And, by virtue of Hollywood, Los Angeles was the home of a large part of American popular culture.
In direct response to the North Hollywood shootout, Los Angeles police have acquired 600 M-16s -- U.S. Army surplus weapons donated by the Pentagon.
Authorities are investigating the January 27 brawl, in which Brown is accused of punching an unnamed victim on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement the following day.
From the Chrysler Building in New York to the pastel hotels of Miami Beach and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Art Deco reshaped architecture in the years before World War II -- though the term wasn't coined until the 1960s, drawn from the name of the 1925 Paris decorative-arts exhibition that popularized the style.
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The 25, 000-square-foot penthouse has four bedrooms, eight bathrooms and 340-degree views of the Hollywood Hills, downtown Los Angeles, Century City and the ocean.
Travellers looking for a glamorous Hollywood nightlife experience in Los Angeles should head to the newly opened Emerson Theater for a glimpse of the debaucherous, decadent days of the Great Gatsby era.
There are also nine different elaborate layouts, including the Mount Rushmore corner layout that includes, weirdly, both a miniature replica of the famous monument and the iconic Los Angeles Hollywood sign on the hills below.
Compared with the film-makers of Hollywood, who populate Los Angeles' most venerable cluster, or the metal workers in northern Italy, who have been around for centuries, toytown lacks a distinctive and deeply ingrained collection of skills that make a region's advantage so hard to imitate.
At the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, fans gathered to lay flowers in tribute to her life and career.
The panoramic view of Los Angeles from the Hollywood Hills comes from the very studio at 20th Century Fox where he had his first job.
The six-block-long Sunset Strip is located in West Hollywood, a separate incorporated city within Los Angeles.
Since then, Mr Bennett has spent a lot of time in Los Angeles negotiating terms with Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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An elaborate home in the Hollywood Hills with a spectacular view of Los Angeles inspires the kind of envy and awe that leaves you speechless.
Driving through the heart of America, plugging into the main vein, with the Hollywood sign winking at me through the Los Angeles smog commanding the wheelhouse of a brand-new, incredibly cool Chevrolet Volt!
Enter BermanBraun, a three-year-old Los Angeles production company founded by Hollywood heavyweights Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun that has bucked the trend.
This year, Nneka is touring the United States for the first time, playing venues such as the Los Angeles Troubadour, a West Hollywood club played by Elton John and James Taylor early in their careers.
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More broadly, and this might surprise those who see Los Angeles through the lens of Hollywood and technological business concepts of the mind, Abrahamson reminds the reader that the city used to be a major manufacturing hub.
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The Golden Globes, chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, announced its nominations in Los Angeles on Thursday morning.
Down in Los Angeles the young thespians of the Hollywood Cricket Club, once a lonely oasis of Anglocentric civilisation, are now routinely trounced by visiting Indian teams from Santa Clara.
Tryouts are still in progress for the eight-team league, which will be based in major metro areas around the country: Miami Spice, New York Knockouts, Hollywood Hotties, Orlando Lady Cats, Los Angeles Ice, Chicago Desire, Minnesota Mist and Atlanta Peaches are the official names.
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Nine of the latest fires occurred in the city of Los Angeles and two occurred in neighboring West Hollywood, according to police.
Zampella will make his first public appearance since creating Respawn with West by keynoting the Los Angeles 3D Gaming and Beyond Summit at Hollywood and Highland on September 22.
Mr. Booker first made inroads in Hollywood after Yolanda "Cookie" Parker a Los Angeles software-company owner who raises money nationally for President Barack Obama first met him at the president's inauguration in 2009.
Jail break films have long been a staple offering of Hollywood but, in a real life reversal of form, the Los Angeles Times reported that a former prisoner of the California State Prison in Sacramento, one Marvin Ussery, attempted to break into the jail.
In a Los Angeles-filed federal court complaint that reads like a Hollywood treatment for a dark comedy, the SEC charged Pacific Asian Atlantic Foundation (PAAF) and its president, Samuel M.
Hollywood director and producer Robert Wise--who died last week in Los Angeles at age 91--is best remembered for two films, "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music, " that garnered him four Oscars.
Some fake firms were no more than postal addresses, but others went as far as to open physical premises, with the result that some districts in northern parts of Los Angeles County, such as Burbank, Glendale and North Hollywood, have suddenly sprouted half a dozen shopfronts displaying bandages and prosthetic limbs where there might have been one before.
Hollywood bigwig David Geffen, meanwhile, is reported to have bid on the Los Angeles Times.
Though some of those suits were tailored in Los Angeles, Paris and Rome, and although the films are Hollywood productions, 007 remains essentially British.
Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, one of the reigning and longest-lasting power couples in Hollywood, are now looking for a buyer for their Mulholland Drive home in Los Angeles.
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