I first learned about the art garden of Silver Lake’s Alberto Hernandez when I read about it in the L.A. Weekly back in 2004 and then again in an L.A. Times feature that came out around the time of Quinceañera last year thanks to the garden’s use as a location in that film. After seeing …
Coming home from an afternoon visit to my mom’s in Burbank I found this “growing” up out of the L.A. River Bikeway near its north entrance off Victory Boulevard in Griffith Park (click to enlarge): Â Funny, it wasn’t there Tuesday!
With some 2,600 miles logged on The Phoenix since I first started riding her at the beginning of last year, it was inevitable that the rattle-can paintjob with which I renewed her would eventually show signs of decay — accelerated by the unavoidable drops, scrapes and other such points of impact she was bound to …
I’ve begun the process of orchestrating and augmentating the promotional materials and logistications for the semi-notorious and entirely fictional IAAL•MAF bike conglomeration’s fifth spinviational duly dubbed the “Serenity Now” ride: T’will be a casual roll July 22, beginning at noon from Travel Town in Griffith Park. From there the ride will traverse to the L.A. …
Odd as it might be to some that deciding how I’m getting to an event would help me figure out what I was going to do once I got there, that’s how things worked out for last night’s inaugural L.A. Bloggers Live at Tangier in Los Feliz Village. Neil from Citizen of the Month In …
As I wrote in yesterday’s post about the long-horned digger bees I discovered now residing in our side yard, I’d check in on the remaining males aerially competing for the affections of an as-yet-unseen female somewhere in the vicinity, to see what a second round of activity might hold. The answer is: plenty. And this …
I noticed it this morning, perhaps a dozen or so bees flitting about seemingly chasing each other over a small corner of the side yard where the African violets had bloomed earlier in the spring. But these didn’t seem like your ordinary honey bees, no. There was something different about the way they moved and …