What happened to the paper airplanes in Grand Park? Did they shrink?
by Artists Elenita Torres and Dean Sherriff won the assignment sponsored by the Goldhirsh Foundation to create a new shade structure in Grand Park. I had …
Author: carollightwood
I moved to LA from San Francisco in 1974 and lived in various towns and neighborhoods around greater Los Angeles until 2019 when I moved to Tucson. Originally I was from Washington State.
Finally…a visit to Rodia’s Towers, an homage to Marco Polo and a desire to be remembered
Sabato ‘Simon’ Rodia was a small man, only 4 foot 11 inches tall. Somewhere inside him, however, was a goal to ‘do something big’ so …
The 35th Watts Drum Festival was a multi-cultural experience
The Watts Towers have been on my list of places to visit and then last week I noticed that there was a drum festival going …
The gentrification of the Los Angeles River is underway and it isn’t pretty!
Thanks to 1 or 2 million dollars of taxpayers’ money Frank Gerhy’s gang of experts working for the River L.A group earlier this year produced …
The Great L.A. River Race in kayaks was not so great.
It was billed as the Third Annual L.A. River Race, and maybe I was expecting too much. I wasn’t anticipating kayak races like those in …
Sculpture in the garden at the Norton Simon museum on a free Friday evening
The Norton Simon museum in Pasadena offers free admission on the first Friday evening of the month and I had been meaning to go there …
CicLAvia in downtown L.A. was a parade of cycling fun
I have been working on my new travel book this week so I am late in posting about the latest version of CicLAvia. The course …
How to skip that long line at The Original Pantry in downtown L.A.
On my way to Sunday’s CicLAvia cycling festival I stopped for breakfast. I had not been to the Original Pantry in years and years, but …
Ambling along the Los Angeles River pathway from Frog Spot to Marsh Park
The white gravel spread across the landscape at the Frog Spot, the activity center for the Friends of the Los Angeles River, is blinding in …
Virtual reality, vertigo and refugees at the Annenberg Space for Photography
NOTE: The Annenberg Space for Photography closed in March 2020 and announced recently that it will not re-open. The post below was written in 2016. …