See the celebration of the Indian Festival of Colors in South Pasadena
by Holi is an ancient festival of India celebrating the arrival of Spring. Maybe you didn’t realize exactly what the festival was named, but we’ve all …
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.
Preparing for Palm Sunday at Los Angeles Cathedral
I had intended to visit The Broad museum on Saturday but the line for people without tickets was two–yes! two–blocks long and the museum hadn’t …
What to do on Saturday night? Go to the Last Book Store for art and music!
The Last Book Store in downtown Los Angeles not only sells new and used books, albums and comic books, this funky and huge store also …
Winding “sky path” and secret gardens high up in Disney Hall
What’s behind all those curving stainless steel panels on Disney Hall? I was surprised to find out that there is a complicated iron structure, a …
New bumps up against old in the Pasadena Playhouse District
The Pasadena Playhouse was founded in 1917 and, true to that era, it is a Spanish Revival building complete with palm trees and a fountain …
See the historic party-house of Charles Lummis, museum founder
While perhaps he is best-known today as the man who built a stone house by hand in Los Angeles between 1897 and 1910, Charles Lummis …
See the people and places of Chinatown L.A. –away from the parade
Last weekend the annual Lunar New Year Parade marched through Chinatown in Los Angeles. While the parade was colorful, much else happened off the parade …
The Chinese Golden Dragon parade — hot and colorful in Los Angeles
It seems that the weather luck of the Rose Parade also holds true for the annual Golden Dragon parade in L.A.’s Chinatown. I have been …
The L.A. River through the eyes of artist Victor Zayas–extraordinary!
Since the early 1980s artist (and former collegiate soccer player) Victor Hugo Zayas has been painting the Los Angeles river, primarily at night. So yesterday …
The mysterious source of L.A. River water? (Hint: not those clouds above you.)
As storms sweep into the West Coast the Los Angeles River has become at times a raging flood of water racing to the Long Beach …