Carol Vernon feels at home in LACMA's current photography exhibit for a good reason. She was with her parents when they acquired many of the photos.
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Christmas Eve over Downtown Los Angeles, from the roof of the Toy Factory lofts. Photo is part of Iris...
Pelicans, dolphins and surfers ... it's Christmas morning at Santa Monica Bay.
Chinatown scene by Iris Schneider
TV writer, producer and author Paul Haddad remembers an encounter with singer, sex kitten and Catwoman Eartha Kitt that is the gift that keep giving.
An often-reprinted essay that takes us back to a moment a half-century ago when a hard-drinking city editor defined in his own way who we were as journalists and what our responsibilities were as humans.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard is a regular Thursday feature of LA Observed.
I check the volume, place the ear-buds in his ears. Slowly a smile emerges, his eyes come alert, transfixed on the screen, his lips occasionally moving with the lyrics.
Having traveled around Australia, our columnists have some recommendations for Mayor Eric Garcetti on his end-of-year vacation. Mostly fun stuff, but a few work related green things to keep an eye on.
Photo by Iris Schneider.
The short films screened at the Nihilist International Film Festival are not soon to be major motion pictures.
Martinez sees a battalion of man-eating mountain lions emerging from the highly-publicized birth of two of the predatory beasts in the Santa Monica Mountains. They are not to be cuddled, he warns, but feared.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard is a regular Thursday feature of LA Observed.
Like a repellent exhibit at Ripley's Believe It or Not that you can't take your eyes off, Shaul Schwarz's documentary "Narco Cultura" keeps you riveted.
I went up to the Griffith Observatory at the end of the day on Saturday. The moon and Venus were bright in the sky and lots of people were capturing the city lights on their phones and cameras.
Mark the calendar. This week will go down as a crucial week in California's water history. The draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and associated Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) was filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday and the public comment period begins this week. We've got big decisions to make about our water future.
Jazz floats through Topanga like ribbons of gold, drifting through the Santa Monica Mountains on a cool Friday night from Larry Cohn's Canyon Bistro, laying a moment of serenity on a calamitous world. Martinez takes you there.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard is a regular Thursday feature of LA Observed. Gary's archive....
Humor comes to our downtown stages in two shows brimming with imagination: a "Magic Flute" that breaks the antique Mozartian mold and Matthew Bourne's hip "Sleeping Beauty" powered by a testosteronic high.
Despite a meciocre record at Washington, Steve Sarkisian has been hired as USC's head coach. It may work out, but Phil Wallace says it wasn't his first choice. Interestingly, this move could lead to Jim Mora, Jr's departure from UCLA.
"Wherever you go, there you are," says Buckaroo Banzai. Jon Christensen reads the new book "Trees in Paradise: A California History" on the long flight from LAX to Melbourne and reflects on what we can learn from history in a cosmopolitan era in which local diversity--biological and cultural--may be increasing rapidly, while the differences between places continue to shrink.
KCET control room
A peek inside the TV station's Burbank studios.
Whitt's Wood Yard
Elon Musk wants to drill here at Pico and Sepulveda.
BCAM
The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA.
Mountain lion family
From Robert Martinez's trail cam in the San Gabriels.
Streetscape: Westwood
Westwood Boulevard looking north and a little bit skyward.
Sign from LA's past
Sign from an old Love's BBQ restaurant at the Valley Relics Museum in Chatsworth.
Visiting her old ballet costumes
Melissa Barak at LACMA Chagall exhibit with the artist's memorable designs.
Barnsdall Park
Under the trees.
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