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Enjoy this brief strange journey into the video vaults of "Playboy After Dark."

At Donut Friend, when one or more of the nearly two dozen donut selections won't do, dream up your own by picking your own donut plus filling plus glaze plus topping.

The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office has a new chief, and he's not only inherited control of the autopsy rooms, but also the sub-title of "Coroner to the Stars."

Two 17-year-old high school football stars are facing multiple sex crime charges following an investigation and their arrests last week.

Look closely and you'll see Clifton's Cafeteria, the Golden Gopher, and long-gone places like a big fur shop, and a Dinty Moore eatery. You'll see cops, and trash, and scant curbside parking spots open, but you'll also see a downtown bustling with life, as people shop inside stores decked out in blinking neon, duck into movie palaces, and enjoy a bite to eat.

It's still a few years off until the projected 2017 opening for a much-needed museum in Los Angeles focused on the movie industry, but today came word the fundraising efforts got a big boost from a Chinese business.

From up high in Griffith Park to the pounding waves of our shores, here are 7 moments worth taking a second look at in our 7 Reasons to Love L.A. series.

Two apartment towers and retail space are in the works for the onetime site of a hotel that catered to Hollywood's wild young things.

This is where the year in TV's best guest stars, reality show hosts, sound mixers, 'cewebrities,' and cameramen mingle and celebrate their applauded achievements.

Gabriel Acosta, a 46-year-old Riverside resident and longtime photojournalist, fell to his death Saturday afternoon while he was trimming a tree in his yard.