Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, Feb. 4, and I’m your guest host, Kim Christensen. When I moved to Southern California in the mid-1980s, Venice Beach ...

With dramatic angles and sweeping curves, this newly built house in Venice, California, serves as an architectural manifesto by Pentagon, the young Los Angeles firm that designed it. The two-level ...

The property boasts five bedrooms, five full bathrooms, and one partial bathroom Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor ...

That seems like it will be the case Nov. 22 when the mondo street festival, which is free to enter, makes merry in downtown Mar Vista. The Venice Winter Fest is part of the cooler weather version of ...

This dramatic contemporary design in Venice, California, puts a chic spin on the local rustic beach house vernacular. The new-build property was created by Los Angeles-based architecture firm Woods + ...

Los Angeles is the land of the beautiful people and home of the overpriced drinks. I’ve lived in LA for all of my adult life, and I’m still not used to the $17 cocktails (nor will I ever be). Despite ...

With daily lines out the door, Flo Coffee Bar's unorthodox location inside of a garage-turned-art-gallery-turned-café hasn't ...

(This is part of our ongoing series, Lost Kinjo– a look at the more than 40 Japanese communities that disappeared after World War II. It is supported by funding from the California Public Library ...

A victim of last month’s attacks in the Venice canals was removed from life support Friday night, according to media reports and an online fundraising page. The woman had been in a coma for nearly two ...

Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke’s Venice, California home just sold for $4.4 million. Dragons not included. front patio framed by olive trees and a courtyard with covered veranda and 30-foot ...