A grassroots movement centered on affordability, accessibility, and cultural ownership is reshaping Los Angeles' performing arts landscape, one intimate venue at a time.
Three decades after the first DIY shows in Echo Park basements, the people who shaped Los Angeles's live music scene reflect on what it took to keep the culture alive.
From Silver Lake to South LA, a network of independent operators and community activists is dismantling the old hospitality playbook—one neighborhood at a time.
From pop-up studios in Arts District warehouses to cooperative manufacturing networks, a new generation of makers is rejecting corporate gatekeeping and building an alternative fashion ecosystem right here in Los Angeles.
The artists and activists behind the iconic murals on Whittier Boulevard reveal how community memory became inseparable from the neighbourhood's visual identity.
After years of pop-ups and flux, established chefs are opening multi-year leases on Silver Lake, Los Feliz and Downtown—signalling confidence that the city's food culture has stabilized.
From Griffith Park to Downtown, three major events are colliding on the calendar—and locals are scrambling to decide where to spend their long weekend.
From iconic Sunset Boulevard venues to emerging spaces in Arts District, here's how to navigate Los Angeles's world-class concert landscape like a local.
From warehouse district reject to international destination, the story of how Downtown Los Angeles became a street art mecca reveals the vision of a determined community of muralists and organizers.
From Downtown's emerging designer collectives to the Fashion District's digital renaissance, the city's fashion industry has become the primary engine of its cultural narrative.
As gentrification accelerates across the city, a grassroots movement to document and preserve cultural landmarks is gaining unprecedented momentum among longtime residents and institutions.
From the Design District's independent boutiques to downtown's textile warehouses, Los Angeles offers an insider's glimpse into how American fashion actually gets made.
From Silver Lake to Downtown, the architects of LA's restaurant renaissance reveal how adversity, ambition, and cross-cultural collaboration transformed neighborhoods one dish at a time.
Once dismissed as a cultural backwater, LA's galleries and museums have evolved into an engine of artistic innovation that rivals New York—a transformation spanning nearly a century.
From Silver Lake to Long Beach, a fresh wave of independent festivals and curated platforms are amplifying artists and creators on the brink of breakthrough.
From Boyle Heights to Historic filipinotown, preservation efforts are fueling a new generation of artists who see cultural memory as the ultimate medium.
A coalition of independent artists and neighbourhood organisations is transforming Los Angeles' relationship with live performance, reversing decades of cinema dominance.
From scrappy Arts District warehouses to Hancock Park's marble halls, the curators, collectors, and cultural pioneers who transformed LA's museum landscape reveal a city still writing its own art history.
As property values surge in Arts District and Boyle Heights, muralists and community groups are fighting back against erasure with unprecedented legal protections and pop-up initiatives.
Behind Los Angeles's most dynamic design movement is a tight-knit group of entrepreneurs who built an alternative ecosystem in Downtown's warehouse district.
From historic movie palaces to cutting-edge performance spaces, here's how to experience Los Angeles' world-class arts offerings like a seasoned local.
From Downtown's massive murals to Arts District galleries and Silver Lake's indie aesthetic, here's what you need to know before exploring Los Angeles's thriving street art scene.
From downtown warehouses to Silver Lake storefronts, a new generation of artists and curators is challenging traditional gatekeeping and reshaping Los Angeles's cultural landscape.
A century of immigration, ambition, and culinary fusion has reshaped Los Angeles from a mid-century meat-and-potatoes town into one of America's most dynamic food destinations.
From intimate Echo Park venues to Silver Lake's independent spaces, a new generation of musicians is rewriting what it means to break through in one of America's most competitive music cities.
A century of transformation—from Hollywood's golden-age movie houses to today's intimate black-box theatres—reveals how Los Angeles adapted its cultural institutions to survive technology, economics, and shifting audiences.
From the Arts District's maker studios to downtown's emerging design hubs, here's where to immerse yourself in LA's creative fashion ecosystem this summer.
Twenty years before the coffee shops and galleries arrived, a small group of artists and community organizers fought to preserve Echo Park's character—and won.
A grassroots movement of independent designers, manufacturers, and mentors is transforming Los Angeles's creative economy—and proving the city's fashion future belongs to the makers, not the gatekeepers.
Los Angeles' event calendar has evolved from warehouse parties in the Arts District to a $2.3 billion industry, reshaping how the city celebrates culture.
As ticket prices soar and mega-venues dominate, a new generation of artists is building devoted followings in intimate clubs and DIY spaces across the city.
From a food truck on Alvarado Street to a four-restaurant empire, the story of persistence behind Los Angeles' most talked-about culinary corridor reveals the city's true character.
From revitalized downtown districts to newly reopened cultural institutions, Los Angeles is offering unprecedented access to its richest stories this summer.
From Downtown's renovated playhouses to experimental venues in Echo Park, performing arts are becoming the heartbeat of LA's cultural identity in 2026.
From Arts District rezoning to Boyle Heights' evolving mural scene, a confluence of policy changes, investment, and grassroots activism is reshaping how the city values—and monetizes—its most visible creative spaces.
A growing movement of community archivists is transforming how Los Angeles remembers its largest Latino neighborhood—one block, one family, one document at a time.
Inside the modest studios of Downtown Los Angeles, a network of visionary creatives is reshaping the city's design landscape—and proving that innovation thrives in the margins.
The city's gallery and museum scene has transformed over five decades from scrappy artist collectives to a $2 billion cultural powerhouse that rivals New York.
From family recipes to fine dining destinations, the restaurateurs who transformed Los Angeles's dining landscape reveal how grit, heritage, and community vision created a global food capital.
From Downtown's warehouse districts to Silver Lake's scrappy artist collectives, a new generation of curators and creators is challenging what Los Angeles art can be.
The visionary founders of Clockwork Arts on South Spring Street reveal the decade-long struggle—and triumph—behind creating a venue that prioritizes experimental performance over profit.
The architects behind the city's most celebrated dining renaissance reveal how grit, risk and community shaped a movement that's now influencing chefs worldwide.
From a converted warehouse in the Arts District to international runways, we trace how a scrappy group of creatives transformed Los Angeles into a genuine fashion capital.
As established venues evolve and new independent spaces flourish across LA, a generation of fresh talent is reshaping what it means to catch a breakthrough performance in the city.
From Downtown's Arts District to emerging spaces in South LA, a new generation of artist-led organizations is democratizing access to contemporary art.
A new generation of community leaders is dismantling the old gatekeeping structures that once dominated Los Angeles' cultural events, creating celebrations that reflect the city's actual diversity.
The architects of the Arts District's metamorphosis reveal how one grassroots initiative turned concrete walls into canvases and changed a community's trajectory.
From Downtown's DIY stages to silver screen debuts, a new generation of artists is challenging convention and drawing packed crowds to LA's intimate venues.
