Real people, real places and real events around Los Angeles
Sheldon, Howard, Raj and Leonard, the characters in the hilarious comedy, the ‘Big Bang Theory’ are supposedly working at Cal Tech, as the California Institute …
We have a Westside dermatologist and Arboretum co-founder, Dr. Samuel Ayres, to thank for the thousands of Jacaranda trees in Southern California. Back in the …
As I wrote some time ago, the pure arts festivals in and around Los Angeles are having a hard time of it in recent years. …
In the go-go years of the 1920s and early 1930s Art Moderne (or as it is also known, Art Deco) became the architecture of choice …
Named after “Black Jack” Pershing, a hero of World War I, Pershing Square was once a shady green park in the heart of downtown Los …
I fell into a very surprising conversation with a young-ish woman in the bookstore of the Santa Barbara Mission, as I was photographing some of …
Over the years I’ve been to flower shows occasionally and have always found them to be like Victorian Curiosity Cabinets–full of both amazing beauty and …
Most of the kites at the Redondo Beach Kite Festival were small ones. It was obvious that Dad had gone to the local kite store …
The Farmers Market at Third and Fairfax boasts that it is the oldest farmers’ market in Los Angeles. It was founded in 1917 when a …
Over the last year [2014-2015] we’ve all seen oil prices plunge and — thank goodness–gas prices plummet, too. Now gas prices, at least here in …
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