We might be done with the Santa Ana winds this season, but they don’t seem to be done with us. It’s been dry and windy because of those mysterious warm winds from the east, and one of the unfortunate results was the Fillmore Fire  in Ventura County.
“The Santa Anas are really a rather defining phenomenon in our area,” said Robert Fovell, who studies the Santa …

The American Soldier:
War is not an ideal situation for a culture exchange, but when the first troops rolled into Iraq from Kuwait in 2003, thousands of fresh-faced American soldiers came face to face with a people they knew almost nothing about. Carlos Soltero was one of them. Growing up with his grandparents in Torrance, he always told them he wanted to be a Marine.
He enlisted …

Just below the observation deck on the top of City Hall, there’s a weirdly quiet floor. It’s mostly inhabited by ghosts; stern-looking men staring out from fancy frames over a city they couldn’t possibly have imagined. These are portraits of LA’s past mayors. And no one knows more about them than Tom Sitton, a student of LA’s political past and the former head of …

So you’re standing in a lot in front of Home Depot and you’re looking at the trees leaning against a chain link fence and thinking to yourself…this is not how it’s supposed to be. I am supposed to go out into the snow and trudge through the woods and cut down a tree.
It may be Valencia, CA. And it may be 75 degrees out, but you can …

Halloween can be big fun for revelers wanting to loosen up a bit, but then there’s the issue of getting home after a night at all those bars. And in L.A., finding a taxi to take you home can be a bit sobering.
In the days before a big party night, you hear all these well-meaning messages about the evils of drinking and driving. And …

Traffic data provider Inrix recently looked at a wide range of traffic information and crunched the numbers to come up with the top 10 worst traffic cities, based on the time drivers spend idling in their cars.  Believe it or not, Honolulu tops the list, but LA is number two.  Even with Kajon’s help, Angelenos spend an average of 56 hours every year idling …

In 2005, fashion photographer David LaChappelle made a documentary called “Rize” about a dance style that was born on the streets of LA. Now, two of the dancers featured in the film are taking this raw form of expression and bringing it to a more polite environment. KCRW’s Matt Holzman has more.
The Radio Shack and the bank in this mini-mall in North Hollywood have …