A surprisingly comic ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at Griffith Park
by Last evening we caught the final performance of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ for the 2015 season in Griffith Park. It was a rambunctious performance advertised as …
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.
See the Special Olympics emblem in a park in South Pasadena.
As I was coming home from the National Dance Day dance-a-thon in downtown Los Angeles, I spotted this home-made Special Olympics emblem in the park …
Wow! Dragon boat races and lion dancers at the Echo Park Lotus Festival
I had read somewhere that the Lotus Festival at the Echo Park lake this year (2015) was supposed to celebrate Mongolian culture. Well, it started …
South Pasadena’s Fourth of July parade
The South Pasadena annual July 4th parade is called the ‘Festival of Balloons’ and this year the theme was something about honoring Route 66 which …
Old movie and vaudeville theaters making a comeback in downtown Los Angeles
I had taken two of the eight Los Angeles Conservancy guided walking tours already: The Victorian homes tour in Angelino Heights and the Art Deco buildings walk in …
See photos of the Pasadena Chalk Art Festival 2015
The city of Pasadena claims that their chalk art festival is the largest in the nation. That may be true, but this year was smaller …
Customized cars, trucks and lots of memories at the Pasadena Police Car Show
In Burbank… A few days ago the social media group, Krispy Creme Tuesdays, held a flash mob car show — well, they tried to hold …
See 40,000 bicylists at CicLAvia in Pasadena – Wow! Was it ever crowded!
In the first CicLAvia outside of the city limits of Los Angeles, the crowds really turned out. The Pasadena Police estimate that 40,000 cyclists were …
The Los Angeles Central Library is an extraordinary work of art–even if you do not read one book.
It is embarrassing to admit–even moreso because I am an author–but I had never been inside the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles which was …
Tour of California cycling race to the finish by the Rose Bowl
Last year the Stage 7 of the Amgen Tour of California cycling race ended in Pasadena by City Hall. I went early and took photos …