Golden poppies at the East L.A. Metro station
by For someone who spent most of her adult life living on the West Side of Los Angeles, a trip on the Metro Gold Line to …
Category: East L.A.
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 …
Registering voters and recruiting CSI at East LA College
For almost a century the League of Women Voters (LWV) has focused its efforts on registering voters. Women, men, whatever party they prefer–they are actively …
Disappointing art at the new Gold Line Metro stations
I love the original Metro stations for the Gold and Red lines here in Los Angeles. The artwork, commissioned from local artists in the late …
Cycling in CicLAvia? See what you will find at the Mariachi Plaza hub on Oct. 5!
The Mariachi Plaza in the Boyle Heights neighborhood is true to its name: it is the place in Los Angeles to go to hire a …
Cycling in CicLAvia? See the amazing East L.A. Civic Center.
Until about three years ago I had always thought of East L.A. as an area of small, drab houses and a fair amount of crime. …