Not what I expected! A pre-Christmas excursion to Staples Center and L.A. Live
by After I left Pershing Square (see previous post) I decided to go to L.A. Live to see the ice-skating rink installed for the holiday season. …
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Caroling in Spanish, ice skating, sledding and Santa, too, in downtown L.A.
Coming up from the Pershing Square Metro station yesterday I could hear carolers, but didn’t recognize the song. Outside in the little plaza around the …
Two veterans I saw today at the Getty Center in Los Angeles
I went to the Getty today to see three photography exhibits and while I was wandering around I saw two Veterans. One served in Viet …
Visiting the Getty to see amazing photos and views of Los Angeles
I went to the Getty Center yesterday to see an exhibition of the photography of Ishiuchi Miyako. She launched her career taking photos of U.S. …
See the real Los Angeles River which Frank Gerhy and others plan to change. For the good?
Recently I began to read reports that notable architect Frank Gehry had been hired by an organization I’d never heard of to design plans to …
Flying men, pink balls and a fountain on the way to the new Broad Museum
I decided to take the Metro to the brand new Broad (rhymes with road) Museum in downtown Los Angeles. But not all art in L.A. …
Amazing art! Huge floating balls on McArthur Park lake in L.A.
I decided to take a break from writing my new novel (as yet unnamed) and catch the Metro to McArthur Park where new public art …
Cycling to the beach, painting a bus, playing an ecello at CicLAvia Culver City
I didn’t ride in this CicLAvia, but took the Expo Metro Line out to Culver City, one of the hubs for the event. The next …
A surprisingly comic ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at Griffith Park
Last evening we caught the final performance of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ for the 2015 season in Griffith Park. It was a rambunctious performance advertised as …
Wow! Dragon boat races and lion dancers at the Echo Park Lotus Festival
I had read somewhere that the Lotus Festival at the Echo Park lake this year (2015) was supposed to celebrate Mongolian culture. Well, it started …