Aliens at the Pasadena Chalk Art Festival
by It is a double-header in Pasadena: the Alien Con is at the Convention Center and across the street dozens and dozens of chalk artists are …
Category: Art in Los Angeles
Lummis Days celebrates that party animal with a critter puppet parade
Charles Lummis was quite a guy! Adventurer, author, editor of the L.A. Times, cross-country hiker, archeologist, photographer, and founder of the Southwest Museum. He was …
The Animation Expo in Burbank is a place for women illustrators, animators
The city of Burbank welcomed the Animation Expo four or five years ago. It is a free event to showcase the work of young animators and …
Summer Fair season gets going with the Burbank Art Street Fair
I went to the Burbank Spring Art Fair in 2018 with the intention of photographing people who attended, but decided to show some of the …
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. …
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 …
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 …
The rebirth of the Pasadena Playhouse District and an Art Walk too
The annual Art Walk in the Playhouse District was a typical local art show — but untypically located under the huge old ficus trees that …
“Resist” reads the sign at a Metro Gold Line station in Los Angeles
Shortly after Trump was inaugurated this huge RESIST sign went up on a fence across from a Metro station that is surrounded by angel sculptures …