Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

Metal swoops and fiberglass fins and sails. Perpendicular planes of glass and concrete jutting at 90-degree angles, bordered by tropical plants. A gleaming, skewed canopy painted in primary colors ...

Welcome to Googie A Day, a Classics Week series that chronicles some of the most beautiful diners in Los Angeles that maintain the futuristic (at the time) ethos of Googie. Think the Theme Building at ...

Gunbarrel Brewing Company co-owners Jamie and Marie Fox pose for a photo before the opening of the brewery in January 2017. Wednesday, Gunbarrel Brewing Company will host Geeks Who Drink Trivia.

Fans of modern architecture are pushing to make the retro, angular building that has long housed Norms on La Cienega Boulevard a historic and cultural monument, worried that the beloved ‘50s building ...

The Norms restaurant in West Los Angeles, California is shown in this undated handout photo released to Reuters March 19, 2015. REUTERS/Nels Youngborg/Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Comission/Handout ...

A woman walks outside Googies Coffee Shop and Schwab’s Pharmacy in Los Angeles. Googie architecture touched down in Los Angeles in 1949 thanks to John Lautner’s futuristic design of the long-gone ...

A Los Angeles diner celebrated as a classic example of mid-20th century Space Age-style Googie architecture was granted historic monument status by city officials on Wednesday, protecting it from the ...

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The Googie-style Norms diner on Pico Boulevard in Rancho Park, a neighborhood just south of Westwood, will shutter just before midnight on December 24. “A 47-year fixture within the Westwood community ...

WHITTIER >> The head of a group that owns the iconic car wash at Five Points is frustrated by the roadblocks he’s facing with his plan to build townhouses on the site. “We’re losing money every day,” ...