When the rains sweep clean the L.A. Basin, hiking is in order. Here are three worthy places to explore.
Admit it – you’re perfectly happy not to be living back East with all those dreadful snowstorms. For many, the single …
Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio
Kids, with proper guidance, can really enjoy the Hammer’s latest new show, Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio. More than enjoy, it may actually stimulate their creativity! The freshest of ideas are often best comprehended by children …
POTTED POTTER through Sunday, March 1
POTTED POTTER: The Unauthorized Harry Experience – a Parody by Dan and Jeff
Written and Performed By Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner
10 Performances only! Fed 25- March 1, 2015
Hold onto your wands, Potted Potter has crossed the pond …
Now at the Getty: J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free
Turner canvases from Tate London in LA through May
It had poured rain the night before, and though we eagerly ascended the stairs toward the Getty’s special exhibition space, everyone was stopped in their tracks by the breathtaking view. It
Feel the Beat at Independent Music Stores
What is it about music stores that simultaneously make our heart swell like a crescendo, while soothing our souls? Perhaps it’s this heady combination: rows of glistening instruments, piles of sheet music, and the sounds of guitarists noodling out …
Bring Your Mod Squad to LA Modern Homes: Part 3
Hollyhock House
Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright built seven private homes in Los Angeles. Hollyhock House, constructed from 1919–21 and recently restored and reopened to the public, was his first. It was commissioned by iconoclastic heiress Aline Barnsdall, a feminist, …
Bring Your Mod Squad to LA Modern Homes: Part 2
Eames House
Located on a scenic oceanfront bluff in Pacific Palisades, the Eames House was the family home of Charles and Ray Eames, celebrated for their groundbreaking, often playful contributions to furniture and industrial design, architecture, films, exhibitions, and even …
Bring your Mod Squad to LA Modern Homes: Part 1
Schindler House
Nestled behind a thick wall of bamboo on Kings Road in West Hollywood, the Schindler House was designed by architect and Viennese émigré Rudolph Schindler and is considered one of the world’s first modern houses. You approach …
Watch a T-Rex Grow Up at The Natural History Museum
One my son’s early childhood developmental phases was, what I like to refer to as, “the Dinosaur Phase”. It was phase one, closely followed by the “superhero phase” and then the “Lego period”. Tragically my son’s Dinosaur phase coincided with …
