Actor Matthew Perry has listed his home in the Bird Streets of Hollywood Hills West for sale at $13.5 million. Perry, known for his role on the sitcom “Friends,” has been spending less time on the West Coast since his playwriting debut, “The End of Longing,” opened last year in London. The play,...
I’m an American film enthusiast. As such, I take particular interest in movies released during a 20-year period from the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s. A friend of mine once opined: “Jim, you enjoy watching dead people pretending to be alive.” I’m a fan of such stars as Humphrey Bogart, Margaret...
The development of the San Fernando Valley features more than its share of shady real estate speculators, above-the-law syndicates of the rich and powerful, and outright con men. But few of those rogues possessed the duplicity of the founder of the small hillside settlement that would eventually...
A massive search was finally underway in the Malibu Creek State Park for a 29-year-old woman reported missing four days ago, who disappeared after her discharge from the Malibu Hills Treatment Center. Authorities have identified Gwen Staci's Toyota Corolla in Saratoga Hills, now suspecting foulplay...
Bob Stone sat at his dining room table and twisted open 90 red capsules, one by one. From them he collected a small pile of powder. In an hour, when the sun finished setting outside his Silver Lake home, he would use the drug to end his life. Stone mixed applesauce with the powdered secobarbital,...
The small cove in San Mateo County known as Martins Beach, just south of Half Moon Bay, was used regularly by the public for at least a century – until 2010, when the Silicon Valley billionaire and co-founder of Sun Microsystems Vinod Khosla locked a gate on the only road that provides public access...
Hot weather and dry vegetation have combined to create dangerous conditions that are allowing wildfires to spread fast across Southern California
Firefighters were responding to two brush fires Thursday in the mountains west of Los Angeles: a large wildfire in Calabasas and a blaze in Malibu that was threatening some homes. The Topanga fire was reported near Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway. The California Highway Patrol...
Orange County firefighters on Thursday were responding to a small fire that broke out near homes in Laguna Niguel. The fire was burning south of the 73 tollway near Via Laguna. The Orange County Fire Authority said two acres had burned. Officials said that they were making “good” progress and that...
In the 1950s, the art scene in New York was all about abstract expressionists — "action painters" like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. A scattering of up-and-coming artists saw this trend, couldn't relate to it and decided to set up shop someplace else. "It seemed like a cold...
Los Angeles County’s impressive Campus Kilpatrick opens its doors Friday and will welcome its first juvenile residents next month, and that is cause for cautious optimism and careful stock-taking in the county’s troubled Probation Department. Discussion of the facility first requires some frank...
Anonymous tip-off leads Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives to find a skull and other bones in a La Puente backyard, where they and coroner’s officials were looking for the remains of a person missing since 2009, officials said. Authorities first descended on the...
When I dine out in Los Angeles, I sometimes think of the editor Robert Messenger, who observed that a good cocktail "whets the appetite, pleases the eye, and stimulates the mind. It is one of our conspicuous contributions to cultured living." Or the writer Adam Gopnik, who said that "meeting someplace...
Completed this year, this contemporary two-story in Mar Vista pampers the head of the household with a sizable master suite complete with an artistic wall fireplace, private balcony and four-section bathroom. For the rest of the family, there’s an open-plan living room and a kitchen with a wide...