Got this flyer in the mail yesterday. Maybe the Dodgers should try opening their own checking account? Sure seems they could use the money.
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 FILED UNDER: Laugh, Salvo's Thoughts, View  TAGGED: baseball, business, current events, Los Angeles, money  COMMENTS: Comments are closedThis is like urban design porn. If only LA were like this…(sigh)…
>> LA TACO ยป Transport Fantasy Map ~ Los Angeles FILED UNDER: Explore, Imagine, Media, Pictures & Videos TAGGED: Los Angeles COMMENTS: Comments are closed
Los Angeles public TV station KCET presents A Brief History of Bicycles in the Los Angeles Area on their blog. For everyone interested in bicycles or LA history–or both!–the article includes some wonderful photos of a bike-friendly LA from a century ago. One particular bit of note: . . . → Read More: A Brief History of Bicycles in Los Angeles This story about a goose in Los Angeles’s Echo Park is very cute. Feathers Fly in L.A. as Maria the Goose Faces Eviction – WSJ.com
According to the NPR blog: a report released by the FAA says that there were 2,836 reported cases in 2010, almost double the 2009 number and the most since the report was first published in 2005. And the airport with the worst number of offenses? LAX. >> Link: Lasers Light Up Aircraft . . . → Read More: Lasers Light Up Aircraft Over 2,800 Times In 2010
Remember the disgraced city manager of Bell, CA? The guy who was accused of bilking the city out of hundreds of thousands of dollars that went into his own inflated salary? Seems he found a new day job. And as usual, truth is better than fiction here. >> Link: Steve Lopez: Robert . . . → Read More: From city manager to parking attendant I grew up with heat and humidity in Houston, so most days I don’t complain. But today’s heat across Los Angeles and southern California is extreme. It’s 115 degrees Fahrenheit in downtown LA! Check out this map for more: Check out more on the latest current temperatures. Plus be sure to stay cool . . . → Read More: Brutal LA Heat According to an article in the Daily Trojan (the college paper at the University of Southern California), last week 2 representatives of a pro-Israel group were removed from an open meeting at the request of organizations petitioning for California’s divestment in Israel. When the pair arrived, it seems that attendees started yelling at them. The . . . → Read More: Troubling Handling of International Issues at USC FILED UNDER: Articles TAGGED: education, higher education, Israel, Los Angeles COMMENTS: 3 comments - (Comments are closed)For all the traffic disruptions that President Obama’s visit to LA caused about two weeks ago, one of the cooler redeeming mementos of his visit I’ve come across is this shot of Air Force One landing at LAX (click on the picture for a huge high-resolution photograph):
How cool would it have . . . → Read More: Air Force One over Sepulveda Headlines from today’s L.A. Times include the story of mummified remains of two babies found in a trunk in the basement of an apartment complex in mid-city. Grim–yet also fascinating, considering the remains are perhaps 80 years old. They were found along with newspapers from the 1930s and a ticket to the 1932 Olympic Games . . . → Read More: A Vintage L.A. Crime Novel in Real Life 
"Agony" by Arshile Gorky For those of you in LA/visiting LA soon, I highly recommend checking out the Arshile Gorky retrospective at MOCA (the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art). The museum has put together a great collection of beautiful and compelling pieces. Until I visited, I’d only been roughly familiar with Gorky’s work–the . . . → Read More: Gorky Retrospective at MOCA Since my previous post on the history of Los Angeles rail, I’ve become even more fascinated with the history of the city. A bit of digging around online led me to this installation of James A. Fitzpatrick’s Traveltalks: I must admit, I was unfamiliar with the Traveltalks series but have become intrigued. What was . . . → Read More: “Wonder City of the West” |
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