I was thrilled to find out that work Parkman Triangle Park has finally started. I took the dog out for a walk to see for myself, and I like what’s been done! The asphalt has been ripped out, and soon the water main can be installed. It turned out to be quite a job. The [...]
GGP is in Brazil with little internet connection, but we have heard that demolition on Parkman Triangle may start on Monday–so stay tuned. Let’s hope this finally happens. Since we cannot be there, please take pictures if this happens!!!! Many thanks to John Southern and Ara Babaian for all their work.
I’m so thrilled. After years of NIMBYism, supported by the hypocritical likes of Henry Waxman, the Metropolitan Transit Authority approved the subway to the sea. Well, it’s more rail to the sea as we are talking about a light-rail line. Although one neighborhood, Cheviot Hills, fought tooth and nail against the project (even though the [...]
Wow. Two weeks ago I posted a short film I did with Patrick Benson on LA’s tenuous relationship with water. And as I often do weekly, I posted the link to most of the LinkedIn groups to which I belong. From a bird’s eye view, the results were interesting: I think few actually watched the [...]
At the corner of Silver Lake Boulevard and Parkman Avenue lies a 2000-square foot patch of asphalt that has lain empty for decades. Occasionally, trash is strewn across it; sometimes there are unpermitted weekend yard sales or flea markets; often cars are parked on it illegally. Years ago this space was paved over to make [...]
Yesterday, as I walked up Pico Boulevard to the Los Angeles Convention Center, a sense of doom overcame me as I saw the crowds outside the entrance on Figueroa Street. Drat, I thought. It’s 10:20, it started at 10, and I won’t get into the Go Green Expo. The place is mobbed, so “green” [...]
Los Angeles and water sure have a sordid history together. Of course there’s the 1974 movie, Chinatown, that sums up the backroom deals and violence that worked to bring water to a thirsty and ambitious Southern California. Now we are on the verge of another chapter in the “water wars,” as years of drought, increasing [...]
Last week’s rains reminded me of the fragility of our water supply in Southern California. While the rain is always welcome for its clearing of the air and the resulting soft green carpets that cover Los Angeles, I cannot help but wonder where all that precious water is going. Most of us are concerned over [...]
So it’s the day after Christmas, and hopefully your tree will last till New Year’s Day, or if you have some Armenian or Eastern European blood in you, it will hold out until January 6. I do not have a problem with buying a live tree, as long is it is mulched by the city, [...]
A few days ago I had to take my car to the shop. With my handy Flip camera, I took some random shots as I walked from Echo Park to Silver Lake, along Sunset Boulevard. I really do believe that the best way to learn a city is to walk it: whether it’s along [...]