A Christmas Concert at the Pasadena United Methodist Church
by (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 …
Category: Festivals around LA
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, …
The Doo Dah is silliness on parade in stuffy Pasadena
This is part two. See the previous post for more. After 39 years the Doo Dah Parade still is silly and fun–characteristics one usually does …
See the crazy fun Doo Dah parade in Pasadena
This is Part One. More posts follow tomorrow. Originally the Doo Dah parade was a send-up of Pasadena’s famed Rose Parade. And it is still …
The 35th Watts Drum Festival was a multi-cultural experience
The Watts Towers have been on my list of places to visit and then last week I noticed that there was a drum festival going …
The Great L.A. River Race in kayaks was not so great.
It was billed as the Third Annual L.A. River Race, and maybe I was expecting too much. I wasn’t anticipating kayak races like those in …
CicLAvia in downtown L.A. was a parade of cycling fun
I have been working on my new travel book this week so I am late in posting about the latest version of CicLAvia. The course …
Shakespeare’s Richard III has a great band at Griffith Park and it is free
Once again the Independent Shakespeare Company is performing two of the bard’s works in Griffith Park for free. This summer they decided to do Richard …