Santa Monica Pier: Fun at the beach without getting onto all that gritty sand
by 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 …
Category: Los Angeles
The new lotus are in bloom at Echo Park right now — long before the July Lotus Festival!
Last year the City of Los Angeles set about to restore Echo Park lake, including bringing back the Asian lotus plants which had mysteriously disappeared …
See Native Tongva people’s roles at the San Gabriel Mission near Los Angeles
On July 11, 2020 a fire severely damaged the San Gabriel Mission church. The roof was totally destroyed and much of the interior, too. Years …
Visiting the Mission San Gabriel Archangel near L.A. to see a 200 year old church filled with history
On July 11, 2020 fire severely damaged the church. The roof was totally destroyed and much of the interior, too. If you were a European …
Happy Birthday Union Station in Los Angeles!! And it was National Train Day, too!
Yesterday was National Train Day, so I decided to skip the Pasadena Earth Day event and ride the Metro Gold Line down to Union Station …
Farewell to the art fair! They’re vanishing across Los Angeles but I found one in Toluca Lake
10, 15, and 20 years ago there were annual art fairs in neighborhoods across Southern California. Fine artists and accomplished craftspeople–potters, glass artists, painters, sculptors–would …
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 …
Angelino Heights is a Victorian home haven in Los Angeles!
I started this by going to Echo Park to check out the status of the lotus plants. No news to report there, so I decided …
See photos of the L.A. Festival of Books: C-Span, crime writers, typewriters, fruit hats and–Yes!–real books
I’ll be writing about the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the largest book festival in America on my other blog, Misadventures in E-Publishing, but …
L.A. Festival of Books: Poetry Slam, Fancy Nancy, YA Fantasy Fiction and Breast Feeding
In just a few minutes I’m leaving to go to the second day of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Before I go I …