"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On a tree-lined street on the Westside of Los Angeles, in a neighborhood that time mostly forgot, a 1940s ...

During the years 1920 to 1940, the greater Los Angeles area was awash with dreams. Individuals with a hope or a vision were drawn to the vibrant, young city that promised to make dreams into reality.

Among the disappointments of Colm Toíbín’s new novel, “The Magician,” which imagines the life of Thomas Mann, is any real sense of the richly extravagant artistic life of the émigré community in 1940s ...

A 1942 home in Los Angeles designed by renowned architect Sumner Spaulding hit the market last week for $12.95 million. The residence has seven bedrooms and seven and a half bathrooms over one level, ...

LOS ANGELES — Rafael Ramos stood at his Boyle Heights newsstand on a sunny morning. Above, a faded green awning proclaimed: ALL KINDS OF SPANISH MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS. Over the buzz of traffic at ...