Featured image credit: CalWild Even if you want to completely ignore TLC’s sage 1994 warning, Los Angeles doesn’t seem like the place to go chasing waterfalls. First of all, we’re pretty much situated in a Mediterranean landscape of arid, chaparral-saturated hills and valleys. And we’re no strangers to severe droughts. Finally, we’re a sprawling metropolis, […]
Featured image credit: Codera23 Even casual fans of modernism need no introduction to Richard Neutra. The Austrian-American architect was integral to the popularization of mid-century designs with his forward-thinking structures peppering Southern California. It was almost as if he were using human progress itself as a building material. To see some of Neutra’s most iconic […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Some of you are eagerly looking forward to it. Probably a bigger portion of you are dreading it. But, like it or not, Valentine’s Day 2025 is fast approaching. And in a city like LA, if you don’t have your reservations dialed in well in advance, you’re looking at a wild night, one way or […]
Featured image credit: Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / “Amboy (California, USA) — 2012 — 4” / CC BY-SA 4.0 About 200 miles east of Los Angeles and 100 miles northeast of Palm Springs sits a remote Mojave Desert town that exists out of logic and reason. It was built near a dead volcano, along a highway (that died), with a gas station […]
Featured image credit: mbtrama It’s not often that we get to witness experiments in architecture while they’re in motion. Yet, that’s exactly the experience case study houses offer. Arts & Architecture magazine challenged notable architects to create affordable homes to address the U.S.’s residential housing boom. With World War II finally coming to an end, […]
Featured image credit: Ben Schumin What a year for legendary bands. New wave icons Devo retired from live performance. Rock gods Kiss called it a day. And now Munch’s Make Believe Band is packing it all in… with one notable exception. Wait, you don’t remember Munch’s Make Believe Band? Surely you’ve had the singular experience […]
It seems there isn’t a second that passes in the Coachella Valley when Mid-Century designs aren’t celebrated in some way. Yet, Palm Springs still devotes a “week” to Mid-Century Modern styles. That “week” lasts 10 days this year, but it still doesn’t seem like enough time to pack in every event, tour, lecture, and party. […]
