Mark Your Calendars for the Long-Awaited (Re)Opening of Clifton’s Republic

Featured image credit: Difference Engine Ever wanted to eat Jell-O in an enchanted forest? Then mark your calendars for October 18. It’s the long-awaited date for the Grand Reopening of Clifton’s Republic, an event only bested by the Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round on the “when’s this going to re-open?” scale. While portions of the eccentric cafeteria-turned-multi-level […]

Los Angeles Architecture 101: Programmatic Architecture

Featured image credit: Chalmers Butterfield Here in the post-internet world, it’s hard to recall just how dramatically the automobile changed the country. Few American cities felt the cultural impact quite like Los Angeles. The arrival of the family car in Southern California created fertile ground for a series of architectural movements with none more over-the-top […]

Absorption Rate Analysis – September 2024: The Most Impressive Absorption Rates We’ve Ever Published

This is the single most impressive absorption rate analysis we’ve published since we first started sharing our numbers in August 2022. Perhaps it was the market anticipating the federal interest rate drop. We’re finally below 5%! Or perhaps things really are just starting to swing in the buyer’s favor. Whatever the case, the dropping absorption […]

The 3 Most Interesting Attractions in Las Vegas’ Area 15

Featured image credit: Troutfarm27 Las Vegas’ Area 15 has been inspiring eye-popping, or eye-rolling, depending on who you ask, responses since it opened its doors in 2020. Part arcade, part shopping mall, part immersive art installation, the Instagram-baiting complex has seamlessly integrated itself into the fabric of the Las Vegas tourist scene in a relatively […]

Hollywood Forever Cemetery Events Breathe Life Into the Unlikeliest of Places

Featured image credit: Gary Minnaert No one wants to hear “I’ll spit on your grave.” But “I’ll sit on your grave?” More than one Hollywood luminary would be happy to oblige. And that’s the underlying theme of Hollywood Forever Cemetery; a place where even death can’t pull the stars from their spotlights. Those interred at […]

Mt. Baldy is LA’s Most Infamous Mountain… and the 3rd Most Deadly in the Country

Featured image credit: Eric T. Gunther Jagged, snow-ravaged peaks scrape frosty clouds; a steel gray contrast overpowering blue skies. Blankets of deceptively powdery snow, punctuated by puma prints, blanket thick, unyielding slabs of ice. Silence is broken by the cascading rustle of falling ice shards and frozen boulders gaining shudder-inducing inertia. No, we’re not in […]

The Rancho Palos Verdes Landslides Are a Horror 250,000 Years in the Making

Featured image credit: Dave Proffer We’ve all heard horror stories of homeownership woe. A flooding upstairs bathroom crashing down into a home’s lower level. The spark of electrical wiring burning down a dream. Unseen black mold contaminating everything it touches. But you’ve heard of nothing quite like what’s happening right now in the coastal community […]