Flying men and baseball player mosaics in the Civic Center Metro Station L.A.
by Back in the late 1980s and 1990s when the Metro system was being built in Los Angeles, the city went all out for art. In the …
Cheech…maybe not, but Joan T. –si! si!
Los Angeles has a history of wealthy men establishing private museums to display their personal art collections. There are The Broad, the Hammer, the Marciano …
See Haring, Koons, Basquiat + others at The Broad
The late Keith Haring’s artworks are the main draw at The Broad museum right now. Wandering through the galleries, I realized that many of the …
Chiles and tacos 4Ever at the Grand Central Market
My first visit to the Grand Central Market was in 1974. I don’t remember much about it except that we went there to get tacos …
Escape to a French-inspired hideaway blocks from the beach
The Culver Hotel has always appeared to be misplaced somehow. It’s tall and brick and obviously built a long time ago–in 1924 to be exact. …
Strolling along the Rivo Canal on Naples Island Long Beach
It was planned as a hot summer day escape. And I found a gondola, a fragrant plumeria tree, drought tolerant plantings, and a Captain Morgan …
Sculpture in a pocket forest, raining sunshine and a sky view of the LACMA Plaza
In my previous post I promised more about ‘foresty things’ at LACMA. So here goes. In this photo of the Cantor Sculpture garden you can …
Best chowder in L.A. is floating on a barge in the Los Angeles Harbor
For decades the chowder served at Neptune’s Net has drawn brawny bikers and jeans-clad movie stars out to Malibu for Sunday morning chowder at the …
Tomatoes and the goats and bees
Now about tomatoes… Tomatomania is a springtime event in California where dozens of varieties of tomatoes–both hybrid and heirloom–are sold for one day only at …
A day of Bach at Union Station and it’s free
Two women standing beside me in Union Station wondered how anyone could afford to put on 10 hours of amazing performances of Bach’s music with …
Clouds of colors at the Holi Festival
Once again the South Pasadena Education Foundation sponsored a Holi Day festival with all the thrown powdered chalk in fun colors. Here are some South …