Sri Lankan dancers, Buddhist monks and Saving Ganesh at Sri Lanka Day in Pasadena
by Last year the Sri Lanka Day festival moved from Santa Monica where, their website claimed, they had 100,000 visitors. Well, there were not that many …
Category: Festivals around LA
The Lotus Festival is at Echo Park in Los Angeles
I won’t be going to the Lotus Festival this year, because I’m going to a Sri Lankan Festival in Pasadena and I’ve never been to …
My teenage lovelife in cars at the Pasadena Classic Car Show
I’m not much of a car person but as I wandered away from the Chalk Festival to the Pasadena Classic Car Show last weekend I …
Sizzling hot! Huge Chalk Art Festival in Pasadena
It was 86F at 9 am when I went to the annual Pasadena Chalk Art Festival. As I write this just after noon the temperature …
Stage 2 of Amgen Tour of California started at South Pasadena
This was the third time I’d been to the Tour of California cycling race and it was a much more modest event than the two …
Getting ready for the Rose Parade in Pasadena
If USC beats Stanford then the University of Southern California will play in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day, 2016. But whether or not …
An L.A. Mashup: Facepainters, vampires, family altars and Halloween at Macys
With the large Mexican and Mexican-American population in Los Angeles, the celebration of Dia de los Muertos has grown year after year. Traditionally it is …
South Pasadena’s Fourth of July parade
The South Pasadena annual July 4th parade is called the ‘Festival of Balloons’ and this year the theme was something about honoring Route 66 which …
A thread of weirdness runs through flower shows including the Orchid Show in Santa Barbara
Over the years I’ve been to flower shows occasionally and have always found them to be like Victorian Curiosity Cabinets–full of both amazing beauty and …
Kite festival at Redondo Beach was a family affair on a sunny warm Sunday
Most of the kites at the Redondo Beach Kite Festival were small ones. It was obvious that Dad had gone to the local kite store …