It’s another successful IAAL•MAF ride in the books, this one much different from last year’s there-and-back to the Watts Towers of Simon Rodia. This time I went crazy with the research and we made stops at the childhood home of Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche (1121 E. 54th Street); the location of the 1969 …
What is this about? Breach Three guards were visible on the front and east sides of the mansion. Probably more in the back and west side. Maybe someone on the roof. The whir of a panning surveillance camera at the top of the poll Lloyd squatted beside told him all he really needed to know: …
My daughter invited me to a concert she was involved in last night. That’s her sixth in from the left in the pink scarf — centerstage, as it should be. Despite a cold she sang beautifully. I’m so proud of her.
What is this about? Throwing Bones At 2:30 a.m. on a drizzly December Saturday, a smart person might not have walked past Jackson Square on Chartres across Dumaine and St. Philip and the rest to make a right turn onto Barracks Street. Check that. A smart person might not have gone past Jackson Square. It’s …
And now for a bit o’ the Silver Lake neighborhood news. Nothing major, just that as I was biking home from Wednesday Hollywood Burrito Project ride around 11:30 p.m. I noticed the nice neon martini glass that served as the sign for the departed Johnny’s Bar on Sunset across the street from Silver Lake Lounge …
What is this about? Mt. Lee It wasn’t like the good old days. Back then you could drive up Beechwood Canyon to Ledgewood up to Deronda and from there it was a short winding walk along a dirt portion of Mulholland Highway that brought you around a bend and there you were at the base …
On Gower under the Hollywood Freeway this was one of our last stops and certainly the location of the highest concentration of homeless. Overall we gave away 40 burritos last night. Here we fed seven people as indicated by the notes in the snap at right posted to Flickr plus one more not pictured on …