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Rodeo Drive Will Light Up Nov. 19 as Its Merchants' Committee Turns 50
The free evening celebration runs 5 to 8 p.m. on all three blocks, ends with fireworks, and starts a holiday season of decorations that lasts until Jan. 3.
Lower Speed Limits Are Coming to Select Beverly Hills Streets
A new city ordinance took effect Oct. 1. The limits become enforceable as new signs go up over the coming weeks.
Beverly Hills Will Hold an Evacuation Drill on Nov. 8. Here's What Residents Need to Know
The Fire Department's drill runs 1 to 4 p.m. and uses Will Rogers Memorial Park as a temporary shelter and checkpoint. A final information meeting is Nov. 4 at City Hall.
Beverly Hills' Subway Stop Is Still a Spring 2027 Story. Here's What's Happening on Wilshire Now
Final paving between El Camino and Rexford runs Nov. 2–4, the City Council has kept its holiday construction ban, and Metro still forecasts the Beverly Dr Station opening in spring 2027.
Ten Monumental Carole Feuerman Sculptures Arrive on Rodeo Drive Nov. 9
The superrealist sculptor's first major outdoor public exhibition on the West Coast opens with a free unveiling at 332 N. Rodeo Drive and stays on view through 2027.
Real Estate
Trousdale Estates: The Midcentury Enclave Built on the Doheny Ranch
One developer, 532 lots and a rulebook on roof heights. Here's how the hills above Greystone became Beverly Hills' best-known modernist neighborhood.
Dining
The Beverly Hills Farmers' Market: A Sunday Guide
Open every Sunday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine, on Civic Center Drive, with two hours of free parking. Here's what to know before you go.
Style
A Walking Guide to Rodeo Drive, Block by Block
Three palm-lined blocks, a cobblestone side street, a sidewalk of fashion plaques and, starting Nov. 9, ten monumental sculptures. Here's how to see Rodeo Drive on foot.
Arts & Culture
The Wallis: A Guide to Beverly Hills' Performing Arts Center, and What's On This Season
A 1930s post office with WPA frescoes, a 500-seat theater, and a 2026–27 season of Fleabag, LA Opera recitals, dance and family days.
From the record
The Record
The history behind the addresses: estates, hotels and the people who built the city.
Pickfair and Greenacres: The Silent-Film Estates That Made Beverly Hills Famous
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks brought movie glamour to the hills in 1919, and Harold Lloyd outbuilt them a few years later. One estate is listed on the National Register. The other was almost entirely torn down.
Virginia Robinson Gardens: How to Visit the Oldest Estate in Beverly Hills
The 1911 Beaux Arts house and its six acres of gardens are open only by reservation. Here's how to get in.
Greystone: The Doheny Mansion That Became a City Park
It was built as a 55-room gift from an oil fortune and saved from demolition by the city in 1965. The gardens are open daily, and you can see inside the mansion one weekend a month.
The Pink Palace: A Short History of the Beverly Hills Hotel
It opened in 1912, before the city existed. It wasn't painted pink until 1948. In 2012 it became the city's first historic landmark.
From the Gathering of the Waters to Jan. 28, 1914: How Beverly Hills Became a City
Lima beans, a failed oil hunt, a hotel built to sell lots, and a few hundred residents was all it took to start the most famous small city in America.
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The Edit: A Beverly Hills Holiday Gift Guide, 2026
Local experiences you can give this season, and a first look at the Dossier's shop shelf.
The Reading Room: Books About Beverly Hills and Hollywood, a Starter Shelf
Classic Hollywood novels, two local histories you can read at the library, and a space for the Dossier's own bookshelf.