Shepard Fairey, skateboards, and plastic sugar skulls in Chinatown
by On a shopping trip to Chinatown I stumbled across an art gallery called Eastern Projects that is participating in the Pacific Standard Time LA/LA exhibitions. The …
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Angels Flight railway finally reopens in downtown Los Angeles
Visitors to downtown Los Angeles can once again ride the steep narrow gauge railway named Angels Flight from Grand Central Market on Hill St. up …
Hockney at the Getty and some amazing furniture, too
(Originally published in 2017) The Getty Center decided to celebrate painter/photographer David Hockney’s 80th birthday with two galleries of his work. One contains self-portraits over …
Funny soap box racers tear down a hilly street in Elysian Park
This post is a reminder about those fun and silly things we used to do before COVID 19. This was originally published in August 2017. …
A California condor downtown and a bird sanctuary in Silverlake
My route to the March for Science on Saturday took me first to the Silverlake/Los Feliz neighborhood and then on to downtown and a walk …
Lion dancers and more at the Chinatown Golden Dragon parade in Los Angeles
The weather gods must love parades. The Rose Parade, the Doo-Dah parade, the Chinatown Golden Dragon parade all happen during our Southern California rainy season, …
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 …
Mayan censors, German angels and sandcastles at LACMA
The ‘Big Attraction Show’ for 2016 holiday tourists at Los Angeles Country Museum of Art is the Diego Rivera-Pablo Picasso exhibition. The common ground between …
Learn Curling, go ice skating, take an “angel” photo at Pershing Square in DTLA
(Note: This was originally published in 2017) Perhaps it is too early in December, but there were almost no Christmas decorations, no jolly Santa Claus, …
Ice skating at Pershing Square under the palm trees
As someone who grew up in part of the U.S. where lakes and ponds freeze in winter and ice skating is a common winter activity, …