PLUNGES, PRESERVATION, AND POSSIBLE FUTURES
& LA’s lost public baths, a new Chávez Ravine archive, and a $16.9 million estate that may not survive its next owner
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BEFORE IT WAS “OUR HOUSE,” IT WAS JONI’S
Joni Mitchell bought her Lookout Mountain cottage in 1968. She never let it go.
THE LOST HISTORY OF THE VENICE CANALS
The history of Venice and why most of what existed a century ago no longer remains.
THE WOODWORKER MAKING OTHERWORLDLY FURNITURE
Hartwick Hanson makes furniture from salvaged wood and the tension between Big Sur and Los Angeles.
WHAT A HOUSE REMEMBERS
Why the history of a home should travel with it
A LIFETIME IN HOLLYWOOD
Greta Garbo built it. Charles Manson's landlord sold it. Michael Jackson posed in it. Bradford Craig has lived through all of it.
THEY WERE HERE FIRST
A practical guide to coexisting with LA's coyotes
THE LOOPHOLE THAT'S KILLING LA'S LANDMARKS
& free entry to 30 Historic State Parks, a designer estate sale, and an Andy Goldsworthy the Getty Center lost to a burst pipe
LLOYD WRIGHT'S FORTRESS ON DOHENY
A house built to keep the world out, and his father's shadow with it
WHERE ROOTS RUN DEEP
A Guide to The ’Dena & the San Gabriel Valley by Cassandra Giraldo