Los Angeles

Whether you're a guest in the hotel, visiting Los Angeles and staying downtown or a local, I think hotel dining is a great experience. Luxury hotel staff understand service and I find you get a higher level of service and attention than at a restaurant.

The Brimmer Street Theatre Company will host their 5th annual anniversary gala on March 10 at The Hilgard House in Los Angeles.

I love a good steak. One of my favorite experiences while in Las Vegas, is a visit to The Palm steakhouse. I've probably visited 20 times, and each time I experience both a great meal and attentive, professional service.

Whether you prefer the mountains or the sea, Los Angeles offers a unique outdoor backdrop for the perfect workout. These three spots provide a challenge to your workout routine amidst unique natural beauty.

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is looking at a $543 million budget hole. To make up some of these funds, Superintendent John Deasy is proposing a parcel tax ballot measure.

Los Angeles is an expensive city for hotels. I live here and I'm always shocked when I check into what it would cost to do a little stay-cation here in the city.

This New Year’s week brings a multitude of viewing pleasures for moviegoers in Los Angeles, including a star-studded red carpet premiere, triple and double features, screwball comedies from the golden age of Hollywood, indie screenings, and so much more.

It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad Christmas week in Hollywood as the movie events continue at famous venues around Los Angeles with double features, indie screenings, an evening of the greatest cartoons ever shown in the theater, and a fun family film night.

On my first ride on the Metro Gold Line yesterday I learned how to park, how to buy a ticket, and how wonderful Los Angeles Union Station and Olvera Street are to visit.

Drew Carey (“The Price Is Right”), Raquel Castaneda (“The Real L Word”), Barrett Foa (“NCIS: Los Angeles”), Dot Marie Jones(“Glee”), television host Carson Kressley (former contestant on “Dancing with the Stars”) attend AIDS Walk Los Angeles 2011.

The opening scene of "The Perfect Host" introduces to moviegoers the latest musical paean to Los Angeles. The little death metal ditty is the perfect host for the town that bears its name. But there are so many others from which to choose.

Many protesters at Occupy Los Angeles are only concerned with THEIR issue and aren't interested in rallying behind a collective cause.

Hollywood celebrities strut their stuff on the red carpet this week at the historic Grauman’s Chinese Theater, and the Twilight trio – Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner - get immortalized in cement. Plus much more.

CBS Films in association with Vertigo Entertainment and Ozla Pictures are set begin principal photography on the supernatural thriller film "Flight 7500".

In downtown Los Angeles, surrounding city hall, the Occupy Los Angeles protesters have set up camp. I spoke with some of the protesters at the Occupy L.A. encampment, and here's what they had to say.

A brand new music-driven pilot titled "Zombies & Cheerleaders" has been ordered by Disney Channel, and the casting directors are looking at talent nationwide for the starring roles in the show.

Mysterious mansions, hilly tree lined streets, and the ghosts of Los Angeles's past around every corner, it's no wonder that Angelino Heights has become a Los Angeles Halloween destination.

The City of LA formally joins Occupy Wall Street. And just as what we have seen in other major cities across the U.S., there are peaceful but loud protesting, normally ending with people getting arrested. But not before they have aired their demands.

I learned that instead of settling with an older woman with a lot of money and a hankering for some young manhood, I would rather fight for my future by trudging over the grimy sidewalks of downtown L.A., shouting phrases like, "Castrate Wall Street!"

A local's review of 25 places to eat that are local landmarks and are patronized by locals and regular Angelinos, not the Hollywood crowd.