To all those smiling faces in the School News columns of the Chronicle: Keep up the good work! It can really pay off! I was one of those faces back in 1974 to ’77, writing about the happenings at John ...

A new Japanese restaurant recently joined the growing collection of eateries flanking the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and La Brea Avenue. (See “Stunning pan-Asian restaurant encourages ...

The La Brea Tar Pits—the richest Ice Age fossil site on the planet—continues to reveal stories of mammoths, dire wolves, and other creatures who lived in L.A. 10,000 years ago, many of whom were found ...

An eight-story residential and retail project at Third Street and Fairfax Avenue across from The Grove and the Original Farmers Market is nearing completion. The development, at 6300 W. Third St., ...

Among the many Starbucks locations that shut down last year was the popular, community-centric store on the corner of Beverly Boulevard and Detroit Street. The longtime staff there was notified by ...

Ever wondered if there is more tar beneath the surface of Hancock Park? The answer is yes, and plenty of it. One can see it at the surface of the iconic Lake Pit that features statues of mammoths ...

The former site of the Monastery of the Angels—a four-acre gated hillside property in Hollywood—will be transformed into a Homeboy Industries residential treatment facility. The transformation will be ...

Las Madrinas, the oldest affiliate group of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, honored 19 families and their daughters for their service to the Southern California community at the Las Madrinas Ball.

Lifelong Ridgewood Place resident Edgar Sandoval played his violin at the 60th annual Super Bowl halftime show with Bad Bunny. Sandoval said, “It was an intense experience.” The 41-year-old musician ...

Nithya Raman’s late entry into the Los Angeles mayoral race doesn’t just add another name to an already long list of candidates. It shifts the balance of the contest. Until she filed, the race was ...

After two decades in the making—and, some might say, as the icing on the cake of an overall expansion of the LACMA campus—the David Geffen Galleries is set to open Sun., April 19. Pritzker ...

Two new Metro subway stations will be opening along Wilshire Boulevard in the coming months as Metro completes Phase One of its D Line Extension project. Both located in Miracle Mile, stations at ...