Harvard Anthropology professor Theodore C. “Ted” Bestor died July 1 at the age of 69 after a long battle with cancer. Bestor, who served as Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology, was a ...

Like Frida Kahlo’s famous La Casa Azul (“The Blue House”) in Mexico City, the sunny green kitchen of John Benson and Molly O’Brien in Silver Lake resonates with bold and unexpected color. Benson’s ...

One evening each year, architect Barbara Bestor opens her Los Angeles office, housed in a former warehouse, for a party-slash-art-gallery shindig with her friend Jon Huck, the composer and artist. The ...

Kurt Bestor is actually kind of cool. OK, not James Brown Funky Christmas cool. But he’s a hell of a lot better than John Tesh, to whom Bestor is often compared because of his sleepy compositions and ...

In the 26 years since Kurt Bestor released his first CD, he's never done a music video. Until now. Bestor has just released his first — a bright, clever, cool video to accompany his song "Baroque Coco ...

At 10 a.m. on a brisk winter morning, an hour after packing her two kids off to preschool and the baby-sitter, architect Barbara Bestor is on an Echo Park job site, multi-tasking with a vengeance. She ...

The Art Deco–style Trust Building in DTLA is getting ready for its next act this spring, with a unique arrangement to align its historic bonafides and contemporary appeal. Rising Realty Partners has ...

GUNNISON — The heartwarming melodies of Utah’s cherished holiday tradition, “A Kurt Bestor Christmas,” will once again echo through the historic halls of Casino Star Theatre in Gunnison. The annual ...

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As developer Casey Lynch leads a tour of the new 18-unit Blackbirds housing project in Echo Park, he stops in the central courtyard for a moment. “We call it a living street,” he says, taking it in.

Bestor has been practicing her craft in Los Angeles since 1995, long enough that her particular focus—giving a human, affordable scale to modern urbanism—has made a mark on some trendy parts of the ...