The Doo Dah is silliness on parade in stuffy Pasadena
by 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 …
Category: Festivals around LA
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 …
Sri Lankan dancers, Buddhist monks and Saving Ganesh at Sri Lanka Day in Pasadena
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 …
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 …