Singing on a raft at Fiesta Perpetua on Echo Park Lake
by 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. …
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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 …
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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 …
A very quick trip through the Jackalope Fair in Pasadena
I guess I am burned out on street fairs. Even though the Jackalope Fair has lots of vendors with young faces there was not much …
Blessing the Animals with a much much smaller crowd in Los Angeles
The Blessing of the Animals in the plaza at Olvera Street is an old tradition in Los Angeles that goes back 87 years. When I’ve …
A Christmas Concert at the Pasadena United Methodist Church
(Note: There will be no Christmas Concert attended by hundreds in 2020 at the Pasadena United Methodist Church, but here is what it looked like …
Skating, sledding and a Joni Mitchell song at Pershing Square in Los Angeles
Every winter–except 2020–there is ice skating in downtown Los Angeles. It’s unlikely and wholesome fun for LA families. But in 2018 the activities for children …
A small town Christmas in an artificial village
For decades the Glendale Galleria has been an archetypal mall in Southern California: two stories, seemingly gazillions of shops, anchored by Macy’s, Sears and Nordstrom. …
Ice skating at Pershing Square under the palm trees
As someone who grew up in part of the U.S. where lakes and ponds freeze in winter and ice skating is a common winter activity, …