Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall is an essayist, broadcaster, and speaker on cities and culture. He's currently based in Seoul and at work on the book "A Los Angeles Primer: Mastering the Stateless City."
Known casually as "Big Blue," this Scientology building on Fountain Avenue looks every inch like the grand, private fortresses of old Los Angeles.
“Slow Writing: Thom Andersen on Cinema” is the very first collection of essays published in Thom Andersen's long career of teaching, programming, and filmmaking. Its pieces span more than half a century.
For 36 years, just one structure loomed especially large over Los Angeles' undisturbed horizontality: City Hall.
L.A.'s historic 1926 downtown library has survived calls for its demolition – and a still-unsolved case of arson.
The Biltmore was meant to confer "real-city" status on Los Angeles when it opened in 1923.
The phenomenon of the megachurch began in no less coastal and cosmopolitan a city than Los Angeles.
Johnny Cash's little-known time in Los Angeles saw his rise into popular culture, his years of drug-addled chaos, and his professional rebirth.
"The Master of Suspense" called L.A. home for 41 years. Why did his films never reveal his adopted city?
The bullet fired by Sirhan Sirhan in 1968 ultimately killed not just Robert F. Kennedy but also L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel itself.
Upon its completion in 1904, the Braly Block was hailed as L.A.'s first skyscraper.
Like many long-lived screen icons, the Bradbury Building has endured almost as many years of irrelevance and dissolution as it has enjoyed years of celebration.
"Speed" is the standout Los Angeles action movie, one that makes fuller use of the city's distinctive size, shape, and built environment than any other.