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A development now taking shape on Metro-owned property near the L.A. River could drop retail space in favor of more affordable housing.

Last month, the Metro Board's Planning and Programming Committee signed off on a request for McCormack Baron Salazar to amend its agreement for a joint development at the Taylor Yard, a former Southern Pacific Railroad maintenance and storage ...

Lucas Hugh is a London-based activewear brand that incorporates futuristic design with technical performance. Established in 2010 by co-CEO and Creative Director Anjhe Marcus, Lucas Hugh was the first to incorporate the fully-bonded seam –used in Olympic-quality swimwear –into activewear. The brand caught fire with the release of The Hunger Games in 2013 where Marcus designed and developed the training outfits featured in the film.

Anjhe Marcus tells FashionUnited how her e...

A fire tore through a strip mall in Rowland Heights on Sunday morning, destroying five businesses, including a veterinary clinic with animals inside.

The fire broke out at the Colima Center on the corner of Colima Road and Paso Real Ave. at 3:00 a.m. It consumed several storefronts before a force of 120 firefighters was able to knock it down.

Among the businesses burned to the ground wa...

Next month, Living Statue Records will put out the Magnetic Fields covers compilation You Can Sing Me Anything: A Tribute to 69 Love Songs, and L.A’s Tomemitsu turns the unconventional “I Shatter” into a dreamy melancholy pop song, exchanging Merritt’s processed voice and cello for a bass/guitar/drums arrangement that’d fit nicely on the b-side of a Cure single. That “Shatter” transforms so elegant...

Presenting Take Sunset’s newest listing: This move-in ready three-bedroom, three-bath home in the Montecito Heights hills.

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The owners of nearly century-old building in Downtown Los Angeles intend to reactivate their property as affordable housing, according to an item to be considered at an upcoming meeting of the CRA/LA Governing Board.

The Drake Hotel, completed in the early 1920s, is a three-story structure located a...

Hublot celebrates ten years since the creation of Bitcoin with the launch of the Big Bang Meca-10 P2P watch, a limited edition watch that can only be purchased online with the cryptocurrency.

"We are pleased with the dynamism and sense of innovation of our Asian partners: it is part of a visionary process that corresponds, point by point, with Hublot's vision," said Ricardo Guadalupe, CEO of Hublot, in a statement. "Thanks to the partnership with OSL Limited, this first P2P watch allow...

Los Angeles is a difficult city to place into any neat categories.  To some extent, any place so big defies easy comprehension. But for LA this illegibility goes a bit deeper.  Today, there are by and large two main models for successful cities in America. The first is the coastal, urban, liberal city, exemplified by the likes of San Francisco, New York, or Boston.  The other is the inland, suburban, conservative city, typically referred to as a “Sun Belt̶...

The Journal weighs in with a helpful video on how to avoid getting sick at work. A doctor provides a number of tips, including washing your hands the moment you arrive at the office. That soon? Yes, because you don’t want to bring in nasty little germs that will infect you throughout the day. Keep your distance from colleagues. And neve...