Amazing art! Huge floating balls on McArthur Park lake in L.A.
by I decided to take a break from writing my new novel (as yet unnamed) and catch the Metro to McArthur Park where new public art …
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.
Kayaking, sailing, paddleboarding…oh, it’s too hot for all that!
When the weather forecast indicated that it was going to be over 100F this weekend, I escaped to Long Beach where it was supposed to …
Cycling to the beach, painting a bus, playing an ecello at CicLAvia Culver City
I didn’t ride in this CicLAvia, but took the Expo Metro Line out to Culver City, one of the hubs for the event. The next …
Eat your heart out Anthony Boudain! See the 626 Night Market at the Santa Anita Race track in the San Gabriel Valley
In a novel I am currently writing, a couple goes to a “Chinese Night Market’ in Los Angeles. In this book the man has spent …
Dance dance dance (sweat!) at the National Dance Day in Los Angeles
It was hotter than the proverbial pistol at the National Dance Day event in the Mark Taper Plaza last Saturday. If you hadn’t heard, this …
A surprisingly comic ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at Griffith Park
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 …
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 …