Tiles showing movies and movie stars in the 7th Street Red Line Metro station
by The 7th Street Metro station is where the Metro Red Line, Purple Line and Blue Line converge and it is filled with people rushing from …
Category: Downtown Los Angeles
Mapplethorpe, Japanese-American photographers and Happy Kitty in Little Tokyo Los Angeles
Beautiful images, not-suitable-for-kids subjects Last weekend I saw the Mapplethorpe exhibition at the Getty and most of the photographs were ones I had seen before …
Preparing for Palm Sunday at Los Angeles Cathedral
I had intended to visit The Broad museum on Saturday but the line for people without tickets was two–yes! two–blocks long and the museum hadn’t …
What to do on Saturday night? Go to the Last Book Store for art and music!
The Last Book Store in downtown Los Angeles not only sells new and used books, albums and comic books, this funky and huge store also …
Winding “sky path” and secret gardens high up in Disney Hall
What’s behind all those curving stainless steel panels on Disney Hall? I was surprised to find out that there is a complicated iron structure, a …
The Chinese Golden Dragon parade — hot and colorful in Los Angeles
It seems that the weather luck of the Rose Parade also holds true for the annual Golden Dragon parade in L.A.’s Chinatown. I have been …
Flying men, pink balls and a fountain on the way to the new Broad Museum
I decided to take the Metro to the brand new Broad (rhymes with road) Museum in downtown Los Angeles. But not all art in L.A. …
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 …
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 …
The Los Angeles Central Library is an extraordinary work of art–even if you do not read one book.
It is embarrassing to admit–even moreso because I am an author–but I had never been inside the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles which was …