Sizzling hot! Huge Chalk Art Festival in Pasadena
by It was 86F at 9 am when I went to the annual Pasadena Chalk Art Festival. As I write this just after noon the temperature …
Before and After: the amazing gentrification of the Grand Central Market in downtown Los Angeles
I first went to the Grand Central Market in downtown L.A. back in the mid 1970s while I was freelancing for a couple of the …
The Los Angeles Bread Festival was a trip down Memory Lane to San Francisco in the Sixties
I am continually surprised — and maybe I shouldn’t be — by how many of the younger Millennials are taking up activities that I first …
Petersen Automotive Museum is as hot as a ticket-me-red Camaro
Across Wilshire Boulevard and a block west of LACMA is the amazing Petersen Automotive Museum, founded by Robert Petersen, publisher of Hot Rod magazine. Designed …
An astonishing video at LACMA shows European court dancers in tribal fabrics
Another exhibit at LACMA, one I almost missed, is entitled ‘Sense of Time: video and film-based works of Africa.’ One work, The Masked Ball’ by …
After Mapplethorpe nudes comes men’s clothing during the last 300+ years
As a kind of counter-exhibit to the room after room of Mapplethorpe’s male nudes–which not all of which are suitable for publication, at least in …
Yellow hoses, Hawaiian feathers and the Rain Room at LACMA in Los Angeles
There are currently 4 1/2 exhibitions tied to the works of Robert Mapplethorpe around Los Angeles, including a huge one at LACMA (Los Angeles County …
Street corner art, a lavender house, pinwheels on a fence in South Pasadena
Whimsy seems to be taking over South Pasadena. I went there to shoot photographs of al fresco dining along Mission Street–and there are plenty of …
Stage 2 of Amgen Tour of California started at South Pasadena
This was the third time I’d been to the Tour of California cycling race and it was a much more modest event than the two …
Mothers’ Day piano music in Union Station and Zephyr Fromage Blanc Mousse for dessert
Here is what I did on Mothers Day: Caught the Gold Line Metro to Union Station where I was surprised and delighted to listen to …