It only took about a year of gentle coaxing by a dear former colleague until we finally stepped through this door to find out that behind it there hides a real honest-to-God supper club with an amazing offer in Jazz music. Our introduction to Jax was made all the more pleasurable by Mike Gurley and [...]
Impressions from “Autumn Light LA 2009″. Artists and the city worked together and created a night filled with light, magic and music.
That was fun. But maybe I’ll hang on to the food processor for a little while longer.
Even though we are locals, we had underestimated how far the fire had come to some of the places we love to go hiking in. So it was a bit of a shock to be confronted with a closed park and this sign at the entrance road to the park. As we could not drive [...]
I took this photo of the La Canada Flintridge fire yesterday from 40 m (64 km) away. Since then the fire has increased to an area of over 35,000 acres (142 square km). Over 10,000 homes are threatened, some power lines are down, a number of communities are being evacuated. The high heat does not [...]
Clifton’s Cafeteria looks so absolutely unremarkable from the outside that many probably don’t even give it a second look. But should the adventurous city traveler step through the door to be met by this arrangement, he or she might reconsider whether this is really your average cafeteria eating style place. Walking up the staircase, past [...]
This is a peek into some of the houses at the Heritage Square Museum I showed from the outside in the last post. A cosy corner. William Morris wallpaper, frieze and ceiling treatment; no proper Victorian house would have been complete without these imports from England. A chandelier with colorful detail work. This lamp might [...]
Once, on a flight to the US, I was so bored that I decided to watch a comedy on offer, “Legally Blonde.” About 10 minutes into the film I was giggling and enjoying myself hugely. Talk about East Coast / West Coast stereotypes and what a good script and a delightful main character can make [...]
For 31 years the Lotus Festival in Echo Park was one of the highlights of summer. Founded by an Asian community group, the festival took place at Echo Park Lake with its abundance of lotus flowers in bloom, providing two days of fun in the park, with dragon boat races, music, food stalls and entertainment [...]
For years I tried to find a motif embodying the City of Los Angeles for me. Finally I found it. “Dance Door” by Robert Graham The bronze sculpture, created by Graham in 1978, was donated to the Music Center in 1982 by Frederick and Marcia Weisman. For me this vista is Los Angeles at its [...]
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