The Other Room
The Other Room is a quirky exploration of the greater Los Angeles metroplex's hidden secrets, from Anaheim to Long Beach. Kevin Ferguson will be your tour guide
There were no permits, there was no permission of any kind, and now there are no more wetlands here.
This Tuesday—for the second time in history—LA's always-inspiring Silent Movie Theater will host author Erik Davis and a series of his guests for Occult LA, a "night of talks and films devoted to Southern California's alternative spiritual culture."
Actually, it's not an orange abstraction. It's an Orange Twist; capitalized because - as you might guess - it's the title of Long Beach's newest addition to a long line of expensive, bad public art.
Word has it from the amazing, slick and informative Let's Fix Los Al that this "resignation" is only a gesture, that he'll still hold the same power and influence as before, and that Al Sharpton might be attending Monday's city council meeting. Actually, I'm not sure if Los Al as seen anything like this, ever?
I like the awards but I'm not going to miss them sorely if I don't discover who the winners are real-time. We're just about to leave!
Raw tragedy from the famous and gorgeous Earl Burn Miller Japanese Garden at Cal State Long Beach today, as the Daily 49er reports on an enormous outbreak of a deadly virus that has totally annihilated the garden's gorgeous koi population.
Regardless, though, it's worth mentioning the good stuff when it happens, to give credit where it's due and that's exactly what I intend to do here
The first thing everyone in our car heard was a short, heavyset woman with shaved hair woman simultaneously stuttering shouting and and sobbing "WHY CAN'T WE SIT TOGETHER? I WANT TO SIT TOGETHER."
As he released the critters he calmly informed them that "I brought some [mosquitoes]. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected."
The stampede started from a fire inside the club, which led to a giant mass of people running for the club's only exit and left behind 61 dead.
During all this, they never left the building, and the school never spent a penny. The entire trip was made possible though videoconferencing technology and this is just the first step.
A couple of days ago we went on vacation and we did it—more or less—entirely by rail.
Instead of winding up in the hands of evil doers the suit only found its way to a dry cleaners, and a possible international crisis was averted.
If all these Lincoln comparisons are as accurate as they are voluminous, we're in for a great eight years ahead.
But one of the most notable 2009 firsts—at least for me—is the first official Yeti hunt of the year, which commenced yesterday in Nepal.
Far away in the border town of San Ysidro is a plan for low income housing inspired by the "Shantytowns" seen in many poor communities in Latin America. Tijuana, specifically.
We're not like that, thank God. Scrubbing down this old place has been a long and difficult three day process and it's totally redefined my definition of "clean" as being something totally and completely spotless.
"People write in all the time and ask if we like each other. The answer is no... we love each other!"
That might be a little bit of good news: that despite all of the economic trouble we're in, the individual's need for butter will always trump their want for guns.
The Zappa bust made me wonder about what other places have immortalized rock stars, and why.
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