Amazing glass garden sculptures at the Pasadena Showcase House 2016
by The Pasadena Showcase House has been held annually for almost six decades. Year after year designers and decorators and crafts people have transformed large old …
Tiles showing movies and movie stars in the 7th Street Red Line Metro station
The 7th Street Metro station is where the Metro Red Line, Purple Line and Blue Line converge and it is filled with people rushing from …
Mapplethorpe, Japanese-American photographers and Happy Kitty in Little Tokyo Los Angeles
Beautiful images, not-suitable-for-kids subjects Last weekend I saw the Mapplethorpe exhibition at the Getty and most of the photographs were ones I had seen before …
Purple Jacaranda trees in bloom along Del Mar about a month early
Decades ago–say, back in the 1970s and 1980s–the Brazilian Jacaranda trees planted all over Los Angeles bloomed in early June. In recent years the trees …
A secret garden tucked away in Pasadena is filled with quiet places
Pasadena’s Arlington Garden came into being thanks to the efforts of two neighbors, Betty and Charles McKenney, who disliked looking out at an empty 3 acre …
Cleaning the Los Angeles River after El Nino storms swept through
Saturday, April 16th, 2016 was Day One of a 3 day clean-up of the L.A. River. It began at the upper end of L.A. River, …
Hollywood Underground at the Metro stations
Two Metro stations bracket the section of Hollywood Blvd. that most visitors think of as ‘Hollywood’. Most locals think of this area as a place for …
Hard Rock dancing girls, Chewbacca, Shrek and Superheros — just another sunny day on Hollywood Blvd.
It was something I hadn’t seen since the Sixties in North Beach–two girls in skimpy outfits dancing in a display window to lure customers inside. …
Poison Oak, California Poppies, Mustard and Mallards in the Arroyo Seco Pasadena
While the drought is definitely not over in Southern California, enough rain fell in the last few months to transform the Arroyo Seco into a …
Disappointing art at the new Gold Line Metro stations
I love the original Metro stations for the Gold and Red lines here in Los Angeles. The artwork, commissioned from local artists in the late …