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LOS ANGELES—It was an emotional day in Southern California and around the nation today, with multiple ceremonies marking ...

Reply A traveler walks past The Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) CALIFORNIA — In pre-pandemic times, California pulled in some $145 billion per year from tourists visiting the state, state officials said this week. During the summer, the state normally receives a large influx of tourists from across Europe. But due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, residents of England, Ireland and the European Schengen area are still barred from entering the country. California ranked as 10th most hurt by this tr...

Pop Culture Historian Preserves LA’s Past While Looking to the Future Alison Martino calls herself a “DeLorean of the internet”—comparing herself to the iconic car that serves as a time machine in the movie “Back to the Future.” The daughter of show business royalty, Martino has made it her life’s mission to preserve the pop-culture history of Southern California by creating Vintage Los Angeles, an online community with a thriving archive dedicated to documenting L.A.’s history, architecture, and show business. “It’s like an online history book, and it’s told by the peop...

© Ekaterina Kondratova/Shutterstock.com California has been a hotbed of architectural changes and innovation. From the wacky to the sublime, this list shows the wide range of architectural experimentation and aesthetics in the Golden State. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. First Church of Christ Scientist Bernard Maybeck viewed the architectural canon as a style smorgasbord. Gothic, Romanesque, Asian, Arts and Crafts, Classicism—all w...