Cheech…maybe not, but Joan T. –si! si!
by Los Angeles has a history of wealthy men establishing private museums to display their personal art collections. There are The Broad, the Hammer, the Marciano …
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Chiles and tacos 4Ever at the Grand Central Market
My first visit to the Grand Central Market was in 1974. I don’t remember much about it except that we went there to get tacos …
Flying men and baseball player mosaics in the Civic Center Metro Station L.A.
Back in the late 1980s and 1990s when the Metro system was being built in Los Angeles, the city went all out for art. In the …
Christmas in colorful Chinatown is a Los Angeles tradition
In the melting pot that is Los Angeles two local holiday food traditions stand out. One is eating tamales during the Christmas season which obviously …
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Mission Inn Festival of Lights is wild for animatrontic elves and real parrots
“Too much is just about right” at the amazing, annual Festival of Lights at the Mission Inn in Riverside, about an hour or so east …
Luis Rodriguez, L.A. poet laureate, puts handprints in Vroman’s Walk of Fame
Rodriguez, the 2014 Los Angeles Poet Laureate, author, bookstore owner, former gang member and community activist became the third author to be added to Vroman’s …
The rebirth of the Pasadena Playhouse District and an Art Walk too
The annual Art Walk in the Playhouse District was a typical local art show — but untypically located under the huge old ficus trees that …
“Resist” reads the sign at a Metro Gold Line station in Los Angeles
Shortly after Trump was inaugurated this huge RESIST sign went up on a fence across from a Metro station that is surrounded by angel sculptures …
The arts of CicLAvia and some bikes, too
The latest installment of the no-cars-on-streets bicycling event dubbed CicLAvia was held on L.A. streets stretching from Boyle Heights to Echo Park to Chinatown last …
Actor Anthony Quinn reborn on a building in downtown Los Angeles
Old actors don’t always fade away into oblivion. Some get repainted or moved to a new home. For over 30 years, the Victor Clothing company …