Money and Jesus at the Chinatown Lunar New Year parade
by The Golden Dragon parade held every year in Chinatown in L.A. is–well, appeared to be–a big money-making venture for merchants, as well as a celebration …
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.
Here be dragons–and a lot more–at the Chinese New Year’s parade in Los Angeles 2015
Happy Year of the Ram to you! (The lucky numbers for this year are 3,4,9.) The Chinese New Year parade, as always, was colorful and …
Wow! Shaun White’s Air & Style ski jump by the Rose Bowl is colossal!
Music and ski jumping and California sunshine–sure they go together! Just ask Shaun White who has gone from X Games skateboarder and snowboarder to music …
See the Rent Collection Courtyard that came from China’s Cultural Revolution!
It is only 5 blocks from my home, but I rarely ever go to the Pacific Asia Museum (PAM). With the Chinese Lunar New Year …
Too much amazing art–Hansen’s paintings of Monterey Fisherman, Jim Morphesis, and Lars Jan installation
I came out of the new exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) thinking: ‘I’ve got to take a class in California art.’ …
Bells ring on the hour at St. Andrew’s Church in Pasadena
One of the first things I noticed when I was living in Budapest in 1991 were the church bells that rang throughout the city every …
A winter walk in Arroyo Seco in Pasadena–lots of sunshine, no snow
On Martin Luther King Day I decided to take a walk in the Lower Arroyo Seco park. Unlike Brookside Park (about a mile or so …
Underground Hollywood: stars on the walls, stars on the sidewalks and tourists by the thousands
Most Angelenos avoid Hollywood Blvd. It used to be a run down slum with a lot of tile stars embedded in the sidewalks. Most of …
Sneak Peak at Lutheran Hour float for the Rose Parade in Pasadena
The Rose Palace, one of the huge barns where Rose Parade floats are constructed, is nearby so I walked over there about 3 days ago …
Coyotes yipping and a Winter Solstice sunset in Los Angeles
Shortly after darkness settled into Los Angeles last night, an ambulance made its way, siren screaming, up the street beyond the Rowena reservoir in Los …