Susan’s not very good at answering the question “Hey baby… what do you want for Christmas?” That’s not a judgment, just a fact borne of the roughly 16 Christmases we’ve been together. Sure there were times when she knew EXACTLY what she wanted, such as that year she said without pause and I kid you …
There’s a striking mural depicting the facets and faces of the Black Panther movement on the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and 11th Avenue titled “To Protect And Serve” that I’ve found very revelatory ever since I first discovered it back about 10 years ago. It was painted in 1995 by Noni Olabisi, and the story …
So yesterday, in parts because I: needed the elongated, low-impact physical activity had a crosstown errand to run that happened to be next door to where I worked in Westchester until 2011 and was curious to revisit the 30-mile roundtrip route I used to commute by bike so regularly I got on trusty “El Naranja” …
With my handlebar cam still snapping pix after my Beverly Thrills Bike Ride finished earlier in the afternoon of July 1, I decided on the pedal home that I’d detour under the recently opened Levitated Mass installation on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and visit the rock I’d followed along …
Walking Ranger this morning, I passed street artist “Dcypher” adding some blazing color to the corner of Silver Lake Boulevard and Parkman north of the Sunset Boulevard overpass with a mural done in conjunction with the upcoming Silver Lake Jubilee (click it for the bigger picture):
It’s not like me to go more than a couple days between posting anything, and my excuse is that it pretty much took me the weekend to recuperate from the all-nighter I pulled Friday shadowing the 340-ton rock between South Los Angeles and its destination at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on the …
The 2012 edition of my Watts Happening Ride took place this past picture-perfect Saturday, and it was my complete pleasure to share the following landmark people, places and events I’ve discovered there with the 28 cyclists who joined me: The last residence of jazz great Jelly Roll Morton The childhood home of Nobel Prize Winner …