City Terrace Park webpage.

Stinson Carter's Vanity Fair essay on the Villa Carlotta. 

The L.A. Times' Nita Lelyveld visits the Villa Carlotta, and shares intimate photos.

 

Restored Hollyhock House reopens.

How to handle a literary shrine.

Is demolition in the cards for landmark Whittier reform school? 

Mission-era water distribution system emerges.

RIP Vidiots. (flash: it lives!)

New blood for Angels Flight.

Board of Supervisors adopts an historic preservation ordinance.

Why Les Noces du Figaro closed (pdf link).

 

Monthly Sunday LAVA Salon February 2015

LAVA Forensic Science Seminar: Hot Lead and Hot Leads: Forensic Firearm / Gang Communication Analysis

 

Upcoming Bus Tours

Boyle Heights & The San Gabriel Valley: The Hidden Histories of L.A.‘s Melting Pot

Route 66 Road Trip: Roadside Architecture, Citrus, Drive-Ins & Cemeteries

The Lowdown on Downtown

Wild Wild Westside

Weird West Adams

Pasadena Confidential

Hollywood!

Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice

The Real Black Dahlia

Echo Park Book of the Dead