Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

Metal swoops and fiberglass fins and sails. Perpendicular planes of glass and concrete jutting at 90-degree angles, bordered by tropical plants. A gleaming, skewed canopy painted in primary colors ...

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. – To most locals Corky's in Sherman Oaks is simply a comforting classic diner that offers up staples like BLTs and fresh pies a la mode. For architect and historian Alan Hess, the ...

Fans of modern architecture are pushing to make the retro, angular building that has long housed Norms on La Cienega Boulevard a historic and cultural monument, worried that the beloved ‘50s building ...

Gunbarrel Brewing Company co-owners Jamie and Marie Fox pose for a photo before the opening of the brewery in January 2017. Wednesday, Gunbarrel Brewing Company will host Geeks Who Drink Trivia.

The Norms restaurant in West Los Angeles, California is shown in this undated handout photo released to Reuters March 19, 2015. REUTERS/Nels Youngborg/Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Comission/Handout ...

Welcome to Googie A Day, a Classics Week series that chronicles some of the most beautiful diners in Los Angeles that maintain the futuristic (at the time) ethos of Googie. Think the Theme Building at ...

The term Googie architecture — pronounced GOO-gee with hard G's — is probably foreign to you, but you are almost certainly familiar with buildings that exemplify the style. This distinctive kind of ...

WHITTIER >> The head of a group that owns the iconic car wash at Five Points is frustrated by the roadblocks he’s facing with his plan to build townhouses on the site. “We’re losing money every day,” ...

A Los Angeles diner celebrated as a classic example of mid-20th century Space Age-style Googie architecture was granted historic monument status by city officials on Wednesday, protecting it from the ...

The Googie-style Norms diner on Pico Boulevard in Rancho Park, a neighborhood just south of Westwood, will shutter just before midnight on December 24. “A 47-year fixture within the Westwood community ...

Wildwood, New Jersey, looks great on a postcard. It was designed to. It's a veritable ghost town during the off-season, but balmy South Jersey summers bring a tsunami of over 250,000 residents to town ...