“Dingbat-style” apartments, the charmingly boxy and quirky post WWII apartments which define the architectural character of the San Fernando Valley, are getting a boost from a new earthquake ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...