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Raymond Chandler and the case of the purloined cover art
Gentle reader, A decade ago, we published The Kept Girl, Kim’s mystery novel about the real-life cult of angel worshippers who relieved Raymond…
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Climbing onto the Million Dollar Theater's Marquee
Gentle reader, Greetings from your friendly historic Los Angeles sightseeing tour company, now offering walking tours like Saturday’s excursion through…
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Demolition is coming for the beautiful 1937 J.J. Rees Apartments in Beverlywood, and it's everything wrong with L.A. City Hall
Gentle reader, We’ve lost some great Los Angeles landmarks to the landfills, and it doesn’t have to be this way. More progressive, green and thoughtful…
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Los Angeles landlord sues Knock LA reporter for exposing illegal Airbnb listings in rent controlled buildings
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Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Ray Chan Convicted... but it's not over
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The Los Angeles Ethics Commission is investigating Kim Cooper & Richard Schave of Esotouric for unregistered lobbying
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Scoop: As Los Angeles seeks to evict Casa la Golondrina, new owners of Olvera Street's oldest restaurant allege a shakedown
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Exploring St. Luke Hospital, abandoned art deco jewel of Northeast Pasadena
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Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Ray Chan Convicted... but it's not over
Gentle reader, When a whale dies in the open ocean, its corpse slowly sinks through darker and colder layers, before finally landing on the barren…
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A Daring Theft Above the Dutch Chocolate Shop
Gentle reader, We interrupt our previous scheduled wrap up reporting on the Ray Chan public corruption trial—holy cats, the jury came back guilty on all…
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Save Sunshine, the Last Palm on Old Bunker Hill
Gentle reader, Once upon a time there was a volunteer palm tree that grew on a dusty parking lot on the last scrap of natural hillside of Bunker Hill…
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Courthouse Bombshell: LADBS General Manager Ray Chan assembled an "A-Team" of retired government officials to grease the development wheels…
Gentle reader, The Los Angeles Times is dead to us, and it ought to be to you. There was nobody from that shell of a newspaper in the new Federal…
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Jose Huizar isn't there, but he's on trial at the Federal Courthouse
Gentle reader, After spending two more days at the New Federal Courthouse, taking copious notes on testimony from City Council aide George Esparza and…
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B'nai B'rith Preservation Update from Superior Court and Day 1 of Ray Chan's Public Corruption Trial
Gentle reader, Apologies to all of you who experienced the annoyance of not being able to send an email to Mayor Karen Bass. We’d apologize for giving…
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Tell Mayor Karen Bass: Veto the secret B'nai B'rith demolition deal! [updated contact info]
Watch now (7 mins) | Gentle reader, There’s a word that old time carnies and circus people used to use to describe the civilians who came to the Midway…
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