Luke Manual McFatrich, one of the founders of the Dingbat Theatre Project, said he discovered it as a high school student when he would spend time searching theatrical licensing catalogs to ...

These units are known as “dingbat”-style apartments — and that’s not a slight, that’s what they’re called apparently because of the midcentury-esque visual motifs on their exterior.

“You’re hitting a couple birds with one stone,” Jesman says. Dingbat-style apartments in Los Angeles. [Photo: Downtowngal/Wiki Commons] He’s doing this renovation work on what are referred ...

In the small headline to James Verini’s “Quintessentially L.A.” (Oct. 23) about Clive Piercy’s book of photography “Pretty Vacant: The Los Angeles Dingbat Observed,” it reads ...

Boxy, dingbat-style apartments dot the San Fernando Valley, the understated architectural design evoking the region’s 1950s post-war boom. But now the Valley’s stock of dingbats is getting a ...

When architect and writer Wendy Gilmartin was in her early 20s, she lived in West Hollywood in what’s known as a dingbat apartment. While she fondly remembered the lighting and wood floors ...

Dingbat Theatre Project has gone through a lot of changes over its first five years, presenting original and classical musicals with its own playground-style spin in whatever performance venues ...

Dingbat Theatre Project's production of Shrek the Musical is made possible through the collaboration with The Players Centre for Performing Arts, The Bazaar on Apricot & Lime, and Hamlet's Eatery. ...

In 49 states, a dingbat is an elementary school insult, but in California and especially LA, the term refers to a residential building with a very distinct style. These edifices are typically painted ...

In Chicago, the big story was also a funeral. The city was saying good-bye to the Dingbat. The Dingbat was John Oberta, his nickname derived from a comic strip. He was 29 at the time of his death.