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Some of the most prominent purveyors of porn say they'll start packing up their sex toys and abandoning the nation's Porn Capital if authorities really do carry through with a nascent effort to police their movie sets and order that every actor be outfitted with a condom.
Chris Burden's latest kinetic sculpture, "Metropolis II," does more than just imitate life. The colorful display of roads, cars, trains and buildings is art imitating what the artist foresees life being like in five or 10 years.
Prosecutors filed charges against one of two people arrested in the death of a popular high school soccer player who was shot and killed in front of his California home.
Hollywood, that mythic land where movie drama was invented, suddenly finds itself caught up in its own real-life drama, one involving high-priced real estate and people taking on City Hall.
George Bailey can rest easy. He really did make a difference in the lives of people, including all 3.8 million in Los Angeles.
Southern California Edison is reaching out to hundreds of thousands of customers who were left without electricity — some for as long as a week — during a devastating windstorm last month.
It was a landslide vote — if there can be such a thing in a city where only 52 ballots were cast.
He's the Willie Wonka of this small suburban town east of Los Angeles, the rotund man in the T-shirt and shorts who joyfully takes just about anybody who walks through the door on a tour of his tiny candy factory.
Long before there was an Internet or an iPad, before people were social networking and instant messaging, Americans had already gotten wired.
King Sisyphus, it turns out, had little on the folks at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
A young man who triggered the evacuation and daylong search of a sprawling library at the California State University, Northridge, campus after indicating he had a gun was found and detained Tuesday night.
Alex Schaefer is the hot Los Angeles artist of the moment, thanks to a couple of oil-on-canvas works showing banks burning down.
On the surface it looked like an open-and-shut case: A pair of thieves drop by an art exhibition at the Ritz-Carlton and, while one distracts a curator, the other snatches a valuable, centuries-old Rembrandt drawing and bolts with it.
A documentary on intelligent design, a theory of creation that has been dismissed by some in the scientific community as comparable to claiming the South won the Civil War, can be shown at the California Science Center under terms of a settlement announced Monday.
Scott Wannberg's poems were wildly colorful, sometimes off the wall, frequently in your face and just as often very funny.
The quirky Mojave Desert attraction known as Phonehenge West is coming down and it's colorful creator is not going to jail — at least not now — for constructing the dozen odd-shaped structures without bothering to obtain building permits.
When he was just a high school kid hawking balloons with Mickey Mouse's picture on them, Treb Heining never imagined that his affection for those little helium-filled orbs would blow up into anything more than a fun summertime job.
It's a sound that can set windows to rattling, dogs to barking and babies to crying, and it's one that's instantly recognizable to pretty much anybody who lives or works in Los Angeles.
His colorful expressive works, reflecting everything from cartoonish-looking characters to Aztec warriors, would come to cover everything from the walls of subways to those of major museums during a long career that put Gilbert "Magu" Lujan at the forefront of the Chicano Art Movement.
The eccentric builder of a village of odd-shaped structures called Phonehenge West avoided a trip to jail Friday when a judge who was to sentence him on a dozen building code violations learned he has begun to dismantle the colorful Mojave Desert enclave.
Residents of Phonehenge West, the eccentric little village of colorful structures that rose up in the Mojave Desert over the years without benefit of building permits, have been told to start packing.
The man who built a colorful collection of bizarre structures called Phonehenge West in the Southern California desert has been convicted nine misdemeanors for building without a permit.
When she looks out across a banked wooden track where a couple dozen girls in crash helmets and roller skates are pushing, shoving, slipping and falling, Rebecca Ninburg sees a lot more than just kids having a raucous good time.
They can defuse bombs, help decontaminate nuclear power plants, even vacuum the living room floor without bashing into the furniture or knocking over a vase.
John Walker, the American-born musician who was the frontman for the Walker Brothers, one of the most successful bands of Britain's Golden Age of rock `n' roll, has died at age 67.
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