Mt Zion Cemetery, plagued by vandals and neglect ... Jim Beckler, last journalist left from the pressbox the day Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier ... meet Bleached and their three favorite LA LP's ... How "Toilet to Tap" helped kill reforming LA's looming water shortage ... an undiscovered mosaic mural uncovered in Downtown LA.
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• 6:02
"The day sent chills up my spine, and 66 years later it still does. I always said, his failure would have been our failure, but the victory was his."
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• 4:28
Ride Your Heart, the band's debut album, was just released. But what music makes Bleached think of home? Singer Jennifer Clavin picked three records.
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• 5:38
Founded in 1916 to bury indigent Jews, the cemetery has been nearly abandoned. Vandals have toppled and tagged headstones, and used others for target practice.
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• 5:22
Death is one of those things we don't think about much, until someone we know is dying. But Caitlin Doughty, a local mortician, wants to change that.
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• 4:12
Last October, crews began tearing down the Wilshire Grand Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Inside the walls, a fascinating discovery was made.
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• 5:23
After Pearl Harbor, WWII had arrived not just in Hawaii, but all the way to the California coastline.
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• 2:08
Off-Ramp and Charles Phoenix visits the Home Of Peace Jewish Cemetery.
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• 2:40
Danny Medina is the winner of our Instagram Challenge "Neon Dreams." See his winning image.
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• 4:18
There’s a big question both Los Angeles mayoral candidates have been ignoring. That’s what to do about the city’s shrinking water resources.