Freelance videojournalist Abraham Riesman was sent in 2012 to do a story for Punch on Paul Mazursky's morning gathering of old Hollywood hands (and a few younger ones) at Farmers Market. The table ...

The passing of Ray Manzarek, the legendary keyboard player for The Doors, has brought up personal memories of the band all over social media. The Doors performed live a lot, and of course their music ...

Sandstone Retreat was a clothing-optional refuge in Topanga Canyon that began in the late 1960s and survived efforts by the county to shut it down. John Williamson opened the retreat with his wife, ...

John Dominis photo of publicity-averse actor Steve McQueen and wife Neile Adams soaking in a sulphur bath at Big Sur in 1963. Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image. In the exalted circle of Life magazine ...

The Wilshire Christian Church, built from 1925-27 on the northeast corner of Wilshire and Normandie, has been sold. For sale signs had gone up last year. The buyer is the Oasis Christian Church, which ...

Former Los Angeles TV news executive Bob Long died Monday at George Washington University Hospital in Washington. His television news career included stints as assignment editor and executive producer ...

Filthy McNasty owned two well-remembered music clubs in the Los Angeles area. His Filthy McNasty's on Sunset Strip occupied the spot where the Viper Room is now. After leaving the Strip, McNasty ran ...

Rep. Adam Schiff took part in a Saturday morning media event at Silver Lake Reservoir and heard lots of words of support for his watchdogging of President Trump and the Russian election meddling ...

An LA Observed reader who works at Cal State Long Beach stopped by Wilshire Books in Santa Monica and found the store cleared out. "Quietly closed at the end of December," he writes. The store had ...

At tonight's Los Angeles Press Club awards dinner, the L.A. Times and KPCC came away with seven winners each and the LA Weekly had six — three of them named Christine Pelisek, who also was a runner up ...

Susan Atkins was the Charles Manson follower who used the knife on actress Sharon Tate on Cielo Drive in 1969. After she died this past September, Orange Coast Magazine writer Shawn Hubler began ...

Another long-time Los Angeles broadcast presence is leaving the airwaves. John Brooks has put in 34 years at KFWB and KNX, 22 of those years as a street report and a dozen as news anchor. I'm told he ...