Philip Salata

Hobbyists and nostalgia chasers are coming back to film photography. Meet the local small business owners keeping up with demand.

Small stages provide a place for newer acts to gain exposure. But faced with inflation and corporate competition, venue owners have to be scrappy.

The diversity of UCLA’s student body is growing after the U.S. Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling.

In 1973, fourteen-year old Valley girl Lori Lightning found herself as one of the teenage rulers of the Hollywood music scene.

A new Culver City gym filled with “American Ninja Warrior” staff is ready to scale any obstacle as the sport heads to the Olympics.

For the first time since World War II, Japanese Americans gathered at the site of the former Manzanar internment camp to play baseball at a reconstructed field.

Field trips to the Ballona Wetlands bring environmental education to kids who might not spend time in nature.

The origin story of Miss Pamela Des Barres, the original queen of the groupies, author of the iconic memoir, I’m With the Band.

A ballot initiative would expand the number of LA County supervisors and create a new executive job, in the biggest change to local governance in generations.