Patt Morrison

Los Angeles graffiti — in the form of a tagged-up, unfinished skyscraper downtown — has recently made national news. But we're also the mural capital of the world and constantly asking ourselves: Is this art or vandalism?

LOS ANGELES -- Some acquaintances from Ireland were in town, and we were having lunch in their 20th-floor downtown hotel suite. I was being an armchair tour guide — out

It wasn't like Marlon Brando to go spilling his private beans to the world about the life he had spent his years protecting.

Somewhere in the oversharing universe of social media, there still are to be found the cranky netizens who suspiciously believe that they aren't

It wasn't like Marlon Brando to go spilling his private beans to the world about the life he had spent his years protecting.

California, ever the pioneer, was the first state to legalize no-fault divorce in 1969, signed into law by none other than then-Gov. Ronald Reagan.

Ugly? You have no idea.

Over and over again, they stretch out their spindly little matchstick fingers into the mighty Pacific, and over and over again, they get their knuckles rapped.

Over and over again, they stretch out their spindly little matchstick fingers into the mighty Pacific, and over and over again, they get their knuckles rapped.

Welcome home. Not your home. Probably not a place you'd even want to be your home. But welcome to some of the Houses of Los Angeles — notorious, historic and just plain fabulous.