Featured image credit: Glendora Village If you’re seeking a slice of small-town Americana but can’t quite give up the big city, a search for houses for sale in Glendora, California may be in your near future. Though it’s firmly a part of Los Angeles County, Glendora has a quaint and timeless feel to it. When […]
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The Seedy Origin of the Exposition Park Rose Garden
Photo credit: Los Angeles We may not often feel like we have the time to stop and smell the roses in Los Angeles. But we’ve definitely got the place. It’s a sunken garden measuring just over 7 acres and presenting roughly 20,000 bushes in bloom from March through November. The hyper-organized beauty of the Exposition […]
The Ongoing Saga of Jackie and Shadow, Big Bear Lake’s Avian Power Couple
Featured image credit: Friends of Big Bear Valley It’s estimated that around 100,000 people flock to the mountainous resort town of Big Bear every year. Yet, your best chance of seeing the most illustrious seasonal residents is by staying glued to your computer. That’s because no one in Big Bear is as popular as the […]
The Controversial Old Trapper’s Lodge Statues Have Locked Pierce College and a Folk Artist’s Family in a Pricey Stalemate
Featured image credit: Konrad Summers Being a school that got its start specializing in agricultural studies, Los Angeles Pierce College is a greener campus than most. It’s a surreal feeling when you first see its campus farmhouse as you’re rolling across Victory Boulevard. But within an obscure fenced-off grove of unkempt trees, you’ll find something […]
Meet the Unlikely Celebrity Group Who Saved the Hollywood Sign
Featured image credit: Thomas Wolf Perched atop Mount Lee just 1,708 feet above Los Angeles, the Hollywood sign can be seen all around the world. Figuratively speaking, of course. Obviously, it needs no introduction. But this global icon only exists today because of the efforts (and considerable donations) of nine unlikely individuals, each vowing sponsorship […]
What Do Ryan Murphy, The Golden Girls, and Palm Springs Have in Common? The New Mid-Century Modern TV Show
Featured image credit: Hulu Palm Springs is ready for its close-up. Back in June of 2024, Hulu announced the production of a new multi-cam sitcom following the lives of three gay friends living together and navigating life in Palm Springs. On Sunday night, audiences watching the 97th Academy Awards had their first taste of the […]
Mt. Baldy is LA’s Most Infamous Mountain… and the 3rd Most Deadly in the Country
Featured image credit: Eric T. Gunther Jagged, snow-ravaged peaks scrape frosty clouds; a steel gray contrast overpowering blue skies. Blankets of deceptively powdery snow, punctuated by puma prints, blanket thick, unyielding slabs of ice. Silence is broken by the cascading rustle of falling ice shards and frozen boulders gaining shudder-inducing inertia. No, we’re not in […]
Neighborhood Watch: Join the Line for Houses for Sale in Upland CA
Featured image credit: City of Upland JohnHart Real Estate may be best recognized for redefining real estate in the Greater Los Angeles area, but our mission knows no boundaries as the focus of this edition of our Neighborhood Watch column illustrates. Today, we look at a city in San Bernardino County where things always seem […]
The LA River is More Than a Movie Set
Featured image credit: Chris Cooke If you’ve been to the movies in the last 50 years, you’re familiar with the LA River. Now, whether you recognized it as a river when you saw it is debatable. It’s where the T-100 and John Connor tried to outrun or outgun a semi-driving T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment […]
How Terrible Herbst Rose to Become the Best Bad Guy in the West
Featured image credit: Elizabeth K. Joseph Few companies have risen quickly in the esteem of patrons by offering a truly terrible experience. It’s not the only distinction that sets Terrible’s apart from other businesses. You may better recognize the brand as Terrible Herbst or the Terrible Herbst Convenience Store; a mainstay of Las Vegas life […]