“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finally, an academic treatise on the dingbat apartment! Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis gathered a dream team of more than a dozen architects ...

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 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.