Hadley Meares

It was 1943, at a glittering party in Hollywood hosted by society gossip Elsa Maxwell. “I was in a short, tailored dress and sat on the steps in a corner, feeling very alone, but watching in awe the movie stars — old, medium, and new — greeting each other and......

In 1957, a party was going on inside the cluttered city newsroom of the Los Angeles Herald-Express on Georgia Street in downtown L.A. Rumpled reporters gathered ’round as an emcee presented Agness “Aggie” Underwood, the first female city editor of a major newspaper, with an oversized baseball bat, in honor......

In July 1897, Lucy Banning Bradbury, a deceptively angelic blonde beauty, sat in a private room at Marchand’s, then the most fashionable restaurant in San Francisco. “Mrs. Bradbury was enjoying a gilt-topped bottle of wine with an old friend who had interested himself in her welfare,” ......

Christine Sterling Was the Maternalistic, Problematic "Mother of Olvera Street"...

A road trip to Vegas can be truly wild, but not in the way you'd expect. The history of the West — from cowboys to mobsters to Mormons — can all be experienced on a leisurely weekend ramble from Los Angeles to Sin City....