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Pasadena, CA - March 26: The Pasadena Playhouse on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 in Pasadena, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
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Pasadena Playhouse stunner: Back from the brink, theater reclaims control of its building

Pasadena Playhouse celebrated its 100th birthday Saturday night by announcing the company has regained ownership of its landmark Elmer Grey building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

RIVERSIDE -- MARCH 29, 2025: The Farm House Collective on its opening day on Saturday, March 29, 2025. (David Fouts / For The Times)

These SoCal vintage motels have found new life. But you can’t sleep there

LONG BEACH CA - FEBRUARY 7, 2025 - - Abraham and Cecilia Beltran sit in the living room in their one-bedroom apartment in Long Beach on February 7, 2025. They both love Midcentury design and color and have decorated the apartment with lots of colorful accents and personal mementos, including family photos and collectables from their travels. The living room is surrounded in family photographs and keepsakes the couple have collected for years. It's an 800-square foot post-war apartment typical in this Long Beach neighborhood. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

You’ll want to be friends with this couple after seeing their quirky, fun apartment

The Broad Museum on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, photographed in 2019

L.A. County officially creates the Grand Avenue Cultural District

Frescos by Maxine Albro, painted in 1933 in the north loggia of the Ebell of Los Angeles.

A 90-year mystery solved: ‘Lost’ Maxine Albro frescoes uncovered at the Ebell of Los Angeles

‘The only thing still left.’ Volunteers race to save Altadena’s vintage tiles from the bulldozers

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Contributor: From the Palisades to Palos Verdes, L.A.’s altered landscapes challenge memory itself

How to see the new LACMA up close: Museum sets opening for plaza around new building

This Midcentury Hollywood motel may soon become a historic monument — a first in L.A.

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A cottage core apartment rental.

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She gave her rent-controlled apartment a cottagecore update worthy of ‘Little Women’

For a lover of historical fiction and classic literature, Catie Brown creates a cottagecore aesthetic that brings warmth and character to her 1963 apartment.

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