The Batmobile and fake cities at the Warner Bros Studio in Burbank
by If you take the studio tour at the Warner Bros. lot you will find yourself riding on a open-sided shuttle and passing through sun-filled streets …
Category: Hollywood
Hollywood and Vine for stars and tile murals in the Red Line Metro Station
Hollywood and Vine is among the most famous intersections in the country. Those two street names suggest glamour and glitz and movie stars. While the …
You won’t find movie stars on Hollywood Blvd.
Oh scream! Oh shriek! No wonder the world thinks L.A. is garishly tasteless! No wonder the world needs this blog! There is more to Los …
Hollywood Underground at the Metro stations
Two Metro stations bracket the section of Hollywood Blvd. that most visitors think of as ‘Hollywood’. Most locals think of this area as a place for …
Hard Rock dancing girls, Chewbacca, Shrek and Superheros — just another sunny day on Hollywood Blvd.
It was something I hadn’t seen since the Sixties in North Beach–two girls in skimpy outfits dancing in a display window to lure customers inside. …
Boomboxes, Basquiat, Ice Cube for Christmas in East Hollywood
The current exhibition at La Luz de Jesus gallery, Boombox Creators, is a trip back in time to the 1980s and the birth of hip-hop. …
Underground Hollywood: stars on the walls, stars on the sidewalks and tourists by the thousands
Most Angelenos avoid Hollywood Blvd. It used to be a run down slum with a lot of tile stars embedded in the sidewalks. Most of …
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 …
Not all L.A. cowboys wear rhinestones, but Nudie from Kiev did
Who is this cowboy in black? A man in a mariachi band? Just a local North Hollywood cowboy in his fringed leather jacket? I …
Flashback to the ’60s in dance
It wasn’t unusual — well, at least in California, it wasn’t unusual in the late 1960s to see a young girl with her face and …