Sitemap - 2023 - News from Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles

The Magic Garden off Central Avenue, a new years eve dream

Last Days of the Farmer John "Hog Heaven" Mural in Vernon, California & Jose Huizar's Sentencing Memorandum

The Monastery of the Angels closed on Christmas Eve

Morrison Hotel Reborn press conference and interior tour

Garbo Tips! A Santa Monica Christmas carol from 1933

Will Curren Price's corruption trial be the one to blow the lid off neo-noir Los Angeles?

Gift certificates for the holidays & a 2-for-1 offer on Sunday's Miracle Mile tour

Body parts and burning pallets... Is the past trying to tell us something?

An opportunity to attend the Burial of the Unclaimed Dead 2023

Introducing à la carte deep Los Angeles history webinars

A quick update about today's Cultural Heritage Commission hearing

All Richard wants for his birthday is for YOU to help save a landmark Art Deco tower on Thursday morning

Boyle Heights War Memorial Plaques Stolen for Metal Value - speak out!

Visionary artist Leo Politi's magical Los Angeles is all around us... come and see!

At the Netflix-owned Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, the City Hall Fix Is In

Victorian Los Angeles' monster-sized guest registry is on eBay... will it find a home in a local library or vanish again?

Happy (almost) Hallowe'en

Los Angeles landlord sues Knock LA reporter for exposing illegal Airbnb listings in rent controlled buildings

As architect Peter Zumthor tells the New York Times the new LACMA building is not his work, we say STOP and audit this boondoggle!

Remembering Lyman Stewart on the centennial of his passing... and announcing Richard's birthday tour of Leo Politi's Los Angeles

Preservationists say: "Don't Demolish the Monastery of the Angels!"

Esotouric visits Alhambra's famed Troll / Bridge House and shares a daffy discovery

Exquisite, low altitude Dronescape footage of Marilyn Monroe's house courtesy of The Artery

John Waters' Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Preview

The Los Angeles Ethics Commission is investigating Kim Cooper & Richard Schave of Esotouric for unregistered lobbying

Scoop: As Los Angeles seeks to evict Casa la Golondrina, new owners of Olvera Street's oldest restaurant allege a shakedown

Saving Marilyn Monroe's house [updated]

Scolding Dr. Cornel West at Mark Ridley-Thomas' Sentencing...

Save the Parrot Tree at Santa Ana Main Library

Saturday's crime bus tour reveals the weird, horrible and delightful lost histories of Downtown Los Angeles

Save Hollywood's Castle of Enchantment

What did we find inside of the 400-year-old Eagle Tree?

City Council's Real Estate Development Racket Exposed in Bombshell Court Filing... or Eunisses, You Didn't!

Taix Got Tagged... and the new apartments might not be happening!

"The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel," isn't

Egyptian Theatre Lovers Needed To Nix Netflix' Lurid LED Billboard Blight - call or email!

Save Mashti Malone's!

Curren Price's City Hall Corruption meets Raymond Chandler at the Crossroads of the World

Bus tours and walking tours now listed through Hallowe'en weekend

Denied a demolition permit in March, M. Flax was seemingly left open for vandals to burn... but it can still be saved!

Hanging out with Old Glory Oak, soon to be a Los Angeles County Landmark

The Southwest Museum of the American Indian no longer exists

How the Mythical Cooper's Donuts Riot Led to a Real LAPD Apology... and one last chance to keep real estate lobbyists off the L.A. Planning Commission

We Can't Spell "Esotouric is Back on the Bus" Without "U" & Saturday is The Real Black Dahlia

URGENT ALERT: Karen Bass's Planning Commission nominee is a real estate industry lobbyist whose org lied in City Hall to kill a landmark. Tell her NO today!

Saturday's tour is a celebration of Bunker Hill's modernism while honoring lost Victorian gems... plus another juicy City Hall indictment!

A rare peek at the Natural History Museum car collection (full video for paid subscribers)

The Cultural Heritage Commission hears Onni Group's demo plans for Times Mirror Square, or: Jose Huizar fixed it in PLUM

Will the Historic Los Angeles Times Buildings be Destroyed Because Jose Huizar Sold His City Council Vote? A chance to be heard Thursday at 10am.

Esotouric presents... Nathan Marsak in "Lost on Bunker Hill"

Saturday's tour is a time travel trip of Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights

Ladies & Gentlemen, We Give You The Greatest (And Only) Show On Broadway: Terrazzo Restoration!

A Billion Dollars Laundered on Pershing Square?!

City of Los Angeles: Don't Demolish the Lincoln Heights Jail!

If we could choose the next Los Angeles Conservancy president...

We'll see you on the bus and L.A. sidewalks... and in the Virgin Atlantic cabin, if you fly in May

A love letter to the Pickwick Bookshop in Hollywood, in memory of Aaron M. Epstein (1930-2023)

Confidential Emails Reveal How Public Agencies Covered Up Skid Row Housing Trust's Collapse

Writers Are Broadway Stars as the Million Dollar Theater Celebrates our John Fante, Raymond Chandler Tours

A Cat's Eye View of Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village Folk Art Environment

Presenting the Los Angeles Bungalow Court Housing Map

Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan, on trial for racketeering, wrote a smarmy LADBS leadership guide... and we've got it!

Hope for the Renaissance Revival M. Flax Artists' Materials Building (1925) on MacArthur Park

Together, we can save the lovely Renaissance Revival M. Flax Artists' Materials Building (1925) on MacArthur Park from senseless demolition

Bus tours are coming back... and you can help fill the tank!

Mabel Normand Studio Bungalow at Sunset Junction Demolished... Los Angeles can, and must, do better.

Help Save the Mabel Normand Studio Bungalow at Sunset Junction

Illegal Airbnb listing of a rent controlled unit in Charles Bukowski's East Hollywood bungalow court exposes Pillow & Coffee, a short term rental empire destroying Los Angeles

A Call to Save Alpine Village from Demolition By Neglect

Hope for MacArthur Park's old trees

Urgent Alert: Ex-Councilman Gil Cedillo is killing the old trees in MacArthur Park... and YOU can help stop him!

Of Tacos, Tar Pits and Toppled Trees

Once upon a time in Boyle Heights, crooked councilman "Pop" Blanchard was king... wanna see his castle?

Scoop: What the heck is happening at Skid Row Housing Trust?

Preservation or Demolition Showdown on South Union Avenue

A visit to the Star Dance Studio Memorial in Monterey Park

Demolition threatens Edith Northman's 1927 Boyle Heights road house

Ex-Los Angeles Councilmember Jose Huizar Pleads Guilty to Racketeering and Tax Evasion

Saturday Tour Rain Check & What Are They Doing to the Orpheum Theatre Marquee?

Exploring the hidden secrets of the 98-year-old Sinai Temple in Koreatown