Adam Schiff and Terry Tornek confess to their literary habits
by Politicians tell all about books that inspired them as young people, and books that motivate them now. (This was originally posted in May of 2018, …
Category: Glendale
Hundreds of colorful quilts in Pasadena including a 3-D quilt!
The Glendale Quilt Guild‘s annual convention was this last weekend, September 22 and 23, 2017 at the Pasadena Civic Center. This year there were over …
The Armenian genocide memorial in Glendale under cloudy skies
I’ve heard it said that there are more people who call themselves “Armenians” in Glendale, than in the country of Armenia. While that is actually …
CicLAvia in Glendale under cloudy skies
The latest version of CicLAvia, the open road bicycling event for everyone, seemed less crowded than previous ones. Maybe some people went to the Resist …
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. …
The gentrification of the Los Angeles River is underway and it isn’t pretty!
Thanks to 1 or 2 million dollars of taxpayers’ money Frank Gerhy’s gang of experts working for the River L.A group earlier this year produced …
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 …
Ambling along the Los Angeles River pathway from Frog Spot to Marsh Park
The white gravel spread across the landscape at the Frog Spot, the activity center for the Friends of the Los Angeles River, is blinding in …
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 …
Cleaning the Los Angeles River after El Nino storms swept through
Saturday, April 16th, 2016 was Day One of a 3 day clean-up of the L.A. River. It began at the upper end of L.A. River, …