Friday's email from vice president of content Russ Stanton says that program director Craig Curtis leaves KPCC later in the month. He's already gone from the staff roster. The memo has nice words for ...

Gil Friesen was the longtime president of A&M Records, the legendary Los Angeles record company started by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962. Born in Pasadena, he started in the mailroom at Capitol ...

He made L.A. a legitimate NBA town and helped turn pro basketball into a multi-billion dollar industry. Along the way, he brought the city 10 league championships. You can also argue that the arrival ...

Filthy McNasty owned two well-remembered music clubs in the Los Angeles area. His Filthy McNasty's on Sunset Strip occupied the spot where the Viper Room is now. After leaving the Strip, McNasty ran ...

During the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, on July 28, 1984, a dramatic moment came when 84 grand pianos appeared in the peristyle of the Coliseum and began to play "Rhapsody in ...

The Los Angeles Conservancy is out with its preservation award winners for the 27th year. Of the residential restoration of the Eastern Columbia building downtown, they say: "Magnificent yet long ...

Tamarra Graham, Stephen Guarino and Ryan Nealy in "Handjob." Photo by Darrett Sanders. You've probably heard of the old gimmick of beginning an ad (or an article) with the word "SEX" followed by the ...

The reproduction quality of these "Hollywood a Go Go" clips on You Tube keeps getting better. This one, with Chuck Berry going through extravagant motions on a lip-synch of "Maybellene," was taped in ...

Ken Gallacher, a 20-year KFI guy who does the news during the morning show with Bill Handel, is retiring from the station at the end of the month, says LARadio.com. (* Alex Sullivan too: The KNX 1070 ...

Muff Singer was married to former Los Angeles City Controller Rick Tuttle. She died Sunday at home after a long battle with ovarian cancer. She was 62. Singer worked in Democratic politics as a ...

Longtime Los Angeles Kings broadcaster Bob Miller got his turn with the Stanley Cup last night at Staples Center. More celebration photos from Rich Hammond at LA Kings Insider. Update: Miller and ...

The front-page centerpiece in today's Daily Journal explores the double life of 56-year-old defense lawyer Ronald S. Miller, who is also porn actor "Don Hollywood" and was the creator of the annual ...