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 […]
Featured image credit: Holiday Ice Rink Pershing Square For a city that more or less holds its enviable climate throughout the year, parts of Los Angeles undergo a radical transformation during the holiday season. These pockets may be devoid of snow, but they fill the space with character (and a heaping helping of Christmas lights). […]
Anyone who’s had the bittersweet experience of sweating through the first pumpkin spice latte of the season likely understands Halloween weather in Los Angeles. It’s a region where, like it or not, your Halloween costume is going to be sexy, because the fewer layers, the better. With August and September being the hottest months of […]
Featured image credit: Martin Green A home is a promise of sanctuary; a shelter from the outside world. But today’s LA Home Spotlight looks at a Pasadena palace that sought to tastefully blur the lines between that sanctuary and the outside world. The Gamble House, sometimes referred to as the David B. Gamble House, would […]
Featured image credit: Isaac Cruz If “all the world’s a stage”, as William Shakespeare so famously declared, then it could explain the traffic pile-ups that greet us every day across the city. But in one sleepy Los Angeles neighborhood, the more decked out the roadway, the better. At least where the historic Shakespeare Bridge is […]
Featured image credit: Afpeach It would be a passably snappy intro to drop a statement like, “There’s only one Broadway”, but it’s not exactly true, is it? Of course, there’s Broadway in Manhattan, a concrete river veritably flowing with theatre. That would be the Broadway that everyone knows. But what about the Broadway in Chennai, […]
Keep in mind, construction is moving on Los Angeles time. Featured image credit: Chris English For decades, a delicate ballet of colored light and aquatics in motion has enlivened the point where Riverside Drive and Los Feliz Boulevard intersect. Yet, you’d never know it if you’d passed through the area in the last several years. […]
Featured image credit: ValleyRelicsMuseum.org The San Fernando Valley can feel like its own world… maybe even its own dimension. Is there anywhere else quite like it? It has its own identity, its own culture. For a time, it seemed to even have its own accent. While characteristics of the Valley come and go, one man […]
Featured image credit: Levi Clancy This city (and, by extension, this blog) is no stranger to incredible feats of folk art. We’ve seen it in structures like Rubel Castle, the Mosaic Tile House, Zorthian Ranch, and even, to some degree, the Sam Maloof House. We explored it in installations like the Old Trapper’s Lodge and […]
Featured image credit: MONA Glendale When Blade Runner hit theaters in June 1982, it introduced us to a portrait of LA’s dystopian future, a constant barrage of polluted rain plummeting into percussive refinery fires. And, at street level, neon as far as the eye could see. Though modern LA can at times echo the film’s […]
