Recent Posts Tagged With 'Culture'

• Ode to the Pumpkin: Day 3

  Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 00:50 in Culture, cinderella, ode to the pumpkin, pumpkin carriage

  “Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo. Put ‘em together and what have you got?” Six decades of little kids who’ve dreamt of turning their vegetables into carriages. While the story of Cinderella has been around for ...

• Ode to the Pumpkin: Day 2

  Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 12:38 in Culture, peter pumpkin eater, ode to the pumpkin

  Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had a wife but couldn’t keep her; He put her in a pumpkin shell And there he kept her very well. Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had another and didn’t love her; Peter learned to read and spell, And then he loved...

• Trip to the LA County Fair, Part I

  Posted on Monday September 28th, 2009 at 05:15 in Culture

  So, while it may seem an oxymoron to some, Los Angeles does indeed have a county fair and this is it’s final week for 2009. I love a good fair and if you’re able to fit in a visit by October 4th I absolutely recommend it. Now, it can be ...

• Dance Invasion

  Posted on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 00:22 in Culture

  You might remember a video I posted a couple months back featuring a surprisingly well orchestrated song and dance performance of Do-Re-Mi in Antwerp’s Central Station. Well, last week LA fell victim to a similar dance invasion…Hammer Da...

• Move Over Godzilla

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 12:43 in Culture, entertainment

  Last weekend the mechanical marionette street theater company Royal de Luxe took over the streets of their hometown Nantes, France. In an elaborate dance of puppeteers and behemoth marionettes, the theater company performed a fantastic story written...

• Welcome to the Dollhouse

  Posted on Thursday April 30th, 2009 at 11:28 in Culture

  Andrew Wyeth’s classic painting, Christina’s World portrays a woman sitting in a sun-bleached field with her back to the viewer and her line of vision directed towards what I’ve always thought of as a rather creepy house on a hill. ...

• Books Gone Wild

  Posted on Thursday April 23rd, 2009 at 11:14 in Culture, literacy

  So, for all of you in my neck of the woods - a reminder that this weekend is the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the UCLA Campus. I look forward to this event every year as an opportunity to hear authors lecture and read their own work…...

• Strike!

  Posted on Thursday September 25th, 2008 at 16:04 in Culture, arts & crafts

  I love Flickr.com for the visual inspiration it provides. And I appreciate the generosity of its members who allow us a glimpse at their private collections. One group of images I keep returning to is the vintage matchbox label archive compiled by ...

• Smile, You’re on Kiddo Camera

  Posted on Thursday September 25th, 2008 at 01:48 in Culture

  I’ve long been a fan of the incomparable radio program This American Life. Now that they’ve made the leap to television it’s captivating to see how they tackle the challenge of adding visuals to their trademark funny/sad style of n...