Sitemap - 2024 - News from Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles

Norms Fans Yelled Real Loud and Raising Cane's Heard Us

The Burial of the Unclaimed Dead is for all Angelenos who care

Friday's Raymond Chandler auction in NYC features the lost comic operetta we discovered in 2014

Catholic priest and preservation commissioner receives sinister phone call about Marilyn Monroe house landmark lawsuit

Property Owner Raising Cane's seeks to evict Norms La Cienega after 67 Years (saved? see updates below)

Address correction for the Menlo Avenue preservation post

City of Los Angeles: Tell Developer CEI to Restore the Vacant & Scorched 1216 South Menlo Avenue

The Melrose Bungalows are gone, and we're planting our flag in the ruins

George Esparza helped Jose Huizar ruin Los Angeles, now he has a plan to end City Hall corruption... plus "new" old streetlights on Broadway

Of lobbyist Morrie Goldman's outrageous public corruption defense, a dead body and $5 tickets on Saturday's L.A. Times Bombing tour

Urgent Alert: Ask Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez to Save Gwynn Wilson's 1932 Olympics Cottage

The Landmark Dutch Chocolate Shop Can Be Yours, plus a TLDR on the Marilyn Monroe landmarking threat

Scoop: Preservationists subpoenaed over Marilyn Monroe house landmark designation

On the occasion of the burning of Diamond Bakery (1946-2024), the gutted Fairfax Theatre has a beautiful secret

This Decommissioned Los Angeles Subway Terminal Could Be Yours

In Court as Former General Manager of LADBS and Deputy Mayor Ray Chan is Sentenced to 12 years in Prison for Public Corruption

Scoop: in character reference letters ahead of Federal corruption sentence, Deputy Mayor Ray Chan's wife says Mayor Eric Garcetti refused to let him retire

Keep On Asking Councilmember Kevin de Leon to Re-open Angels Knoll Park—it's working!

Ask Councilmember Kevin de Leon to Re-open Angels Knoll Park

Join us for for the B'nai B'rith appeal hearing: it's a Kafka-esque nightmare! (Tuesday 10am)

Is That A Bogus Ceremonial City Sign at Monastery of the Angels in Hollywood?

Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez: Stop Demolition of 40 RSO Units at Yucca & Argyle in Hollywood

Free Webinar: A Celebration of Paul R. Williams, featuring the landslide threatened SeaView Palos Verdes

Goodbye to Goodform in Jay Sebring's Salon

On International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, it's a Biddy Mason Memorial Park Miracle

A South L.A. Oddity: The Raccoon Building

Help Save the Pacific Dining Car Before It's Too Late

The Pacific Dining Car, a long goodbye (1921-2020-2024, R.I.P.)

Here's something you won't see on Sunday's Evergreen Cemetery walking tour

Tuesday morning: March with the Hotel Cecil tenants to Los Angeles City Hall

Watching the demolition of the Stires Staircase Bungalow Court (1922-2024)

The Worst of Airbnb "Influencer" Vladyslav Yurov... and why the Los Angeles City Attorney really dropped the hammer on Vladbnb

An icon in a ruined bungalow court whispers of real consequences for City Hall's secret racket

City Planning Slow Walks L.A. Conservancy Appeal Just Long Enough for Catholic Charities to Start Demolishing B'nai B'rith Lodge

We'd like to apologize if we inspired Chris Pine's "Poolman"

Summer / Fall tours announced, including another chance to see the Dutch Chocolate Shop

Marilyn Monroe's house is a landmark and we are forever a part of her story

As demolition looms, the State shuts down the Silver Platter, Westlake's oldest gay bar

The Preservation Imp visits Arby's in Hollywood

Emergency Action Alert: Tell Sacramento to VOTE NO on California YIMBY's bad faith preservation killer AB 2580

B'nai B'rith Demolition Surprise: Century-Old Jewish Symbols on View for the First Time in Decades!

Illegal Demolition Alert: Save Doss's Corner store and Victorian apartments in South LA

Marilyn Monroe home landmark vote is Wednesday, June 12 in Los Angeles City Hall

As M. Flax is demolished, you're invited to join the St. Vibiana Circle to help save what's left of Los Angeles

Judge issues tentative decision on Marilyn Monroe house demolition injunction, tells property owners to pound sand

Scoop: Marilyn Monroe's House Was Almost Demolished in 2023 (by the previous owners)

In Search of the Holy Virgin in the Bungalow Court Ruins

See Westlake While You Can... with 2-for-1 tickets on our June 8 walking tour

Landmark Crouch Memorial Church Burns on East 27th Street

Save the Silver Platter, Westlake's Oldest Gay Bar

A bird's-eye view of Charles Bukowski's Westlake neighborhood

We're in the lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles for trying to landmark Marilyn Monroe's house

Here's how the city can save the Melrose Bungalow Court... and its feral cat colony

Mayor Karen Bass finally says something about Downtown LA real estate corruption, exposes herself as an empty pantsuit

Demolition Red Alert! Tell L.A. Conservancy To Save B'nai B'rith Before It's Too Late

A wind chime for the ghosts of old Los Angeles

Raymond Chandler and the case of the purloined cover art

Climbing onto the Million Dollar Theater's Marquee

Demolition is coming for the beautiful 1937 J.J. Rees Apartments in Beverlywood, and it's everything wrong with L.A. City Hall

Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Ray Chan Convicted... but it's not over

A Daring Theft Above the Dutch Chocolate Shop

Save Sunshine, the Last Palm on Old Bunker Hill

Courthouse Bombshell: LADBS General Manager Ray Chan assembled an "A-Team" of retired government officials to grease the development wheels in City Hall

Jose Huizar isn't there, but he's on trial at the Federal Courthouse

Room just opened up on Saturday's Know Your Downtown L.A. Tour

B'nai B'rith Preservation Update from Superior Court and Day 1 of Ray Chan's Public Corruption Trial

Correct phone number (not webform, email) for asking Mayor Karen Bass to veto the B'nai B'rith demolition deal

Tell Mayor Karen Bass: Veto the secret B'nai B'rith demolition deal! [updated contact info]

Marilyn Monroe landmark update & a last chance for City Council to be transparent about the secret B'nai B'rith demolition plan

The Battle of the Blondes: second of three votes needed to save Marilyn Monroe's house

D.A. alleges witness tampering by indicted councilman Curren Price's wife, courthouse cornerstone wrecked

What PLUM did to B'nai B'rith and your invitation to celebrate 125 Years of Swami Vivekananda in L.A. on 2/22

Help us save B’nai B’rith Lodge at 846 South Union Avenue

Calling All Ghosts, or... Our Uncanny Experience on the Leo Politi Bus Tour in Angelino Heights

RIP to the Grand View Bungalow Court in the Westlake District

TOC Trouble in Whitley Heights, as a huge, unfinished building undermines its neighbors

We visit the endangered 5212 Melrose Avenue Bungalow Court

A Day in and out of Court with prison-bound Los Angeles Councilman Jose Huizar

Jose Huizar plays the blame game... and so do Angelenos

Announcing the Eagle Tree Clone Distribution Project

Save the 5212 Melrose Avenue Bungalow Court, a National Register eligible landmark in distress

Dr. Don Hodel's prescription for Saving El Pino

Help make developer Essex bring Hollywood's most spectacular lost neon sign back to Sunset Boulevard

We couldn't do it without you—and we wouldn't want to