Weird, wacky, political and simply fun people at CicLAvia
by After getting off the pedicab yesterday (see previous post) I found myself swept into the carnival atmosphere of the downtown Hub of CicLAvia. Sure, there …
Riding in an Awesome Pedicab in the heart of Los Angeles CicLAvia
Sometimes wishes do come true. Photographing the Chinatown Hub on Broadway had been my plan for the CicLAvia Heart of L.A. event on Sunday, but …
Wandering the back alleys and side streets in Old Town Pasadena
In front of City Hall are two large sculptured heads: baseball legends Jackie Robinson and his brother, both of whom grew up in Pasadena. But …
See the Green witch Hillary and Pumpkinhead Donald in a candy store window in Pasadena
(NOTE AS I RE-PUBLISH THIS IN 2020: I was wrong when I wrote this post in 2016. Trump won that election. I have been resisting …
Women celebrating Day of the Dead at Olvera Street
The Olvera Street Merchants were the first group to launch Dia de los Muertos celebrations in 2018 on October 6th. And the women of Los …
What happened to the paper airplanes in Grand Park? Did they shrink?
Artists Elenita Torres and Dean Sherriff won the assignment sponsored by the Goldhirsh Foundation to create a new shade structure in Grand Park. I had …
Finally…a visit to Rodia’s Towers, an homage to Marco Polo and a desire to be remembered
Sabato ‘Simon’ Rodia was a small man, only 4 foot 11 inches tall. Somewhere inside him, however, was a goal to ‘do something big’ so …
The 35th Watts Drum Festival was a multi-cultural experience
The Watts Towers have been on my list of places to visit and then last week I noticed that there was a drum festival going …
The gentrification of the Los Angeles River is underway and it isn’t pretty!
Thanks to 1 or 2 million dollars of taxpayers’ money Frank Gerhy’s gang of experts working for the River L.A group earlier this year produced …
The Great L.A. River Race in kayaks was not so great.
It was billed as the Third Annual L.A. River Race, and maybe I was expecting too much. I wasn’t anticipating kayak races like those in …