How three single sisters and a German tradesman built a little slice of English countryside

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
“The best view of our house is from the front,” Lou Gaudio says as we admire the porte-cochere on the 1928 Storybook Tudor he shares with Karen Highberger. (It’s like a vintage carport, but attached to the house [...]

The Boumas’ California Heights Spanish Colonial is a low-mileage museum of style

PHOTO by JENNIFER STOCKDALE
Being named the West’s best neighborhood by Sunset magazine in 2002 makes California Heights probably the city’s most famous historic residential district. But it makes owning a Spanish-style in Cal Heights—possibly the signature architectural style here—spendy, and a lot of work. [...]

Chroma Glass Designs, the stained glass emporium and art gallery that helped start Bixby Knolls’ First Fridays Long Beach artwalks, will mark its last First Friday on Feb. 1.
That’s this Friday.