Bonaventure Hotel

Machine Project's Oddball Take on L.A. Architecture, From a Helicopter Experiment to the Spirit of Whitney Houston

Wilshire Grand Los Angeles, Tallest Skyscraper on West Coast at 1,100 Feet, Will Have a Wicked Sky Lobby for Views Across the City

By Hillel Aron Secret designs were just released of the Wilshire Grand, a 73-story, 1,100-foot-tall hotel/office tower/retail/phallic image that will be the tallest skyscraper on the West Coast and in Los Angeles, pushing out Library Tower (officially, U.S. Bank Tower) as the 10th-tallest building ... More >>

Best of the Cons, Part 2: The Top Southern California Conventions of 2011

Shannon CottrellHatsune Miku in concert at Anime Expo​ Read more in "Best of the Cons Part 1: 8 Standout TV Shows, Cosplays, Games and More from 2011." Is Southern California the land of the superfan? Maybe. At the very least, it's the land of the fan conventions. Trying to hit up ever con in ... More >>

Bent-Con: Bringing LGBTQ Comics and Genre Entertainment to Los Angeles

Liz OhanesianSean Holman runs Bent-Con.​"Bent-Con started out of a desire of a bunch of a queer geeks who were tired of going to cons and being the niche within the niche within the niche," says Sean Holman, who organizes the convention that took place at Downtown's Bonaventure Hotel last week ... More >>

Westin Bonaventure Hotel Tour with the L.A. Urban Rangers: Great Adventure or Postmodern Dystopia?

Sophie DuvernoyApproaching the Bonaventure from below.​ "All right! Is everyone ready for [slight, suspenseful pause] the Great Bonaventure Adventure?" asks an unusually cheery man clad in all-khaki. The resounding answer from the forty plus adventurers is yes, followed by slightly embarrasse ... More >>

Top 10: Fictional TV Food Establishments

Even though The French Chef premiered in 1963, the rest of American TV land wasn't exactly keeping up with Julia in that decade. Nor would it catch up in the food department any time soon. But that's fine, because restaurants on television don't focus on the food. Until the non-fictional TV world ge ... More >>

Airborne With the Flyboys of Los Angeles Helicopters

Blades of glory

Downtown in Stereo: New Year’s Street Parties Compete

Year-end bashes fulfill L.A.’s huge dance-music appetite

Eli Broad's Grand Illusion

While real L.A. goes begging, City Hall pours millions into a plastic promenade

What's Smart About Smart Growth?

City Hall's plan for the future expects you to give up the yard, the car - and learn to love density

Hand Jobs and Handouts

Deputy Mayor Troy Edwards became Leland Wong’s go-to boy

A $4 Million Misunderstanding

Putsch and pull for Los Angeles Theater Center

Down on Main Street

A guide to living among the crack addicts, mentally ill, homeless and young-pros-on-the-go in a changing downtown

Dulling Disney

Sandblasting is all part of becoming an L.A. icon

Rooms of Dissent

Police pull welcome mat on hotel workers’ protest

Ring-a-Ding 2004

Edited by Kateri Butler

In Too Deep

In the summer of 1981, porn legend John Holmes stepped into an abyss of drugs, mayhem, and murder. Meet the wife and the girlfriend he almost took with him

A Mover La Colita

Partying with Sonora Dinamita

Smoke House

The Dollar Dems

Checchi, Harman show cash; Davis waves flag