Shakespeare’s Richard III has a great band at Griffith Park and it is free
by Once again the Independent Shakespeare Company is performing two of the bard’s works in Griffith Park for free. This summer they decided to do Richard …
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.
Sri Lankan dancers, Buddhist monks and Saving Ganesh at Sri Lanka Day in Pasadena
Last year the Sri Lanka Day festival moved from Santa Monica where, their website claimed, they had 100,000 visitors. Well, there were not that many …
The Lotus Festival is at Echo Park in Los Angeles
I won’t be going to the Lotus Festival this year, because I’m going to a Sri Lankan Festival in Pasadena and I’ve never been to …
Cindy Sherman photos are headlining at the Broad Museum, but take a look at Kara Walker’s art
Cindy Sherman has made a career of photographing herself. The photos, however, are not simply selfies. For decade after decade she has been exploring and …
My teenage lovelife in cars at the Pasadena Classic Car Show
I’m not much of a car person but as I wandered away from the Chalk Festival to the Pasadena Classic Car Show last weekend I …
Sizzling hot! Huge Chalk Art Festival in Pasadena
It was 86F at 9 am when I went to the annual Pasadena Chalk Art Festival. As I write this just after noon the temperature …
Before and After: the amazing gentrification of the Grand Central Market in downtown Los Angeles
I first went to the Grand Central Market in downtown L.A. back in the mid 1970s while I was freelancing for a couple of the …
The Los Angeles Bread Festival was a trip down Memory Lane to San Francisco in the Sixties
I am continually surprised — and maybe I shouldn’t be — by how many of the younger Millennials are taking up activities that I first …
Petersen Automotive Museum is as hot as a ticket-me-red Camaro
Across Wilshire Boulevard and a block west of LACMA is the amazing Petersen Automotive Museum, founded by Robert Petersen, publisher of Hot Rod magazine. Designed …
An astonishing video at LACMA shows European court dancers in tribal fabrics
Another exhibit at LACMA, one I almost missed, is entitled ‘Sense of Time: video and film-based works of Africa.’ One work, The Masked Ball’ by …