Los Angeles

Parks, Art Walks, and Neighborhoods Named as Finalists in New Los Angeles Awards Show

From a freeway-capped park in Hollywood to a colony on Mars, the Los Angeles Real Creativity Awards honor the city's best ideas in design, business and culture.READ»

Rise and Sprawl: How Los Angeles Came to Be

Taschen's new photography book Los Angeles: Portrait of a City is quite simply the most comprehensive visual survey of the city ever published. Editor Jim Heimann begins with the first known photo taken in Los Angeles, and weaves a 500-page narrative of celebrity and politics, real estate and riots, pop culture and palm trees.READ»

Gushing About L.A.'s Cleverly-Disguised Urban Oil Fields

Los Angeles is the world's most urban oil field, with 41 active--but ingeniously camouflaged--sites where black gold is siphoned from the ground.READ»

MOCA Shakes Off Blue Phase With a 30th Anniversary Party

The Los Angeles museum looks bravely towards the future with a new exhibition and a new attitude.READ»

L.A. Is the Creative Capital of the World: Report

The Otis College of Art and Design has released its annual report on the health of L.A's creative industries, where booming growth is predicted in digital media fields.READ»

Forever Young

Who among us doesn’t want to cheat the aging process and look younger than our years? Who doesn’t love being told how young they look, or what beautiful skin they have? Who wouldn’t want to look “forever young?”READ»

Riding L.A.'s Newest Rail Line

The Gold Line Eastside Extension opens in Los Angeles this Sunday, bringing a major light-rail system to the city's East L.A. communities.READ»

PETCO's Pesky Puppies Found in Los Angeles Park: Ingenious or Invasive?

Over the weekend, Los Angeles hikers got their Spandex in a bunch when confronted with a pack of yellow cut-out Chihuahuas stuck into the hillside of a popular park: Ads for PETCO.READ»

Looking as Young as You Feel

“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel." - Elizabeth ArdenREAD»

The Farmers' Market, Reimagined as a Neighborhood Food Truck

As the local food trend grows, so does consumer demand for farmers' markets. But as it stands, farmers' markets are mostly the domain of middle and upper-class neighborhoods. GOOD and The Architect's Newspaper aim to change that ...READ»

Five Incredible Timelapse Videos of the Station Fire in Los Angeles

At 148,000 acres and still burning, the Station Fire has now been declared the biggest wildfire in Los Angeles County history. And five videos made by local filmmakers prove it.READ»

How L.A. Metro Is Enticing Riders With Better Design

Michael Lejeune heads a 20-person in-house design studio tasked with bringing more riders aboard L.A.'s public-transportation system. He led the campaign design for this summer's expansion of Metro Rail's Gold Line, a light-rail line that connects Pasadena with downtown and East L.A.READ»

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Sign of the Times: Abandoned KFC Transformed Into Marijuana Dispensary

As the economy worsens and abandoned storefronts continue to pop up on street corners all over the country, we've had the opportunity to learn which industries are virtually recession-proof. For example, California's medical ...READ»

Airlines Join Together to Use Synthetic Diesel Fuel at LAX

Sustainability efforts in the airline industry are usually focused on airplanes or terminals, but Rentech Inc. has honed in on another aspect of the industry: ground-service transportation. The fuel company has brought together ...READ»

Three Creative Ways to Remake Old Car Plants

Why destroy decommissioned factories when their lurid remains can be put to good use for everything from crafts fairs to rock concerts?READ»

Julius Shulman, the World's Greatest Architectural Photographer, Dies at 98

The legendary lenser is the subject of a beautiful new documentary that celebrates his over 70-year career.READ»

Fast Networking with Mindshare

Where does the project-schizophrenic entrepreneur of the 21st-century network?...not at the yacht club. The age of the garage-tinkerers turned Silicon Valley CEOs vaulted a generation of unsophisticated minds to the top rung of the ...READ»

L.A.'s Best Architecture Is on the Ground

Don't go gazing at the Los Angeles skyline if you want to see the most exciting new architecture in town. The 9.5-acre Vista Hermosa Park in downtown L.A. was given the grand prize at the 39th annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards.READ»

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How Fuel-Efficient Is the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid?

The 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid has gotten lots of attention recently for going 1,445 miles on a single tank of gas--that's 81.5 mpg--in a hypermiling stunt. But how does the Fusion perform in the merely caffeinated world of ...READ»

What is Skin Cancer?

Cancer occurs when cells multiply in an uncontrolled fashion. Any cell can lose control and begin to divide too rapidly, thus causing a cancer of that cell type. In fact, this happens almost daily in our body, but we are equipped ...READ»

The Anti-Acne Diet

Most of us can relate to acne—who hasn’t had it to some degree.  However, unlike many of us who outgrow it in our teens, about fifty percent of individuals with acne still suffer well into adulthood and sometimes even in our ...READ»

ActiveFX for Great Effects!

By  Lisa Benest MD  Time is not kind to our skin.  Brown spots, wrinkles and laxity can make us look even older.  If you:   ·         Have a busy lifestyle or cannot be away from work for a long time ...READ»

SoCal Tech – The Undiscovered Country

When Mike Macadaan, a Silicon Valley based designer at AOL, decided to throw a tech exhibition, you’d think he would have done it locally. Instead, Macadaan did the unthinkable. He went to Los Angeles. Surely this would mean ...READ»

PushTraffic: Los Angeles Internet Marketin Seminar

We're having this year's second international marketing workshop "The Truth" in downtown Los Angeles at between April 4 - April 6, 2008. Company founder and CEo John Raygoza will lead "The Truth" and offer ...READ»