Two Bit Circus founder Brent Bushnell is photographed in his arcade at Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times) Before me stands a glistening silver box — sleek, ...

It's a Wednesday evening, and the avid cyclist stops at Performance Bicycle in Santa Monica to pick up a helmet he ordered online. He parks in the building's underground lot and takes the elevator up ...

The attack happened around 9 a.m. last Wednesday on the 400 block of Santa Monica Boulevard. According to police, the victim parked her car in an underground parking garage and got into an elevator.

Before me stands a glistening silver box — sleek, elegant and with boldly defined protruding vertical lines, giving it an ever-so-slight vintage Art Deco look. A golden vent rests at its top, the ...