted a Saturday night dance show that was syndicated nationally from the KHJ studios in Hollywood. "Hollywood A Go-Go" featured ...

Carol Kaye and Bill Pittman in the Wrecking Crew era. Denny Tedesco's documentary on the Hollywood and West Coast session musicians who played on countless hit records in the 1960s and 70s will be ...

Variety was expected to announce tomorrow the hiring of longtime Los Angeles Times reporter James Rainey, but an hour after I called Rainey tonight and said I was going to post they went ahead and ...

Kerry Slattery, the longtime general manager and co-owner of Skylight Books in Los Feliz, told her staff last night that she is stepping aside. "I’m 70 and I’d like to focus on some writing projects I ...