Getty Images/EyeEm It’s not good-bye — we’re moving to a new home. Dear readers, hate-readers, and vicious commenters, Googie. “Greenmailing.” NIMBYs. (So many NIMBYs!) Ugly buildings. Beautiful buildings. Maps. Maps. Maps. Renderings. Filming locations. Earthquakes. Wildfires. Beyoncé’s house. Jeff Bezos’s house. Regular people’s houses. Haunted houses. Walk more, drive less. Seriously, though: Drive less. Trailblazing architects [...]
A shady front porch beckons from the end of the landscaped walkway. | Photos by Anthony Barcelo Photography, courtesy of Michele Moses/Ernie Carswell and Associates It also has a koi pond. Price: $1,438,000 Location: Koreatown Situated in a pocket of lush, palm-tree-lined blocks in the northwest corner of Koreatown, 138 South Hobart Boulevard is walking [...]
Getty Images/iStockphoto Escorts, cash, and karaoke bars. Editor’s note: FBI agents arrested Los Angeles City Councilmember José Huizar on the morning of June 23 at his home in Boyle Heights in connection with their investigation into corruption at City Hall. Huizar is accused of federal racketeering, and the U.S. Attorney alleges he led a ring [...]
The property is well hidden from the street. | Photos by Christine Bullard, courtesy of Alyssa Valentine and Kurt Wisner/Compass The airy abode makes the most of its space. Price: $899,000 Location: Highland Park Tucked into the hills west of Figueroa, 1209 Le Gray Avenue sits on the curve of a narrow sidewalkless street that [...]
Melina Abdullah, center, chants after she was detained by police in July 2016 while protesting the deadly police shooting of Redel Jones, a 30-year-old mother of two. | Photo by Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images “No one is saying that we don’t want to have strong systems of public safety.” Every morning around [...]
Photos by Pablo Rodriguez, courtesy of Michelle Bolotin/Compass Designed in 1963 by noted local architect W. Earl Wear. Price: $4,800,000 Location: Topanga A winding ten-minute drive from Topanga’s famous storybook restaurant Inn of the Seventh Ray, which is once again open for business, 2440 Minard Road is tucked into the hills just north of the [...]
Photos by Suzy Poling, courtesy of Lauren Reichenberg/Compass Plus stained glass and scalloped cabinets. LOCATION: Los Feliz — Sitting on the northeast corner of Los Feliz, 3024 Surry Street is about a block west of the Rowena Reservoir. There was some talk of turning the ten-acre fenced reservoir into a true public recreation space last [...]
Getty Images Under a new bill, tenants would not be evicted for missing rent payments. For years, California has been gripped by a housing-affordability and homelessness crisis, which has only been amplified over the past three months by a global pandemic. As the state begins to reopen, emergency measures designed to help renters will lapse, [...]
This midcentury home was the long-time family residence of Harry and Alys Pryor, who were pillars of the Glendale community. | Images by Geoff Yale Photography, courtesy of Jacki Tenerelli Asplund/Compass Greenery galore. LOCATION: Glendale — You won’t find much by way of restaurants or retail establishments in Glendale’s Oakmont neighborhood, with its only access [...]
Photos by Cameron Carothers, courtesy of Matt Berkley and Scott Lander/Deasy Penner Podley Ray Kappe designed the post-and-beam home in 1961, then re-built it after the Northridge earthquake Located just east of the 80-acre Deervale-Stone Canyon Park, this Sherman Oaks residence was originally built by the great Ray Kappe in 1961, and then rebuilt by [...]