Iris Schneider considers herself an accomplished observer of life in Los Angeles. As a staff photographer at the L.A. Times for 27 years, and as a freelance photographer in New York and Los Angeles, ...

LA Observed columnist Bill Boyarsky retired from the Los Angeles Times after serving as national political writer, City-County Bureau chief, city editor and columnist. A former vice president of the ...

Soon-Shiong's wife, Michele, is leading the design of the space, and he made several references to her interest in The Times' noted Test Kitchen. Two local architecture firms — Tichenor and Thorp in ...

The website FTV Live reported Monday morning that longtime Los Angeles TV and radio personality Steve Edwards — the host of "Good Day LA" on Fox 11 — was fired "after sexual harassment allegations ...

The Facebook page of the Pasadena band Snotty Scotty and the Hankies on Sunday announced the death from cancer of its leader, John Scott Finnell. He goes way back with the Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah ...

The 1935 LA Times building is in the foreground, at 1st and Spring. To the rear left, at 2nd and Spring, is the 1948 Mirror building. The 1970s Times Mirror wing, at 1st and Broadway, is what would be ...

Now this is Hollywood, and a place where some people will do anything to promote anything. So it could be just that: a promo for something yet to be revealed. But it seems that on Page A7 of Monday's ...

Oops: Original hed had a typo in the age. Country music great Merle Haggard died today of undisclosed causes at his home near Redding, about 450 miles north of ...

Downtown's One Santa Fe project under construction. LA Observed file photo. Backers of the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative to slow development and City Hall's use of planning exceptions announced ...

Washington Post editor Martin Baron usually falls asleep during the Academy Awards, but this year he will have to stay awake. That's because he will be inside the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood as part of ...

Wednesday was the last day of work for many of the close to 80 newsroom staffers who are leaving the Los Angeles Times, with farewell gatherings and toasts in several departments. "Hysterical," is how ...

Sunday's New York Times revives a classic Los Angeles sports media incident — the time that KLAC radio reporter Paul Olden asked Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda what he thought of Cubs' left fielder Dave ...