If you forgot to wish Hollywood a happy 125th birthday yesterday, do not dismay. A lot of people didn't forget, like Councilmen Eric Garcetti and Tom LaBonge, Duff Goldman of Charm City Cakes, late night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel and an entire flash mob. more ›

With the welcoming of a new month, we are also celebrating the 125th birthday of Tinseltown. On February 1, 1887, Harvey Wilcox officially registered Hollywood with the Los Angeles County recorder's office. more ›

Over the past few months, at least two Hollywood professionals who work with underage actors have faced charges involving sexual offenses against children. The incidents have prompted a bill that would require all adults who work with kids in the entertainment industry to submit to a background check, reports the LA Times, and would prevent registered sex offenders from working with kids. more ›

Pasadena, California has long claimed the rights of creation to the almighty American cheeseburger (yes, someone "invented" draping a beef patty with cheese), and now they are rallying cheeseburger eaters to come, dine, digest, and vote for the city's best during Pasadena Cheeseburger Week. more ›

On December 21, 1940, celebrated American author and Hollywood scenster F. Scott Fitzgerald collapsed and died inside a West Hollywood apartment. He was 44 years old. more ›

We're kind of crushing on this piece of stock footage from the 1940s showing Hollywood Boulevard decked to the max for Christmas. more ›

The Studio for Southern California History has given Los Angeles nerds an early holiday present: a free iTunes app that tells you something important, awesome or bizarre that happened on any given date in the city's history. more ›

Roger Guenveur Smith's energetic one-man biopic, Juan and John, is at Los Angeles Theatre Center. The show transverses the Civil Rights Movement, local Los Angeles history, and the relationship between baseball legends John Roseboro and Juan Marichal following their on-field fight in 1965. more ›

Paramount Studios, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue since 1926, is prepping one helluva production: A $700 million property upgrade that will happen over 25 years. The historic studios have called this the "Hollywood Project," according to the Hollywood Reporter. more ›

An exhibit featuring the collection of the late Catherine Mulholland opens at CSU Northridge next week, just months after the granddaughter of water titan William Mulholland died at 88. The exhibit “Valley Memories: The Catherine Mulholland Collection” opens on September 20 with a panel discussion and reception at the Oviatt Library at 6 p.m. more ›

Check out the hustle and bustle of L.A.'s "575,000 souls" in the retail district, shopping for curious wares from the Orient, chugging up Bunker Hill on Angels Flight, and riding their horseless carriages through Downtown's tunnels in this film from 1917. more ›

History buffs rejoice. The UCLA Library is slated to acquire the historical records of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), according to the UCLA Newsroom. The extensive archive covers major district operations dating back to the late 19th century. more ›

Taking the entire second floor of the four-floor museum in the former Max Factor building on Highland at Hollywood, "Lucille Ball at 100 & 'I Love Lucy' at 60," will be on display to Nov 30, showcasing memorabilia saluting the lives and love of a couple of Hollywood's most famous lovebirds. more ›

Ah, summer. Santa Monica is packed with locals and tourists, fun and food seekers, fishermen, and families. But the Santa Monica Pier wasn't the main draw a half century ago--it was all about Pacific Ocean Park a few miles down the way, which was built to rival Disneyland, but ultimately fell into disrepair. Your video lunch today is a look back at "POP" through the lens of years gone by, and a few vintage videos. more ›

We found a number of events happening on the Westside tonight, squeezing in the fun before the 405 shuts down. Our favorite is a dinner and lecture on ancient Roman dining at the Getty Villa. But there's also free music concerts at the Hammer Museum and on the Santa Monica Pier with the Bangles. Read on for all the details. more ›

The future school kids of California will soon learn the valuable contributions to history by members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by reading about them in their textbooks. Yesterday, the Assembly approved a bill okaying the addition of the info to our state's textbooks, and that bill lands on the desk of Governor Jerry Brown today. more ›

Today's video lunch is a nostalgic look at the SS Catalina and SS Avalon known as the Big White Steamers -- passenger steamships that operated summer tourist service from Los Angeles to Catalina island beginning in the 1920s. The SS Avalon retired to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in 1964 when an anchor chain broke loose during a storm, while the SS Catalina, despite being listed on the National Register of Historic Places (and being named California Historical Monument #894), was sentenced to rust in an Ensenada Harbor after running aground in the 1990s and was ultimately cut into scrap metal. more ›

Once upon a time in Los Angeles a disgraced football star-turned occasional actor led police on an instantly infamous slow-speed car chase on the 405 Freeway in a white Bronco. In the back seat, the man known as "Juice" told authorities he was contemplating suicide, and just wanted to go be with his late wife, Nicole. For your video lunch today, a look back at a day in the life of O.J. Simpson. more ›

Didn't get enough of your L.A. Noire fix with last week's then-and-now photo gallery? Check out the map above to find the modern-day locations of the buildings and landmarks featured in last Wednesday's post. Many of the spots are conveniently located within walking distance to Red Line Metro stops. more ›

Check out our interview with veteran correspondent and humorist Brian Unger whose new show, "How The States Got Their Shapes," premieres tonight at 10pm on the History Channel. Southern California plays a part in tonight's premiere episode so you should watch it. more ›

Los Angeles, where were you 19 years ago today? If you were in Los Angeles, you might remember this day well. Today's video lunch comes courtesy Sublime, whose song immortalizes April 29th, 1992 and its part in our local history. There is no official video, but this is among the amateur efforts using footage from the riots and surrounding events to illustrate Sublime's song. more ›

"On April 29, 1986, a major emergency fire at the Los Angeles Central Library was so challenging, it required more than 350 firefighters and nearly every facet of the department before it was knocked down," explains the Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Society. "The tough firefight used 60 fire fighting companies, 1 arson unit, 9 paramedic rescue ambulances, 3 helicopters, 4 salvage companies, 1 squad, 2 emergency air units, a heavy utility company, and more than 40 staff and support personnel." more ›

There was this song we used to sing when I was a kid that is cute, morbid, a history lesson, and a hint of child pornography* all rolled into one called "It Was Sad When the Great Ship Went Down." That ship, the ill-fated Titanic, went down on April 15, 1912. But in thousands of bathtubs, swimming pools, and living rooms all over the world, models of the ship made of Legos continue to go down in mock sinkings. Here, for your video lunch today, are a few of our favorites. more ›