Tony Mostrom

A big part of the nostalgic mythology of L.A.’s past is the wistful-sigh-inducing fact that we once had a gigantic, far-ranging system of electric street cars, a transit network that at one point extended over 1,100 miles of track spread all across the Southland (while, as you know, the still-living......

In 1967, pioneer L.A. news photographer Delmar Watson established the Watson Family Photo Archive in a two-story building on Hawthorn Avenue in Hollywood. Over the decades, the archive grew to comprise hundreds of thousands of photographs and negatives, including many of early L.A. and vintage Hollywood, and became a popular......

Was Frank Zappa right when he said that “most rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read?” Well, let’s just say “more truth than poetry, perhaps.” A more generous observation, as quoted in NPR music host Bob Boilen’s new book, Your......