[Watts Towers] is a neutral, gang-free area, and those are few and far between. We had to look for a territory that’s not owned by a gang. ...

The director of the Watts Towers Arts Center says that the safety of visitors to the Towers, a historic, city-run cultural landmark, is being compromised because its parking lot has been bulldozed ...

Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the Watts Towers of Los Angeles are endangered. The city, facing budget shortfalls, has cut the three workers assigned to maintain the towers, which, at ...

1. "Flashing Spires Built as Hobby. One constructed by Watts Resident rises to Height of 100 Feet." — Headline of the first Times story about the towers on Oct. 13, 1937.

Watts Towers became a state park in 1978 but only after surviving a planned demolition by the same Los Angeles city officials who later protected the towers.

The Watts Towers gained a bit of national recognition this week, but not for a happy reason: The outdoor sculpture composed of salvaged steel, seashells, tile, glass, wire mesh, and concrete by ...

The Watts Towers are one of three sites in California to recently be listed as "at risk" by The Cultural Landscape Foundation. "It's at risk because of the environment that it's in," says Preusser.

It took Italian immigrant Simon “Sam” Rodia more than 25 years to build the Watts Towers, starting work on the massive, one-of-a-kind structure in 1921. The city later protested.

Billy Crudup and Mary-Louise Parker's Son, 21, Towers Over his Dad While Strolling NYC originally appeared on Parade. Williams Atticus Parker, the 21-year-old son of Mary-Louise Parker and Billy ...

WattsTowers in Los Angeles is the work of a man who loved his community,and which the community treasures in return.Watts Towers is the fruit of 34 years labor by Simon Rodia, ...

For more than 30 years, a man who stood scarcely five feet tall built a kind of skyscraper in his back yard. The Watts Towers is a soaring cluster of edifices, a supreme example of outsider art.

On HBO's Six Feet Under, a visit to the Watts Towers topples Claire Fisher, the undertaker's daughter played by Lauren Ambrose, off her cloud of art-school idealism. She and soon-to-be-boyfriend ...