The 19th Century Musicale is alive and well in Pasadena
by On the first Tuesday every month at 12:30 p.m., you can travel back in time to an experience that would have been familiar to Jane …
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.
Adam Schiff and Terry Tornek confess to their literary habits
Politicians tell all about books that inspired them as young people, and books that motivate them now. (This was originally posted in May of 2018, …
Edible dates hang heavy on the palm trees on Arroyo Parkway
A few years ago the city of Pasadena changed trees in the center of the Arroyo Parkway, the city street at the end of the …
Women’s March in Los Angeles, January 2018
This is at the Second Women’s March in 2018. See the first one in Jan. 2017 here. City officials and Metro were expecting a …
Singing on a raft at Fiesta Perpetua on Echo Park Lake
The Fiesta Perpetua on and around Echo Park lake was the brainchild of Carmina Escobar as her contribution to the huge Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. …
Decorating the 2017 Rose Parade float in South Pasadena
The city of South Pasadena always enters a float in the Tournament of Roses parade and the float is always decorated by local volunteers. The …
Christmas in colorful Chinatown is a Los Angeles tradition
In the melting pot that is Los Angeles two local holiday food traditions stand out. One is eating tamales during the Christmas season which obviously …
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Mission Inn Festival of Lights is wild for animatrontic elves and real parrots
“Too much is just about right” at the amazing, annual Festival of Lights at the Mission Inn in Riverside, about an hour or so east …
Luis Rodriguez, L.A. poet laureate, puts handprints in Vroman’s Walk of Fame
Rodriguez, the 2014 Los Angeles Poet Laureate, author, bookstore owner, former gang member and community activist became the third author to be added to Vroman’s …
Carrie Fisher, Littlefinger, Frida Kahlo honored with Day of the Dead altars in Pasadena
In the 2017 Day of the Dead event in Old Town Pasadena there were altars for a number of celebrities, as well as pets and …