Money and Jesus at the Chinatown Lunar New Year parade
by The Golden Dragon parade held every year in Chinatown in L.A. is–well, appeared to be–a big money-making venture for merchants, as well as a celebration …
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Here be dragons–and a lot more–at the Chinese New Year’s parade in Los Angeles 2015
Happy Year of the Ram to you! (The lucky numbers for this year are 3,4,9.) The Chinese New Year parade, as always, was colorful and …
Sneak Peak at Lutheran Hour float for the Rose Parade in Pasadena
The Rose Palace, one of the huge barns where Rose Parade floats are constructed, is nearby so I walked over there about 3 days ago …
Ice-skating beside the palm trees in downtown Los Angeles
The L.A. Kings winning the Stanley Cup twice in the last 3 years no doubt inspired some of the young skaters on the ice in …
Celebrate Day of the Dead with Johnny Ramone at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
I decided to visit the Hollywood Forever Cemetery before the big annual Day of the Dead celebration –and, yes, the dead and their lives are …
Dancing and Shakespeare free at Griffith Park
If you are anywhere in the Los Angeles area check out the free performances of Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night by the Independent …
Santa Monica Pier: Fun at the beach without getting onto all that gritty sand
True confession: I am not much of a beach person. I don’t lay out on the sand to get a suntan. I don’t swim in …
See the Blessing of Animals by Archbishop Gomez at historic Olvera Street in Los Angeles
The Blessing of the Animals in the plaza by Olvera St. on the Saturday before Easter is a tradition that goes back at least 200 …
Day of the Dead parade in Claremont — for kids!
The ‘Village Venture’ is a huge Fall festival held in Claremont every year on the Saturday before Halloween And every year the Village Venture begins …