Denise Hamilton is a Los Angeles native, crime novelist, and former reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She’s the editor of Los Angeles Noir and Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics and was a finalist for the Edgar Award. Read more about her at denisehamilton.com.
California is bursting at the seams with invasive pigs, to the dismay of biologists, conservationists, and farmers everywhere.
Toypurina, a female shaman who led a revolt against Spanish rule, emerges as an icon.
The gray wolf known as OR-93 was all of us.
Interested in being a creek freak? Then you’ve got to learn the lingo.
The creek freaks of L.A. seek out the city’s unknown water—and fight to set it free.
With In the Watchful City, S. Qiouyi Lu stakes a claim.
Can’t visit your favorite haunts right now? Evoke them through fragrance.
Finding hidden meaning in our aural landscapes.
Millions in revenue, fan art, and live touring shows: true-crime series are a thriving corner of the podcast world.
Denise Hamilton breaks down the best series, hosts, and subjects in this wildly popular genre.
A Native American hallowed space miraculously remains amid the developed bustle of Westside L.A.
What led to—and has arisen from—the infamous 1969 murders is weirder, darker, and more hypocritical than you ever imagined.
