Los Angeles Hotels

Vacation travel picking up; for business, not so much

2013-06-17 00:00:00

With the economy on the rebound, Americans once again are cracking open their pocketbooks to take family vacations and other leisure trips. But corporate managers in charge of spending for business conferences and conventions remain tightfisted with...

L.A.'s biggest nightclub owner bets big on Vegas casino

2013-06-16 05:09:00

LAS VEGAS — He's the biggest nightclub owner in Los Angeles, the man whose Hyde Lounge and Shelter became prime hunting grounds for the paparazzi. He's been photographed cozying up with Paris Hilton, Kristin Cavallari and Sofia Vergara. When HBO's...

No surge in spending on conventions and conferences, study finds

2013-06-16 08:00:00

An encore for the historic Dunbar Hotel

2013-06-11 20:33:00

Back in the days of the jazz greats, when most of the downtown L.A. hotels were still segregated, the Dunbar Hotel was the place that rolled out the carpet for visiting African American musicians and the fans who flocked to see them. London Carter was...

Soiree in the Sand

2013-06-12 13:50:00

Crashing waves, ocean spray and a seemingly endless sun-draped horizon … the setting of an oceanside wedding ignites imagination and romance. Be it barefoot in the powder-fine white sands of a tropical island or a few miles from home in SoCal...

‘Mickey and the Magical Map’ redraws Disneyland plans

2013-05-28 06:02:14

'Mad Men' recap: So much for California dreamin'

2013-06-03 11:01:00

There are episodes of “Mad Men,” like last week’s “The Better Half,” where it’s hard to believe how much is packed into a single hour of television.� Then there are episodes like “A Tale of Two Cities,”...

Major makeover planned for dated Macy's Plaza in downtown L.A.

2013-06-06 05:30:00

It was hailed as a crowning achievement for Los Angeles in the early 1970s — an indoor shopping mall that filled an entire downtown block and also boasted a plush hotel and a high-rise office building. For years, tourists flocked to the premier...

Cannes 2013: Festival robberies echo past heists, real and on film

2013-05-20 13:00:00

Two high-profile robberies at this year's Cannes Film Festival have attracted a lot of attention, but they're the hardly the first such heists (on screen, or off). First, a stash of Chopard jewelry reportedly valued at more than $1 million was taken...

'Living wage' at issue in L.A. mayoral campaign

2013-05-11 22:04:00

The pickup truck tooled around Highland Park on Saturday morning, loudspeakers in back crooning in Spanish: "Wendy, la Wendy. We're gonna vote. $15 an hour we'll make. Wendy, la Wendy, we're gonna dance. Eric Garcetti start crying." A political mailer...

Labor group won't back away from campaign mailer

2013-05-17 20:37:00

The most powerful labor organization in Los Angeles refused Friday to back away from a campaign mailer in which it urges voters to support Wendy Greuel for mayor because she "will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour." Even though Greuel has said she...

Labor group says Wendy Greuel will push minimum wage to $15

2013-05-16 13:36:00

Union backers of Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel have sent out a new mailer declaring that she would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in L.A., even as Greuel and her allies disputed that she had made such a promise and called for all...

Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters in April 1979.

2012-05-18 12:27:37

General manager Edward Mady, left, and Beverly Hills Hotel historian Robert S. Anderson, the great-grandson of the hotel's original owner, Margaret Anderson, is releasing a book titled "The Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows: The First 100 Years."

2012-05-18 00:00:00

touted plans for the Beverly Hills Hotel as among splendid metropolitan hotel enterprises underway.

2012-05-11 15:48:29