In general I have no patience for the argument, popular among classic liberals and Fox News viewers alike, that American college students these days are coddled or protected from especially …
What theater's quiet style has in common with the new architecture.
At a ceremony last week to mark the opening of the $700-million USC Village, C.L. Max Nikias, the university's president, spoke at some length about the architecture of the new complex and w…
Does Los Angeles need a true center, a downtown in the traditional sense? How about a reasonable facsimile of one, something just plausible enough to fool the visitors from out of town? Woul…
If practice is what gets you to Carnegie Hall, as the saying goes, what gets you to the Music Center has always been a car.
The new Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts artfully blends old architecture with new, with parking of course. The new Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly …
Marc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water," the 11th title in our Reading L.A. series, is not, strictly speaking, a book about Los Angeles or its urban fo…